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The anti-gay Liberty Universy has hand-picked another anti-LGBT evangelist to stand for the sndal-h Jerry Falwell Jr.

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UNIVERSY THAT BANS GAY STUNTS ON ‘MORALY’ GROUNDS REPLAC SNDAL-H ANTI-LGBT BOSS WH ANOTHER HOMOPHOBIC EVANGELIST

“I wanted to do my part this lawsu bee I wanted Liberty, and all the other schools, to treat their queer stunts the same way that they treat everyone else, ” Lus Wilson, a gay man, told WSLS News.

That homophobia, acrdg to the lawsu, don’t stop wh faculty, eher. “Stunts at Liberty behave homophobic and anti-queer ways bee they know they n do so wh relative impuny, ” one of the platiffs, McKenzie McCann, a former Liberty stunt says the plat. The Supreme Court has ma clear that the ernment n no longer treat gay people a manner that fails to regnize their digny as human begs.

Subscribe to Queerty for a daily dose of #life #discrimatn #homophobia stori and more. When Rsell later told her roommate she would rather have been nonted privately, she was told her relatnship “wasn’t right” Liberty junr had been slowly revealg she was gay – nfidg one person, who led her to another gay stunt and then another. The school was found 1971 by Southern Baptist televangelist Jerry Falwell, a man renowned for his attacks on the gay muny.

BEG GAY AT JERRY FALWELL'S UNIVERSY

In the 1980s, he notorly claimed that “Aids is not jt God’s punishment for homosexuals. It is God’s punishment for the society that tolerat homosexuals. ” He ntued to make flammatory statements about gay people throughout his life, but he also ma overtur to the muny later Rev Jerry Falwell crowd surfs held by stunts 1997 durg the Big South Tournament semifal basketball game at Liberty Universy.

Photograph: Doug Koontz/APFalwell’s longtime ghostwrer, the Rev Mel Whe, was gay. Falwell mataed that the “gay liftyle” was a s, but agreed to tone down anti-LGBTQ language, only to later blame the 9/11 terrorist attacks on gay people, femists and “abortnists” Falwell’s ath 2007, his son Jerry Falwell Jr took over and transformed Liberty to a $1bn empire.

Her story is one of many: several stunts terviewed by the Guardian said they stggled wh ternalized homophobia, mental health problems and suici least she was able to avoid “pastoral unselg”, offered by the school, but which stunts assume is, effect, nversn therapy. Durg her cle her hman year, she went to one Liberty unselg ssn and did not mentn she was gay out of that fear, she said. “I was really worried that they were gog to try to pray the gay out of me, ” he Rsell wh the pri flag.

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