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If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.

Jerry Falwell

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Jerry Falwell
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: August 11
Died: 2007
Died: May 15
Clergyman
Non-Fiction Writer
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Lynchburg
Virginia
Jerry Lamon Falwell
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