Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Anthony Emanuel was the mayor of Florence, Georgia. While in Florida in June 2023, he is alleged to have molested a four-year-old girl. She had a dog, while he is not charged with bestiality, the police considered it when they arrested him in July.
Reginald ‘Reggie’ Loper is an Effingham County Commissioner in Georgia. He remains on the Commission despite his May arrest for felony child molestation and misdemeanor sexual battery.
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.
Dustin Spillers was the PTA president as well as the youth pastor at the conservative Abba’s House church. He was involved in youth programs at two churches. In January 2023, he was arrested and charged with molesting two boys, specifically with three counts of sexual molestation and one count of sexual battery assault.
Nicholas Kelley was a youth pastor at New Bridges Church, in Lawrenceville, Georgia. He sexually abused a fourteen=year=old girl. His crime was revealed when she had a nervous breakdown and hospitalized. That is when her parents learned of the “relationship.” He confessed to the church elders the next day that he had “inappropriate physical interactions” with her.
Clifford James “C. J.” Neesmith was chairman of the Port Wentworth Planning Commission when he was arrested for possession child sexual abuse materials on September 12, 2022. He was removed from the Commission the following day. Coincidentally, the Port Wentworth City Council discussed restructuring the Planning Commission on September 14 and reorganized it in October. In the past, Neesmith was also the Chair of the local Chamber of Commerce.
Matthew Chappell was a candidate in the Republican primary for Virginia House District 11 and came in third with 18.5% of the votes in the first round. Ranked choice voting dropped him out in the fourth and final round. He got 18.5% of ballots even though his past sexual misconduct as a police officer in Georgia was revealed before the election.
Running in the Republican Congressional primary in 2022, his opponents brought up allegations of rape that were made in 2005 by a woman who dropped the charge “out of fear.” According to her report to the police, he said he knew where she lived and he would find her. In an egregious act of police misconduct, the Dekalb County police chief whom Vernon Jones had appointed released her identity to the press with the incident report. She wrote a note saying she would not testify because of the harassment and the release of her name. She never recanted.
Cary Rhodes was the mayor of Taylorsville, Georgia. He was also the chief financial officer and secretary of the Taylorsville Baptist Church. He also managed to get caught in an FBI undercover child sex sting when he replied to a Craigslist ad. He was charged with attempted aggravated child molestation and violating the Computer Pornography and Child Exploitation Act. He agreed to a plea deal that resulted in two years in prison and ten years probation, considerably less time than most people in that situation get.
Ravi Zacharias was the head of an international ministry. Originally a supporter of Marco Rubio for President, he switched to supporting Trump. When he died, Mike Pence spoke at his funeral. Allegations of sexual misconduct were made before his death, but it really blew up when Christianity Today released a report detailing his sexual harassment of women who work at massage parlors.