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he's not in the same class as Fred Phelptard
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He blamed people who disagreed with him on political issues for 9/11. He called AIDS the "gay plague" and blasted churches who sought to include homosexuals. He said he believed Muhammad was a terrorist. He longed for the day when every child was taught at a church instead of a school. He was a segregationist in the '50s and '60s, said he didn't trust Martin Luther King, and supported Apartheid in the '80s.
He was, for all intents and purposes, a media-savvy Fred Phelps. Actually, on that last point, even Phelps fought for Civil Rights before he went batshit insane. Here's Falwell's take on the issue, from 1958:
"If Chief Justice Warren and his associates had known God’s word and had desired to do the Lord’s will, I am quite confident that the 1954 decision would never have been mad. The facilities should be separate. When God has drawn a line of distinction, we should not attempt to cross that line."