All posts tagged "Jerry Falwell"

Jerry Falwell Jr., the disgraced former director of the right-wing Liberty University, is accusing university officials of sexual misconduct and other wrongdoing in an intellectual property lawsuit, reported The Daily Beast on Friday.

Falwell, a longtime supporter of former President Donald Trump, was removed as the leader of the school after dramatic details about his wife Becki's affair with a pool boy turned business partner, and his involvement in their arrangement, were made public. His lawsuit is seeking the return of hundreds of millions of dollars that Liberty University is using in the name of his late father, Jerry Falwell Sr.

In an amended complaint in the lawsuit, Falwell alleges that several university officials have sexual harassment complaints against them that were hushed up....

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich recently told a story about a "transvestite" he met to explain why he doesn't agree with "San Francisco values."

Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann did a little pandering Wednesday during her visit to Jerry Falwell's Liberty University.

Rev. Jerry Falwell may have founded Liberty University, but students there seemed more interested in firearms than Christ during a Wednesday event featuring Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry.

After hearing two prominent challenges to the Affordable Care Act, an appeals court in Virginia has decided to uphold the laws and toss both suits on procedural grounds.

[rebelmouse-image 24749880 original_size="230x151" expand=1]One of the most fascinating phenomenon aspects of collective psychology to me is collective willful ignorance. I wrote about this some in terms of Wikileaks and how it disturbs collective unknowing, and I think Ricky Gervais touched on it when talking about atheism as a matter of letting yourself know what you already know. I get why people don't want to know certain things they do know, and why they suppress that knowledge, but that we can do it---and that we can it collectively---is truly fascinating. And that people who speak the truth everyone is ignoring can disturb the ecosystem of collective denial is also fascinating to me, probably in no small part because the vast majority of hostility I've experienced from others has directly stemmed from their being upset with me for saying out loud what we're supposed to collectively ignore.