Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Stephanie Neipling was the Associate Director of External Relations at the University of Arkansas System. It is a position that had her working closely with minor children in the 4-H program. Before that, she was the Deputy Director of Constituent Services for Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson. In 2022, Hutchinson appointed her to the State Board of Embalmers.
In July 2023, she was arrested and booked for raping a 15-year-old boy.
Visible Music College is so completely captured by rape culture, it punishes women who are raped for being raped. According to Mara Louk, she reported to a school administrator that she had been raped in her off-campus apartment. She expect help filing a police report and a steps to prevent further contact with the man she claims raped her. The school first said they could do nothing since it was off-campus. They would not even remove the student from classes she was taking.
Rep. David Byrd was embroiled in a scandal that began when three women alleged sexual misconduct while they were high school students and he was their coach. It is grossly inappropriate to ask teenagers to wear a shirt that promotes any political candidate, especially someone accused of sexually assaulting teenagers. Byrd’s nephew, Ryan Franks, is the principal of Frank Hughes High School.
Matt Manweller was a Republican representative in Washington and a professor at Central Washington University which is where he got into trouble. In 2017, the Seattle Times printed a story reporting that he has faced sexual misconduct allegations from students. Students alleged he hit on them, promised good grades for sex, and so on. His first wife was a high school student who said he began courting her when she was 16 and still his student. The Seattle Times timeline listed 12 separate allegations against him. CWU investigated and fired him citing a pattern of inappropriate behavior. He refused to resign from the legislature but said he would not run again. However, after he was fired, his caucus asked him to resign.
Bob Jones University has a long history of blaming the victims of sexual assault–even when they were assaulted elsewhere. In 2011, the role of BJU board member Chuck Phelps in covering up the rape of a 15-year-old and his demand that she apologize to the congregation for allowing herself to be raped.led to some BJU students speaking up about the University’s blaming victims of sexual assault.
In response, BJU hired an independent organization, GRACE, Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment, to investigate the matter in 2012. They let people make reports online and promised to protect students from repercussions when they did interviews. As they neared completion of their report, they were fired. The backlash led to rehired GRACE whose report disclosed a pattern of covering up sexual assault and punishing victims.
Ken Starr is most infamous as the sex-obsessed independent counsel who chose to include prurient sexual details in The Starr Report and in the Senate trial questioning of Monica Lewinsky. That is not why he is featured on this list even though his desire to humiliate and debase Lewinsky certainly displayed misogyny. However, it was in his role as the President of the largest Baptist school in America, Baylor University, where he earned complete ignominy by covering up the rapes of several women enrolled as students there. Protecting the football players was much more important than protecting women. It seems even today Baylor University would like to pretend it never happened.
David Garland was the interim president of Baylor University, the largest Baptist school in America and an extremely conservative school. He was appointed after Ken Starr resigned in the midst of the rape scandal. The school commissioned an investigation and several women came forward filing a federal lawsuit claiming Baylor did not protect female students…
George Roche III was president of Hillsdale College, one of the conservative colleges that pledges to return conservative values. He was a friend with the leading lights of conservative thought, including William F. Buckley and Steve Forbes. He was at the apex of his career when his daughter-in-law killed herself, Her death brought out his…
James Zadaker resigned as Associate Dean of Florida State University’s School of Physician Assistant Practice and head of the university’s COVID-19 vaccine and testing administration program. His resignation is the result of an internal investigation into sexual misconduct allegations. The investigation determined he was in violation of the school’s anti-sexual misconduct policy by creating a…