Mr. Falwell, the college’s president and a supporter of President Trump, agreed to a request by the school’s board of trustees.
Elizabeth Dias reporting for the paper of record:
Jerry Falwell Jr., one of President Trump’s most prominent and controversial evangelical supporters, will take an indefinite leave of absence from his role as president and chancellor of Liberty University, the board of trustees announced on Friday.
The news comes days after Mr. Falwell posted, and then deleted, a photograph on Instagram of him posing alongside a woman with his pants unzipped and his arm around her.
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In the photograph, both Mr. Falwell and the woman have their pants unzipped. His hand is close to her chest. “More vacation shots,” the post said. “Lots of good friends visited us on the yacht. I promise that’s just black water in my glass.”
Unzipped pants with his arm around her? Yeah, that sounds like the kind of “religious” leader that would support this President.
Mr. Falwell has been involved in a number of controversies in recent years.
In May he tweeted Blackface and Ku Klux Klan imagery, prompting demands for his firing and resignations of at least four Black faculty and staff members.
Yeah, solid religous leader there.