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Part Two: Jerry Falwell: Founder of the Religious Right

Behind the Bastards

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The Death Toll From AIDS

The Supreme Court ruled that Larry Flint was free to make fun of Jerry Falwell without fear of being sued. The decision came as the death toll from AIDS rose to the hundreds of thousands. "If we don't have satire, what do we have? And that's what the Supreme Court decided," he says.

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