Jerry Falwell, Tele-Evangelist, Racist, Sexist, Homophobe Dead At Age 73 
The Associated Press reported that this morning :
"The founder of the Moral Majority was discovered without a pulse at Liberty University and pronounced dead at a hospital an hour later. Dr. Carl Moore, Falwell's physician, said he had a heart condition and presumably died of a heart rhythm abnormality."
Jerry Falwell had a "heart condition" all right, he had a black, black heart and one wonders how it beat at all. I am not going to mix words on this one. Quite frankly, the damage that "Reverend" Jerry Falwell did to this country, to minorities, to women, the LGBT community and how we look at our fellow human beings both on the political spectrum and in polite society cannot be reversed. Not in my life time at least. From the LGBT perspective, the deaths and stigmatization of a large group of beautiful human beings, lost to us forever, are burned on this man's soul for eternity.
With regards to his death and the LGBT community, Matt Foreman, executive director of The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force said it best as he extended condolences to those close to Falwell, but added: "Unfortunately, we will always remember him as a founder and leader of America's anti-gay industry, someone who exacerbated the nation's appalling response to the onslaught of the AIDS epidemic, someone who demonized and vilified us for political gain and someone who used religion to divide rather than unite our nation."
Will Jerry Falwell's legacy live on? Unfortunately, yes. That one of the heads of the Hydra is gone, a thousand more are ready to take its place. But maybe, just maybe the decent people of this nation have learned how to keep them from growing.
Tonight I ask you when you talk about the death of Jerry Falwell to say a prayer, take time for a moment of personal silence or reflection, lift a glass, yell at the top of your lungs, or just quietly remember those in the LGBT community (the human community) who passed away without being shown any common decency, without being given even a shred of dignity, without being shown respect or being given the opportunity to fight for what we now call "equality." Remember them...
Tom Lang, Director