Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Trent Brandon Holbert was the pastor of The Ridge church in Black Mountain, NC. He began molesting a child under the age of fifteen. He tried to extort her parents by reporting them for child abuse and offering to take their daughter. He gave the parents papers that would sign their daughter over to his care. However, the child protective services found the allegations unfounded. Rather, Holbert was sexually assaulting the child.
David Nims was the Children’s Director at Calvary Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida. He was arrested for video voyeurism by an adult responsible for the welfare of a child younger than 16. He placed a hidden camera to film children in a church bathroom.
The Southern Baptist Convention covered up sexual abuse and protected abusers for years. In 2019, an investigation by the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express revealed around 380 Southern Baptist pastors and church leaders had been accused of sexual abuse and misconduct involving hundreds of survivors. In most cases, the religious leaders continue in their vocation and the victims were blamed.
Mack Charles Andrews was the pastor of the United Pentecostal Church in Thomasville, Alabama. I confess what this man did has haunted me. He is extraordinarily evil. He raped several children. And now a content warning, do not go further if details of abuse sicken or trigger you. This is one of the most evil of all the predators I have written about.
T. Elliott Welch was a Baptist pastor in Forsyth County, North Carolina. He was a vocal opponent of efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19. In April, 2020, he asked how much a little girl was worth in the tweet below. Just one year later, in April 2021, it became evident that he didn’t think little girls were much at all when he was arrested for uploading a video of an adult man raping a child, a little girl. While out on bail, he was arrested again in June for additional charges of possessing child sexual abuse material.
George Rutler is a reactionary Catholic priest who advocates for conservative causes, mocks liberals, and attacks Pope Francis. He has had his own radio show, a church in midtown Manhattan, writes opinion pieces for a few Catholic magazines, and has written books on Catholic history. He compared Gov. Cuomo to King Herod. He is downright mean. To get an idea of how mean, he was enraged by a eulogy praising David Bowie who wrote that Bowie’s death was the first time he knew he existed. He bragged of walking out of events and restaurants if rock music is played, Funny how he did not know Bowie existed but knew enough to call him on of the “paragons of degeneracy and paladins of vice.”
He has been accused of sexual assault.
Becki Falwell is the wife of Jerry Falwell, Jr. former president of Liberty University. The Falwells had great influence on Evangelicals and were big Trump supporters. They lost their sinecure at the University founded by Falwell’s father when they participated in a long-term consensual adult affair with another man who had sex with Becki while her husband watched. This site does not track consensual adult relationships. However, Becki also pursued a student while he was at Liberty University where she was in a position of trust.
Michael Tonne was the associate children’s minister at The Village Church and staff at the Children’s Bible Camp. While at the camp, he allegedly raped an eleven-year-old girl. The Village Church was more concerned about protecting its reputation than the little girl. In the end, the prosecution declined to move forward with only the child’s…
Anthony Moore worked as a pastor at the Texas megachurch The Village Church in Fort Worth, Texas until 2017 when he was caught filming a youth pastor while showering. The man had noticed a phone wrapped in a towel on a window ledge by the shower. He looked at it and found several videos of himself showering. He reported it to the church and the church fired Moore. But they believed he could be restored.
Richard Bucci is a Catholic priest who took it upon himself to excommunicate forty-four Rhode Island legislators who voted to codify abortion rights. He sent out a notice informing the public that the named people could not receive communion, witness a marriage, read during a funeral, or serve as godparents. For him, abortion is worse than pedophilia. “Pedophilia never killed anyone.”