The Rev. Jerry Falwell, 1933-2007, RIP
If you're controversial this simply means that not everyone agrees with you so in this sense all of us are controversial to a degree. The late Rev. Jerry Falwell of the Moral Majority made it his business to add his very passionate voice regarding issues of life and death, porn and gay "rights", so it's only logical that many many people would take issue with this just the same way that a person who advocates for the things he was against is also by definition controversial since many people will disagree with him but, for the msm, it's as if controversy only cuts one way. A conservative is always controversial but a liberal never is. Got it now? libs are by nature non-ideological peacemakers and conservatives are polarizing figures. Now I never agreed with everything Falwell stood for, I think boycotts of tv shows smack of censorship and draw needless attention to otherwise worthless products, but he never did anything outside the law here, boycotts are our constitutional right as the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are always calling for them when it suits their own political liberal agendas.
Just my .02 on the Rev. Falwell's passing.
I've been friends with many liberals through the years, some of them are really nice people, no really, but they positively lose sleep over the influence of the Religious Right and even give speeches about the Threat. What exactly is it about them that sends off the warning bells, more so than even Muslim extremists? Is it just because they oppose abortion? lots of people do. How 'bout gay "rights"? again scores do who aren't even evangelicals. porn? porn has become so extreme lately that there could actually be a good backlash for the religious right. I think it all comes down to SEX as it always does. Falwell just wasn't a swinging dude.
ReplyDeleteTo a lib anything short of total moral approval of the gay lifestyle shows hate, it's that simple, and so it's not just the way Falwell may have expressed himself from time to time, it's you and me, Middle America, who have the problem. You see, you can't just be a little bit anti-gay, or mildly anti-gay, to the msm we're all like that psycho Marine colonel in "American Beauty", it's much more dramatic that way.
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