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"In 2013, the Falwells completed the deal for the Miami Hostel, which rents beds for as little as $15 a night, bunking 12 people to a room. The hostel became known as one of South Beach’s best budget party hostels and is sometimes listed as gay-friendly."
Frances Robles
Under normal circumstances I wouldn't care that Jerry Falwell Jr. has invested money in properties that make money from sex and alcohol. I normally wouldn't care that his wife, allegedly, enjoys younger men and exhibitionism. I normally wouldn't care that Michael Cohen, allegedly, purchased those photos to keep them from leaking.
If Jerry kept practicing law and stayed out of everyone's life with his sophomoric ideology and faux religious convictions none of this would be an issue, but Jerry, like many pseudo-saints before him, lives two different lives. He is the heir to a Moral Majority that excels in castigating others for publicly engaging in behaviors they enjoy privately.
I think Falwell Jr. is a blowhard and a hypocrite. As much as I'm enjoying watching another "real Christian" deal with the consequences of their duplicity, part of me hopes the sexually explicit pictures of his wife are never published. There are enough people willfully sharing their naked bodies without seeing his wife and the "pool boy". I don't care what kind of threesomes or foursomes they were having. They deserve the respect they have often refused to give other people.
“There’s a bunch of photographs, personal photographs, that somehow the guy ended up getting — whether it was off of Jerry’s phone or somehow maybe it got AirDropped or whatever the hell the whole thing was,”
Michael Cohen
There are two kinds in this world: them that do and them that do. I'm more comfortable around confessed sinners than holier than thou deviants. The worst theologies are those rooted in denying the flesh. It's been my experience that behind every "Fire and Brimstone" spiritual leader is a closet full of fetishes and secrets capable of destroying the "perfect" image they portray.
It would be refreshing if Falwell's sexual scandal led to more Christians worrying about their own sexual proclivities than those of other people. Tell the truth: how many of y'all think any of these beacons of morality could survive a quick browser history check?
