Re: What Is Going on with the Trans Trend with Rightists?

[Is Candace Owens A PEDOPHILE?]

Why are rightists obsessed with children and sex?

I bet Candace Owens is a pedophile.


Southern Baptist leaders release a previously secret list of accused
sexual abusers


A cross and Bible sculpture stand outside the Southern Baptist Convention
headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday. Southern Baptist leaders
have released a list of hundreds of pastors and other church-affiliated
personnel accused of sexual abuse.
Holly Meyer/AP

In response to an explosive investigation, top Southern Baptists have
released a previously secret list of hundreds of pastors and other church-
affiliated personnel accused of sexual abuse.

The 205-page database was made public late Thursday. It includes more than
700 entries from cases that largely span from 2000 to 2019.

Its existence became widely known Sunday when the independent firm,
Guidepost Solutions, included it in its bombshell report detailing how the
Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee mishandled allegations
of sex abuse, stonewalled numerous survivors and prioritized protecting
the SBC from liability.

Executive Committee leaders Rolland Slade and Willie McLaurin, in a joint
statement, called publishing the list "an initial, but important, step
towards addressing the scourge of sexual abuse and implementing reform in
the Convention."
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"Each entry in this list reminds us of the devastation and destruction
brought about by sexual abuse," they said. "Our prayer is that the
survivors of these heinous acts find hope and healing, and that churches
will utilize this list proactively to protect and care for the most
vulnerable among us."
Church officials kept a private list of abusers, an investigation found

The Guidepost report, released after a seven-month investigation,
contained several explosive revelations. Among them: D. August Boto, the
committee's former vice president and general counsel, and former SBC
spokesman Roger Oldham kept their own private list of abusive ministers.
Both retired in 2019. The existence of the list was not widely known
within the committee and its staff.

"Despite collecting these reports for more than 10 years, there is no
indication that (Oldham and Boto) or anyone else, took any action to
ensure that the accused ministers were no longer in positions of power at
SBC churches," the report said.
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The Executive Committee did not make additions to the published list, but
their attorneys did redact several entries as well as the names and
identifying information of survivors and others unrelated to the accused,
Thursday's joint statement said.

They made public "entries that reference an admission, confession, guilty
plea, conviction, judgment, sentencing, or inclusion on a sex offender
registry," and expect some of the redacted entries on the list to be made
public once more research is done. The list also includes Baptist
ministers that are not affiliated with the SBC.

Survivors and advocates have long called for a public database of abusers.
The creation of an "offender information system" was one of the key
recommendations in the report by Guidepost, which was contracted by the
Executive Committee after delegates to last year's national meeting
pressed for an outside investigation.
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Also in the report was a shocking allegation that Johnny Hunt, a Georgia-
based pastor and former SBC president, sexually assaulted another pastor's
wife during a beach vacation in 2010. Hunt has disputed the allegation,
saying in a statement that he has "never abused anybody."

He resigned May 13 as senior vice president of evangelism and leadership
at the North American Mission Board, the SBC's domestic missions agency.
On Wednesday, NAMB leaders announced changes to address the issue
including committing to investigate abuse accusations and creating an
Abuse Prevention and Response Committee to assess and strengthen existing
policies and procedures.
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A former New Hampshire state representative and the nation’s first
transgender-identifying state lawmaker was arrested by police this week and
charged for allegedly distributing child pornography.

Stacie Marie Laughton, a Democrat who previously resigned twice from the New
Hampshire state house, is now facing four counts of distributing sexually
explicit images of children. Laughton was born Barry Charles Laughton, Jr.

Nashua Police Department public information officer Sgt. John Cinelli said
that police were called to respond to a juvenile incident on Tuesday and were
then told that the former lawmaker had been distributing explicit images. On
Thursday, police searched Laughton’s house and arrested him.

Former state Rep. Stacie Marie Laughton of Derry, the first openly
transgender person elected to the N.H. House of Representatives, was
arrested Thursday by Nashua police on charges alleging distribution
of child sexual abuse images, officials said. https://t.co/PvICV9bGnm

— UnionLeader.com (@UnionLeader) June 23, 2023

“They spoke with reporting parties that indicated Laughton distributed
sexually explicit images of children,” Cinelli said, according to Patch.
“Detectives from the special investigations division were assigned to further
the investigation. They applied for and were granted a warrant for Laughton’s
arrest.”

Laughton is slated to be arraigned on Friday at the Hillsborough County
Superior Court-South.

The 39-year-old has been plagued by repeated legal troubles in the past. In
2008, he was convicted of credit card felony, according to the New Hampshire
Union-Leader. In 2012, Laughton became the first transgender-identifying
person elected as a state lawmaker, thrilling LGBT activists.

“I believe that at this point, the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender)
community will hopefully be inspired,” Laughton said at the time. “My hope is
that now maybe we’ll see more people in the community running, maybe for
alderman. Maybe in the next election, we’ll have a senator.”

Shortly after the election, Laughton stepped down after the credit card fraud
allegations came to light. Laughton was later sentenced to six months in jail
after reporting a bomb threat to a hospital in 2015. In July 2021, Laughton
was arrested for giving police false information.

Laughton won election to the state house again in November 2022, only to step
down in December after accusations of stalking. Laughton had been arrested on
stalking charges twice in 2022, including an incident in September just
months before the election.

“I’m alive, I’m safe, I’m well,” Laughton said in a Facebook video at the
time, announcing he was leaving politics. “I’m not suicidal, and just trying
to get by every day with what I’ve been dealt. I don’t know what the future
holds but I do know this — there’s a lot of good opportunities out there for
me to serve, and a lot of good opportunities for me to still stay connected
with everyone and I plan to do that.”

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Let's go Brandon!