Vice-presidential candidate Mike Pence’s presence on campus Wednesday contributed to the timing in releasing the statement, but it wasn’t planned out to specifically coincide with the visit, Wahl said.

Liberty’s voting precinct only turned out 7 percent for Trump in the March primary behind Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.

“It hasn’t been a reaction to anything specific, just the many deplorable things Donald Trump has said,” Wahl said.

The statement highlights the 2005 “Access Hollywood” recording reported last week by The Washington Post in which Trump brags about preying on women sexually. The statement decries Falwell’s continued support for his candidacy.

“Associating any politician with Christianity is damaging to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. But Donald Trump is not just any politicians. He has made his name maligning others and bragging about his sins. Not only is Donald Trump a bad candidate for president, he is actively promoting the very things that we as Christians ought to oppose,” the statement says.

The statement references a Biblical parable in which a man removes a speck of dust from his brother’s eye and ignores the log in his own before accusing Falwell of touring “the country championing the log in his eye.”