A small group of protesters gathered near the funeral services to criticize the man who mobilized Christian evangelicals and made them a major force in American politics -- often by playing on social prejudices. A group of students from Falwell's Liberty University staged a counterprotest. And Campbell County authorities arrested a Liberty University student for having several homemade bombs in his car.
From reading the headline you'd think they were talking about someone planning to blow up the funeral. That would of course be wrong. Instead it was one of Jerry's kids who was planning to blow up the people who couldn't stand Falwell. Fundamentalism is a problem, and it doesn't seem to matter if its Islamic, Christian, Jewish or Hindu. |