Why now, why not 50 years ago?
I'm a straigt Jewish guy, and I am hard-pressed to think of a person who was the cause of as much hatred and hurt to so many people over such a long time as Jerry Fallwell. The fact that he did these terrible things in the name of God was even more disturbing. He took advantage of so many otherwise good people and turned them against so many good people, not because of anything those people did, but because of pure hate. I think people like Jerry Fallwell are both evil and dangerous because they do so little to help the world and so much more to harm it. Besides, although I am Jewish, I thought Christianity had something to do with loving people, not hating them.
Just because someone is now dead, it doesn't magically make their life any better. Jerry Fallwell is dead, in life he was a hate-monger, his being dead does not change that.
A much happier,
David