My Weekend at the Falwells’ South Beach Flophouse

For POLITICO Magazine, Brandon Ambrosino writes about his visit to a Miami hostel owned by Jerry Falwell III, the son of Jerry Falwell Jr, the outspoken Liberty University president. Ambrosino reports, “The Falwell-owned hostel encourages behavior that would get Liberty students expelled – the drinking, the smoking, the advertising for strip clubs, the free shuttles to local bars, the possibility of co-ed sleeping arrangements, and so on.” Ambrosino writes, “Liberty University has come to represent what happens when religion commingles with soliciting, fundraising, politics and salesmen.”

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