Ronnie Allen Killingsworth is a far-right pastor who took to book-banning before book-banning was cool. Back in the 90s, he objected to Heather Has Two Mommies and Daddy’s Roomate. He was too extreme for the Southern Baptist Church and they fired him. He formed the Rephidim church and taught he was the key to their relationship to god, even discouraging them from reading the Bible without his say-so. According to prosecution documents, he taught that rape is divine discipline from god, LGBTIQA people should be killed, and Black people skin color is a curse from god.
In June, 2023, he was charged with six counts of indecency with a child by sexual contact. These charges allege the abuse continued over eleven years. In May, 2024, he was convicted on all six counts and has been sentenced to 42 years in prison, about half what the jury recommended. He is 79. He could get parole in 21 years when he is 100 years old.
- Times-Record News: In Pictures – The Trial of Ronnie Allan Killingsworth
- Texoma’s Home Page: Local pastor Ronnie Killingsworth indicted on multiple child sex crimes
- Texoma’s Home Page: Rephidim Church pastor Ron Killingsworth formally sentenced
May 3, 2024