Jerry Falwell

Far right extremism in the United States contains a large number of ideas and beliefs. The term far right extremism is commonly used to refer to a network of groups who contain a combination of anti-government, racist, anti-semitic, homophobic, anti-abortion, and anti immigrant beliefs. For example, the Ku Klux Klan, Christian Identity sects, Aryan Nation, as well as the creativity movement are all far right extremist groups that support violence, separation, deportation, and immigration restrictions

v. Falwell, by a majority, SCOTUS determined that the First Amendment's free-speech guarantee prohibits awarding damages to public figures to compensate for emotional distress intentionally inflicted upon them. Thus, smut king, Larry Flynt’s Hustler magazine's incredibly, tasteless parody of Jerry Falwell was deemed to be within the law, because SCOTUS found that rational people would not have interpreted

responding to many events and policies. Many were responding to the numerous Supreme Court decisions. They did not support decisions such as banning prayers in public education and the legalization of abortion and pornography. Conservatives like Jerry Falwell demanded for America to return to its traditional values, and blamed numerous factors from television to the public-school system (Foner, VOF, 312). In addition, Conservatives stood against the Equal Rights Amendment, the feminist revolution, and

of Ronald Reagan. Although Ronald Reagan was one of the most popular president in United States history, the years he served were not beloved by many. One example of this was Reverend Jerry Falwell. Reverend Falwell believed that “our grand old flag from going down the drain.” according to the Reverend Jerry Falwell, Moral Majority Fundraising Letter. He was against homosexual people and the distribution of pornography and R/X rated movies. He seemed to believe that the sex and violence they contained

these groups maintained a strong anticommunist voice, until the failure of McCarthyism. However, the voice of conservative Christianity remained strong and this resulted in the formation of the Moral Majority, which gained a lot of attention as Jerry Falwell created his Baptist Bible Fellowship which had significant influence on the surface. The Moral Majority eventually faded, like all evangelical organizations before it, and Paul Robertson became the new face of evangelicalism as he sought the presidential

reflection of those of the Christian Right Movement. One of the members of the religious movement was American Baptist pastor Jerry Falwell, who, in 1989, claimed (about feminists), “These women just need a man in the house. That’s all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they’re mad at all men.” Falwell makes it clear that he disagrees with the feminist agenda, suggesting that feminists only exist to hate men—and that

In his 2014 book 11 Principles of a Reagan Conservative, Dr. Paul Kengor laid out the foundational beliefs of the Reagan presidency. Of importance to the relevance of Reagan and the current political climate are the principles related to social conservatism: faith, family, and the sanctity and dignity of human life.(1) Those principles formed one leg of Reagan’s three-legged philosophy of conservatism. Many of the same principles form the core of the current conservative wing of the Republican

Christianity, they too obtained unity against the Civil Rights Movement. The Ku Klux Klan was not the only notorious adversary of civil rights. A prominent opponent of the fight for African American equality and was the Baptist minister, Jerry Falwell. Falwell was a strong supporter of segregation and believed that based on the bible, “Africans were the cursed descendants of Ham, and worthy only of subservience to white people” (Kimberley 1). In Genesis of the bible Ham was cursed by his father

After nearly five decades of being banished to the political margins, conservatives secured control of the White House in 1980 with the election of former California Governor Ronald Reagan. The reasons the Republicans win in the 1980 election include Ronald Reagan, grassroots conservative activism, the economy, and President Carter’s foreign policy decisions. Reagan’s rise within the Republican Party began in 1964 during a campaign address for Barry Goldwater. Grassroots organization like Young Americans

HIV is a world pandemic that has caused the death of “30 million” (CDC – Statistics Overview – Statistics Center – HIV/AIDS, CDC) innocent lives. HIV is devastating virus that destroys people’s immune systems and leaves them vulnerable to other diseases. HIV is an acronym for Human Immunodeficiency Virus, which means that the virus is found only in humans and targets the immune system. The virus kills CD4 cells, cells in the immune system that fight off infections and diseases. HIV has been around