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Title: Falwell's 'Vote Christian' Criticized (by Abe Foxman)
Source:
Yahoo! News
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=sto ... p_on_re_us/falwell_statement_3
Published: Aug 10, 2005
Author: AP
Post Date: 2005-08-10 00:30:24 by robin
Keywords: Christian, Criticized, Falwells
Views: 170
Comments: 10
LYNCHBURG, Va. - A Jewish organization is calling on the Rev. Jerry Falwell to retract a "vote Christian in 2008" statement made months ago in a letter raising money for his ministries. The criticism of Falwell appeared Monday on the Web site of the Anti-Defamation League, a group organized in 1913 to fight anti-Semitism. Falwell, founder of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., and Moral Majority, included with his mass fundraising letter for Falwell Ministries a sticker that reads, "I Vote Christian." Abraham Foxman, the Anti-Defamation League's national director, said Falwell's statements are "directly at odds with the American ideal and should be rejected." "Understanding the danger of combining religion and politics, our founding fathers wisely created a political system based on individual merit and religious inclusiveness," Foxman said. Falwell told The News & Advance of Lynchburg Tuesday that his statement was misunderstood. "What I was saying was for conservative Christian voters to vote their values, which are pro-life and pro-family," Falwell said. "I had no intention of being anti-Jewish at all." ___ On the Net:
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#1. To: robin (#0)
Good lord.. so Falwell is now backpeddling on vote Christian? okay.
This whole exchange is very strange.
Falwell is very strange. Didnt Falwell get a plane from Israel? I do remember reading that somewhere.
Probably. Do you suppose Foxman would have criticized Falwell had he said "Vote American"?
LOL! Maybe!? I guess Jerry doesnt want to risk his 'perks' .. the jerkoff. After I read Falwell's involvement with Huffman aviation and 9/11 that pretty much did it for me. I always thought Falwell was a nut: Of the many theories about 9/11, some of the best questions involve the mysterious Mohamed Atta, subject of the research of investigative reporter Daniel Hopsicker. For two years, Hopsicker tracked Atta's final moves in Florida, including his cocaine and alcohol binges with temporary girlfriend, Amanda Keller, at the time a pink-haired stripper. The flight school that Atta happened to "choose," Huffman Aviation in Venice, also enjoys a sanitized version of its history. Although flight-school president Rudi Dekkers has a long criminal history, and owner Wally Hilliard has ties to GOP Bush family friend Myron DuBain, Reverend Jerry Falwell and Clinton financier Truman Arnold, None of this makes its way into the report. Perhaps because Commissioner Richard Ben-Veniste is featured in Hopsicker's 2001 book, Barry and the Boys regarding the CIA's Iran/Contra pilot Barry Seal. http://SanderHicks.com 9/11 report.
That's an odd connection.
Isnt it though? Do a search on Wally Hilliard and Ruddy Dekkard. Some weird stuff there.
Ignorant vs arrogant, hmmm, which side should I take? :)
We should thank the Nazis for giving us all those stark, frightening images. How else we gonna learn not to act like that? On the other hand, monkey see...
LOL! It's a no win. Look at the neo-crazies, often they're both.
Why do people always use the word "inclusiveness" when they want to silence someone?
We should thank the Nazis for giving us all those stark, frightening images. How else we gonna learn not to act like that? On the other hand, monkey see...
Falwell told The News & Advance of Lynchburg Tuesday that his statement was misunderstood.
#2. To: Zipporah (#1)
One if by land, two if by sea...how many if they are already here?
#3. To: robin (#2)
#4. To: Zipporah (#3)
One if by land, two if by sea...how many if they are already here?
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#6. To: Zipporah (#5)
One if by land, two if by sea...how many if they are already here?
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#8. To: robin (#0)
#9. To: Dakmar (#8)
Ignorant vs arrogant, hmmm, which side should I take? :)
One if by land, two if by sea...how many if they are already here?
#10. To: robin (#9)
"Understanding the danger of combining religion and politics, our founding fathers wisely created a political system based on individual merit and religious inclusiveness," Foxman said.
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