It is both inaccurate historically and inappropriate theologically to describe America as a “Christian nation.”

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A true giant of the faith has gone on to his heavenly reward. Our grief at our loss of his witness, energy and giftedness for the kingdom is mitigated by the fact that he is now with his Savior for eternity. Dr. Falwell’s home-going leaves an enormous gap in the leadership ranks of evangelical Christianity in America and around the world. He will be greatly missed. Our hearts and prayers go out to his church members and the entire Liberty family, including professors, alumni and students, as well as his immediate family. We pray for them in this time of loss, as well as our loss of this true giant of the faith.

I had been urging Governor Romney to give such a speech for over a year, ever since he invited me to his home, along with about a dozen other Evangelical leaders to have an open and free-wheeling discussion about his candidacy and the questions he needed to answer to get a serious hearing from Evangelicals.

I told him then that he needed to give a JFK style speech and I even gave him a copy of my then forthcoming book, The Divided States of America? which contains then Senator Kennedy’s speech as an appendix.

I had the privilege of attending Gov. Romney’s speech, and sitting on the second row, you could not only see the Governor’s emotions, you could feel them. One of his staff members told me, “I’ve been working for the Governor for six years, and I have never heard him more eloquent.”

I responded, “Nothing generates more eloquence than heart-felt conviction.”

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