aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Sweet victory
I was just 12 years old. My family and I were on vacation in Virginia. My dad and I were watching television in our motel room. Jerry Falwell’s “Old Time Gospel Hour” was on. Reverend Falwell looked into the camera and, preaching against gay people, said, “Even animals don’t do that.”
That was the first time in my life that I ever felt unworthy of the love of God.
Click here to continue to fallwell.com to see why
Rev. Falwell is completely wrong about
people who are gay or lesbian . . .
Jerry Falwell’s sensibilities were injured by a site calling itself www.fallwell.com. The site clearly said that it had nothing to do with Falwell, and was critical of Falwell’s views—it also received only 200 hits a day.
After a district court found that the name was infringing Falwell’s trademark rights, and ordered the site to transfer its name to Rev. Falwell, the site owner bravely appealed. Today the Fourth Circuit acted with enormous sense, and issued an important opinion [pdf] striking down Rev. Falwell’s claims.
A sweet victory. On so many levels.
