Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Matthew Stephen Masiewicz (Pastor Matt) was the senior pastor at Sovereign Grace Fellowship, an Reformed Baptist Church in Nampa, Idaho. According to their website, they occasionally have their men’s fellowship meetings at the gun range. He was removed from his position when he was arrested for possession, distribution, and creation of child sexual abuse materials. Those he created were done with AI.
Justin Rhodes was the pastor of Big Creek Baptist Church in Soso, Mississippi. He also served for a time as Vice-President and as President of the Baptist Missionary Association of America, an organization of more than 1100 churches. He was relieved of his duties as pastor and president due to a “moral failure” in 2021. What the moral failure was is unknown, but in 2025, he was arrested for molesting a child. The incident is reported to have happened on a choir trip to Disney World.
Johnny Hunt was the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Woodstock, Georgia for thirty-three years. During that time, he served as president of the Southern Baptist Convention. After retiring from his church, he served as a Senior Vice President at the North American Mission Board, an arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, until his resignation after he was named in an investigation of sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist churches.
Kurt W. Schenk was a city councilman for Coatesville, Pennsylvania as well as pastor of a local church. A local blogger wrote up a history of his public activities wondering why local media were not covering his arrest for sexually assaulting a woman who is intellectually disabled.
James Vincent Henry was the pastor of Crossroads Assembly of God Church in Delight, Arkansas. Prior to that, he served as youth pastor at several churches. He was also a foster parent to 76 children over four years.
On September 25, 2024, the Arkansas State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force received two tips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. They carried out a search of his electronic devices and social media. He was arrested on October 15th and charged with one hundred counts of possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material.
Matthew Henry Laparra was the Worship Team Director at Trinity Worship Center in Burlington, North Carolina until 2024.
In April 2025, he was arrested for three felony counts of statutory rape and two felony counts of indecent liberties with a child.
Gerald “Jerry” Cummings was elected Chair of the Oregon Republican Party in March 2025. A pastor at Haven Church in St. Helens, Oregon, he has long been active in the Oregon Republican Party before his election as Chair. However, he resigned soon after his election when it was revealed he groomed a teenager until she was old enough to get married and kept her under his control by threatening to rape teenagers and through domestic violence and marital rape.
Jonathan Shaheen was a creative pastor at Timber Creek Church in Colorado Springs and a music teacher at School of Rock, a music lesson store also in Colorado Springs. In September 2023, he was arrested for attempting to sexually exploit and abuse a nine-year-old child. He was communicating with an ex-girlfriend to arrange having sex with her and her daughter who was nine.
Jonathan Edward Elwing was the pastor of Palm View Baptist Church in Manatee County, Florida for the past five years. He has been serving as pastor in various places since 2003. He has been charged with eighteen felonies related to his possession, distribution, and manufacture of child sexual abuse material. He filmed himself sexually abusing a child under the age of twelve.
Robert Morris was until recently the pastor of Gateway, a Dallas megachurch. He was also a spiritual advisor to Donald Trump and an influential Trump booster.
He recently confessed “When I was in my early 20s, I was involved in inappropriate sexual behavior with a young lady in a home where I was staying.”
The young lady was twelve. He did not have an affair with her. He raped her and continued the sexual abuse for four and a half years. She described the abuse herself: