Jerry Falwell founded the Moral Majority, the largest Christian evangelical conservative political action group in the country. He advocated banning abortion, pornography, and stripping gays of their rights to marry, to adopt, to have protection under the law against discrimination, and promoted a return to the days of public bans on homosexual meeting places. His family initiatives helped create the 'abstinence only' curriculum which is promoted in American schools and has led us to one of the highest rates of unplanned pregnancy in the world. He advocated banning condoms and STD tests, declaring AIDS to be God's way of punishing the impure. He was the leading force in the rise of religion in politics in this country.

Today the man is dead. I cannot help, in my own small way, but cheer and dance in circles. His life was lived creating horror, fear, and hate. In death I hope he learns the real meaning of those words.