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

pool attendant catches her eye.

She asks him if he'd like to go 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 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 fling blossomed into a full-fledged relationship, the Falwells

did much more than break their own rules.

Wondry 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 enforces accidents, there's

even a rule against prolonged eye contact with the opposite sex, the Falwells' Lord,

Giancarlo Grande, into a love triangle that lasted years.

He 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 thrupple 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 Eretia, I want you to picture a pool at a luxury hotel on Miami Beach.

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