Jerry Falwell

Conservatives Attack Gay Dumbledore; Claim Vindication For Jerry Falwell’s Homophobia

Richard Harris as Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster
On Friday, British author J.K. Rowling revealed for the first time that Albus Dumbledore, one of the central heroes in the record-breaking Harry Potter series, is in fact a gay man. Asked if Dumbledore, “who believed in the prevailing power of love,” had ever fallen “in love himself,” Rowling said that he once had with another male wizard.

While Rowling considers her novels to be a “prolonged argument for tolerance” and most fans were “thrilled with the announcement,” some conservative blogs are criticizing the revelation:

Falwell and Savage Christians: A Legacy of Hate and Violence

TV bigot

By Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report

May 31, 200
AlterNet.org
http://www.alternet.org/story/52666/

"The true Negro does not want integration. ... He realizes his potential is far better among his own race." -- Rev. Jerry Falwell

The late Rev. Jerry Falwell was one of the most powerful men in American religious and political life. He was also an avowed segregationist, contending that Africans were the cursed descendants of Ham, and worthy only of subservience to white people. He was an adamant opponent of civil rights legislation, calling the Civil Rights Act a "civil wrong."