According to him, I'm personally responsible for 9/11.

[dolari]

Jerry Fallwell is dead, and Fred Phelps says Good Riddance.

Someone please check the temperature at hell...we actually agree on something.

Update: It's a scary sight, though - I run through my friend's list and see all these people celebrating his death with cheers. I mean, I personally hate the guy, and he's said some horrible things about us and our brothers and sisters. I don't like him, I think the world is better off without him...but at the same time this man was someone's husband.

Comments

[soltice.livejournal.com]

I thought about this too, yesterday. Even my straight and married co-workers made light of it. Even though he was a vile man, he was just one man. That won't stop those with similar political thinking. Many of them want all of us dead -- what does it say about us who want the same in return?

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

I agree with your sentiments. I'm not happy that Jerry Falwell the man is dead. As you say, he was someone's husband, someone's father. I've lived through the loss of a father. The pain never really goes away so I really feel for his family.

However, I can and do permit myself a small bit of pleasure at the thought of the death of Jerry Falwell the hatemonger. No more will he spread his hatred around in the name of god. That's a good thing.

[fragment00.livejournal.com]

personally I don't really care. Just another human, and not a very good one at that, that died.

[debbie-ann.livejournal.com]

You know, I was thinking much the same thing. While I didn't care for Jerry Fallwell, there is something that bothers me about celebrating the death of another person, no matter how terrible a person they were.

[nathan-r.livejournal.com]

I made a donation to the ACLU in his memory. It seemed like the only appropriate thing to do.

[shadow-mib.livejournal.com]

I didn't cheer. I guess because I could care less. I didn't even shed a tear when two of my friend died within a week. Does that make me evil, cold hearted, or just apathetic?

[makkabee.livejournal.com]

I can't regret his passing. It's not just the bigotry and the petty tyranny, though both were bad enough to damn him in my eyes on their own. It was the hypocrisy of the man. When preachers in the 50s and 60s worked for the civil rights movement he said preachers should stay out of politics and focus on the spiritual. Then he led religious people into politics and told them it was their divine duty. Then towards the end of his life when some ministers were talking about religious reasons to support the environmental movement he got all up in arms again about ministers diverting attention from God to the material world, said that environmentalism was a distraction and served Satan.

So apparently mixing politics and faith is only wrong if they mix to support some sort of liberal cause.

The world is better off without that hatemnonger. As for his family's loss, I don't wish misery on them. However, having lived in Lynchburg and seen that crowd close up, I don't think they'd say the same for any losses this liberal Jewish secularist gay rights activist suffered. Or rather, they'd say it but they wouldn't mean it. There was too much gloating in their reaction to AIDS, 9/11, Katrina...