Liberty U students protest Falwells' comments on gender
Source: Associated Press
Updated 8:27 am CST, Thursday, March 7, 2019
LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) Upset over comments on gender identity made by Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. and wife Becki Falwell, around 30 students protested at the Christian college's campus.
The News & Advance reports Wednesday's rally followed Friday's Conservative Political Action Conference roundtable featuring the Falwells and Donald Trump Jr.
In reference to a new granddaughter, Becki Falwell said the family is "not letting her have a choice" in determining her gender identity because "God decided she would be a girl." Jerry Falwell said the baby would carry a doll, just as his sons "always had guns in their hands." Trump responded, "Hashtag me too."
Protest organizer Addyson Garner called the comments transphobic and said Trump reduced the #MeToo movement to a joke.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/education/article/Liberty-U-students-protest-Falwells-comments-on-13670003.php
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,007 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)RandySF
(58,898 posts)and it will be the best thing that happens to them
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)Initech
(100,080 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)"loaned" a million $$$$ to a pool boy, to start a business? Maybe he is sending out a smokescreen for when the poop hits the fan on his own sexuality?? Don't EVER trust these religious nuts who are so "holier than thou" until their activities are exposed.
Zambero
(8,964 posts)It appears that at least some of the student body there has experienced a reality check in this era of fundie-reactionary politics. There's no telling what might happen if students were exposed to ideas running contrary to what's being spoon fed to them day after day.
rownesheck
(2,343 posts)Why the fuck are those protesting attending this school?! Everyone knows who the Falwells are and what they believe. Stop giving these fucks your money! I seriously doubt Liberty U gives a top notch education. All the classes probably teach "god did it. That's all you need to know."
Initech
(100,080 posts)They're pretty much the Christian equivalent of the University of Phoenix, with the added bonus of your opinion getting silenced if you don't follow the MAGA philosophy!
obamanut2012
(26,080 posts)I have two friends who had to go to Liberty Baptist, and another one to Mars Hill. Their parents refused to pay for college, medical care, food, clothing, give them a roof over their head unless they submitted to them and went there for school. All three are women, and said they all decided to grit their teeth through it so they could get a degree and go out on their own. They hated it, and one, who is gay and knew it then, was manipulated into getting married. Since divorced, of course.
Stuff isn't much better for kids like that now than it was 30 years ago. Thirty years ago, they wouldn't have protested at LBC, either.
pstokely
(10,528 posts)because their GPA or ACT scores was among the higher end of "Liberty" U applicants, but would be on the middle/lower end of a real college
safeinOhio
(32,688 posts)Hermaphrodite too.
Oneironaut
(5,504 posts)Didnt God decide they would get cancer? How is it different?
Why should we treat children with giant holes in their hearts, or deformed organs? Didnt God make them that way?
There are two conclusions we can form here. Either:
-Falwell is wrong, or,
- God is a psychopath who loves causing pain and destruction (and dare I say, evil?).