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  • From: Kate Johnson <johnk AT ils.unc.edu>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Gays, ACLU caused attack, Fallwell says
  • Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 17:22:53 -0400 (EDT)



The craven CYA from Falwell ...


STATEMENT BY JERRY FALWELL ON 700 CLUB COMMENTS

Senior Pastor, Thomas Road Baptist Church and Chancellor, Liberty
University
Lynchburg, Virginia

September 14, 2001

Despite the impression some may have from news reports today, I hold no
one other than the terrorists and the people and nations who have enabled
and harbored them responsible for Tuesday's attacks on this nation.

I sincerely regret that comments I made during a long theological
discussion on a Christian television program yesterday were taken out of
their context and reported, and that my thoughts--reduced to sound
bites--have detracted from the spirit of this day of mourning.


Today, I join millions of people throughout this nation and around the
world in remembering all those who died, and praying for our nation, the
victims of this travesty, and their loved ones.



On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 mdthomas AT mindspring.com wrote:

>
> Below are some words of "wisdom" from our
> "religous" "leaders".
>
> Jerry Fallwell says:
>
> I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists,
> and the gays and the
> lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the
> ACLU, People For the American Way - all of
> them who have tried to secularize America - I point the finger in their
> face and say "you helped this happen."
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> More fuel for the fire. Normally, I would find this funny.
>
> = Ruby
> --
> r u b y s i n r e i c h -<>- ruby AT lotusmedia.org
> http://www.lotusmedia.org -<>- the art of doing a lot with a little
>
> ----------
> From: "Clark, Chris" <CClark AT slk-law.com>
> Reply-To: ch-scene AT listserv.unc.edu
> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 13:09:43 -0400
> To: "Chapel Hill Music Lovers" <ch-scene AT listserv.unc.edu>
> Subject: Falwell and Robertson explain it all
>
>
> http://www.pfaw.org/news/press//2001-09-13.320.phtml
> Partial transcript of comments from the
> Thursday, September 13, 2001 edition of the "700 Club"
> JERRY FALWELL: And I agree totally with you that the Lord has protected us
> so wonderfully these 225 years. And
> since 1812, this is the first time that we've been attacked on our soil and
> by far the worst results. And I fear, as
> Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defense, said yesterday, that this is
> only the beginning. And with biological
> warfare available to these monsters - the Husseins, the Bin Ladens, the
> Arafats - what we saw on Tuesday, as
> terrible as it is, could be miniscule if, in fact - if, in fact - God
> continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of
> America to give us probably what we deserve.
>
> PAT ROBERTSON: Jerry, that's my feeling. I think we've just seen the
> antechamber to terror. We haven't even begun
> to see what they can do to the major population.
>
> JERRY FALWELL: The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this.
> PAT ROBERTSON: Well, yes.
> JERRY FALWELL: And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing
> God out successfully with the help of the
> federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the
> schools. The abortionists have got to bear
> some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40
> million little innocent babies, we
> make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and
> the feminists, and the gays and the
> lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the
> ACLU, People For the American Way - all of
> them who have tried to secularize America - I point the finger in their
> face and say "you helped this happen."
>
> PAT ROBERTSON: Well, I totally concur, and the problem is we have adopted
> that agenda at the highest levels of
> our government. And so we're responsible as a free society for what the top
> people do. And, the top people, of
> course, is the court system.
>
> JERRY FALWELL: Pat, did you notice yesterday the ACLU, and all the
> Christ-haters, People For the American Way,
> NOW, etc. were totally disregarded by the Democrats and the Republicans in
> both houses of Congress as they went
> out on the steps and called out on to God in prayer and sang "God Bless
> America" and said "let the ACLU be
> hanged"? In other words, when the nation is on its knees, the only normal
> and natural and spiritual thing to do is what
> we ought to be doing all the time - calling upon God.
>
> PAT ROBERTSON: Amen.
>
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