
Part One: Jerry Falwell: Founder of the Religious Right
Behind the Bastards
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Jerry Falwell - The True Genius
Miles performs in Pennsylvania. He opens for Lucy K and Aziz opens for Miles. That's who you want opening for you as a season. So, when Jerry Falwell spoke, millions of people listened. At the start of the 1980s, his TV show was hosted on 373 stations, more than Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. His church had grown to become one of the very first mega churches with regular attendance of more than 17,000. Catholics and Protestants did not, traditionally, see one another as groups with much in common. Likewise, mainstream Protestants, Pentecostals, evangelicals, and fundamentalists were all distinct groups of Christians. Falwell succeeded in welding them together for
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