Speaking of Believers

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Jerry Falwell Jr. WATCHED while I had sex with his wife Becki several times a year for SIX years starting when I was 20, claims pool boy - as he denies extorting the couple over affair
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ouple.html

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Just another example of I really don't give a shit about how anyone chooses to get their jollies so long as (a) all participants are willing and capable of giving consent (b) you don't ask me or anyone else to pay for it - and here I'd like to know how much of the business expense was ponied up by the (tax-deductible) university and (c) you don't tell me how much more moral you are than I am.

PS I have just learned that he has resigned as Liberty 'University' president. I feel sorry for all those misguided but probably earnest students who will forever be tarred.

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They have even inspired a colouring book page:

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An interestingly similar trajectory to the World Wide church of God started by H.W. Armstrong and became a force due to his emphasis on "tithing". His son was a douche rejected and excommunicated by his father who ran the church into the ground and they lost everything, Ambassador College, the monthly magazine ( the Plain Truth) the Ambassador ballroom (in Pasadena)

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Sidney Robertson

JUST so that you're not confused, THIS is not Falwell's pool boy, this is his trainer Benjamin Crosswhite.

After a series of university real estate transactions signed by Falwell, Crosswhite owns a sprawling 18-acre racquet sports and fitness facility on former Liberty U property.

In 2016, Falwell signed a real estate deal transferring the sports facility, complete with tennis courts and a fitness center owned by Liberty, to Crosswhite. Under the terms, Crosswhite wasn’t required to put any of his own money down toward the purchase price

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Fallwell certainly seems to have made a habit of entering into, er, business relationships with attractive young men.
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