Six additional men have accused Christian music star Michael Tait of sexual abuse, two saying they were minors at the time. The new allegations, reported by The Guardian, follow Tait’s recent confession of past unwanted sexual contact and drug use.
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An Ohio pastor indicted for sexually abusing two teens is now preaching at a nearby church that defends him as innocent—despite his criminal past and a divorce citing “extreme cruelty.”
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Money, God, and lies: the unholy trinity fueling Trump’s rise. A slick, fear-fed machine sells faith and doom, luring millions into a movement set on gutting their freedoms.
Indiana's Christian nationalist Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith did a podcast attacking Pride Month in which he said that the LGBTQ movement is driven by an ancient "demonic spirit": "This is the same demonic playbook just playing out all over again." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
“Recent reports of my reckless and destructive behavior, including drug and alcohol abuse and sexual activity are sadly, largely true,” Singer for the Christian band Newsboys, Michael Tait, said.
Jim Dale Mustain, 64, former Preston Trail Community Church pastor, has been charged w 1st degree possessing child sexual abuse materials & promoting lewd visual material depicting a child.
A real shocker! 1/
Pro-Trump pastor faces damning allegations of 'financial crimes' and 'psychological abuse'
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Alabama evangelical pastor Allan Jones has been sentenced to only 6 months in jail for possessing images of children being sexually abused.
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White man on a stage. Caption: "...play and he played a woman in the school play."
The "sex discipler," Pastor Ben Rose, claims Ted Haggard had a sex and drug abuse scandal because he played a woman in a grade school play and that's how Satan got his hook in him to be a closeted homosexual living a duplicitous life. What a bunch of garbage.
From @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social (who spent Father’s Day watching videos of Boelter):
Christian Pastor Charged with Murder
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This far right pastor preached hateful sermons in the DRC.
Glad he'll be behind bars after his heinous crime.
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"Faith Ministers are BLOCKING the entrance to the ICE Detention Center, Delaney Hall in New Jersey where Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested last week."
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We spent 6 months investigating a children’s pastor accused of being a serial rapist.
His accusers have spent 40 years fighting to stop him.
Today he works for disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker and runs a secluded camp for kids in the Ozarks.
My latest w/ @ahylton26.bsky.social for @nbcnews.com
The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.
Council papers say the expensive super-schools being given away to the Catholic Church need to 'meet future demand' for faith-base education, but Wales is majority non-religious and rapidly secularising, with no evidence offered that such demand will grow whatsoever. humanists.uk/2025/05/12/w...
Far-right Christian nationalist Michigan state Rep. Josh Schriver has released an album. This track opens with the line: "I just took some pre-workout. I guess that means that I should lift." It then somehow gets worse. Trust us when we say that you are unprepared for when he goes a cappella.
“To me it’s clear — you either stand with victims, or you stand with the people who harmed them,” said State Representative Jeff Leach of Texas, the chair of the state’s House Judiciary Committee.
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"A man suing the Christian Brothers in the Supreme Court of Tasmania has settled his case part-way through the civil trial.The man previously told the court he had been sexually and physically abused while a student at St Virgil's College in Hobart."
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When faith is used to harm or hide abuse, it betrays everything sacred.
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Religion, Abuse | Greater Grace Megachurch
A former Greater Grace World Outreach member is suing the megachurch and its youth pastor, alleging years of sexual and emotional abuse.
"Love for strangers was also codified into Israel’s law, which expanded the category of “stranger” to include society’s most vulnerable: sojourners, foreigners, widows, orphans, and the poor (see Deuteronomy 10:18–19 or Leviticus 19:33–34, for example)."
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"When we live in fear we eventually come to hate something or somebody, maybe even ourselves. Fear breeds fury."
"Well, if popularity was my motive I failed. The joke’s on me. My congregation is about as small as a congregation can get and still keep the church-house doors open."
Christian | Paul Prather
"I hoped to offer an alternative. Namely, love. God’s love for sinners. Our love for God in return. Our love for our fellow fallen humans."
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4. Beyond Ohio, Click has convened strategy sessions with lawmakers from other states, advising them on how to advance similar anti-trans bills. A pastor by profession, he has repeatedly insisted his legislative efforts are not religiously motivated.
This just keeps happening as if it's the norm.
Castration should be the punishment for this 🤬
#CINCO
Pastor Is Accused of Sexually Assaulting 2 Girls at a Florida Church
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*youth pastor voice*
you know who else was a jew…
like we said
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