Claims to fame: Longtime GOP mouthpiece; spokesman for such Republicans as Sen. Rudy Boschwitz, Gov. Arne Carlson, and “family values” (read: rabidly anti-gay) state House rep Steve Drazkowski; failed candidate for U.S. House (1992); failed candidate for Minnesota Senate (1996); Sarah Palin defender; founder & president, Twin Bluff Creative P.R. company; grandfather; convicted john (more…)
Claims to fame: Youth pastor, Learning of the Lord Revival Center (Church of God in Christ), Des Moines, Iowa; convicted child molester
Moral apex: Accused of sexually abusing at least two girls, eight and twelve years old, inside his church, pastored by his mother (whose title is “shepherdess”), and in his apartment. Pled guilty to lascivious acts with a child — then tried to withdraw his plea. Sentenced to 15 years. (more…)
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September 9, 2009
Just one line in the TPMMuckraker:
Late Update: A Sempra spokesman has clarified to TPMmuckraker that Barsuglia explicitly denied a sexual relationship with Duvall.
If she’s telling the truth and he isn’t, Mike Duvall is an even bigger schweinhund than anyone knew.
Stay tuned for more details as they break.
Claims to fame: Former Republican California Assemblyman; former Yorba Linda City Council member and two-time mayor; rabidly anti-gay, anti-choice “family values” man (who received a perfect score from the anti-equality Proposition 8 PAC Capitol Resource Institute); husband; father of two; adulterer; old lech; reckless braggart; possible big, fat liar; laughingstock
Moral apex: Just prior to the start of a July 8, 2009, Assembly Appropriations Committee meeting, was caught on a hot mic describing the lurid details of affairs he claimed to be having with not one but two different women (one of whom didn’t know about the other), and who, according to KCAL, are “both married, and both lobbyists in Sacramento.” (more…)
Claims to fame: Former chairman (casually known as “Mayor”), Board of Trustees, Collins, Missouri (population: 176); pastor, Temple Lot Church; husband; father; grandfather; convicted sex offender; pathetic groveler
Moral apex: Cybersexed a 13-year-old girl who turned out to be an undercover detective.
Resigned, pled guilty, and, writes Randy Turner, “was given a suspended sentence almost (more…)
September 8, 2009
…[M]y e-mail began to fill with missives from people in Washington, complaining about how one-sided the coverage of the Fellowship was. I picked up the phone and called [Doug] Coe for some clarification. He declined to speak with me: I was able to reach some surrogates. …
Read the full article, “House of Worship.”
Backstory: Stephen L. McPherson, Pat Robertson’s Ex-Assistant Dean, Sentenced to 16 Years for Rape of His Three Underage Adopted Daughters, June 17, 2009
The PilotOnline.com has the story.
Claims to fame: Born-again Christian; anti-choice activist; associate of murderer Paul Jennings Hill; minister, “Our Father’s House”; ex-Marine; former Ku Klux Klan member; substance addict; divorcé; child molester
Moral apex: Convicted of molesting a 15-year-old girl in his custody; sentenced to 18 years.
September 7, 2009
… Dennis E. Spangler, 64, of Richland Drive in Manheim Township [Lancaster County, Pennsylvania], was charged after police said he exposed himself to and had inappropriate contact with a 13-year-old boy. …
Full story at Lancaster Online.
Statement from Bishop Peggy Johnson, Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church, September 7, 2009: (more…)
Claims to fame: Former (and longtime) pastor, First United Methodist Church, Cleburne, Texas; convicted sexual assailant
Moral apex: Arrested in late 2005 for sexually assaulting a disabled 21-year-old man (Finley was 68) and charged with public lewdness, a misdemeanor. The UMC, apparenty convinced of his guilt before he was convicted, suspended him, then kicked him out of the UMC altogether, stripping him (more…)
Claims to fame: Former legislative aid to California Republican Assemblyman Phil Wyman (R-Tehachapi); former longtime executive director, Antelope Valley Board of Trade; convicted child molester
Moral apex: Pled no contest to charges of sexually molesting a 12-year-old boy who lived with the Brooks family for about eight months in 2000. Brooks was nearly 60 at the time. (more…)
Claims to fame: Republican Tennessee state representative (1993-2002); former chief deputy, Sullivan County Sheriff’s Department; county executive, Sullivan County (1986-90); law enforcement instructor, Walters State Community College (1976-780; U.S. Air Force veteran (1964-68); husband; father of two; suspected exhibitionist; Seventh Circle club member — i.e., a suicide
Moral apex: Arrested in June, 2002, on seven felony counts of exposing himself to (more…)
Claims to fame:
He: Former Cass County, Illinois, GOP chair; volunteer for failed Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Ryan; employee, state Department of Human Services; pardoned felon; husband; father
She: Employee, state Department of Aging; wife; mother
They: Convicted sex offenders
Moral apex: Both were arrested in 2002 for fondling a 16-year-old niece once during the summer of 2000, and again over Labor Day Weekend, 2001. (more…)
Claims to fame: Former senior youth pastor, First Assembly of God Church, Des Moines, Iowa; husband; father of four; adulterer; convicted sex offender
Moral apex: Had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl who belonged to his church youth group. After the church found out (and sacked him), he turned himself in, and in 2005, finally copped a plea bargain: guilty to three counts of sexual exploitation.
Sentence: No jail time; only two years’ probation, sex-offender treatment, and restitution. He was also forbidden to have any contact with the victim or with any other person under the age of 18, with the exception of his own children.
Claims to fame: Former Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, borough council member (Republican, of course) and deputy fire chief; child rapist
Moral apex: Raped a 15-year-old girl while on a family camping vacation in Delaware in the summer of 2004.
What’s more: Smeltzer was “a close personal friend” of the victim’s family — in fact, the (more…)
Claims to fame: Former Republican state Assemblymember; alleged sexual harasser
Moral apex: Accused of exposing himself to a female staffer, then chasing her around the room, yelling the same thing Kathy Griffin told Jesus to do. (more…)
Claims to fame: Former associate pastor, Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, Valley City, North Dakota (Eastern North Dakota Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America); husband; adulterer; john; schmuck (more…)
Claims to fame: Palatine Township, Illinois, Republican Committeeman; former Cook County Republican Party chairman; two-time failed candidate for U.S. Congress; former executive director, Illinois Capital Development Board; CEO, Horizon Group Properties, Rosemont, Illinois; father of three small children; nobody’s choice for Husband of the Year (’cause, see, he says those two women weren’t prostitutes, so there!) (more…)
Because we could spend 24/7 tracking the sex crimes of right-wing religionists (especially “youth pastors”) and never get caught up. Of the following, the more interesting cases will probably end up with their very own Conservative Babylon entries.
Arrested: Clevon Ghent, 35, volunteer minister at Born Again Church of God and Christ, Auburndale, Florida, and manager of Trinity Cleaning Service, “a residential and commercial cleaning business owned and operated by the Born Again Church,” arrested and charged with five counts of “custodial sexual battery of a 12-year-old girl.” Also arrested: Gernard Jones, Ghent’s 18-year-old nephew, “for lewd battery of the same girl.” Story: MyFox Orlando, September 4, 2009 (more…)
