Gingrich: Confront "Radical Secularism"

Former House Speaker Gives Commencement At Liberty University

(AP)  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told Liberty University's graduating class Saturday to honor the spirit of school founder Jerry Falwell by confronting "the growing culture of radical secularism" with Christian ideals.

Gingrich, who is considering a 2008 presidential run, quoted Bible passages to a mournful crowd of about 17,000 packed into the university's football stadium four days after Falwell's death.

Despite the somber tone of the day, graduates who covered the football field chanted "Jerry! Jerry!" in tribute to Falwell.

"A growing culture of radical secularism declares that the nation cannot profess the truths on which it was founded," Gingrich said. "We are told that our public schools can no longer invoke the creator, nor proclaim the natural law nor profess the God-given quality of human rights.

"In hostility to American history, the radical secularists insist that religious belief is inherently divisive and that public debate can only proceed on secular terms," he said.

Liberty's commencement has become a forum for conservative politicians. Last year's address came from Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who made amends with Falwell after attacking him by name during McCain's failed 2000 White House bid.

Gingrich said he won't decide until October whether to run for president.

It was the first commencement without Falwell, the Baptist preacher who established the church-based university in 1971, before he founded the Moral Majority that helped elect Ronald Reagan president in 1980.

On Tuesday morning, the 73-year-old Falwell was discovered without a pulse in his office at Liberty and pronounced dead at a hospital about an hour later. His physician said Falwell had a heart condition and presumably died of a heart rhythm abnormality.

His funeral was set for Tuesday.

His son, Jerry Falwell Jr., addressed Liberty's students Saturday as the school's new chancellor.

"No one can replace dad, but ...," he said before he choked with emotion. Applause rippled across the crowd as he struggled to regain his composure. "But there's a team here ready to carry on and we're going to give it everything we have as he did for so long."

Falwell intended Liberty to be his most enduring legacy. He envisioned it as a "Protestant Notre Dame," projecting fundamentalist Christianity for generations. It was to be a training ground for conservative politicians, lawyers and judges — warriors in what Falwell perceived as a cultural war against liberals, gay rights, legalized abortion and forces he saw as a threat to Christianity.

Gingrich said after his speech that Falwell's death would not slow the Christian right's efforts.

"Anybody on the left who hopes that when people like Reverend Falwell disappear that the opportunity to convert all of America has gone with them fundamentally misunderstands why institutions like this were created," Gingrich said.

[rfield9]

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[rfield9]

What a joke and Neo-facist Gingrich is. On 6/21/06,
he was a commentator on Fox News, asserting how Dems
had to apologize now because the WMD HAS BEEN FOUND!

Himself, Bill Kristol, Hannity, Coulter - all the
usual liars had glommed onto the absurd press
conference of the now deposed Rick Santorum, who
had "uncovered" a Pentagon report about inert
mustard gas grenades dug up near the Iranian border.

Within hours, Rumsfeld's Pentagon said those were
not the WMD, but rather leftover grenades from
the Iraq-Iran war of the 1980's. David Kay confirmed much to the disappointment of House R's,
they were less potent than chemicals found under
your kitchen sink.

Gingrich appeared on Meet The Press last winter,
asserting how we've badly underused surveillance
technology to spy on Americans, and that the
Patriot Act and Bush's illegal NSA spying had
to be proliferated, to deal with the threat
that he feels lurks on every block in America.

Now it's "radical secularism". Right Newt.
Extremists like Falwell really need more power,
and those opposed to the merging of church and
state are simply radicals.

I am so hoping this offensive human being decides
to run. He'll be exposed as the wingnut he is,
and Clinton will blow him out as the R nominee.

[patriotic9]

"We are told that our public schools can no longer invoke the creator, nor proclaim the natural law nor profess the God-given quality of human rights.


Yeah right!!!!

God-given quality of human rights?

This Radical enemy of Human rights is talking about Human rights.This guy whose Bible accuses a women of being devil and the one who helped DEVIL in getting a man kicked out of Heaven, whose Bible discriminates against JESUS-LOVING AMERICAN'S by not promising them a single penny while promising JESUS-HATING NON AMERICAN EUROPEAN INVADERS IN PALESTINE, a land in the MIDDLE EAST, whose Bible discriminates against HOMOSEXUAL CITIZENS of UNITED STATES by denying their right of marriage while allowing same right for the HETEROSEXUAL CITIZENS(Discrimination on the basis of SEXUAL ORIENTATION),this guy who believes in THE FATHER, THE SON and THE HOLY SPIRIT(THE HOLY,GOD-LOVING,CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN MAN IS THE FATHER, that innocent boy whose pant is pulled down in the name of GOD is THE SON and what is inserted in the BACK HOLE of that innocent boy is THE HOLY SPIRIT) is talking about Human rights.What a joke!!!!!!!!!

[patriotic9]

We are told that our public schools can no longer invoke the creator, nor proclaim the natural law nor profess the God-given quality of human rights.


Yeah right!!!!

God-given quality of human rights?

This Radical enemy of Human rights is talking about Human rights.This guy whose Bible accuses a women of being devil and the one who helped DEVIL in getting a man kicked out of Heaven, whose Bible discriminates against JESUS-LOVING AMERICAN'S by not promising them a single penny while promising JESUS-HATING NON AMERICAN EUROPEAN INVADERS IN PALESTINE, a land in the MIDDLE EAST, whose Bible discriminates against HOMOSEXUAL CITIZENS of UNITED STATES by denying their right of marriage while allowing same right for the HETEROSEXUAL CITIZENS(Discrimination on the basis of SEXUAL ORIENTATION),this guy who believes in THE FATHER, THE SON and THE HOLY SPIRIT(THE HOLY,GOD-LOVING,CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN MAN IS THE FATHER, that innocent boy whose pant is pulled down in the name of GOD is THE SON and what is inserted in the BACK HOLE of that innocent boy is THE HOLY SPIRIT) is talking about Human rights.What a joke!!!!!!!!!

[zertrat]

Anyone living in the US knows lots of fine, pleasant christians and secularists, and it is clear to any fair observer that it is the Newts of the world who are the radicals.

[vet_sk]

2.5 billion taxpayer dollars to Faith Based inititives in 2005 and they are talking about radical secularist? What about the separation of church and state? What about my rights not to pay for the radical right to convert more weak minds with what they front as Christianity.

The man Jesus was would have walked into more of those churches and overturned their rediculous, idolotrous crucifixes.

Has anyone else had enough of the right trying to convince us that we don't have enough Christianity in our lives? This with a so called Christian at the helm that invaded and killed almost 100,000 Iraqi's. Oh, but that's right - it was for democracy. Cripe!

[rfield9]

- 2.5 billion taxpayer dollars to Faith Based inititives in 2005 and they are talking about radical secularist? What about the separation of church and state? What about my rights not to pay for the radical right to convert more weak minds with what they front as Christianity. -
Posted by Vet_SK -


Large point.


- Lastly, Gingrich, thanks for making your totalitarian intentions clear, "the opportunity to convert all of America." -
Posted by cneron -


Exactly. Gingrich is far more inept at cloaking
his true agenda, than Neo-facists like Cheney,
Rove and DeLay are.

He did the same thing on Russert over the winter.
He thinks we need a brown van on every block
eavesdropping.

What a pile of garbage. I really hope he tries to
run.

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[rfield9]

Every American should see the Moyers report
from this month, documenting how our "liberal"
press totally rubberstamped Bush on the pre-war
WMD scam, and failed their mission of true
information. The disproof of it was known at the
time, simply not reported by liberal bastions NYT
and Washington Post. Knight-Ridder had it, and
the national media ignored it.

You can watch it on your computer;

pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html

You won't be getting up once you start into it,
it's riveting. Pass the link on please -

[wogerwabbit]

I hope Newt wins the nomination... he's a sure loser

[missingamerica]

If only some day I would see someone like Gingrich and the people he backs practicing "Do unto others as ye would have them do unto you" instead of "Take from others; to err is human, but money is divine"...

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Only the morons are left on the RNC Titanic my friends.
Only the morons -

[sformoso]

Everyone who follows what someone else preaches is so sad and ignorant. No man knows God and no man ever will. Quit following what others tell you and be set free.

[r9119111]

The radical right is responsible for much of the bloodshed in the world today. Let's see those graduates from Regents enlist in what we could now call Falwell's Army of God to go fight in Iraq. Go ahead -- set a good example for a change. Take Newt with you.

[skyk-2009]

I remember well how "Christian's" taught Human Right's in schools. As a child growing up in the south we were visited EVERY week by the Church Lady, usually she'd explain to us why it was okay for the Klan to lynch a black for not being in "their Place". Equal but Different was how they taught it. Course I doubt that is what this low life Cracker meant when he referred to Religion in our History!! Sieg Heil and Amen Y'all.

[bm6005]

Gingrich represents "Radical Moronism"!!

[sty1]

Jerry falwell is calling you from hell Newt. Hurry and go see what he wants. Go now.

[homespunlady]

From above:
Falwell intended Liberty to be his most enduring legacy. He envisioned it as a "Protestant Notre Dame," projecting fundamentalist Christianity for generations. It was to be a training ground for conservative politicians, lawyers and judges %u2014 warriors in what Falwell perceived as a cultural war against liberals, gay rights, legalized abortion and forces he saw as a threat to Christianity.
Gingrich said after his speech that Falwell's death would not slow the Christian right's efforts.
"Anybody on the left who hopes that when people like Reverend Falwell disappear that the opportunity to convert all of America has gone with them fundamentally misunderstands why institutions like this were created," Gingrich said.

In this statement the word "LIBERTY" is an oxymoron. What is there in such a statement of RADICAL JIHADIST FUNDAMENTALIST "CHRISTIANITY" that portrays the concepts and beliefs that are REAL LIBERTY -
Freedom of choice? NO
Freedom of Religion? NO
Pursuit of happiness? NO
Life and Liberty free from oppression? OBVIOUSLY NOT
Such Forked-Tongued Doublespeak is the antithesis of what America stands for.

[ramos937]

Sorry Newt - but you blew your chance to be President when you said English should be the designated official language of the USA and Spanish was the language of the ghetto. I know you apologized for the remarks afterwards and even tried - in bad Spanish - to make amends but the Hispanic community now has your number. You are like the fellow who shot his foot off accidently and then reloaded to do the same to the other foot.

[zorlacskates]

as a previous poster mentioned, "radical secularism" is an absurd term, but this is what the right is so good at: inventing bizarre terminology and divisive images rather than engage in genuine debate. i guess the intent is to suggest that "radical secularist" has something is common with radical muslims, conveniently ignoring everything that's radical about newt's far right positions on just about everything. go have another affair newt, and spare us the fundamentalist propaganda.

[kessati1]

to lars 008(or007)your IQ must be the same like YOUR
politic leaders!!!

[lestb35]

Sorry Newt - but you blew your chance to be President when you said English should be the designated official language of the USA and Spanish was the language of the ghetto.Posted by ramos937 at 04:45 PM : May 19, 2007


It's actually pretty good advice. If you don't speak English in America you're not going to make a whole lot of money unless you deal drugs.

[tell7]

Here is how Newt became the commencement speaker for Liberty U's 2007 graduating class.

Associated Press/March 9, 2007
LYNCHBURG, Virginia %u2014 Newt Gingrich's admission of an extramarital affair as he pursued former President Clinton's impeachment in the Monica Lewinsky scandal has won praise from another conservative Christian leader: the Rev. Jerry Falwell. It has also helped to gain Gingrich an invitation to deliver the commencement address at Falwell's Liberty University.

Radical Christian hypocrisy, at it's finest!

[macusweil]

Bring our troops home now!!

Appeal for Redress only if you a stupid enough to want to save Halliburton's plunder of the US taxpayer's money. The conflict has done nothing but waste American lives and money.

Let Pakistani & Egyptian troops to police Iraq and our rich oil buddies like Dubai & the Saudis send in money to rebuild the place. The Arab oilmen have made millions now that gasoline is over 60 a barrel let them us the money to bring piece. I'm sick and tired of paying for this misguided adventure turned civil war.

[sty1]

I pray that a tornado will destroy liberty U and his G D church

[fredgrad2000]

Jarry Falwell in hell? Probably not; I'm not even a particularly religious man, but what makes me laugh with you MoveOn.org types is that in your mind Falwell and Bush go to hell, but the "freedom fighters" from Hamas and Al Qaeda (known as terrorists to most of us) in Palestine and Iraq I'm sure are just fine; Bush and Falwell in hell first!!...backwards, just backwards...

[actornaught]

"Radical secularists????? that is an oxymoron."
Posted by ainttaken

my almost instantaneous thought when i saw that phrase, but thank you for getting here earlier.

and before i forget: newt... feh... scumbag sellout...

[bobnjersey]

[Falwell intended Liberty to be his most enduring legacy. He envisioned it as a "Protestant Notre Dame," projecting fundamentalist Christianity for generations. It was to be a training ground for conservative politicians, lawyers and judges %u2014 warriors in what Falwell perceived as a cultural war against liberals, gay rights, legalized abortion and forces he saw as a threat to Christianity.]

... carrying on the spirit of ignorance and intolerance to future generations of falwellians ... praise the lord!

[cdfoxtrot]

I thought the US prided itself on being a secular state (isn't that what's meant by the separation of church and state). Can someone clarify this for me? In that case, is Gingrich attacking the US, itself?? I'm not sure why anyone is reporting what Gingrich has to say, anyway. He's no longer an elected official and has no power. He should just go back to whatever red-neck outpost he calls home and shut up. Or better still, run for the Rep. nomination for president, guaranteeing a Democrat victory in '08. Let's hear it: Gingrich for President!

[williamfold]

Run for your lives! The Radical Secularists are coming!!!

[bellal-2009]

I pray that a tornado will destroy liberty U and his G D church
Posted by terryates at 05:49 PM : May 19, 2007

Why would you say that? I think that's what they're talking about.

[walt1944-2009]

Here we have Gingrich, who lead a "witch hunt" against one man who made a mistake, while he was making a "mistake" at the time. Gingrich, who later had to leave the position of House Speaker because of questionable ethics. And this guy is praising Falwell and warning about "radical secularism". Jesus had some choice words for hypocrites in the New Testament.

[mergatroid_4]

The adjective human has yet to have any bearing within judicial proceedings when describing the noun embryo. I can run through the entire zoological kingdom and only one word, human, can begin to describe that "thing" in the human female's "thing."

Follow along now boys and girls ..., I will now run the movie of the life of any human being BACKWARDS. I will slow this movie down whenever one wants me to. I want civil, sober discourse on when I can stop the movie and have someone pick out the exact moment, and the portion of movie frames when that "thing" can legally be classed or categorized to now lose all of it's civil rights under the consitution.

These words make no difference to the liberal. One might as well being in discourse with a prison mess hall of hard core, incorrigible murderers. Don't even attempt to prick their conscience. Though why and how is it that I with no legal training am able to present an outline of rational thought to attack abortion and the laws subjugating the sanctity of life, and the decades of graduates of right-leaning educational instituions who trained and are supposed to be (expected to be) more in synch with argumentative debate can not?

The mentality within the left will say that that "thing" is a parasite; a scab that forms after a lesion, or some other irrational cackle that dominates all the proffessionals inside the courtroom. But why is the right so inept? For decades the right can not even put the words together and make a case.

[jacksteen1]

It is gratifying to see that the Republiscum Party still has champions such as this empty shirt to flock to admire now that the bloviating, morally bereft 'reverend' Falwell has gone to Hell. And it's so nice Newter was able to free up his weekend so he could fill in for the deceased pile of diseased ******* at his 'university's' commencement.

It should be a wake up call for America that this institution will still churn out 'graduates' that espouse the diseased political bent of the founder...young people that have been indoctrinated by cross-eyed, Yellowhammer Baptists made weak by inbreeding and the decadence of their godless existence. The place will shortly be shut down when the old man's tax evasion and money laundering is uncovered.

America is DONE with the Falwells and Gingriches of the South. Too bad we can't build a moat to keep their green-teeth and fetid breath down there away from our clean Northern streets.

[lars008-2009]

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[Ed0719]

what makes me laugh with you MoveOn.org types is that in your mind Falwell and Bush go to hell, but the "freedom fighters" from Hamas and Al Qaeda (known as terrorists to most of us) in Palestine and Iraq I'm sure are just fine
Posted by fredgrad2000 at 06:14 PM : May 19, 2007

I haven't seen anyone in this topic or any others here make such a statement that the "terrorists" are "just fine". Nice stretch of the truth there. Do you always tell lies or is this a new tactic for you? If you want to make an argument against someone, it is best not to completely fabricate their side of the issue, it doesn't make them look bad, it only makes you look foolish.

Now, as to Gingrich... what a piece of sickening scum. Surely nobody with any sense (key words) will take this imbecile seriously in any future political arena.

[tomtomasters]

OK Newt join the choir of all white guys running for the Republican Party. Not one woman, no black Americans, no Native Americans, no nothing American for that matter. Nothing but the same stench that has been going on since 1776. Where are you, but grandstanding at a corrupt Choirboys University who supported no equal rights to Black Americans, who supported War, something Religion is really against, and claimed Katrina was a act of God for people who supported *** in Louisiana. Jesus never supported War, and would never kill people because he disagreed with them.
That is his legacy.
Where are you Newt? I see you are looking for Hercules..a fable.

[jerr11]

Hey Gingrich,

What does your third wife think about secularism?

After all, in the eyes of the church, YOU TWO ARE LIVING IN SIN!!

Ha ha, thank goodness for secularism!!

[lars008-2009]

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! March 23, 1775 Patrick Henry

USA's PLEDGE 2 THE WORLD GIVEN BY JFK!!

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
--John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961 "

"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country." --John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961 "

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Winston Churchill

Edmund Burke: All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

[jerr11]

"I say to you, whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery."

Matthew 19:9


Hey Newt, adulterers like you should thank the secularists, not knock them!

[ridingwoman]

While we are on the subject of sexually "frisky " political "leaders', how about " America's mayor', Ol' Rudy Guiliani his own self? While still married to one wife and was the acting head of New York, he was bringing his mistress into the mansion paid for by taxpayers for parties and political get togethers while his current wife at the time and his children were upstairs in the same residence. Finally the man was served with a court order by her attorneys to quit dragging the woman around her home and domicile in front of her whole family and all the world to see. And unless memory fails me, she was not his first wife either. It's so confusing, so many mistresses, so little time to take put his pants back on and go out and join the party of "righteousness" all the while calling any non Republican a Godless hedonite and baby murderer as well. What a crock of hypocrasy and doesn't it stink. I read a famous quote somewhere" let he among you who is without sin, cast the first stone'. Oh wait! That was the New Testament of the bible that no liberal ever reads. What on earth was I doing wasting time going to the same church for 54 years, anyway?

[incog-nito]

mergatroidal: Lighten up. It's not good to carry that much anger all your life

[incog-nito]

Ah. Newt Gingrich, a pillar of righteousness, never mind his extramarital affair. So many Republicans, so many affairs. Of course, there's always Clinton to bash on.

[grazinggoat]

Send to this GreenWitch his student and admirer SickRick. Let them thump the floor all night long till Gesus comes back on Earth.

[grazinggoat]

Prison would be a better place for those thugs. If I were the future Democratic President, I'd include into my election campaign to build enough prisons in the USA to jail those right-wingers who drove the country into the worst and most unsubtanciated war ever.

[lars008-2009]

dimmy cart-er leads the Chorus of Useful Idiots... hahaha

Leftist Support of Islamist Terror

Most shocking is the outright sympathy of many leftist-liberals for Islamic fascism. They said little about the murder of 500 Russian civilians, many of them children, but screamed week after week because some Arab savage at Abu Ghraib prison wore a bag on his head. They cared nothing about the beheadings committed by the Islamo-savages or the execution of 12 Nepalese. David Horowitz gives an excellent discussion of who this "Left" really is. He calls them neo-communist, I call them Leftist-Liberals. I'm a classical Liberal myself and I feel it's time to remove this irrational element that has been allowed to poison our good name.
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/list.htm
The Chorus of Useful Idiots
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/thornton.htm
Supporters of Muslim Terrorism on the un-Religious Left
http://www.sullivan-county.com/id2/index1.htm
Exposing Leftists' Radical Islam Connection
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/left_islam.htm
Definitions, Lies, and Losing Your Head
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/def_lies.htm
Shocking (Liberal) Silence
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/leftist_silence.htm
See no evil: Why the Left is blind to suffering
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/no_evil.htm
When is violent speech still free speech?
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/speech.htm

[lars008-2009]

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! March 23, 1775 Patrick Henry

USA's PLEDGE 2 THE WORLD GIVEN BY JFK!!

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
--John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961 "

"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country." --John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961 "

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Winston Churchill

Edmund Burke: All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

[lars008-2009]

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[randalds]

"In hostility to American history, the radical secularists insist that religious belief is inherently divisive and that public debate can only proceed on secular terms," he said.

Um...Newt? Newt the founding fathers thought that religion was inherently devise, which is why they put the concept of keeping religion and politics apart and having a secular public government. You know, it happened a long time ago...in history. Uh...in other words Newt....you're a full of sh*it LIAR!!

[randalds]

Send to this GreenWitch his student and admirer SickRick. Let them thump the floor all night long till Gesus comes back on Earth.
Posted by grazinggoat at 12:27 AM : May 20, 2007

Oh please don't invoke that name! The last thing we need is swingingdick in here telling us all how ere' going to hell! He can smell sinners like us miles away, sort of like a vulture and then he swoops in to pick at the bones.