Jerry Falwell

Jerry Lamon Falwell (born on August 11, 1933) is an American Baptist pastor, televangelist, founder of the Moral Majority & Liberty University, and a prominent Conservative activist. His parents were Carey and Helen Falwell, and he has a fraternal twin brother, Gene Falwell.

Social and political views

The Anti-Defamation League and its leader, Abraham Foxman have expressed strong support for Jerry Falwell's staunch pro-Israel stand, sometimes referred to as "Christian Zionism." It should be noted, however, that they have also repeatedly condemned what they perceive as intolerance in Falwell's public statementshttp://www.adl.org/PresRele/DiRaB_41/4168_41.htm.

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Anti-Defamation League - Abraham Foxman - Christian Zionism

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Falwell has repeatedly denounced public schools and secular education in general, calling them breeding grounds for atheism, secularism, and humanism, which he claims are in contradiction with Christian morality. He advocates that the United States abolish its public education system, replacing it with a school voucher system that allows parents to send their children to either public or private schools. Jerry Falwell wrote in America Can Be Saved that "I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them." http://atheism.about.com/library/glossary/western/bldef_falwelljerry.htm

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Public schools - Secular education - Atheism - Secularism - Humanism - School voucher

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Falwell supported President Bush's Faith Based Initiative, but had strong reservations concerning where the funding would go and the restrictions placed on churches. "My problem is where it might go under his successors... I would not want to put any of the Jerry Falwell Ministries in a position where we might be subservient to a future Bill Clinton, God forbid... It also concerns me that once the pork barrel is filled, suddenly the Church of Scientology, the Jehovah Witnesses, the various and many denominations and religious groups--and I don’t say those words in a pejorative way--begin applying for money--and I don’t see how any can be turned down because of their radical and unpopular views. I don’t know where that would take us." http://www.beliefnet.com/story/70/story_7040_1.html

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Bush - Faith Based Initiative - Bill Clinton - Church of Scientology - Jehovah Witnesses

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