He helped Ronald Reagan get elected President in 1980, unleashing on America an administration that gave obscene tax breaks to the rich and impoverished the poor.
He helped George W. Bush win a second term in 2004 by helping to convince voters in Ohio that allowing gays to register at Bloomingdale's was a worse situation than adults competing with their own teenage children for jobs at Wal-Mart.
He founded the Moral Majority, which was neither.
He made NBC news reporter Cal Thomas a Moral Majority vice president, spurring Thomas's second career as an odious right-wing columnist.
He called Episcopalian Archbishop of South Africa Desmond Tutu, a hero in the fight against apartheid in his country, "a phony" and urged Americans to buy South African gold coins to support their white minority government.
He urged the boycott of public television's "Teletubbies" series because the purple Teletubby character had a triangle on his head. The triangle is purported to be a symbol of homosexuality, which Falwell thought the character was advocating.
He blamed the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on secular activists - gays, feminists, the American Civil Liberties Union - for making God remove His blessings from the United States and allowing the attacks to proceed. "You helped this happen," he declared. Though Falwell apologized, Pat Robertson agreed with the statement anyway.
He referred to AIDS as "God's way of spanking us."
He called the prophet Mohammed "a warrior and a terrorist."
Liberty University? :-O
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