Is it bad to feel relieved that Falwell is dead? I'm sad that there was nothing ironic or delicious about the death. Looks like it was a simple heart attack, damnit. As always happens to me when someone like this dies, I feel more wary than anything. Who will replace him? Some snake will raise its head. Will they be worse than him? Or not? At any rate, that ranting monster won't be troubling us again.
As I'm thinking about all of this, I should point out that Falwell was never one of my family's heros. Dobson, yes. Colson, yes. Schaeffer, yes. But Falwell, and most of the televangelists, creeped out my folks. They never subscribed to intolerance. Now, they might find a relatives homosexuality troubling, but not homosexuality outside the family, or generally. As, like, a category of behavior. I'm sure my mother would tut over this post, "He might not have been nice, but that's no reason to be mean."
Well, yeah, it is.
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