When God has drawn a line of distinction, we should not attempt to cross that line,” Falwell said. Board of Education decision that, on paper, integrated public schools: “The facilities should be separate. In a 1958 sermon, Falwell inveighed against the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Falwell’s back catalog of homophobic, racist, and misogynistic comments is as thick as the King James Bible. When you think of Jerry Falwell Sr., chances are you remember him as the Falstaffian televangelist who never refused an opportunity to say something outrageously offensive on camera. My goal was to make them realize I was not my dad.” “It’s almost like I didn’t have a choice.” He went on: “Because of my last name, people think I’m a religious person. “Subconsciously, yeah, I believe that’s true,” he said, nodding. When I told Falwell that many people thought he, consciously or not, wanted to destroy himself, he considered it for a moment. For the first time, Falwell opened up about his true spiritual beliefs and how they diverge from those of his infamous father, who cofounded the Moral Majority and waged a scorched-earth cultural war for four decades. What emerged was an intimate look inside a very public marriage as well as a Shakespearean drama about fathers and sons and the burden of legacy. The wide-ranging conversation was one of many we had over the past eight months. “He’s an old lazy man,” Becki said.Ī short while later, the Falwells sat in the kitchen and began to talk about the tumultuous events of the past two years. The father, a shaggy eight-year-old named Chance, dozed on the floor. I found her on the patio checking on their golden retriever Sandy, who was patiently nursing a litter of four-week-old puppies. “I don’t know what we’re going to do with it,” Falwell complained.īecki told him to drag it to the garage and disappeared down the hall. “I tried riding it but it killed my butt because the seat is slanted,” she said as we entered. Instead, Falwell said he was the real victim of a “ Fatal Attraction–type” extortion plot after Granda demanded $2 million to keep the affair secret.
Falwell released a statement that acknowledged Becki and Granda’s relationship, but he vehemently denied watching the trysts.
To bolster his claims, Granda released screenshots of Facetime calls and text conversations with Becki (“I’m not wearing any panties,” she allegedly wrote Granda in one message). Granda went on a national media tour-he gave interviews to ABC News, CNN, Reuters, Politico, and The Washington Post-and said the Falwells began “grooming” him when he was 20 and bought his silence with luxury vacations, rides on Liberty’s private jet, and an ownership stake managing a Miami Beach hostel. A former Miami pool boy named Giancarlo Granda claimed he had a nearly seven-year affair with Falwell’s wife, Becki-and that Falwell often liked to watch them have sex. On August 24, 2020, Falwell resigned from Liberty in the wake of a sensational tabloid scandal that could have been dreamed up in the writers’ room of The Righteous Gemstones.
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