"Bad things happen to you because you're a dumbass."
Posted on 08/13/2020 6:47:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
Jerry Falwell, Jr. is one of Donald Trump's most vocal evangelical supporters. He did something foolish, posting a tasteless photo on Instagram. Now he will take an indefinite leave of absence from his presidency and chancellor's position at Liberty University. The original announcement by Liberty University has been taken down, but a screen shot exists on Twitter.
Controversy has mounted for over a year. On September 9, 2019, Politico published an article by gay Catholic writer Brandon Ambrosino, casting Falwell in a negative light. In the aftermath, many people, including Liberty deputies, noticed "'an attempted coup' that sought to unseat President Falwell and seize control of the school."
Ambrosino's friends include pro-gay Jesuit priest James Martin and bespectacled professor Karen Swallow Prior. Prior, a pro-LGBT feminist, claims sometimes to be a conservative Baptist. She roused thousands of Baptist women in the successful ouster of Paige Patterson two years ago. She also launched memorable salvos against Trump, Roy Moore, Eric Metaxas, and a Republican prayer breakfast attended by Falwell (her boss).
Earlier attempts to unseat Falwell failed. Finally came Falwell's kryptonite: a salacious photo of himself with unbuckled pants standing next to a woman who was not his wife. He struts on a yacht at a trailer park–themed party holding a dark-colored drink. Apparently, Falwell posted the pic on Instagram and then took it down. A screenshot fell in the hands of a man named Robert Downen. Downen tweeted the photo on Sunday, August 2. This set off the events leading to Falwell's suspension the following Friday.
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"Bad things happen to you because you're a dumbass."
There have been some weird things going on with Falwell for a while. Didn’t he have some episode where he gave some cabana guy a million bucks for some strange reason?
No comment.
If Falwell was aware of an attempted coup against him and he STILL posed for that photo, he’s three times as stupid as I thought he might be.
Ping to you.
When you know you have enemies lying in wait for you, it is best not to aid them by being terminally stupid. Mike Pence does not make those kinds of blunders.
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It was an obvious boat photo with nothing untoward from the picture itself, except it made fun of big bellies. Everyone was wearing swimsuits and clothing on top and no activity was being done but standing next to each other.
If factions within Liberty University have been trying to remove Falwell for a while then it’s his own fault for giving them the ammunition they needed to do it.
That’s because it takes him a half hour of verbal lead up before he can say what he originally intended to say.
Even Trump joked about that with Pence.
When you are super polite and cover every offense the world might want to take against you before getting to your point, everyone leaves after the 25 minute mark.
“Gay Catholic” writer or simply a sodomite? Let’s be honest with ourselves here folks.
“A screenshot fell in the hands of a man named Robert Downen.“
Yes, if you post a picture on social media, it will fall is someone’s hands.
Flush and let’s move on.
Perhaps. But a man and woman, not married to each other, embracing with their pants unzipped, is not going to be interpreted in a wholesome manner by anyone.
It’s called “manspreading” and it’s undeniably sexually suggestive and something no Christian man should ever do—especially those in leadership.
Any man who has ever manspreaded for a moment, even in a private setting, is undoubtedly unfit for leadership in any organization.
More than a million, but think it was a loan. He and his wife also flew the guy around on their private jet. Either sexual and/or financial shenanigans supposedly going on. What else could that have been?
What is interpreted is always subjective.
Take “manspreading,” for instance.
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