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"When it shall be said in any country in the world that my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars, the aged are not in want; the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am the friend of its happiness—when these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and its government." --Thomas Paine, 1791
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Never had much regard for Falwell, or for that matter, his nemesis of Hustler fame, Flynt. It is worthy of note that after the supreme court landmark case (oops, I didn't capitalize supreme) these two strange bedfellows of politics became chums.
Still they remained, each one, at his end of the idiot spectrum. Falwell was however at least as good a thinker and speaker as William Jennings Bryan.
Although Falwell did not believe in evolution and took the Bible to be the literal and unalterable word of God, he had been heard to say the Religious Right had evolved. Go figure.
Who says two wrongs can't make a right?
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