8 Things You Didn’t Know About Jerry Falwell

(Cross-posted from mental_floss)

8 Things You Didn’t Know About Jerry Falwell

There’s no doubt that Jerry Falwell was controversial. Many remember him as the arch-conservative Moral Majority leader who took to the airwaves after September 11, 2001 and blamed the terrorists attacks on homosexuals, feminists, and the ACLU (among others). Or they remember him as the guy who outed the purple Teletubby.

But when I spent a semester living at Liberty University, I got to see a different side of Rev. Falwe