1. The recent Jerry Falwell scandal got me thinking about how different Falwell's handling of this has been from the old clerical sleazeballs of yore like Jimmy Swaggart & Jim Baker. Does anyone remember the "I have sinned" speech?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1OXAi7rNMg …
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3. What's striking about Falwell Jr. is how utterly lacking in shame he is. Not only did he not hide his indiscretions, he flaunted them. Reportedly, he'd boast about his sex life and large dick to his colleagues & show them risque photos of his wife
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4. Falwell, who was one of the first big evangelical leaders to endorse Trump, is part of the general decadence of late imperial America, when the ruling elite no longer bothers to wear the mask of chivalry & decorum but rather wants everyone to know what pigs they are.
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5. Part of the Falwell Jr. story is that white evangelicals quickly glommed on to Trumpism because they already shared the same backlash values as Trump, a point made well in
@sarahposner new book Unholy. More thoughts here:https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jerry-falwell-jr-zipper/ …Show this thread
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>The figure of the lascivious clergyman is as old as religion Which Decameron story does Falwell Jr belong to?
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Is Jr clergy? I thought he was just a lawyer/administrator. Not too different from how lawyers typically apologize!
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He's not formally one, but he assumes the gravity of one unless it's inconvenient.
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Right but it wasn’t really creepy or threatening or even sexual? He took a silly photo with a woman he knows, no one’s saying they were in a relationship, are around the same age and he’s not her boss or prof.
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What? She's his wife's assistant. He may not be her boss directly, but her paycheck comes from his family. They aren't around the same age. He's 58. She's far younger. His pants are unzipped and his underwear is showing and this is hardly the first time.
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@cushbomb made exactly the same point on the latest CTH.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Americans used to care about the sexual morality of his heterosexual men. Despite terrible homophobia of the times it was more acceptable for Jack Tripper to be gay then then to be a heterosexual man living in sin with female roommates.
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