The death of the Rev. Jerry Falwell marks a changing of the guard for religious conservatives that has been under way for several years. In the 1980s, Falwell mobilized millions of evangelicals. But today, younger Christians are becoming restive with the old style and focus. In fact, some pollsters say that more than 40 percent of white evangelical voters could be up for grabs in the 2008 election. Beyond the Wedge Issues Two months before he died, Falwell gave a televised sermon about global warming. It was vintage Falwell: grand, pugnacious and, he admitted, politically incorrect. Falwell said that the danger to society is not global warming, but the green movement itself. He worried particularly about evangelicals involved in the green movement: They were being distracted from moral concerns, such as abortion, gay marriage, violence and divorce. ‘It is Satan’s attempt to redirect the church’s primary focus,’ Falwell said in March to his 22,000-person-strong congregation at the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Va. ‘I’m telling these guys they need to get off that kick,’ Falwell said, ‘because the idea is to divert your energies from the message and the mission and the vision of […]