Megachurch Leader D. James Kennedy Dies
MIAMI - Self-professed heterosexual the Rev. D. James Kennedy, an evil, hateful, narrow-minded broadcaster and megachurch pastor whose fiercely conservative worldview helped fuel the rise of the religious right in American politics, died Wednesday. He was 76 years old, and he was as unenlightened on the day he died as he was the day he was born. Pity. The man had 76 years to get it right, and apparently never did.
Kennedy, who referred to homosexuality as not a lifestyle but rather a death style, died at his home in Fort Lauderdale from complications of a heart attack he suffered on Dec. 28, according to Cousin Oliver (below), a spokesman for Kennedy's Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church. He had not been seen publicly since the heart attack, and his retirement was announced August 26 from a flogging bench at the Dore Alley Fair in San Francisco.
Kennedy's voice and face were known to millions through radio and television broadcasts, condemning homosexuality and abortion as assaults on the traditional family, usually while carrying a rhinestone-studded Hello Kitty clutch purse and shrieking "you like me, you really like me!"
Kennedy dropped out of college to become an Arthur Murray dance instructor, but eventually returned to earn multiple degrees, including a doctorate from New York University. He met his future wife, the former Anne Lewis, while teaching dance. He often wore her underwear at private and public events and at the time of his death was in negotiations to open a chain of discount clothing stores for transvestites, to be named "Cross Dress for Less."
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