XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: David@hotmail.co.uk   
      
   On 17/02/2026 22:53, phoenix wrote:   
   > What about Hillary?   
   >   
   >   
   > The Republican party obviously has a long and sordid history of the most   
   > disgusting sex scandals, including those of the child abuse and rape   
   > variety. And that certainly forms a tight Venn diagram with the rot inside   
   > the conservative Christian church, protestant and Catholic, rich, poor and   
   > everything in between.   
   >   
   > It’s as if there’s something about these ideologies that lends itself to   
   > abusing minors, and that attracts and shelters those who’d like to do   
   > that.   
   >   
   > Since January I’ve been tracking all the current news stories I can find   
   > of Christian pastors, priests, youth leaders, teachers, gymnastics   
   > coaches, and more — anyone in a spiritual position of power — who’s   
   > accused of, sued or arrested for, tried for, and/or convicted of sex   
   > crimes against minors. Because there are so fucking many of them.   
   >   
   > (Meanwhile, similar stories about drag queens, trans people or LGBTQ+   
   > people in general just don’t show up in the news very often! But yet   
   we’re   
   > supposed to attack LGBTQ+ people as groomers and predators while we drop   
   > our kids off at church, where the bad guys are. Well, guess what? Fuck   
   > you.)   
   >   
   > I’m not the only one who’s ever tracked this stuff. I compile my list by   
   > using other people’s lists and tips y’all leave me on social media, and   
   > also just my own searching. But I’m particularly interested to see exactly   
   > which churches, and which denominations, are   
   > producing/aiding/hiding/harboring the most child sex predators, alleged   
   > and confirmed.   
   >   
   > Because quite frankly, when these Christian conservative MAGA fascist Nazi   
   > motherfuckers try to impose their will on the rest of us, try to control   
   > our lives, I think one of our first questions should be “Oh yeah? And   
   > which white fascist Christian tradition are you from?”   
   >   
   > And when they tell us, one of the FIRST things that comes to mind should   
   > be our knowledge of what a haven for kidfuckers that place may or may not   
   > be.   
   >   
   > Now that we’re six months in tracking this, and we can start putting   
   > together some preliminary data, the word that comes up the most?   
   >   
   > Baptist.   
   >   
   > Both the Southern Baptist variety and the independent fundamentalist   
   > Baptist variety, as well as a couple other varieties. Is there something   
   > about those churches that makes them inherently unsafe for kids? And   
   > should children be allowed in those churches without parental supervision?   
   >   
   > Just asking!   
   >   
   > Fucking Baptists. Become a paying subscriber because you’re not surprised!   
   >   
   > I have a full update on my tracking list below, but you should know that   
   > the grand total of distinct stories I’ve tracked in the first six months   
   > of this year is ONE-HUNDRED FUCKING TWENTY-FIVE. Almost all are from the   
   > United States. A ridiculous percentage come from the South.   
   >   
   > For fairness, I’m also tracking how often it happens at more liberal and   
   > mainline Christian churches. SPOILER: Not very.   
   >   
   > And right now, anything with “Baptist” next to its name is far and away   
   > leading the pack, accounting for fully 39 out of the 125 stories.   
   >   
   > Out of those, 21 are Southern Baptist congregations and/or schools. That   
   > shouldn’t be a shock, since the SBC is kind of the Home Of The Christian   
   > Sex Abuse Scandal Cover-Up, at least among protestants.   
   >   
   > But hey, y’all, the SBC just overwhelmingly voted to criminalize porn!   
   >   
   > And to call for the overturning of Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized   
   > marriage equality!   
   >   
   > At least they’re paying attention to the important stuff, like God Hates   
   > Fags, right?   
   >   
   > Scumbag motherfuckers, literally every one of them is going to hell.   
   >   
   > Ten more are from independent fundamentalist Baptist/King James churches,   
   > the extreme backwoods kinds that think only the King James version of the   
   > Bible is the real one, I guess because they think Jesus was a white man   
   > who spoke the King’s English. (It’s funny that they love that translation   
   > so much, considering how little formal education so many IFB/King James   
   > church leaders have.)   
   >   
   > The other eight are Baptist churches that were harder to easily   
   > categorize. A few are historically Black congregations. One or two are   
   > just much more obscure sects under the “Baptist” umbrella.   
   >   
   > Here are some more numbers on which churches, denominations and movements   
   > are represented in the big conservative Christian kid-toucher report, and   
   > how much so far:   
   >   
   >      Assemblies of God/Holiness/Apostolic/generally otherwise pentecostal   
   >      or charismatic (some of these might better belong in the regular   
   >      nondenominational/megachurch category below or vice versa, I’m doing   
   >      my best to categorize them) — 16   
   >   
   >      General nondenominational evangelical/Christian nationalist (this is a   
   >      big tent, but there’s a lot of “undefined” out there in the world   
   of   
   >      evangelicalism, also see just above) — 15   
   >   
   >      Catholic — 8   
   >   
   >      Conservative Presbyterian (PCA, EPC, etc.) or anything calling itself   
   >      “Reformed” — 4   
   >   
   >      Seventh Day Adventist — 4   
   >   
   >      Lutheran (regular/Missouri Synod) — 3   
   >   
   >      Methodist (the conservative, backwards types, NOT the nice United   
   >      Methodists) — 2   
   >   
   >      Vineyard USA — 2   
   >   
   >      Nazarene — 2   
   >   
   >      Wesleyan — 1   
   >   
   >      Anglican (NOT Episcopalian, these tend to be the ones that left the   
   >      Episcopalians in a huff for being insufficiently gay-hating) — 1   
   >   
   >      Evangelical Lutheran (these are the liberal Lutherans, despite what   
   >      the name might sound like) — 1   
   >   
   >      Mormon (LDS) — 1   
   >   
   >      Church of Christ — 1   
   >   
   >      Disciples of Christ — 1   
   >   
   >      Episcopalian — 1   
   >   
   >      United Methodist — 1   
   >   
   > Now obviously, I can’t call this scientific, because for one thing   
   there’s   
   > no way of knowing if I missed a bunch of stories, since stories of child   
   > sex abuse in the conservative Christian church really are so constant. (I   
   > literally gather new sources every month.) Plus, as I alluded to several   
   > times, the categorization isn’t always going to be perfect, considering   
   > the uneven lines between some of these   
   > evangelical/charistmatic/nondenominational movements, and their overlap   
   > with the more pentecostal side of things, etc.   
   >   
   > But I’m trying my best to categorize them fairly!   
   >   
   > Also it’s entirely possible I miscounted something. (Whoever wants to   
   > volunteer to turn this into a spreadsheet, well, you’ll be doing God’s   
   > actual work.)   
   >   
   > But we can look at these patterns.   
   >   
      
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