Falling Falwell

So Falwell's sex life involved watching his wife with the pool boy. This isn't a problem by itself--marriages and sex lives have many, many structures, and as long as everyone involved is a consenting adult, go them! But Falwell built his life, his business, his fortune on preaching against a number of sexual and relationship acts. He suspended or expelled students from his "university" that didn't meet these standards. He preached numerous times that people who committed various sex acts or entered into certain relationships are dangerous, part of a conspiracy to take over the country, and, of course, all going to hell. He commanded his followers to obey his rules, and he punished them when they didn't. Now it turns out he's been secretly breaking all the rules he's required of his followers--and doing so for YEARS. And working hard to keep it quiet.

This is deeply horrifying, reprehensible, and unforgivable. Rather than use his position of power to tell people that they could live lives of freedom, and enjoy different forms of relationships and sexualities, he punished and harmed and destroyed people who were only doing what he himself enjoyed. He commanded his followers to cast out their own children for acts Falwell himself was doing. Falwell used the fame and wealth handed to him by his father to spread unimaginable harm over hundreds of thousands of families.

And in the meantime, his fear-mongering convinced his followers to hand him millions and millions of dollars, a pile of which he handed over to this pool boy.

The hypocrisy is not just breathtaking. It's damaging and cruel. But, you see, watching your wife with the pool boy isn't illegal. He has resigned his position at Liberty "University," but he still has his houses, his cars, his jet, his millions. This is the biggest hypocrisy of all.