Rev. Falwell is dead

[somerfrost]

I'm staying out of this pretty much as I want to remain true to my belief that we should not take a person's death as an opportunity to discredit him/her. I've heard him say some pretty outrageous stuff over the years, and I honestly think the "christian right movement" (defined by Falwell, Robertson and others...not me) has done a lot of harm to our society...no one man is to blame for that however. To clarify a point raised earlier, if my memory serves me correctly and I'm pretty sure it does, Flint went far beyond ridiculing Falwell in Hustler, he published at least one cartoon (may have been several) depicting Falwell's mother in hardcore sexual activities...I read Hustler in those days and I thought they went far beyond any level of decency (I think they were far worse than his Chester the Child Molester cartoons). Again, there is plenty we can debate about the man, but I wouldn't have appreciated those cartoons either!