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Liberty University students: Trump is the antithesis of Christian values
By Dustin Wahl, Paige Cutler and Alexander Forbes October 25 at 7:52 AM

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Dustin Wahl, Paige Cutler and Alexander Forbes are students at Liberty University.

In January, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. endorsed Donald Trump for president of the United States. As Liberty students, we watched as the leader of our school loudly and proudly advocated for a man many of us felt compelled to oppose. Trump’s flagrant dishonesty, consistent misogyny and boastful unrepentance made many of us feel the need to publicly express disagreement with President Falwell’s endorsement.

Mark DeMoss, the chair of Liberty’s executive committee, spoke to The Post in March to tactfully do just that. Criticizing Trump’s “politics of personal insult,” DeMoss said: “It’s not Christ-like behavior that Liberty has spent 40 years promoting with its students.”

But such criticism of Trump did not sit well with President Falwell. After making these statements, DeMoss was asked to resign from the executive committee, and he opted to leave both that post and the school’s board of trustees, abruptly ending his decades-long career of service to Liberty University.
In part because our leaders were not allowed to publicly criticize Trump’s words and actions, many of us as students felt the need to speak out ourselves. We want the world to know that Liberty University is a great place to go to school and that many in the student body find Trump’s character and values objectionable.

Last week we began circulating a statement titled “ Liberty United Against Trump” expressing our opposition to President Falwell’s endorsement and disassociating ourselves from Trump. In the days since, more than 2,000 Liberty students and faculty have signed the statement.

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