Falwell Caves to Gay Pressure Over Comment
Considering that Jihadists consider America decadent and filled with widespread immorality it is a wonder why this is an issue. Of course blame can be fettered around to many different reasons…. but there is no doubt that the gay community is just one more reason the Jihadists see America as weak and immoral. While Biblical Christians see sodomy as an ungodly act… the Jihadists see it as an ungodly act deserving to die in public execution. Now tell me who is the more tolerant of the two? Then tell me who the gay community sees as more of a threat? Go figure.
[CNN] Falwell apologizes to gays, feminists, lesbians
September 14, 2001 Posted: 2:55 AM EDT (0655 GMT)
LYNCHBURG, Virginia (CNN) — The Rev. Jerry Falwell said late Thursday he did not mean to blame feminists, gays or lesbians for bringing on the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington this week, in remarks on a television program earlier in the day.
On the broadcast of the Christian television program “The 700 Club,” Falwell made the following statement:
“I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say ‘you helped this happen.’”
Falwell, pastor of the 22,000-member Thomas Road Baptist Church, viewed the attacks as God’s judgment on America for “throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked.”
But in a phone call to CNN, Falwell said that only the hijackers and terrorists were responsible for the deadly attacks.
“I do believe, as a theologian, based upon many Scriptures and particularly Proverbs 14:23, which says ‘living by God’s principles promotes a nation to greatness, violating those principles brings a nation to shame,’” he said.
Falwell said he believes the ACLU and other organizations “which have attempted to secularize America, have removed our nation from its relationship with Christ on which it was founded.”
