I’ve spent most of my life surrounded by Evangelicals and Southern Baptists. Their hypocrisy doesn’t bother me as much as it used to, and as I get older, I feel more like “live and let live.” But for four years, I’ve been absolutely thrown for a loop to see the Evangelical support for Donald Trump, a thrice-married, twice-divorced serial adulterer and admitted sexual predator. Turns out all of those qualms the Evangelicals had about Democrats’ sex lives for decades was just performative outrage, and they’re totally fine with infidelity, mistresses, immorality, lies and all kinds of perversions, just as long as it comes packaged with a white misogynist man who will put rapists in judgeships. The point, it seems, was always to hate women. That’s the ideology. That’s the raison d’etre.
Jerry Falwell Jr. was one of the earliest big-name Evangelicals to throw the full weight of his support behind Donald Trump in 2016. It was controversial at the time in Virginia – there were Liberty students unhappy with Falwell for the endorsement, and unhappy with the full-throttle mix of politics and religion. Now, four years later, Jerry Jr. has been outed as a deeply hypocritical pervert, and it’s just endless chickens coming home to roost. But according to Jerry Jr, it’s all some big conspiracy *because* of his Trump endorsement:
A whirlwind 48 hours led evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr. to resign from his role as president and chancellor of Liberty University — the noted Christian school his pastor father founded 50 years ago — after a business partner and former confidant made allegations about his sex life.
But Falwell told The Washington Post that it was his political ties that had drawn attention rather than, as the Post noted, behavior such as an eyebrow-raising social media post earlier this summer that had put him increasingly at odds with the Liberty community. It was after that Instagram photo several weeks ago, showing Falwell with his pants undone and his arm around his wife’s assistant, that he initially went on an indefinite leave of absence. Falwell saw it differently.
“There’s no question that I’m being targeted because it’s an election year,” he told the Post. “And I was very successful in bringing the evangelicals to Trump in 2016.”
Falwell has been a prominent supporter of Donald Trump, initially becoming one of the first major evangelical leaders to back Trump in the 2016 Republican primary and continuing to defend him throughout his presidency.
No. He’s not being *targeted* because of his Trump endorsement. But it is such huge national news because of his Trump endorsement. If Jerry Jr. had just stayed at Liberty – and Miami – and watched his wife get railed by pool boys and not jumped onto the national political stage, all of this would not be such a big story. Jerry Jr. is trying to make it sound like somehow Democrats forced him to watch his wife get railed by pool boys so the Democrats could use it against him in an election year. A conspiracy which probably turns him on, honestly. OH GOD.
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And his wife denied all of it yesterday. These people can’t NOT lie. It’s the opposite of Christ’s teachings in every way.
The “pool boy” seems to have the receipts, so lying about what happened would definitely not be smart.
And I can’t with Junior Falwell’s claim that he’s the victim here. These old, rich, powerful white guys constantly whining and saying how people are mean to them — I am SO over it.
It’s worse than them just being hypocrites, now it appears that Becki is a full fledged predator. Horrible, horrible people.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/27/becki-falwell-affair-liberty-university-student-band-jerry-402559
Evangelicals/Southern Baptists only agenda is the promotion of “White Authoritarian Patriarchy” for money and power. Since they have NO values or beliefs it was easy for them to support Donald Trump because they ARE Trump — Con Artists — hiding behind bibles and crosses. Deception is the preferred method of control — in religion and cults.
Jerry Falwell, Jr. is the cause of his problems; he chose to support Trump and mix religion with politics. Democrats have zero to do with Falwell’s resignation from Liberty University.
Jerry Falwell, Jr. is experiencing what happens when the dissonance between what the Evangelicals/Southern Baptists, Trump and the Republicans are telling the people is happening and what the people are “actually experiencing” in their lives becomes too great. The deception ends and it’s OVER. The COVID-19 Pandemic/Public Health Crisis is accelerating the downfall of CONservative RW Media’s spread of propaganda, disinformation and their indoctrination of the masses.
Note: People who peddle morality for a living while behaving like amoral, brazen perverts always discover there’s a limit to how long their blatant hypocrisy will be tolerated.
He should just sit in the corner and watch.
Too soon?
LOVE IT!!!
Problem is, he would like that…a lot.
BWAHAHA! nope perfect timing! I almost spit out my lunch, laughing so hard
Won and broke the internet. LOL!
Throwing his wife under the bus didn’t work out so well, so trying a different tactic. . .
“There’s no question that I’m being targeted because it’s an election year,” he told the Post. “And I was very successful in bringing the evangelicals to Trump in 2016.”
Well, if THAT isn’t some kind of whistle to 45 that he better back him up, I don’t know what is.
PS. You’re being targeted because you’re a sexist. egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot (to quote 9-5). Try to be thankful that you’re living in a timeline when that is being positively lauded and that your ignorant flock will be welcoming you back at any moment. Jackass.
Crying it’s all politics, brags about being political.
this is what juniors downfall look like when his dad is gone. living off fathers name and nothing else.
I’d clarify that Junior Falwell’s not EVEN being “targeted” — it’s just that eventually his ability to hide his behavior failed. He chose to try to make himself a big shot public figure. No sympathy at all for him.
His father helped Ronnie beat Jimmy in 1980. Daddy alleged that Jimmy was not a good Christian anymore. Despite the absurdity of such judgment, 80-percent of the evangelical vote went to Reagan.
Daddy also helped plant the seeds of Clinton conspiracies in the early 90s.
Now, Junior reportedly gets a $10 million severance. And students keep paying the school’s tuition, even when Junior wanted to keep the college open despite the pandemic.
All I have to say is echoing every word of this:
“I’ve spent most of my life surrounded by Evangelicals and Southern Baptists. Their hypocrisy doesn’t bother me as much as it used to, and as I get older, I feel more like “live and let live.” But for four years, I’ve been absolutely thrown for a loop to see the Evangelical support for Donald Trump, a thrice-married, twice-divorced serial adulterer and admitted sexual predator. Turns out all of those qualms the Evangelicals had about Democrats’ sex lives for decades was just performative outrage, and they’re totally fine with infidelity, mistresses, immorality, lies and all kinds of perversions, just as long as it comes packaged with a white misogynist man who will put rapists in judgeships. The point, it seems, was always to hate women. That’s the ideology. That’s the raison d’etre.”
yep, so well put. Kaiser’s observations here should be very widely distributed
Why do Evangelicals get away with being a church and not taxed and at the same time brag political influence?
One of the many reasons I will never jump on the “George W. Bush redemption bandwagon” is the fact that he helped them become such a political force during his presidency.
I agree very good points in this post
Yea most evangelicals will give him a pass, because they aren’t even pretending they have principles or morals anymore, beyond what Kaiser said in the post. This seemed clear back when children were first being caged on the border and they were ok with it because trump reasons.
When you make a living preaching the word of God and people find out that you AND your wife are layin it low and spreadin it wide all over town, it’s going to make news. I believe it’s called reaping what you sow.
Lol. 1. He is not that important and 2. He’s not a politician running for office so that makes zero sense.
It’s a good one Jerry…. did you get blackmailed to whip the evangelical votes for Trump in 2016 because of your fetishes all while “think of the children”ing over women’s rights and gay marriage? That’s what’s so interesting about this. Hypocrite!
His downfall has been a long time coming. It’s just coincidence it was during an election year.
Now, is there any dirt on Graham’s granddaughter? Her act at the RNC convention last night really infuriated me.
The all too common practice of distraction as opposed to taking accountability for one’s actions. I caught Michael Cohen on Twitter yesterday playing victim in a tweet. He was about to appear on a cable media segment. My response, “You were complicit. Take full responsibility for your actions. Think of others first, begin with your wife and children.” I was acknowledged immediately and he used the word complicit in the interview. My point is, let them the hell have it. 🙂 Hold them accountable. 🙂
That darn election, ruining all of Jerry Juniors fun! I’m old enough to remember when these so-called Christians would cry when they got caught with their pants down, ala Jimmy Swaggert. But I guess since Junior was “just watching” no tears are needed.
And the Bakker mess(es). My sweet great-aunt would send them money each month from her meager widow’s social security, while they splurged on luxuries and liaisons.
Different decade, same old song and dance.
Omg I was in the 9th grade when that blew up and was assigned to do a research project on the Bakers. They had an air conditioner in their dog’s house and took money from poor people. JerryFallwell Sr was involved one dismantling them. Small world.
I remember the dog house, too! They quietly owned a nice chalet in a tourist town. It was scandalous at the time, due to how they were “crying for dollars” on TV each day.
Jim B. was hawking some unproven virus remedy that got him in legal trouble this year (and may be in more hot water over PPP loans).
Jerry Sr told an interviewer he asked God for at least 20 more years to accomplish what he thought he needed to do at the university. A week later, he died.
“Jerry Sr told an interviewer he asked God for at least 20 more years to accomplish what he thought he needed to do at the university. A week later, he died.”
Huh. Maybe there is a God.
He’s being targeted because his actions are not in line with the Christian morals he preaches. He’s being targeted because he & his family have made a fortune grifting gullible people of faith. People who use religion to prey on vulnerable followers make me sick. Most of my immediate family are Mormon and give 10% of their income to the church thinking it goes to charitable causes. In reality, the church gives back LESS than 1% to charitable causes and has an estimated $100 billion dollar slush fund. Talk about money hoarding! It makes me sick to think of how much good that money could do around the world if spent wisely.
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It’s not just that. He is being targeted because his actions are not in line with the Christian morals he expects OTHER PEOPLE to follow and adhere to, all while he uses the money they give him for spiritual guidance on these issues to live a life that’s the exact opposite of those morals.
People pay this man to tell them what to do and how to live, and he takes that money and does the exact opposite, all while threatening them with consequences if they don’t do what he says. That’s the worst definition of a hypocrite.
Okay, pivoting from his obvious hypocrisy for a minute, the story here should be about Michael Cohen, the photos, and how Falwell quickly endorsed Trump in 2016.
This!!!
ding ding ding! it’s all starting to make sense, right?!
Absolutely, we need to keep talking about that.
Absolutely!!! And who else was possibly blackmailed into endorsing Trump
THIS. Trump’s fixer fixed things for Jerry jr and blackmailed him in the process (blackmailed him that he was already being blackmailed). Junior then has to support Trump.
Both pool boy and Michael know what’s up. Fingers crossed that someone’s gonna sing soon.
True
he and his wife need to STFU and GO AWAY. JUST STOP TALKING.
dude doesn’t realize that he’s making it worse for himself.
we know you’re not the paragon of virtue you preach. we know you and your wife like to engage in cuckold fantasies. (not that there’s anything wrong with that! what’s “wrong” is your utter hypocrisy!) we know there’s likely a LOT more about that relationship than what’s already out. we know you and your SUPER PIOUS evangelical flock will look the other way for this just like they do for 45’s MANY indiscretions and horrible behaviors. WE KNOW.
I think the New York Post wrote about an audiotape where Falwell allegedly warned the pool boy not to make his wife jealous. He’ll cry and shed some tears and will be forgiven cause that’s the Christian thing to do per evangelical hypocrites. He’ll use the “he who is without sin” excuse.
Much like Mrs ‘my brown son is more likely to become a violent criminal’ from the RNC last night, he is wilfully conflating cause and effect. They will twist ANY situation to suit their ends.
Some of these evangelicals have a heap of skeletons in their closet don’t they?? An old roommate married a preacher’s son, he ended up years later dead in an alley over a heroin overdose. Extremism leads to some strange behavior.
If Evangelicals wanna be total hypocrites than that’s fine. I just wish they’d stop expecting everyone else to play along with their bigotry by codifying it into law.
Conversion therapy has been directly linked to increased suicide rates amongst LGBTI+ youth. Evangelical churches are complicit in abuse by using their platform to espouse misogynistic attitudes.
I couldn’t care less if this dude enjoyed watching his wife be intimate with the pool boy, pastry chef, florist and a svelte gymnast.
I’m just sick of how Evangelical misogynists weaponise their faith to harm womxn, abused youth, LGBTI+ folk, BiPoc people and any vulnerable people in their path.
They should stop expecting everyone else to pay them money to engage in this hypocrisy too.
Funny how it’s always the ones who tell everyone to trust God and his timing who are the most paranoid.
He’s not in the govt or running for political office. So how is he targeted? It’s just too bad he’s a pervert and faux Christian. Go home and cry over your millions while you watch your wife take another servant for some fun.
I love how his wife says that she wished that Christians and everyone else would stop being so judgmental. The nerve of these people. The school he led fined people thousands of dollars for having an alcoholic beverage and until just a few years ago, hundreds of dollars for watching and R rated movie. The hypocrisy is what gets me the most about Evangelicals. They are the opposite of what Jesus Christ was supposed to have been in every way and cry victim whenever they get outed.
“The point, it seems, was always to hate women. That’s the ideology. That’s the raison d’etre.”
This is only the half of it. The other half is that they are racist, and anti-black specifically. That is the bedrock on which the Evangelical movement and the Southern Baptist church exists on. They exist, because they opposed the abolition of slavery, because they opposed the desegregation of society, and they oppose the increasing political, social, and economic gains made by black people in American society. They exist to further the cause of white supremacy, and they justify it using their religion.
The “Southern” in Southern Baptist is because they split with the northern Baptists, due to their opposition to the abolition of slavery. They have no problems with Donald Trump and his hypocrisy, not simply because they are anti-women, but also because he is a racist, and so are they. Outside of these two things, they have no real religion or ideals of any type. They only care about being racist, and hating women, and so does Donald Trump, so of course they’re fine with voting for him.