Late last year, Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. joined forces—and names—with the young conservative organizer Charlie Kirk to found the Falkirk Center for Faith and Liberty. Its mission: “to equip courageous champions to proclaim the truth of Jesus Christ, to advance his kingdom and American freedom.”
Both men are enthusiastic culture war sluggers and have embraced Trump and his style.
Falwell is the son of Jerry Falwell, the evangelical minister and head of the Moral Majority, a political organization active in the 1970s and ’80s that was astonishingly effective at ushering evangelicals into the conservative movement.
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