Washington Post: “Georgia pastor James Merritt, a former Southern Baptist Convention president and Liberty board member until about a decade ago, said there is ‘tremendous loyalty’ to the late televangelist and Moral Majority founder that probably has been affecting considerations about his son’s future at the school. Falwell Jr., Merritt said, also has benefited from deep-seated defensiveness among religious conservatives who view themselves as always under attack — especially in recent years for embracing Trump. ‘If you’re a public figure, you’re a role model. Tiger Woods is one. President Trump is a role model. … And if you are the president of a Christian university, you are a Christian leader,’ Merritt said. ‘I don’t want anything to happen to tarnish or hurt what Dr. Falwell gave his life to build.'”