Evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr. appears to have done a complete 180 when it comes to his puritanical beliefs about sex.
The ex-president and chancellor of Liberty University is asking a court in Virginia to dismiss a $40 million lawsuit filed against him by his former employer after that explosive pool boy sex scandal last summer.
In April, Liberty filed the 74-page breach of contract lawsuit accusing Fawell of withholding “damaging information” when he renegotiated his contract in 2019 and choosing “personal protection” over “his clear duties as an executive and officer.”
The lawsuit also accused him of “excessive use of alcohol” and hanging onto personal property, including “confidential information,” belonging to the university.
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In his filing seeking dismissal this week, Falwell argues Liberty is trying to destroy his reputation and publicly shame him with a photo he posted to his personal Instagram page last spring.
The photo, you may recall, showed him with his pants open and his arm around the waist of a woman other than his wife. In his other hand appears to be an alcoholic beverage.
Shortly after posting it to Instagram, he took it down, but not before it was screengrabbed and widely shared for posterity.
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“The rehashing of these events and protected defamation of Falwell through litigation serves one mission–ruining Falwell’s reputation through mischaracterization of events and public shaming through out-of-context pictures filed in a public complaint,” the filing reads.
Falwell also says Liberty’s lawsuit talks about he and his wife’s personal sex life, which allegedly involves cuckolding. He says that isn’t fair because it’s nobody’s business what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own bedrooms. Unless, of course, they’re engaging in homosexual activity. Then it’s a sin. And, no, a man masturbating in a speedo while watching another man bang his wife does not count as immoral or homosexual activity.
Furthermore, he says, he had “no duty” to tell the university about his “private matters.”
In addition to asking for Liberty’s $40 million lawsuit against him to be thrown out, Falwell wants his entire severance package paid out in full.
When he initially left the school last summer, he negotiated a $10.5 million package to be dispersed over the course of several years. Now, he wants it all in one lump sum. Probably so he can pay off all his legal bills, which have to be pretty mountainous by now.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Donston
This just lets you know how much of a megalomanic and leech he is and so many of these dudes in general are. No one cares about your sex life (at least I don’t). They care that you’ve been hooking up with students. They care that you spent years presenting yourself as a prototypical Christian family man and using that persona for money, status and comfortable sociology. They care that you spent years supporting anti “queer”politics and working for people who support anti “queer” politics while indulging “queer” behaviors yourself. Now, he’s abandoning his supposed values and politics and attaching himself to Liberal cliches in an attempt to divert criticism. It’s expected. We see that same nonsense from trolls here. Still irritating though.
mlo88
Wonderfully stated!!!
crazyoldman
Wife probably threatened to show pics of him bottoming for the pool boy
WillParkinson
Or bottoming for his wife. Pegging is a thing.
Donston
Will, what does pegging have to do with anything? Not saying he bottoms for dudes. But bringing up getting pegged by his wife was silly. If you think he’s bottoming for his wife and we already know that he hooks up with dudes then he’s probably bottoming for dudes. So, I don’t get the point you’re trying to make.
I will say that I’m tired of seeing these types of comments when we get these types of dudes. “Queers” really need to stop using homo-behaving jokes to try to embarrass people. I get that he’s a hypocritical asshole and represents what a lot of people understandably hates. But the jokes are corny and dated and borderline homophobic.
Fahd
I don’t think the university would have contracted with him had they known about his drinking and sexual acting out. Oh wait, that’s what the lawsuit is about. I’d bet the case isn’t getting dismissed.
I’m surprised there hasn’t been a class-action lawsuit by a group of Liberty University graduates against Falwell/the University. Their degrees certainly have been devalued (if that is possible).
nystrele
“if that’s possible.’ INDEED! what you said!
Cam
But everybody else’s sex life is HIS church’s business.
butchqueen
He can f*ck ALL THE WAY OFF!!!
blackhook
Who in their right mind would have sex with that freak???
cuteguy
Who was the dumb $lut with the Peggy Bundy wig? Of course the religious cult hypocrite is now doing a 180. That’s what those ppl do when it’s not convenient for them. All those GQP and Maga losers should be ashamed but they are prob praising this m0ron. I’m sure Lady G is upset she missed her shot
Kevan1
Goes to prove money dose not buy class. Once white trash always white trash. These people spell class with a K.
SiamSean
Not just bottoming for the pool boy, but blowing the pool boy as well.
sixfootsixmusclebuck
The Hypocrisy of organized religion is so deep. The skills of the deceiver to cast doubt on the very social group they’re associated with, just shows the rampant Sociopathy that surges through every single one of the different types of most, if not all, organized religion.
lykeitiz
Who told the cuck he could talk?
Inspector 57
Yeah, they should have left the gag and the puppy mask on him.
fredk3
asking for a lump sum severance after agreeing to increments is sure sign of de$peration. the hypocrite is cornered financially.
gregg2010
This is so hysterical! What he does in the bedroom is private! The hypocrisy! The lunacy!
Thad
When Liberty University fully accepts their sexually active gay students, maybe I’ll listen.
GayEGO
Well then there now, Jerry Foulwell Jr. must be getting some backlash to cause him to shut the door to his private life!
RickHeathen
I think they meant, “He, his wife, and the pool boy have sex like nobody’s business.”
Bengali
Typical GOP linked pukes. Always asking to have lawsuits and charges dismissed. Never for a legit reason. Falwell Jr and his wife slut deserve all the grief that comes to them. Not because I’m excessively vindictive. But am weary of Christians of all walks of life using the stupid religion to judge and condemn and attack our community.
Max
if his sex life is nobody’s business, then why should ours be their’s to decry on the pulpit? typical hypocritical religious monsters.