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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Aug 7, 2020, 09:50 PM Aug 2020

Rep. Mark Walker Tells Jerry Falwell Jr. To Resign Over 'Appalling' Behavior

Liberty University head Jerry Falwell Jr., one of the nation’s leading evangelical Christian voices, is facing pressure to step down after he shared ― and then quickly deleted ― an open-pants photo on social media.

Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.), a member of the university’s advisory board, said Falwell needs to resign:


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The photo shared by Falwell showed him with his pants open, his arms around a woman with her shorts open and a glass of what he called “black water” in his hands. The images were taken at a party on a yacht themed to the “Trailer Park Boys” TV show, which is known for its off-color humor centered around sex, drugs, alcohol and foul language. Many people enjoy the show, but given those themes, Liberty University students would likely be disciplined for watching it, according to the school’s honor code.

Falwell shared the image on Instagram, then deleted it after receiving some negative attention ― but screenshots were preserved:

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/jerry-falwell-resign-pressure-094807691.html
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Rep. Mark Walker Tells Jerry Falwell Jr. To Resign Over 'Appalling' Behavior (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2020 OP
Also, I would hope that in the summer of Covid, a university president would be at work-- dawg day Aug 2020 #1
Their support for the Con is worse than this n/t malaise Aug 2020 #2
I thought he owned the college. Buckeyeblue Aug 2020 #3
NEWSFLASH his behavior has been appalling for a LONG TIME Skittles Aug 2020 #4
Just another evangelical Christian keithbvadu2 Aug 2020 #5
He's been asked to leave by LU Board of Trustees. He's done. greyl Aug 2020 #6
ETTD: Everything Trump Touches Dies (and there's no rising from this kind of dead) . . . Journeyman Aug 2020 #9
Ha ha. fleur-de-lisa Aug 2020 #7
It's the lavish yacht partying lifestyle... Silent3 Aug 2020 #8

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
1. Also, I would hope that in the summer of Covid, a university president would be at work--
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 09:58 PM
Aug 2020

Seriously working on how to make the college safe for students to come back.

Falwell is a multimillionaire who wants to live like a billionaire-- yachts in the Mediterranean, wild parties paid for by rich donors to the university.

And his students are so restricted and treated with disrespect.

Silent3

(15,253 posts)
8. It's the lavish yacht partying lifestyle...
Sat Aug 8, 2020, 12:59 AM
Aug 2020

...paid for by donations to a supposedly "holy" cause that's the most offensive thing to me.

Then the hypocrisy of clearly not living by code of conduct he preaches (as if that was a big surprise).

Whatever he may or may not have done with a consenting adult is none of my concern.

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