The Topeka-based group protested the conservative evangelical leader’s funeral.

19-year-old Mark Uhl was arrested on Monday after police found several homemade bombs in the trunk of his car.

Uhl told police he made the bombs to stop the Phelps’ from disrupting Falwell’s funeral.

Police say Uhl gave no indication of intent to cause harm.”

From http://www.49abcnews.com/news/2007/may/23/liberty_university_student_upset_about_westboro_ba/

Flynt: So, how was your weekend?

Falwell: I preached. And yours?

Flynt: Oh, just the usual. Porn.

Falwell: OK…(tumbleweed blows by. If at Flynt’s house, followed by a scantily clad nurse chased by a pool boy). How about that weather?

Flynt: Don’t start moralising!

Upon hearing of his death, Flynt released the following statement to Access Hollywood:

“The Reverend Jerry Falwell and I were arch enemies for fifteen years. We became involved in a lawsuit concerning First Amendment rights and Hustler magazine. Without question, this was my most important battle – the l988 Hustler Magazine, Inc., v. Jerry Falwell case, where after millions of dollars and much deliberation, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in my favor.

My mother always told me that no matter how much you dislike a person, when you meet them face to face you will find characteristics about them that you like. Jerry Falwell was a perfect example of that. I hated everything he stood for, but after meeting him in person, years after the trial, Jerry Falwell and I became good friends. He would visit me in

California and we would debate together on college campuses. I always appreciated his sincerity even though I knew what he was selling and he knew what I was selling.

The most important result of our relationship was the landmark decision from the Supreme Court that made parody protected speech, and the fact that much of what we see on television and hear on the radio today is a direct result of my having won that now famous case which Falwell played such an important role in.”

and from http://newsbusters.org/node/12807

What does it say when porn-peddler and sex-shop owner Larry Flynt treated Jerry Falwell’s death with more class than CNN? …As Newsbusters reported yesterday, during “Anderson Cooper 360,” CNN used a still from an old protest video that had a large illustration of Jerry Falwell next to a large illustration of Hitler.

Despite being courtroom and media adversaries that was kicked into overdrive when Flynt ran a fake ad in “Hustler,” which claimed that Falwell’s first sexual experience was with his mother in an outhouse and resulted in a lawsuit producing a landmark First Amendment ruling by the US Supreme Court, allowing the parody of public figures, Flynt issued this [as above] surprisingly generous and thoughtful statement to “Access Hollywood” on May 1

Now how difficult would it have been for certain members of the media to be this polite and pleasant? Instead, along with many other fellow reporters, Diane Sawyer used the “some say” technique to call him “intolerant” and say that he will soon “answer to his maker” for his bigotry, the McClatchy publishing company’s Washington Bureau and many of the networks misstated that he supposedly outed Tinky Winky the Teletubby as gay and MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer quoted a left wing website’s anti-Falwell parody page as a legitimate source. Then there were the “progressive” blogs…

Ah, if only Anderson Cooper and Diane Sawyer had the culture and decorum of Larry Flynt, King of Porn.

“The Reverend Jerry Falwell and I were arch enemies for fifteen years. We became involved in a lawsuit concerning First Amendment rights and Hustler magazine. Without question, this was my most important battle – the l988 Hustler Magazine, Inc., v. Jerry Falwell case, where after millions of dollars and much deliberation, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in my favor.

My mother always told me that no matter how much you dislike a person, when you meet them face to face you will find characteristics about them that you like. Jerry Falwell was a perfect example of that. I hated everything he stood for, but after meeting him in person, years after the trial, Jerry Falwell and I became good friends. He would visit me in

California and we would debate together on college campuses. I always appreciated his sincerity even though I knew what he was selling and he knew what I was selling.

The most important result of our relationship was the landmark decision from the Supreme Court that made parody protected speech, and the fact that much of what we see on television and hear on the radio today is a direct result of my having won that now famous case which Falwell played such an important role in.”

Others close to him tell a similar story. He even became good friends with Larry Flynt, the pornographer whom Falwell had earlier unsuccessfully sued.

Now that is a sotry I’d like to hear more about. I of course am aware of the falwell/flynt law suit - but that they bevame friends? That I did not know - what has been larry’s take on the death of his adversary?