Jerry Falwell Jr. Asked to Lead Trump Higher Education Task Force

[Stonepounder]

Source: NBC NEWS

Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr., one of the nation's most prominent evangelical Christian leaders, has been asked to head a White House task force on reforming the U.S. higher education system, the Virginia college told NBC News on Tuesday night.

Len Stevens, the university's chief spokesman, told NBC News that Falwell would bring a focus on "overregulation and micromanagement of higher education" to the task force.
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He has said he was offered the position of education secretary in the Trump administration late last year but declined because he wanted to stay close to his family in Lynchburg, Virginia, where the university is based. He enthusiastically endorsed Trump's eventual nominee, Betsy DeVos.
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Falwell was one of the first major evangelical leaders to endorse Donald Trump's presidential campaign, along with James Dobson, founder of Family Talk Radio and the advocacy group Focus on the Family; Tony Perkins, president of the Christian conservative Family Research Council; and Ralph Reed, chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition and former executive director of evangelist Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jerry-falwell-jr-asked-lead-trump-education-task-force-n715116?cid=sm_fb_msnbc

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I am beyond speechless.

[PenetratingTheDark]

1. Well,

He wouldn't be the worst person for the job *shrug*

[calimary]

3. Welcome to DU, PenetratingTheDark!

I can think of boatloads of better people.

But he's one of the LAST I'd ever even drive by possibly considering. He'd be one of the last I'd even hallucinate about possibly considering.

[redwitch]

8. Who would be?

Jerry Falwell Sr.?

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. Yeah, but Charles Manson was ill

so Trump went with Falwell as his 2nd choice.

[Cha]

14. Yeah, if you like FAKE "Christians".. who support a sexual racist predator and a

pathological LIAR.. who would be the worst person?

[still_one]

15. Exactly Cha. He is one of the worst choices

[Ellipsis]

19. Pastor Hayword... is that you?

"And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and the end will come." – Matthew 24:14

That might not be a good thing.

[calimary]

2. Eeeuuuwwwww!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. President Stupid asks Uni Pres Narrow-Minded to reform Harvard, Stanford, CalTech, ... nuts.

I think Falwell will generate lots of heat, very little light, and a big stink. I don't think it will get much traction, except in a few christo-dominionist-Republicon states.

tRump is doing his level best to split the nation. Extreme polarization wasn't enough for Bannon-Putin's golden-haired boy.

[3catwoman3]

10. He's not just trying to split it.

He's trying to pulverize it and leave nothing but dust.

[zentrum]

5. The New Dark Ages are here.

[mpcamb]

24. Public education is for the public. Keep religion out of it.

We need freedom FROM religion in the public sphere, too.

[spiderpig]

6. Is this from The Onion? n/t

[Stonepounder]

7. I didn't believe it when I saw it on Facebook.

But the source is NBC News, unfortunately.

[burrowowl]

9. Unfortunately no!

The world is flat, if you jump off a building and have faith gravity will not exist, etc.
God or Dog save us!

[No Vested Interest]

11. Speechless indeed. All the crackpots are getting their rewards for endorsing You-Know-Who. nt

[joet67]

12. Trump has partnered with the Dominionist Christians as part of his coalition government.

He doesn't really believe that crap, but he needs them as much as they need him. It matters not that the other part of his coalition is devoid of any semblance of actual Christianity.

[safeinOhio]

16. I'm confused about Jr.

is he a scribe or a pharisee?

[grantcart]

18. Neither, he's a Sadducee.

That is actually a very accurate comparison.

They corrupted the temple by going along with the Roman dictatorship for profit

[grantcart]

17. lol

[QC]

20. Heir to a lucrative family business, so this makes sense,

in light of the other appointments.

[Vinca]

21. This guy is a religious huckster and his only mission is brainwashing people.

This is like being governed by a cult. Any chance they like Kool-Aid?

[logosoco]

22. I think I get tRUmp now. It was a little fuzzy but is clear as a bell now.

The man is getting old and is at end of the average life span for a human. He feels like shit for all the rotten things he has done in his life and thinks he better "get right with God" and this is the way he is doing it.

I thought we got rid of this crap in the 80s. I think churches are not doing well and they are making a last push.

What an unusual time we are in. Fighting to stop a physical wall at our southern border and having to work hard on keeping the wall between state and government.

Ugh!

[EarthFirst]

23. Coming soon to an elementary school near you...

[center][/center]

[Paladin]

25. Trump is governing with sheer insanity, levened with a bunch of spite.

We need to get him removed from office, and soon. Mike Pence is looking better, by the hour.

[not fooled]

36. Pence probably suggested Jr.

He's a stone cold dominionist. dump prolly leaves all the religious nuttery to him.

Oh, and of course the point of siccing Jr. on higher ed is to intimidate liberal professors and other voices of dissent. Facisim 101.

[The_Voice_of_Reason]

26. Following Trump's insane thinking...

when it comes to his picks, should not a Stoner be in charge of Higher Education?

[underpants]

27. First order of business- fake ski slopes on every campus

Liberty has a fake ski slope in its campus. We drive right through Lynchburg on the way to my inlaws.

Liberty is expanding so much its actually blocked out the view. Jerry Sr was insured up to his eyeballs. When God came to get him all of LU's debt was erased.

[Freethinker65]

28. There go the public universities...

[Madam45for2923]

29. Christian-sharia law coming soon!

[YOHABLO]

30. They'll have to rip up the Constitution to do it.

And I know many will stand with me in saying: over my dead body.

[IronLionZion]

33. They're fine with that

they've already cut it into toilet paper their first week.

[Turbineguy]

31. "Make Higher Education

Lower" is our motto!

[IronLionZion]

32. He wants college students to carry guns

I don't want to repeat what he said people should do to Muslims because I would get put on some NSA watch list.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

34. In the entire 6,000 years of the existence of planet Earth, this is

oh, never mind.

Make America Grate Again!

From the local paper:

Liberty University's Jerry Falwell Jr. to lead two of Trump's higher ed task forces

Josh Moody

16 hrs ago

Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. said he will lead two new presidential task forces to be created by President Donald Trump to reform the Department of Education.

“I’ve been in conversations with {presidential adviser} Steve Bannon and others, and the president is forming some education task forces that I’ve been asked to head,” Falwell said Tuesday.

Falwell said there would be two presidential task forces on education, and he would lead both.

He added the role would “direct the transformation of the Department of Education policies” under the Trump administration. Falwell did not have a timeline for when the task forces would be launched but expected it to be “very soon” in keeping with Trump’s quick approach to governance.

[LongTomH]

35. Next......Hannibal Lector for Surgeon General!!!!

[MatthewStLouis]

37. Holy Flying F...

You have got to be kidding me?!

[sarah FAILIN]

38. WHAT THE FFF???????

What in the hell is this fool doing?

[NurseJackie]

39. I have at least 20 good years remaining. I will outlive our nation. #Sad