I've been reading a lot about this tonight, interested in seeing how pro-LGBT groups would respond. It's hard, because like the passage I'm going to quote says, we don't like to speak ill of people when they pass. It doesn't lead me to take any joy in his passing, but it's so hard for me to reconcile my feelings of sympathy for his family with my knowledge of his extreme intolerance and hateful words including the fact that I am personally responsible for 9/11. I guess it's going to be a strange tightrope to walk in dealing with the passing of a public figure who to many was a direct line to Jesus, who at the same time I think was a terrible, hateful follower of Jesus who had warped Christ's message in so many unintelligible circles that it had become completely unrecognizable when place side by side with Christ.
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Originally Posted by americablog.com
Yes, no one likes speaking ill of the dead. But we don't whitewash a life of bigotry and intolerance simply because the man is now gone. Al Sharpton (not a presidential candidate, but still) has already praised Falwell - that's absurd. Falwell supported apartheid, Mr. Sharpton. Falwell accused you and me of having caused September 11. Dead or alive, that is not the kind of man who deserves our praise. Jerry Falwell wasn't afraid of being a bigot in life, we shouldn't be afraid of calling him one in death.
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EDIT: I could not agree more....
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Originally Posted by a random blog commenter
If there is an afterlife I hope whatever happens is full of the love, mercy, and justice of a mind far greater than mine.
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