Jerry Falwell on Gays

When I converted to the Catholic faith I was apprehensive as to how to tell my family. All they said was, “Thank God you got away from that Falwell bunch.” They were not churchgoers, but they had him pegged in the right hole.

The article (“Falwell Says Gay Marchers Made Him Fear for Life,” Oct. 31) can be read with relish only by others like me who gave so much financial help to keep him on his ego trip. Does he really think the homosexual community is out to harm him? These holier-than-thou preachers are a laugh. Since he considers our nation to have become a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah, we should be reading more into his “fear” for his life than having it revealed to us that he was staying at the Roosevelt Hotel and dining first-class with a waiter to pray for his safety.

I’m sorry he had to leave so abruptly that he missed having dessert. The militant gays he so fears did him a favor. He is in more physical danger from his obesity than any threat from being stricken by a wayward homosexual!

ALLAN BENJAMIN, Los Angeles