Jerry Falwell

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"Happy Dead Jerry Falwell Day!" - May 15

Jerry Falwell, RIP, was an obnoxious christofascist demagogue who spewed narrow-minded hatred at every chance, while presenting himself as a pretender to the homilies of one Jesus Christ. He blamed homesexuals, neopagans, and feminists for the September 11 attacks. He died on May 15, 2007, proving that even God was tired of Jerry's claptrap. The world moved on. As the creator of the Moral Majority, he seemed to take inspiration from Billy James Hargis's "Christian Crusade".

His legacy is Liberty University.

Falwell famously fought it out with Larry Flynt all the way to the Supreme Court over a spoof liquor ad in Hustler magazine in which Falwell talked about his first time with his mother in an outhouse. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of Hustler, establishing a free speech precedent of the right to parody public figures.