How Falwell Kept His Grip on Liberty Amid Sexual 'Games,' Self-Dealing

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‘They All Got Careless’: How Falwell Kept His Grip on Liberty Amid Sexual ‘Games,’ Self-Dealing
The deposed university president secured backing by ousting critics and hiring the family members and businesses of loyalists.

Illustration featuring Becki Falwell, Jerry Falwell Jr., Donald Trump and Jerry Falwell Sr.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/01/jerry-falwell-liberty-university-becki-self-dealing-sex-430207


When Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife Becki strolled around the Lynchburg, Va., campus of Liberty University, the evangelical school which Falwell led as president, they would play a secret game called “Would you rather.”

The middle-aged couple would point to students, men and women, and imagine what it would be like to have sex with them, according to a former student who said Becki told him about the game.


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Now, following an episode this summer in which Falwell posted a photo of himself with his pants unzipped and arm around his wife’s assistant, Falwell has left his job and withdrawn from public life. Supporters of the university, which boasts it has more than 100,000 students, are left to wonder how to disentangle its reputation from that of the Falwell family, given that the two were synonymous for generations. And some are wondering why it took so long — and until a direct act by Falwell like posting a photo — for the university’s trustees to take any action.

A POLITICO investigation, including interviews with dozens of Liberty officials from Falwell’s time as president, found a university community so committed to the Falwell legacy that even trustees considered it unthinkable to exert power over the son and namesake of the university’s revered founder. Plus, the university employed at least 20 relatives of stakeholders — defined as senior administrators and the 32-member Board of Trustees, according to federal tax disclosures — which gave many leaders an incentive to stay on Falwell’s good side.


“I didn’t think there was proper oversight, or enough governance by the board,” said Glen Thomas, a Liberty alumnus and former board member whose father was a multi-million-dollar donor to the university. “The president, or the CEO, of a nonprofit should be working for the board to fulfill the mission of the nonprofit — not the opposite. I feel like the board was mostly on the sidelines. I call it having accountability with no authority.”

[gopiscrap]

1. yup

[Blue Owl]

2. Today's sermon: The Gift of Shame

n/t

[mr_lebowski]

3. Would you rather ...

a) Have sex with a Falwell, or
b) sandpaper the asshole of an alligator in a phonebooth?

[Raster]

4. So we assume Jer-Jer* would be watching if one had sex with a Falwell*...

... would he also be watching while one sandpapered the asshole of an alligator? Seems like a Falwell* thing to do.

[tanyev]

5. I knew it, I knew it, I knew it, I knew it.

I knew if they were having intimate encounters with someone as young as the pool boy and that personal trainer that they were also having encounters with students--or fantasizing about them.

[obamanut2012]

6. Look at their daughter's suddenly ex fiance

Friends in Lynchburg in the know say Becki was bonking him, too.

[mr_lebowski]

7. Could also be the kid wisely decided to get the f*** away from this family

once he realized his name was going to be besmirched by association.

Just sayin'

[obamanut2012]

8. "He stole Becki's checks" is what's going around Lynchburg and LU

I'm not saying it is true, but my friend's source at LU has always been right. But, we shall see!!!