“The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this.”

— Jerry Falwell

On responses to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, as quoted in AANEWS #958 (14 September 2001) and at Positive Atheism http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/foulwell.htm

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