Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
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.
Josh Duggar is one of the famed Duggar family who had a reality show on The Learning Channel called 19 Kids and Counting. Duggar also worked for the Family Research Council, a sanctimonious anti-gay organization. He molested five girls and his parents knew and covered it up, even though some of those he molested were his sisters. Even though he knew his own son was a molester, Jim Bob Duggar, his father, said “rape and incest represent heinous crimes and as such should be treated as capital crimes.”
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…
Matt Baker was a widely respected Baptist minister in Waco, TX. Waco, home of Baylor University, is for Southern Baptists a sort of center of faith. In 2006, his wife Kari Baker died. It was ruled a suicide and there was no autopsy. He claimed she was depressed over the death of their daughter and wanted to be with her.
Her parents did not believe she killed herself and hired a detective who found a motive for murder. Her body was exhumed and her death was ruled a murder by asphyxiation. It was discovered that Baker was a serial predator with a series of accusations of molesting underage women, sexual assault, and attempted rape. He also was in love a young parishioner.
Darrell Gilyard was a successful mega-church preacher. So famed was he, there was a film about him “The Darrell Gilyard” story that had Jerry Falwell. one of his mentors, give a testimonial saying he was one of “most brilliant men in the pulpit.”
This is all in spite of him being fired in 1991 for child molestation. His main mentor, the former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, knew but since he forgave him, he promoted his career. At least the first time.
That all ended when he was convicted of sexually molesting a 15-year-old girl. He served three years and has been released but has been barred from being in the presence of minors.
So a church hired him anyway and barred children from the church. That’s right. The convicted sex offender was chosen over the children. He is welcome, they are not.
Kenneth Adkins was active in anti-gay politics in Jacksonville, FL, and someone the Republican party thought they could use to gain Black votes. After the Pulse Massacre, he tweeted “Been through so much with these Jacksonville Homosexuals that I don’t see none of them as victims. I see them as getting what they deserve!” Jacksonville.com June…
Pastor Roy D. Bolden was the head of Providence, Rhode Island GOP, but was forced to resign when he was arraigned for molesting a child. A 21-year-old man came forward and claimed he was molested by Bolden since he was twelve years old and for several years after.
Steve Wilsey was a youth counselor for Focus on the Family. He was convicted in December 2000 for molesting an eight-year-old boy, “sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust.” The boy’s mother worked for Focus on the Family. Wilsey offered to mentor her three sons in 1992 after she…
Marshal Seymour was a youth pastor at a Baptist megachurch in Florida before pleading guilty to molesting three young boys. Ten years earlier he was arrested for the same thing in Mobile, AL, and pled to a lesser charge for which he was sentenced to one year’s probation. He moved to Florida with a clean…