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The Christian Evangelical leader, Jerry Falwell, has died at the age of 73.

He was the founder of the moral majority and a pioneering figure in the religious right.

He led campaigns against abortion, gay rights, pornography, and bands on school prayer.

During the 1960s, Falwell condemned the Reverend Martin Luther King and what he described the civil wrongs movement.

In the 1980s, Falwell praised South Africa as a partake government as a bull work for Christian civilization and campaigned against economic sanctions.

Falwell once described Nobel priest laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu as a phony.

Shortly after the September 11, 2001, attacks Falwell appeared on Pat Robertson's 700 Club and blamed liberal groups in the United States for the attacks.

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The great Reverend Jerry Falwell has passed.

The great of course is a relative term, I suppose, or could mean a lot of different things.

I've got a lot of course from Reverend Falwell, but let's first let him do this speaking for himself about the September 11 attacks and who's really at fault.

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 tried to secularize America.

I want the thing in their face and say you help this happen.

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