Claims to fame: Michigan State Assistant Attorney General; “Christian citizen”; obsessed stalker of gay man
Moral apex: Stalking and cyber-bullying University of Michigan student body present Chris Armstrong.
Why? Watch this video, and then you tell us: (more…)
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The 18-year-old failed Republican candidate for the Washington state House — and high school senior — who was busted only last week on drug-, forgery-, and counterfeiting-related charges, found himself in the slammer again, “on suspicion of two counts of trafficking in stolen property” — specifically, trying to fence stolen wakeboards on Craigslist.
His Nibs hasn’t been formally charged yet, but, just as before, he was released to the custody of Mommy and Daddy — who would be well advised to use this time of forced-family togetherness to finish raising their precocious little Michael P. Keaton before setting him loose on an unsuspecting world again.
Of course, it may be too late already; he’s 18 now. Still, if he’s in their custody, it may not be too late to ground him, which any good Christian parents would do at the first sign of pride, greed, and premature megalomania.
Because we could spend 24/7 tracking the sins 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 to four years each:
Alex Brown, 61, vicar, Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, St. Leonards-on-Sea, U.K., found “guilty of conspiring to facilitate the commission of breaches of immigration laws” after presiding over “360 sham marriages where penniless East Europeans, with rights to live and work in the UK, were paid up to £3,000 [$4,744] each to wed Africans, mainly from Nigeria”; (more…)
Claims to fame: Husband-and-wife youth leaders, currently-shuttered “Lord’s Disciples Ministries of Whosoever Will,” a.k.a. “The Biker’s Church,” Maryville, Tennessee; he: convicted rapist; she: accused rapist; they: MySpace exhibitionists (more…)
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To paraphrase Rick Sanchez of CNN: Are these the kind of pictures you’d want your pastor sending your teenage son…? (more…)
Because we could spend 24/7 tracking the sins 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.
Facing extraditon: John M. Fiala, 51, Catholic priest accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old male catechism student, from Kansas to Texas, where the alleged crime took place in 2008. Story: Omaha.com, April 21, 2010; KTKA, September 14, 2010 (more…)
Claims to fame: Former chair, North Castle, New York, Republican Party; real estate agent, Metes and Bounds Realty; accused sticky-fingered felon (more…)
Claims to fame: Campaign manager for ex-Rep. Chris Shays (R-Conn.); “rising star on the main stage of the Republican Party“; convicted embezzler; admitted dopehead (more…)
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the go-to source on all the latest developments in the Megachurch Televangelist Sex-for-Gifts Scandal — and the latest developments are 1) not unexpected, and 2) icky: (more…)
Claims to fame: Rabidly anti-gay activist; Christian televangelist; senior pastor, New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a Lithonia, Georgia, megachurch of more than 25,000 members; “Prosperity Gospel” preacher; remarried divorcé (thus, an adulterer); accused sex-for-gifts rapist of young men
Video after the jump. (more…)
Claims to fame: Former boys’ basketball coach & driver’s ed teacher, Mater Dei (Catholic) High School, Santa Ana, California; presumed statutory rapist (more…)
Claims to fame: Former seminary principal, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) Church Educational System, American Fork, Utah; husband; father of three; rapist (more…)
Claims to fame: 18-year-old failed 2010 Republican candidate, Washington state House of Representatives; senior, Skyview High School, Vancouver, Washington; leader, Young Life (”a ministry in which adult volunteer leaders build mentoring relationships and share their lives with teenagers in order to teach them about Jesus Christ and how to live lives in a personal relationship with him and for him”); anti-choicer; arrogant little geek who thinks the U.S. Constitution is dangerously flawed; accused dope pusher, thief, counterfeiter & forger (more…)
Because we could spend 24/7 tracking the sins 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.
Convicted: Jennifer Michelle Brennan, 37, of Spotsylvania, Virginia, youth minister, St. Matthias United Methodist Church, Stafford, on three counts (out of an original twenty) relating to sexual abuse of a 15-year-old boy (whom she was counseling, along with the boy’s girlfriend, against premarital sex): using a communications device to solicit sex from a minor, child neglect and unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor — the last of which occurred on numerous occasions, usually “in Brennan’s van in Target and Walmart parking lots.” Brennan had claimed the boy had raped her three times. Sentencing is scheduled for November 22, 2010; Brennan could receive up to 16 years in prison. Story: Conservative Babylon, October 4, 2009; Fredericksburg.com, September 16, 2010 (more…)
Claims to fame: Ex-Florida Republican Party leader; accused felon
Moral apex: Arrested in June, 2010, and charged with stealing more than $125,000 from his own party, and of money laundering. (more…)
The Indianapolis cop with the dated pompadour and seedy ’stache & goatee — and Republican councilmember who voted down the city’s ordinance to ban discrimination in housing and employment based on sexual orientation or gender identity — must think strip joints are morally sound (as long as they’re heterosexual, we guess). (more…)
ONE IN A SERIES
Despite their relegation to permanent second-class status, there is no shortage of women in positions of responsibility — or, rather, irresponsibility — in the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts. And some are no better than their male counterparts…
Lori A. Bosworth was a 38-year-old Cub Scout leader and assistant Boy Scoutmaster who, in 2000, pleaded guilty to multiple counts of statutory rape, and was sentenced to four years in prison. Her victim: a 12-year-old boy, friend to one of her sons. (more…)
Claims to fame: Republican; Log Cabinette; one-term (1998-2002) Arizona state legislator; ex-candidate, 2010; Mormon; “super extreme” drunk driver; lowdown, dirty trickster; (and, sounds to us like a) shameless liar
Moral apex: He’s a gay Republican. That’s such a sack of hypocrisy, we could end the discussion right there, but it gets even… (more…)
Claims to fame: President, Pantheon Construction Corporation, South Jordan, Utah; Republican Party leader/activist; member, National Republican Hispanic Assembly; anti-gay, anti-choice Mormon Teabagger who thinks God had something to do with writing the U.S. Constitution; father of three; divorcé who believes in “traditional marriage”; three-time accused stalker (more…)
Claims to fame: Former senior pastor, First Baptist Church, Anadarko, Oklahoma; big-spending strip club habitué (more…)
Because we could spend 24/7 tracking the sins 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: William Bendert, pastor, King of Kings Lutheran Church, Lake Orion, Michigan, in an online sting. An FBI agent posing as an 11-year-old girl and her mother says Bendert offered “sexual training” to the fictitious 11-year-old, the complete details of which are spelled out in the agent’s affidavit (which also mentions that two of Bendert’s previous AOL accounts had been terminated for transmitting child pornography), available from The Smoking Gun. See also: MLive.com, September 13, 2010; WXYZ.com, September 13, 2010 (more…)
ONE IN A SERIES
Believe it or not, the following cases are not the worst among the Boy Scouts of America; tragically, these stories are almost mundane in comparison to others — which we’ll get to, in short order. (more…)
Claims to fame: Former pastor, Reeders United Methodist Church, Reeders, Pennsylvania; adulterer; suspected wife-killer (or wives-killer)
Moral apex: Arrested September 13, 2010, and charged with murdering his second wife, Betty Jean Schirmer, in 2008, and staging a car wreck to make her death look like an accident. (more…)
Because we could spend 24/7 tracking the sins 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: Miguel Cala, 37, in Virginia and charged with sexually assaulting a child under 12 years of age. Until May, 2010, was a longtime music teacher at St. Andrew’s Catholic School, Coral Springs, Florida. Police say Cala has confessed. Story: Miami Herald, September 8, 2010 (more…)
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