The woman in the picture is his wife’s “assistant†so by extension, she is his employee.
And FWIW, it was a “Trailer Park Boys†themed costume party on board a yacht said to be part of Falwell’s “vacationâ€. Falwell and the woman in the picture are dressed as characters from the show, he is “Julianâ€. And to make matters worse, that picture was taken in one of the bedrooms (staterooms) on the yacht. I am not saying that there was any hanky panky going on between the two of them but the optics are, how shall we say, not very good.
If you are not familiar with Trailer Park Boys, it is a very raunchy Canadian produced comedy/mockumentary available in the US on Netflix, about the residents of a trailer park in Nova Scotia most of whom are felons, criminals, scammers, drug dealers and addicts, prostitutes and assorted other lowlifes with lots of pot smoking and sex and gun play and copious use of the F-word. IIRC, either one of the episodes or the movie spin off holds the record for the most F words. I won’t post the links here but if you go to YouTube and search “Trailer Park Boys†you’ll get the idea.
I am in no way a prude, I am not “religious†and enjoy some raunchy comedy and don’t shriek in terror over some profanity, nudity, but Trailer Park Boys was a bit too much even for me. Yea, of the few episodes I watched while staying at my nephew’s house, there were some “funny†moments but overall I found it deeply disturbing and depressing, sort of like watching episodes of “Cops†before the cops show up but played for “laughsâ€.
Here is the now deleted video of the “party†but saved on Vimeo because the worldwideinterwebs are forever.
https://player.vimeo.com/video/444300274It isn’t just the picture which was in and of itself in bad taste, but also the whole Trailer Park Boys theme of the party. Keep in mind that the students at Liberty U are under a strict morals code and any student participating in such a party, dressing in such a manner, or even watching R rated movies or shows with profanity and or sexual content is or was until recently forbidden and behaving like Falwell did, would be grounds for demerits and probably counseling if not expulsion.
FWIW, Falwell sounds as drunk as a Trailer Park Boy in this video of a call he made to a local radio station that was supposedly his apology.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K5DsA57acI