Wait......What?

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Ummm. Yeah. Hands up who thought that Reverend Falwell would ever, for any reason, admit that gay people were people and deserved basic human rights?

Yeah. Me either.

Whiskey tango, over.

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Actually, not that surprised.

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Falwell has been gradually softening his stance on homosexuality, or at least on how homosexual people should be treated, for several years now. At one point many years ago, he referred to my alma mater as "those whores on the hill." My senior year, he actually *came to our campus* and *ate lunch in our dining hall.* Granted, he ate with the Campus Crusade for Christ girls, but he was peacably eating in a room that also held a lot of lesbians and a couple of gay men. And there was quite a brouhaha the year after, when he hinted that he might possibly talk with some leaders in the gay movement (as opposed to shouting at them).

Oh, and the Tinky Winky thing? That wasn't Falwell himself, that was a writer in a magazine put out by Liberty University, of which Falwell is the chancellor. I don't think he's ever stated whether or not he agrees, but it wasn't him that said it.