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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

New Toon: The Afterlife Adventures of Jerry Falwell

I thought long and hard about this. But, like Reagan and Strom Thurmond, this dude was just way too evil and hateful to deserve any respect. He spent his life fighting for segregation and the dismantling of public education in favor of fundamentalist religious education, and fighting against gay rights and women's rights. He was a first-class hate spewer. I don't actually believe in ghosts or Hell, but if there were a Hell...

Anyway, everything in this cartoon is true. Yes, Falwell is primarily known as a gay-hater and anti-feminist, but he got his start in pro-segregationist racism (see The Southern Poverty Law Center):

Falwell was plain enough about his views; in 1964, he told a local paper that the Civil Rights Act had been misnamed: "It should be considered civil wrongs rather than civil rights."

Falwell was later forced to change his stance on segregation, but if anything, he became more virulently anti-gay as time went on. One of his main goals was to completely replace the U.S. public school system with private Christian schools. And he did indeed blame 9/11 on feminists, gays, "secularists", and the ACLU (for which he technically apologized, but it hardly seemed sincere).

Labels: cartoons, falwell, LGBT, race and racism

posted by Mikhaela Reid at 10:50 PM

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