Liberty University in turmoil as students revolt against continuing relationship with Trump: report

[Judi Lynn]

Tom Boggioni
June 01, 2021

According to a report from Politico, Liberty University is becoming ground zero in the fight among a segment of evangelical Christians who want to distance themselves from former president Donald Trump and those who want to mix his style of pugnacious conservatism with Christianity.

While Trump-supportingJerry Falwell Jr. has been ousted by the university following a sex scandal involving a former pool attendant and Falwell's wife, some trustees at the school are still in the Trump camp and that has some school administrators and students up in arms.

Writing, "Now, 14 years after Jerry Falwell Sr. died and nine months after Jerry Jr. was ousted in a scandal, Liberty is enmeshed in a debate that could have profound implications for the nation's religious right," Politico's Maggie Severns added, "Liberty's ultimate path will influence the greater evangelical world, which is having its own reckoning with the post-Trump Republican Party. With more than 100,000 students, Liberty has long been one of a small handful of top cultural institutions for evangelicals, its board studded with famed pastors and movement leaders. Observers believe that even a small change in direction at Liberty could signal shifting winds among one of Republicans' most important voting blocs."

While the university trustees are considering handing over the reins to another Falwell, Jonathan, who doesn't have the close ties to the one-term president, some trustees are still Trump's corner.

More:
https://www.rawstory.com/liberty-university-trump/

[hibbing]

1. "Pugnacious conservatism"

That makes him sound almost fun.

Peace

[Martin Eden]

5. Mendacious Q-servatism

... and Fascism.

Call it what it is.

[Girard442]

2. The best way to revolt would to desert that cesspool en masse.

[lostnfound]

3. Interesting. Ernest idealism of youth confronts ugly reality of deceitful power

Kids go off to this college at 17 or 18 after a childhood raised by fundy parents. ironic that awareness of the hypocrisy has become inescapable.

[pstokely]

4. kids from fundy families are sent to these places to maintain the brainwashing

if they're not forced to go because they think a real college undo the brainwashing, they get a good deal on tuition if they're on their higher side of the applicants or good jocks, or just they want their own safe space for their bigotry