A woman named Becky is lounging by the pool at the Fontainebleu 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.

He's going to leak!

What begins as an unconventional proposition

will soon throw them all 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 roles.

Wondery 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's strictly enforced abstinence,

there's even a rule against prolonged eye contact with the opposite sex.

The Falwells lured Giancarlo Grande 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 threple fell into the wrong hands,

it led to political extortion and international headlines that brought Jerry Falwell

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