Article: JERRY FALWELL'S ROAD TO RELIGION

Did Rev. Jerry Falwell, one of America's most powerful religious leaders, once tackle a physical education teacher, wrestle with him, pull off his britches and leave him pantless in a bin of basketballs?

"Just teen-age energy," Falwell says, smiling.

Did Rev. Jerry Falwell, who resigned from the Moral Majority -- which he founded in 1979 -- and from the PTL this fall, once bring a live rat to school in a paper bag and place it in a teacher's desk drawer, near some of her stashed-away cookies? When the teacher opened the drawer and saw the rat, did she scream and faint dead away?

"Pure meanness," Falwell apologizes during this conversation at the Ritz- Carlton to promote his ...

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