Rev. Jerry Falwell Jr. got caught in a photo with his zipper down..and has taken a leave of absence from his university president gig. Can't make this shit up..gotta love it.

The photo was taken in a bedroom aboard a yacht.

Here's the picture. Not sure what the fuss is about.

https://mobile.twitter.com/RobDownenChron/status/1290134409757130754/photo/1

About the idiots in the pic. Look again.

Eww!

"Jerry Falwell Jr. is on an “indefinite leave of absence” from Liberty University following some extra-marital naughtiness he chose to share on Instagram, and I think it’s useful to view these extremely common stories not as the hypocrisies of Christian leaders who fail to live up to their own loudly-professed beliefs, but rather as the entirely ethically consistent acts of the high priests of a white supremacist hate cult masquerading as a legitimate religion." -- ShowerCap

Whats wrong?

1. His pants are undone and the zipper is down.

2. HER shorts are also not buttoned up.

That guy is a major pond water scum sucking bastard!

1. He was the head of Liberty University where the code of conduct is similar to BYU's. The fundamentalist Christian college meccas are Baylor, Bob Jones, and Liberty. Liberty got rid of the interracial dating ban after watching Bob Jones lose their non-profit status.

IOW, big drunk hypocrite.



2. The public should never be forced to see those drawers.

IOW, crime against humanity.

Caught, or Poised, Pissed (drunk), & Posed?

I suspect it was posed, and probably one or both drunk. That said, the Rev Dr Falwell was clueless enough to post the photo on his FaceBook page. Forget moral turpitude. He should be fired for sheer stupidity.

What the heck was he thinking to post that shot?

his excuse is that she is pregnant and couldn't zip her shorts over her belly, so he posed with his belly sticking out like hers...."allegedly" (as Steven Cobert would say). Claims the drink is just black water.

gemini Wrote:
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> his excuse is that she is pregnant and couldn't
> zip her shorts over her belly, so he posed with
> his belly sticking out like hers...."


If so, he was just being silly. Silly can be fun.

absolutely. the fact that even non-religious people think his behavior is appalling shows how screwed up religion and our perspectives of religion are.

The pants he was wearing look like they never fit him. Maybe they were hers as well?

As for drunk shenanigans, a) don't let someone get photographic evidence, and b) definitely don't post said photos on social media.

The biggest two-word-and-one-comma mistake ever made.

good for him.

now he can let his hair down and go live his life without worrying about appearances. he's probably a lot of fun on the boat.

I looked up his net worth. Estimates range from a low of $10 million to a high of $100 million. I assume that the higher estimate is based on whatever he inherited from his pastor father.

I think I went into the wrong line of work, lol.

that picture might get you fired too. :)

you want to give it a try and see what the district says?

If I had $10 million plus in the bank, I sure wouldn't be teaching anymore! :)

He's not a preacher, or a Reverend. He's a lawyer. A spoiled little rich kid blowing through Daddy's money. Just like his pal, Trump. Want and eyeopener? Google "Falwell, Gay Hotel, Michael Cohen,pool boy"

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-jerry-falwell-jr-miami-beach-pool-boy-evangelical-explained-850380/

So he's been up to shenanigans for a long time now. Why am I not surprised by this?

The quicker they sleep.

I don't get what the big deal is about here. If they were both wearing a swim suit at a public swimming pool, you would probably see more exposure of each of them in that case. No uncovered sex organs were actually on display. I've seen much more skin as a youth at a large open pool area full of both youth and their adult chaperones who were all participants at a church sponsored youth conference, forty years ago. That doesn't mean that this Falwell guy isn't a real asshole and a hypocrit. But we already knew that. It's always the ultra-religious that are the biggest hypocrits. He should be shamed for what he has stood for his whole life, not for a relatively innocent picture like this. If someone can catch a photograph of him with his pants down with a prostitute in a seedy motel, that might be worth discussing.



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That photo wouldn't have flown at my very open-minded alma mater. But this is Liberty University we're talking about. Liberty U. would give BYU a run for its money when it comes to control over student behavior. Jerry Falwell, Jr. has run that school with an iron fist. So yeah, it's going to raise a lot of eyebrows.

I'm really surprised that many here aren't making that connection. If it were anyone else, sure, who cares, but this isn't just anyone.

Exactly. The fact it was Liberty "University" is why this is a big deal. The height of Christian hypocrisy is right there on display.

If it had been anyone else not involved with self righteous pearl clutching moral preaching leadership, no one would give a crap.

One of the verboten items at Liberty is the possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages, which is probably why Falwell was so quick to explain away the drink in his hand.

Apart from that, the school bans extra-marital sexual relationships, gay or transgender sexual relationships (even if married,) and getting or facilitating an abortion. Women's skirts must be no shorter than 2" above the knee. Shorts are banned in class. Students are not permitted to attend dances. They are not permitted to visit alone with a member of the opposite sex off campus.

Students get only one excused absence from each semester's mandatory convocations. One convocation featured Ted Cruz announcing his candidacy for president.

I think there are further rules and unwritten "rules," but I can't confirm them.

The school used to ban R-rated and above movies, and M-rated or above video games, but they've relaxed those restrictions. Formerly banned items also included couples doing anything more than hand-holding in public, and long hair on men.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/10/30/the-worlds-largest-christian-university-relaxes-some-rules-for-students/

So what you're saying is something like "Picture Dallen Oakes and his wife in this photograph instead of Jerry Falwell". Is that correct? Cause Dallen neither asks for apologies, nor does he give them. Maybe Jerry isn't such a hypocrit by comparison. I have to laugh and ask myself, 'what would the Mormon church do if it were Dallen Oakes?'.



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That would be rather fun, wouldn't it? Or that fun power couple, Rusty and Wendy. :)

I like how he said the rum and coke was a "black water" prop.

Smarmy school

lol if Joseph Smith were alive he too might have used "the underage brides thing was just a prop!" phrase

Untold Bible story: Jesus often took Mary Magdalene on fishing trips. One time when Jesus was out on the Sea of Galilee with his disciples, it was a slow day so Jesus turned water into wine out of boredom. They didn’t want it to go to waste so they drank it. They all got pretty wasted since it was a lot of wine. In the morning, Jesus didn’t remember what happened and Mary wasn’t talking although she looked at him with a twinkle in her eye.

"If someone can catch a photograph of him with his pants down with a prostitute in a seedy motel, that might be worth discussing."

That is basically what this is, plain and simple... not to mention foolish.