Conservative Babylon

This deserves its own entry (we’ll get to it), but we don’t want to delay such priceless news even long enough to ferret out the perfect Bible reading for this Mastermind of Evil, the one, the only Karl Rove:

Karl Rove granted divorce in Texas

December 29, 2009

Karl Rove, former senior adviser to President George W. Bush, has been granted a divorce in Texas after 24 years of marriage, a family spokesperson said. …

More at Politico.

Oh, and skinny Bush mouthpiece Dana Perino says we’re all supposed to “respect” the Roveses’ “privacy.”

Respect their privacy? After Rove “led the whole anti-gay marriage movement while protecting a family secret“?

Not on your sweet bippy, Dana. Not on K-K-K-Karl’s sweet bippy.

More to come.

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There, that just cost us $6 million.

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That’s really about all the news there is: The 91-year-old founder of Oral Roberts University and melodramatic televangelist (who saw a 900-foot-tall Jesus and raised a child from the dead) took a fall at his California home yesterday, and he died today, December 15, 2009.

But, ConBab has never pegged The Oral as a flaming hypocrite before; why mention his death now?

Because it reminds us that we really need to write up his son, Richard, and Richie’s wife Lindsay, one of these days. Now there’s some major scandal.

And then, of course, there’s our favorite Oral Roberts story, about how Oral wheedled $9 million out of his followers after God threatened to kill him…

See:

Everything You Need to Know About the Oral Roberts Scandal… So Far, Lavender Newswire, October 9, 2007

Oral Roberts U Scandal: Exit Richie, Enter “Convicted Sexual Deviant”, Lavender Newswire, October 17, 2007

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.

Sentenced and facing new charges: Kenneth Graham Gibbs, 77, retired Anglican minister, St. John’s Anglican Church, Chapleau, Ontario, and St. Peter the Apostle, Elliot Lake, convicted in November, 2009, and sentenced December 3, 2009, to three and a half years for “indecently assaulting five now-grown women when they were girls” during the 1960s, and charged four days later with with two new counts of indecent assault against two other children. “The incidents are reported to have taken place in Chapleau, Ontario between 1965 and 1971, when one victim was a child and the other a young teen.” Story: SooToday.com, December 3, 2009; December 7, 2009 (more…)

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A few of Ensign’s former aides have been slapped with subpoenas. Details: Politico.

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So, the daughter of Amanda Ross, the woman former gubernatorial candidate Steve Nunn allegedly shot to death in September, has filed a civil wrongful-death lawsuit against Nunn — and has also named Nunn’s daughter as co-defendant.

Seems Nunn “fraudulently transferred personal property in his house to his oldest daughter after the suit had been filed, and that she sold the items at auction.” [WKYT]

Meanwhile, Nunn’s lawyer says “he may have to withdraw as Nunn’s attorney if the judge won’t release funds from an escrow account to pay his legal expenses.” [Glasgow Daily Times]

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Continuing to milk her victimhood for all its worth (don’t get us wrong — we approve) — no doubt due to her book, slated for publication in May, 2010 — wronged wife of South Carolina governor and laughingstock Mark Sanford did an interview (scheduled to air Wednesday night) in which she told Barbara Walters “she wouldn’t have stood with Gov. Mark Sanford when he faced cameras to tell the world about his affair with an Argentine woman,” even if he’d asked her to.

Details: ABC News.

Claims to fame: High-profile (in the Christian world, anyway) Trinity Broadcasting Network personality; frequent guest, TBN’s “Behind the Scenes”; head pastor, Trinity Music City Church, main place of worship at Paul Crouch’s Christian amusement park, Hendersonville, Tennessee; drunk driver; in the opinion of some, de facto killer

Moral apex: Flying low (at least 85mph) down the I-55 freeway in his TBN-owned BMW, Galiher smashed into another car, flipping it twice.

That was in April, 2009. In November, the driver of the other car, 70-year-old Vietnam vet David Rhodes, died.

Much more:

OC Weekly

Nashville Scene

Suggested Bible reading for Mr. Galiher:

Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.

— Isaiah 29:9-10

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.

Captured: Robert Lee Adams, 46, pastor, Mount Calvary Tabernacle, Gastonia, North Carolina, thanks to an anonymous tip, and charged with three counts of first-degree statutory sex offense against a child (a five-year-old girl), as well as charges of statutory rape, first-degree sex offense with a child, taking indecent liberties with a child, and other sex offenses. Reportedly, neither Adams is cooperating with the investigation, giving police “the silent treatment.” Story: Gaston Gazette, December 4, 2009 (more…)

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Details: Virginian-Pilot.

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Know where he is? The Parma, Ohio, police would love to hear from you: (440) 887-7340.

Details: Cleveland.com.

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“Who I’d like to meet: I would like to meet me in 5 years…” — Robert Kevin Carlino, long before his arrest

Details: NJ.com.

We say “apparent SM play” because, seriously, does anybody need a safe word during boring old vanilla sex? “Honey, I’m really bored now, so could you stop poking me with that thing? Honey…? Green balloons! Green balloons!”

Of course Rod Jetton is a Republican — the sort who really, really, really hates Teh Ghey: He stripped Missouri Rep. Scott Lipke as chair of the state’s Committee on Crime Prevention and Public Safety because the latter “chose to use the [Jessica's Law] bill to delete 14 words from our laws in order to repeal the gay sex ban in Missouri.

“Thanks to that deletion,” wailed the married, Methodist, “family values” guy in 2007, “it is now legal to engage in deviate sexual intercourse with someone of the same sex here in Missouri.”

Never mind that the U.S. Supreme Court overturned all state sodomy laws years earlier (why let a little thing like that get in the way of keeping your homophobic hatred on the books?), or that Jetton admitted the sex “ban was technically unenforceable”; let’s see what Jetton really knows about deviate sexual intercourse in Missouri: (more…)

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The fun just never ends in the Pickering family! Details: TPM.