Jerry Falwell speaks… but why is anyone listening?

Just saw this AP story, Rev. Falwell Decries Stem Cell Research. Why the AP feels the need to give this crazy man an outlet is a mystery to me. This is the same guy who said feminists, gays and lesbians, and the ACLU were responsible for 9/11:

I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians…the A.C.L.U., People for the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America, I point the finger in their face and say, “You helped this happen.”
—Falwell on The 700 Club about the 9/11 terrorist attacks