Tuesday February 07, 2012
Daniel Montague Acker, Jr. • Tripp Dennis Freeman • Wayne A. Hogue • Valentine Krul
Robert Lahr • Monsignor Kevin McAuliffe • Mitchell J. Rousse • Cameron Travelstead
Charged: Daniel Montague “Danny” Acker, Jr., 49, former youth pastor, Westwood Baptist Church, Alabaster, Alabama; former elementary- and middle-school teacher once named Teacher of the Year; and namesake son of Republican Shelby County commissioner Dan M. Acker; with sexually molesting at least 21 girls throughout his 25-year teaching career. After one 12- or 13-year-old girl accused Acker of molesting her two or three years ago, Acker reportedly admitted to molesting another 20 victims (most or all former students) before ceasing to cooperate with investigators. (more…)
Remember this lovely couple? We profiled Michael and Laura Lee Salazar back in September of 2010:
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
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Amanda Arnwine • Clienton Leroy Bryant • Stephen Corcoran
Charles Donald “Don” Corley • Brian Liska • Daniel P. Morgan
Theodore Walter Podewil IV • Timothy Weirich
Charged: Amanda Arnwine, 29, Cub Scout leader / den mother and mother of two, of Athens, Tennessee, with sexual battery by an authority figure after inappropriately touching a 16-year-old Boy Scout (”working with her on a project”) after drinking “a beer.” Reports WTVC: “Athens police tell us Arnwine has a lengthy criminal history. We’re told she has been charged with three D.U.I.’s, along with public intoxication, and drugs in Hamilton County over the past few years.” Which makes us wonder how in the world the BSA could have possibly overlooked her rap sheet. (more…)
Monday February 06, 2012
James K. “Ken” Ard
Claims to fame: Republican Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina (2011- ); “man of faith”; subject of seemingly interminable ethics investigation; DUI suspect-daddy
Moral apex: Gosh, it’s hard to choose… We’ll let you decide: (more…)
Video after the jump.
Trial set: Quintin P. O’Dell, 22, Eagle Scout and convenience store employee of Platte City, Missouri, for February 28, 2012. O’Dell is charged with first-degree murder, first-degree assault and two counts of armed criminal action in the hatchet murder of a female co-worker and the grisly slashing of another. (more…)
James Boudreau • William Lynn Cosby • Michael Delaney
Tammy Futrell • Emmanuel Kusi-Agyarku • Wendell Loy Nielsen
Santos Adiel Rosado • Royston Thompson • Nana Kofi Yirenkyi, a.k.a. “Jesus One Touch”
Guilty: James Boudreau, 68, retired priest, former pastor or associate pastor at numerous Catholic churches in Ontario (including St. John the Baptist, Guelph; St. James, Oakville; Our Lady of the Assumption, Stoney Creek; St. Gabriel, Burlington; St. John’s, Kitchener; and Canadian Martyrs, Hamilton) of two charges of sexual assault committed against two boys during the 1980s. Sentencing is scheduled for April 13, 2012. Story: TheSpec, January 26, 2012 (more…)
Sentenced: Travis Wright, 48, Mormon “priest,” former Boy Scoutmaster, former manager, Waterford Loan Fund LLC / Waterford Funding LLC (”a real estate loan fund that promised returns ranging from 8 percent to 44 percent over nine months”), Draper, Utah, to ten years in federal prison plus $43.2 million in restitution after pleading guilty to running a Ponzi scheme that bilked 175 unwitting investors out of some $145 million. (more…)
Claims to fame: Mayor, Southaven, Mississippi; conservative “family values” Republican; 2008 Republican nominee, U.S. Congress; former state representative; civil engineer; husband; father; closet homo; gay-porn-shop customer (which also makes him a biblical, lust-in-one’s-heart adulterer, per Romans 1:23-25); suspected thief
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Sunday February 05, 2012
Claims to fame: Puerto Rican senator (2005-2011); former chair, Senate Commerce, Tourism and Infrastructure Committee; former chair, San Juan congressional district GOP committee; vice-chair, George W. Bush-Dick Cheney Puerto Rico 2004 re-election campaign; alumnus, Louisiana State University; food importer; revoltingly homophobic closet case; extreme exhibitionist (almost reaching the point of a certain Internet-coined word that sounds like a synonym for “nanny” combined with a synonym for “ocean”) (more…)
Mark Stewart Bullock • Jose Alexis Davila • Anthony Lee Drumgoole
Margaret Essel • John Picard • Matthew Christopher Porter
Bartley Sorensen • Raymond Vincent
Arrested: Mark Stewart Bullock, 47, Roman Catholic priest, and removed from his post at Church of the Immaculate Conception, Towson, Maryland, after being charged with indecent exposure when he was reportedly discovered completely naked from the waist down in a movie theatre inside an adult bookstore. A hearing is slated for March 6th. Story: Baltimore Sun, January 22, 2012; CBS Baltimore, January 23, 2012
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Video after the jump.
You do realize, don’t you…? This is guy in charge of keeping Indiana’s elections on the up-and-up.
Oh, and we just realized: He’s divorced, too. Tsk, tsk…
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Claims to fame: Three-times married Republican Colorado state representative (Grand Junction, 2008- ); DUI suspect… sort of
Moral apex: Stopped January 25, 2012, for drunk driving.
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Saturday February 04, 2012
Tedd Butler • Ronald Fails • Jeffery London • Anthony C. Morris
David Kent Pierce • Russell Louis Rodman • Scott Keith Voss • Milton Wells
Sentenced: Tedd Butler, 46, former pastor, Gospel Light Baptist Church, Walker, Michigan, to one year in jail, to run concurrently with the one-year sentence he is already serving, for two different cases involving the sexual abuse of small boys. In the first, when Butler was a 19-year-old youth minister at the now-closed Landmark Baptist Church, Algoma Township, Michigan, he “admitted to sexually molesting a boy 50 to 60 times between January 1984 and the end of 1992,” when the boy was between three and nine years old. In the second, more recent case, he touched a five-year-old boy inappropriately in his own home. Story: MLive.com, August 25, 2011; WOOD, January 31, 2012; WWMT, January 31, 2012 (more…)
Friday February 03, 2012
Remember this guy? This is Arthur Burton Schirmer, former pastor of Reeders United Methodist Church in Reeders, Pennsylvania. In 2010, he was charged with murdering his second wife, Betty Jean Schirmer, in a staged car wreck in 2008. The cops thought things looked fishy (especially since the car was going only something like 25mph when the “accident” “killed” Betty Jean), but they couldn’t quite put their collective finger on the problem — or on Schirmer — until the husband of the woman Schirmer was having an affair with killed himself inside Schirmer’s church, and— (more…)
Dennis Brown • Patrick Edouard • Derrick Trevor Griffin
David Edwin Radtke • Kenneth Robinson and Alexis Dodson • Tommy Shelton
Kenneth Terrell • Kevin L. Vader • Toris Young
Request to rule evidence inadmissable: Dennis Brown, 67, pastor, Ivester Church of the Brethren, Eldora, Iowa, charged with third-degree sexual abuse committed against a 15-year-old girl he met online. Brown claims the search warrant for his home “was not supported by information sufficient to constitute probable cause” as no sexual activity took place there. A hearing is slated for February 6, 2012. Story: WCF Courier, January 26, 2012
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Claims to fame: Pastor, Jonesboro Worship Center, Jonesboro, Arkansas; founder, Leadership Dynamics; braggart (per blog:”Holder of 1 Guiness Book of World Records Record”); bank fraud; tax cheat; jailbird
Moral apices: Defrauding a bank by using his church as unauthorized loan collateral, cheating the IRS (and ultimately you, Mr. or Ms. Taxypaer) by deliberately failing to remit payroll taxes for church employees, and spending the money in ways he shouldn’t have. (more…)
Died: Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, 88, retired Roman Catholic cardinal who ruled the Philadelphia archdiocese, on January 31, 2012. His death brings to a close the question of whether or not he was competent (the church claimed dementia fogged Bevilacqua’s memory) to testify in an upcoming trial regarding his handling — or rather mishandling and strongly-suspected cover-ups — of three suspected child-abusing priests and a lay teacher once under his command (although Bevilacqua was long suspected of covering up many other sex-abuse cases within the dicoese). Of course, Bevilacqua preferred to blame the long “tradition” of child sex-abuse within the Catholic church — and the long tradition of transferring pervert pedophile priests from one dicoese to another instead of dealing with the abuse head-on — on (you guessed it) homosexuality. Imagine that. (more…)
Rick Bartlett • Darrell Lewis Gilyard • Christopher Iruke • Shawn Anthony Justice
Rick Rogers • Jae-Kap Song • Timothy Dane Tillman
Arrested and charged: Rick Bartlett, 55, pastor, Bastrop Christian Church, Bastrop County, Texas, with animal cruelty after allegedly killing a family cat by throwing him off a 50-foot bridge. Bartlett, known for trapping feral cats, reportedly captured the 12-year-old tabby, Moody — who wore identification tags — then threw the cat in a cage on the back of his truck and “forgot” about him for three days. Then, Bartlett claims, he found Moody missing. (more…)
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Claims to fame: Former pastor, New Life Church of Restoration (now called Crossroads House of Prayer), near Gatesville, Texas; murder suspect
Moral apex: Considering that he hasn’t been convicted of murder, we’d have to say it’s getting remarried less than a year after his previous wife’s charred corpse stopped smoldering. Hardly illegal, but pretty insensitive (especially to his kids), tasteless, and, well, suspicious. (more…)
Thursday February 02, 2012
Energy Publisher brought this sick little phenomenon to our attention with the headline, “Florida: Evangelical pastors arrested on child sex charges: Four arrests of Christian pastors in one week on charges of sexual abuse of minors.”
The suspected perps:
Darryl Leonard Taylor, Jr., 25, youth minister, Born Again Church of God in Christ, Auburndale, facing a total of 13 counts of lewd acts and lewd battery committed against a boy between 12 and 15 years old. Story: 13 News, December 13, 2011
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Backstory: Conservative Babylon, December 30, 2010; February 5, 2011.
Boy, this is one we’ve been waiting for: the conviction of Sacramento-area gay-bashing senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Rio Linda, Tommy Gene Daniels.
The good news: He was convicted in December of 11 of 12 counts against him for sexually molesting five girls between five and eight years old. All were reportedly molested at Daniels’s home; the APB reports that one “had been going to the residence for day care. The other four were foster children placed there by adoptive parents who found them too difficult to handle.”
Daniels’s wife — who told of the abuse by one of the girls and did nothing — said all the girls were liars.
The bad news: Sentencing — which could land Daniels as much as 165 years — was delayed in January after his lawyer motioned for a new trial.
Stay tuned.
Matthew Preston Clark • James W. French • William Davis Harrison, Jr.
Otis Vernell Holland • Robert Ernest Kirchhoff
Daniel Earl Webster • Unnamed Ghana woman
Arrested: Matthew Preston Clark, 33, senior pastor, Blessed Assurance Temple, Bartow, Florida, in a gay sex sting at Peace River Park in Homeland and charged with soliciting a lewd act. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office states that “Clark told the detective ‘what kind of activity’ goes on at the park and described in graphic detail the sexual characteristics of another man he had met at the park. Clark asked the detective to perform a sex act on him (Clark).” Story: Polk County Sheriff’s Office, January 25, 2012; Tampa Bay Online, January 25, 2012; Towleroad, January 26, 2012 (more…)
Wednesday February 01, 2012
As if his alleged mishandling of Oral Roberts University funds and his own wife’s alleged indiscretions (we really must write those up someday) weren’t enough, 63-year-old televangelist Richard Roberts was arrested January 24, 2012, and charged with going lickety-split down U.S. 169 with a BAC of .11, well above the legal limit of .08. (more…)
Tuesday April 12, 2011
I used to be the only one who did this. Now I’m not, and now, there are many, many people who do it better.
I’m not in competition with anyone, but I have to consider, seriously, whether I can do it well at all.
For me, it was never a race to see who could get the most shocking news about right-wingers up first — it was about dig-down-deep research, and presenting the most comprehensive, easily-digestible view out there, by which I mean: major snark softening the most horrible stories so that you could read them without throwing up, in order to make a point, that point being: the people who want to control and restrict your very life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, are the biggest hypocrites of all.
But in the eight years I’ve been doing this (and it has been eight years — where has the time gone?), a lot of other people have taken up the mantle and have been doing the same thing.
I want to say that I don’t harbor any resentment (although, truth be told, I think I do)… that, as I have been telling myself for the better part of a decade: it’s not who gets the credit — it’s that these stories get out there, in order to make the public aware, because we’re all on the same side… right?
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