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Article: JERRY FALWELL'S ROAD TO RELIGION
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 6, 1987
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CopyrightCopyright 1987 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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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 ...