Comments on: A Rosary for Falwell

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 19 May 2007 19:57:03 +0000

I live in the Castro right down the street from where this anti-Falwell ‘celebration’ was to take place. But it didn’t. A few showed up, but I heard that there was more press than people ‘celebrating.’ However, there were some who spoke out against the hate that Falwell spewed. I wouldn’t call this a celebration, nor do I think it is immoral to remember a person who caused lots of pain. I have read many, many articles in the mainstream newspapers and they all mention his legacy of hate. This isn’t immoral. It is telling the truth.

I should say that I did not go to this.

By: homer

homer — Fri, 18 May 2007 01:49:07 +0000

I’m afraid I don’t have a lot of empathy for Falwell. He made his bucks promoting hatred of other, different people and had little remorse for the psychological and physical damage that resulted because of his power.

By: Randi schimnosky

Randi schimnosky — Fri, 18 May 2007 00:00:09 +0000

PornoProphet said “Those who do celebrate show they are no better (or different) than the person they desperately hate.”

Really now? So are you going to honestly say the innocent Jews who survived Auschwitz were no better than Hitler if they celebrated his death? I don’t think so.

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Thu, 17 May 2007 18:51:09 +0000

Jim,

I admire your attitude. Though as a Protestant I don’t pray the Rosary, I too am trying to find kind thoughts to think about Falwell. It isn’t easy.

By: Shimmy

Shimmy — Thu, 17 May 2007 18:13:57 +0000

Falwell says, “God loves you — come and buy the good news!” Then he buys the president and swimming pools!

By: MBSF

MBSF — Thu, 17 May 2007 17:46:54 +0000

I would care if the right and specifically thin skinned “christians” hadn’t made a cottage industry out of fake outrage. Yawn.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 17 May 2007 16:53:55 +0000

It seems rather interesting that so many on the Right would be offended by expressions of celebrations by the victims of their oppression. . .after all, there are certainly enough “religious”-based con-servatives who openly and publicly advocate for the dehumanization and, yes, sometimes, the death of those in the American GLBT community. And I rarely see any public rebuke for their offensive manufactured science, their distasteful conjecture of perceived fantasies of our intimate lives, and their superstitions that our very existence somehow poses a threat to their imagined moral purity.

Why should they get a free pass? As it is, I would be quite surprised if the targets of Falwell’s rants picket his funeral or demonstrate wildly outside the halls of Liberty University. But we do know Westboro Baptist will likely be there with their traveling circus of celebration of all death.

By: PomoProphet

PomoProphet — Thu, 17 May 2007 04:51:16 +0000

I went to Falwells school. I certinly didnt agree with everything and would oppose many of his comments, specificly in reguards to sexuality. But My experience is neither here nor there.

I think its pathetic when anyone celebrates at the death of someone who they disagree with. That shows immaturity on the part of those celebrating. It’s immoral even. And I say the same thing reguardless of who it is celebrating who’s death.

Those who do celebrate, show that they are no better (or different) than the person who they so desperately hate.