Dave, you are right. Falwell was insensitive when he made those comments.
I'm glad to hear that you weren't comparing him to the Taliban though.

Rex> 


A scroll of mail from Rex Probert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 14 Sep
> 2001 12:46:12 -0500
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>> Dave, I would not compare Jerry Falwell to the Taliban.
> 
> No, of course not, and I didn't mean to do that.  What I meant was
> that there are extremists in every group and condemning the normal
> members of a group on the actions of the extremists isn't right.
> 
> Of course Fallwell isn't equivalent to the Taliban, but he is, based
> on some of his comments on this event[1], on the extreme edge of
> Christianity.
> 
> dave
> 
> [1] He said that the attack was caused by the sinfulness of the city
> and made reference to gays and lesbians (among others) being the cause
> of the problem.  Pretty insensitive stuff.
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