Liberty University President Blames Leak About Their Sexual Abuse Coverups on the Biden Administration

Liberty's Mishandled Crime and Abuse Claims Report Leak Blamed on "Conspiracy Theory" 

This is getting old.  And its losing its punch.  

"It's Biden's fault!"  

A leak of a government report detailing multiple failures of the administration of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, the university founded and operated by the late Reverend Jerry Falwell, to protect students on campus from sexual abuse has been blamed on a conspiracy to attack religious conservatives by the Biden Administration.  The Baptist university's president wasn't necessarily horrified or upset by the report itself, detailing Liberty University's failure to keep its students safe from sexual abuse, he was outraged by the leak.  

I'm kind of horrified by the fact that these people knew what was happening, and in fact, according to the report, discouraged the reporting of crimes committed on campus, under-reported what it did receive and then proclaimed itself as one of the safest campuses in the country.  Let's just call it what it is.  It's lying for the sake of public relations, and money.  There is no respect or practice of any Christian value in what they've done.  They've shown their true colors, something that many of its former students, including those who have been victims of abuse or crimes on campus, already knew about.  

And it is money that the university is protecting.  The law that was being investigated, the Clary Act, requires schools that participate in federal financial aid programs to disclose crime statistics and other information about campus safety.  The investigation found multiple instances of abuse that went unreported, or under-reported, and deliberately misled those responsible for monitoring this activity under the Clary Act to protect the money the school receives from government sources for financial aid to students, some $874 million in 2020-21, a significant portion of its budget.  

Liberty University, with roots in independent Baptist fundamentalism, and still known and operated as a Baptist-affiliated university, with the founding church, Thomas Road Baptist, where Jerry Falwell was pastor when the school was founded, right on the campus, is the very heart of the religious right movement.  It is quite appropriate that the duplicity and the lying that has taken place here, which is not limited to this Clary Act report, but includes the sexual escapades of a highly publicized affair involving a Miami "pool boy" and other sexual escapades, on the university's dime, is happening in the very place where fundamentalist Evangelicalism originally intersected with right wing extremist Republican politics.  

That characterizes this whole "religious right" Republican movement.  Think about that when you head into the ballot box.