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In reply to the discussion: MIAMI HERALD EXCLUSIVE: Naked photographs of Jerry Falwell's wife surface in Miami Beach scandal. [View all]LonePirate
(13,909 posts)14. Exactly! All of those things sound like fun but I'm not an evangelical championing "family values."
All of this would be a huge dose of none of your business were it not for it happening to someone like Falwell and his sudden reversal of support before the 2016 primaries.
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MIAMI HERALD EXCLUSIVE: Naked photographs of Jerry Falwell's wife surface in Miami Beach scandal. [View all]
MelissaB
Jun 2019
OP
Unless the naked pictures are of the pool boy, then I am glad we have not seen them.
LonePirate
Jun 2019
#6
That is assuming the pool boy slept only with the wife and not with Falwell himself.
LonePirate
Jun 2019
#65
All of this would be a big "nothing burger" if evangelicals didn't want to tell everyone else...
Caliman73
Jun 2019
#7
Oh, FUN!! I nominate the Miami Herald and Julie K. Brown for every Pulitzer known to mankind!
Leghorn21
Jun 2019
#10
Exactly! All of those things sound like fun but I'm not an evangelical championing "family values."
LonePirate
Jun 2019
#14
Jerry Jr., whose wife these are pictures of (not Jerry Sr.'s) isn't a televangelist.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jun 2019
#31
Would someone kindly tl;dr what the controversy is? I read the article, but can't for the life of me
Politicub
Jun 2019
#36
I'm not saying Cohen or 45 blackmailed Falwell after obtaining the photos, but ...
LonePirate
Jun 2019
#48
A pool boy that runs a gay-friendly hostel as one of the players is just icing on the cake
Politicub
Jun 2019
#63