A Miami Herald article discs an alleged ver-up, Falwell's Tmp endorsement, and how the homophobic activist vted a gay-iendly hostel.
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JERRY FALWELL JR.’S YEARS OF LGBTQ HYPOCRISY END WH THE SPLASH OF A POOL BOYSIN BINJERRY FALWELL JR. AND HIS WIFE’S ALLEGED AFFAIR WH EX-POOL BOY GIANRLO GRANDA REVEALS FALWELL’S HYPOCRIL MORALIZG ABOUT LGBTQ PEOPLE FOR THE VILE SHAM ALWAYS WAS.TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERUPDATED AUG. 25, 2020 1:07AM EDT / PUBLISHED AUG. 24, 2020 9:24PM EDT OPNETHAN MILLER/GETTYA POOL BOY ALLEGEDLY FUCKED HIS WIFE AS HE SAT, WATCHED, AND ENJOYED EVERY SEND. FOR SUCH A VILENTLY ANTI-GAY, CHRISTIAN NSERVATIVE, PROPS TO JERRY FALWELL JR. FOR AT LEAST SERVG UP A NOTE OF PURE JACKIE COLLS MP THE SNDAL THAT HAS LED TO HIS REPORTED RIGNATN AS PRINT OF LIBERTY UNIVERSY, ALTHOUGH ON MONDAY NIGHT HE FIRST CLAIMED TO BE ON “FE LEAVE,” THEN LATER SAID HE REALLY HAD RIGNED AFTER ALL.“BECKI [FALWELL’S WIFE] AND I VELOPED AN TIMATE RELATNSHIP, AND JERRY ENJOYED WATCHG OM THE RNER OF THE ROOM,” GIANRLO GRANDA TOLD RTERS OF HIS AFFAIR WH THE UPLE. NOW 29, GRANDA TOLD RTERS THAT THE LIAISONS TOOK PLACE “MULTIPLE TIM PER YEAR” OM 2012 TO 2018 AT HOTELS MIAMI AND NEW YORK, AND AT THE FALWELLS’ HOME BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGIA. GRANDA SHOWED RTERS TEXTS AND EMAILS THAT SHOWED THE ALLEGED TRAJECTORY OF THE AFFAIR. MICHAEL BOWE, A LAWYER FOR FALWELL, FIRST TOLD RTERS THE EVANGELIL LEAR “TEGORILLY NI EVERYTHG YOU DITED YOU TEND TO PUBLISH ABOUT HIM.” NEXT, THE LAWYER CLAIMED GRANDA HAD TRIED TO EXTORT MONEY OM THE UPLE. “GRANDA NI ANY SUCH TENT, SAYG HE WAS SEEKG TO NEGOTIATE A BUYOUT OM A BS ARRANGEMENT HE SAYS HE HAD WH THE UPLE,” RTERS REPORTED. FALWELL HAS SCRIBED AS A “FATAL ATTRACTN TYPE SUATN.” RINTS OF BEDFORD COUNTY, WH THE WAY THIS STORY IS GOG, BETTER KEEP THOSE BUNNY RABBS SAFELY UNR LOCK AND KEY.WHOEVER SPEAKS TO HIM NEXT, ASK FALWELL WHO HE LIK TO HAVE SEX WH. ASK HIM WHAT HE MASTURBAT OVER. ASK HIM WHO HE MASTURBAT OVER. ASK HIM ABOUT GRANDA’S ASS PUMPG AWAY ONT OF HIM AS GRANDA FUCKED BECKI. WHAT AND WHO WAS HE TO AT THAT MOMENT?ASK HIM ALL ABOUT . ASK HIM ABOUT HIS SEXUALY. ASK HIM ABOUT HIS SEX LIFE. DON’T WORRY ABOUT SEEMG TASTELS OR TSIVE, BEE JERRY FALWELL JR. HAS BEEN TASTELSLY TDG ON LGBTQ PEOPLE—APPARENTLY DISGTED BY WHAT THEY DO BED—ALL HIS LIFE. JUDGE, JUDGE, AND SEX-SHAME SOME MORE: THIS HAS BEEN FALWELL’S CHOSEN WAY TO PROMOTE HIMSELF AND HIS BELIEFS AT THE EXPENSE OF LGBTQ PEOPLE’S SAFETY AND EQUALY. NOW HE MAY GET TO KNOW JT A SMALL DOSE OF WHAT THAT JUDGE-AND-SHAME SP-CYCLE FEELS LIKE. “FALWELL IS NOT THE FIRST RIGHT-WG HYPOCRE, QUICK TO JUDGE OTHERS WHILE APPARENTLY SNG ON THE SLY. JUDGMENT THE CIRCUMSTANC SEEMS NOT ONLY APPROPRIATE, BUT ALSO KARMIC.” FALWELL IS NOT THE FIRST RIGHT-WG HYPOCRE, QUICK TO JUDGE OTHERS WHILE APPARENTLY SNG ON THE SLY. JUDGMENT THE CIRCUMSTANC SEEMS NOT ONLY APPROPRIATE, BUT ALSO KARMIC. OR TO QUOTE THE BIBLE (MATTHEW, CHAPTER 7): “DO NOT JUDGE, OR YOU TOO WILL BE JUDGED… FOR THE SAME WAY YOU JUDGE OTHERS, YOU WILL BE JUDGED, AND WH THE MEASURE YOU E, WILL BE MEASURED TO YOU.”FALWELL HAS ACTIVELY SOUGHT TO JUDGE AND HURT LGBTQ PEOPLE FOR THE DURATN OF HIS LIFE—JT LIKE HIS LATE FATHER, JERRY FALWELL SR., WHO FOUND THE “MORAL MAJORY” 1979, AND SPENT HIS LIFE WHIPPG UP AS MUCH HATRED AS HE ULD AGAST LGBTQ PEOPLE. ONE SIGNIFINT STRAND OF THE TMP ADMISTRATN’S ANTI-LGBTQ MPAIGNG TODAY, WHICH GO UNR THE SOFT-SOUNDG NOM PLUME OF “RELIG EEDOM,” PILOTED BY MIKE PENCE AND HIS HORTS, SPRGS DIRECT OM THE FALWELL SR. TEMPLATE.FALWELL SR. NTEND, “AIDS IS NOT JT GOD’S PUNISHMENT FOR HOMOSEXUALS; IS GOD’S PUNISHMENT FOR THE SOCIETY THAT TOLERAT HOMOSEXUALS.” LGBTQ PEOPLE, AND PRO-CHOICE ADVOT, HE SAID, WERE RPONSIBLE FOR THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS: “I REALLY BELIEVE THAT THE PAGANS, AND THE ABORTNISTS, AND THE FEMISTS, AND THE GAYS AND THE LBIANS WHO ARE ACTIVELY TRYG TO MAKE THAT AN ALTERNATIVE LIFTYLE, THE ACLU, PEOPLE FOR THE AMERIN WAY—ALL OF THEM WHO HAVE TRIED TO SECULARIZE AMERI—I POT THE FGER THEIR FACE AND SAY, ‘YOU HELPED THIS HAPPEN.’” FALWELL SR. AND HIS SUPPORTERS ARGUED THAT GAYS PREYED ON KIDS, AND THAT LGBTQ ACCEPTANCE WOULD LEAD TO NOTHG LS THAN THE STCTN OF AMERI. IN HIS LATER YEARS, FALWELL SR. MOVED TO A KD OF “LOVE THE SNER, HATE THE S” POSN, BUT HIS OUTRIGHT BIGOTRY REMAS HIS MORE MEMORABLE TRAMARK. IF SOUNDS WILDLY ABSURD TO A LENNIAL GENERATN THERE WAS NOTHG FUNNY OR ABSURD ABOUT AT A TIME WHEN GAYS WERE DYG, ALONE AND STIGMATIZED, OF AIDS THANKS TO A REAGAN ADMISTRATN THAT RED MORE ABOUT THE EVANGELILS FALWELL SPOUTED HIS POISON FOR THAN DID FOR DYG GAY AMERINS. BACK THEN, THERE WERE NO POSIVE IMAG OF ANYTHG GAY POP CULTURE. A GAY KISS ON TV LED TO ADVERTISG BOYTTS. FALWELL WAS ONE OF THE CHIEF BULLI OF A ONE-SID ANTI-LGBTQ HATE PLAYGROUND—READY TO EXTGUISH EVEN THE ST FLAME OF SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE WH FEROC GAL OF HATE. “JT LIKE HIS FATHER, FALWELL JR. IS APPARENTLY FE WH HATG LGBTQ PEOPLE, WHILE BEG PLETELY NON-JUDGMENTAL ABOUT ANY NUMBER OF UNGODLY MISBEHAVRS AND SNDALS VOLVG REPUBLINS.” JT AS FALWELL SR. QUICKLY PUT THE “MORAL MAJORY” POLE POSN WH THE REPUBLIN PARTY—WHERE S EVANGELIL BASE RIS TODAY—FALWELL JR. HAS BEEN VOL HIS SUPPORT OF DONALD TMP. HE HAS PROUDLY NTUED HOLDG HIS FATHER’S TORCH OF ANTI-LGBTQ HATRED ALOFT. JT LIKE HIS FATHER, FALWELL JR. IS APPARENTLY FE WH HATG LGBTQ PEOPLE, WHILE BEG PLETELY NON-JUDGMENTAL ABOUT ANY NUMBER OF UNGODLY MISBEHAVRS AND SNDALS VOLVG REPUBLINS—SUCH AS A LEAR WHO PROUDLY BOASTS OF GRABBG WOMEN BY THEIR GENALS. AND SO MUCH MORE.BUT THIS ALLIANCE ISN’T ABOUT A TE EXPRSN OF FAH. HOW ULD BE WH A PRINT OF AMERI WHO OPENLY MOCKS RELIGN, WHILE URTG S MOST FERVENT FOLLOWERS, WHO HOLDS A BIBLE UPSI DOWN ONT OF A CHURCH, AFTER HAVG PEACEFUL PROTTERS VLENTLY SET UPON?THIS RELATNSHIP BETWEEN EVANGELILS AND REPUBLIN LEARS 2020 IS BASED ON THE SAME THG WAS BASED ON WHEN FALWELL SR. FOUND THE MORAL MAJORY: POLIL EXPEDIENCY. IT IS ABOUT FALWELL AND EVANGELILS MERRILY MAKG A AL WH THE BT VIL WHO N ADVANCE THEIR PREJUDICE-FILLED, DISCRIMATORY AGENDA, AND THE REPUBLINS LEANG TO THEIR HATRED FOR EASILY BANKABLE VOT.JT LIKE HIS FATHER, FALWELL JR. HAS STOKED HIS HATRED OF LGBTQ PEOPLE PERSONALLY AND PROFSNALLY. JT LIKE HIS FATHER HE HAS HAD FLUENCE WH THE REPUBLIN PARTY. HIS ANTI-LGBTQ, NSERVATIVE RAMBLGS ARE NOT JT THE PROVCE OF A PREACHER. HE HAS ACCS TO THE KDS OF POLICYMAKERS WHO SCHEME TO ENSURE LGBTQ PEOPLE ARE KEPT AS SEND-CLASS CIZENS UNR THE LAW. HE HAS DONE ALL HE N TO MAKE LGBTQ PEOPLE AS UNEQUAL AND STIGMATIZED AS THEY WERE HIS FATHER’S ERA.FALWELL JR. CERTALY SEEMS LS DISCIPLED THAN HIS FATHER. A 2019 POLI EXPOSé PATED A PORTRA OF A “DICTATOR” WHO PRID OVER LIBERTY UNIVERSY A “CULTURE OF FEAR.” “WHETHER WAS IMMATURY, NAïVETé, STABILY, OR A BATN THEREOF, WAS THIS ‘MDSET’ THAT THE FALWELLS LIKELY TECTED CIDG THAT I WAS THE IAL TARGET FOR THEIR SEXUAL PAS.”— GIANRLO GRANDA A FEW WEEKS AGO ME THE PICTURE OF HIM WH HIS PANTS UNZIPPED, HIS ARM AROUND HIS WIFE’S ASSISTANT. THIS FALWELL JR. CLAIMED WAS JT, SAYG THE PICTURE WAS TAKEN AT A STUME PARTY DURG A FAY VATN.GRANDA TOLD RTERS THAT HE FEELS THE FALWELLS PREYED UPON HIM. “WHETHER WAS IMMATURY, NAïVETé, STABILY, OR A BATN THEREOF, WAS THIS ‘MDSET’ THAT THE FALWELLS LIKELY TECTED CIDG THAT I WAS THE IAL TARGET FOR THEIR SEXUAL PAS,” HE TOLD RTERS.AS FALWELL JR. FAC QUTNS OF WHO HE IS ATTRACTED TO AND HIS OWN SEXUAL MORALY, HE MAY DO SO THE HYPOCRISY-STREAKED LIGHT OF THE LANY OF ANTI-GAY REMARKS HE HAS MA THE PAST. BECKI, APPARENTLY AFTER HAVG SEX WH THE POOL BOY ONT OF HER HBAND, HAD EXTREMELY STRONG FEELGS ABOUT THE GOD-GIVEN GENR OF HER GRAND-DGHTER, AND HOW SHE SHOULD BE BROUGHT UP.“SHE’S OUR GRANDDGHTER, AND WE’RE RAISG HER AS A GIRL,” SHE SAID 2019. “WE’RE NOT LETTG HER HAVE A CHOICE. GOD MAK THE CHOICE OF WHAT THE BABI ARE GOG TO BE AND GOD CID SHE WOULD BE A GIRL.”FALWELL SR. TALKED ABOUT THE “GAY LIFTYLE,” AND OF HOMOSEXUALY AS A S. AS GLAAD HAS SHOWN, FALWELL JR. HAS KEPT THE FAY TRADN GOG—FOR EXAMPLE, BY OFFERG THE ANTI-GAY “MISS CALIFORNIA” CARRIE PREJEAN A LIBERTY UNIVERSY SCHOLARSHIP 2009. IN 2013, FALWELL JR. SAID HE DID NOT WANT THE UNIVERSY TO RECEIVE FERAL ERNMENT AID IF MEANT HAVG TO SIGN UP TO ANTI-LGBTQ DISCRIMATN L. “WE’RE NOW A FANCIAL POSN THAT WOULD ALLOW TO SIMPLY EX THE PROGRAM. … IF BEME NECSARY, THAT’S WHAT WE WOULD DO.”FALWELL JR. ALSO GAVE A SUPPORTIVE PROMOTNAL QUOTE FOR A BOOK ABOUT A MAN WHO SUPPOSEDLY “GAVE UP HOMOSEXUALY FOR GOD” BY SAYG: “IF EVER A STORY NEED TO BE TOLD, THIS ONE DO. JONATHAN’S ANK AND FEARLS TTIMONY WILL SERVE TO OFFER HOPE TO THOSE STGGLG WH THIS S AND UNRSTANDG FOR THE RT OF .”FALWELL JR. HAS WRTEN: “LIBERTY UNIVERSY IS PRO-LIFE AND BELIEV THAT MARRIAGE BETWEEN ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN PROVIS THE BT ENVIRONMENT FOR CHILDREN. LIBERTY UNIVERSY WILL NOT LEND S’ NAME OR FANCIAL SUPPORT TO ANY STUNT GROUP THAT ADVANC NTRARY TO S MISSN...LIBERTY UNIVERSY WILL NOT LEND S’ NAME OR FANCIAL SUPPORT TO UNRME MARRIAGE OR TO PROMOTE ABORTN.”HOW DO THE SWEEPG JUDGMENTS OF OTHERS READ NOW TO FALWELL JR., MIRED SNDAL HIMSELF? PERHAPS HIS FATHER’S WORDS N PROVE STCTIVE. “I DON’T BELIEVE ANYONE BEGS A HOMOSEXUAL,” FALWELL SR. SAID 2000. “THEY BEG THE WAY GOD MA THEM: MALE, FEMALE, WH ALL THE DISPOSNS THAT ARE BUILT . IF THEY CHOOSE TO BE BISEXUAL OR TRANSGENRED [HIS WORD] OR HOMOSEXUAL, THEY’RE HUMAN BEGS, AND THEY HAVE THE ABILY TO DO . BUT AS A CHRISTIAN, BIBLILLY, SCRIPTURE MAK VERY CLEAR THAT 'S AN IMMORAL POSN.” HE JUDGED HIS IEND MEL WHE FOR LEAVG HIS WIFE TO “GO OFF TO THE HOMOSEXUAL LIFTYLE.”MAYBE FALWELL JR. WILL NSIR HOW HARSHLY HIS FATHER JUDGED WHE 2000, ALTHOUGH ONE SOMEHOW DOUBTS AS HE SCURRI AROUND TRYG TO SALVAGE HIS LIBERTY UNIVERSY PRINCY. BUT THE ECHO BETWEEN WHAT HIS FATHER SAID OF WHE AND “SEXUAL GRATIFITN” MT ECHO HARD FOR HIS SON RIGHT NOW.“THE HORRIBLE THG THAT MEL HAS DONE, AND I'VE SAID SO TO HIS FACE, IS THAT WHEN A MAN LEAV HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN FOR ANOTHER WOMAN, HE HAS DONE A TERRIBLE THG,” FALWELL SR. SAID 2000. “HE HAS CSHED LIV AND LEFT BEHD WRECKAGE THAT HE N NEVER RRECT. GOD N FIVE HIM, OF URSE…“BUT WHEN YOU LEAVE AND GO OFF TO THE HOMOSEXUAL LIFTYLE, YOU HAVE SAID, ‘MY SEXUAL GRATIFITN IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THOSE CHILDREN, THAT WOMAN, THOSE GRANDCHILDREN. AS LONG AS I FEEL GOOD AND I HAVE MY SEXUAL GRATIFITN, SO BE .’ THAT IS SO SELFISH. IT IS SO WRONG… IT IS NOT A TERRIBLE THG FOR A MAN TO HAVE BAD SIR AND BAD DRIV. TEMPTATN IS NOT S—YIELDG TO TEMPTATN IS S. HE DIDN’T HAVE TO YIELD TO THAT TEMPTATN.” FALWELL JR. HAS NOW “YIELD TO TEMPTATN” HIMSELF, OF URSE. WILL HE FEEL SPIRUALLY TORN, OR IS HE JT—LIKE MANY A HYPOCRE BEFORE HIM—NOW EXPOSED, FOUND OUT, AND SPERATE TO SP SOME GOLD OUT OF THE SELF-SPUN TOXIC THREAD ENMHG HIM?IT DON’T MATTER, BEE FALWELL JR. IS NOW THE SNER, AND ACRDG TO HIS FATHER’S OWN RIGOROLY STATED PRCIPL OF DIVE JTICE HE MT BE JUDGED AS SUCH. WHEN THE TERVIEWER THE 2000 TERVIEW SAID HOMOSEXUALY WAS FOUND EVERY CIVILIZATN AND RELIGN THE WORLD, FALWELL SR. REPLIED, “YOU’LL ALSO FD BANK ROBBERS, DG ADDICTS, AND ALHOLICS.” THE “UNSELG” HE SAID HIS CHURCH OFFERED LGBTQ PEOPLE WAS THAT “GOD LOV THEM AS EQUALLY AS EVERYONE ELSE, BUT THAT WHAT THEY’RE DOG IS WRONG... WHAT YOU’RE DOG IS WRONG. IT’S GOG TO STROY YOU. IT'S GOG TO STROY OTHER LIV. AND IF YOU WANT OUT, WE N HELP YOU THROUGH THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST.”OBVLY NOW, ACRDG TO HIS FATHER’S OWN WORDS, FALWELL JR. N ONLY SEEK SALVATN THE SAME WAY. PERHAPS HIS CHURCH SHOULD ENFORCE UPON HIM A RIGORO PROGRAM OF REPENTANCE AND RENUNCIATN AS HIS FATHER WANTED LGBTQ PEOPLE TO UNRTAKE? “LIFE IS SUPPOSED TO BE LIVED FOR GOD AND FOR OTHERS. A LTLE GRATIFITN, THAT’S FE, TOO. BUT AMAZGLY, WHEN YOU PUT GOD AND FAY FIRST, YOU DO GET GRATIFITN.”— JERRY FALWELL SR. NOW, FALWELL JR. FDS HIMSELF THE SAME POSN AS HIS FATHER SAW HIS GAY IEND WHE, WHO WAS, SAID FALWELL SR. “UGHT AND EXPOSED… ’S A TERRIBLE THG TO LEAVE BEHD THE WRECKAGE OF A FAY, JT SO THAT I N SLEEP WH SOMEBODY I WANT TO SLEEP WH. BIG AL. YOU DON’T HAVE TO SLEEP WH ANYBODY… THE IA THAT YOU MT BE ABLE TO FULFILL YOUR SEXUAL SIR… IS TOTALLY SELF-CENTERED… IT JT DON’T F THE NTEXT OF KDNS AND FAIRNS AND LOVE AND NCERN AND MMENT…“LIFE IS SUPPOSED TO BE LIVED FOR GOD AND FOR OTHERS. A LTLE GRATIFITN, THAT’S FE, TOO. BUT AMAZGLY, WHEN YOU PUT GOD AND FAY FIRST, YOU DO GET GRATIFITN.”WHAT FE WORDS. NOW, 20 YEARS LATER, FALWELL JR. MIGHT ALSO NTEND THAT “GRATIFITN” FOR HIM ALSO ME OM STG, WATCHG, AND RELISHG EVERY SEND OF HIS WIFE GETTG FUCKED BY THE POOL BOY. TIM TEEMAN
For such a vilently anti-gay, Christian nservative, props to Jerry Falwell Jr.
Ntend, “AIDS is not jt God’s punishment for homosexuals; is God’s punishment for the society that tolerat homosexuals. ” LGBTQ people, and pro-choice advot, he said, were rponsible for the September 11 attacks: “I really believe that the pagans, and the abortnists, and the femists, and the gays and the lbians who are actively tryg to make that an alternative liftyle, the ACLU, People for the Amerin Way—all of them who have tried to secularize Ameri—I pot the fger their face and say, ‘You helped this happen.