# Jerry Falwell is a cuck and was blackmailed into supporting Trump **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 24, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-is-a-cuck-and-was-blackmailed-into-supporting-trump/918898 "2020-08-24T17:23:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-is-a-cuck-and-was-blackmailed-into-supporting-trump/918898/81 "2020-08-25T20:20:14Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > “It’s a shame that Christians can’t give us the same forgiveness that Christ gave us.” _So says anyone ever disciplined at Liberty University…_ ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-is-a-cuck-and-was-blackmailed-into-supporting-trump/918898/82 "2020-08-25T20:36:47Z")
Why I oughta! 😷 (Hey, we have smilies with masks!) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-is-a-cuck-and-was-blackmailed-into-supporting-trump/918898/83 "2020-08-26T01:47:56Z")
You mean an anagram? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-is-a-cuck-and-was-blackmailed-into-supporting-trump/918898/84 "2020-08-26T02:19:57Z")
> [@Becki Fallwell as quoted in various media](#): > > It’s a shame that Christians can’t give us the same forgiveness that Christ gave us. Yanno, Becki, maybe you just need to find a better crowd of Christians to hang with. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-is-a-cuck-and-was-blackmailed-into-supporting-trump/918898/85 "2020-08-26T13:19:35Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > You mean an anagram? Yes, thanks. #distracteddriver ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-is-a-cuck-and-was-blackmailed-into-supporting-trump/918898/86 "2020-08-26T13:34:21Z")
Why do I keep picturing Jerry Jr hiding in the closet thinking, “Oh. My. God, Becki. Look at his butt”? ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-is-a-cuck-and-was-blackmailed-into-supporting-trump/918898/87 "2020-08-26T14:24:44Z")
😁 ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2020, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-is-a-cuck-and-was-blackmailed-into-supporting-trump/918898/88 "2020-08-29T04:32:32Z")
But wait! There’s more! > **[‘She was the aggressor’: Former Liberty student alleges sexual encounter with...](https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/27/becki-falwell-affair-liberty-university-student-band-jerry-402559)** > > A former student at the evangelical university opens up about a 2008 incident with the wife of the school’s president. > [@](#): > > A former Liberty University student says Becki Falwell, the wife of the university’s then-President Jerry Falwell Jr., jumped into bed with him and performed oral sex on him while he stayed over at the Falwell home after a band practice with her eldest son in 2008. > > The student was 22 at the time of the encounter, near the start of Liberty’s fall semester. He said she initiated the act, and he went along with it. But despite his rejection of further advances, he said, Falwell continued pursuing him, offering him gifts and engaging in banter through Facebook messages. > > “She was the aggressor,” he said. > > The messages, screenshots of which were provided by the former student to POLITICO, suggest a flirtatious relationship that went beyond what might be expected of a mother communicating with her son’s bandmate. > > One referenced a mutual friend who “said that she wants you to cut [your] bangs when you get your hair cut. I think that you are beautiful just like you are,” Becki Falwell wrote in a message sent in September 2008. “You don’t want to cover up those killer eyes of yours and you know the bandana drives me wild … 🙂” ---
**Author:** ![HammondsCollapse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@HammondsCollapse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HammondsCollapse)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2020, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-is-a-cuck-and-was-blackmailed-into-supporting-trump/918898/89 "2020-08-30T06:35:13Z")
I feel bad for their children, let’s just say Thanksgiving Dinner might be a little awkward this year. Mom how’s the stuffing? ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-is-a-cuck-and-was-blackmailed-into-supporting-trump/918898/90 "2020-08-31T02:36:15Z")
I understand he is blaming his wife. I find that inexcusable. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-is-a-cuck-and-was-blackmailed-into-supporting-trump/918898/91 "2020-08-31T02:39:48Z")
But totally expected. I’ll give the GOP this, there’s no shortage of buses. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-is-a-cuck-and-was-blackmailed-into-supporting-trump/918898/92 "2020-08-31T08:39:35Z")
Well, Falwell does like putting his wife under things. ---
**Author:** ![standardnoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@standardnoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standardnoise)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-is-a-cuck-and-was-blackmailed-into-supporting-trump/918898/93 "2020-08-31T09:26:51Z")
Exactly this. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-is-a-cuck-and-was-blackmailed-into-supporting-trump/918898/94 "2020-08-31T12:36:20Z")
For a party opposed to the concept of public transportation, they seem to use a lot of buses. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-is-a-cuck-and-was-blackmailed-into-supporting-trump/918898/95 "2020-08-31T12:49:21Z")
“Christians” hiding behind the cloak of their “Christianity” to do un-Christian things. Color me surprised. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-is-a-cuck-and-was-blackmailed-into-supporting-trump/918898/96 "2020-08-31T15:21:40Z")
Blaming her for what, though? Presumably, she made a voluntary promise not to have sex with other men during her marriage. If she chose to break that promise, that’s on her. If Jerry chose to watch (and I’m not sure how you’d force him to), that’s on him. ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-is-a-cuck-and-was-blackmailed-into-supporting-trump/918898/97 "2020-08-31T15:25:43Z")
Jerry is making it seem like his wife had an affair and he was no part of it. But the reality seems more likely to be that they sought out additional people together and that he was a very active participant. While it’s not necessarily wrong to bring others into their marriage, he is misrepresenting how active his role was in participating. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-is-a-cuck-and-was-blackmailed-into-supporting-trump/918898/98 "2020-08-31T15:30:22Z")
What gets me is that the picture of JFJ with his pants unzipped was the least shocking and most underwhelming scandal I’ve ever seen. When I saw the OMG UNZIPPED headline, I expected to see something R-rated, but his zipper was just slightly open, and there was no exposed flesh or even a bulge. Yet somehow this was the tipping point to his eventual removal. Compared to Trump’s pussy-grabbing shenanigans, JFJ looks amateurish, yet somehow he was a lot easier to kick to the curb. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-is-a-cuck-and-was-blackmailed-into-supporting-trump/918898/99 "2020-08-31T15:34:44Z")
Because that same behavior from one of the students he rules over would have been severely disciplined if not expelled. We should expect exemplary behavior from any university President, even more so from a so-called Super Hyper Over-the-Top Religious University President. ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-is-a-cuck-and-was-blackmailed-into-supporting-trump/918898/100 "2020-08-31T15:40:45Z")
I know a homosexual man who was kicked out of Liberty University after they discovered his internet browsing habits. Not sure why a homosexual would want to go there in the first place. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-is-a-cuck-and-was-blackmailed-into-supporting-trump/918898.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-is-a-cuck-and-was-blackmailed-into-supporting-trump/918898.md?page=6)