En mémoire de Jerry Falwell...

...leader principal de la droite religieuse américaine, voici un petit best of, gracieuseté de wiki et du NY Times.

-In 1965 Reverend Falwell gave a sermon at his Thomas Road Baptist Church criticizing Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement, which he sometimes referred to as the Civil Wrongs Movement.

-Jerry Falwell wrote in America Can Be Saved that "I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them."

-In the 1980s Jerry Falwell was critical of sanctions against the Apartheid regime of South Africa. He stated that while he was opposed to Apartheid, he feared that sanctions would result in a worse situation, with either a more oppressive white minority government or a Soviet-backed revolution. He drew the ire of many when he called Nobel Peace Prize winner and Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu a phony "as far as representing the black people of South Africa."

-In 1994, Falwell released the straight-to-video documentary "The Clinton Chronicles: An Investigation into the Alleged Criminal Activities of Bill Clinton." The video connected Bill Clinton to a conspiracy theory involving Vincent Foster, James McDougall, Ron Brown, and an alleged cocaine-smuggling operation.

-In February 1999, an article in Falwell's National Liberty Journal suggested that a Teletubbies character, Tinky Winky, could be a hidden homosexual symbol, because the character was purple (which the article claimed was a color symbolic of homosexuality), had an inverted triangle on his head and carried a handbag.

-After the September 11, 2001 attacks, Falwell said on the 700 Club, "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.'" (a sentiment with which Pat Robertson concurred).

-As for homosexuality, Falwell remarked, "AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals."

-Falwell has also said, "Labor unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are better workers."


Plus que ses vues controversées, il a, plus que quiconque, teinté l'Agenda américain de conservatisme religieux, créant la Moral Majority, influençant terriblement Reagan, Bush et Bush, créant ce lien malfaisant entre républicains et évangélistes qui encore aujourd'hui empoisonne la société américaine.

Je suis athée jusqu'au bout des ongles; mais aujourd'hui, j'aimerais pouvoir croire un peu en Dieu, histoire de savoir que Falwell brûlera en enfer jusqu'à la fin des temps.

Amen.