{"id":175637,"date":"2021-01-04T20:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/01\/04\/ha-ha\/"},"modified":"2021-01-04T20:54:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T01:54:00","slug":"ha-ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/01\/04\/ha-ha\/","title":{"rendered":"Ha Ha!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that the scandal-plagued Jerry Fallwell, Jr. has been driven from his post as dictator of Liberty “University”, the students are trying to remove one of his more pernicious legacies<\/a>, his blatantly political, Trump felching, “think” tank, the Falkirk Center for Faith and Liberty.<\/p>\n

Falwell, who does not have a degree in divinity, and Charlie Kirk, ditto, founded the organization which worships Trump first, and Jesus second, and a petition from the students at the “Christian” “University” is asking for it to be shut down, or at least removed from the campus:<\/p>\n

Hundreds of former and current Liberty University students are calling on the evangelical Christian school to shutter the Falkirk Center for Faith and Liberty, a campus \u201cthink tank\u201d known for promoting conservative political causes.<\/p>\n

More than 450 students and recent graduates have signed a student-led petition<\/a> demanding the university-funded center be dissolved, according to Matt Morris, a Liberty freshman who created the online petition last month.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Falkirk Center constantly preaches the message that the church needs to defend Donald Trump at all costs and rescue western civilization,\u201d the petition reads. \u201cFalkirk is wrong. Associating any politician or political movement with Christianity bastardizes the Gospel of Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Falwell, who stepped down as president and chancellor of Liberty in August following a string of personal scandals, was a prominent early supporter of Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign. Trump rewarded Falwell\u2019s loyalty by delivering a commencement address at the university in 2017.<\/p>\n

The Falkirk Center, which unlike other research institutions has published no academic studies, openly waded into the 2020 presidential election and other races this campaign season to bolster conservative candidates and causes.<\/p>\n

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The center\u2019s partisan nature has prompted dozens of former faculty members, current students and alumni to publicly speak out against the institution, including members of Liberty\u2019s student leadership.
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I believe that if this were to be set to a song, it would be “Ding, Dong, the Witch is Dead.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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