Reporter Mark Walker, RN.C., called for the dismissal of Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. after images of him popped up on a yacht with his arm around a woman and her pants unzipped.
“Jerry Falwell Jr.’s persistent behavior is terrible,” Walker tweeted. “As an advisory board member of the music academy and former instructor @LibertyU, I’m convinced that Falwell should step down.”
“Not one of us is perfect, but students, faculty, alumni and @LUPraise deserve better,” he added.
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Falwell is a leading figure in the evangelical Christian community, and helped garner support for President Trump during his campaign.
The president of Liberty University apologized for the photo, but said it was all in good spirits.
“I apologize to everyone,” Falwell said in an interview this week with a local radio station in Lynchburg, Va.
Falwell said the woman in the photo was his ‘wife’s assistant’ who was traveling with her.
“She’s heavy, so she could not pick up her pants,” he said in the interview. ‘And I was wearing a pair of jeans that I had not worn for a long time, so I could not zip. And so I just laid my belly out like hers. ”
“She’s my wife’s assistant and she’s a darling, and I should never have put it up and humiliated her,” he added.
‘And, at least, long story short, it was just fun. That’s it.”
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The photo has been deleted, but critics have hailed Falwell as a hypocrite, citing the Christian University’s code of conduct, which requires “modest” clothing for students while on campus.
“If you run the largest Christian university in America, maybe don’t post pictures of yourself on social media with your pants undressed on a hunt – with random women in bad wigs,” Meghan McCain tweeted this week.
“So big, so hypocritical.”
Falwell said in his radio interview, “I promised my kids I would try to be a good boy from here on out.”
Falwell agrees to take an indefinite resignation from his role as president and chancellor of Liberty, where he has served since 2007 after his father, Jerry Falwell Sr., died. Falwell’s father founded the university in 1971.
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“Unfortunately, with this success and the burden of leading a large and growing organization comes substantial pressure,” said Jerry Prevo, chairman of the board of trustees of the university Friday.
“Today, my colleagues and I on the Liberty University Board of Trustees and Jerry mutually agree that it would be good for him to take an indefinite leave of absence.”
“This was a decision that was not made lightly,” Prevo added.
