I was not a huge fan of Jerry Falwell.  I disliked the way he politicized religion and I have grown to dislike the movement begun with his Moral Majority.  However, I never once doubted Jerry Falwell’s strong faith; moreover, of all the ring-wing religious leaders who grew out of the movement he started he was the most, for lack of a better word, palatable.  Later in life he was more willing to hear a side different from his own without sinking to the fire-and-brimstone of his compatriots.  Say what you will about the man, the movement started by Jerry Falwell lost one its most powerful voices.