Headline Roundup • August 25th, 2020
Perspectives: Liberty University President Resigns Amid Alleged Sex Scandal
Conservatives,Republican Party,Jerry Falwell Jr.,Liberty University,Education,Sex,Culture,Family And Marriage,Religion And Faith
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On Monday, long-circulated rumors about evangelical leader and now former Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. burst into public view, which may end up costing Falwell both his job and, perhaps, his political reputation.
According to what a former business associate, Giancarlo Granda, told Reuters, Falwell and his wife, Becki — who met Granda while he was working as a pool attendant at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel — had spent years engaging in a sexual practice known as cuckoldry, with Granda serving as the “bull” with Becki as Jerry...
Jerry Falwell Jr.'s career, both at Liberty University and as a figurehead of the evangelical community, is over.
After years of mounting stunts and scandals, Falwell's personal life exploded into the national limelight. At first, he tried to get ahead of the story, with the Washington Examiner's Paul Bedard breaking his eleventh-hour statement claiming that his wife Becki had engaged in "an inappropriate personal relationship with" a pool assistant they had met nearly a decade ago, "something in which I was not involved." Then, however, came the real allegation —...
USA TODAY
Under fire for an alleged sex scandal, the embattled Jerry Falwell Jr. has submitted his resignation as head of Liberty University, school officials said Tuesday – less than 24 hours after Falwell denied he was leaving the evangelical institution.
Liberty's board of trustees accepted his resignation Tuesday, effective immediately, the university said in a statement, after receiving a resignation letter from Falwell late Monday night.
His resignation marks an ignominious end to his 13-year run as Liberty president that began when his televangelist father who founded the university, The Rev....
