Posted AT 3:54 AM EDT on 16/05/07
Falwell: one of a kind, thank God
In recent years, his health had been failing, and his influence fading. He wanted, he said, to focus less on politics and more on his ministry. He may have had no choice. Although only 73, he was increasingly an anachronism, a voice from a receding political past.
And with his passing, the question: Who will replace Jerry Falwell? invites the answer: no one.
The power that the founder of the Moral Majority wielded, even at the end, should not be underestimated.
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