Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
John Perry is a rightwing author who wrote hagiographic biographies of Confederate traitor, blames the Scopes Trial for the mockery of creationists, and co-wrote books with Roy Moore and Mike Huckabee. He’s also a co-founder of Covenant School, the site of a mass shooting in March 2023. The school was sued in 2013 for covering up child sexual abuse by John Perry, but the suits were dismissed with the exception of an assault charge
Jacob Woods was a youth pastor at Rutherford County Baptist Church in Smyrna, Tennessee. He was arrested in May 2022 and indicted on five counts of statutory rape by an authority figure. According to the victim’s family, he began grooming her when she was fifteen and began raping her when she was sixteen while on a church camp trip in Indiana. He continued for two years until the family learned of it.
Jason Kennedy was the principal of Liberty Christian Academy in Athens, Tennessee. In August 2022, he was charged with sexual assault by an authority figure and solicitation of a minor. The allegations were made by a nineteen-year-old girl who claimed she was underage at the time and a student at the Academy.
Abbott was arrested in North Carolina in January, 2023, and brought to Blount County, Tennessee, for arraignment. The family originally went to the police in June. He was arrested for sexually abusing a fourteen-year-old girl. The charge of sexual battery by an authority figure is used against defendants who use their job or legal status to take advantage of their victim, or have parental or custodial authority.
John Rose is a Tennessee Congressman who has, so far as is known, not broken any laws, however, since he decided to join in the persecution of LGBTIQA people and call them groomers, it is only fair to consider his grooming of his own wife.
He came back to Tennessee in June, 2021, to bring a young girl from his old church to assist at his new one. It was a ploy and he sexually assaulted her. He was arrested on the road back to Tennessee. The police then found child sexual abuse material on his phone as well as conversations with two other Tennessee teens. When interviewed, they confirmed he had sexually abused them as well.
Trent Ivey was a Southern Baptist youth pastor at Vestal Baptist Church in South Knox, Tennessee. He was arrested in 2021 for sexual battery with a 16 and 18-year-old girl. He is out on bail and has a 2024 court date with deferred disposition which means he pled no contest, must meet certain obligations, and then there will be criminal conviction on his record.
David Lynn Richards was the pastor of My Father’s House in Lenoir City, Tennessee. When his adopted daughter was sixteen years old, she told her guidance counselor that her father put her hand down his pants. The next day she had a forensic interview and revealed he had been raping her for two years. While he denied it and said it was motivated by defiance. However, police found his seminal fluid that matched his DNA on her bed frame.
Matt Walsh is a rightwing political podcaster. He describes himself as a theocratic fascist. He’s not wrong about that. He also has a column at The Daily Wire. He is mostly defined by what he is against rather than what he is for. He is against Black mermaids, drag queens, and people who are trans. He hatemongers with claims of grooming and pedophilia. Meanwhile, he thinks sixteen-year-olds should get pregnant, that adolescence is nonsense, and child marriage is peachy.
Cade Cothren was Chief of Staff for former NC Speaker Glen Casada. He was forced to resign after texts emerged of him exchanging racist and sexist tests with Casada. He also sent messages soliciting sex from interns and lobbyists.