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Jerry Falwell Jr. Resigns from Liberty U Following Scandal
Daily Mail ^ | 08-24-2020 | Staff

Posted on 08/24/2020 2:48:30 PM PDT by NRx

Jerry Falwell Jr. has resigned as president of Liberty University after a pool boy claimed the evangelist watched while he had sex with his wife.

A school official confirmed on Monday - the first day of classes for students - that Falwell had agreed to resign, the Washington Post reports.

He had already taken an indefinite leave of absence earlier this month after a photo of himself with his pants unzipped, standing with his arm around a young woman whose pants were also partly undone, was shared online.

His resignation comes after Giancarlo Granda, 29, spoke out on Monday in an interview with Reuters where he contradicted Falwell Jr's claims that he was trying to extort the pair and had an affair with his wife, and gave more details about his alleged sexual relationship with them.

He said he was 20 when he met the pair in Miami and that starting in March 2012, he had sex with Falwell's wife Becki several times a year in hotel rooms, sometimes while Falwell Jr. watched, until 2018.

'Becki and I developed an intimate relationship and Jerry enjoyed watching from the corner of the room,' Giancarlo said.

During that time, the trio went into business together with an LGBTQ-friendly hostel in Miami that Giancarlo runs.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Current Events; Evangelical Christian; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: didyousearch; poolboy
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To: RedStateRocker

If you do, then 95% of baby boomer’s parents were terrible parents.


41 posted on 08/24/2020 4:15:22 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is thp at they are both death cults.)
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To: Jonty30

Sadly, I think many in the ministry trust that God will somehow make up for the attention and energy they gave to others instead of their children.

In my opinion, God places the mission field that should be your first priority in your home. Perhaps it’s hard for men to see that.


42 posted on 08/24/2020 4:22:12 PM PDT by NorthstarMom
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To: Jonty30

That’s why I don’t care for that ‘Greatest Generation’ tag.
By their fruit you shall know them.


43 posted on 08/24/2020 4:22:21 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca. Deport all illegals. Abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF,.)
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To: NRx

So is he going to speak at the RNC?

Or just sit in the corner and watch.


44 posted on 08/24/2020 4:27:16 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca. Deport all illegals. Abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF,.)
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To: NRx

This is really getting icky. The paramour says Falwell WATCHED as he and Mrs. did the dirty.


45 posted on 08/24/2020 4:43:50 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: PGalt

Not so fast. I was just at Liberty before the lockdown. Jerry Jr.’s background is in real estate, not theology. He has not only transformed Liberty from a small college to a sprawling campus with all new (paid for) buildings and the nation’s largest on-line program.

Again, this was BEFORE the China Virus forced online education.

So it’s not true that Jerry Sr. built it all. Jr. did an incredible job, no matter what was going on behind bedroom doors.


46 posted on 08/24/2020 4:46:14 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Levy78

We live in strange and dark times. But fwiw I have heard that this is some kind of sexual fetish common among the younger “pansexual” generation.


47 posted on 08/24/2020 4:50:46 PM PDT by NRx (A man of honor passes his father's civilization to his son without surrendering it to strangers.)
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To: LS; All

Thanks once again for additional information from a reliable source, Larry. It is much appreciated.


48 posted on 08/24/2020 5:06:37 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Hambone 1934
It amazes me it never enters their minds..Hey,I could get blackmailed for this..Maybe I should stop...

What amazes me is how many people were buying what Falwell Jr has been selling and thought he was innocent.

From the time the pool boy stuff became public, and it came out that Jr. was investing money in a gay hostel, most of us older/more cynical folks assumed that somebody was cheating on somebody. When that photo came out a few weeks ago, it was like "yep, Falwell is exactly what we thought."
49 posted on 08/24/2020 5:58:38 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: NRx
Kind of reminds me of David and Bathsheba. There are always consequences to follow. Problems followed David for the rest of his life. Very sad. Falwell will either fall away or his testimony will be forever hindered. It should serve as a reminder to all of us how we can all fail.

1 Corinthians 10:12 So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall!

50 posted on 08/24/2020 6:12:44 PM PDT by HarleyD
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

“This will be a Hollywood movie.”

Ain’t nobody gonna want to see Jerry Jr., Mrs. Falwell and the pool boy doing their thing.


51 posted on 08/24/2020 6:43:30 PM PDT by Meatspace
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To: NRx

Good riddance. He certainly fell far from his father’s tree and rolled downhill into the ditch line.


52 posted on 08/24/2020 6:51:39 PM PDT by damper99
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To: Meatspace

This is the kind of story that lowlife Michael Moore or Robert DeNiro would turn into a movie.


53 posted on 08/24/2020 6:51:41 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: PGR88

Yes, that’s true. A saint will arise and call us back. But in the meantime, it’s pretty stressful waiting, especially with all this other insanity going on. So I’m praying for a holy person to emerge and rally us - soon!


54 posted on 08/24/2020 6:55:13 PM PDT by livius
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To: NRx
People should read the whole article and not just the excerpts. It sounds like the “pool boy” saw a good opportunity to score some serious money through blackmail and found a willing "journalist" who relished scoring a story that might throw shade on Trump. It's not my business to decide who is telling the truth or who is lying, but I lean towards NOT accepting everything a gigolo claims when even his own family questions his ambition, mental stability and motives.
55 posted on 08/24/2020 7:14:52 PM PDT by boatbums (Come unto me all you who are burdened and heavy laden - for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.)
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To: OKSooner
Puritans on the outside, on the inside... not so much.

Casualties of the "Once Saved, Always Saved" error; the types of sin alleged in the article(s) are mortal, deadly, and those who do those sins will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

  • Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
  • Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.


First Corinthians, Catholic chapter six, Protestant verses nine to ten,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James

56 posted on 08/24/2020 9:02:41 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: af_vet_1981
And those are the unsaved because Paul goes on to say, which you neglected to post......

1 Corinthians 6:11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

And thus are Christians. They are washed, sanctified, and justified and no longer identified by their sin, but by their position in Christ.

People are saved in the midst of their to begin with. Their sin is not going to keep them from getting saved and not going to keep them from staying saved.

So the claim that sin sends a Christian to hell is a false claim.

If someone is a Christian, they are not going to hell even if and when they sin.

A person who is going to hell is not and never has been a Christian.

57 posted on 08/24/2020 9:25:26 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.)
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To: af_vet_1981; OKSooner

No, those verses do not say that those who do those sins will not inherit the kingdom of God.

It says “the unrighteous” will not inherit the kingdom of God.

The unrighteous are those not saved, those who are not born again believers.


58 posted on 08/24/2020 9:36:24 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.)
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To: RedStateRocker
That is ignorant. Children are independent beings and are not brainwashed imbeciles of their parents.

We are given free will by God. Are you going to judge God by His children?

59 posted on 08/25/2020 1:28:36 AM PDT by Dave W
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To: PGalt

It is an amazing campus. All the buildings are new. The cafeteria is a wonder. There are about 10 specialty restaurants in there; a student pays for ONE meal ticket, but can eat what he wants from any/all of the restaurants.

Their online program is comprehensive (110,000 online students).

Did you know they have the highest % of MILITARY OFFICERS in college of any college save West Point or Annapolis? Because of the location issues, most of the officers go to Liberty for their advanced degrees because they can’t be physically on a campus.


60 posted on 08/25/2020 5:55:50 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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