“Thank God for these gay demonstrators. If I didn't have them, I'd have to invent them. They give me all the publicity I need.”

—  Jerry Falwell

As quoted by Falwell's ghostwriter Mel White in "Religion, Politics a Potent Mix for Jerry Falwell" by Steve Inskeep in Morning Edition on NPR (30 June 2006) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5522064

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