Falwell endorses Judge O’Connor

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell said Thursday night he thinks Judge Sandra O’Connor will make a good addition to the U.S. Supreme Court. “I may grow to rue these words, but (from) what I heard in the (Senate) hearings and what my friends op the panel said, I think she is going to make a good justice,” Falwell said. The controversial religious-political leader was in southern Florida to deliver a speech to a meeting of the Baptist Bible Fellowship International. Asked to comment on Sen. Barry Goldwater’s attack on him in a recent speech, Falwell said the Arizona Republican’s problem is that “he’s getting older” and “no longer is the leading conservative in the United States.” “When he (Goldwater) says that religion has no part of public policy, he’s contradicting statements made by Thomas Jefferson,” Falwell added. “He is reacting adversely to someone else taking away where the mantle used to be. I think instead of kicking his constituents in the posterior, he should be writing his memoirs.” After his Hollywood appearance, Falwell planned to fly to Freeport, Bahamas, where the Moral Majority is meeting to map a nationwide anti-pornography campaign.