Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Douglas Overmyer, a pastor from Mattoon, Illinois, described liberalism as an “ungodly, inhumane mental disease.” He was the pastor of Zion Hill until his recent suspension after his arrest for distributing child sexual abuse material.
John Emanuel Banuelos is an insurrectionist. He brought a gun to the insurrection and fired it twice inside the Capitol. He was still pardoned in the mass pardon of January 6 participants, even the violent ones. He was arrested for the stabbing and killing of a man in 2021, though the DA decided he acted in self-defense and did not charge him. However, during interrogation for that offense, he bragged to detectives about being at the Insurrection, even pointing himself out on video. When indicted for that he was making light, telling the judge Trump would win the election and pardon him. Well, that happened. However, his DNA was collected and it matched a 2018 rape case, leading to his most recent indictment for eight counts of sexual assault and one count of kidnapping. These crimes happened in Utah, though he has since moved to Illinois.
Michael S. Ritchason is the Lead Pastor of Riverside Community Church and was elected to the City Council of Pekin, Illinois. He is also a former elementary school teacher. He was recently arrested for crimes against a juvenile, specifically disseminating harmful materials to a juvenile.
Stewart Ruch is a bishop in the Anglican Church of North America, the schismatic group that left the Episcopal Church in opposition to its “liberalism” in allowing the ordination of women, inclusion of LGBTIQA members, and gay marriage. He is facing an ecclesiastical (church) trial over allegations that he covered up serial sexual abuse of children.
Theodore Middendorf is one of the January 6th insurrectionists pardoned by Trump.
He was previously convicted of predatory sexual assault of a child and sentenced to nineteen years in prison. The child was seven years old. He was thirty-one.
Rev. Rand York is a priest of Church of Our Light Anglican (COLA0. He is the Republican precinct committee person for Big Rock 2 precinct in Kane County, Illinois. He was a mentor to Mark Rivera who raped so many children. When the mother of the nine-year-old girl whom Rivera sexually abused learned what happened to her daughter, she reached out to York, her great=uncle who officiated at her wedding, seeking help and support. Later, another victim who was his own goddaughter told him Rivera raped her and he again stood with Rivera, attempting an organizational coverup.
Mark Rivera was a pastor at Christ Our Light Anglican Church, in Big Rock, Illinois when he sexually abused a nine-year-old girl who was a member of his church. The abuse spanned two years, 2018 to 2019 He was originally charged with twenty-nine counts but they were cut down to three and he was convicted in a bench trial on two counts of predatory criminal sexual assault and a charge of criminal sexual abuse.
David Cornelius was a math, science, and Bible teacher at First Baptist Church in Danville. When allegations of abuse arose, they moved him on to another church without informing anyone of what happened. He was charged in 2003 with sexually abusing a young child in his wife’s daycare, as well as soliciting sexual favors from a high school student at his new school position with Schlarman High School. He pleaded guilty in 2004. He was sentenced to four years probation.
Tivo McCrary was the Executive Pastor of Cornerstone Church in Marion, Illinois, was fired for committing sins against teenage members. They are working with law enforcement as well as reviewing their hiring practices and abuse prevention.
Ferrell M. Kissiar was the assistant preacher for United Pentecostal Church of Patoka and was also recently a teacher’s aide at Cornerstone Academy in Nokomis, a private Christian school. He was arrested in March 2021 and charged with several crimes involving Child Sexual Abuse Material.