Evangelical preacher permanently banned from Liberty University for criticizing Jerry Falwell's coziness with Donald Trump.

Courtesy of HuffPo:  

An evangelical pastor claimed he was kicked out of and permanently banned from Virginia’s Liberty University after he criticized Jerry Falwell Jr., the Christian school’s president, for aligning “with the darkest contours of Trumpism.” 

Jonathan Martin, an author and preacher from Tulsa, Oklahoma, said he was at the univeristy Monday night attending a concert by musical group Johnnyswim, when campus police came to take him away. 

Martin had expressed a desire on social media days before to organize a prayer session on Liberty’s campus. On Monday, he said he was told by police that if he ever returned to the university’s campus, he would face arrest. 

"What does it mean for a college administration to be this afraid of free speech? What precisely do they fear?” Martin wrote on Instagram. ”[Jerry Falwell] openly encourages his students to carry guns, but fears public prayer from Christians who openly embrace nonviolence.”

Tonight after the @JOHNNYSWIM show, 3 armed @LibertyU police officers (& I think 2 not in uniform)came & escorted me out of their green room pic.twitter.com/eigyE1LjaG

— Jonathan Martin (@theboyonthebike) October 31, 2017

Jerry Falwell Jr. was one of the first well known evangelicals to embrace Donald Trump the candidate, and continues to support him despite everything that has been revealed about him before the election and since he moved into the White House.

You know I keep wondering how ANY of these so called Christians can continue to support Donald Trump, and now it looks like not all of them can.

It's official, Jerry Falwell Jr. is part of a task force assigned to reform public education.

Courtesy of The Chronicle:

Jerry L. Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty University, will be part of a White House task force, an official from the White House told The Chronicle on Sunday.

The news is the first official comment from the White House on the topic since Mr. Falwell told The Chronicle in January that President Trump and others in his inner circle had asked him to head up a task force on reforming regulations related to higher education. 

Even so, information on the task force’s role, membership, purview, and timing is still scant. 

"We are working on a task force that Jerry Falwell will be involved with," was all the official would say on the topic for now. He is someone who was authorized by the White House to speak on the subject but not be named.

Damn, I can feel our children getting dumber already.

You may remember that Falwell was originally asked by Donald Trump to be the Secretary of Education. 

Falwell turned it down and Trump's second choice Betsy DeVos got the appointment instead, which taking all things into consideration was hardly any better.

With Falwell leading a task force to "reform regulation related to higher education," and alternative school advocate Devros heading up the Department of Education, our kids don't stand a fucking chance.

For the first time ever I am thinking that home schooling, not religious of course, may be the only viable alternative for educating America's children knowing that they may well end up in a public school which teaches them that man walked with the dinosaurs, global warming is a Chinese conspiracy theory, and the earth is only six thousand years old.

As it turns out Donald Trump did offer Jerry Falwell Jr. the Secretary of Education cabinet position and he turned him down.

Courtesy of Yahoo News: 

Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. says President elect-Donald Trump offered him the job of education secretary, but that he turned it down for personal reasons. 

Falwell tells The Associated Press that Trump offered him the job last week during a meeting in New York. He says Trump wanted a four- to six-year commitment, but that he couldn't leave Liberty for more than two years. 

Falwell says he couldn't afford to work at a Cabinet-level job for longer than that and didn't want to move his family, especially his 16-year-old daughter.

Holy shitballs!

The fact that Trump offered this position to Falwell suggests to me that he really determined to gut out education system in this country.

And as much as I would be terrified with Falwell in such an important position I am not at all sure that Betsy DeVos is really any better.

The NCLB program that Bush introduced was devastating to the teachers and students in this country, but whatever Trump has in mind could be infinitely worse.

Is Donald Trump seriously considering Jerry Falwell Jr. for Secretary of Education? Because that simply cannot happen.

Courtesy of Alternet:  

Liberty University President, Jerry Falwell Jr. is under consideration for Secretary of Education. Yes, the president of an Evangelical university, who believes that evolution is a lie, who is president of a university that was founded in opposition to school integration, may be dictating the educational agenda of America's public school children. Falwell Jr. confirmed to the Associated Press on Friday that he had met with Trump at Trump Tower. 

Falwell told Virginia's Richmond Times-Dispatch last week that he's let the administration know that "one of my passions is reforming higher education and education in general." When pressed by other outlets, including the Associated Press, whether that role would be as Secretary of Education, Falwell would not, "confirm or deny whether he was being vetted as secretary of education, but says he will 'definitely play a role' in the administration.'

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Okay I just had to get that off of my chest before I attempted to respond to this news in anything resembling actual English.

This blog is called "The Immoral Minority" directly because of this guy's father, and I have long been predicting that we are seeing the beginning of the end of the Religious Right in this country.

However if Trump actually puts this anti-intellectual, creationism believing buffoon in office as the man in charge of education in this country, there is no telling the amount of damage that he could do.

Liberty University was founded because Jerry Fallwell Sr. could not stomach the idea of the little white Christian snowflakes having to share dorms, cafeterias, or "gasp" locker rooms with African Americans.

That's right the school is a monument to racism. 

The school is notoriously anti-Semitic, anti-LGBTQ, and Fallwell Jr. suggested this last year: 

“I’ve always thought that if more good people had concealed-carry permits, then we could end those Muslims before they walked in.” 

So yes it is also Anti-Muslim. (You can see why Donald Trump probably likes this POS so much.)

I swear that virtually all of Trump's possible cabinet choices read like a "Who's Who of No Fucking Way." But this one, this one might be the worst so far.

President of Liberty University urges students to get their conceal carry permits so that they can "end those Muslims before they walk in and kill us."

Courtesy of Raw Story: 

Falwell criticized President Obama for urging gun control in the wake of recent shootings, and made it clear he was armed during his speech at a convocation Friday night. 

“It just blows my mind when I see the President of the United States say that the answer to [San Bernardino] is more gun control,” Falwell said. “If some of those people in that community center had had what I’ve got in my back pocket right now…” 

He encouraged people to carry guns so they could ” end those Muslims before they walk in and kill us,” Falwell said. 

He then said the university offers a free course to help get a concealed carry permit. 

“I just wanted to take this opportunity to encourage all of you to get your permit. We offer a free course. Let’s teach them a lesson if they ever show up here,” he said.

Wow! And here I thought Jerry Falwell Sr. was a dangerous son-of-a-bitch.

His son is even worse!

I'm assuming that this only applies to Muslim terrorists and that Christian terrorists will simply get a stern talking to, or since this IS Liberty University a ticker tape parade?