Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Bryan Slaton used to be a Baptist pastor. He also ran for the Republican nomination for the Texas House of Representatives. He lost the primary in 2016 and 2018, but won handily in 2020 after a relentlessly negative primary fight. In the House, he was a culture warrior, introducing a bill that would allow the…
The governor suspended him from his position until the case was resolved. While waiting for a trial, he reconciled with his wife who told prosecutors she would not testify. They had no choice but drop the case despite the bodily injury and risk to the children. See 50 Reasons Women Don’t Leave Abusive Partners from the National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence.
John Perry is a rightwing author who wrote hagiographic biographies of Confederate traitor, blames the Scopes Trial for the mockery of creationists, and co-wrote books with Roy Moore and Mike Huckabee. He’s also a co-founder of Covenant School, the site of a mass shooting in March 2023. The school was sued in 2013 for covering up child sexual abuse by John Perry, but the suits were dismissed with the exception of an assault charge
Johnny Hunt was once the president of the Southern Baptist Conference and pastor a the megachurch First Baptist Church Woodstock. He was forced out after the Guideposts report on sexual abuse in the SBC was released. In the report, he was included for the alleged sexual assault of fellow pastor’s wife. He admitted to “kissing and awkward fondling'” but claimed it was consensual.
She was a minor and she was in custody that gave him power over her. The victim’s mother reported the rapes when she read her daughter’s diary and what she wrote about him.
The victim described how he would take her to off-camera places to assault her. Videos confirm them going out of camera range. A video also confirms that he watched her while she showered. He pleaded guilty in March 2023.
While waiting to be sentenced another victim came forward and claimed he raped her in 2005 when he was a police officer. She felt compelled by his size and his position as a police officer. Investigators confirmed what was possible to confirm after all this time, such as the layout of his apartment, etc.
In March, 2023, he was arrested and confessed to a sexual relationship with one of his students and charged with one count of a school employee sex act and one count of a school employee sexual contact with a student under 19. She is sixteen. He’s out on bail and ordered to have no contact with anyone under 18.
Austin Haynes was West Virginia state delegate from 2020 to 2022. He was defeated by a Democrat in 2022. A woman who worked with him to get a bill passed filed suit in 2023 alleging sexual harassment though her intent to sue was announced by her lawyer in 2022. In 2020, Haynes sent her messages in Facebook promising to introduce the bill if elected. He didn’t. What he did do, according to her lawsuit, is send sexual and personal messages that she asked him to stop sending, but he didn’t. She alleges he offered a sexual quid pro quo for the legislation.
Jeffery York was a pastor at New Beginnings Community Church of the Nazarene, in Central California . It is a conservative church. Focus on the Family, a prominent anti-gay organization, was founded by James Dobson, a member of the Church of the Nazarene, though at a different church. In March, 2023, he was arrested for child molestation and sexual abuse. It is alleged he abused a child between 2005 and 2008.
Nick Johnson was the track coach at Huntington University, a conservative evangelical school in Huntington, Indiana. The track team excelled and won national championships and other recognition. However, there was an extensive record of sexual abuse and the use of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs)
Fulton Brock was a Maricopa County Supervisor. He is accused of using his influence with former Sherriff Joe Arpaio to protect his wife and daughter who were accused of sexually abusing a young boy for three years. Their daughter is alleged to have started abusing the boy when he was thirteen. He says they began grooming him when he was eleven.