Adults don’t solicit children for sex. Sex implies consent. Sex implies a balance of power. Lawmakers, church leaders, school bus drivers, teachers, parents, anyone in a position of power - they aren’t paying for sex. They are paying to rape a child.
Oh, the gall. Trump, thrice-accused, once adjudicated a rapist, signs a child abuse prevention proclamation while flanked by theocratic enablers and fascist fanboys, blaming “gender ideology” for harming children. Do you know what harms children? Molestation by the clergy you break bread with. You know what, grooms children? Christian nationalist youth ministries with megachurch budgets and zero accountability.
Let’s get this straight: it is not drag queens reading “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” who are assaulting minors in church basements. It is not trans teens asking for acceptance who are hoarding child porn or coercing kids behind pulpits. It is your “moral guardians” who have spent decades building empires of repression, misogyny, and systemic cover-up—only to get caught again and again with their hands in the communion wine and their search history in hell.
You want to protect kids? Start by locking up every pastor, deacon, and worship leader who used their Bible like a weapon and their ministry like a hunting license.
This is not about child protection. It’s about projection.
Thank you for continuing to collect all this disgustingness, Evan. My friend Darrell Lucus is doing likewise at his Substack, Loud, Liberal, Christian. (That's part of what he's doing, anyway.) I feel bad for you guys having to deal with this, because it's so awful, but it's important work.
My sister is a retired psychologist who used to work at a Community Mental Health clinic in rural Michigan. More than a few of her clients were religious hyperconservatives whose sexual issues surfaced in therapy, and my sister (while not naming names, of course) noted that the more fundamentalist the clients were, the weirder their perversions. This is what repression can breed, I guess.
And PLEASE DO start a similar list just for Republicans/"Conservatives." There's a huge overlap, but they are two distinct things, and well worth keeping track of in this day and age, especially. All their deafening yelling and screaming about Family Values and Those Awful Gayz and Tranz sure does feel like projection sometimes, doesn't it?
It's really just about Republicans and MAGA. The Christianity part is just an extant access infrastructure. In other words they go into the religion business explicitly and specifically for access to minors. It's the point. Not a side effect
it’s both actually. studies show that the more restrictive the sexual mores of the population, the more likely they are to engage in aberrant behavior. so it’s both. it’s always both.
I don't know much more about it, but # 39 the girl who supposedly died by suicide is related to my husband's family. Her siblings, dad and step dad all believe she did NOT commit suicide.
You could double that list by following some news sites in Utah - a state that seems lacking on your list. There's a new one at least weekly, and sometimes more often, coming from the Utah/Idaho/Arizona corridor of the Mormon stronghold. It's sickening, and definitely aligns with the conservative, religious model.
Adults don’t solicit children for sex. Sex implies consent. Sex implies a balance of power. Lawmakers, church leaders, school bus drivers, teachers, parents, anyone in a position of power - they aren’t paying for sex. They are paying to rape a child.
Geez. There are a lot of MEN on that list. Maybe he should be targeting conservative dudes.
Also, this: you are perfect exactly the way God made you.
Yes, and if god made you a two spirit, to borrow from some native cultures, then why not go with it?
Oh, the gall. Trump, thrice-accused, once adjudicated a rapist, signs a child abuse prevention proclamation while flanked by theocratic enablers and fascist fanboys, blaming “gender ideology” for harming children. Do you know what harms children? Molestation by the clergy you break bread with. You know what, grooms children? Christian nationalist youth ministries with megachurch budgets and zero accountability.
Let’s get this straight: it is not drag queens reading “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” who are assaulting minors in church basements. It is not trans teens asking for acceptance who are hoarding child porn or coercing kids behind pulpits. It is your “moral guardians” who have spent decades building empires of repression, misogyny, and systemic cover-up—only to get caught again and again with their hands in the communion wine and their search history in hell.
You want to protect kids? Start by locking up every pastor, deacon, and worship leader who used their Bible like a weapon and their ministry like a hunting license.
This is not about child protection. It’s about projection.
Thank you for continuing to collect all this disgustingness, Evan. My friend Darrell Lucus is doing likewise at his Substack, Loud, Liberal, Christian. (That's part of what he's doing, anyway.) I feel bad for you guys having to deal with this, because it's so awful, but it's important work.
My sister is a retired psychologist who used to work at a Community Mental Health clinic in rural Michigan. More than a few of her clients were religious hyperconservatives whose sexual issues surfaced in therapy, and my sister (while not naming names, of course) noted that the more fundamentalist the clients were, the weirder their perversions. This is what repression can breed, I guess.
And PLEASE DO start a similar list just for Republicans/"Conservatives." There's a huge overlap, but they are two distinct things, and well worth keeping track of in this day and age, especially. All their deafening yelling and screaming about Family Values and Those Awful Gayz and Tranz sure does feel like projection sometimes, doesn't it?
True fact:
I was in a youth group in my mid teens. Anglican. (No, not involved in the church anymore...)
One of adults involved—who was around us pretty regularly—was later convicted of some kinda sexual interference involving minors.
Younger kids than us I think. And I think more involving his day job as a teacher.
We probably weren’t his thing.
my abuser was our family doctor. i wasn’t his only victim.
he made every visit to his office an excuse to put his fingers inside me and fondle my chest. it started at an exam for a UTI. in front of my mother.
and no my parents didn’t listen.
it’s not drag queens. it’s people who seek out positions of power so that they can abuse the vulnerable.
It's really just about Republicans and MAGA. The Christianity part is just an extant access infrastructure. In other words they go into the religion business explicitly and specifically for access to minors. It's the point. Not a side effect
it’s both actually. studies show that the more restrictive the sexual mores of the population, the more likely they are to engage in aberrant behavior. so it’s both. it’s always both.
I don't know much more about it, but # 39 the girl who supposedly died by suicide is related to my husband's family. Her siblings, dad and step dad all believe she did NOT commit suicide.
Oh God. My deepest condolences. May her soul find peace and may the abusers never know a single moment of comfort.
He himself is obviously trans-species. A Virginia Land Snail in "human" form.
https://www.carnegiemnh.org/science/mollusks/va_arion_subfuscus.html
on a bright note: have you seen tim the snail guy from carnegie who makes mollusk jokes on tiktok? i was sure you were linking to him…
No, I don't think I've ever clicked on a tiktok link knowingly. The small format is hard for my one eye to watch.
spring hill and idlewild shitbag church are just north of me.
in case you’re wondering, their office number is (813)264-1515 and they do answer in case you want to call and ask some questions.
they are, in fact, as gross as they sound.
I grew up in Lutz. I'm eternally grateful not to have been raised in any church.
Hey, Evan, new one in St. Paul paper this morning: church volunteer charged with sexually assaulting children. Joshua Alirio Seeman.
Someone ask QAnon where are all the Mole Children now?
You could double that list by following some news sites in Utah - a state that seems lacking on your list. There's a new one at least weekly, and sometimes more often, coming from the Utah/Idaho/Arizona corridor of the Mormon stronghold. It's sickening, and definitely aligns with the conservative, religious model.
Who breaks children's ankles, drag queens or banana peel people?
https://www.tiktok.com/@youngmimayer/video/7248727988177554730
I feel sick.
Happy birthday, Evan. Many happy returns.