Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Andy Savage sexually assaulted a seventeen-year-old girl when he was a youth pastor in 1998. At the time, she reported it to his supervisor the next day who decided since she complied with Savage’s coercion, she was a willing participant. She told her parents and enough of a fuss was raised that he was allowed…
Michael Moates is a right-wing blogger/journalist who founded D.C. Chronicle, a site that is now, appropriately, a porn site. He sometimes wrote for the Washington Examiner. He also ran for Congress, as a Libertarian, not a Republican. However, he describes himself as a life-long Republican in his most recent Twitter account. He keeps getting suspended.
He had to withdraw his candidacy when he got suspended for sexually harassing underage teens. Several women came forward with messages he sent them. I won’t reproduce them here because he sued or filed a DMCA on everyone. He lost all his suits and DMCA filings, but I don’t want the bother. You can read them in the articles.
Paige Patterson is a Baptist religious leader who was a big part of the conservative takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention and served as the president of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Typical of conservative fundamentalists, he opposed the ordination of women. He bragged about telling a woman to stay with her abusive husband because the husband started going to church.
He was sued in 2018 for his part in covering up Paul Pressler’s sexual assaults, but was dropped because of the statute of limitations. Southwestern had him step down and made him President Emeritus. Later in the year, an investigation of the rape of a woman on campus revealed his email to campus security telling them he wanted to meet with the woman alone to “break her down.” He was then completely fired, no more emeritus title and benefits.
In 2019, a woman sued for his abuse and intimidation when she reported being repeatedly raped.by another student. She claimed to be the woman he wanted to break down. He threatened the woman’s mother with legal action for asking why the alleged rapist was still allowed on campus. He told the police that the rape was consensual sex. He told her the rape was a “good thing,” Since then he has given speeches that imply women lie about rape. He has been elected to boards and given posts by belligerently misogynist churches. Patterson claims she never told him.
He has been accused by several men of raping them when they were minors. In 2017, a man came forward suing Judge Pressler, claiming he was raped by Pressler when he was just fourteen and the sexual assaults continued for decades. As often happens, once one person comes forward, others find the courage to come forward as well. According to court records, he settled with another accuser in 2004. He was successful in getting the suit dismissed because of the statute of limitations, but his accuser appealed and won in the Texas Supreme Court in April, 2022.
Mark Aderholt was a Southern Baptist leader who was charged with the sexual assault of a teenager more than a decade after she reported it to church authorities. They investigated and wrote her a letter confirming their investigation suggested the abuse occurred. They did not report it to authorities. Aderhold pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and placed on deferred adjudication, which is like probation, but will allow him to have his conviction erased.
James “Dub” Maines was was Texas Representative Joe Barton’s deputy district director. That position is one that involves working with the public to help them with different government agencies. It’s a constituent service position. If you’re curious, here is a job description. He was arrested in 2013 when AOL noticed he was emailing child sexual exploitation material from his personal AOL account to his house.gov work e-mail. They let the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children know and the DOJ began investigating. They reported that he had been receiving child pornography since 2004.
Ted Nugent is a rock musician who actively supports Republican politicians. He’s threatened to kill President Barack Obama and was then invited to Obama’s State of the Union. He is a big Trump supporter and generally an awful human being. He’s also a pedophile which is brags about in his lyrics, adding the very true line, “It’s quite all right I asked your mama.”
Neil Bush is the fourth son of President George H. W. Bush, the brother of President George W. Bush, and the father of unsuccessful Congressional candidate Pierce Bush. He is one of the Savings & Loan grifters who was found to have made deals that involved many conflicts of interest that contributed to the failure…
Dick Armey was a U.S. Representative from Texas for eighteen years and House Majority Leader for the last eight. He was Newt Gingrich’s right arm and enforcer. Before Congress, he was an economics professor where three women who were students allege inappropriate conduct. One was so disturbed she left school until another professor offered to supervisor her program and keep her from Armey.
Walter S. Smith was a federal judge in Waco, Texas. He was appointed by Ronald Reagan and served 32 years before resigning to evade accountability. While he didn’t run into trouble until 2015, he sexually harassed and groped a woman in 1998 and it was her complaint that was featured, though there were several complaints. This is not unusual, in a study by CNN found less than 1% of complaints were referred to a special committee for investigation. In her case, a lawyer filed a complaint and raised a stink.
In 2017, U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts created a committee to investigate sexual harassment in the federal judiciary. In 2015, Smith had been reprimanded for sexual harassment, ordered him to attended sexual harassment training, and told him he could not hear any new cases for a year. However, a federal judicial conduct committee told the 5th Circuit they need to investigate again because it was alleged this was a pattern of behavior. As soon as that happened, he resigned, which saved his pension and ended the investigation.