A woman named Becky is lounging by the pole at the Fountain Blue Hotel when a strapping pool

attention catches her eye. She asks him if he'd like to go out on a date with her, but there's a catch.

Her husband wants in on the action too.

What begins as an unconventional proposition will soon throw all of them into the international

spotlight, and that's because the couple is none other than Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife

Becky, two of the most powerful figures in Evangelical America.

But as their forbidden fleeing blossomed into a full-fledged relationship, the Falwells did much more than break their own rules. a

fled fled well's did much more than break their own rules.

Wonder He presents in God We lust,

a story of an alluring sex scandal, power, money,

and a very public fall from grace.

While running Liberty University, a school that strictly enforced abstinence,

there's even a rule against prolonged eye contact with the opposite sex. The Falwell's lord John Carlo

Gonda into a love triangle that lasted years. They promised him the world, paying

for a new apartment, treating him to lavish vacations and

brokering meetings with the likes of Donald Trump. But when word of their

thruple fell into the wrong hands it led to political extortion and international headlines that brought

Jerry Falwell Jr's empire crashing down.

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So, Ereisha, I want you to picture a pool at a luxury hotel on Miami Beach.

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