{"id":5244,"date":"2020-08-07T05:06:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T09:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5244"},"modified":"2020-08-07T05:06:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T09:06:37","slug":"top-gop-lawmaker-calls-on-falwell-to-resign-as-liberty-university-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5244","title":{"rendered":"Top GOP lawmaker calls on Falwell to resign as Liberty University president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Mark Walker, a former instructor at the evangelical university, says students and faculty &#8216;deserve better.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Jerry Falwell Jr&rsquo;s ongoing behavior is appalling,&rdquo; Rep. Mark Walker, the vice chair of the House Republican Conference, wrote in a tweet on Thursday that called for Falwell&rsquo;s resignation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b9309Fzihc4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/08\/06\/walker-calls-on-falwell-resign-liberty-university-392512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Mark Walker, a former instructor at the evangelical university, says students and faculty &#8216;deserve better.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Jerry Falwell Jr&#038;&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5244\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Top GOP lawmaker calls on Falwell to resign as Liberty University president<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-5244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-top-gop-lawmaker-calls-on-falwell-to-resign-as-liberty-university-president","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1mA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5245,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions\/5245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}