Saturday December 29, 2007
Claims to fame: 80-year-old pastor of Independent Fundamental Baptist (IFB) Trinity Baptist Church (Jacksonville, Florida) for 38 years; co-founder and president, Trinity Baptist College; gay-hater; accused molester of little girls (more…)
Tuesday October 31, 2006
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Falwell Terms Clergy Sex-Abuse Case ‘Bump in the Road’
Jerry Falwell called high-profile allegations that a former pastor of a prominent independent Baptist church molested and raped numerous children over the course of decades a “bump in the road.”
“When you hit a bump in the road–the pastor has mentioned six months here of challenges–forget the bump in the road. That’s all it is. You’ve got to move on,” Falwell said in a keynote address of a three-day meeting of the Southwide Baptist Fellowship at Trinity Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Fla. …
[Christa Brown, founder of Voice to Stop Baptist Predators] criticized Falwell’s dismissive choice of words. …