{"id":5416,"date":"2020-12-26T18:47:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T23:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5416"},"modified":"2020-12-26T18:47:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T23:47:52","slug":"liberty-university-students-petition-for-falkirk-center-to-be-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5416","title":{"rendered":"Liberty University students petition for Falkirk Center to be shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 400 Liberty University students have signed a petition calling for the Falkirk Center to be shut down.<\/p>\n<p>The Center is a conservative think-tank created by former University president Jerry Falwell, Jr. and right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n<p>The petition organizer says that the University aligning itself with a political movement goes against the school&rsquo;s founding principals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is the plea of current students at Liberty University making this petition: \u201cWe are not signing this out of a desire to spite the Falkirk Center, but out of a desire to regain what the Falkirk Center has tarnished: the integrity of Liberty University.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s make it right. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xTkfBPTxaC\">https:\/\/t.co\/xTkfBPTxaC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Karen Swallow Prior (Notorious KSP at The Priory) (@KSPrior) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KSPrior\/status\/1341534334864519169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfxrtv.com\/news\/local-news\/lynchburg-central-virginia-news\/liberty-university-students-petition-for-falkirk-center-to-be-shut-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 400 Liberty University students have signed a petition calling for the Falkirk Center to be shut down.<\/p>\n<p>The Center is a conserva&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5416\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty University students petition for Falkirk Center to be shut down<\/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":[166],"class_list":["post-5416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-liberty-university-students-petition-for-falkirk-center-to-be-shut-down","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1pm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416","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=5416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5417,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions\/5417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}