As I'm sure you've read by now, god has smote Jerry Falwell. For better or for worse, he got fundamentalist christians involved in the political process. If leaders of other groups got their followers as involved we would have a much better democracy. Don't be mad at him for doing a good job of it. Also to his credit, he was not a hypocrite from the Jim Bakker or Jimmy Swaggert school or preaching the dumbass prosperity gospel.
Of course, it's hard to look the other way at how divisive he was in this country and how he helped move the Republican party away from its libertarian leanings. And in the last few years he just said some stupid shit.
In my business we know that people tend to pay more attention to negative information in interviews and performance reviews than the positive. Falwell clearly did this when reading the bible as he thought it was more important to punish people based on something that's mentioned once (e.g., not sleeping with someone of your gender) rather than love them based on love, which is mentioned 51 times. And for that, the figurative gates of hell should be held open for him.
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