The truth? I brought the issue up with a couple of friends who happen to be lawyers during a bicycle ride yesterday. What I’ve been posting is the result of that 40 mile conversation. However, Liberty U’s backing off leads me to strongly believe that everything my friends told me was indeed 100% correct.
Liberty probably just wanted to stem the fire. They could have fought it. Thanks for the news on what Falwell Jr. said.
http://www.theseminal.com/2009/05/23/being-christian-means-you-cant-be-a-democrat/
Makes sense. I wasn't arguing, excatly, but it's awfully easy for these kinds of conversations to end up being based on preconceptions of the law that aren't always correct.
Jerry Sr. (Liberty president) is a lawyer himself, so I'd expect him to have a pretty decent grasp of things.
Full disclosure, I'm a Liberty grad myself.