Jerry Falwell

Jerry Falwell, U.S. Christian televangelist. After the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack, he (along with fellow televangelist Pat Robertson) made comments interpreted as claims that the attacks were to be blamed on secular forces in America. The two were widely condenmned for having made these comments.

Falwell said: "I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America -- I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen.'"