Many journalists contacted me this week, asking “Why would someone enjoy unconventional sex, and then condemn even the slightest variation in others’ sex lives?”
The answer is: Falwell is Everyone, struggling with the same thing most of us struggle with. But while most of us struggle in private, his politics make his struggle public.
Jerry Falwell, Jr, the president of ultra-Christian Liberty University gleefully photographed himself cavorting (trousers unzipped, drink in hand) on a yacht with a woman to whom he isn’t married.
The only reason to care about this is that Liberty University has a strict code of conduct for students that prohibits non-marital sex and consuming any media with erotic content or nudity.
Hypocritical Christian leaders like Falwell give sex a bad name.