Falwell: Christianity, the Easter Bunyy and ‘Diversity Days’

[meegbear]

FALWELL CONFIDENTIAL
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Date: March 23, 2006
From: Jerry Falwell

CHRISTIANITY, THE EASTER BUNNY AND ‘DIVERSITY DAYS’

I read with interest a news story this week in which a St. Paul, Minn., official decided to outlaw the Easter Bunny because the furry creature might offend “non-Christians.”

I don’t know what’s more disturbing — that this guy believes the Easter Bunny actually has something to do with the Christian celebration of Easter or that he is part of a larger problem in which pompous officials jump on the politically-correct bandwagon to eradicate all mention of religion (specifically Christianity) in public squares across our nation.

In this example, a toy rabbit, pastel-colored eggs and a sign with the words “Happy Easter” were removed from city council offices, the Associated Press reported.

Yeah, we sure wouldn’t want that artificial green grass and those colorful little eggs to alarm some innocent bystander who happens along.

Why, they might mistake those decorations as an endorsement of religion!

Don’t laugh — that’s about how ridiculous the modern anti-religious freedom movement has become. Groups like Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, American Atheists and the American Civil Liberties Union are working to fashion a sanitized, religion-free public square; these groups habitually deny and rewrite our nation’s history in order to enact their reprehensible agenda.

City leaders and education officials across this country have been so duped by this effort that even the most negligible reference to religion — or something as non-religious as the Easter Bunny that is perceived as religious — is outlawed.

In an unrelated event, earlier this week, in Wisconsin, a high school official cancelled a so-called “diversity day” when it was learned that a group of Christians, including former homosexuals, wanted to present Bible-based perspectives on homosexuality.

Viroqua High School officials had planned to present the viewpoints of several religions — including Hmong (an Asian ethnic group), Jews, Muslims, Native Americans, African-Americans, homosexuals, Latinos, Buddhists, the physically disadvantaged and the economically disadvantaged — but not the views of Christians.

Diversity day?

Right.

When a school official reported that the viewpoints of Christians and former homosexuals would be excluded, a resident contacted the Orlando, Fla.-based Liberty Counsel on behalf of several concerned Viroqua residents.

Liberty Counsel attorneys then sent a letter to the district administrator, explaining that the censorship of Christians and former homosexuals violated the Establishment Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment equal protection guarantee. After receiving no response, Liberty Counsel sent another letter a few days letter to the same official and the board of education.

Two days later, the diversity day event was cancelled.

This is a clear example of how anti-Christian many local officials have become.

There are untold thousands of former homosexuals (or ex-gays) in our nation who are flourishing in their new lives. But they are shunned as if they have the plague because they don’t fit into the “diversity” of the so-called mainstream.

Mathew D. Staver, president and general counsel of Liberty Counsel, said of the case, “This is yet another attempt to indoctrinate our youth with the harmful message that homosexuals cannot change. While touting the message of tolerance, homosexual activists refuse to be tolerant of opposing viewpoints. Our youth deserve to know the truth about homosexuality — that people can choose to overcome same-sex attractions and that acting on those attractions results in devastating physical, mental, and spiritual consequences.”

I have no doubt that the same officials who want to disallow all Christian expression on campuses or in public squares would at the same time have no problem with promoting “The Da Vinci Code,” or some other book or movie that disparages Jesus Christ.

There is no level playing field when it comes to the religious freedoms of conservative people of faith. We are literally viewed as second-class citizens by many in leadership in this nation.

[acmavm]

1. Falwell is everything that Jesus warned us about. False

prophet, moneychanger in the Temple, hypocrite, and I'm throwing in bigoted lying idiot (those are MY words).

[tsuki]

5. You forgot thief and blasphemer.

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/televangelists/jerry-falwell/

In 1994 Falwell quietly accepted $3.5 million from Korean cult messiah Sun Myung Moon as part of a larger deal to bail Liberty University out from under its horrendous debt load. Perhaps Jerry was moved by this staggering generosity. That might be the reason why Falwell publicly urged his friend President Reagan to pardon Moon's tax evasion conviction.

Jerry was widely criticized in the Christian community for lending legitimacy to Moon's organization. Moon had always claimed that he was Jesus Christ's successor and moral superior. It was inconceivable that a fundamentalist Christian like Falwell would regard Moon as anything other than a blasphemer. But, as always, whenever confronted with a choice between money, connections, or the appearance of propriety, propriety came last.

[acmavm]

13. You are right. Sorry. n/t

[tanyev]

2. *sniff* What's that smell? Does anyone else smell burning martyr?

We are literally viewed as second-class citizens by many in leadership in this nation.

What leadership would that be, Jerry? The leadership in the White House, Congress, and Supreme Court can't kowtow to you fast enough.

[trotsky]

3. Funny thing is, Falwell has some allies right here at DU.

Who also think that Christianity is somehow "under attack" from evil secularists.

[noonwitch]

11. If it's true christianity, it is immune from attack

I'm a liberal christian. If critics attack my beliefs constantly, their attacks are not going to change my beliefs. If my boss gave me a hard time and was always arguing religion with me, I would not change my beliefs to match hers.

The only christianity that is vulnerable to attacks is that which is built on an inflexible foundation. If your faith is built upon the belief in the inerrancy of the Bible, for example, it is all going to come crumbling down each time science proves a point of it as impossible or wrong.

[BOSSHOG]

4. falwell's job is very easy

The ignorance and gullibility of his base makes whipping out a newsletter quite easy. I must compliment him on convincing so many that not being able to destroy the constitution and replace it with the bible somehow makes them persecuted. That's a knee slapper.

Thanks Meegbear, I always get a chuckle reading about what our radical christian clerics are up to. We need to keep the spotlight on them, just like cockroaches. If any of you "christians" are checking this out, remember many of us are under oath to support and defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and DOMESTIC, that would be you.

[meegbear]

6. Thank you BOSSHOG ...

been getting his emails for a couple years; post 'em here so people know what they're thinking.

Falwell, Robertson, et al are the reason I got involved with politics. After '88 and the off chance that someone like Robertson could not only have a following, but also become our leader was enough for me.

[BOSSHOG]

8. I have to credit

limbaugh for pointing me in the correct political direction. I used to listen to him on the way home in the late 80's and early 90's and the more I listened to him the less I wanted to do with his brand of politics. Up to then I was rather apolitical but thanks to right wing hate I'm a flaming liberal today and proud of it. "Christians" will not turn this country into a theocracy as long as I can take a breath.

[izzybeans]

7. All Hail Prophet Easter Bunny

The power and the glory of laying chocolate eggs..."It's the story of Jesus."

[Mad_Dem_X]

9. Ex-homosexuals...

:eyes: :rofl:

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. Curious. He derides the banning of the Easter Bunny, saying it

has no connection with religion.

But what would he say if we kept the bunny but changed its name to the Spring Bunny, who comes to celebrate after the dire predictions of the groundhog?

He'd scream about removing the 'Easter', and demeaning one of Christianity's holiest days.

Mr. Falwell, how the fuck do you find no religious connection when it is called the EASTER Bunny?

[TimeChaser]

12. To be fair, it does have religious connections...

only, you know, to Paganism instead of Christianity