NYT/AP: Falwell Invites Gingrich to Give Commencement Address

[DeepModem Mom]

Falwell Invites Gingrich to Give Address
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 10, 2007

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) -- Newt Gingrich's admission of an extramarital affair as he pursued President Clinton's impeachment in the Monica Lewinsky scandal has won praise from another conservative Christian leader: the Rev. Jerry Falwell.

It's also helped to gain Gingrich an invitation to deliver the commencement address at Falwell's Liberty University. Gingrich is considered a possible Republican presidential contender, although he has not announced any intention to run.

In an interview with Focus on the Family founder James Dobson that aired Friday, Gingrich admitted to the affair in 1998. In 2000, he divorced his second wife, Marianne, after his attorneys acknowledged his relationship with Callista Bisek, a former congressional aide now his wife.

''He has admitted his moral shortcomings to me, as well, in private conversations,'' Falwell wrote in a weekly newsletter sent Friday to members of the Moral Majority Coalition and The Liberty Alliance. ''And he has also told me that he has, in recent years, come to grips with his personal failures and sought God's forgiveness.''...

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''I well remember the challenge we evangelicals faced in 1980 when our candidate, Ronald Reagan, was the first presidential candidate who had gone through a divorce. We wisely made allowance for God's forgiveness and America was the beneficiary of this historic champion,'' Falwell added....

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Gingrich-Affair.html

[LibDemAlways]

1. "We wisely made allowance for God's forgiveness"

Falwell made no such allowance for Clinton, accusing him of everything from drug smuggling to murder in a well-orchestrated, well-financed effort to smear and destory him.

The hypocrisy of these phony religious bastard SOB's is just mind boggling.

[flamingyouth]

2. Why not invite Mark Foley and Ted Haggard too?

Sort of hit the cretin trifecta.

[Erika]

3. Newt's had three wives.

He cheated on the first two and is probably cheating on the third. Falwell uttered damnation on Clinton.

Contact Jerry at www.falwell.com

[demigoddess]

4. couldn' t they find even ONE republican who hasn't cheated on his wife

or hired male prostitutes for fun and games. But then when you demand the right to keep a woman, your wife, as a second class citizen because of religious reasons, what else can they do for excitement.

I'll bet they just cringe at the amendment that gives women the right to vote.

[keopeli]

5. Isn't Falwell due to retire soon?

wishful thinking...

[tanyev]

6. Break out the holy oil!

I sense an anointing ceremony is in the works.

[BenDavid]

7. It would not surprise me that

newt will be the darling of the right wing conservatives and will be "pulled in" to run....Oh the thought of a Clinton verus Gringrich for the White House will be one presidential race to watch unfold...Of course HRC will win hands down...

[ShortnFiery]

8. The jokes just write themselves.

:rofl:

These religious nuts are far from boring, moral, or humble. :rofl: Newt! :rofl:

[UpInArms]

9. foulmouth certainly doesn't follow the 10 commandments

he's definitely a picker and chooser of which ones mean anything.

here's the POS on what is really evil:

JERRY FALWELL: And I agree totally with you that the Lord has protected us so wonderfully these 225 years. And since 1812, this is the first time that we've been attacked on our soil and by far the worst results. And I fear, as Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defense, said yesterday, that this is only the beginning. And with biological warfare available to these monsters -- the Husseins, the Bin Ladens, the Arafats -- what we saw on Tuesday, as terrible as it is, could be miniscule if, in fact -- if, in fact -- God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.
[br />PAT ROBERTSON: Jerry, that's my feeling. I think we've just seen the antechamber to terror. We haven't even begun to see what they can do to the major population.

JERRY FALWELL: The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this.

PAT ROBERTSON: Well yes.

JERRY FALWELL: And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America -- I point the finger in their face and say "you helped this happen."

PAT ROBERTSON: Well, I totally concur, and the problem is we have adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government. And so we're responsible as a free society for what the top people do. And, the top people, of course, is the court system..

JERRY FALWELL: Pat, did you notice yesterday the ACLU and all the Christ-haters, People For the American Way, NOW, etc. were totally disregarded by the Democrats and the Republicans in both houses of Congress as they went out on the steps and called out on to God in prayer and sang "God Bless America" and said "let the ACLU be hanged". In other words, when the nation is on its knees, the only normal and natural and spiritual thing to do is what we ought to be doing all the time - calling upon God. ~~~

PAT ROBERTSON: > Amen]

[mitchum]

10. And I wouldn't weep if the goddamn roof fell on all present that day

[Penndems]

11. AP/AOL: Falwell Invites Gingrich to Give Address

LYNCHBURG, Va. (March 10) - Newt Gingrich's admission of an extramarital affair as he pursued President Clinton's impeachment in the Monica Lewinsky scandal has won praise from another conservative Christian leader: the Rev. Jerry Falwell.

Reports of extramarital affairs have dogged former House Speaker Newt Gingrich for years as a result of two messy divorces, but he had refused to discuss them publicly.

It's also helped to gain Gingrich an invitation to deliver the commencement address at Falwell's Liberty University. Gingrich is considered a possible Republican presidential contender, although he has not announced any intention to run.

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"He has admitted his moral shortcomings to me, as well, in private conversations," Falwell wrote in a weekly newsletter sent Friday to members of the Moral Majority Coalition and The Liberty Alliance. "And he has also told me that he has, in recent years, come to grips with his personal failures and sought God's forgiveness."

Link:
http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/falwell-invites-gingrich-to-give-address/20070310124309990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001
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So, according to Falwell, God practices "selective forgiveness".

What skeletons is the good Reverend hiding in his closet?

[Monkeyman]

12. He will be BORN AGAIN

[Penndems]

14. "And he has also told me that he has, in recent years, come to grips with his personal failures

and sought God's forgiveness."

Yeah, right. :eyes:

If Gingrich decides to announce his Presidential candidacy, the press will start poking into his personal life. Time to hide behind that ole faux-Christian facade!

[The_Casual_Observer]

13. Gingrich is a real mental case. Just perfect as a standard bearer

for the gop.

[John Q. Citizen]

15. The Repo base loves Newt. n/t

[Old and In the Way]

16. The High Priest of Moral Relativism speaks.

What he didn't say is Gingrich is a Republican and, as such, will continue to keep Falwell's political church from being taxed. It's all about the $.

[Penndems]

17. Elmer Gantry Falwell and Lulu Baines Gingrich

To use a quote from my maternal grandmother, "a snake knows another snake when it sees one."

You're right - it is all about money. Between Falwell and Robertson, they've done more to drive people out of the church than to bring them in - something they'll no doubt pay for in the next life.