Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Brad Gerten was a Republican candidate for the Minnesota state House when he was arrested for trying to strangle his step-son. A fight over pizza! He was booked for domestic assault and strangulation.
Jason Priest was a state senator from Red Lodge, Montana. He was a Tea Party Republican and was a standard issue far right pro-gun, anti-choice, “family values” Republican who clashed with more moderate colleagues. He chaired the Senate Public Health, Welfare, and Safety Committee. Then he got in an argument with his estranged wife. In his rage, he threw his 4-year-old daughter across the room where she hit her head and was injured. In the end, he assaulted his daughter, his estranged wife, her boyfriend, and a police officer who had been called to the scene. He was charged with four felony assault claims but pleaded guilty to all four when they were amended to misdemeanors.
C. J. Mahaney co-founded the Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, MD with Larry Tomczak in 1982 Tomczak left in 1997 leaving Mahaney at the top. It was a successful megachurch that grew into a religious conglomerate known as Sovereign Grace Ministries. SGM formed churches all over the US, as well as in Mexico and the Philippines. That had 28,000 members around the world.
A three-year-old girl was rapped by a 15-year-old boy who was babysitting her during a church activity. When her family went to the police, the pastors intervened pressuring the family to forgive the rapist and let it go. After two years of pressure, the girl’s family quit the church. That was the first known occasion of the church organizing a cover-up. The mother wrote it up in a blog post for SGM Survivors, where until then people talked more about how controlling the community was. Her post opened the floodgates.
There are several cases of someone coming forward with an abuse allegation and being told to reconcile with the abuser. Children who reported sexual abuse by a parent were not helped but rather hurt because the church told the parent who only abused them more. There is a case of a man raping his adopted daughter. When his wife learns of this she wants a divorce and the church told her not to do it. She got out, and reported it to the police. He went to jail, but SGM lobbied for his early release and has him doing work in contact with children
Eric Greitens was the governor of Missouri when he was accused of sexually assaulting a woman and using a photo he took of her while she was blindfolded to extort her silence. The telling thing was that members of his own party led the investigation and the demands for his resignation. Prosecutors made a deal to drop some charges against him if he resigned. He resigned.
Ronald William Brown was a ventriloquist puppeteer on Joy Junction, a Christian Television Network program before he was caught when investigators in another state arrested a child pornographer and investigated his connections, finding him. The facts are too disturbing for words. In fact, a content warning is necessary. Cannibalism. BDSM with children. The details are…
Paul Williams was the minister of prayer and special projects at Bellevue Baptist Church, a Tennessee mega-church. He molested his son for 12 to 18 months before stopping and claims he has never done anything similar since. His son spoke about it as an adult which led to Williams confessing it to his pastor. Baptist…
Paul Ingram was the Republican Party Chairman in Thurston County, Washington. He was also the Chief Civilian Deputy of the sheriff’s department. He was accused of rape by his two daughters and his son. He confessed and was sentenced to twenty years. This is a strange and problematic case. His confession included talk of satanic…
Beverly C. Russell Jr. was the stepfather of Susan Smith, the notorious woman who drowned her children. He was active in Republican politics and the Christian Coalition, the rightwing evangelical political association. He was also sexually abusing his stepdaughter Susan. She first tried to kill herself when she was thirteen. She told a school counselor…
Peter Dibble was a Republican selectman in Stonington, CT, who was charged with sexual misconduct with a minor girl on at least 40 occasions over the course of several years, from when she was ten until she was thirteen. He pled no contest to lesser charges of child endangerment and was sentenced to a suspended…
Dennis Perkins, 45, is facing 150 felony charges that allege rape, child pornography, sexual battery of a child, and video voyeurism. His wife, Cynthia Perkins, and former lover, Melanie Curtin, have already pleaded guilty to various crimes they committed with Perkins. Perkins is a former Sheriff’s lieutenant and head of the Livingston Parish SWAT team…