Jerry Falwell Biography, Age, Weight, Height, Friend, Like, Affairs, Favourite, Birthdate & Other

Jerry Falwell was an American televangelist and political activist. He grew up in a household that he described as a battleground between the forces of God and the powers of Satan. His grandfather was an atheist, his father was an agnostic and his mother was a devout Christian, who inspired Jerry to walk on the path to Jesus. He came to prominence first as a religious broadcaster through his ‘Old-Time Gospel Hour’ and then as the leader of the Moral Majority, a fundamentalist Christian political organization.

He went from a Baptist preacher in Lynchburg to a powerful force in electoral politics. As much as anyone, he helped create the religious right as a political force, defined the issues that would energize it for decades and cemented its ties to the Republican Party. But his beliefs lead him to be impertinent to the LGBT community and the Muslim community. Also, he offended several Americans when he tried to segregate Christian children through his school and teaching