Reverend Jerry Falwell

Religious Leader

Birthday August 11, 1933

Birth Sign Leo

Birthplace Lynchburg, VA

DEATH DATE May 15, 2007 (73)

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About

American evangelical Southern Baptist pastor and televangelist who was the defendant in the landmark First Amendment supreme court case Hustler Magazine v. Falwell.

Before Fame

In 1956, he graduated from a Missouri college, Baptist Bible College.

Trivia

He claimed that the purple Teletubby was a homosexual role model for children and that the attacks of September 11th 2001 occurred because god was angered by homosexuals and homosexual advocacy groups.

Family Life

Got married to Macel Pate on April 12, 1958 and had 3 children together.

Associated With

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Hustler Magazine editor Larry Flynt after he tried to sue him for slander.