On January 23,2003, Falwell told me on CNN's Crossfire that if I really read the Bible I'd be a conservative. I told him I did read it, and to prove it I'd be happy to come down to his church in Lynchburg, Virginia, any Sunday and preach at all of his services. Falwell replied, "I wouldn't trust you to preach the gospel out on the corneL" Even Bob Novak, the curmudgeonly conservative cohost of…