One of the country’s most infamous Evangelicals got a splashy profile story in Vanity Fair last week — but Jerry Falwell Jr. wouldn’t claim the label “Evangelical” or even “religious” at this point. After he was publicly self-destructing and forced into resignation last year from his position as president of Liberty University, Vanity Fair has unearthed the drama that led to his downfall — complete with exhaustive details about his wife Becki’s “pool boy” affair and surprising news about Falwell’s reluctance to lead Liberty after his father died in 2007.
What we can glean is this: Falwell Jr. is not the religious man he’s been playing the part of — and he never was. “Because of my last name, people think I’m a religious person,” he said. “But I’m not. My goal was to make them realize I’m not my dad.”
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