n angry, and it frightened me. | never anticipated that my culturally enriched, intellectually sophisticated sons would be quoting Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. 123 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013623 --- PAGE BREAK --- The Freudian psychoanalyst of my younger days tried to write off these (to me) cataclysmic changes

closest friend. He was responsible for launching The Realist. The masthead announced, “Freethought Criticism and Satire.” In the words of the late Jerry Falwell--who once said that God is pro- war-- “If you’ re not a born-again Christian, you’ re a failure as a human being.” We salute, then, a few successfu/h

atements about blacks, gays, and foreigners to shouting fire in a crowded theater. I responded with my own op-ed, disputing the analogy. The Reverend Jerry Falwell, in arguing that the First Amendment doesn’t protect a parody of him having drunken sex with his mother, invoked the Holmes example: “Just as no pers