An evangelical pastor claimed he was kicked out of and permanently banned from Virginia’s Liberty University after he criticized Jerry Falwell Jr., the Christian school’s president, for aligning “with the darkest contours of Trumpism.”
Jonathan Martin, an author and preacher from Tulsa, Oklahoma, said he was at the univeristy Monday night attending a concert by musical group Johnnyswim, when campus police came to take him away.
Martin had expressed a desire on social media days before to organize a prayer session on Liberty’s campus. On Monday, he said he was told by police that if he ever returned to the university’s campus, he would face arrest.
"What does it mean for a college administration to be this afraid of free speech? What precisely do they fear?” Martin wrote on Instagram. ”[Jerry Falwell] openly encourages his students to carry guns, but fears public prayer from Christians who openly embrace nonviolence.”
Tonight after the @JOHNNYSWIM show, 3 armed @LibertyU police officers (& I think 2 not in uniform)came & escorted me out of their green room http://pic.twitter.com/eigyE1LjaG— Jonathan Martin (@theboyonthebike) October 31, 2017
Jerry Falwell Jr. was one of the first well known evangelicals to embrace Donald Trump the candidate, and continues to support him despite everything that has been revealed about him before the election and since he moved into the White House.
You know I keep wondering how ANY of these so called Christians can continue to support Donald Trump, and now it looks like not all of them can.
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