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Liberty University
By: Kerry Date: December 9, 2018, 7:56 am
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Liberty University deserves its own thread. I wonder if the
people there have any sense of decency left?
In November, we read about how one of their professors was
arrested for attempted murder.
HTML https://www.christianpost.com/news/liberty-university-professor-charged-attempted-murder-wife.html
l Hiskey, 27. | (Photo: LinkedIn)
Michael Hiskey, Liberty University's senior director of academic
planning and operations who also serves as a business professor
at the popular evangelical Christian University in Lynchburg,
Virginia, remained in jail Wednesday on charges of attempted
murder, abduction and kidnapping as well as assault and battery
of his wife.
Court records cited by The News & Advance said Hiskey, 27, was
booked into the Blue Ridge Regional Jail on Nov. 4 stemming from
an incident the same day. He was denied bond in Lynchburg
Juvenile & Domestic Relations Court last week but at a court
hearing Tuesday, he was granted a $50,000 bond on condition that
he stay out of Virginia except for court appearances.
In addition to staying out of Virginia, Judge Ed Burnette, also
required that Hiskey wear a GPS monitoring system and receive
mental health treatment.
An official at the Blue Ridge Regional Jail confirmed with The
Christian Post Wednesday morning that Hiskey was still locked up
and if no one posts his bail, he is likely to remain in custody
until Feb. 4, when he is set to appear in court again.
Neither officials at the Lynchburg Police Department or Liberty
University responded immediately to questions from CP about
Hiskey on Wednesday.
Now they hired a coach who lost his job over his calling an
escort service on a school phone.
HTML https://www.christianpost.com/news/liberty-u-hires-ex-ole-miss-football-coach-who-used-school-phone-call-escort-service.html
Liberty University has hired former Ole Miss football coach Hugh
Freeze, who is accused of using a school phone to call an escort
service, as the next Liberty Flames head coach.
The school announced Friday that the 49-year-old Freeze, who led
the University of Mississippi football team to its highest
ranking in 50 years and won the Sugar Bowl in 2016, will become
the ninth head coach in Flames football history.
Winning that Sugar Bowl must be more important than using a
school phone to call an escort service.
Freeze was introduced at a news conference Friday in Lynchburg,
Virginia, where the school was founded by the late Pastor Jerry
Falwell Sr. and grew to become one of the largest Christian
colleges in the United States.
“What an honor it is for me and my family to join the Liberty
family," Freeze said in a statement. "We can’t think of a better
place to restart our career in what we love to do. I’m very
thankful for President [Jerry] Falwell [Jr.] and the entire
Liberty administration for putting their trust in me to lead
this wonderful program.”
Think nothing of it, sir. If Falwell can overlook President
Trump's indiscretions, what you did is trivial in comparison.
“What really impressed us the most with him is he's a man of
great faith, a great family man," Liberty University athletic
director Ian McCaw said during the news conference Friday.
McCaw said that with a straight face? Things are getting
really strange at Liberty University.
I'd say the University of Mississippi is more decent and
reflects better moral values than Liberty University.
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Re: Liberty University
By: KerimF Date: December 9, 2018, 9:50 am
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Isn't it Liberty? Why are you jealous :D
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Re: Liberty University
By: Kerry Date: December 9, 2018, 11:53 am
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[quote author=KerimF link=topic=1373.msg20841#msg20841
date=1544370642]
Isn't it Liberty? Why are you jealous :D
[/quote]Not particularly. Maybe Falwell was and wanted to know
how to hire prostitutes. No, that can't be right. He could
have asked President Trump about that.
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Re: Liberty University
By: paralambano Date: December 9, 2018, 1:26 pm
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I haven't seen or heard from Jerry Falwell in years. Does he
still have a TV show?
para . . . .
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Re: Liberty University
By: Kerry Date: December 9, 2018, 1:30 pm
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[quote author=paralambano link=topic=1373.msg20848#msg20848
date=1544383608]
I haven't seen or heard from Jerry Falwell in years. Does he
still have a TV show?
para . . . .
[/quote]No, he died and his son took over; and you know how that
often goes.
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Re: Liberty University
By: paralambano Date: December 9, 2018, 1:41 pm
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Kerry - ^
Do you mean that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree?
para . . . .
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Re: Liberty University
By: Kerry Date: December 9, 2018, 9:00 pm
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[quote author=paralambano link=topic=1373.msg20852#msg20852
date=1544384478]
Kerry - ^
Do you mean that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree?
para . . . .
[/quote]You could say that. Jerry Falwell once taught that
churches mixing politics with their religion would land people
in hell. Then along came the movement that started when Ronald
Reagan was running, the movement that sought political support
from Christians based on their religion. Falwell was seduced
and flipped. Then he taught you would go to hell if you didn't
mix politics with religion. How did this flip occur for
someone who says he believes in the sola scriptura doctrine?
It seems obvious to me Falwell got seduced by the idea of having
power.
His son is really going after money now in addition to the
power. Liberty University is thriving since so many of its
students get money from the federal government to attend; and
there in an online program for people who prefer that. It does
not receive any federal money directly if I understand the
situation properly; but they're really raking in the bucks from
federal dollars grants. They were getting in the vicinity of
half a billion dollars in 2011. In 2017, it has risen to 772
million dollars.
HTML https://www.propublica.org/article/liberty-university-online-jerry-falwell-jr
By 2017, Liberty students were receiving more than $772 million
in total aid from the Department of Education — nearly $100
million of it in the form of Pell grants and the rest in federal
student loans. Among universities nationwide, it ranked sixth in
federal aid. Liberty students also received Department of
Veterans Affairs benefits, some $42 million in 2016, the most
recent year for which figures are available. Although some of
that money went to textbooks and nontuition expenses, a vast
majority of Liberty’s total revenue that year, which was just
above $1 billion, came from taxpayer-funded sources.
Maybe Trump is right that there was no collusion between him and
the Russians; but I would say there is definitely collusion
between Liberty University and the Republican Party. It reminds
me of the Saudi situation where the kings support the clerics as
their official religion and the clerics support the kings' right
to rule.
How times have changed. Falwell Senior blasted President
Carter for daring to give an interview. Falwell Junior blithely
has his picture taken with a Playboy magazine in the background.
HTML https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/11/republican-party-anti-pornography-politics-222096
For faith leaders, it was an easily exploitable issue; for
Falwell, it was a crusade. He fought to remove adult content
from convenience stores. He went to court to battle Hustler and
Penthouse. And he never forgave Carter—who ended up winning the
White House in 1976, carrying the evangelical vote along the
way—for his original sin of talking to Hugh Hefner’s
publication. “Giving an interview to Playboy magazine was
lending the credence and the dignity of the highest office in
the land to a salacious, vulgar magazine that did not even
deserve the time of his day,” Falwell said in 1981.
What can we say?
Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will
hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the
one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
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Re: Liberty University
By: KerimF Date: December 10, 2018, 12:30 am
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In brief, they, father and son, have simply chosen joining
Jesus' rich persons :D
If they didn't, Liberty University couldn't survive that long.
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Re: Liberty University
By: paralambano Date: December 10, 2018, 3:50 pm
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Kerry -
How is Liberty U tax-exempt with all of this?
para . . . .
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Re: Liberty University
By: Kerry Date: December 10, 2018, 5:55 pm
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[quote author=paralambano link=topic=1373.msg20859#msg20859
date=1544478642]
Kerry -
How is Liberty U tax-exempt with all of this?
para . . . .
[/quote]It strikes me as shady, but I think it's all legal.
Back in the 70's under Falwell Senior, they did break the law;
but a judge let them off the hook saying they mean to.
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Falwell#SEC_and_bonds
In 1972, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
launched an investigation of bonds issued by Falwell's
organizations. The SEC charged Falwell's church with "fraud and
deceit" in the issuance of $6.5 million in unsecured church
bonds. The church won a 1973 federal court case prosecuted at
the behest of the SEC, in which the Court exonerated the church
and ruled that while technical violations of law did occur,
there was no proof the Church intended any wrongdoing.
This is like Hillary Clinton's phone calls where she got let off
because people said although she broke the rules, there was no
proof she meant to. I wonder if that defense would work for a
parking ticket? "Your honor, I didn't see that sign." Or
for going through a red light, "I simply didn't see that red
light, your honor!"
The story went on however. After Liberty University won that
case, it declared bankruptcy and reorganized losing millions of
dollars of money put up by "investors." All legal, I guess.
I am reminded now of what Senator Rand Paul just said about
Trump's current woes.
HTML https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/420454-rand-paul-downplays-potential-trump-campaign-finance-violations
"We have to decide whether or not really criminal penalties are
the way we should approach campaign finance," he continued.
"I personally think if someone makes an error in filing
paperwork or in not categorizing a campaign contribution
correctly, it shouldn’t be jail time, it ought to be a fine,"
Paul added. "It’s just like a lot of other things we’ve done in
Washington. We’ve over-criminalized campaign finance."
The Kentucky senator rejected the possibility that Trump had
committed a crime by allegedly directing his former attorney,
Michael Cohen, to pay two women to keep quiet about alleged
affairs during the 2016 campaign.
See? He's not willing to have a judge and jury look at the law
and the facts and then carry out the law. He wants to debate
other things. So what if Trump had Cohen bribe people trying
to buy their silence? Oh, it's a violation of the law? But he
meant no harm!
Perhaps we need psychics in court to tell us what the intentions
of defendants were. If the judge in the Liberty University
case was acting as if he was a psychic, why not get
"professional psychics"? I'd really love to know more about the
story of LU's bankruptcy: Were the losses of the investors
related to the unsecured bonds they had sold?
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