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Start with [[Why atheists care about religion]] and [[Introduction To Religion]].<br /> <br /> Here are a few of the main areas we want to populate:<br /> <br /> * [[Theism]] - Definitions of [[Theism]], including a list of different [[Religions]] and details on how different religions distinguish themselves from each other<br /> * [[Atheism]] - An introduction to Atheism<br /> * [[Common Theist Arguments]] - An overview of common arguments made by theists, with examples and debunking<br /> * [[Theological Criticisms]] - An overview of various arguments against theism in general and specific beliefs and scripture.<br /> * [[Priest Abuse]] - News items featuring abuses by clergy<br /> * [[Theists Gone Wild]] - Sometimes theists are so misguided it can be perceived as amusing, in a very sad sort of way. Here's a collection of videos.<br /> * [[Movie Room|Now Showing]] in the FTP Theatre: [[Judgement Day - Intelligent Design on Trial]]<br /> * [[Humor]] - The lighter side of irrationality.<br /> {{ga}}<br /> * [[Logical Fallacies]] - A listing of the various types of invalid arguments used in debate, with examples and explanations<br /> [[Image:Wtc-m.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Actual promotional flyer for the WTC in the 1980s. In a world without religion, these two buildings would still be standing.]]<br /> * [[Scripture]] - FTP's overview of scripture and history, edited by historian, [[Rook Hawkins]]<br /> * [[Free Thought Resources]] - A listing of [[Freethought-Oriented Groups]]<br /> * [[Religious Apologists]] - Bold and aggressive theists who try to convince others<br /> * [[Freethought Imagery]] - Funny, provocative and thoughtful images to use here or elsewhere <br /> * [[Freethinkers]] - Our role call of notable online active freethinkers. Also see [[Famous atheists]].<br /> * [[Deconversion Stories]] - Everyone has a story to tell about how they escaped from the bonds of ignorance &amp; fear<br /> * [[Religion Humor]] - The joke's on religion<br /> * [[Vandals]] - If you deface the site, your IP address and information is permanently posted for all to reference later, and make no mistake, you're not anonymous online<br /> &lt;html&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cafepress.com/bsalert/4322774&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://freethoughtpedia.com/images/Ftp_cap.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/html&gt;<br /> * [[:Category:definitions|Definitions]] - FreethoughtPedia Dictionary<br /> * [[Religious Debate]] - Debates between theists and atheists<br /> * [[Conversations]] - Are you a theist and want to comment? This is the page from which to do so.<br /> <br /> FreeThoughtPedia is not looking to encroach into the area of Wikipedia. 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Start with [[Why atheists care about religion]] and [[Introduction To Religion]].<br /> <br /> Here are a few of the main areas we want to populate:<br /> <br /> * [[Theism]] - Definitions of [[Theism]], including a list of different [[Religions]] and details on how different religions distinguish themselves from each other<br /> * [[Atheism]] - An introduction to Atheism<br /> * [[Common Theist Arguments]] - An overview of common arguments made by theists, with examples and debunking<br /> * [[Theological Criticisms]] - An overview of various arguments against theism in general and specific beliefs and scripture.<br /> * [[Priest Abuse]] - News items featuring abuses by clergy<br /> * [[Theists Gone Wild]] - Sometimes theists are so misguided it can be perceived as amusing, in a very sad sort of way. Here's a collection of videos.<br /> * [[Movie Room|Now Showing]] in the FTP Theatre: [[Judgement Day - Intelligent Design on Trial]]<br /> * [[Humor]] - The lighter side of irrationality.<br /> {{ga}}<br /> * [[Logical Fallacies]] - A listing of the various types of invalid arguments used in debate, with examples and explanations<br /> [[Image:Wtc-m.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Actual promotional flyer for the WTC in the 1980s. In a world without religion, these two buildings would still be standing.]]<br /> * [[Scripture]] - FTP's overview of scripture and history, edited by historian, [[Rook Hawkins]]<br /> * [[Free Thought Resources]] - A listing of [[Freethought-Oriented Groups]]<br /> * [[Religious Apologists]] - Bold and aggressive theists who try to convince others<br /> * [[Freethought Imagery]] - Funny, provocative and thoughtful images to use here or elsewhere <br /> * [[Freethinkers]] - Our role call of notable online active freethinkers. Also see [[Famous atheists]].<br /> * [[Deconversion Stories]] - Everyone has a story to tell about how they escaped from the bonds of ignorance &amp; fear<br /> * [[Religion Humor]] - The joke's on religion<br /> * [[Vandals]] - If you deface the site, your IP address and information is permanently posted for all to reference later, and make no mistake, you're not anonymous online<br /> &lt;html&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cafepress.com/bsalert/4322774&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://freethoughtpedia.com/images/Ftp_cap.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/html&gt;<br /> * [[:Category:definitions|Definitions]] - FreethoughtPedia Dictionary<br /> * [[Religious Debate]] - Debates between theists and atheists<br /> * [[Conversations]] - Are you a theist and want to comment? This is the page from which to do so.<br /> <br /> FreeThoughtPedia is not looking to encroach into the area of Wikipedia. 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Start with [[Why atheists care about religion]] and [[Introduction To Religion]].<br /> <br /> Here are a few of the main areas we want to populate:<br /> <br /> * [[Theism]] - Definitions of [[Theism]], including a list of different [[Religions]] and details on how different religions distinguish themselves from each other<br /> * [[Atheism]] - An introduction to Atheism<br /> * [[Common Theist Arguments]] - An overview of common arguments made by theists, with examples and debunking<br /> * [[Theological Criticisms]] - An overview of various arguments against theism in general and specific beliefs and scripture.<br /> * [[Priest Abuse]] - News items featuring abuses by clergy<br /> * [[Theists Gone Wild]] - Sometimes theists are so misguided it can be perceived as amusing, in a very sad sort of way. Here's a collection of videos.<br /> * [[Movie Room|Now Showing]] in the FTP Theatre: [[Judgement Day - Intelligent Design on Trial]]<br /> * [[Humor]] - The lighter side of irrationality.<br /> {{ga}}<br /> * [[Logical Fallacies]] - A listing of the various types of invalid arguments used in debate, with examples and explanations<br /> [[Image:Wtc-m.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Actual promotional flyer for the WTC in the 1980s. In a world without religion, these two buildings would still be standing.]]<br /> * [[Scripture]] - FTP's overview of scripture and history, edited by historian, [[Rook Hawkins]]<br /> * [[Free Thought Resources]] - A listing of [[Freethought-Oriented Groups]]<br /> * [[Religious Apologists]] - Bold and aggressive theists who try to convince others<br /> * [[Freethought Imagery]] - Funny, provocative and thoughtful images to use here or elsewhere <br /> * [[Freethinkers]] - Our role call of notable online active freethinkers. Also see [[Famous atheists]].<br /> * [[Deconversion Stories]] - Everyone has a story to tell about how they escaped from the bonds of ignorance &amp; fear<br /> * [[Religion Humor]] - The joke's on religion<br /> * [[Vandals]] - If you deface the site, your IP address and information is permanently posted for all to reference later, and make no mistake, you're not anonymous online<br /> &lt;html&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cafepress.com/bsalert/4322774&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://freethoughtpedia.com/images/Ftp_cap.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/html&gt;<br /> * [[:Category:definitions|Definitions]] - FreethoughtPedia Dictionary<br /> * [[Religious Debate]] - Debates between theists and atheists<br /> * [[Conversations]] - Are you a theist and want to comment? This is the page from which to do so.<br /> <br /> FreeThoughtPedia is not looking to encroach into the area of Wikipedia. We want to focus mostly on common arguments, apologetic debunking, illumination of logical fallacies, interpretation and analysis of dogma &amp; scripture, science as it relates to critical thinking arguments, and as simplistic an overview as possible on the various types of religion and world views currently in play.<br /> <br /> = Getting started =<br /> <br /> <br /> === We welcome and encourage people to add and improve the content on FreeThoughtPedia. 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The man, David Nicholas Dempsey, was a part of about a dozen right-wing demonstrators who pushed against anti-Trump protesters on Sunday, near Santa Monica Pier. After the supporters of Donald Trump pushed against the leftist protesters, Mr Dempsey pulled the pepper spray from his jeans and misted those in the crowd. He now faces charges of allegedly violating his parole, and using prohibited tear gas weapon and assaulting the crowd with a caustic chemical, according to KTLA. “It was these f***ing libtards over here, man,” Mr Dempsey can be heard telling police in a video captured at the protest. Wearing a short-sleeve button-down shirt decorated with marijuana leaves, he continued his thought: “These commies — I didn’t do anything.”[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/maga-trump-hat-protest-attack-pepper-spray-bear-david-dempsey-california-a9165196.html]<br /> * Republican state Sen. Mike Folmer, 63, represents parts of Lebanon, Dauphin and York counties. According to a release from Attorney General Josh Shapiro's office, Folmer was arrested Tuesday night after images of child pornography were found on his phone when police searched his home after obtaining a warrant.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/09/17/mike-folmer-pennsylvania-state-senator-faces-child-pornography-charge/2360244001/]<br /> * Oklahoma State Senator Ralph Shortey, who voted for anti-trans ‘bathroom bill’ busted in hotel with underage boy, charged with child prostitution.[https://kfor.com/2017/03/16/oklahoma-state-senator-ralph-shortey-charged-with-engaging-in-child-prostitution/]<br /> * Feds Arrest Neo-Nazi Trump Fan for Threatening to &quot;Exterminate&quot; Miami Hispanics - Washington state resident Eric Lin was not shy about his love for Adolf Hitler. According to a criminal complaint filed Friday, Lin enjoyed referencing the Third Reich in writing: He apparently sent a litany of Hitler-referencing death threats to a Hispanic woman in Miami and got himself arrested last week after he planned to wire a man $10,000 to beat her up, hatched a plot to kidnap her and stuff her in a plastic bin, and repeatedly vowed to kill every Hispanic person in the Magic City.[https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/neo-nazi-eric-lin-threatened-to-exterminate-miami-hispanics-fbi-says-11247579]<br /> * A Republican politician reportedly punched his wife in the face after she didn’t undress quickly enough when he wanted to have sex, according to a police report. Doug McLeod, a state legislator from Mississippi, was arrested on Saturday and charged with domestic violence.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/doug-mcleod-mississippi-domestic-violence-wife-arrest-punch-sex-a8924671.html]<br /> * Washington GOP state legislator Matt Shea taped at rally urging supporters to arm themselves with AR-15s for civil war.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/01/republican-matt-shea-rightwing-rally-guns?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other]<br /> * A white man in South Carolina has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to trying to hire a hit man to kill his black neighbor, hang him from a tree and leave a burning cross in his yard, prosecutors said.[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/us/hit-man-lynching.html]<br /> * Every extremist murder in the U.S. in 2018 was linked to right-wing extremism, according to an alarming new report from the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. The annual report found that at least 50 people were killed by extremists in 2018, marking a 35 percent increase from 2017. This makes 2018 the fourth-deadliest year on record for domestic extremist-related killings since 1970.[https://shareblue.com/extremist-murders-2018-right-wing-terrorism/][https://www.adl.org/murder-and-extremism-2018]<br /> * Despite calls for refunds, new campaign filings show Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith kept $50,000 in donations from major companies like Walmart and Facebook in the wake of her controversial special election victory in November. The latest Federal Election Commission filing -- released amid the government shutdown at the end of last week -- showed that Republican Hyde-Smith did not issue refunds to most of the corporate donors who asked for their campaign contributions to be returned in November in the wake of her “public hanging” comment.[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republican-cindy-hyde-smith-return-50000-donations-scandal/story?id=60086837]<br /> * In the first eight months of his presidency, President Trump made 1,137 false or misleading claims, an average of five a day. In October, as he barnstormed the country holding rallies in advance of the midterm elections, the president made 1,205 claims — an average of 39 a day.Combined with the rest of his presidency, that adds up to a total of 7,546 claims through Dec. 20, the 700th day of his term in office, according to The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/21/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/?noredirect=on]<br /> * A new terrorism database analysis shows almost two-thirds of the terror attacks in the United States last year were carried out by right-wing extremists.[https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/12/study-shows-two-thirds-us-terrorism-tied-right-wing-extremists]<br /> [[File:Right wing terrorists.jpg|right]]<br /> * A military veteran who had railed online against women and blacks opened fire in a Tallahassee yoga studio, killing two women and wounding five.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/03/man-with-groping-history-opens-fire-tallahassee-yoga-class-killing-two-police-say/?utm_term=.9c5fde0444f2]<br /> * Justice Dept. brings hate-crime charges against man accused of shooting black customers at Kentucky Kroger[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-dept-brings-hate-crime-charges-against-man-accused-of-shooting-black-customers-at-kentucky-kroger/2018/11/15/ce01bf66-e91d-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html?utm_term=.3128e815e4c4]<br /> * Gun-related tragedy struck once again this week, this time at a Catholic Supply store in Ballwin, Missouri, a suburb of St. Lous. USA Today reports that a former pastor has been arrested after allegedly attempting to coerce three women into having sex with him at gunpoint. When one of them resisted, he shot 53-year-old Jamie Schmidt in the head and forced the other two to submit to his “deviant” demands. The shooter, 53-year-old Thomas Bruce, has a reputation for right-wing tirades on social media and has ranted against gun-free zones in the past. He was a huge fan of President Trump, attended his rallies, and regularly tweeted about Republican politics. His last tweet read “I’ve already forgotten you. #promisesmade #promiseskept #trump2020 #BuildTheWall” and his feed was full of retweets from white nationalist FOX anchor Laura Ingraham.[https://washingtonpress.com/2018/11/23/a-trump-obsessed-pastor-just-shot-a-woman-dead-and-sodomized-two-others-in-horrific-sex-assault/]<br /> * School officials said a Republican candidate Melissa Howard, running for the GOP nomination in a Florida legislative seat lied about graduating from Miami University and faked her diploma, according to a new report.[http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/401383-university-says-gop-florida-house-candidate-faked-her-diploma-report]<br /> * Man Wearing MAGA Hat Arrested for Shoving Immigrant Onto Subway Tracks; Staten Island's Willie Ames, 47, is ​suspected by the NYPD to have shoved 24-year-old ​Mexican immigrant Luis Lopez onto the tracks on April 21. That while wearing, of course, a bright red &quot;Make American Great Again&quot; hat. According to the police, Ames had hurled slurs at Lopez and called him a &quot;f—ing Mexican.&quot;[https://www.pluralist.com/posts/599-man-wearing-maga-hat-arrested-for-shoving-immigrant-onto-subway-tracks/partners/43955]<br /> * Waffle House suspect Travis Reinking deemed himself a 'sovereign citizen,' part of anti-government group.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/04/22/waffle-house-suspect-travis-reinking-sovereign-citizen/540543002/]<br /> * As they back Trump, evangelical leaders face their own sex scandals.[https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/03/31/they-back-trump-evangelical-leaders-face-their-own-sex-scandals/9JwpnbdWzHOzQ7tEAmxUPN/story.html]<br /> * An Ohio lawmaker who routinely touted his Christian faith and anti-LGBT views has resigned after being caught having sex with a man in his office. Wes Goodman, who is the Republican state legislator for Ohio, is married to a woman who is assistant director of an annual anti-abortion rally known as March for Life.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/lawmaker-wes-goodman-anti-lgbt-resigns-sex-man-office-caught-ohio-republican-christian-family-values-a8060631.html]<br /> * A southern Utah Republican party official has been arrested in a prostitution sting a week after a politician from a neighboring city stepped down amid allegations that he met a prostitute in a taxpayer-funded hotel room. The Spectrum newspaper reports Iron County Republican Party treasurer Blake Cozzens was arrested Tuesday after paying $100 for sex acts he discussed in text messages with a confidential informant.[http://kutv.com/news/local/southern-utah-gop-official-arrested-in-prostitution-sting]<br /> * When GOP congressman Scott DesJarlais (TN) was a doctor, he had sexual relationships with his patients. Despite being a “pro-life” advocate, he pressured women in his life to have abortions, including his ex-wife, who had two abortions while they were together.[https://www.nova-magazine.net/republican-pro-life-congressman-slept-patients-paid-abortions/]<br /> * Trump campaign coordinator and &quot;family values&quot; republican pleads tuilty to child sex trafficking, faces live in prison.[http://www.newsweek.com/republican-sex-trafficking-child-trump-coordinator-716348]<br /> * Days after a former state senator pleaded guilty to federal child sex trafficking, Moore Police released body cam footage of the call that led the then-seated senator to be charged with state child prostitution charges. Ralph Shortey, 35, pleaded guilty to child sex trafficking in federal court last week; in exchange, child pornography charges were dropped.[http://kfor.com/2017/12/04/moore-police-release-body-cam-footage-from-night-state-senator-found-in-hotel-room-with-teen-boy/]<br /> * Republican congressperson Mia Love, from Utah, caught using campaign funds on trip to Disneyworld.[https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/over-seven-days-at-disney-world-rep-mia-love-used-a-lot-of-campaign-funds-wcz/]<br /> * Lane Maurice Davis, Donald Trump supporter and regular poster on T_D Reddit forum, stabs his father to death believing he was &quot;leftist&quot;.[https://www.goskagit.com/news/man-pleads-not-guilty-in-father-s-stabbing-death/article_479b3b6f-88d4-502d-ae77-ff5f098fb511.html][https://www.reddit.com/r/Fuckthealtright/comments/76y0os/t_d_poster_useattle4truth_murders_his_father/]<br /> * Pro-Life Congressman Won't Seek Re-Election After Reports He Urged Mistress to Get Abortion[http://time.com/4970013/tim-murphy-pennsylvania-congressman-abortion/]<br /> * Rep. Tim Murphy, popular with pro-life movement, urged abortion in affair, texts suggest. Another — a six-page memo to Mr. Murphy purportedly written by his chief of staff, Susan Mosychuk — described a hostile workplace in which Mr. Murphy repeatedly denigrated employees, threatened them and created a state of “terror.”[http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2017/10/03/rep-tim-Murphy-pro-life-sought-abortion-affair-shannon-edwards-susan-mosychuk-pennsylvania-chief-of-staff-congress-emails-texts/stories/201710030018?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_campaign=Echobox&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1507061392]<br /> * Former congressman &amp; mayor, Anthony Weiner Sentenced to 21 Months in Prison for sending obsene messages to an underage girl.[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-25/weiner-gets-prison-for-sexting-teen-in-case-that-jolted-election?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&amp;utm_content=business&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social]<br /> * &quot;Family Values&quot; Republican, Dr. Joey Hensley, Accused Of Breaking Up Marriage To Have Affair With His Cousin.[https://theintellectualist.co/family-values-republican-accused-of-breaking-up-marriage-to-have-affair-with-his-cousin/]<br /> * A former student of Kentucky's Transylvania University, Mitchell W. Adkins, was arrested Friday after he allegedly stormed a campus café with a machete and a bag of knives, quizzed students on their political affiliations, and injured two women. &quot;He asked somebody what their political affiliation was, they said ‘Republican,’ and the guy said, 'You are safe,'&quot; campus newspaper editor-in-chief Tristan Reynolds told the Lexington Herald-Leader. &quot;And then I realized what was going on and started getting people out.”[https://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/a-trump-supporter-allegedly-attacked-students-at-a-school?utm_term=.bpA5N1mzr#.yq5Yqx69b]<br /> * Conservative Christian and Oklahoma lawmaker Ralph Shortey is charged with engaging in child prostitution and other felonies after being caught in a hotel room with an underage boy.[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ralph-shortey-oklahoma-lawmaker-hit-child-prostitution-charges-n734376]<br /> * Republican lawmaker, Bill Cassidy, who promoted legislation to teach “abstinence-only” sex education in schools announced that his own unmarried high school-aged daughter has gotten pregnant.[http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/07/10/republican-abstinence-only-crusaders-17-year-old-daughter-is-pregnant/][http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/07/bill_cassidy_senate_campaign_r.html]<br /> * Republican congressman John Fleming of Louisiana tells his constituents that because he’s rich, he doesn’t work for them. [http://www.salon.com/2017/04/13/watch-republican-congressman-tells-his-constituents-that-because-hes-rich-he-doesnt-work-for-them/]<br /> * Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has surrendered to authorities on campaign finance violations and he's expected to resign soon rather than face impeachment. Bible-toting Bentley got smitten with a female staffer and got caught by his wife (now divorced) exchanging texted love notes and, on tape, talking to his sweetie about fondling her breasts. The woman's husband has a well-paid position as an adviser on faith matters. The crime wasn't the sex. The problem was the governor's effort to cover it up and using campaign and official resources on protecting himself and going after enemies. [http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2017/04/10/star-falls-in-alabama-governor-booked-on-ethics-charges]<br /> [[File:Crazy republicans.jpg|right]]<br /> * Oklahoma Republican State Senator Ralph Shortey, married with kids, was caught in a hotel with a teenage boy. Shortey has resigned from his Senate seat after being charged with three counts, including engaging in child prostitution, engaging in prostitution within 1,000 feet of a church and transporting minor for prostitution/lewdness.[http://www.koco.com/article/court-date-set-for-former-oklahoma-sen-ralph-shortey/9178322]<br /> * Alabama Republican, Rep. Jack Williams filed HB 428, a bill that would criminalize the sale of a smartphone or other internet access device without a pornography filter. Adults wanting to turn off the filters would pay a $20 fee and request the deactivation in writing.[http://abc3340.com/news/local/house-bill-would-put-porn-filters-on-cellphones]<br /> * Married-with-children Oklahoma state senator and Trump campaign chair Republican Ralph Shortey is under investigation after he was found in a motel room with an underage male.[http://www.towleroad.com/2017/03/ralph-shortey/?utm_content=buffer64f5d&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer]<br /> * Anti-gay republican outed as former drag queen. [http://issuehawk.com/igor/2014/05/05/anti-gay-republican-outed-as-former-drag-queen.html]<br /> <br /> * Sponsor Of Anti-LGBT “Bathroom Bill” Caught Sexually Harassing 34 Women, Exiled From Capitol Building[http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/04/12/sponsor-anti-lgbt-bathroom-bill-caught-sexually-harassing-34-women-exiled-capitol-building/]<br /> <br /> * Steve Wiles, a Republican state Senate candidate who supports North Carolina’s constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage, once worked as a female impersonator at a gay nightclub in Winston-Salem and was gay at the time, according to a co-owner of the nightclub and a former employee.[http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/gop-candidate-was-once-a-female-impersonator/article_a1029862-5a82-5752-90e4-eac7155bce1e.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.<br /> <br /> * Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania pled no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo of Floyd County, Kentucky was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins of Asbury Park, New Jersey pled guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker of Nashua, New Hampshire is a convicted child molester.<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor Philip Giordano of Waterbury, Connecticut is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8 and 10-year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor John Gosek of Oswego, New York was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner David Swartz of Richland County, Ohio pled guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.<br /> <br /> * Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain of Monroe County, Pennsylvania was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth of Kannapolis, N.C., is a convicted child rapist in Florida.<br /> <br /> * Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader of Witchita, Kansas pled guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency of Camden, New Jersey pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge of Soputhbay, California was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.<br /> <br /> * Republican pastor Mike Hintz of Des Moines, Iowa, who George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Peter Dibble of New London, Connecticut pled no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer of Arizona was charged with molesting his 9-year old step daughter after including her in an anti-Gore television commercial.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. and Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence both of Washington, D.C. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens of Columbus, Ohio was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.<br /> <br /> * Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio of Burke, Virginia was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Mark A. Grethen of Colorado Springs. Colorado was convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Randal David Ankeney of El Paso County, Arizona pled guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Dan Crane of Illinois had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist and Christian Coalition and South Carolina Republican leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.<br /> <br /> * Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline of Orange County, California was placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography.<br /> <br /> * Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman of Maryland was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.<br /> <br /> * Republican Committee Chairman and attorney Jeffrey Patti of Sparta, New Jersey was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Marty Glickman of Florida (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD. It was Glickman, interestingly enough, that claimed Bill Clinton came from a low rent state and had torn down all of the standards for the highest office in the land.<br /> <br /> * Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks of Quartz Hill, California was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.<br /> <br /> * Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway who had relocated to Maine from Huntsville, Alabama after having been accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.<br /> <br /> * Republican preacher Stephen White of West Chester, Pennsylvania, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.<br /> <br /> * Republican talk show host Jon Matthews of Houston, Texas pled guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling of Anderson, Indiana was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Paul Ingram of Thurston County, Washington pled guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican election board official Kevin Coan of St. Louis, Missouri was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Andrew Buhr, also of St. Louis, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Keith Westmoreland of Kingsport, Tennessee was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt of Pensacola, Florida was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Councilman Keola Childs of Hawaii County, Hawaii pled guilty to molesting a male child.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist John Butler of Cass County, Illinois was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican candidate Richard Gardner of Clark County, Nevada admitted to molesting his two daughters.<br /> <br /> * Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner of Lancaster, Pennsylvania was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter of Boothbay, Maine pled guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. of Wrightsville Borough, Delaware pled no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.<br /> <br /> * Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.<br /> <br /> * Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall of Virginia was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.<br /> <br /> * Republican city councilman Mark Harris of West Bend, Wisconsin, who has been described as a “good military man” and “church goer,” was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.<br /> <br /> * Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo of Bakersfield, California molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp, Russell Harding, pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.<br /> <br /> * Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen, Sr. of Kalispell, Montana, was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.<br /> <br /> ==List Of Convicted Republican Pedophiles:==<br /> <br /> Feel free to research these people independently.<br /> <br /> Compiled from: https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/awxa6e/jim_jordans_sex_abuse_scandal_comes_back_after/ehq2lsc/<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.[https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2005/3/29/103019/-]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fredericksburg.com/news/crime_courts/air-force-investigator-goes-to-prison-for-molesting-stafford-girl/article_ef749960-7ae3-548c-88de-cde2bec21f79.amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.[https://www.google.com/amp/www.poconorecord.com/article/20120426/NEWS90/204260334%3ftemplate=ampart]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.deseretnews.com/article/830211/NJ-man-pleads-guilty-to-Internet-porn-charges.amp]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.[http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2002/vol6n33/MislaRape-en.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.[https://www.google.com/amp/www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-philip-giordano-appeal-sex-charges-20151204-story,amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.[http://articles.latimes.com/2001/apr/06/local/me-47737]<br /> <br /> * Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.[https://www-m.cnn.com/2013/02/05/us/south-carolina-thurmond-daughter-obit/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&amp;rm=1]<br /> <br /> * Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.[http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Omaha-Church-Adds-Pastor-With-A-Past-303831061.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/nyregion/embroiled-first-selectman-takes-leave.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Donald &quot;Buz&quot; Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/25/us/teen-ager-in-ohio-testifies-to-sex-with-a-congressman.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/04/24/gop-activist-admits-to-child-porn/5af2adf0-bec8-4a10-b061-014de679422a/?utm_term=.217884e2f945]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1066630/mark-anthony-grethen-v-sandra-lynn-grethen/]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.[https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/gop-activist-accused-of-assaulting-another-girl]<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/photos/political-sex-scandals-43202982/image-dan-crane-43203720]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/02/opinion/journal-beverly-russell-s-prayers.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman* was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.[https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/2005034]<br /> <br /> * Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.[http://www.njherald.com/article/20060510/ARTICLE/305109971]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks* was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.[http://articles.latimes.com/2002/aug/20/local/me-brooks20]<br /> <br /> * Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/06/us/politics-the-senate-maine-candidate-again-faces-1990-child-sex-accusation.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican preacher Stephen White*, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.[http://www.thedp.com/article/2004/01/brother_stephen_convicted_of_soliciting_sex]<br /> <br /> * Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.[http://www.houstonpress.com/news/jon-matthews-conservative-talk-show-host-and-sex-offender-pulled-from-kpfts-prison-show-6740755]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-gay activist Earl &quot;Butch&quot; Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-02-10/news/0002100308_1_adoption-fight-molesting-woody-burton]<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/29/books/books-of-the-times-a-family-is-destroyed-by-a-sexual-chimera.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wnd.com/2001/03/8428/amp/]<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Andrew Buhr* was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1908&amp;dat=20040108&amp;id=SNwfAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=ZNkEAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=2505,474893&amp;hl=en]<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children].[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-06-20/news/0206200332_1_indecent-exposure-lawmaker-westmoreland]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.[http://www.sptimes.com/2003/06/11/State/Troopers_nab_antiabor.shtml]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Councilman Keola Childs* pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.[http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Oct/08/ln/hawaii710080338.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.[https://caselaw.findlaw.com/il-court-of-appeals/1113050.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.[https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2002/oct/14/assembly-candidate-gardner-ruled-ineligible-due-to/]<br /> <br /> * Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.[https://www.google.com/amp/amp.wgal.com/article/council-accepts-resignation-of-member-imprisoned-for-rape/6189408]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.[http://www.columbiatribune.com/5bd8f6fc-ba88-11e3-86e1-10604b9f6eda.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall* was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/15/AR2005101501539_3.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/29/us/republican-quits-governor-s-race-in-minnesota.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican director of the &quot;Young Republican Federation&quot; Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.[https://bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/registered-sex-offender-keeps-custody-of-daughter]<br /> <br /> * Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/missoulian.com/news/kalispell-businessman-richard-dasen-charged-with-prostitution-related-crimes/article_f04ce8a9-fa02-54fa-addd-267d2357a4a9.amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican state senator Ralph Shortey from Oklahoma admitted to being involved in sodomy with a 17 year old male prostitute and transporting child pornography.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/kfor.com/2018/06/04/prosecutors-say-former-oklahoma-senator-enticed-teen-with-sex-with-wife-groomed-victim-for-more-than-a-year/amp/]<br /> <br /> * Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert in jail for the payments he made to cover up raping his wrestlers when he was a high school coach.[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/us/dennis-hastert-released.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Judge and campaign official Tim Nolan for President Donald Trump indicted for human trafficking and forcing a minors (9] to engage in sexual activity and giving alcohol to minors (results from the court pending].[https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cincinnati.com/amp/463805002]<br /> <br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * [[Theists in the news]]<br /> * [[Christian terrorists in the news]]<br /> * [[Democrats in the news]] <br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Political_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Theists_in_the_news Theists in the news 2020-09-24T18:58:57Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>Modern stories and links of the many weird things religious people do that make news.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Priest in cuffs.jpg|right]]<br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * [[Theists in the news (archive)]] for many more stories<br /> * [[Republicans in the news]]<br /> * [[Democrats in the news]]<br /> * [[Christian terrorists in the news]]<br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> ==Theists in the news==<br /> <br /> * NC Pastor Jesse Hursey yells &quot;White Power&quot; out of his vehicle at a Trump rally.[https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article245926935.html]<br /> * List: Every abusive Catholic church priest, clergy member named in every state in past year[https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2019/09/04/list-abusive-priests-other-clergy-every-state-since-pennsylvania-grand-jury-report/2139297001/]<br /> * A high-ranking Vatican priest, Monsignor Luigi Capozzi who is a secretary to one of Pope Francis’ closest collaborators was arrested by Vatican police after they caught him hosting a cocaine-fueled homosexual orgy in a building right next to St. Peter’s Basilica.[https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/high-ranking-monsignor-with-link-to-pope-francis-caught-in-cocaine-fueled-g]<br /> * Kentucky principal, Phillip Todd Wilson, an outspoken Christian who campaigned to ban books deemed inappropriate from classrooms, was arrested for possessing and distributing child pornography.[https://bookriot.com/2019/08/28/principal-tied-to-censorship-arrested-faces-child-pornography-charges/][https://www.wtvq.com/2019/08/28/clark-county-principal-facing-child-pornography-charges/]<br /> * Idaho pastor, Bret Allen Welty, charged with child sex abuse.[https://idahonews.com/news/local/calvary-chapel-issues-statement-after-local-pastor-arrest]<br /> * Oklahoma State Senator Ralph Shortey, who voted for anti-trans ‘bathroom bill’ busted in hotel with underage boy, charged with child prostitution.[https://kfor.com/2017/03/16/oklahoma-state-senator-ralph-shortey-charged-with-engaging-in-child-prostitution/]<br /> * Florida minister, Frederic Sterry Smith, 62, of St. Augustine, president of Servant’s Heart Disaster Relief, a St. Augustine-based nonprofit and &quot;evangelical hands-on ministry devoted to helping hurricane victims in North America and the Caribbean, was charged with simple battery after writing a homophobic slur in a restaurant receipt and shoving it down the shirt of the restaurant's female manager.[https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/crime/2019/08/01/florida-man-writes-anti-gay-remark-restaurant-bill-assaults-woman-police-say/1887099001/]<br /> * A Christian school kindergarten teacher in the Chicago suburbs is facing charges related to sexual assault and child pornography after investigators say that she sent explicit material to minors for years. Shannon Griffin is the wife of the pastor of Jordan Baptist Church and is a teacher at the associated Jordan Baptist school in Oak Lawn, a suburb of Chicago. Christian school teacher who scolded girls to be modest was molesting male students. She was a moral scold who told girls they were dressing like sluts &amp; the entire time she was sending naked photos of herself to male students. [https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/07/christian-school-teacher-scolded-girls-modest-molesting-male-students/][https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/07/02/teacher-sexual-assault-shannon-griffin-burbank/][https://abc7chicago.com/burbank-teacher-charged-with-sex-assault-soliciting-child-porn-from-2-students/5375571/]<br /> * A principal in Louisiana has resigned after being arrested at a Washington, DC strip club. Holy Family Principal Michael Comeau was chaperoning a middle school trip to the nation's capital when he was arrested at Archibald's Gentlemen's Club in Northwest DC. Police were called to the club, just blocks from the White House, to found Comeau “standing in the roadway, refusing to move.&quot; Comeau reportedly refused to settle up with the club.[https://www.complex.com/life/2019/06/louisiana-school-principal-arrested-at-strip-club-in-dc]<br /> * The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $8 million to a teenager who was sexually abused and kidnapped by a teacher at her Catholic high school.The teenager's attorney, David Ring, said that the settlement — finalized by a court last week — is the largest that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles has ever paid to a single victim, The Associated Press reports. Over the past 15 years, the archdiocese has paid more than $740 million in sexual abuse settlements.[https://www.npr.org/2019/04/17/714212609/archdiocese-of-los-angeles-agrees-to-8-million-settlement-in-sex-abuse-case]<br /> * A large majority of priests in the Vatican are gay, although many are not sexually active, a new book claims. A total of about 80 percent of the most revered clerics in the Roman Catholic Church are homosexual despite the church’s opposition to gay rights, according to the extensively researched book by French journalist Frédéric Martel. The gay priests adhere to an unspoken code called “the closet,” where it is understood that, for instance, a cardinal or bishop who denounces homosexuality is more likely to be gay, according to the book “In the Closet of the Vatican.”[https://nypost.com/2019/02/14/80-percent-of-priests-in-the-vatican-are-gay-new-book/]<br /> * 7-year old boy killed after court-appointed guardian punishes him for not knowing 13 bible verses[https://fox11online.com/news/local/guardians-teen-charged-in-death-of-7-year-old-manitowoc-co-boy]<br /> * Evangelicals sue for right to deny shelter to homeless transgender people.Alliance Defending Freedom, the far-right evangelical legal group that defended the “right” of a baker to deny service to gay couples before the Supreme Court, has a new target.This time they’re suing to give a homeless shelter in Anchorage, Alaska, the “right” to deny help to transgender people. The federal court lawsuit seeks to overturn the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance that prohibits discrimination against LGBTQ people.[https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/01/evangelicals-sue-right-deny-shelter-homeless-transgender-people/]<br /> * Male Escort Exposes 36 Gay Priests in File Sent to Vatican Containing Explicit WhatsApp Chats and Erotic Photos[https://www.newsweek.com/male-escort-exposes-36-gay-priests-file-sent-vatican-containing-explicit-829968]<br /> * Vatican’s Third-Most Powerful Official Cardinal George Pell Convicted on All Charges He Sexually Abused Choir Boys in the 1990s[http://blackchristiannews.com/2018/12/vaticans-third-most-powerful-official-cardinal-george-pell-convicted-on-all-charges-he-sexually-abused-choir-boys-in-the-1990s/]<br /> * “Aryan Pride” for Jesus: An Oklahoma pastor is under arrest after being caught running a prostitution ring with a white supremacist. Pastor Walter Eugene Brazington Jr. is “being charged with procuring for prostitution and possession of a firearm while in the commission of a felony,” according to a report from Tulsa World.[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2017/12/oklahoma-pastor-busted-running-white-supremacist-prostitution-ring/]<br /> * Lawsuit: At least 14 kids abused at hands of North Charleston church volunteer. Jacop Robert Lee Hazlett, 28, of Proximity Drive in West Ashley, faces one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor under 11 years old, according to his arrest affidavit and court records. Hazlett had worked as a volunteer chaperone and day care provider since March for NewSpring Church, located at 5101 Ashley Phosphate Road, supervising children ages 3 to 5 in a room called &quot;the Tree House.&quot;[https://www.postandcourier.com/news/lawsuit-at-least-kids-abused-at-hands-of-north-charleston/article_7d97d7f2-f3d8-11e8-9ec7-6ffa7310138b.html]<br /> * An Illinois priest who spent time in prison for manufacturing and selling a date-rape drug has been removed from ministry again for getting involved in a criminal case without telling his superiors. Peoria Diocese Bishop Daniel Jenky removed the Rev. Jeffrey Windy from his post serving three Ottawa parishes in March.[https://www.bnd.com/news/state/illinois/article222188995.html]<br /> * Gun-related tragedy struck once again this week, this time at a Catholic Supply store in Ballwin, Missouri, a suburb of St. Lous. USA Today reports that a former pastor has been arrested after allegedly attempting to coerce three women into having sex with him at gunpoint. When one of them resisted, he shot 53-year-old Jamie Schmidt in the head and forced the other two to submit to his “deviant” demands. The shooter, 53-year-old Thomas Bruce, has a reputation for right-wing tirades on social media and has ranted against gun-free zones in the past. He was a huge fan of President Trump, attended his rallies, and regularly tweeted about Republican politics. His last tweet read “I’ve already forgotten you. #promisesmade #promiseskept #trump2020 #BuildTheWall” and his feed was full of retweets from white nationalist FOX anchor Laura Ingraham.[https://washingtonpress.com/2018/11/23/a-trump-obsessed-pastor-just-shot-a-woman-dead-and-sodomized-two-others-in-horrific-sex-assault/]<br /> * Catholic Church Shielded Priests Who Raped Boys, but It Helped Lock Up a Priest Who Swiped Bucks. The monsignor who gambled and traveled on the Archdiocese’s dime remained behind bars as a grand jury reported on the crimes of his peers who preyed on children.[https://www.thedailybeast.com/catholic-church-shielded-priests-who-raped-boys-but-it-helped-lock-up-a-priest-who-swiped-bucks]<br /> * Grand jury report: Priests ran child porn ring in Pittsburgh Diocese[http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-nws-pa-pittsburgh-diocese-porn-ring-20180815-story.html]<br /> * Pastor Timothy Lee Reddin did not practice what he preached, police claim. The Arkansas church leader was arrested this week for allegedly trying to meet with an underage boy to have sex, part of a police sting operation.[https://www.inquisitr.com/5025011/anti-gay-pastor-timothy-lee-reddin-arrested-sex-with-underage-boy/]<br /> * A former New Jersey pastor who co-founded the Creation Festival, which bills itself as the country's largest Christian music festival, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for sexually assaulting multiple young children. Harry Thomas, 75, who formerly pastored Come Alive New Testament Church in Medford and went on to help create the popular music festival, failed in withdrawing his guilty plea on Friday, the Associated Press reported.[https://www.christianpost.com/news/creation-festival-co-founder-sentenced-to-18-years-for-child-sex-abuse-i-deserve-to-be-cast-into-sea-226484/][http://www.startribune.com/ex-pastor-sentenced-to-18-years-in-child-sex-abuse-case/489423631/]<br /> * Revelations that a prominent U.S. cardinal sexually abused and harassed his adult seminarians have exposed an egregious abuse of power that has shocked Catholics on both sides of the Atlantic. But the Vatican has long been aware of its heterosexual equivalent — the sexual abuse of nuns by priests and bishops — and done little to stop it, an Associated Press analysis has found. An examination by the AP shows that cases of abused nuns have emerged in Europe, Africa, South America and Asia, demonstrating that the problem is global and pervasive, thanks to the sisters' second-class status in the church and their ingrained subservience to the men who run it.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/metoo-vatican-nuns-denounce-priests-1.4765021]<br /> * A longtime pastor of a Bogalusa church pleaded guilty to the theft of more than $95,000 in Social Security disability benefits, U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans said Thursday. Jerry R. Newton, 54, of Slidell, is set for an Oct. 25 sentencing hearing before U. S. District Court Judge Jane Triche Milazzo.[https://www.nola.com/northshore/index.ssf/2018/07/bogalusa_pastor_pleads_guilty.html]<br /> * The Vatican tribunal has convicted a former Holy See diplomat and sentenced him to 5 years in prison for possessing and distributing child pornography in the first such trial of its kind inside the Vatican.[https://apnews.com/76aa075fbd1b40a487bc75fdd8f56e8c] Note that the Vatican refused to revoke the perpetrator's diplomatic immunity so he could be prosecuted in the United States.[https://www.inquisitr.com/4954910/priest-and-former-vatican-diplomat-to-u-s-found-guilty-of-possessing-child-pornography/]<br /> * A Catholic priest is behind bars after admitting to plying an underage boy with alcohol and molesting him. Father Steven Michael Guidry and his attorney reported to the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office on June 13 and confessed to giving alcohol to the minor before sexually assaulting him.[https://wgno.com/2018/06/14/catholic-priest-arrested-for-molesting-16-year-old-boy/]<br /> * Diocese knew priest arrested for child sex crimes was abusing boys, authorities say. The Diocese of Erie knew since at least May 2010 of the abuse, but this priest was still in active ministry as recently as 2 months ago. The Catholic Church knowingly allows pedophiles to have access to children.[https://www.pennlive.com/news/2018/05/erie_priest_charged_with_child.html]<br /> * The Rev. William Thomas Faucher, accused of child porn and drug crimes, was role playing with a fellow author in some of the chatroom conversations in which he’s alleged to have said he wanted to rape and kill children, his attorney said in court Friday.[http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/article208855704.html]<br /> * A well-known Alabama evangelist, public speaker and author was arrested in Hoover Tuesday on child sex charges. Paul Edward Acton Bowen, a 37-year-old Gadsden native who now lives in Etowah County's Southside community, was taken into custody by Hoover police about 12:35 p.m. The founder of Acton Bowen Outreach Ministries is charged with second-degree sodomy, enticing a child to enter a vehicle or house for immoral purposes, and second-degree sex abuse. The victim was a young male, but police did not release his age except to say he is over 12 and under 16.[http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2018/04/alabama_evangelist_acton_bowen.html]<br /> * As they back Trump, evangelical leaders face their own sex scandals.[https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/03/31/they-back-trump-evangelical-leaders-face-their-own-sex-scandals/9JwpnbdWzHOzQ7tEAmxUPN/story.html]<br /> * A former Bossier Parish pastor has been arrested after admitting to police he had meth at his Bossier City home. Andy C. Harris, 56, of 2406 Benton Road in Bossier City, was charged with possession of a Schedule II controlled dangerous substance (methamphetamine) and possession of drug paraphernalia. [https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/crime/2018/03/09/benton-man-arrested-possession-meth/410682002/]<br /> * A 1,200-page dossier containing the names of 34 ‘actively gay’ priests and six seminarians in Italy has been sent to the Vatican by the archdiocese of Naples.The allegations were compiled by Francesco Mangiacapra, a gay male escort who told local media he couldn’t put up with the priests’ &quot;hypocrisy&quot; any longer.[http://www.newsweek.com/male-escort-exposes-36-gay-priests-file-sent-vatican-containing-explicit-829968]<br /> * Mari Lopez Lopez credited veganism and a faith in God as the cure for her breast cancer last year, just months before her breast cancer returned. She later died from cancer.[http://www.wfaa.com/article/news/youtuber-who-claimed-veganism-cured-her-cancer-dies-of-cancer/521951036]<br /> * Pastor George Nelson Gregory, 61, of Munhall, Pa., was caught by cops in the backseat of a car with another man who was completely naked and bound with nylon rope in the front seat. Gregory says he was counseling the man, who is battling a drug problem.[http://www.pennlive.com/daily-buzz/2018/02/pa_pastor_caught_by_cops_in_wi.html]<br /> * 100s of child porn images, LSD, ecstasy found in Boise priest’s home, prosecutor says. Longtime Catholic Rev. W. Thomas Faucher, 72, was brought into court in a wheelchair Monday evening for his arraignment on 14 different charges.[http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/crime/article198567664.html]<br /> * Memphis mega-church pastor Andy Savage admits he molested a minor days before his ‘True Love Waits’ workshop.[https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/memphis-mega-church-pastor-admits-he-molested-a-minor-days-before-his-true-love-waits-workshop/]<br /> * An Ohio priest under investigation for questionable communications with a minor took his life in Chicago. The Chicago Tribune reports that Father James Csaszar jumped from the 82-story Aqua Hotel in downtown Chicago and the death was ruled a suicide on Thursday by the Cook County medical examiner's office.[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-csaszar-ohio-priest-kills-himself-in-chicago-amid-investigation/]<br /> * Co-founder of nation’s largest Christian rock festival abused minors for 16 years, authorities say, Harry L. Thomas, 74, of Medford Township, faces charges of aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office. [https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/co-founder-of-nations-largest-christian-rock-festival-abused-minors-for-16-years-authorities-say/]<br /> * Ralph Shortey, former Trump campaign chairman, Anti-Gay 'Family Values' Former GOP State Senator Guilty of Child Sex Trafficking After Being Found With Teen Boy.[http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/_family_values_republican_state_senator_pleads_guilty_to_child_sex_trafficking_after_child_pornography_charges_dropped]<br /> * Conservative megachurch founder Bob Coy accused of molesting 4-year-old[https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/conservative-megachurch-founder-bob-coy-accused-of-molesting-4-year-old/]<br /> * Devin Patrick Kelley, a vocational bible instructor, and ex Air Force soldier, opened fire in a Texas church, killing 26 people including children.[https://viral.buzzunites.com/2017/11/05/devin-kelley-5-fast-facts-you-need-to-know/]<br /> * Amber James, the mother who killed her nine-year-old son on Halloween, says she prayed, thought about it, and cried before she strangled him to death to “save” him.[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/11/03/mom-who-murdered-son-on-halloween-prayed-about-it-first/]<br /> * A Middletown mother will spend 21/2 to 5 years in state prison for assaulting her daughter because the teen didn't recite Bible verses correctly.Rhonda Shoffner, 41, was sentenced by Dauphin County Judge John F. Cherry after she pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated assault, strangulation, child endangerment and making terroristic threats.[http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/10/mom_who_beat_daughter_for_not.html?utm_source=fark&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_content=link&amp;ICID=ref_fark]<br /> * The Vatican trial over $500,000 in donations to the pope’s pediatric hospital that were diverted to renovate a cardinal’s penthouse is reaching its conclusion, with neither the cardinal who benefited nor the contractor who was apparently paid twice for the work facing trial.[https://www.apnews.com/ed6e8fcc7b5146eabc65e6b83564be19/Anomalies-abound-in-Vatican-trial-over-diverted-donations]<br /> * Shattered faith: Nearly 100 sex abuse suits against Catholic priests rock island of Guam.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/04/guam-priest-child-sex-abuse-scandal/503680001/]<br /> * Vatican blames women for pedophile priest scandals. [http://www.neonnettle.com/news/2359-catholic-church-women-are-to-blame-for-pedophile-priests]<br /> * Vatican rocked: Police raid drug-fuelled gay orgy at cardinal's apartment.[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=11886097]<br /> * Christian fundamentalist pastor to stand trial over death of two-year-old granddaughter from pneumonia.[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/christian-faith-healer-pastor-trial-pneumonia-medicine-rowland-foster-ella-fundamentaliism-a7814261.html]<br /> * Faith-healing parents charged with murder in death of premature twin baby[http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-city/index.ssf/2017/06/followers_of_christ_parents_of.html#incart_river_index]<br /> * North Carolina televangelist Todd Coontz – author of numerous books on faith and finances – has been indicted on charges of tax fraud spanning more than a decade.[http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/23/534128363/north-carolina-televangelist-indicted-on-charges-of-tax-crimes]<br /> * Ferndale Mother Arrested For Attempted Homicide After ‘Trying to Remove the Demons’ from Her 11-Year-Old Child.[https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2017/jun/16/ferndale-mother-arrested-attempted-homicide-after/]<br /> * Juror jailed for contempt in mistrial of minister, Brooke Covington, who is accused of kidnapping and beating a parishioner to expel his 'homosexual demons'[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4576384/Gay-beating-case-hands-jury-4-years-incident.html]<br /> * Monsignor William A. Dombrow was able to steal $500,000 from a church-owned retirement home, and used the money to pay for gambling, expensive dinners and concerts. He pleaded guilty to four federal wire fraud counts on Thursday. The maligned priest previously ran Villa St. Joseph in Darby for the Philadelphia Archdiocese, which housed aging priests and treated those accused of sexual abuse. Much of the stolen money came from insurance payments for priests who died and from the estates of parishioners.[http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/05/priest_admits_to_stealing_500k.html#incart_river_home_pop]<br /> * Conservative Christian and Oklahoma lawmaker Ralph Shortey is charged with engaging in child prostitution and other felonies after being caught in a hotel room with an underage boy.[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ralph-shortey-oklahoma-lawmaker-hit-child-prostitution-charges-n734376]<br /> * Oklahoma missionary sentenced to 40 years for sexually assaulting children in Upendo Children's Home in Nairobi, Kenya. Matthew Lane Durham, 21, was sentenced to four decades in prison by Judge David L. Russell on four counts of &quot;engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places,&quot; according to court documents. &quot;In a span of just 33 days,&quot; prosecutors wrote to the court, Durham &quot;raped three girls -- ages 5, 9 and 15 -- at least eight times. During that same time period, he sexually molested a 12-year-old boy twice.&quot;[http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/07/us/missionary-sexual-assault-kenya-children/index.html]. Christian publications claim missionary was possessed by a Demon named &quot;Luke&quot;. [http://www.christianpost.com/news/teen-missionary-indicted-for-raping-children-at-orphanage-says-he-was-possessed-by-demon-named-luke-124428/]<br /> * Religious Parents Who Refused to Take Son to Hospital and Thought God Would Resurrect Him Found Guilty of First Degree Murder.[http://edmontonjournal.com/storyline/they-knew-he-was-dying-parents-guilty-of-1st-degree-murder-in-sons-death]<br /> * Word of Life Christian Church Pastor Tiffanie Irwin, her brother Joseph Irwin and mother and son church members Linda Morey and David Morey have entered guilty pleas in the church orchestrated beating of two teen boys, leaving one dead and the other severely injured. Reports indicate the teens were beaten because they discussed leaving the congregation. Lucas Leonard, 19, was severely beaten by members of the church last October, suffering injuries to the abdomen, genitals, back and thighs that ultimately proved to be fatal. At the time of the suspects arrest, police said the “spiritual counseling session” at the church was in reality an hours-long attack in which the teen boys were repeatedly whipped with cords, pummeled with fists, and kicked. They suffered severe injuries to the abdomen, genitals, back and thighs. A church member testified that the “counseling session” lasted for 14 hours and only stopped because Lucas “was dead at that point.”[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2016/10/pastor-3-others-guilty-in-fatal-beating-of-teen-trying-to-escape-church/]<br /> * Man Admits to Killing Cancer-Surviving Daughter, But Not Before Asking God to Intervene. 25-year-old Ryan Lawrence pleaded guilty to murdering his 21-month-old daughter, a survivor of eye cancer, in part because he may have been jealous of all the attention she was getting.[https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1804932/dad-battered-brave-toddler-to-death-with-a-baseball-bat-in-jealous-rage/]<br /> * Christian who &quot;dedicated his life to Jesus&quot;, Richard Keenan, who served as mayor of Hubbard in 2010 and 2011, was indicted last month eight counts of rape and 12 counts of attempted rape and gross sexual imposition of a 4 year old girl.[http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/ohio-ex-mayor-who-dedicated-life-to-christ-admits-to-raping-4-year-old-and-blames-her-as-willing/]<br /> * Brian Mitchell, a youth pastor at a North Olmsted church, a husband and father of three children under the age of 8, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday for raping an unnamed teenager.[http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/09/extremely_delusional_north_olm.html]<br /> * 24-year-old “Christian Warrior” named Bryce Cuellar was arrested after posting a YouTube video detailing how he was going to kill “gays, faggots, lesbians and satanists.”[http://www.ktnv.com/news/las-vegas-man-facing-charges-after-posting-threatening-youtube-video]<br /> * Pastor Who Said Pulse Victims Weren't Victims, Got 'What They Deserve' Arrested for Child Molestation. Controversial pastor Ken Adkins has been charged with two counts of child molestation in Georgia and is in the Glynn County jail, officials said.[http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2016-08-26/story/controversial-pastor-and-activist-ken-adkins-charged-child-molestation]<br /> * Gunman fatally shoots Pennsylvania churchgoer after fight over seat at Sunday service.[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/churchgoer-killed-fight-seat-sunday-service-article-1.2618098]<br /> * Jerry Childress, a 75-year-old church organist from Florida, was arrested for indecent exposure after a glory hole attempt went wrong.[http://americannewsx.com/religion/church-organist-arrested/]<br /> * An Acadiana priest has been arrested for allegedly possessing over 500 images of child pornography, according to the Louisiana State Police. Father Felix David Broussard, a priest at St. Bernard Roman Catholic Church in Breaux Bridge, was arrested today and booked into St. Martin Parish jail on 500 counts of pornography involving juveniles.[http://klfy.com/2016/07/27/breaux-bridge-priest-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges/]<br /> * A 3-year-old boy died on Sunday after he was accidentally left in a hot car parked outside a church, according to police. The child’s family was attending an afternoon Bible study at Rehoboth Praise Assembly in Dallas.[http://kdvr.com/2016/07/25/child-dies-in-hot-car-while-family-worships-in-church/]<br /> * London priest charged after allegedly gambling away more than $500,000 meant for Syrian refugees. [http://m.en.canoe.com/CNEWS/Crime/2016/07/14/22651721.html]<br /> * Man following &quot;god's orders&quot; tried to crush toddler daughter's skull with a bat to help her get to heaven.[http://www.wbir.com/news/deputies-toddler-attacked-at-motel-critically-injured/260712415]<br /> * Sam Sutter, A 26-year-old youth minister is facing sexual battery charges following his arrest. According to a Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office report, Sutter was involved in a sexual relationship with a teenage girl he met through his job at the Openwater Church. [http://wfla.com/2016/06/19/youth-pastor-with-odessa-church-arrested-on-sexual-battery-charges/]<br /> * Anti-gay pastor, Dave Reynolds, the recently fired pastor of the Cornerstone Bible Fellowship in Sherwood, Arkansas is currently facing 70 counts of distributing, possessing, or viewing child pornography.[http://www.arkansasmatters.com/news/local-news/new-details-in-child-porn-charges-against-former-sherwood-pastor]<br /> * The Catholic church in Pennsylvania has been accused of employing “mafia-like” tactics in a campaign to put pressure on individual Catholic lawmakers who support state legislation that would give victims of sexual abuse more time to sue their abusers.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/17/pennsylvania-catholic-church-sexual-abuse-bill-mafia-tactics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other]<br /> * David James Brown, head pastor at First Christian Church of Jeffersonville, Indiana. was arrested after allegedly seeking sex with a minor.[http://www.wdrb.com/story/32232744/jeffersonville-pastor-arrested-after-allegedly-seeking-sex-with-a-minor]<br /> * A former Vatican archbishop, Jozef Wesolowski, accused of paedophilia stored tens of thousands of child porn videos and photos on a computer in his office at the Holy See diplomatic compound in the Dominican Republic, it has emerged.[http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/vatican-paedophilia-scandal-archbishop-jozef-wesolowski-stored-over-100000-child-porn-videos-1467410]<br /> * John David Brock, 60, died after a snake bit him in the left arm and he refused medical treatment, according to the Bell County Sheriff's Office. Brock was handling a snake during a church service at Mossy Simpson Pentecostal Church in Jenson, Kentucky.[http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Man-dies-in-Bell-County-after-he-was-bitten-by-snake-during-church-service-318868451.html]<br /> * The president of a Christian charity in Iowa, Jon S. Petersen, of Cedar Rapids admitted that he embezzled nearly a half-million dollars in donations and used the money to pay for a sex addiction, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. [http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article78129452.html]<br /> * Virginia pastor, Christopher Alan Hogge, 48, has been charged eight counts of possession and distribution of child pornography, according to the Isle of Wight County Sheriff's Office.[http://wtvr.com/2016/05/23/virginia-pastor-arrested-on-child-porn-charges/]<br /> * A private Christian school in Kansas is reserving the right to expel students who have gay family members. [http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/05/20/christian-school-threatens-to-expel-pupils-if-they-have-a-gay-family-member/?utm_source=ET&amp;utm_medium=ETFB&amp;utm_campaign=portal&amp;utm_content=inf_11_60_2&amp;tse_id=INF_c1d0cb4ff39e4a1b90bc30417379d323]<br /> * Grace Baptist Church children’s pastor arrested in sex trafficking operation.[http://wate.com/2016/05/20/tbi-conduct-knoxville-human-trafficking-investigation/]<br /> * Vehemently Anti-LGBT Pastor Arrested On Child Pornography Charges.[http://theintellectualist.co/infamous-anti-lgbt-pastor-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges/]<br /> * Ohio seminary student arrested for alleged plan to have sex with adopted baby in Mexico [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/seminary-student-allegedly-planned-sex-baby-mexico-article-1.2515560]<br /> * Woman beats disabled man with his own cane for saying he doesn’t believe in God[http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/woman-beats-disabled-man-with-his-own-cane-because-he-said-he-doesnt-believe-in-god-police/]<br /> * Phoenix Woman Accused of Killing Atheist Victim, Then Keeping the Body as a “Shrine From God”[http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/64863225-story]<br /> * Lisa Biron, Anti-Gay Christian Lawyer, Arrested On Child Pornography Charges[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/20/lisa-biron-anti-gay-christian-lawyer-child-porn-charges_n_2166055.html]<br /> * Pastor Slept with Young Girls During Prayer Sessions as Part of their “Healing Process”[http://allchristiannews.com/pastor-slept-with-young-girls-during-prayer-sessions-as-part-of-their-healing-process/]<br /> * Sheriff's Office: Harvey catechism teacher promises students a photo of Santa, then shows them naked picture instead[http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/news/crime/13876211-148/catechism-teacher-in-harvey-showed]<br /> * Almost 800 babies and children were buried in a mass grave in Ireland near a home for unmarried mothers run by nuns.[http://churchandstate.org.uk/2014/06/almost-800-babies-buried-in-septic-tank-at-catholic-run-irish-home-for-unmarried-mothers/]<br /> * Alabama Pastor Made Daughter Watch While He Sexually Abused Minors.[http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/10/prosecutors_plan_to_introduce.html]<br /> * The pastor and two members of a Corona, CA church pleaded guilty on Monday to torturing a thirteen-year-old boy, including driving him into the desert and forcing him to dig his own grave. Lonny Lee Remmers, James Craig, and Darryll Duana Jeter Jr. abused the child at a group home run by Heart of Worship Community Church.[http://aattp.org/pastor-church-members-viciously-tortured-young-boy-forced-him-to-dig-own-grave-in-the-desert/]<br /> * Minneapolis church struck by lightning, destroying cross[http://www.fox9.com/weather/15331725-story]<br /> * Six Brothers Raped Their Sister For Years While ‘Christian’ Homeschool Parents Did Nothing.[http://reverbpress.com/justice/jackson-brothers-sexual-assault-sister-christian/]<br /> * A Tennessee pastor who was recently admonished by police for having sex with another man in a church van parked in a parking lot, was arrested this week for embezzling an estimated $60,000 from his church’s coffers.[http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/pastor-caught-having-gay-sex-in-van-spent-stolen-church-money-on-farmer-dating-website-police/]<br /> * Four of six homeschooled brothers, including a pastor, admit to molesting their sister.[http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/four-of-six-homeschooled-brothers-plead-guilty-to-molesting-their-sister-while-anti-school-parents-did-nothing/#.VV88faFKoyU.facebook]<br /> * Antigay Michigan Pastor Outed by Grindr Messages[http://www.mediaite.com/online/antigay-michigan-pastor-outed-by-grindr-messages/]<br /> * A Baptist preacher in Eureka Springs who features prominently in a new video urging repeal of the city's Ordinance 2223, which protects LGBT people from discrimination, pleaded guilty to a series of violent rapes in Oklahoma in 1977.[http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2015/04/20/eureka-spring-pastor-in-repeal-2223-ad-is-a-convicted-serial-rapist]<br /> * Texas church members accused of starving ‘demon-possessed’ toddler and then trying to resurrect him[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/texas-church-members-accused-of-starving-demon-possessed-toddler-and-then-trying-resurrect-him/]<br /> * Louisianal youth pastor is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old girl. Jonathan Bailey has been charged with one count of indecent relationship with a juvenile.[http://www.wdsu.com/news/local-news/new-orleans/youth-pastor-accused-of-inappropriate-relationship-with-juvenile/31530534?utm_source=Social&amp;utm_medium=FBPAGE&amp;utm_campaign=wdsutv&amp;Content%20Type=Story&amp;linkId=12612108]<br /> * Ax-wielding hair designer burns down Michigan adult store to please God[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/ax-wielding-hair-designer-burns-down-michigan-shop-to-please-god/]<br /> * An 11-year-old Canadian Aboriginal girl with leukaemia, who stopped chemotherapy after &quot;seeing a vision of Jesus,&quot; has died.[http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/makayla-sault-girl-who-refused-chemo-for-leukemia-dies-1.2829885]<br /> * Anti-LGBT Pastor Arrested for Grabbing Man’s Genitals at Indiana Park[http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/anti-lgbt-pastor-arrested-grabbing-mans-genitals-indiana-park]<br /> * Baptist church leader in Missouri arrested for soliciting &quot;dog sex&quot; on Craigslist.[http://gawker.com/baptist-church-leader-arrested-for-soliciting-dog-sex-o-1617858449?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&amp;utm_source=gawker_facebook&amp;utm_medium=socialflow]<br /> * Woman told police “she was driving and out of no where God told her that he would take it from here and she let go of the wheel and let him take it.” Shortly after letting go of the wheel she ran over a motorcyclist and drove off.[http://wane.com/2014/07/18/motorcyclist-i-said-to-myself-today-is-the-day-i-die/]<br /> <br /> * Florida woman accused of killing 2-year-old while re-enacting Bible story[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/28/florida-woman-accused-of-killing-2-year-old-while-re-enacting-bible-story/]<br /> <br /> {{ytv2|qmwEOuMGxu4|right}}<br /> * Evangelical Christians want access to more corpses … to hone their ‘raising the dead’ skills[http://freethinker.co.uk/2014/03/10/evangelical-christians-want-access-to-more-corpses-in-order-to-practice-raising-them-from-the-dead/]<br /> * Tennessee woman accused of drowning her baby says ‘Jesus came down’ and did it.[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/10/tennessee-woman-accused-of-drowning-her-baby-says-jesus-came-down-and-did-it/]<br /> * Files released by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee reveal that in 2007, Cardinal Timothy F. Dolan, then the archbishop there, requested permission from the Vatican to move nearly $57 million into a cemetery trust fund to protect the assets from victims of clergy sexual abuse who were demanding compensation. [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/us/dolan-sought-vatican-permission-to-shield-assets.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0]<br /> * Belief in god associated with poor mental health.[http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2013/04/belief-in-punitive-god-associated-with-poor-mental-health.html]<br /> * The chaplain of Milan’s San Vittore prison, 51-year-old Fr Alberto Barin, has been arrested for sustained sexual assault with multiple aggravations and for abuse of authority. Six non-Italian prisoners have accused him of demanding sexual acts in exchange for favours ranging from items of food to living conditions in the prison. Officers investigating the allegations were able to document the incidents by placing a videocamera in the chaplain’s office in the prison.[http://www.corriere.it/english/12_novembre_21/san-vittore-prison_463940e4-33da-11e2-a480-b74fe153b15c.shtml]<br /> *Rev. Ryan J. Muelhauser, Ex-Gay Counsellor, Arrested For Molestation Of Two Young Men[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/08/rev-ryan-j-muelhauser-molestation-_n_2094609.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&amp;ir=Gay%20Voices]<br /> <br /> * Priest embroiled in ivory smuggling controversy.[http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/27/world/asia/priest-ivory-controversy/index.html]<br /> * New Orleans pastor who was appointed in April to a local economic development board charged with seven counts of molestation of a juvenile[http://wap.wdsu.com/wap/news/text.jsp?sid=48&amp;nid=1491143881&amp;cid=4640&amp;scid=-1&amp;ith=3&amp;title=Local%20News&amp;headtitle=Local%20News]<br /> * Pregnant Teenager in Dominican Republic dies after doctors withold cancer treatment because the chemotherapy would harm her unborn child.[http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/17/world/americas/dominican-republic-abortion/index.html?hpt=hp_bn2]<br /> * Christian musician Randy Travis, who claimed in 2009 his faith in god allowed him to quit drinking in his 20s, was found naked and drunk in Texas, and arrested after he threatened to kill a law enforcement officer[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/08/drunk-and-naked-christian-music-star-randy-travis-threatens-cops-life/]<br /> * A Northern California jury has awarded $28 million in damages to a woman who said the Jehovah’s Witnesses allowed an adult member of a Fremont, Calif., church to molest her when she was a child. [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/us/28-million-awarded-in-jehovahs-witnesses-abuse-case.html?_r=3]<br /> * Christian school rejects admission of Mormon pupil[http://m.arkansasonline.com/news/2012/may/31/lr-christian-academy-rejects-mormon-pupil-20120531/]<br /> * Family Battle Offers Look Inside Lavish TV Ministry[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/05/us/tbn-fight-offers-glimpse-inside-lavish-tv-ministry.html?_r=1]<br /> * Court ruling: Jesus doesn't cure cancer.[http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6835139/Ruling-Jesus-doesn-t-heal-cancer]<br /> * Heralded &quot;Miracle&quot; toddler found in the wreckage of tornado, dies in hospital[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=10789913]<br /> * Christian fringe group intimidates Lowes into pulling advertisement from a reality show portrary Muslims as decent people[http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/12/my-take-is-all-american-muslim-begetting-all-american-bigotry/?hpt=hp_c2]<br /> * 6 HIV sufferers die after their pastor told them to stop taking their medication, because god would heal them.[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066106/Scandal-churches-claiming-cure-HIV-God-die-abandoning-medication.html]<br /> * Brazil rocked by abortion for 9-year-old rape victim: Church excommunicates mother and doctors – but not accused rapist[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brazil-rocked-by-abortion-for-9yearold-rape-victim-1640165.html]<br /> * Pentecostal Bishop Charles E. Brown indicted on rape, sexual battery charges[http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/11/no_bishop_indicted_on_rape_sex.html]<br /> * Killings in Norway spotlight anti-Muslim thought.[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/us/25debate.html?_r=4&amp;ref=global-home]<br /> * Austrian's religious headgear gives authorities a headache.{{rl|http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14135523}}<br /> * Pray For Newark claims amazing results as its Christian volunteers &quot;prayer walk&quot; the Newark city streets, seeking to pray down crime. Then murders rose 71%{{rl|http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/5/3/91235/90609/}}<br /> * Preacher sells debt removal through prayer[http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/consumer&amp;id=7984766]<br /> * Authorities have arrested a 52-year-old man they say committed a hate crime against a man he learned was a Muslim. They were having a conversation when the victim admitted he was a Muslim, which prompted the other man to stab him in the neck with a pocket knife.{{rl|http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/st-pete-man-accused-of-hate-crime-against-muslim/1149809}}<br /> * Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley told a church crowd just moments into his new administration that those who have not accepted Jesus as their savior are not his brothers and sisters, shocking some critics who questioned Tuesday whether he can be fair to non-Christians.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_alabama_governor_christians}}<br /> * The Salvation Army says it refuses to distribute Harry Potter and Twilight toys collected for needy children because they're incompatible with the charity's Christian beliefs.{{rl|http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/canada/2010/12/08/16478111.html}}<br /> * A couple who prayed for their sick toddler rather than take him to a doctor before his pneumonia death are on trial in Philadelphia, charged with involuntary manslaughter.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101207/ap_on_re_us/us_prayer_death_toddler}}<br /> * Archdiocese wants to recoup legal fees after a suit alleging abuse by priest in Burnsville was dismissed.[http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/faith/110501539.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU]<br /> * Minister, elders guilty of not reporting sexual abuse of a child - sought to have immunity from criminal liability in failing to report the case of suspected child abuse, &quot;arguing that they acted in good faith in persuading the parents and the perpetrator to make report of abuse.&quot;[http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Minister%2C+elders+guilty+of+not+reporting+abuse&amp;articleId=5584e3e1-cc52-4715-820c-be1eb16a82f9]<br /> * A Catholic Priest Charged with Sexually Assaulting Boy in ’08 Was Rearrested Last Week and Charged with Hiring Someone to Kill His Alleged Victim.{{rl|http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7307344.html}}<br /> * Baby dies as family jumps out of window to get away from the devil.{{rl|http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2010/10/24/15810081.html}}<br /> * Lamar advertising company will sell billboards to hookers but not atheists.{{rl|http://www.bnet.com/blog/advertising-business/lamar-sells-billboards-to-hookers-but-not-to-atheists/2412}}<br /> * Religious teen shoots and murders an atheist teen over an argument; judge does not consider it a hate crime and reduces the murder charge; parents outrages.{{rl|http://www.whotv.com/news/who-story-doyle-family-shooting-100810,0,3732283.story}}<br /> * Study shows atheists and agnostics are more knowledgeable about religion than religious people themselves.{{rl|http://pewforum.org/Other-Beliefs-and-Practices/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey.aspx}}<br /> * Bishop Eddie Long, a powerful anti-gay pastor becomes ensnared in his own sordid same-sex scandal{{rl|http://www.salon.com/life/this_week_in_crazy/index.html?story=/mwt/feature/2010/09/25/this_week_crazy_eddie_long}}<br /> * Deaf victim of sex abuse is suing pope{{rl|http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/23/deaf-victim-of-sex-abuse-is-suing-pope-and-going-public-with-his-story-for-the-first-time/}}<br /> * A fourth young male member of Bishop Eddie Long's megachurch is suing the prominent pastor, claiming Long coerced him into a sexual relationship. The lawsuit was filed by Spencer LeGrande, a member of New Birth Charlotte. New Birth Charlotte is a satellite church run by Long in Charlotte, N.C. The lawsuit said Long told LeGrande &quot;I will be your dad&quot; and invited the 17-year-old to journey to Kenya with him in July 2005. LeGrande said that Long gave him a sleeping pill on that trip and that the two engaged in sexual acts.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100924/ap_on_re_us/us_pastor_abuse_allegations_lawsuit}}<br /> <br /> * According to a recent study, religious belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to research published today. {{rl|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article571206.ece}}<br /> * Pastor George Randall &quot;Randy&quot; Scott, of the Bethel Temple Assembly Of God Church in Bryan, Texas, was arrested after returning from a trip to Sweden with his wife on for allegedly pretending to be a teenager online to meet other minor boys and then blackmailing them into having sex. {{rl|http://www.kbtx.com/local/headlines/100500214.html}}<br /> * Giant Jesus statue struck by lightning and destroyed. {{rl|http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/15/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning/}}<br /> * Thinking he was possessed by the devil, American cage fighter rips out still-beating heart of his training partner.{{rl|http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1282647/American-cage-fighter-rips-beating-heart-training-partner-fearing-possessed-devil.html}}<br /> * Christian singer leaves his wife and family and admits hes gay, while continuing his Christian musical career.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/15/us/15religion.html}}<br /> * Nun Excommunicated For Allowing life-saving Abortion[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126985072]<br /> * Janine Denomme, Woman Ordained As Catholic Priest, Denied Catholic Burial By Church{{rl|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/19/janine-denomme-woman-orda_n_582423.html}}<br /> * Guns, high-powered ammunition and explosives equipment have been seized in raids on 12 properties in and near Adelaide linked with the Agape Ministries of God.{{rl|http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/20/2904812.htm}}<br /> * City of Miami uses prayer group to ward off bad weather.{{rl|http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&amp;articleid=20100511_11_0_MIAMIO602438}}<br /> * Jehovah's Witness Couple Disown Son For Receiving Blood Transfusion.{{rl|http://news.peacefmonline.com/religion/201005/42722.php}}<br /> * Noah's ark found, says evangelical filmmaker.{{rl|http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/pc-certainty-of-noahs-ark-discovery-on-mount-ararat/story-e6frfku0-1225858591328}}<br /> * British court punishes atheist for leaving flyers in the prayer room of the John Lennon airport.{{rl|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7624578/Atheist-given-Asbo-for-leaflets-mocking-Jesus.html}}<br /> * Islamists have warned the creators of TV show South Park they could face violent retribution for depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit.{{rl|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8636455.stm}}<br /> * An episode of “South Park” that continued a story line involving the Prophet Muhammad was shown Wednesday night on Comedy Central with audio bleeps and image blocks reading “CENSORED” after a Muslim group warned the show’s creators that they could face violence for depicting that holy Islamic prophet. {{rl|http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/south-park-episode-is-altered-after-muslim-groups-warning/}}<br /> * Catholic church admits Norwegian Bishop resigned last year after admitting he was involved in child molestation.[http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=10305913]<br /> * Pope coordinated assignment of pedophile priest back into circulation.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/world/europe/26church.html}}<br /> {{ga}}<br /> * The Roman Catholic Church’s account of Pope Benedict XVI’s handing of a serial paedophile was called into question today when new documents emerged suggesting that his office was kept informed of the offender’s rapid return to working with children. {{rl|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7077196.ece}}<br /> * Pope Sexual Abuse Scandal: Benedict Implicated In Cover-Up Of Wisconsin Abuse Case{{rl|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/24/pope-sexual-abuse-lawrence-murphy_n_512483.html}}<br /> * Atheist group throws party for teens who had their prom canceled rather than allow a same-sex couple to attend the dance sponsored by religious school{{rl|http://www.examiner.com/x-8928-Philadelphia-Atheism-Examiner~y2010m3d12-Atheist-group-offers-to-hold-gay-friendly-prom}}<br /> * Religious massacres continue in Nigeria{{rl|http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704869304575109962258328770.html}}<br /> * Vatican chorister sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for papal gentleman-in-waiting{{rl|http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/04/vatican-gay-sex-scandal}}<br /> * Baby starved to death because he didn't say &quot;amen.&quot;{{rl|http://www.smh.com.au/world/baby-starved-to-death-because-he-did-not-say-amen-20100225-p4el.html}}<br /> * Pakistan's president sacrifices a goat each day to keep evil away{{rl|http://www.palibandaily.com/2010/02/23/a-goat-a-day-keeps-the-evil-away-pakistans-president-and-his-addiction-to-sacrifices/}}<br /> * Haiti's prime minister said Monday it's clear to him that the 10 U.S. Baptists who tried to take 33 children out of his quake-ravaged country without permission &quot;knew what they were doing was wrong.&quot;{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100201/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_americans_detained}}<br /> * A jury has found Scott Philip Roeder, 51, of Merriam, Kansas, guilty of premeditated first-degree murder in the slaying of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller.{{rl|http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/27216}}<br /> * Jeff and Marci Beagley have been charged with criminally negligent homicide for not providing medical treatment to their 16-year-old son, who died of an untreated urinary tract blockage. The family belongs to Followers of Christ Church, whose members shun medical care in favor of prayer.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wirestory?id=9550298&amp;page=2]<br /> * A Republican member of the Iowa Legislature is proposing lawmakers should be required to say &quot;so help me God&quot; when being sworn into office.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wirestory?id=9550298&amp;page=2]<br /> * Members of a Roanoke church have voted to leave the country's largest Lutheran denomination over its policy to allow gay clergy.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9550298]<br /> * Matt Baker, 38, a former Baptist minister, has been indicted for allegedly drugging and suffocating his wife Kari, whose 2006 death was initially ruled a suicide.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9551269]<br /> * A government witness said Wednesday that the five young woman who testified last year that evangelist Tony Alamo took them as a &quot;wife&quot; and sexually abused them as minors should receive $2.7 million each for physical and mental pain suffered.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9551976]<br /> * Three American Evangelical Christians go to Uganda and teach thousands (including police, national politicians, etc.) how gays and their agenda are trying to destroy Ugandan families and sodomize their children. Result: a bill to impose a death sentence for homosexual behavior.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/world/africa/04uganda.html}}<br /> * School board opts to fire public school teacher who refused to teach evolution, taught creationism and burned crosses into the arms of students{{rl|http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/06/21/Freshwater_decision.ART_ART_06-21-08_A1_ABAI539.html}}<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Theological_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Republicans_in_the_news Republicans in the news 2020-09-14T02:05:05Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div><br /> * Hamilton Chief of Police Tony Yocham, who lost the Republican nomination for Somervell County, Texas Sheriff back in April, was arrested Saturday morning by the Texas Rangers on charges of continuous sexual abuse of a child.[https://www.kwtx.com/2020/09/13/hamilton-police-chief-arrested-by-texas-rangers/]<br /> * A man wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat has been charged with a felony after misting protesters in Southern California with bear repellant. The man, David Nicholas Dempsey, was a part of about a dozen right-wing demonstrators who pushed against anti-Trump protesters on Sunday, near Santa Monica Pier. After the supporters of Donald Trump pushed against the leftist protesters, Mr Dempsey pulled the pepper spray from his jeans and misted those in the crowd. He now faces charges of allegedly violating his parole, and using prohibited tear gas weapon and assaulting the crowd with a caustic chemical, according to KTLA. “It was these f***ing libtards over here, man,” Mr Dempsey can be heard telling police in a video captured at the protest. Wearing a short-sleeve button-down shirt decorated with marijuana leaves, he continued his thought: “These commies — I didn’t do anything.”[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/maga-trump-hat-protest-attack-pepper-spray-bear-david-dempsey-california-a9165196.html]<br /> * Republican state Sen. Mike Folmer, 63, represents parts of Lebanon, Dauphin and York counties. According to a release from Attorney General Josh Shapiro's office, Folmer was arrested Tuesday night after images of child pornography were found on his phone when police searched his home after obtaining a warrant.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/09/17/mike-folmer-pennsylvania-state-senator-faces-child-pornography-charge/2360244001/]<br /> * Oklahoma State Senator Ralph Shortey, who voted for anti-trans ‘bathroom bill’ busted in hotel with underage boy, charged with child prostitution.[https://kfor.com/2017/03/16/oklahoma-state-senator-ralph-shortey-charged-with-engaging-in-child-prostitution/]<br /> * Feds Arrest Neo-Nazi Trump Fan for Threatening to &quot;Exterminate&quot; Miami Hispanics - Washington state resident Eric Lin was not shy about his love for Adolf Hitler. According to a criminal complaint filed Friday, Lin enjoyed referencing the Third Reich in writing: He apparently sent a litany of Hitler-referencing death threats to a Hispanic woman in Miami and got himself arrested last week after he planned to wire a man $10,000 to beat her up, hatched a plot to kidnap her and stuff her in a plastic bin, and repeatedly vowed to kill every Hispanic person in the Magic City.[https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/neo-nazi-eric-lin-threatened-to-exterminate-miami-hispanics-fbi-says-11247579]<br /> * A Republican politician reportedly punched his wife in the face after she didn’t undress quickly enough when he wanted to have sex, according to a police report. Doug McLeod, a state legislator from Mississippi, was arrested on Saturday and charged with domestic violence.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/doug-mcleod-mississippi-domestic-violence-wife-arrest-punch-sex-a8924671.html]<br /> * Washington GOP state legislator Matt Shea taped at rally urging supporters to arm themselves with AR-15s for civil war.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/01/republican-matt-shea-rightwing-rally-guns?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other]<br /> * A white man in South Carolina has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to trying to hire a hit man to kill his black neighbor, hang him from a tree and leave a burning cross in his yard, prosecutors said.[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/us/hit-man-lynching.html]<br /> * Every extremist murder in the U.S. in 2018 was linked to right-wing extremism, according to an alarming new report from the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. The annual report found that at least 50 people were killed by extremists in 2018, marking a 35 percent increase from 2017. This makes 2018 the fourth-deadliest year on record for domestic extremist-related killings since 1970.[https://shareblue.com/extremist-murders-2018-right-wing-terrorism/][https://www.adl.org/murder-and-extremism-2018]<br /> * Despite calls for refunds, new campaign filings show Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith kept $50,000 in donations from major companies like Walmart and Facebook in the wake of her controversial special election victory in November. The latest Federal Election Commission filing -- released amid the government shutdown at the end of last week -- showed that Republican Hyde-Smith did not issue refunds to most of the corporate donors who asked for their campaign contributions to be returned in November in the wake of her “public hanging” comment.[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republican-cindy-hyde-smith-return-50000-donations-scandal/story?id=60086837]<br /> * In the first eight months of his presidency, President Trump made 1,137 false or misleading claims, an average of five a day. In October, as he barnstormed the country holding rallies in advance of the midterm elections, the president made 1,205 claims — an average of 39 a day.Combined with the rest of his presidency, that adds up to a total of 7,546 claims through Dec. 20, the 700th day of his term in office, according to The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/21/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/?noredirect=on]<br /> * A new terrorism database analysis shows almost two-thirds of the terror attacks in the United States last year were carried out by right-wing extremists.[https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/12/study-shows-two-thirds-us-terrorism-tied-right-wing-extremists]<br /> [[File:Right wing terrorists.jpg|right]]<br /> * A military veteran who had railed online against women and blacks opened fire in a Tallahassee yoga studio, killing two women and wounding five.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/03/man-with-groping-history-opens-fire-tallahassee-yoga-class-killing-two-police-say/?utm_term=.9c5fde0444f2]<br /> * Justice Dept. brings hate-crime charges against man accused of shooting black customers at Kentucky Kroger[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-dept-brings-hate-crime-charges-against-man-accused-of-shooting-black-customers-at-kentucky-kroger/2018/11/15/ce01bf66-e91d-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html?utm_term=.3128e815e4c4]<br /> * Gun-related tragedy struck once again this week, this time at a Catholic Supply store in Ballwin, Missouri, a suburb of St. Lous. USA Today reports that a former pastor has been arrested after allegedly attempting to coerce three women into having sex with him at gunpoint. When one of them resisted, he shot 53-year-old Jamie Schmidt in the head and forced the other two to submit to his “deviant” demands. The shooter, 53-year-old Thomas Bruce, has a reputation for right-wing tirades on social media and has ranted against gun-free zones in the past. He was a huge fan of President Trump, attended his rallies, and regularly tweeted about Republican politics. His last tweet read “I’ve already forgotten you. #promisesmade #promiseskept #trump2020 #BuildTheWall” and his feed was full of retweets from white nationalist FOX anchor Laura Ingraham.[https://washingtonpress.com/2018/11/23/a-trump-obsessed-pastor-just-shot-a-woman-dead-and-sodomized-two-others-in-horrific-sex-assault/]<br /> * School officials said a Republican candidate Melissa Howard, running for the GOP nomination in a Florida legislative seat lied about graduating from Miami University and faked her diploma, according to a new report.[http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/401383-university-says-gop-florida-house-candidate-faked-her-diploma-report]<br /> * Man Wearing MAGA Hat Arrested for Shoving Immigrant Onto Subway Tracks; Staten Island's Willie Ames, 47, is ​suspected by the NYPD to have shoved 24-year-old ​Mexican immigrant Luis Lopez onto the tracks on April 21. That while wearing, of course, a bright red &quot;Make American Great Again&quot; hat. According to the police, Ames had hurled slurs at Lopez and called him a &quot;f—ing Mexican.&quot;[https://www.pluralist.com/posts/599-man-wearing-maga-hat-arrested-for-shoving-immigrant-onto-subway-tracks/partners/43955]<br /> * Waffle House suspect Travis Reinking deemed himself a 'sovereign citizen,' part of anti-government group.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/04/22/waffle-house-suspect-travis-reinking-sovereign-citizen/540543002/]<br /> * As they back Trump, evangelical leaders face their own sex scandals.[https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/03/31/they-back-trump-evangelical-leaders-face-their-own-sex-scandals/9JwpnbdWzHOzQ7tEAmxUPN/story.html]<br /> * An Ohio lawmaker who routinely touted his Christian faith and anti-LGBT views has resigned after being caught having sex with a man in his office. Wes Goodman, who is the Republican state legislator for Ohio, is married to a woman who is assistant director of an annual anti-abortion rally known as March for Life.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/lawmaker-wes-goodman-anti-lgbt-resigns-sex-man-office-caught-ohio-republican-christian-family-values-a8060631.html]<br /> * A southern Utah Republican party official has been arrested in a prostitution sting a week after a politician from a neighboring city stepped down amid allegations that he met a prostitute in a taxpayer-funded hotel room. The Spectrum newspaper reports Iron County Republican Party treasurer Blake Cozzens was arrested Tuesday after paying $100 for sex acts he discussed in text messages with a confidential informant.[http://kutv.com/news/local/southern-utah-gop-official-arrested-in-prostitution-sting]<br /> * When GOP congressman Scott DesJarlais (TN) was a doctor, he had sexual relationships with his patients. Despite being a “pro-life” advocate, he pressured women in his life to have abortions, including his ex-wife, who had two abortions while they were together.[https://www.nova-magazine.net/republican-pro-life-congressman-slept-patients-paid-abortions/]<br /> * Trump campaign coordinator and &quot;family values&quot; republican pleads tuilty to child sex trafficking, faces live in prison.[http://www.newsweek.com/republican-sex-trafficking-child-trump-coordinator-716348]<br /> * Days after a former state senator pleaded guilty to federal child sex trafficking, Moore Police released body cam footage of the call that led the then-seated senator to be charged with state child prostitution charges. Ralph Shortey, 35, pleaded guilty to child sex trafficking in federal court last week; in exchange, child pornography charges were dropped.[http://kfor.com/2017/12/04/moore-police-release-body-cam-footage-from-night-state-senator-found-in-hotel-room-with-teen-boy/]<br /> * Republican congressperson Mia Love, from Utah, caught using campaign funds on trip to Disneyworld.[https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/over-seven-days-at-disney-world-rep-mia-love-used-a-lot-of-campaign-funds-wcz/]<br /> * Lane Maurice Davis, Donald Trump supporter and regular poster on T_D Reddit forum, stabs his father to death believing he was &quot;leftist&quot;.[https://www.goskagit.com/news/man-pleads-not-guilty-in-father-s-stabbing-death/article_479b3b6f-88d4-502d-ae77-ff5f098fb511.html][https://www.reddit.com/r/Fuckthealtright/comments/76y0os/t_d_poster_useattle4truth_murders_his_father/]<br /> * Pro-Life Congressman Won't Seek Re-Election After Reports He Urged Mistress to Get Abortion[http://time.com/4970013/tim-murphy-pennsylvania-congressman-abortion/]<br /> * Rep. Tim Murphy, popular with pro-life movement, urged abortion in affair, texts suggest. Another — a six-page memo to Mr. Murphy purportedly written by his chief of staff, Susan Mosychuk — described a hostile workplace in which Mr. Murphy repeatedly denigrated employees, threatened them and created a state of “terror.”[http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2017/10/03/rep-tim-Murphy-pro-life-sought-abortion-affair-shannon-edwards-susan-mosychuk-pennsylvania-chief-of-staff-congress-emails-texts/stories/201710030018?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_campaign=Echobox&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1507061392]<br /> * Former congressman &amp; mayor, Anthony Weiner Sentenced to 21 Months in Prison for sending obsene messages to an underage girl.[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-25/weiner-gets-prison-for-sexting-teen-in-case-that-jolted-election?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&amp;utm_content=business&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social]<br /> * &quot;Family Values&quot; Republican, Dr. Joey Hensley, Accused Of Breaking Up Marriage To Have Affair With His Cousin.[https://theintellectualist.co/family-values-republican-accused-of-breaking-up-marriage-to-have-affair-with-his-cousin/]<br /> * A former student of Kentucky's Transylvania University, Mitchell W. Adkins, was arrested Friday after he allegedly stormed a campus café with a machete and a bag of knives, quizzed students on their political affiliations, and injured two women. &quot;He asked somebody what their political affiliation was, they said ‘Republican,’ and the guy said, 'You are safe,'&quot; campus newspaper editor-in-chief Tristan Reynolds told the Lexington Herald-Leader. &quot;And then I realized what was going on and started getting people out.”[https://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/a-trump-supporter-allegedly-attacked-students-at-a-school?utm_term=.bpA5N1mzr#.yq5Yqx69b]<br /> * Conservative Christian and Oklahoma lawmaker Ralph Shortey is charged with engaging in child prostitution and other felonies after being caught in a hotel room with an underage boy.[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ralph-shortey-oklahoma-lawmaker-hit-child-prostitution-charges-n734376]<br /> * Republican lawmaker, Bill Cassidy, who promoted legislation to teach “abstinence-only” sex education in schools announced that his own unmarried high school-aged daughter has gotten pregnant.[http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/07/10/republican-abstinence-only-crusaders-17-year-old-daughter-is-pregnant/][http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/07/bill_cassidy_senate_campaign_r.html]<br /> * Republican congressman John Fleming of Louisiana tells his constituents that because he’s rich, he doesn’t work for them. [http://www.salon.com/2017/04/13/watch-republican-congressman-tells-his-constituents-that-because-hes-rich-he-doesnt-work-for-them/]<br /> * Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has surrendered to authorities on campaign finance violations and he's expected to resign soon rather than face impeachment. Bible-toting Bentley got smitten with a female staffer and got caught by his wife (now divorced) exchanging texted love notes and, on tape, talking to his sweetie about fondling her breasts. The woman's husband has a well-paid position as an adviser on faith matters. The crime wasn't the sex. The problem was the governor's effort to cover it up and using campaign and official resources on protecting himself and going after enemies. [http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2017/04/10/star-falls-in-alabama-governor-booked-on-ethics-charges]<br /> [[File:Crazy republicans.jpg|right]]<br /> * Oklahoma Republican State Senator Ralph Shortey, married with kids, was caught in a hotel with a teenage boy. Shortey has resigned from his Senate seat after being charged with three counts, including engaging in child prostitution, engaging in prostitution within 1,000 feet of a church and transporting minor for prostitution/lewdness.[http://www.koco.com/article/court-date-set-for-former-oklahoma-sen-ralph-shortey/9178322]<br /> * Alabama Republican, Rep. Jack Williams filed HB 428, a bill that would criminalize the sale of a smartphone or other internet access device without a pornography filter. Adults wanting to turn off the filters would pay a $20 fee and request the deactivation in writing.[http://abc3340.com/news/local/house-bill-would-put-porn-filters-on-cellphones]<br /> * Married-with-children Oklahoma state senator and Trump campaign chair Republican Ralph Shortey is under investigation after he was found in a motel room with an underage male.[http://www.towleroad.com/2017/03/ralph-shortey/?utm_content=buffer64f5d&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer]<br /> * Anti-gay republican outed as former drag queen. [http://issuehawk.com/igor/2014/05/05/anti-gay-republican-outed-as-former-drag-queen.html]<br /> <br /> * Sponsor Of Anti-LGBT “Bathroom Bill” Caught Sexually Harassing 34 Women, Exiled From Capitol Building[http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/04/12/sponsor-anti-lgbt-bathroom-bill-caught-sexually-harassing-34-women-exiled-capitol-building/]<br /> <br /> * Steve Wiles, a Republican state Senate candidate who supports North Carolina’s constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage, once worked as a female impersonator at a gay nightclub in Winston-Salem and was gay at the time, according to a co-owner of the nightclub and a former employee.[http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/gop-candidate-was-once-a-female-impersonator/article_a1029862-5a82-5752-90e4-eac7155bce1e.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.<br /> <br /> * Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania pled no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo of Floyd County, Kentucky was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins of Asbury Park, New Jersey pled guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker of Nashua, New Hampshire is a convicted child molester.<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor Philip Giordano of Waterbury, Connecticut is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8 and 10-year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor John Gosek of Oswego, New York was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner David Swartz of Richland County, Ohio pled guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.<br /> <br /> * Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain of Monroe County, Pennsylvania was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth of Kannapolis, N.C., is a convicted child rapist in Florida.<br /> <br /> * Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader of Witchita, Kansas pled guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency of Camden, New Jersey pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge of Soputhbay, California was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.<br /> <br /> * Republican pastor Mike Hintz of Des Moines, Iowa, who George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Peter Dibble of New London, Connecticut pled no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer of Arizona was charged with molesting his 9-year old step daughter after including her in an anti-Gore television commercial.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. and Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence both of Washington, D.C. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens of Columbus, Ohio was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.<br /> <br /> * Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio of Burke, Virginia was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Mark A. Grethen of Colorado Springs. Colorado was convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Randal David Ankeney of El Paso County, Arizona pled guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Dan Crane of Illinois had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist and Christian Coalition and South Carolina Republican leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.<br /> <br /> * Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline of Orange County, California was placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography.<br /> <br /> * Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman of Maryland was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.<br /> <br /> * Republican Committee Chairman and attorney Jeffrey Patti of Sparta, New Jersey was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Marty Glickman of Florida (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD. It was Glickman, interestingly enough, that claimed Bill Clinton came from a low rent state and had torn down all of the standards for the highest office in the land.<br /> <br /> * Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks of Quartz Hill, California was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.<br /> <br /> * Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway who had relocated to Maine from Huntsville, Alabama after having been accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.<br /> <br /> * Republican preacher Stephen White of West Chester, Pennsylvania, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.<br /> <br /> * Republican talk show host Jon Matthews of Houston, Texas pled guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling of Anderson, Indiana was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Paul Ingram of Thurston County, Washington pled guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican election board official Kevin Coan of St. Louis, Missouri was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Andrew Buhr, also of St. Louis, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Keith Westmoreland of Kingsport, Tennessee was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt of Pensacola, Florida was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Councilman Keola Childs of Hawaii County, Hawaii pled guilty to molesting a male child.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist John Butler of Cass County, Illinois was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican candidate Richard Gardner of Clark County, Nevada admitted to molesting his two daughters.<br /> <br /> * Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner of Lancaster, Pennsylvania was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter of Boothbay, Maine pled guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. of Wrightsville Borough, Delaware pled no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.<br /> <br /> * Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.<br /> <br /> * Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall of Virginia was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.<br /> <br /> * Republican city councilman Mark Harris of West Bend, Wisconsin, who has been described as a “good military man” and “church goer,” was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.<br /> <br /> * Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo of Bakersfield, California molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp, Russell Harding, pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.<br /> <br /> * Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen, Sr. of Kalispell, Montana, was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.<br /> <br /> ==List Of Convicted Republican Pedophiles:==<br /> <br /> Feel free to research these people independently.<br /> <br /> Compiled from: https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/awxa6e/jim_jordans_sex_abuse_scandal_comes_back_after/ehq2lsc/<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.[https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2005/3/29/103019/-]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fredericksburg.com/news/crime_courts/air-force-investigator-goes-to-prison-for-molesting-stafford-girl/article_ef749960-7ae3-548c-88de-cde2bec21f79.amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.[https://www.google.com/amp/www.poconorecord.com/article/20120426/NEWS90/204260334%3ftemplate=ampart]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.deseretnews.com/article/830211/NJ-man-pleads-guilty-to-Internet-porn-charges.amp]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.[http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2002/vol6n33/MislaRape-en.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.[https://www.google.com/amp/www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-philip-giordano-appeal-sex-charges-20151204-story,amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.[http://articles.latimes.com/2001/apr/06/local/me-47737]<br /> <br /> * Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.[https://www-m.cnn.com/2013/02/05/us/south-carolina-thurmond-daughter-obit/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&amp;rm=1]<br /> <br /> * Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.[http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Omaha-Church-Adds-Pastor-With-A-Past-303831061.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/nyregion/embroiled-first-selectman-takes-leave.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Donald &quot;Buz&quot; Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/25/us/teen-ager-in-ohio-testifies-to-sex-with-a-congressman.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/04/24/gop-activist-admits-to-child-porn/5af2adf0-bec8-4a10-b061-014de679422a/?utm_term=.217884e2f945]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1066630/mark-anthony-grethen-v-sandra-lynn-grethen/]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.[https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/gop-activist-accused-of-assaulting-another-girl]<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/photos/political-sex-scandals-43202982/image-dan-crane-43203720]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/02/opinion/journal-beverly-russell-s-prayers.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman* was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.[https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/2005034]<br /> <br /> * Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.[http://www.njherald.com/article/20060510/ARTICLE/305109971]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks* was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.[http://articles.latimes.com/2002/aug/20/local/me-brooks20]<br /> <br /> * Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/06/us/politics-the-senate-maine-candidate-again-faces-1990-child-sex-accusation.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican preacher Stephen White*, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.[http://www.thedp.com/article/2004/01/brother_stephen_convicted_of_soliciting_sex]<br /> <br /> * Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.[http://www.houstonpress.com/news/jon-matthews-conservative-talk-show-host-and-sex-offender-pulled-from-kpfts-prison-show-6740755]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-gay activist Earl &quot;Butch&quot; Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-02-10/news/0002100308_1_adoption-fight-molesting-woody-burton]<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/29/books/books-of-the-times-a-family-is-destroyed-by-a-sexual-chimera.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wnd.com/2001/03/8428/amp/]<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Andrew Buhr* was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1908&amp;dat=20040108&amp;id=SNwfAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=ZNkEAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=2505,474893&amp;hl=en]<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children].[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-06-20/news/0206200332_1_indecent-exposure-lawmaker-westmoreland]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.[http://www.sptimes.com/2003/06/11/State/Troopers_nab_antiabor.shtml]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Councilman Keola Childs* pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.[http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Oct/08/ln/hawaii710080338.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.[https://caselaw.findlaw.com/il-court-of-appeals/1113050.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.[https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2002/oct/14/assembly-candidate-gardner-ruled-ineligible-due-to/]<br /> <br /> * Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.[https://www.google.com/amp/amp.wgal.com/article/council-accepts-resignation-of-member-imprisoned-for-rape/6189408]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.[http://www.columbiatribune.com/5bd8f6fc-ba88-11e3-86e1-10604b9f6eda.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall* was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/15/AR2005101501539_3.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/29/us/republican-quits-governor-s-race-in-minnesota.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican director of the &quot;Young Republican Federation&quot; Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.[https://bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/registered-sex-offender-keeps-custody-of-daughter]<br /> <br /> * Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/missoulian.com/news/kalispell-businessman-richard-dasen-charged-with-prostitution-related-crimes/article_f04ce8a9-fa02-54fa-addd-267d2357a4a9.amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican state senator Ralph Shortey from Oklahoma admitted to being involved in sodomy with a 17 year old male prostitute and transporting child pornography.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/kfor.com/2018/06/04/prosecutors-say-former-oklahoma-senator-enticed-teen-with-sex-with-wife-groomed-victim-for-more-than-a-year/amp/]<br /> <br /> * Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert in jail for the payments he made to cover up raping his wrestlers when he was a high school coach.[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/us/dennis-hastert-released.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Judge and campaign official Tim Nolan for President Donald Trump indicted for human trafficking and forcing a minors (9] to engage in sexual activity and giving alcohol to minors (results from the court pending].[https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cincinnati.com/amp/463805002]<br /> <br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * [[Theists in the news]]<br /> * [[Christian terrorists in the news]]<br /> * [[Democrats in the news]] <br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Political_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Freethinker Freethinker 2020-04-01T15:33:49Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>==Freethought F.A.Q. (Frequently Asked Questions)==<br /> <br /> ===What Is A [[Freethinker]]?===<br /> <br /> '''free-think-er''' ''n''. A person who believes in the significance of [[Freethought]] - a way of looking at the world that holds that beliefs should be formed on the basis of science and logic, and not influenced by emotion, authority, tradition, coercion, dogma or established belief. [[Freethinkers]] include atheists, agnostics and rationalists.<br /> <br /> No one can be a freethinker who demands conformity to a bible, creed, or messiah. A freethinker rejects supernatural and paranormal claims and beliefs which cannot be empirically proven using reason and the scientific method. To the freethinker, revelation and faith are invalid, and orthodoxy is no guarantee of truth. <br /> <br /> Being a Freethinker doesn't mean that you're entitled to have any thought or opinion respected. Only those opinions which are backed by evidence, logic and reason, are acceptable. <br /> <br /> ===How do freethinkers know what is true?===<br /> <br /> Clarence Darrow once noted, &quot;I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.&quot;<br /> <br /> [[Image:Methods.gif|right]]<br /> <br /> Freethinkers are naturalistic. Truth is the degree to which a statement corresponds with reality. Reality is limited to that which is directly perceivable through our natural senses or indirectly ascertained through the proper use of reason.<br /> <br /> [[Reason]] is a tool of critical thought that limits the truth of a statement according to the strict tests of the scientific method. For a statement to be considered true it must be testable (what evidence or repeatable experiments confirm it?), falsifiable (what, in theory, would disconfirm it, and have all attempts to disprove it failed?), parsimonious (is it the simplest explanation, requiring the fewest assumptions?), and logical (is it free of contradictions, [[non sequiturs]], or irrelevant [[ad hominem]] character attacks?).<br /> <br /> ===Do freethinkers have a basis for morality?===<br /> <br /> There is no great mystery to morality. Most freethinkers employ the simple yardsticks of reason and kindness. As author Barbara Walker notes: &quot;What is moral is simply what does not hurt others. Kindness . . . sums up everything.&quot;<br /> <br /> Most freethinkers are humanists, basing morality on human needs, not imagined &quot;cosmic absolutes.&quot; This also embraces a respect for our planet, including the other animals, and feminist principles of equality.<br /> <br /> Moral dilemmas involve a conflict of values, requiring a careful use of reason to weigh the outcomes. Freethinkers argue that religion promotes a dangerous and inadequate &quot;morality&quot; based on blind obedience, unexamined ultimatums, and &quot;pie-in-the-sky&quot; rewards of heaven or gruesome threats of hell. Freethinkers try to base actions on their consequences to real, living human beings.<br /> <br /> ===Do freethinkers have meaning in life?===<br /> <br /> Freethinkers know that meaning must originate in a mind. Since the universe is mindless and the cosmos does not care, you must care, if you wish to have purpose. Individuals are free to choose, within the limits of humanistic morality.<br /> <br /> Some [[freethinkers]] find meaning in human compassion, social progress, the beauty of humanity (art, music, literature), personal happiness, pleasure, joy, love, and the advancement of knowledge.<br /> <br /> ===Doesn't the complexity of life require a designer?===<br /> <br /> The complexity of life requires an explanation. [[Darwin]]'s theory of evolution, with cumulative nonrandom natural selection &quot;designing&quot; for billions of years, has provided the explanation. A &quot;Divine Designer&quot; is no answer because the complexity of such a creature would be subject to the same scrutiny itself.<br /> <br /> Even a child knows to ask: &quot;If God made everything, then who made God?&quot;<br /> <br /> [[Freethinkers]] recognize that there is much chaos, ugliness and pain in the universe for which any explanation of origins must also account.<br /> <br /> ===Why are freethinkers opposed to religion?===<br /> <br /> Freethinkers are convinced that religious claims have not withstood the tests of reason. Not only is there nothing to be gained by believing an untruth, but there is everything to lose when we sacrifice the indispensable tool of reason on the altar of superstition.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Religion-humanism.jpg|right]]<br /> <br /> Most freethinkers consider religion to be not only untrue, but harmful. It has been used to justify war, slavery, sexism, racism, homophobia, mutilations, intolerance, and oppression of minorities. The totalitarianism of religious absolutes chokes progress.<br /> <br /> ===Hasn't religion done tremendous good in the world?===<br /> <br /> Many religionists are good people--but they would be good anyway.<br /> <br /> Religion does not have a monopoly on good deeds. Most modern social and moral progress has been made by people free from religion--including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Charles Darwin, Margaret Sanger, Albert Einstein, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Marie Curie, H. L. Mencken, Sigmund Freud, Bertrand Russell, Luther Burbank and many others who have enriched humanity.<br /> <br /> Most religions have consistently resisted progress--including the abolition of slavery; women's right to vote and choose contraception and abortion; medical developments such as the use of anesthesia; scientific understanding of the heliocentric solar system and evolution, and the principle of state/church separation.<br /> <br /> ===Do freethinkers have a particular political persuasion?===<br /> <br /> No, freethought is a philosophical, not a political, position. Freethought today embraces adherents of virtually all political persuasions, including capitalists, libertarians, socialists, communists, Republicans, Democrats, liberals and conservatives. There is no philosophical connection, for example, between atheism and communism. Some freethinkers, such as [[Adam Smith]] and [[Ayn Rand]], were staunch capitalists; and there have been communistic groups which were deeply religious, such as the early [[Christian]] church.<br /> <br /> North American freethinkers agree in their support of state/church separation.<br /> <br /> ===Is atheism/humanism a religion?===<br /> <br /> No. [[Atheism]] is not a belief. It is the &quot;lack of belief&quot; in god(s). Lack of faith requires no faith. Atheism is indeed based on a commitment to rationality, but that hardly qualifies it as a religion.<br /> <br /> Freethinkers apply the term religion to belief systems which include a supernatural realm, deity, faith in &quot;holy&quot; writings and conformity to an absolute creed.<br /> <br /> [[Secular humanism]] has no god, bible or savior. It is based on natural rational principles. It is flexible and relativistic--it is not a religion.<br /> <br /> ===Why should I be happy to be a freethinker?===<br /> <br /> Freethought is reasonable. Freethought allows you to do your own thinking. A plurality of individuals thinking, free from restraints of [[orthodoxy]], allows ideas to be tested, discarded or adopted.<br /> <br /> Freethinkers see no pride in the blind maintenance of ancient superstitions or self-effacing prostration before divine tyrants known only through primitive &quot;revelations.&quot; Freethought is respectable. Freethought is truly free.<br /> <br /> Portions of this information is provided by permission from the [http://ffrf.org/ Freedom From Religion Foundation].<br /> <br /> ===Why use the term Freethinker? What are other differences between Freethinkers and Atheists?===<br /> <br /> Atheism is unfortunately a bit broad.<br /> <br /> There are all kinds of atheists: strong, weak, agnostic, etc, and beyond that, there's what many of us call the small-a &quot;atheist&quot; who lacks belief mainly out of apathy, or they reject god because he hasn't done anything for them (see: [[Objectivists]]), or they simply don't know what to believe and until they find a suitable philosophy to grab onto, call themselves &quot;atheist.&quot; And there's the capital-A &quot;Atheist&quot; who has come to a reasoned, logical conclusion that there is no good reason to believe. The little-a &quot;atheists&quot; really don't know what they believe. These are the same types of &quot;atheists&quot; every religious person claims to have been before they &quot;found god&quot;. But that's a lot different from a capital-A &quot;Atheist&quot; who sets certain standards that must be met before the god-belief claim can be overruled.<br /> <br /> [[Category:definitions]]<br /> [[Category:people]]<br /> [[Category:freethinkers]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Sidebar MediaWiki:Sidebar 2020-01-21T18:50:26Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>* MAIN MENU<br /> ** mainpage|mainpage<br /> ** About|About FTP<br /> ** Contact Us|Contact Us<br /> ** Donations|SUPPORT US<br /> ** http://www.cafepress.com/bsalert/4322774|Online Store!<br /> ** http://forum.freethoughtpedia.com/|Messageboard<br /> ** Special:Newpages|New Pages<br /> ** currentevents-url|currentevents<br /> ** recentchanges-url|recentchanges<br /> ** randompage-url|randompage<br /> #** Special:Popularpages|Popular pages<br /> ** Contributing to Freethoughtpedia|Help contribute!<br /> * FEATURED SECTIONS<br /> ** Common_Theist_Arguments|Theist arguments<br /> ** Theological_Criticisms|FT arguments <br /> ** Freethought_Anti-Sermon|Our Free Podcast<br /> ** Freethought_Imagery|Gallery<br /> ** Theists_in_the_news|Today in God<br /> ** Theists_Gone_Wild|Theist Gone Wild<br /> ** Laws_and_other_rules_against_atheists_and_agnostics|Anti-Atheist Law<br /> ** Freethinking videos|Freethought videos<br /> ** Essential reading|Essential reading<br /> ** Now Showing|Now Showing!<br /> <br /> * FreeThoughtPedia<br /> ** http://www.cafepress.com/bsalert/4322774|Online Store<br /> ** https://old.reddit.com/r/freethought|Freethought Reddit<br /> ** http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6047002746|Facebook Group (old)<br /> ** http://twitter.com/bsalert|Follow on Twitter<br /> <br /> * Partner Sites<br /> ** http://bsalert.com/|BSAlert<br /> ** http://ffrf.org/|FFRF.org<br /> <br /> * Indexes<br /> ** :Category:People|People<br /> ** :Category:Videos|Videos<br /> ** :Special:Categories|Category Index</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Priest_Abuse Priest Abuse 2019-10-22T15:52:47Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>Also see [[Theists in the news]] and [[Theists Gone Wild]].<br /> <br /> == Clergy Abuse in the news ==<br /> <br /> * Grand jury declines to indict monsignor in consent case. Catholic official had sexual relationship with parishioner as he was counseling her and her husband. Under Texas law, it’s not a consensual relationship if a clergyman exploits the victim’s emotional dependency on him as a spiritual adviser.[https://apnews.com/8f796e66ea7143159fd65e29363778f1]<br /> * List: Every abusive Catholic church priest, clergy member named in every state in past year[https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2019/09/04/list-abusive-priests-other-clergy-every-state-since-pennsylvania-grand-jury-report/2139297001/]<br /> * Male Escort Exposes 36 Gay Priests in File Sent to Vatican Containing Explicit WhatsApp Chats and Erotic Photos[https://www.newsweek.com/male-escort-exposes-36-gay-priests-file-sent-vatican-containing-explicit-829968]<br /> * Vatican’s Third-Most Powerful Official Cardinal George Pell Convicted on All Charges He Sexually Abused Choir Boys in the 1990s[http://blackchristiannews.com/2018/12/vaticans-third-most-powerful-official-cardinal-george-pell-convicted-on-all-charges-he-sexually-abused-choir-boys-in-the-1990s/]<br /> * More Than 300 'Predator Priests' Molested at Least 1,000 Children, Pennsylvania Grand Jury Finds[http://time.com/5367180/catholic-priests-sexual-abuse-pennsylvania/]<br /> * Diocese knew priest arrested for child sex crimes was abusing boys, authorities say. The Diocese of Erie knew since at least May 2010 of the abuse, but this priest was still in active ministry as recently as 2 months ago. The Catholic Church knowingly allows pedophiles to have access to children.[https://www.pennlive.com/news/2018/05/erie_priest_charged_with_child.html]<br /> * The Rev. William Thomas Faucher, accused of child porn and drug crimes, was role playing with a fellow author in some of the chatroom conversations in which he’s alleged to have said he wanted to rape and kill children, his attorney said in court Friday.[http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/article208855704.html]<br /> * A 1,200-page dossier containing the names of 34 ‘actively gay’ priests and six seminarians in Italy has been sent to the Vatican by the archdiocese of Naples.The allegations were compiled by Francesco Mangiacapra, a gay male escort who told local media he couldn’t put up with the priests’ &quot;hypocrisy&quot; any longer.[http://www.newsweek.com/male-escort-exposes-36-gay-priests-file-sent-vatican-containing-explicit-829968]<br /> <br /> * * Shattered faith: Nearly 100 sex abuse suits against Catholic priests rock island of Guam.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/04/guam-priest-child-sex-abuse-scandal/503680001/]<br /> <br /> * More than 500 people in the Northwest filed claims against the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus in advance of a November deadline, alleging members of the Catholic order sexually abused them as children.[http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/12/06/more_than_500_claims_filed_against_nw_jesuits/]<br /> <br /> *2009/09/30:&lt;br&gt;Ottawa police have issued an arrest warrant for a Roman Catholic bishop from Nova Scotia facing '''child pornography''' charges. &lt;ref&gt;http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2009/09/30/ns-bishop-charged.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2088/04/26:&lt;br&gt;A former altar boy has sued the Catholic Diocese of Orlando, alleging that church leaders knowingly concealed a '''sexually abusive priest''' who molested him. &lt;ref&gt;http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/your-home/orl-priest-abuse-suit-042608,0,7053977.story&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/10/10:&lt;br&gt;A Roman Catholic priest who compared himself to Jesus Christ was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for collaborating in '''murders, kidnappings and torture''' during Argentina's 1976-1983 military dictatorship.&lt;ref&gt;http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071010/ts_afp/argentinarightschurchsentence;_ylt=At_Z46iPzLyy83tMSBN5TS134T0D&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/10/08:&lt;br&gt;Bishop Tod D. Brown was lauded three years ago for quickly handling Orange County's share of the nationwide church abuse scandal, reaching settlements totaling '''$100 million''' for some 90 victims.&lt;ref&gt;http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j-rhoI-l22L99uM71-6gxIGAfP0AD8S5A88O0&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/10/08:&lt;br&gt;The statewide Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington must pay more than '''$112,000''' in legal fees for causing a mistrial in a priest-sex-abuse lawsuit this summer.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071006/NEWS02/710060323/1007/NEWS05&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/10/05:&lt;br&gt;A Roman Catholic priest who worked as a state prison chaplain was ordered to stand trial on charges he had '''sexual contact with an inmate''', while the inmate will stand trial on charges he extorted $7,600 in hush money from the priest.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.nbc10.com/news/14277022/detail.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/10/05:&lt;br&gt;Timothy Dane Tillmar, the former pastor of the Revival Center in Vincent, is charged with '''murder''' in the October 2005 shooting death of his wife.&lt;ref&gt;http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2007/10/former_vincent_pastor_charged.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/10/04:&lt;br&gt;Prosecutors have decided not to press charges against a Catholic priest accused of '''sexually abusing a girl''' in Portland.&lt;br&gt;The Rev. Joseph V. Hoang, 40, will remain on administrative leave while the Portland Archdiocese conducts an internal review, said Bud Bunce, a church spokesman. &lt;ref&gt;http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2007/10/priest_will_not_face_criminal.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/10/04:&lt;br&gt;The priest sex-abuse scandal claims some new, elderly victims.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.slate.com/id/2175299/nav/tap3/&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/10/02:&lt;br&gt;Riverside County authorities are looking for a former Roman Catholic priest charged with '''child molestation''' for allegedly sexually assaulting at least two altar boys at St. James church in Perris in the late 1980s, authorities said Tuesday.&lt;ref&gt;http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_275162636.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/09/26:&lt;br&gt;The Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph this week agreed to pay an Independence man '''$225,000''', its biggest settlement ever in a case of alleged priest sexual abuse.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/292494.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/09/24:&lt;br&gt;A former altar boy from Windham who said he was '''sexually abused''' by a Roman Catholic priest in the mid-1980s has filed suit against the priest and Bishop Richard Malone.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.wmtw.com/news/14189927/detail.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/09/21:&lt;br&gt;A Roman Catholic priest pleaded guilty to felony '''battery''' with a deadly weapon in an attack on a church soloist at his Las Vegas parish office early this year.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2007/sep/21/092110364.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/09/20:&lt;br&gt;The pastor of the Vietnamese Martyrs Catholic Church in Arlington has been removed from office Thursday by Bishop Kevin Vann after an investigation of allegations of past '''sexual harassment''' of two women while the priest served a parish in another state.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.myfoxdfw.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=4416883&amp;version=1&amp;locale=EN-US&amp;layoutCode=TSTY&amp;pageId=3.2.1&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> * 2007/09/19:&lt;br&gt;Michael Porter, 38, of Okehampton Close, north London, got a three-year community rehabilitation order for '''abusing young boys'''. He reportedly used his position as a Jehovah's Witness to act on his pedophile tendencies.&lt;ref&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/7002941.stm&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/09/18:&lt;br&gt;A RETIRED Catholic priest who committed '''buggery''' with a 13-year-old boy at a seminary and indecently assaulted two other teenage boys has been sentenced to seven years and three months' jail.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/sex-crimes-priest-gets-sevenyear-sentence/2007/09/17/1189881435090.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/09/14:&lt;br&gt;A Roman Catholic priest was arrested and will face trial on charges of '''raping a 9-year-old girl'''' in 2004 and '''sexually abusing''' as many as a dozen others.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20070914-1542-mexico-priestabuse.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2006/09/13:&lt;br&gt;The Reverend John Bonine is accused of '''molesting''' two girls. John Bonine's public defender says the Pastor of Sierra Heights Baptist Church could be facing life in prison if convicted because there are two children involved. Bonine faces more than 100 criminal charges of child molestation.&lt;ref&gt;http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=local&amp;id=5655127&lt;/ref&gt; <br /> *2007/09/11:&lt;br&gt;Nuns to be evicted from convent because church must pay '''$660 million''' in sexual abuse cases.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/09/12/johnson.save.the.nuns.kcal&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/09/07:&lt;br&gt;The Roman Catholic Church in San Diego, in the US state of California, has agreed to pay $198m (£97m) to settle '''144 claims of sexual abuse by clergy'''.&lt;ref&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6984405.stm&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/09/04:&lt;br&gt;A high-profile pastor from Kanawha County says he's one of the '''sexual assault''' victims of another pastor -- and he's written a letter to the public.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/9576087.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> * 2007/08/30:&lt;br&gt;A fundamentalist church pastor had '''sex with two of his teenage daughters''' to educate them on how to be good wives, a South Australian court has heard. The 54-year-old man, who cannot be named, was today sentenced in the SA District Court to eight and a half years jail after pleading guilty to seven counts each of incest and unlawful sexual intercourse. The court heard that the man had sex with his daughters for nearly a decade from 1991 when they were aged 13 and 15 at the family property.[http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/pastor-had-sex-with-daughters/2007/08/30/1188067266454.html]<br /> *2007/08/24:&lt;br&gt;Television Evangelist Juanita Bynum, the hair stylist turned preacher, known for her inspiring and candid sermons about sexuality and marital responsibility, is recovering after allegedly being attacked by her estranged husband. Atlanta Police say Bishop Thomas Weeks III, founder of Global Destiny churches, will be charged with '''aggravated assault and terroristic threats'''. [http://www.bet.com/News/JuanitaBynumBeaten.htm?wbc_purpose=Basic&amp;WBCMODE=PresentationUnpublished]<br /> *2007/08/23:&lt;br&gt;A Webb City preacher, Roy Curtis Huling, has been charged with three counts of '''child molestation''' with a female who was under the age of 12. [http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/local_story_235125839.html]<br /> *2007/08/20:&lt;br&gt;A southwest suburban Southern Baptist congregation allowed a convicted child sex offender to preach for the last few years -- despite his past, and a warning from his previous church that he might still be dangerous, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned. In 1996, Jeff Hannah was sentenced to nine years in prison for having '''sexual relations with four underage girls''' -- ages 15 to 17 -- while a married youth minister at Crossroads Church in Libertyville. [http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/517063,CST-NWS-Baptist20.article]<br /> *2007/08/17:&lt;br&gt;A longtime Round Rock pastor was arrested after telling authorities he '''embezzled at least $500,000''' from his church, according to court records. Donald &quot;Roddy&quot; Clyde, 48, turned himself in to authorities Wednesday and was charged with felony theft of more than $200,000 from the Fellowship at Forest Creek Church. Clyde's bail was set at $400,000, and he could face 99 years in prison if convicted. [http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/08/17/0817pastor.html]<br /> *2007/08/17:&lt;br&gt;Pastor Leroy Cruz was arrested during a sex sting operation where a Denton police detective posed as a 15-year-old girl arranging to meet the man for '''sex'''. [http://cbs11tv.com/local/local_story_229153152.html]<br /> *2007/08/14:&lt;br&gt;The Rev. Jerry Sutton, a prominent Southern Baptist pastor who lost a bid to become president of the denomination, is now facing an upheaval in the megachurch he leads, including complaints that he spent church money on his daughter's wedding. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070814/ap_on_re_us/baptist_pastor]<br /> *2007/08/11:&lt;br&gt;Pastor Dong Wan Park has been sentenced to spend 4 1/2 years in prison for filing '''fake visa applications'''. [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/327296_fakevisa11ww.html]<br /> *2007/08/10:&lt;br&gt;A San Antonio pastor and an employee of his Christian boot camp were arrested today on aggravated '''assault''' charges, accusing them of '''dragging a girl behind a van''' after failing to keep up with others during a running exercise. [http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA081007.bootcamp.EN.1ec055f1.html]<br /> *2007/08/10:&lt;br&gt;Arrest warrants have been issued for two officials at a Christian boot camp accused of dragging a 15-year-old girl behind a van after she fell behind the group during a morning run, authorities said. Charles Eugene Flowers and Stephanie Bassitt of San Antonio-based Love Demonstrated Ministries, a 32-day boot camp, are facing aggravated assault charges. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292910,00.html]<br /> *2007/08/09:&lt;br&gt;A Catholic priest Dagoberto Valle Arriaga '''killed his son''' so the Church would not know he had broken vows of celibacy has been jailed for 55 years in Mexico City. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6939692.stm]<br /> *2007/08/08:&lt;br&gt;Rev. Acen Phillips has been charged with 12 felonies in Arapahoe County District Court; there are seven counts of '''theft''' and five counts of '''forgery''' related to insurance fraud. [http://www.denverpost.com/ci_6564053]<br /> *2007/08/08:&lt;br&gt;The Rev. Robert Whipkey faces an '''indecent exposure''' charge after police said he went jogging in the nude about an hour before sunrise. [http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_6572728]<br /> *2007/08/07:&lt;br&gt;The Rev. Randy L. Rugh of New Alexandria, Westmoreland County, was charged with '''theft''' and receiving stolen property after he allegedly cashed a CD worth $23,540 without authorization. [http://www.tribune-democrat.com/local/local_story_219003157.html]<br /> *2007/08/03:&lt;br&gt;Mark Comford, a janitor at Purdue University North Central and a youth leader at Faith Baptist Church in LaPorte, was arrested and then charged with seven counts of '''child molesting''' and two counts of criminal deviate conduct. Four boys, ages 9 to 13, were listed as victims in the charging information outlined in all of the counts. [http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070803/News01/70803046/1130/Sports01] [http://www.post-trib.com/news/497011,lplawsuit.article]<br /> *2007/07/30:&lt;br&gt;Pastor Tommy Tester was arrested charges of '''indecent exposure''' and '''public drunkenness'''. Police say the preacher was driving drunk when he stopped at a car wash and '''urinated with children present'''. Investigators say prior to his arrest, Tester, who was wearing a skirt at the time, made sexual advances to them. [http://www.tricities.com/tristate/tri/news.apx.-content-articles-TRI-2007-07-30-0034.html]<br /> *2007/07/22:&lt;br&gt;Catholic priest Monsignor Alan J. Placa is accused of '''sexually molesting''' boys. [http://telegram.com/article/20070722/NEWS/707220489/1116]<br /> *2007/07/20:&lt;br&gt;Rev. Geronimo Enrique Cuevas, an assistant pastor at a Catholic church was arrested for investigation of '''sexual battery''' after he allegedly groped an undercover sheriff's deputy near a private beach. [http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_6428404?nclick_check=1]<br /> *2007/07/20:&lt;br&gt;Troy Deal, 34, director of youth ministries at Chapel Hill United Methodist Church, was arrested on charges of using a computer to '''solicit a child for sex'''. [http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070719/NEWS01/707190325/1002/NEWS01]<br /> *2007/07/20:&lt;br&gt;Wendel Nix, a part-time youth pastor from Aztec Bible Baptist Church, was arrested on charges that he had '''sex with a 14-year-old''' girl from his congregation. [http://www.daily-times.com/news/ci_6418548]<br /> *2007/07/19:&lt;br&gt;Rev. Coy Privette, the president of the Christian Action League, a North Carolina ultraconservative Christian political organization based in Raleigh, has been arrested for '''soliciting prostitution''' from a female [http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/07/19/pres-of-christian-action-league-charged-in-prosty-case/] and '''stealing''' nearly $200,000 from St. Margaret Mary parish on the North Side to give cars, plane tickets and thousands of dollars in cash to a '''male stripper''' [http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/478428,CST-NWS-priest22.article].<br /> * 2007/07/16:&lt;br&gt;A California judge approved the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles's agreement to pay $660 million to people who claim they were '''abused by priests''', in the biggest clergy-abuse settlement ever. [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&amp;sid=awoX5MMYn9L4]<br /> * 2007/07/16:&lt;br&gt;74-Year-Old Colorado Episcopal Priest Sentenced To 210 Years For Sex Assault. Donald Shissler was found guilty of 15 counts, including '''assault on a child and sexual exploitation of a child'''. He met the victims *after he retired from the clergy and after his foster parent license was revoked. [http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/13689756/detail.html]<br /> *2007/07/09:&lt;br&gt;A Nixa pastor has been charged with '''child abuse''' for allegedly striking a 16-year-old female relative. [http://exchristian.net/2/2007/07/pastor-strikes-teen-girl.html]<br /> *2007/07/05:&lt;br&gt;An associate pastor at Immanuel Baptist Church of Slidell was arrested Monday and booked Tuesday on two counts of '''aggravated sex crimes''' and 47 counts of possession of '''child pornography'''. [http://blog.nola.com/tpnorthshore/2007/07/associate_pastor_in_slidell_bo.html]<br /> *2007/07/05:&lt;br&gt;The mother of a Lake County '''boy who was sexually abused''' by Rev. Douglas W. Myers has sued the clergyman, two area churches and two Baptist groups, maintaining they should have protected her son. [http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/lake/orl-lmyers0507jul05,0,4688842.story]<br /> *2007/07/07:&lt;br&gt;A 32-yr-old married pastor at the most popular church in Akron is accused of '''grabbing two women''' at Chapel Hill mall. [http://www.wkyc.com/news/regional/akron_article.aspx?storyid=70694]<br /> *2007/06/30:&lt;br&gt;Christopher Bennett, 30, of Apt. Z6, 200 Franklin Road NE, Atlanta, was arrested Wednesday in the Atlanta area and charged with second-degree '''sodomy'''. [http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/story/73435.html]<br /> *2007/06/29:&lt;br&gt;Federal investigators are cracking-down on a bankrupt CEO who is also a pastor. He's charged with '''defrauding investors''' of more than a half million dollars. [http://www.wnep.com/Global/story.asp?S=6730241]<br /> *2007/06/28:&lt;br&gt;Joshua Robinson is charged with two counts of '''lewd conduct with a minor''' and one count of sexually abusing a minor. [http://www.localnews8.com/Global/story.asp?S=6720412]<br /> *2007/06/24:&lt;br&gt;A Baptist minister from Cleveland Heights admitted Thursday that he '''molested two children''', including one of his wife's relatives and an unrelated member of his church's flock who was 12 years old and deaf. [http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2007/06/pastor_from_cleveland_hts_admi.html]<br /> *2007/06/20:&lt;br&gt;Suffolk pastor says disgruntled worker is behind his misdemeanor '''assault''' charge. [http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=6682078&amp;nav=menu45_2]<br /> *2007/06/12:&lt;br&gt;Stephen D. Shorey, 40, was arrested in April on a complaint of '''child sexual abuse'''. [http://www.sapulpadailyherald.com/local/local_story_163115238.html]<br /> *2007/06/09:&lt;br&gt;The pastor of Emmanuel Apostolic Church was convicted yesterday of several '''sexual-offense charges''' involving a teenage girl who was a member of his church. He was sentenced in Forsyth Superior Court to at least 20 years in prison. [http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ/MGArticle/WSJ_BasicArticle&amp;c=MGArticle&amp;cid=1173351554660]<br /> *2007/06/06:&lt;br&gt;A former pastor was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for receiving '''child pornography''' videos he bought over the Internet. [http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/17332504.htm]<br /> *2007/06/01:&lt;br&gt;Gerald Klever, then a pastor at First Presbyterian Church, allegedly forced a teenage girl to perform '''oral sex''' on him in his church office. [http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/7780211.html]<br /> *2007/05/31:&lt;br&gt;Pastor accused of '''diverting church money''' for personal use. [http://www.wvec.com/news/topstories/stories/wvec_inv_0530087_church_crisis.26cac624.html#]<br /> *2007/05/31:&lt;br&gt;Priest Busted for Alleged Online '''Child Porn Possession'''. [http://www.wten.com/Global/story.asp?S=6586333]<br /> *2007/05/26:&lt;br&gt;Youth pastor guilty of having '''child porn'''. [http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/052607/met_172900943.shtml]<br /> *2007/05/23:&lt;br&gt;Angela Hurt, 32, who was a part-time youth leader at Cornerstone Church in Springfield, was charged in November in Greene County Circuit Court with second-degree statutory '''rape''' and second-degree statutory '''sodomy''' for allegedly having an '''inappropriate relationship''' with the boy from January to March 2005. [http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070523/NEWS01/705230349/1007/NEWS01]<br /> *2007/05/19:&lt;br&gt;Former youth minister David Baird, 45, of Penn Hills, was charged with statutory '''sexual assault''', involuntary '''deviant intercourse''', '''sexual assault''', two counts of indecent assault, '''indecent exposure''', '''endangering the welfare of children''', corruption of minors and '''unlawful contact''' with a minor. [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07139/787460-56.stm]<br /> *2007/05/04:&lt;br&gt;Corey Pritchett, 44, was arrested at the Sandy Public Library. Police charged him with several counts of '''theft and securities fraud''' in connection with multiple real estate transactions. [http://www.kptv.com/news/13262697/detail.html]<br /> *2007/05/10:&lt;br&gt;Chattanooga police arrested nine men Friday in a '''prostitution sting''', including the pastor of Ringgold United Methodist Church. [http://www.kptv.com/news/13262697/detail.html]<br /> *2007/04/20:&lt;br&gt;A former Hebron minister, who is spending seven years in prison on '''sex-abuse''' convictions, is being sued by the two teenage sisters he victimized. [http://www.columbusdispatch.com/dispatch/content/local_news/stories/2007/04/26/aleshire.ART_ART_04-26-07_B3_QI6GMA7.html]<br /> *2007/04/01:&lt;br&gt;A former Rice Lake pastor is charged with '''raping''' a 17-year-old boy 20 years ago. [http://www.weau.com/news/headlines/6760107.html]<br /> *2007/03/19:&lt;br&gt;U.S. authorities seized $56,467 that Pentacostal leaders Estevam and Sônia Hernandes and other family members had hidden on their bodies and in luggage, according to the U.S. indictment. [http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/19/news/brazil.php]<br /> *2007/03/12:&lt;br&gt;Pastor Frederick Dew was booked into the Sacramento County Jail on suspicion of '''lewd acts''' with a child. [http://www.news10.net/display_story.aspx?storyid=25333&amp;provider=top]<br /> *2007/03/12:&lt;br&gt;CNN anchor Thomas Roberts became a victim of sexual abuse at the age of 14; the abuse lasted three years. It took him nearly 20 years to gather the strength to help put my abuser behind bars. &quot;My abuser was Father Jeff Toohey, a trusted man of God. He was the equivalent of a religious celebrity in my private all-boys Catholic school in Baltimore, Maryland. Father Jeff was every boy's friend and mentor. I considered him my mentor as well.&quot; [http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/03/09/roberts.btsc/index.html]<br /> *2007/02/09:&lt;br&gt;Pastor Ronald Hernandez Tovar of a Stanton church is accused of having''' sex with a 16-year-old''' female parishioner. [http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1575048.php]<br /> *2007/02/08:&lt;br&gt;Rediger, a former youth pastor of Liberty Baptist Church, was sentenced to two terms of two years in prison to be served concurrently with no time off for good behavior. He will also be placed on five years of post-release control. [http://www.timesbulletin.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&amp;SubSectionID=4&amp;ArticleID=141463&amp;TM=1601.644]<br /> *2007/02/02:&lt;br&gt;A Bexar County jury this morning convicted a former youth minister of capital murder in the '''deaths''' of his 17-year-old pregnant girlfriend and their unborn child. [http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA020207.estradaupadte.en.43ed4c07.html]<br /> *2007/1/18:&lt;br&gt;Shawn Davies, a 33-year-old former music and youth minister, was sentenced Jan. 12 to 20 years in prison for '''molesting children''' at First Baptist Church of Greenwood, Mo. [http://www.abpnews.com/1628.article]<br /> *2007/1/12:&lt;br&gt;The pastor of an Atlantic Beach church was arrested Wednesday as part of a '''prostitution sting'''. [http://www.local6.com/news/10735457/detail.html]<br /> *2007/1/12:&lt;br&gt;The Rev. Kenneth Payne was found guilty of '''molesting and sodomizing''' a teenage boy he was formerly tutoring. [http://www.newsadvance.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=LNA%2FMGArticle%2FLNA_BasicArticle&amp;c=MGArticle&amp;cid=1149192621445&amp;path=!news!archive]<br /> *2007/1/08:&lt;br&gt;A youth pastor in Craig was arrested in connection with the alleged '''sexual assault''' of two teen girls he had worked with at First Christian Church. [http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/10696622/detail.html]<br /> *2007/1/05:&lt;br&gt;Scott Hoppe, former youth minister and assistant pastor at Grace Church in Burlington, had '''sex with a girl''' many times when she was between 15 and 17 years old. [http://www.gazetteextra.com/hoppe010507.asp]<br /> *2006/12/08:&lt;br&gt;Rev. Brent Dugan commits '''suicide''' after sex scandal. [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06342/744553-53.stm]<br /> *2006/11/30:&lt;br&gt;A 28-year-old self-styled pastor, Yaw Dadzie, who claim to have divine powers to heal the sick, especially lunatics, has been arrested by the police for his '''violent behaviour''' towards his patients. [http://forum.hkudb.com/f60/14361/]<br /> *2006/10/29:&lt;br&gt;A former Hickman Community Church pastor has been arrested on a '''murder''' warrant linked to the death of an 85-year-old Hickman man in 2004. [http://www.modbee.com/local/story/13058139p-13713974c.html]<br /> *2006/10/21:&lt;br&gt;Riverside police arrested Pastor Dennis Bowling early Tuesday after a group of women associated with the Kingdom Harvest Church at 2360 Valley Pike told police Bowling had '''sexually assaulted''' female members of the congregation over a 10-year period. [http://www.daytondailynews.com/hp/content/oh/story/news/local/2006/11/21/ddn112106pastorweb.html]<br /> *2006/10/16:&lt;br&gt;Donald Richard Ryan, a high school pastor at Greenwood Community Church, admitted to being '''sexually involved''' with a 16-year-old girl. [http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5147032,00.html]<br /> *2006/10/04:&lt;br&gt;Kent Hovind, founder of Creation Science Evangelism and Dinosaur Adventure Land in Pensacola, was found guilty of 58 counts, including '''failure to pay $845,000''' in employee-related taxes. He faces a maximum of 288 years in prison. [http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/1732927.php]<br /> *2006/10/02:&lt;br&gt;A male prostitute alleges that he had a '''three-year relationship''' with prominent right-wing evangelical leader Ted Haggard, who has said that homosexuality is a “sin” and “devastating for the children of our nation and for the future of Western civilization.” [http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/02/haggard-evangelical-prostitute/]<br /> *2006/09/21:&lt;br&gt;The 44-year-old Reverend Terry Hornbuckle has been convicted of '''drugging and raping three women''', two of them former members of his Arlington megachurch. [http://www.dallasobserver.com/2006-09-21/news/the-reverend-freak/]<br /> *2006/09/18:&lt;br&gt;Pastor Joseph Gary Torres was charged Monday with multiple counts of '''sexually abusing''' two girls who attended his church in the San Fernando Valley. [http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/09/18/state/n235728D43.DTL]<br /> *2006/09/15:&lt;br&gt;The Rev. Maurice L. Jackson, pastor of New Generation Church was found guilty of three '''sex charges with children''' in Franklin County Common Pleas Court. [http://www.columbusdispatch.com/dispatch/contentbe/EPIC_shim.php?story=212660]<br /> *2006/09/12:&lt;br&gt;The pastor Gregory Michael Butler has been indicted by a Burke County grand jury on charges of '''sexually assaulting''' a 15-year old girl. [http://www.wxii12.com/news/9833697/detail.html?taf=gws]<br /> *2006/09/05:&lt;br&gt;The Rev. Charles F. Mc-Keller faces civil suits by an estranged couple who claim that instead of counseling them to repair their marriage he drove them further apart by engaging in a '''sexual relationship''' with the wife. [http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=110413&amp;ran=152234]<br /> *2006/08/31:&lt;br&gt;Pastor Helge Fossmo has admitted involvement in the '''murder''' of his wife in their home in 2004. [http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=4752&amp;date=20060831]<br /> *2006/08/23:&lt;br&gt;Pastor Robert Holmes is being arrested for '''not reporting the abuse''' that a 12-year-old boy was suffering. 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The man, David Nicholas Dempsey, was a part of about a dozen right-wing demonstrators who pushed against anti-Trump protesters on Sunday, near Santa Monica Pier. After the supporters of Donald Trump pushed against the leftist protesters, Mr Dempsey pulled the pepper spray from his jeans and misted those in the crowd. He now faces charges of allegedly violating his parole, and using prohibited tear gas weapon and assaulting the crowd with a caustic chemical, according to KTLA. “It was these f***ing libtards over here, man,” Mr Dempsey can be heard telling police in a video captured at the protest. Wearing a short-sleeve button-down shirt decorated with marijuana leaves, he continued his thought: “These commies — I didn’t do anything.”[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/maga-trump-hat-protest-attack-pepper-spray-bear-david-dempsey-california-a9165196.html]<br /> * Republican state Sen. Mike Folmer, 63, represents parts of Lebanon, Dauphin and York counties. According to a release from Attorney General Josh Shapiro's office, Folmer was arrested Tuesday night after images of child pornography were found on his phone when police searched his home after obtaining a warrant.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/09/17/mike-folmer-pennsylvania-state-senator-faces-child-pornography-charge/2360244001/]<br /> * Oklahoma State Senator Ralph Shortey, who voted for anti-trans ‘bathroom bill’ busted in hotel with underage boy, charged with child prostitution.[https://kfor.com/2017/03/16/oklahoma-state-senator-ralph-shortey-charged-with-engaging-in-child-prostitution/]<br /> * Feds Arrest Neo-Nazi Trump Fan for Threatening to &quot;Exterminate&quot; Miami Hispanics - Washington state resident Eric Lin was not shy about his love for Adolf Hitler. According to a criminal complaint filed Friday, Lin enjoyed referencing the Third Reich in writing: He apparently sent a litany of Hitler-referencing death threats to a Hispanic woman in Miami and got himself arrested last week after he planned to wire a man $10,000 to beat her up, hatched a plot to kidnap her and stuff her in a plastic bin, and repeatedly vowed to kill every Hispanic person in the Magic City.[https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/neo-nazi-eric-lin-threatened-to-exterminate-miami-hispanics-fbi-says-11247579]<br /> * A Republican politician reportedly punched his wife in the face after she didn’t undress quickly enough when he wanted to have sex, according to a police report. Doug McLeod, a state legislator from Mississippi, was arrested on Saturday and charged with domestic violence.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/doug-mcleod-mississippi-domestic-violence-wife-arrest-punch-sex-a8924671.html]<br /> * Washington GOP state legislator Matt Shea taped at rally urging supporters to arm themselves with AR-15s for civil war.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/01/republican-matt-shea-rightwing-rally-guns?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other]<br /> * A white man in South Carolina has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to trying to hire a hit man to kill his black neighbor, hang him from a tree and leave a burning cross in his yard, prosecutors said.[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/us/hit-man-lynching.html]<br /> * Every extremist murder in the U.S. in 2018 was linked to right-wing extremism, according to an alarming new report from the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. The annual report found that at least 50 people were killed by extremists in 2018, marking a 35 percent increase from 2017. This makes 2018 the fourth-deadliest year on record for domestic extremist-related killings since 1970.[https://shareblue.com/extremist-murders-2018-right-wing-terrorism/][https://www.adl.org/murder-and-extremism-2018]<br /> * Despite calls for refunds, new campaign filings show Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith kept $50,000 in donations from major companies like Walmart and Facebook in the wake of her controversial special election victory in November. The latest Federal Election Commission filing -- released amid the government shutdown at the end of last week -- showed that Republican Hyde-Smith did not issue refunds to most of the corporate donors who asked for their campaign contributions to be returned in November in the wake of her “public hanging” comment.[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republican-cindy-hyde-smith-return-50000-donations-scandal/story?id=60086837]<br /> * In the first eight months of his presidency, President Trump made 1,137 false or misleading claims, an average of five a day. In October, as he barnstormed the country holding rallies in advance of the midterm elections, the president made 1,205 claims — an average of 39 a day.Combined with the rest of his presidency, that adds up to a total of 7,546 claims through Dec. 20, the 700th day of his term in office, according to The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/21/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/?noredirect=on]<br /> * A new terrorism database analysis shows almost two-thirds of the terror attacks in the United States last year were carried out by right-wing extremists.[https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/12/study-shows-two-thirds-us-terrorism-tied-right-wing-extremists]<br /> [[File:Right wing terrorists.jpg|right]]<br /> * A military veteran who had railed online against women and blacks opened fire in a Tallahassee yoga studio, killing two women and wounding five.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/03/man-with-groping-history-opens-fire-tallahassee-yoga-class-killing-two-police-say/?utm_term=.9c5fde0444f2]<br /> * Justice Dept. brings hate-crime charges against man accused of shooting black customers at Kentucky Kroger[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-dept-brings-hate-crime-charges-against-man-accused-of-shooting-black-customers-at-kentucky-kroger/2018/11/15/ce01bf66-e91d-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html?utm_term=.3128e815e4c4]<br /> * Gun-related tragedy struck once again this week, this time at a Catholic Supply store in Ballwin, Missouri, a suburb of St. Lous. USA Today reports that a former pastor has been arrested after allegedly attempting to coerce three women into having sex with him at gunpoint. When one of them resisted, he shot 53-year-old Jamie Schmidt in the head and forced the other two to submit to his “deviant” demands. The shooter, 53-year-old Thomas Bruce, has a reputation for right-wing tirades on social media and has ranted against gun-free zones in the past. He was a huge fan of President Trump, attended his rallies, and regularly tweeted about Republican politics. His last tweet read “I’ve already forgotten you. #promisesmade #promiseskept #trump2020 #BuildTheWall” and his feed was full of retweets from white nationalist FOX anchor Laura Ingraham.[https://washingtonpress.com/2018/11/23/a-trump-obsessed-pastor-just-shot-a-woman-dead-and-sodomized-two-others-in-horrific-sex-assault/]<br /> * School officials said a Republican candidate Melissa Howard, running for the GOP nomination in a Florida legislative seat lied about graduating from Miami University and faked her diploma, according to a new report.[http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/401383-university-says-gop-florida-house-candidate-faked-her-diploma-report]<br /> * Man Wearing MAGA Hat Arrested for Shoving Immigrant Onto Subway Tracks; Staten Island's Willie Ames, 47, is ​suspected by the NYPD to have shoved 24-year-old ​Mexican immigrant Luis Lopez onto the tracks on April 21. That while wearing, of course, a bright red &quot;Make American Great Again&quot; hat. According to the police, Ames had hurled slurs at Lopez and called him a &quot;f—ing Mexican.&quot;[https://www.pluralist.com/posts/599-man-wearing-maga-hat-arrested-for-shoving-immigrant-onto-subway-tracks/partners/43955]<br /> * Waffle House suspect Travis Reinking deemed himself a 'sovereign citizen,' part of anti-government group.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/04/22/waffle-house-suspect-travis-reinking-sovereign-citizen/540543002/]<br /> * As they back Trump, evangelical leaders face their own sex scandals.[https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/03/31/they-back-trump-evangelical-leaders-face-their-own-sex-scandals/9JwpnbdWzHOzQ7tEAmxUPN/story.html]<br /> * An Ohio lawmaker who routinely touted his Christian faith and anti-LGBT views has resigned after being caught having sex with a man in his office. Wes Goodman, who is the Republican state legislator for Ohio, is married to a woman who is assistant director of an annual anti-abortion rally known as March for Life.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/lawmaker-wes-goodman-anti-lgbt-resigns-sex-man-office-caught-ohio-republican-christian-family-values-a8060631.html]<br /> * A southern Utah Republican party official has been arrested in a prostitution sting a week after a politician from a neighboring city stepped down amid allegations that he met a prostitute in a taxpayer-funded hotel room. The Spectrum newspaper reports Iron County Republican Party treasurer Blake Cozzens was arrested Tuesday after paying $100 for sex acts he discussed in text messages with a confidential informant.[http://kutv.com/news/local/southern-utah-gop-official-arrested-in-prostitution-sting]<br /> * When GOP congressman Scott DesJarlais (TN) was a doctor, he had sexual relationships with his patients. Despite being a “pro-life” advocate, he pressured women in his life to have abortions, including his ex-wife, who had two abortions while they were together.[https://www.nova-magazine.net/republican-pro-life-congressman-slept-patients-paid-abortions/]<br /> * Trump campaign coordinator and &quot;family values&quot; republican pleads tuilty to child sex trafficking, faces live in prison.[http://www.newsweek.com/republican-sex-trafficking-child-trump-coordinator-716348]<br /> * Days after a former state senator pleaded guilty to federal child sex trafficking, Moore Police released body cam footage of the call that led the then-seated senator to be charged with state child prostitution charges. Ralph Shortey, 35, pleaded guilty to child sex trafficking in federal court last week; in exchange, child pornography charges were dropped.[http://kfor.com/2017/12/04/moore-police-release-body-cam-footage-from-night-state-senator-found-in-hotel-room-with-teen-boy/]<br /> * Republican congressperson Mia Love, from Utah, caught using campaign funds on trip to Disneyworld.[https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/over-seven-days-at-disney-world-rep-mia-love-used-a-lot-of-campaign-funds-wcz/]<br /> * Lane Maurice Davis, Donald Trump supporter and regular poster on T_D Reddit forum, stabs his father to death believing he was &quot;leftist&quot;.[https://www.goskagit.com/news/man-pleads-not-guilty-in-father-s-stabbing-death/article_479b3b6f-88d4-502d-ae77-ff5f098fb511.html][https://www.reddit.com/r/Fuckthealtright/comments/76y0os/t_d_poster_useattle4truth_murders_his_father/]<br /> * Pro-Life Congressman Won't Seek Re-Election After Reports He Urged Mistress to Get Abortion[http://time.com/4970013/tim-murphy-pennsylvania-congressman-abortion/]<br /> * Rep. Tim Murphy, popular with pro-life movement, urged abortion in affair, texts suggest. Another — a six-page memo to Mr. Murphy purportedly written by his chief of staff, Susan Mosychuk — described a hostile workplace in which Mr. Murphy repeatedly denigrated employees, threatened them and created a state of “terror.”[http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2017/10/03/rep-tim-Murphy-pro-life-sought-abortion-affair-shannon-edwards-susan-mosychuk-pennsylvania-chief-of-staff-congress-emails-texts/stories/201710030018?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_campaign=Echobox&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1507061392]<br /> * Former congressman &amp; mayor, Anthony Weiner Sentenced to 21 Months in Prison for sending obsene messages to an underage girl.[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-25/weiner-gets-prison-for-sexting-teen-in-case-that-jolted-election?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&amp;utm_content=business&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social]<br /> * &quot;Family Values&quot; Republican, Dr. Joey Hensley, Accused Of Breaking Up Marriage To Have Affair With His Cousin.[https://theintellectualist.co/family-values-republican-accused-of-breaking-up-marriage-to-have-affair-with-his-cousin/]<br /> * A former student of Kentucky's Transylvania University, Mitchell W. Adkins, was arrested Friday after he allegedly stormed a campus café with a machete and a bag of knives, quizzed students on their political affiliations, and injured two women. &quot;He asked somebody what their political affiliation was, they said ‘Republican,’ and the guy said, 'You are safe,'&quot; campus newspaper editor-in-chief Tristan Reynolds told the Lexington Herald-Leader. &quot;And then I realized what was going on and started getting people out.”[https://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/a-trump-supporter-allegedly-attacked-students-at-a-school?utm_term=.bpA5N1mzr#.yq5Yqx69b]<br /> * Conservative Christian and Oklahoma lawmaker Ralph Shortey is charged with engaging in child prostitution and other felonies after being caught in a hotel room with an underage boy.[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ralph-shortey-oklahoma-lawmaker-hit-child-prostitution-charges-n734376]<br /> * Republican lawmaker, Bill Cassidy, who promoted legislation to teach “abstinence-only” sex education in schools announced that his own unmarried high school-aged daughter has gotten pregnant.[http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/07/10/republican-abstinence-only-crusaders-17-year-old-daughter-is-pregnant/][http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/07/bill_cassidy_senate_campaign_r.html]<br /> * Republican congressman John Fleming of Louisiana tells his constituents that because he’s rich, he doesn’t work for them. [http://www.salon.com/2017/04/13/watch-republican-congressman-tells-his-constituents-that-because-hes-rich-he-doesnt-work-for-them/]<br /> * Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has surrendered to authorities on campaign finance violations and he's expected to resign soon rather than face impeachment. Bible-toting Bentley got smitten with a female staffer and got caught by his wife (now divorced) exchanging texted love notes and, on tape, talking to his sweetie about fondling her breasts. The woman's husband has a well-paid position as an adviser on faith matters. The crime wasn't the sex. The problem was the governor's effort to cover it up and using campaign and official resources on protecting himself and going after enemies. [http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2017/04/10/star-falls-in-alabama-governor-booked-on-ethics-charges]<br /> [[File:Crazy republicans.jpg|right]]<br /> * Oklahoma Republican State Senator Ralph Shortey, married with kids, was caught in a hotel with a teenage boy. Shortey has resigned from his Senate seat after being charged with three counts, including engaging in child prostitution, engaging in prostitution within 1,000 feet of a church and transporting minor for prostitution/lewdness.[http://www.koco.com/article/court-date-set-for-former-oklahoma-sen-ralph-shortey/9178322]<br /> * Alabama Republican, Rep. Jack Williams filed HB 428, a bill that would criminalize the sale of a smartphone or other internet access device without a pornography filter. Adults wanting to turn off the filters would pay a $20 fee and request the deactivation in writing.[http://abc3340.com/news/local/house-bill-would-put-porn-filters-on-cellphones]<br /> * Married-with-children Oklahoma state senator and Trump campaign chair Republican Ralph Shortey is under investigation after he was found in a motel room with an underage male.[http://www.towleroad.com/2017/03/ralph-shortey/?utm_content=buffer64f5d&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer]<br /> * Anti-gay republican outed as former drag queen. [http://issuehawk.com/igor/2014/05/05/anti-gay-republican-outed-as-former-drag-queen.html]<br /> <br /> * Sponsor Of Anti-LGBT “Bathroom Bill” Caught Sexually Harassing 34 Women, Exiled From Capitol Building[http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/04/12/sponsor-anti-lgbt-bathroom-bill-caught-sexually-harassing-34-women-exiled-capitol-building/]<br /> <br /> * Steve Wiles, a Republican state Senate candidate who supports North Carolina’s constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage, once worked as a female impersonator at a gay nightclub in Winston-Salem and was gay at the time, according to a co-owner of the nightclub and a former employee.[http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/gop-candidate-was-once-a-female-impersonator/article_a1029862-5a82-5752-90e4-eac7155bce1e.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.<br /> <br /> * Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania pled no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo of Floyd County, Kentucky was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins of Asbury Park, New Jersey pled guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker of Nashua, New Hampshire is a convicted child molester.<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor Philip Giordano of Waterbury, Connecticut is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8 and 10-year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor John Gosek of Oswego, New York was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner David Swartz of Richland County, Ohio pled guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.<br /> <br /> * Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain of Monroe County, Pennsylvania was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth of Kannapolis, N.C., is a convicted child rapist in Florida.<br /> <br /> * Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader of Witchita, Kansas pled guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency of Camden, New Jersey pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge of Soputhbay, California was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.<br /> <br /> * Republican pastor Mike Hintz of Des Moines, Iowa, who George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Peter Dibble of New London, Connecticut pled no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer of Arizona was charged with molesting his 9-year old step daughter after including her in an anti-Gore television commercial.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. and Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence both of Washington, D.C. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens of Columbus, Ohio was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.<br /> <br /> * Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio of Burke, Virginia was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Mark A. Grethen of Colorado Springs. Colorado was convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Randal David Ankeney of El Paso County, Arizona pled guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Dan Crane of Illinois had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist and Christian Coalition and South Carolina Republican leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.<br /> <br /> * Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline of Orange County, California was placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography.<br /> <br /> * Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman of Maryland was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.<br /> <br /> * Republican Committee Chairman and attorney Jeffrey Patti of Sparta, New Jersey was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Marty Glickman of Florida (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD. It was Glickman, interestingly enough, that claimed Bill Clinton came from a low rent state and had torn down all of the standards for the highest office in the land.<br /> <br /> * Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks of Quartz Hill, California was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.<br /> <br /> * Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway who had relocated to Maine from Huntsville, Alabama after having been accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.<br /> <br /> * Republican preacher Stephen White of West Chester, Pennsylvania, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.<br /> <br /> * Republican talk show host Jon Matthews of Houston, Texas pled guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling of Anderson, Indiana was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Paul Ingram of Thurston County, Washington pled guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican election board official Kevin Coan of St. Louis, Missouri was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Andrew Buhr, also of St. Louis, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Keith Westmoreland of Kingsport, Tennessee was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt of Pensacola, Florida was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Councilman Keola Childs of Hawaii County, Hawaii pled guilty to molesting a male child.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist John Butler of Cass County, Illinois was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican candidate Richard Gardner of Clark County, Nevada admitted to molesting his two daughters.<br /> <br /> * Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner of Lancaster, Pennsylvania was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter of Boothbay, Maine pled guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. of Wrightsville Borough, Delaware pled no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.<br /> <br /> * Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.<br /> <br /> * Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall of Virginia was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.<br /> <br /> * Republican city councilman Mark Harris of West Bend, Wisconsin, who has been described as a “good military man” and “church goer,” was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.<br /> <br /> * Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo of Bakersfield, California molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp, Russell Harding, pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.<br /> <br /> * Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen, Sr. of Kalispell, Montana, was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.<br /> <br /> ==List Of Convicted Republican Pedophiles:==<br /> <br /> Feel free to research these people independently.<br /> <br /> Compiled from: https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/awxa6e/jim_jordans_sex_abuse_scandal_comes_back_after/ehq2lsc/<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.[https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2005/3/29/103019/-]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fredericksburg.com/news/crime_courts/air-force-investigator-goes-to-prison-for-molesting-stafford-girl/article_ef749960-7ae3-548c-88de-cde2bec21f79.amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.[https://www.google.com/amp/www.poconorecord.com/article/20120426/NEWS90/204260334%3ftemplate=ampart]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.deseretnews.com/article/830211/NJ-man-pleads-guilty-to-Internet-porn-charges.amp]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.[http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2002/vol6n33/MislaRape-en.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.[https://www.google.com/amp/www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-philip-giordano-appeal-sex-charges-20151204-story,amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.[http://articles.latimes.com/2001/apr/06/local/me-47737]<br /> <br /> * Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.[https://www-m.cnn.com/2013/02/05/us/south-carolina-thurmond-daughter-obit/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&amp;rm=1]<br /> <br /> * Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.[http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Omaha-Church-Adds-Pastor-With-A-Past-303831061.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/nyregion/embroiled-first-selectman-takes-leave.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Donald &quot;Buz&quot; Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/25/us/teen-ager-in-ohio-testifies-to-sex-with-a-congressman.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/04/24/gop-activist-admits-to-child-porn/5af2adf0-bec8-4a10-b061-014de679422a/?utm_term=.217884e2f945]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1066630/mark-anthony-grethen-v-sandra-lynn-grethen/]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.[https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/gop-activist-accused-of-assaulting-another-girl]<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/photos/political-sex-scandals-43202982/image-dan-crane-43203720]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/02/opinion/journal-beverly-russell-s-prayers.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman* was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.[https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/2005034]<br /> <br /> * Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.[http://www.njherald.com/article/20060510/ARTICLE/305109971]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks* was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.[http://articles.latimes.com/2002/aug/20/local/me-brooks20]<br /> <br /> * Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/06/us/politics-the-senate-maine-candidate-again-faces-1990-child-sex-accusation.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican preacher Stephen White*, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.[http://www.thedp.com/article/2004/01/brother_stephen_convicted_of_soliciting_sex]<br /> <br /> * Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.[http://www.houstonpress.com/news/jon-matthews-conservative-talk-show-host-and-sex-offender-pulled-from-kpfts-prison-show-6740755]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-gay activist Earl &quot;Butch&quot; Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-02-10/news/0002100308_1_adoption-fight-molesting-woody-burton]<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/29/books/books-of-the-times-a-family-is-destroyed-by-a-sexual-chimera.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wnd.com/2001/03/8428/amp/]<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Andrew Buhr* was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1908&amp;dat=20040108&amp;id=SNwfAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=ZNkEAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=2505,474893&amp;hl=en]<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children].[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-06-20/news/0206200332_1_indecent-exposure-lawmaker-westmoreland]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.[http://www.sptimes.com/2003/06/11/State/Troopers_nab_antiabor.shtml]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Councilman Keola Childs* pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.[http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Oct/08/ln/hawaii710080338.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.[https://caselaw.findlaw.com/il-court-of-appeals/1113050.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.[https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2002/oct/14/assembly-candidate-gardner-ruled-ineligible-due-to/]<br /> <br /> * Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.[https://www.google.com/amp/amp.wgal.com/article/council-accepts-resignation-of-member-imprisoned-for-rape/6189408]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.[http://www.columbiatribune.com/5bd8f6fc-ba88-11e3-86e1-10604b9f6eda.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall* was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/15/AR2005101501539_3.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/29/us/republican-quits-governor-s-race-in-minnesota.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican director of the &quot;Young Republican Federation&quot; Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.[https://bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/registered-sex-offender-keeps-custody-of-daughter]<br /> <br /> * Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/missoulian.com/news/kalispell-businessman-richard-dasen-charged-with-prostitution-related-crimes/article_f04ce8a9-fa02-54fa-addd-267d2357a4a9.amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican state senator Ralph Shortey from Oklahoma admitted to being involved in sodomy with a 17 year old male prostitute and transporting child pornography.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/kfor.com/2018/06/04/prosecutors-say-former-oklahoma-senator-enticed-teen-with-sex-with-wife-groomed-victim-for-more-than-a-year/amp/]<br /> <br /> * Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert in jail for the payments he made to cover up raping his wrestlers when he was a high school coach.[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/us/dennis-hastert-released.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Judge and campaign official Tim Nolan for President Donald Trump indicted for human trafficking and forcing a minors (9] to engage in sexual activity and giving alcohol to minors (results from the court pending].[https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cincinnati.com/amp/463805002]<br /> <br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * [[Theists in the news]]<br /> * [[Christian terrorists in the news]]<br /> * [[Democrats in the news]] <br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Political_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Republicans_in_the_news Republicans in the news 2019-09-19T02:22:44Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>* Republican state Sen. Mike Folmer, 63, represents parts of Lebanon, Dauphin and York counties. According to a release from Attorney General Josh Shapiro's office, Folmer was arrested Tuesday night after images of child pornography were found on his phone when police searched his home after obtaining a warrant.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/09/17/mike-folmer-pennsylvania-state-senator-faces-child-pornography-charge/2360244001/]<br /> * Oklahoma State Senator Ralph Shortey, who voted for anti-trans ‘bathroom bill’ busted in hotel with underage boy, charged with child prostitution.[https://kfor.com/2017/03/16/oklahoma-state-senator-ralph-shortey-charged-with-engaging-in-child-prostitution/]<br /> * Feds Arrest Neo-Nazi Trump Fan for Threatening to &quot;Exterminate&quot; Miami Hispanics - Washington state resident Eric Lin was not shy about his love for Adolf Hitler. According to a criminal complaint filed Friday, Lin enjoyed referencing the Third Reich in writing: He apparently sent a litany of Hitler-referencing death threats to a Hispanic woman in Miami and got himself arrested last week after he planned to wire a man $10,000 to beat her up, hatched a plot to kidnap her and stuff her in a plastic bin, and repeatedly vowed to kill every Hispanic person in the Magic City.[https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/neo-nazi-eric-lin-threatened-to-exterminate-miami-hispanics-fbi-says-11247579]<br /> * A Republican politician reportedly punched his wife in the face after she didn’t undress quickly enough when he wanted to have sex, according to a police report. Doug McLeod, a state legislator from Mississippi, was arrested on Saturday and charged with domestic violence.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/doug-mcleod-mississippi-domestic-violence-wife-arrest-punch-sex-a8924671.html]<br /> * Washington GOP state legislator Matt Shea taped at rally urging supporters to arm themselves with AR-15s for civil war.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/01/republican-matt-shea-rightwing-rally-guns?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other]<br /> * A white man in South Carolina has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to trying to hire a hit man to kill his black neighbor, hang him from a tree and leave a burning cross in his yard, prosecutors said.[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/us/hit-man-lynching.html]<br /> * Every extremist murder in the U.S. in 2018 was linked to right-wing extremism, according to an alarming new report from the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. The annual report found that at least 50 people were killed by extremists in 2018, marking a 35 percent increase from 2017. This makes 2018 the fourth-deadliest year on record for domestic extremist-related killings since 1970.[https://shareblue.com/extremist-murders-2018-right-wing-terrorism/][https://www.adl.org/murder-and-extremism-2018]<br /> * Despite calls for refunds, new campaign filings show Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith kept $50,000 in donations from major companies like Walmart and Facebook in the wake of her controversial special election victory in November. The latest Federal Election Commission filing -- released amid the government shutdown at the end of last week -- showed that Republican Hyde-Smith did not issue refunds to most of the corporate donors who asked for their campaign contributions to be returned in November in the wake of her “public hanging” comment.[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republican-cindy-hyde-smith-return-50000-donations-scandal/story?id=60086837]<br /> * In the first eight months of his presidency, President Trump made 1,137 false or misleading claims, an average of five a day. In October, as he barnstormed the country holding rallies in advance of the midterm elections, the president made 1,205 claims — an average of 39 a day.Combined with the rest of his presidency, that adds up to a total of 7,546 claims through Dec. 20, the 700th day of his term in office, according to The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/21/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/?noredirect=on]<br /> * A new terrorism database analysis shows almost two-thirds of the terror attacks in the United States last year were carried out by right-wing extremists.[https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/12/study-shows-two-thirds-us-terrorism-tied-right-wing-extremists]<br /> [[File:Right wing terrorists.jpg|right]]<br /> * A military veteran who had railed online against women and blacks opened fire in a Tallahassee yoga studio, killing two women and wounding five.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/03/man-with-groping-history-opens-fire-tallahassee-yoga-class-killing-two-police-say/?utm_term=.9c5fde0444f2]<br /> * Justice Dept. brings hate-crime charges against man accused of shooting black customers at Kentucky Kroger[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-dept-brings-hate-crime-charges-against-man-accused-of-shooting-black-customers-at-kentucky-kroger/2018/11/15/ce01bf66-e91d-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html?utm_term=.3128e815e4c4]<br /> * Gun-related tragedy struck once again this week, this time at a Catholic Supply store in Ballwin, Missouri, a suburb of St. Lous. USA Today reports that a former pastor has been arrested after allegedly attempting to coerce three women into having sex with him at gunpoint. When one of them resisted, he shot 53-year-old Jamie Schmidt in the head and forced the other two to submit to his “deviant” demands. The shooter, 53-year-old Thomas Bruce, has a reputation for right-wing tirades on social media and has ranted against gun-free zones in the past. He was a huge fan of President Trump, attended his rallies, and regularly tweeted about Republican politics. His last tweet read “I’ve already forgotten you. #promisesmade #promiseskept #trump2020 #BuildTheWall” and his feed was full of retweets from white nationalist FOX anchor Laura Ingraham.[https://washingtonpress.com/2018/11/23/a-trump-obsessed-pastor-just-shot-a-woman-dead-and-sodomized-two-others-in-horrific-sex-assault/]<br /> * School officials said a Republican candidate Melissa Howard, running for the GOP nomination in a Florida legislative seat lied about graduating from Miami University and faked her diploma, according to a new report.[http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/401383-university-says-gop-florida-house-candidate-faked-her-diploma-report]<br /> * Man Wearing MAGA Hat Arrested for Shoving Immigrant Onto Subway Tracks; Staten Island's Willie Ames, 47, is ​suspected by the NYPD to have shoved 24-year-old ​Mexican immigrant Luis Lopez onto the tracks on April 21. That while wearing, of course, a bright red &quot;Make American Great Again&quot; hat. According to the police, Ames had hurled slurs at Lopez and called him a &quot;f—ing Mexican.&quot;[https://www.pluralist.com/posts/599-man-wearing-maga-hat-arrested-for-shoving-immigrant-onto-subway-tracks/partners/43955]<br /> * Waffle House suspect Travis Reinking deemed himself a 'sovereign citizen,' part of anti-government group.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/04/22/waffle-house-suspect-travis-reinking-sovereign-citizen/540543002/]<br /> * As they back Trump, evangelical leaders face their own sex scandals.[https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/03/31/they-back-trump-evangelical-leaders-face-their-own-sex-scandals/9JwpnbdWzHOzQ7tEAmxUPN/story.html]<br /> * An Ohio lawmaker who routinely touted his Christian faith and anti-LGBT views has resigned after being caught having sex with a man in his office. Wes Goodman, who is the Republican state legislator for Ohio, is married to a woman who is assistant director of an annual anti-abortion rally known as March for Life.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/lawmaker-wes-goodman-anti-lgbt-resigns-sex-man-office-caught-ohio-republican-christian-family-values-a8060631.html]<br /> * A southern Utah Republican party official has been arrested in a prostitution sting a week after a politician from a neighboring city stepped down amid allegations that he met a prostitute in a taxpayer-funded hotel room. The Spectrum newspaper reports Iron County Republican Party treasurer Blake Cozzens was arrested Tuesday after paying $100 for sex acts he discussed in text messages with a confidential informant.[http://kutv.com/news/local/southern-utah-gop-official-arrested-in-prostitution-sting]<br /> * When GOP congressman Scott DesJarlais (TN) was a doctor, he had sexual relationships with his patients. Despite being a “pro-life” advocate, he pressured women in his life to have abortions, including his ex-wife, who had two abortions while they were together.[https://www.nova-magazine.net/republican-pro-life-congressman-slept-patients-paid-abortions/]<br /> * Trump campaign coordinator and &quot;family values&quot; republican pleads tuilty to child sex trafficking, faces live in prison.[http://www.newsweek.com/republican-sex-trafficking-child-trump-coordinator-716348]<br /> * Days after a former state senator pleaded guilty to federal child sex trafficking, Moore Police released body cam footage of the call that led the then-seated senator to be charged with state child prostitution charges. Ralph Shortey, 35, pleaded guilty to child sex trafficking in federal court last week; in exchange, child pornography charges were dropped.[http://kfor.com/2017/12/04/moore-police-release-body-cam-footage-from-night-state-senator-found-in-hotel-room-with-teen-boy/]<br /> * Republican congressperson Mia Love, from Utah, caught using campaign funds on trip to Disneyworld.[https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/over-seven-days-at-disney-world-rep-mia-love-used-a-lot-of-campaign-funds-wcz/]<br /> * Lane Maurice Davis, Donald Trump supporter and regular poster on T_D Reddit forum, stabs his father to death believing he was &quot;leftist&quot;.[https://www.goskagit.com/news/man-pleads-not-guilty-in-father-s-stabbing-death/article_479b3b6f-88d4-502d-ae77-ff5f098fb511.html][https://www.reddit.com/r/Fuckthealtright/comments/76y0os/t_d_poster_useattle4truth_murders_his_father/]<br /> * Pro-Life Congressman Won't Seek Re-Election After Reports He Urged Mistress to Get Abortion[http://time.com/4970013/tim-murphy-pennsylvania-congressman-abortion/]<br /> * Rep. Tim Murphy, popular with pro-life movement, urged abortion in affair, texts suggest. Another — a six-page memo to Mr. Murphy purportedly written by his chief of staff, Susan Mosychuk — described a hostile workplace in which Mr. Murphy repeatedly denigrated employees, threatened them and created a state of “terror.”[http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2017/10/03/rep-tim-Murphy-pro-life-sought-abortion-affair-shannon-edwards-susan-mosychuk-pennsylvania-chief-of-staff-congress-emails-texts/stories/201710030018?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_campaign=Echobox&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1507061392]<br /> * Former congressman &amp; mayor, Anthony Weiner Sentenced to 21 Months in Prison for sending obsene messages to an underage girl.[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-25/weiner-gets-prison-for-sexting-teen-in-case-that-jolted-election?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&amp;utm_content=business&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social]<br /> * &quot;Family Values&quot; Republican, Dr. Joey Hensley, Accused Of Breaking Up Marriage To Have Affair With His Cousin.[https://theintellectualist.co/family-values-republican-accused-of-breaking-up-marriage-to-have-affair-with-his-cousin/]<br /> * A former student of Kentucky's Transylvania University, Mitchell W. Adkins, was arrested Friday after he allegedly stormed a campus café with a machete and a bag of knives, quizzed students on their political affiliations, and injured two women. &quot;He asked somebody what their political affiliation was, they said ‘Republican,’ and the guy said, 'You are safe,'&quot; campus newspaper editor-in-chief Tristan Reynolds told the Lexington Herald-Leader. &quot;And then I realized what was going on and started getting people out.”[https://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/a-trump-supporter-allegedly-attacked-students-at-a-school?utm_term=.bpA5N1mzr#.yq5Yqx69b]<br /> * Conservative Christian and Oklahoma lawmaker Ralph Shortey is charged with engaging in child prostitution and other felonies after being caught in a hotel room with an underage boy.[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ralph-shortey-oklahoma-lawmaker-hit-child-prostitution-charges-n734376]<br /> * Republican lawmaker, Bill Cassidy, who promoted legislation to teach “abstinence-only” sex education in schools announced that his own unmarried high school-aged daughter has gotten pregnant.[http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/07/10/republican-abstinence-only-crusaders-17-year-old-daughter-is-pregnant/][http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/07/bill_cassidy_senate_campaign_r.html]<br /> * Republican congressman John Fleming of Louisiana tells his constituents that because he’s rich, he doesn’t work for them. [http://www.salon.com/2017/04/13/watch-republican-congressman-tells-his-constituents-that-because-hes-rich-he-doesnt-work-for-them/]<br /> * Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has surrendered to authorities on campaign finance violations and he's expected to resign soon rather than face impeachment. Bible-toting Bentley got smitten with a female staffer and got caught by his wife (now divorced) exchanging texted love notes and, on tape, talking to his sweetie about fondling her breasts. The woman's husband has a well-paid position as an adviser on faith matters. The crime wasn't the sex. The problem was the governor's effort to cover it up and using campaign and official resources on protecting himself and going after enemies. [http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2017/04/10/star-falls-in-alabama-governor-booked-on-ethics-charges]<br /> [[File:Crazy republicans.jpg|right]]<br /> * Oklahoma Republican State Senator Ralph Shortey, married with kids, was caught in a hotel with a teenage boy. Shortey has resigned from his Senate seat after being charged with three counts, including engaging in child prostitution, engaging in prostitution within 1,000 feet of a church and transporting minor for prostitution/lewdness.[http://www.koco.com/article/court-date-set-for-former-oklahoma-sen-ralph-shortey/9178322]<br /> * Alabama Republican, Rep. Jack Williams filed HB 428, a bill that would criminalize the sale of a smartphone or other internet access device without a pornography filter. Adults wanting to turn off the filters would pay a $20 fee and request the deactivation in writing.[http://abc3340.com/news/local/house-bill-would-put-porn-filters-on-cellphones]<br /> * Married-with-children Oklahoma state senator and Trump campaign chair Republican Ralph Shortey is under investigation after he was found in a motel room with an underage male.[http://www.towleroad.com/2017/03/ralph-shortey/?utm_content=buffer64f5d&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer]<br /> * Anti-gay republican outed as former drag queen. [http://issuehawk.com/igor/2014/05/05/anti-gay-republican-outed-as-former-drag-queen.html]<br /> <br /> * Sponsor Of Anti-LGBT “Bathroom Bill” Caught Sexually Harassing 34 Women, Exiled From Capitol Building[http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/04/12/sponsor-anti-lgbt-bathroom-bill-caught-sexually-harassing-34-women-exiled-capitol-building/]<br /> <br /> * Steve Wiles, a Republican state Senate candidate who supports North Carolina’s constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage, once worked as a female impersonator at a gay nightclub in Winston-Salem and was gay at the time, according to a co-owner of the nightclub and a former employee.[http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/gop-candidate-was-once-a-female-impersonator/article_a1029862-5a82-5752-90e4-eac7155bce1e.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.<br /> <br /> * Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania pled no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo of Floyd County, Kentucky was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins of Asbury Park, New Jersey pled guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker of Nashua, New Hampshire is a convicted child molester.<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor Philip Giordano of Waterbury, Connecticut is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8 and 10-year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor John Gosek of Oswego, New York was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner David Swartz of Richland County, Ohio pled guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.<br /> <br /> * Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain of Monroe County, Pennsylvania was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth of Kannapolis, N.C., is a convicted child rapist in Florida.<br /> <br /> * Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader of Witchita, Kansas pled guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency of Camden, New Jersey pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge of Soputhbay, California was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.<br /> <br /> * Republican pastor Mike Hintz of Des Moines, Iowa, who George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Peter Dibble of New London, Connecticut pled no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer of Arizona was charged with molesting his 9-year old step daughter after including her in an anti-Gore television commercial.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. and Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence both of Washington, D.C. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens of Columbus, Ohio was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.<br /> <br /> * Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio of Burke, Virginia was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Mark A. Grethen of Colorado Springs. Colorado was convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Randal David Ankeney of El Paso County, Arizona pled guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Dan Crane of Illinois had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist and Christian Coalition and South Carolina Republican leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.<br /> <br /> * Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline of Orange County, California was placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography.<br /> <br /> * Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman of Maryland was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.<br /> <br /> * Republican Committee Chairman and attorney Jeffrey Patti of Sparta, New Jersey was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Marty Glickman of Florida (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD. It was Glickman, interestingly enough, that claimed Bill Clinton came from a low rent state and had torn down all of the standards for the highest office in the land.<br /> <br /> * Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks of Quartz Hill, California was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.<br /> <br /> * Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway who had relocated to Maine from Huntsville, Alabama after having been accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.<br /> <br /> * Republican preacher Stephen White of West Chester, Pennsylvania, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.<br /> <br /> * Republican talk show host Jon Matthews of Houston, Texas pled guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling of Anderson, Indiana was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Paul Ingram of Thurston County, Washington pled guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican election board official Kevin Coan of St. Louis, Missouri was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Andrew Buhr, also of St. Louis, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Keith Westmoreland of Kingsport, Tennessee was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt of Pensacola, Florida was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Councilman Keola Childs of Hawaii County, Hawaii pled guilty to molesting a male child.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist John Butler of Cass County, Illinois was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican candidate Richard Gardner of Clark County, Nevada admitted to molesting his two daughters.<br /> <br /> * Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner of Lancaster, Pennsylvania was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter of Boothbay, Maine pled guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. of Wrightsville Borough, Delaware pled no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.<br /> <br /> * Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.<br /> <br /> * Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall of Virginia was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.<br /> <br /> * Republican city councilman Mark Harris of West Bend, Wisconsin, who has been described as a “good military man” and “church goer,” was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.<br /> <br /> * Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo of Bakersfield, California molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp, Russell Harding, pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.<br /> <br /> * Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen, Sr. of Kalispell, Montana, was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.<br /> <br /> ==List Of Convicted Republican Pedophiles:==<br /> <br /> Feel free to research these people independently.<br /> <br /> Compiled from: https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/awxa6e/jim_jordans_sex_abuse_scandal_comes_back_after/ehq2lsc/<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.[https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2005/3/29/103019/-]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fredericksburg.com/news/crime_courts/air-force-investigator-goes-to-prison-for-molesting-stafford-girl/article_ef749960-7ae3-548c-88de-cde2bec21f79.amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.[https://www.google.com/amp/www.poconorecord.com/article/20120426/NEWS90/204260334%3ftemplate=ampart]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.deseretnews.com/article/830211/NJ-man-pleads-guilty-to-Internet-porn-charges.amp]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.[http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2002/vol6n33/MislaRape-en.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.[https://www.google.com/amp/www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-philip-giordano-appeal-sex-charges-20151204-story,amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.[http://articles.latimes.com/2001/apr/06/local/me-47737]<br /> <br /> * Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.[https://www-m.cnn.com/2013/02/05/us/south-carolina-thurmond-daughter-obit/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&amp;rm=1]<br /> <br /> * Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.[http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Omaha-Church-Adds-Pastor-With-A-Past-303831061.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/nyregion/embroiled-first-selectman-takes-leave.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Donald &quot;Buz&quot; Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/25/us/teen-ager-in-ohio-testifies-to-sex-with-a-congressman.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/04/24/gop-activist-admits-to-child-porn/5af2adf0-bec8-4a10-b061-014de679422a/?utm_term=.217884e2f945]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1066630/mark-anthony-grethen-v-sandra-lynn-grethen/]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.[https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/gop-activist-accused-of-assaulting-another-girl]<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/photos/political-sex-scandals-43202982/image-dan-crane-43203720]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/02/opinion/journal-beverly-russell-s-prayers.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman* was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.[https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/2005034]<br /> <br /> * Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.[http://www.njherald.com/article/20060510/ARTICLE/305109971]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks* was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.[http://articles.latimes.com/2002/aug/20/local/me-brooks20]<br /> <br /> * Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/06/us/politics-the-senate-maine-candidate-again-faces-1990-child-sex-accusation.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican preacher Stephen White*, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.[http://www.thedp.com/article/2004/01/brother_stephen_convicted_of_soliciting_sex]<br /> <br /> * Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.[http://www.houstonpress.com/news/jon-matthews-conservative-talk-show-host-and-sex-offender-pulled-from-kpfts-prison-show-6740755]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-gay activist Earl &quot;Butch&quot; Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-02-10/news/0002100308_1_adoption-fight-molesting-woody-burton]<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/29/books/books-of-the-times-a-family-is-destroyed-by-a-sexual-chimera.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wnd.com/2001/03/8428/amp/]<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Andrew Buhr* was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1908&amp;dat=20040108&amp;id=SNwfAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=ZNkEAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=2505,474893&amp;hl=en]<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children].[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-06-20/news/0206200332_1_indecent-exposure-lawmaker-westmoreland]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.[http://www.sptimes.com/2003/06/11/State/Troopers_nab_antiabor.shtml]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Councilman Keola Childs* pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.[http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Oct/08/ln/hawaii710080338.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.[https://caselaw.findlaw.com/il-court-of-appeals/1113050.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.[https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2002/oct/14/assembly-candidate-gardner-ruled-ineligible-due-to/]<br /> <br /> * Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.[https://www.google.com/amp/amp.wgal.com/article/council-accepts-resignation-of-member-imprisoned-for-rape/6189408]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.[http://www.columbiatribune.com/5bd8f6fc-ba88-11e3-86e1-10604b9f6eda.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall* was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/15/AR2005101501539_3.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/29/us/republican-quits-governor-s-race-in-minnesota.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican director of the &quot;Young Republican Federation&quot; Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.[https://bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/registered-sex-offender-keeps-custody-of-daughter]<br /> <br /> * Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/missoulian.com/news/kalispell-businessman-richard-dasen-charged-with-prostitution-related-crimes/article_f04ce8a9-fa02-54fa-addd-267d2357a4a9.amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican state senator Ralph Shortey from Oklahoma admitted to being involved in sodomy with a 17 year old male prostitute and transporting child pornography.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/kfor.com/2018/06/04/prosecutors-say-former-oklahoma-senator-enticed-teen-with-sex-with-wife-groomed-victim-for-more-than-a-year/amp/]<br /> <br /> * Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert in jail for the payments he made to cover up raping his wrestlers when he was a high school coach.[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/us/dennis-hastert-released.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Judge and campaign official Tim Nolan for President Donald Trump indicted for human trafficking and forcing a minors (9] to engage in sexual activity and giving alcohol to minors (results from the court pending].[https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cincinnati.com/amp/463805002]<br /> <br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * [[Theists in the news]]<br /> * [[Christian terrorists in the news]]<br /> * [[Democrats in the news]] <br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Political_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Priest_Abuse Priest Abuse 2019-09-09T18:36:33Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>Also see [[Theists in the news]] and [[Theists Gone Wild]].<br /> <br /> == Clergy Abuse in the news ==<br /> <br /> * List: Every abusive Catholic church priest, clergy member named in every state in past year[https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2019/09/04/list-abusive-priests-other-clergy-every-state-since-pennsylvania-grand-jury-report/2139297001/]<br /> * Male Escort Exposes 36 Gay Priests in File Sent to Vatican Containing Explicit WhatsApp Chats and Erotic Photos[https://www.newsweek.com/male-escort-exposes-36-gay-priests-file-sent-vatican-containing-explicit-829968]<br /> * Vatican’s Third-Most Powerful Official Cardinal George Pell Convicted on All Charges He Sexually Abused Choir Boys in the 1990s[http://blackchristiannews.com/2018/12/vaticans-third-most-powerful-official-cardinal-george-pell-convicted-on-all-charges-he-sexually-abused-choir-boys-in-the-1990s/]<br /> * More Than 300 'Predator Priests' Molested at Least 1,000 Children, Pennsylvania Grand Jury Finds[http://time.com/5367180/catholic-priests-sexual-abuse-pennsylvania/]<br /> * Diocese knew priest arrested for child sex crimes was abusing boys, authorities say. The Diocese of Erie knew since at least May 2010 of the abuse, but this priest was still in active ministry as recently as 2 months ago. The Catholic Church knowingly allows pedophiles to have access to children.[https://www.pennlive.com/news/2018/05/erie_priest_charged_with_child.html]<br /> * The Rev. William Thomas Faucher, accused of child porn and drug crimes, was role playing with a fellow author in some of the chatroom conversations in which he’s alleged to have said he wanted to rape and kill children, his attorney said in court Friday.[http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/article208855704.html]<br /> * A 1,200-page dossier containing the names of 34 ‘actively gay’ priests and six seminarians in Italy has been sent to the Vatican by the archdiocese of Naples.The allegations were compiled by Francesco Mangiacapra, a gay male escort who told local media he couldn’t put up with the priests’ &quot;hypocrisy&quot; any longer.[http://www.newsweek.com/male-escort-exposes-36-gay-priests-file-sent-vatican-containing-explicit-829968]<br /> <br /> * * Shattered faith: Nearly 100 sex abuse suits against Catholic priests rock island of Guam.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/04/guam-priest-child-sex-abuse-scandal/503680001/]<br /> <br /> * More than 500 people in the Northwest filed claims against the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus in advance of a November deadline, alleging members of the Catholic order sexually abused them as children.[http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/12/06/more_than_500_claims_filed_against_nw_jesuits/]<br /> <br /> *2009/09/30:&lt;br&gt;Ottawa police have issued an arrest warrant for a Roman Catholic bishop from Nova Scotia facing '''child pornography''' charges. &lt;ref&gt;http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2009/09/30/ns-bishop-charged.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2088/04/26:&lt;br&gt;A former altar boy has sued the Catholic Diocese of Orlando, alleging that church leaders knowingly concealed a '''sexually abusive priest''' who molested him. &lt;ref&gt;http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/your-home/orl-priest-abuse-suit-042608,0,7053977.story&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/10/10:&lt;br&gt;A Roman Catholic priest who compared himself to Jesus Christ was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for collaborating in '''murders, kidnappings and torture''' during Argentina's 1976-1983 military dictatorship.&lt;ref&gt;http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071010/ts_afp/argentinarightschurchsentence;_ylt=At_Z46iPzLyy83tMSBN5TS134T0D&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/10/08:&lt;br&gt;Bishop Tod D. Brown was lauded three years ago for quickly handling Orange County's share of the nationwide church abuse scandal, reaching settlements totaling '''$100 million''' for some 90 victims.&lt;ref&gt;http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j-rhoI-l22L99uM71-6gxIGAfP0AD8S5A88O0&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/10/08:&lt;br&gt;The statewide Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington must pay more than '''$112,000''' in legal fees for causing a mistrial in a priest-sex-abuse lawsuit this summer.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071006/NEWS02/710060323/1007/NEWS05&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/10/05:&lt;br&gt;A Roman Catholic priest who worked as a state prison chaplain was ordered to stand trial on charges he had '''sexual contact with an inmate''', while the inmate will stand trial on charges he extorted $7,600 in hush money from the priest.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.nbc10.com/news/14277022/detail.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/10/05:&lt;br&gt;Timothy Dane Tillmar, the former pastor of the Revival Center in Vincent, is charged with '''murder''' in the October 2005 shooting death of his wife.&lt;ref&gt;http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2007/10/former_vincent_pastor_charged.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/10/04:&lt;br&gt;Prosecutors have decided not to press charges against a Catholic priest accused of '''sexually abusing a girl''' in Portland.&lt;br&gt;The Rev. Joseph V. Hoang, 40, will remain on administrative leave while the Portland Archdiocese conducts an internal review, said Bud Bunce, a church spokesman. &lt;ref&gt;http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2007/10/priest_will_not_face_criminal.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/10/04:&lt;br&gt;The priest sex-abuse scandal claims some new, elderly victims.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.slate.com/id/2175299/nav/tap3/&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/10/02:&lt;br&gt;Riverside County authorities are looking for a former Roman Catholic priest charged with '''child molestation''' for allegedly sexually assaulting at least two altar boys at St. James church in Perris in the late 1980s, authorities said Tuesday.&lt;ref&gt;http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_275162636.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/09/26:&lt;br&gt;The Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph this week agreed to pay an Independence man '''$225,000''', its biggest settlement ever in a case of alleged priest sexual abuse.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/292494.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/09/24:&lt;br&gt;A former altar boy from Windham who said he was '''sexually abused''' by a Roman Catholic priest in the mid-1980s has filed suit against the priest and Bishop Richard Malone.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.wmtw.com/news/14189927/detail.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/09/21:&lt;br&gt;A Roman Catholic priest pleaded guilty to felony '''battery''' with a deadly weapon in an attack on a church soloist at his Las Vegas parish office early this year.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2007/sep/21/092110364.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/09/20:&lt;br&gt;The pastor of the Vietnamese Martyrs Catholic Church in Arlington has been removed from office Thursday by Bishop Kevin Vann after an investigation of allegations of past '''sexual harassment''' of two women while the priest served a parish in another state.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.myfoxdfw.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=4416883&amp;version=1&amp;locale=EN-US&amp;layoutCode=TSTY&amp;pageId=3.2.1&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> * 2007/09/19:&lt;br&gt;Michael Porter, 38, of Okehampton Close, north London, got a three-year community rehabilitation order for '''abusing young boys'''. He reportedly used his position as a Jehovah's Witness to act on his pedophile tendencies.&lt;ref&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/7002941.stm&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/09/18:&lt;br&gt;A RETIRED Catholic priest who committed '''buggery''' with a 13-year-old boy at a seminary and indecently assaulted two other teenage boys has been sentenced to seven years and three months' jail.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/sex-crimes-priest-gets-sevenyear-sentence/2007/09/17/1189881435090.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/09/14:&lt;br&gt;A Roman Catholic priest was arrested and will face trial on charges of '''raping a 9-year-old girl'''' in 2004 and '''sexually abusing''' as many as a dozen others.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20070914-1542-mexico-priestabuse.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2006/09/13:&lt;br&gt;The Reverend John Bonine is accused of '''molesting''' two girls. John Bonine's public defender says the Pastor of Sierra Heights Baptist Church could be facing life in prison if convicted because there are two children involved. Bonine faces more than 100 criminal charges of child molestation.&lt;ref&gt;http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=local&amp;id=5655127&lt;/ref&gt; <br /> *2007/09/11:&lt;br&gt;Nuns to be evicted from convent because church must pay '''$660 million''' in sexual abuse cases.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/09/12/johnson.save.the.nuns.kcal&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/09/07:&lt;br&gt;The Roman Catholic Church in San Diego, in the US state of California, has agreed to pay $198m (£97m) to settle '''144 claims of sexual abuse by clergy'''.&lt;ref&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6984405.stm&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *2007/09/04:&lt;br&gt;A high-profile pastor from Kanawha County says he's one of the '''sexual assault''' victims of another pastor -- and he's written a letter to the public.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/9576087.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> * 2007/08/30:&lt;br&gt;A fundamentalist church pastor had '''sex with two of his teenage daughters''' to educate them on how to be good wives, a South Australian court has heard. The 54-year-old man, who cannot be named, was today sentenced in the SA District Court to eight and a half years jail after pleading guilty to seven counts each of incest and unlawful sexual intercourse. The court heard that the man had sex with his daughters for nearly a decade from 1991 when they were aged 13 and 15 at the family property.[http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/pastor-had-sex-with-daughters/2007/08/30/1188067266454.html]<br /> *2007/08/24:&lt;br&gt;Television Evangelist Juanita Bynum, the hair stylist turned preacher, known for her inspiring and candid sermons about sexuality and marital responsibility, is recovering after allegedly being attacked by her estranged husband. Atlanta Police say Bishop Thomas Weeks III, founder of Global Destiny churches, will be charged with '''aggravated assault and terroristic threats'''. [http://www.bet.com/News/JuanitaBynumBeaten.htm?wbc_purpose=Basic&amp;WBCMODE=PresentationUnpublished]<br /> *2007/08/23:&lt;br&gt;A Webb City preacher, Roy Curtis Huling, has been charged with three counts of '''child molestation''' with a female who was under the age of 12. [http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/local_story_235125839.html]<br /> *2007/08/20:&lt;br&gt;A southwest suburban Southern Baptist congregation allowed a convicted child sex offender to preach for the last few years -- despite his past, and a warning from his previous church that he might still be dangerous, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned. In 1996, Jeff Hannah was sentenced to nine years in prison for having '''sexual relations with four underage girls''' -- ages 15 to 17 -- while a married youth minister at Crossroads Church in Libertyville. [http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/517063,CST-NWS-Baptist20.article]<br /> *2007/08/17:&lt;br&gt;A longtime Round Rock pastor was arrested after telling authorities he '''embezzled at least $500,000''' from his church, according to court records. Donald &quot;Roddy&quot; Clyde, 48, turned himself in to authorities Wednesday and was charged with felony theft of more than $200,000 from the Fellowship at Forest Creek Church. Clyde's bail was set at $400,000, and he could face 99 years in prison if convicted. [http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/08/17/0817pastor.html]<br /> *2007/08/17:&lt;br&gt;Pastor Leroy Cruz was arrested during a sex sting operation where a Denton police detective posed as a 15-year-old girl arranging to meet the man for '''sex'''. [http://cbs11tv.com/local/local_story_229153152.html]<br /> *2007/08/14:&lt;br&gt;The Rev. Jerry Sutton, a prominent Southern Baptist pastor who lost a bid to become president of the denomination, is now facing an upheaval in the megachurch he leads, including complaints that he spent church money on his daughter's wedding. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070814/ap_on_re_us/baptist_pastor]<br /> *2007/08/11:&lt;br&gt;Pastor Dong Wan Park has been sentenced to spend 4 1/2 years in prison for filing '''fake visa applications'''. [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/327296_fakevisa11ww.html]<br /> *2007/08/10:&lt;br&gt;A San Antonio pastor and an employee of his Christian boot camp were arrested today on aggravated '''assault''' charges, accusing them of '''dragging a girl behind a van''' after failing to keep up with others during a running exercise. [http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA081007.bootcamp.EN.1ec055f1.html]<br /> *2007/08/10:&lt;br&gt;Arrest warrants have been issued for two officials at a Christian boot camp accused of dragging a 15-year-old girl behind a van after she fell behind the group during a morning run, authorities said. Charles Eugene Flowers and Stephanie Bassitt of San Antonio-based Love Demonstrated Ministries, a 32-day boot camp, are facing aggravated assault charges. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292910,00.html]<br /> *2007/08/09:&lt;br&gt;A Catholic priest Dagoberto Valle Arriaga '''killed his son''' so the Church would not know he had broken vows of celibacy has been jailed for 55 years in Mexico City. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6939692.stm]<br /> *2007/08/08:&lt;br&gt;Rev. Acen Phillips has been charged with 12 felonies in Arapahoe County District Court; there are seven counts of '''theft''' and five counts of '''forgery''' related to insurance fraud. [http://www.denverpost.com/ci_6564053]<br /> *2007/08/08:&lt;br&gt;The Rev. Robert Whipkey faces an '''indecent exposure''' charge after police said he went jogging in the nude about an hour before sunrise. [http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_6572728]<br /> *2007/08/07:&lt;br&gt;The Rev. Randy L. Rugh of New Alexandria, Westmoreland County, was charged with '''theft''' and receiving stolen property after he allegedly cashed a CD worth $23,540 without authorization. [http://www.tribune-democrat.com/local/local_story_219003157.html]<br /> *2007/08/03:&lt;br&gt;Mark Comford, a janitor at Purdue University North Central and a youth leader at Faith Baptist Church in LaPorte, was arrested and then charged with seven counts of '''child molesting''' and two counts of criminal deviate conduct. Four boys, ages 9 to 13, were listed as victims in the charging information outlined in all of the counts. [http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070803/News01/70803046/1130/Sports01] [http://www.post-trib.com/news/497011,lplawsuit.article]<br /> *2007/07/30:&lt;br&gt;Pastor Tommy Tester was arrested charges of '''indecent exposure''' and '''public drunkenness'''. Police say the preacher was driving drunk when he stopped at a car wash and '''urinated with children present'''. Investigators say prior to his arrest, Tester, who was wearing a skirt at the time, made sexual advances to them. [http://www.tricities.com/tristate/tri/news.apx.-content-articles-TRI-2007-07-30-0034.html]<br /> *2007/07/22:&lt;br&gt;Catholic priest Monsignor Alan J. Placa is accused of '''sexually molesting''' boys. [http://telegram.com/article/20070722/NEWS/707220489/1116]<br /> *2007/07/20:&lt;br&gt;Rev. Geronimo Enrique Cuevas, an assistant pastor at a Catholic church was arrested for investigation of '''sexual battery''' after he allegedly groped an undercover sheriff's deputy near a private beach. [http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_6428404?nclick_check=1]<br /> *2007/07/20:&lt;br&gt;Troy Deal, 34, director of youth ministries at Chapel Hill United Methodist Church, was arrested on charges of using a computer to '''solicit a child for sex'''. [http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070719/NEWS01/707190325/1002/NEWS01]<br /> *2007/07/20:&lt;br&gt;Wendel Nix, a part-time youth pastor from Aztec Bible Baptist Church, was arrested on charges that he had '''sex with a 14-year-old''' girl from his congregation. [http://www.daily-times.com/news/ci_6418548]<br /> *2007/07/19:&lt;br&gt;Rev. Coy Privette, the president of the Christian Action League, a North Carolina ultraconservative Christian political organization based in Raleigh, has been arrested for '''soliciting prostitution''' from a female [http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/07/19/pres-of-christian-action-league-charged-in-prosty-case/] and '''stealing''' nearly $200,000 from St. Margaret Mary parish on the North Side to give cars, plane tickets and thousands of dollars in cash to a '''male stripper''' [http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/478428,CST-NWS-priest22.article].<br /> * 2007/07/16:&lt;br&gt;A California judge approved the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles's agreement to pay $660 million to people who claim they were '''abused by priests''', in the biggest clergy-abuse settlement ever. [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&amp;sid=awoX5MMYn9L4]<br /> * 2007/07/16:&lt;br&gt;74-Year-Old Colorado Episcopal Priest Sentenced To 210 Years For Sex Assault. Donald Shissler was found guilty of 15 counts, including '''assault on a child and sexual exploitation of a child'''. He met the victims *after he retired from the clergy and after his foster parent license was revoked. [http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/13689756/detail.html]<br /> *2007/07/09:&lt;br&gt;A Nixa pastor has been charged with '''child abuse''' for allegedly striking a 16-year-old female relative. [http://exchristian.net/2/2007/07/pastor-strikes-teen-girl.html]<br /> *2007/07/05:&lt;br&gt;An associate pastor at Immanuel Baptist Church of Slidell was arrested Monday and booked Tuesday on two counts of '''aggravated sex crimes''' and 47 counts of possession of '''child pornography'''. [http://blog.nola.com/tpnorthshore/2007/07/associate_pastor_in_slidell_bo.html]<br /> *2007/07/05:&lt;br&gt;The mother of a Lake County '''boy who was sexually abused''' by Rev. Douglas W. Myers has sued the clergyman, two area churches and two Baptist groups, maintaining they should have protected her son. [http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/lake/orl-lmyers0507jul05,0,4688842.story]<br /> *2007/07/07:&lt;br&gt;A 32-yr-old married pastor at the most popular church in Akron is accused of '''grabbing two women''' at Chapel Hill mall. [http://www.wkyc.com/news/regional/akron_article.aspx?storyid=70694]<br /> *2007/06/30:&lt;br&gt;Christopher Bennett, 30, of Apt. Z6, 200 Franklin Road NE, Atlanta, was arrested Wednesday in the Atlanta area and charged with second-degree '''sodomy'''. [http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/story/73435.html]<br /> *2007/06/29:&lt;br&gt;Federal investigators are cracking-down on a bankrupt CEO who is also a pastor. He's charged with '''defrauding investors''' of more than a half million dollars. [http://www.wnep.com/Global/story.asp?S=6730241]<br /> *2007/06/28:&lt;br&gt;Joshua Robinson is charged with two counts of '''lewd conduct with a minor''' and one count of sexually abusing a minor. [http://www.localnews8.com/Global/story.asp?S=6720412]<br /> *2007/06/24:&lt;br&gt;A Baptist minister from Cleveland Heights admitted Thursday that he '''molested two children''', including one of his wife's relatives and an unrelated member of his church's flock who was 12 years old and deaf. [http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2007/06/pastor_from_cleveland_hts_admi.html]<br /> *2007/06/20:&lt;br&gt;Suffolk pastor says disgruntled worker is behind his misdemeanor '''assault''' charge. [http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=6682078&amp;nav=menu45_2]<br /> *2007/06/12:&lt;br&gt;Stephen D. Shorey, 40, was arrested in April on a complaint of '''child sexual abuse'''. [http://www.sapulpadailyherald.com/local/local_story_163115238.html]<br /> *2007/06/09:&lt;br&gt;The pastor of Emmanuel Apostolic Church was convicted yesterday of several '''sexual-offense charges''' involving a teenage girl who was a member of his church. He was sentenced in Forsyth Superior Court to at least 20 years in prison. [http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ/MGArticle/WSJ_BasicArticle&amp;c=MGArticle&amp;cid=1173351554660]<br /> *2007/06/06:&lt;br&gt;A former pastor was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for receiving '''child pornography''' videos he bought over the Internet. [http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/17332504.htm]<br /> *2007/06/01:&lt;br&gt;Gerald Klever, then a pastor at First Presbyterian Church, allegedly forced a teenage girl to perform '''oral sex''' on him in his church office. [http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/7780211.html]<br /> *2007/05/31:&lt;br&gt;Pastor accused of '''diverting church money''' for personal use. [http://www.wvec.com/news/topstories/stories/wvec_inv_0530087_church_crisis.26cac624.html#]<br /> *2007/05/31:&lt;br&gt;Priest Busted for Alleged Online '''Child Porn Possession'''. [http://www.wten.com/Global/story.asp?S=6586333]<br /> *2007/05/26:&lt;br&gt;Youth pastor guilty of having '''child porn'''. [http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/052607/met_172900943.shtml]<br /> *2007/05/23:&lt;br&gt;Angela Hurt, 32, who was a part-time youth leader at Cornerstone Church in Springfield, was charged in November in Greene County Circuit Court with second-degree statutory '''rape''' and second-degree statutory '''sodomy''' for allegedly having an '''inappropriate relationship''' with the boy from January to March 2005. [http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070523/NEWS01/705230349/1007/NEWS01]<br /> *2007/05/19:&lt;br&gt;Former youth minister David Baird, 45, of Penn Hills, was charged with statutory '''sexual assault''', involuntary '''deviant intercourse''', '''sexual assault''', two counts of indecent assault, '''indecent exposure''', '''endangering the welfare of children''', corruption of minors and '''unlawful contact''' with a minor. [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07139/787460-56.stm]<br /> *2007/05/04:&lt;br&gt;Corey Pritchett, 44, was arrested at the Sandy Public Library. Police charged him with several counts of '''theft and securities fraud''' in connection with multiple real estate transactions. [http://www.kptv.com/news/13262697/detail.html]<br /> *2007/05/10:&lt;br&gt;Chattanooga police arrested nine men Friday in a '''prostitution sting''', including the pastor of Ringgold United Methodist Church. [http://www.kptv.com/news/13262697/detail.html]<br /> *2007/04/20:&lt;br&gt;A former Hebron minister, who is spending seven years in prison on '''sex-abuse''' convictions, is being sued by the two teenage sisters he victimized. [http://www.columbusdispatch.com/dispatch/content/local_news/stories/2007/04/26/aleshire.ART_ART_04-26-07_B3_QI6GMA7.html]<br /> *2007/04/01:&lt;br&gt;A former Rice Lake pastor is charged with '''raping''' a 17-year-old boy 20 years ago. [http://www.weau.com/news/headlines/6760107.html]<br /> *2007/03/19:&lt;br&gt;U.S. authorities seized $56,467 that Pentacostal leaders Estevam and Sônia Hernandes and other family members had hidden on their bodies and in luggage, according to the U.S. indictment. [http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/19/news/brazil.php]<br /> *2007/03/12:&lt;br&gt;Pastor Frederick Dew was booked into the Sacramento County Jail on suspicion of '''lewd acts''' with a child. [http://www.news10.net/display_story.aspx?storyid=25333&amp;provider=top]<br /> *2007/03/12:&lt;br&gt;CNN anchor Thomas Roberts became a victim of sexual abuse at the age of 14; the abuse lasted three years. It took him nearly 20 years to gather the strength to help put my abuser behind bars. &quot;My abuser was Father Jeff Toohey, a trusted man of God. He was the equivalent of a religious celebrity in my private all-boys Catholic school in Baltimore, Maryland. Father Jeff was every boy's friend and mentor. I considered him my mentor as well.&quot; [http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/03/09/roberts.btsc/index.html]<br /> *2007/02/09:&lt;br&gt;Pastor Ronald Hernandez Tovar of a Stanton church is accused of having''' sex with a 16-year-old''' female parishioner. [http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1575048.php]<br /> *2007/02/08:&lt;br&gt;Rediger, a former youth pastor of Liberty Baptist Church, was sentenced to two terms of two years in prison to be served concurrently with no time off for good behavior. He will also be placed on five years of post-release control. [http://www.timesbulletin.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&amp;SubSectionID=4&amp;ArticleID=141463&amp;TM=1601.644]<br /> *2007/02/02:&lt;br&gt;A Bexar County jury this morning convicted a former youth minister of capital murder in the '''deaths''' of his 17-year-old pregnant girlfriend and their unborn child. [http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA020207.estradaupadte.en.43ed4c07.html]<br /> *2007/1/18:&lt;br&gt;Shawn Davies, a 33-year-old former music and youth minister, was sentenced Jan. 12 to 20 years in prison for '''molesting children''' at First Baptist Church of Greenwood, Mo. [http://www.abpnews.com/1628.article]<br /> *2007/1/12:&lt;br&gt;The pastor of an Atlantic Beach church was arrested Wednesday as part of a '''prostitution sting'''. [http://www.local6.com/news/10735457/detail.html]<br /> *2007/1/12:&lt;br&gt;The Rev. Kenneth Payne was found guilty of '''molesting and sodomizing''' a teenage boy he was formerly tutoring. [http://www.newsadvance.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=LNA%2FMGArticle%2FLNA_BasicArticle&amp;c=MGArticle&amp;cid=1149192621445&amp;path=!news!archive]<br /> *2007/1/08:&lt;br&gt;A youth pastor in Craig was arrested in connection with the alleged '''sexual assault''' of two teen girls he had worked with at First Christian Church. [http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/10696622/detail.html]<br /> *2007/1/05:&lt;br&gt;Scott Hoppe, former youth minister and assistant pastor at Grace Church in Burlington, had '''sex with a girl''' many times when she was between 15 and 17 years old. [http://www.gazetteextra.com/hoppe010507.asp]<br /> *2006/12/08:&lt;br&gt;Rev. Brent Dugan commits '''suicide''' after sex scandal. [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06342/744553-53.stm]<br /> *2006/11/30:&lt;br&gt;A 28-year-old self-styled pastor, Yaw Dadzie, who claim to have divine powers to heal the sick, especially lunatics, has been arrested by the police for his '''violent behaviour''' towards his patients. [http://forum.hkudb.com/f60/14361/]<br /> *2006/10/29:&lt;br&gt;A former Hickman Community Church pastor has been arrested on a '''murder''' warrant linked to the death of an 85-year-old Hickman man in 2004. [http://www.modbee.com/local/story/13058139p-13713974c.html]<br /> *2006/10/21:&lt;br&gt;Riverside police arrested Pastor Dennis Bowling early Tuesday after a group of women associated with the Kingdom Harvest Church at 2360 Valley Pike told police Bowling had '''sexually assaulted''' female members of the congregation over a 10-year period. [http://www.daytondailynews.com/hp/content/oh/story/news/local/2006/11/21/ddn112106pastorweb.html]<br /> *2006/10/16:&lt;br&gt;Donald Richard Ryan, a high school pastor at Greenwood Community Church, admitted to being '''sexually involved''' with a 16-year-old girl. [http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5147032,00.html]<br /> *2006/10/04:&lt;br&gt;Kent Hovind, founder of Creation Science Evangelism and Dinosaur Adventure Land in Pensacola, was found guilty of 58 counts, including '''failure to pay $845,000''' in employee-related taxes. He faces a maximum of 288 years in prison. [http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/1732927.php]<br /> *2006/10/02:&lt;br&gt;A male prostitute alleges that he had a '''three-year relationship''' with prominent right-wing evangelical leader Ted Haggard, who has said that homosexuality is a “sin” and “devastating for the children of our nation and for the future of Western civilization.” [http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/02/haggard-evangelical-prostitute/]<br /> *2006/09/21:&lt;br&gt;The 44-year-old Reverend Terry Hornbuckle has been convicted of '''drugging and raping three women''', two of them former members of his Arlington megachurch. [http://www.dallasobserver.com/2006-09-21/news/the-reverend-freak/]<br /> *2006/09/18:&lt;br&gt;Pastor Joseph Gary Torres was charged Monday with multiple counts of '''sexually abusing''' two girls who attended his church in the San Fernando Valley. [http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/09/18/state/n235728D43.DTL]<br /> *2006/09/15:&lt;br&gt;The Rev. Maurice L. Jackson, pastor of New Generation Church was found guilty of three '''sex charges with children''' in Franklin County Common Pleas Court. [http://www.columbusdispatch.com/dispatch/contentbe/EPIC_shim.php?story=212660]<br /> *2006/09/12:&lt;br&gt;The pastor Gregory Michael Butler has been indicted by a Burke County grand jury on charges of '''sexually assaulting''' a 15-year old girl. [http://www.wxii12.com/news/9833697/detail.html?taf=gws]<br /> *2006/09/05:&lt;br&gt;The Rev. Charles F. Mc-Keller faces civil suits by an estranged couple who claim that instead of counseling them to repair their marriage he drove them further apart by engaging in a '''sexual relationship''' with the wife. [http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=110413&amp;ran=152234]<br /> *2006/08/31:&lt;br&gt;Pastor Helge Fossmo has admitted involvement in the '''murder''' of his wife in their home in 2004. [http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=4752&amp;date=20060831]<br /> *2006/08/23:&lt;br&gt;Pastor Robert Holmes is being arrested for '''not reporting the abuse''' that a 12-year-old boy was suffering. 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Shannon Griffin is the wife of the pastor of Jordan Baptist Church and is a teacher at the associated Jordan Baptist school in Oak Lawn, a suburb of Chicago. Christian school teacher who scolded girls to be modest was molesting male students. She was a moral scold who told girls they were dressing like sluts &amp; the entire time she was sending naked photos of herself to male students. [https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/07/christian-school-teacher-scolded-girls-modest-molesting-male-students/][https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/07/02/teacher-sexual-assault-shannon-griffin-burbank/][https://abc7chicago.com/burbank-teacher-charged-with-sex-assault-soliciting-child-porn-from-2-students/5375571/]<br /> * A principal in Louisiana has resigned after being arrested at a Washington, DC strip club. Holy Family Principal Michael Comeau was chaperoning a middle school trip to the nation's capital when he was arrested at Archibald's Gentlemen's Club in Northwest DC. Police were called to the club, just blocks from the White House, to found Comeau “standing in the roadway, refusing to move.&quot; Comeau reportedly refused to settle up with the club.[https://www.complex.com/life/2019/06/louisiana-school-principal-arrested-at-strip-club-in-dc]<br /> * The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $8 million to a teenager who was sexually abused and kidnapped by a teacher at her Catholic high school.The teenager's attorney, David Ring, said that the settlement — finalized by a court last week — is the largest that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles has ever paid to a single victim, The Associated Press reports. Over the past 15 years, the archdiocese has paid more than $740 million in sexual abuse settlements.[https://www.npr.org/2019/04/17/714212609/archdiocese-of-los-angeles-agrees-to-8-million-settlement-in-sex-abuse-case]<br /> * A large majority of priests in the Vatican are gay, although many are not sexually active, a new book claims. A total of about 80 percent of the most revered clerics in the Roman Catholic Church are homosexual despite the church’s opposition to gay rights, according to the extensively researched book by French journalist Frédéric Martel. The gay priests adhere to an unspoken code called “the closet,” where it is understood that, for instance, a cardinal or bishop who denounces homosexuality is more likely to be gay, according to the book “In the Closet of the Vatican.”[https://nypost.com/2019/02/14/80-percent-of-priests-in-the-vatican-are-gay-new-book/]<br /> * 7-year old boy killed after court-appointed guardian punishes him for not knowing 13 bible verses[https://fox11online.com/news/local/guardians-teen-charged-in-death-of-7-year-old-manitowoc-co-boy]<br /> * Evangelicals sue for right to deny shelter to homeless transgender people.Alliance Defending Freedom, the far-right evangelical legal group that defended the “right” of a baker to deny service to gay couples before the Supreme Court, has a new target.This time they’re suing to give a homeless shelter in Anchorage, Alaska, the “right” to deny help to transgender people. The federal court lawsuit seeks to overturn the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance that prohibits discrimination against LGBTQ people.[https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/01/evangelicals-sue-right-deny-shelter-homeless-transgender-people/]<br /> * Male Escort Exposes 36 Gay Priests in File Sent to Vatican Containing Explicit WhatsApp Chats and Erotic Photos[https://www.newsweek.com/male-escort-exposes-36-gay-priests-file-sent-vatican-containing-explicit-829968]<br /> * Vatican’s Third-Most Powerful Official Cardinal George Pell Convicted on All Charges He Sexually Abused Choir Boys in the 1990s[http://blackchristiannews.com/2018/12/vaticans-third-most-powerful-official-cardinal-george-pell-convicted-on-all-charges-he-sexually-abused-choir-boys-in-the-1990s/]<br /> * “Aryan Pride” for Jesus: An Oklahoma pastor is under arrest after being caught running a prostitution ring with a white supremacist. Pastor Walter Eugene Brazington Jr. is “being charged with procuring for prostitution and possession of a firearm while in the commission of a felony,” according to a report from Tulsa World.[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2017/12/oklahoma-pastor-busted-running-white-supremacist-prostitution-ring/]<br /> * Lawsuit: At least 14 kids abused at hands of North Charleston church volunteer. Jacop Robert Lee Hazlett, 28, of Proximity Drive in West Ashley, faces one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor under 11 years old, according to his arrest affidavit and court records. Hazlett had worked as a volunteer chaperone and day care provider since March for NewSpring Church, located at 5101 Ashley Phosphate Road, supervising children ages 3 to 5 in a room called &quot;the Tree House.&quot;[https://www.postandcourier.com/news/lawsuit-at-least-kids-abused-at-hands-of-north-charleston/article_7d97d7f2-f3d8-11e8-9ec7-6ffa7310138b.html]<br /> * An Illinois priest who spent time in prison for manufacturing and selling a date-rape drug has been removed from ministry again for getting involved in a criminal case without telling his superiors. Peoria Diocese Bishop Daniel Jenky removed the Rev. Jeffrey Windy from his post serving three Ottawa parishes in March.[https://www.bnd.com/news/state/illinois/article222188995.html]<br /> * Gun-related tragedy struck once again this week, this time at a Catholic Supply store in Ballwin, Missouri, a suburb of St. Lous. USA Today reports that a former pastor has been arrested after allegedly attempting to coerce three women into having sex with him at gunpoint. When one of them resisted, he shot 53-year-old Jamie Schmidt in the head and forced the other two to submit to his “deviant” demands. The shooter, 53-year-old Thomas Bruce, has a reputation for right-wing tirades on social media and has ranted against gun-free zones in the past. He was a huge fan of President Trump, attended his rallies, and regularly tweeted about Republican politics. His last tweet read “I’ve already forgotten you. #promisesmade #promiseskept #trump2020 #BuildTheWall” and his feed was full of retweets from white nationalist FOX anchor Laura Ingraham.[https://washingtonpress.com/2018/11/23/a-trump-obsessed-pastor-just-shot-a-woman-dead-and-sodomized-two-others-in-horrific-sex-assault/]<br /> * Catholic Church Shielded Priests Who Raped Boys, but It Helped Lock Up a Priest Who Swiped Bucks. The monsignor who gambled and traveled on the Archdiocese’s dime remained behind bars as a grand jury reported on the crimes of his peers who preyed on children.[https://www.thedailybeast.com/catholic-church-shielded-priests-who-raped-boys-but-it-helped-lock-up-a-priest-who-swiped-bucks]<br /> * Grand jury report: Priests ran child porn ring in Pittsburgh Diocese[http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-nws-pa-pittsburgh-diocese-porn-ring-20180815-story.html]<br /> * Pastor Timothy Lee Reddin did not practice what he preached, police claim. The Arkansas church leader was arrested this week for allegedly trying to meet with an underage boy to have sex, part of a police sting operation.[https://www.inquisitr.com/5025011/anti-gay-pastor-timothy-lee-reddin-arrested-sex-with-underage-boy/]<br /> * A former New Jersey pastor who co-founded the Creation Festival, which bills itself as the country's largest Christian music festival, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for sexually assaulting multiple young children. Harry Thomas, 75, who formerly pastored Come Alive New Testament Church in Medford and went on to help create the popular music festival, failed in withdrawing his guilty plea on Friday, the Associated Press reported.[https://www.christianpost.com/news/creation-festival-co-founder-sentenced-to-18-years-for-child-sex-abuse-i-deserve-to-be-cast-into-sea-226484/][http://www.startribune.com/ex-pastor-sentenced-to-18-years-in-child-sex-abuse-case/489423631/]<br /> * Revelations that a prominent U.S. cardinal sexually abused and harassed his adult seminarians have exposed an egregious abuse of power that has shocked Catholics on both sides of the Atlantic. But the Vatican has long been aware of its heterosexual equivalent — the sexual abuse of nuns by priests and bishops — and done little to stop it, an Associated Press analysis has found. An examination by the AP shows that cases of abused nuns have emerged in Europe, Africa, South America and Asia, demonstrating that the problem is global and pervasive, thanks to the sisters' second-class status in the church and their ingrained subservience to the men who run it.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/metoo-vatican-nuns-denounce-priests-1.4765021]<br /> * A longtime pastor of a Bogalusa church pleaded guilty to the theft of more than $95,000 in Social Security disability benefits, U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans said Thursday. Jerry R. Newton, 54, of Slidell, is set for an Oct. 25 sentencing hearing before U. S. District Court Judge Jane Triche Milazzo.[https://www.nola.com/northshore/index.ssf/2018/07/bogalusa_pastor_pleads_guilty.html]<br /> * The Vatican tribunal has convicted a former Holy See diplomat and sentenced him to 5 years in prison for possessing and distributing child pornography in the first such trial of its kind inside the Vatican.[https://apnews.com/76aa075fbd1b40a487bc75fdd8f56e8c] Note that the Vatican refused to revoke the perpetrator's diplomatic immunity so he could be prosecuted in the United States.[https://www.inquisitr.com/4954910/priest-and-former-vatican-diplomat-to-u-s-found-guilty-of-possessing-child-pornography/]<br /> * A Catholic priest is behind bars after admitting to plying an underage boy with alcohol and molesting him. Father Steven Michael Guidry and his attorney reported to the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office on June 13 and confessed to giving alcohol to the minor before sexually assaulting him.[https://wgno.com/2018/06/14/catholic-priest-arrested-for-molesting-16-year-old-boy/]<br /> * Diocese knew priest arrested for child sex crimes was abusing boys, authorities say. The Diocese of Erie knew since at least May 2010 of the abuse, but this priest was still in active ministry as recently as 2 months ago. The Catholic Church knowingly allows pedophiles to have access to children.[https://www.pennlive.com/news/2018/05/erie_priest_charged_with_child.html]<br /> * The Rev. William Thomas Faucher, accused of child porn and drug crimes, was role playing with a fellow author in some of the chatroom conversations in which he’s alleged to have said he wanted to rape and kill children, his attorney said in court Friday.[http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/article208855704.html]<br /> * A well-known Alabama evangelist, public speaker and author was arrested in Hoover Tuesday on child sex charges. Paul Edward Acton Bowen, a 37-year-old Gadsden native who now lives in Etowah County's Southside community, was taken into custody by Hoover police about 12:35 p.m. The founder of Acton Bowen Outreach Ministries is charged with second-degree sodomy, enticing a child to enter a vehicle or house for immoral purposes, and second-degree sex abuse. The victim was a young male, but police did not release his age except to say he is over 12 and under 16.[http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2018/04/alabama_evangelist_acton_bowen.html]<br /> * As they back Trump, evangelical leaders face their own sex scandals.[https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/03/31/they-back-trump-evangelical-leaders-face-their-own-sex-scandals/9JwpnbdWzHOzQ7tEAmxUPN/story.html]<br /> * A former Bossier Parish pastor has been arrested after admitting to police he had meth at his Bossier City home. Andy C. Harris, 56, of 2406 Benton Road in Bossier City, was charged with possession of a Schedule II controlled dangerous substance (methamphetamine) and possession of drug paraphernalia. [https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/crime/2018/03/09/benton-man-arrested-possession-meth/410682002/]<br /> * A 1,200-page dossier containing the names of 34 ‘actively gay’ priests and six seminarians in Italy has been sent to the Vatican by the archdiocese of Naples.The allegations were compiled by Francesco Mangiacapra, a gay male escort who told local media he couldn’t put up with the priests’ &quot;hypocrisy&quot; any longer.[http://www.newsweek.com/male-escort-exposes-36-gay-priests-file-sent-vatican-containing-explicit-829968]<br /> * Mari Lopez Lopez credited veganism and a faith in God as the cure for her breast cancer last year, just months before her breast cancer returned. She later died from cancer.[http://www.wfaa.com/article/news/youtuber-who-claimed-veganism-cured-her-cancer-dies-of-cancer/521951036]<br /> * Pastor George Nelson Gregory, 61, of Munhall, Pa., was caught by cops in the backseat of a car with another man who was completely naked and bound with nylon rope in the front seat. Gregory says he was counseling the man, who is battling a drug problem.[http://www.pennlive.com/daily-buzz/2018/02/pa_pastor_caught_by_cops_in_wi.html]<br /> * 100s of child porn images, LSD, ecstasy found in Boise priest’s home, prosecutor says. Longtime Catholic Rev. W. Thomas Faucher, 72, was brought into court in a wheelchair Monday evening for his arraignment on 14 different charges.[http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/crime/article198567664.html]<br /> * Memphis mega-church pastor Andy Savage admits he molested a minor days before his ‘True Love Waits’ workshop.[https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/memphis-mega-church-pastor-admits-he-molested-a-minor-days-before-his-true-love-waits-workshop/]<br /> * An Ohio priest under investigation for questionable communications with a minor took his life in Chicago. The Chicago Tribune reports that Father James Csaszar jumped from the 82-story Aqua Hotel in downtown Chicago and the death was ruled a suicide on Thursday by the Cook County medical examiner's office.[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-csaszar-ohio-priest-kills-himself-in-chicago-amid-investigation/]<br /> * Co-founder of nation’s largest Christian rock festival abused minors for 16 years, authorities say, Harry L. Thomas, 74, of Medford Township, faces charges of aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office. [https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/co-founder-of-nations-largest-christian-rock-festival-abused-minors-for-16-years-authorities-say/]<br /> * Ralph Shortey, former Trump campaign chairman, Anti-Gay 'Family Values' Former GOP State Senator Guilty of Child Sex Trafficking After Being Found With Teen Boy.[http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/_family_values_republican_state_senator_pleads_guilty_to_child_sex_trafficking_after_child_pornography_charges_dropped]<br /> * Conservative megachurch founder Bob Coy accused of molesting 4-year-old[https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/conservative-megachurch-founder-bob-coy-accused-of-molesting-4-year-old/]<br /> * Devin Patrick Kelley, a vocational bible instructor, and ex Air Force soldier, opened fire in a Texas church, killing 26 people including children.[https://viral.buzzunites.com/2017/11/05/devin-kelley-5-fast-facts-you-need-to-know/]<br /> * Amber James, the mother who killed her nine-year-old son on Halloween, says she prayed, thought about it, and cried before she strangled him to death to “save” him.[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/11/03/mom-who-murdered-son-on-halloween-prayed-about-it-first/]<br /> * A Middletown mother will spend 21/2 to 5 years in state prison for assaulting her daughter because the teen didn't recite Bible verses correctly.Rhonda Shoffner, 41, was sentenced by Dauphin County Judge John F. Cherry after she pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated assault, strangulation, child endangerment and making terroristic threats.[http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/10/mom_who_beat_daughter_for_not.html?utm_source=fark&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_content=link&amp;ICID=ref_fark]<br /> * The Vatican trial over $500,000 in donations to the pope’s pediatric hospital that were diverted to renovate a cardinal’s penthouse is reaching its conclusion, with neither the cardinal who benefited nor the contractor who was apparently paid twice for the work facing trial.[https://www.apnews.com/ed6e8fcc7b5146eabc65e6b83564be19/Anomalies-abound-in-Vatican-trial-over-diverted-donations]<br /> * Shattered faith: Nearly 100 sex abuse suits against Catholic priests rock island of Guam.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/04/guam-priest-child-sex-abuse-scandal/503680001/]<br /> * Vatican blames women for pedophile priest scandals. [http://www.neonnettle.com/news/2359-catholic-church-women-are-to-blame-for-pedophile-priests]<br /> * Vatican rocked: Police raid drug-fuelled gay orgy at cardinal's apartment.[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=11886097]<br /> * Christian fundamentalist pastor to stand trial over death of two-year-old granddaughter from pneumonia.[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/christian-faith-healer-pastor-trial-pneumonia-medicine-rowland-foster-ella-fundamentaliism-a7814261.html]<br /> * Faith-healing parents charged with murder in death of premature twin baby[http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-city/index.ssf/2017/06/followers_of_christ_parents_of.html#incart_river_index]<br /> * North Carolina televangelist Todd Coontz – author of numerous books on faith and finances – has been indicted on charges of tax fraud spanning more than a decade.[http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/23/534128363/north-carolina-televangelist-indicted-on-charges-of-tax-crimes]<br /> * Ferndale Mother Arrested For Attempted Homicide After ‘Trying to Remove the Demons’ from Her 11-Year-Old Child.[https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2017/jun/16/ferndale-mother-arrested-attempted-homicide-after/]<br /> * Juror jailed for contempt in mistrial of minister, Brooke Covington, who is accused of kidnapping and beating a parishioner to expel his 'homosexual demons'[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4576384/Gay-beating-case-hands-jury-4-years-incident.html]<br /> * Monsignor William A. Dombrow was able to steal $500,000 from a church-owned retirement home, and used the money to pay for gambling, expensive dinners and concerts. He pleaded guilty to four federal wire fraud counts on Thursday. The maligned priest previously ran Villa St. Joseph in Darby for the Philadelphia Archdiocese, which housed aging priests and treated those accused of sexual abuse. Much of the stolen money came from insurance payments for priests who died and from the estates of parishioners.[http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/05/priest_admits_to_stealing_500k.html#incart_river_home_pop]<br /> * Conservative Christian and Oklahoma lawmaker Ralph Shortey is charged with engaging in child prostitution and other felonies after being caught in a hotel room with an underage boy.[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ralph-shortey-oklahoma-lawmaker-hit-child-prostitution-charges-n734376]<br /> * Oklahoma missionary sentenced to 40 years for sexually assaulting children in Upendo Children's Home in Nairobi, Kenya. Matthew Lane Durham, 21, was sentenced to four decades in prison by Judge David L. Russell on four counts of &quot;engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places,&quot; according to court documents. &quot;In a span of just 33 days,&quot; prosecutors wrote to the court, Durham &quot;raped three girls -- ages 5, 9 and 15 -- at least eight times. During that same time period, he sexually molested a 12-year-old boy twice.&quot;[http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/07/us/missionary-sexual-assault-kenya-children/index.html]. Christian publications claim missionary was possessed by a Demon named &quot;Luke&quot;. [http://www.christianpost.com/news/teen-missionary-indicted-for-raping-children-at-orphanage-says-he-was-possessed-by-demon-named-luke-124428/]<br /> * Religious Parents Who Refused to Take Son to Hospital and Thought God Would Resurrect Him Found Guilty of First Degree Murder.[http://edmontonjournal.com/storyline/they-knew-he-was-dying-parents-guilty-of-1st-degree-murder-in-sons-death]<br /> * Word of Life Christian Church Pastor Tiffanie Irwin, her brother Joseph Irwin and mother and son church members Linda Morey and David Morey have entered guilty pleas in the church orchestrated beating of two teen boys, leaving one dead and the other severely injured. Reports indicate the teens were beaten because they discussed leaving the congregation. Lucas Leonard, 19, was severely beaten by members of the church last October, suffering injuries to the abdomen, genitals, back and thighs that ultimately proved to be fatal. At the time of the suspects arrest, police said the “spiritual counseling session” at the church was in reality an hours-long attack in which the teen boys were repeatedly whipped with cords, pummeled with fists, and kicked. They suffered severe injuries to the abdomen, genitals, back and thighs. A church member testified that the “counseling session” lasted for 14 hours and only stopped because Lucas “was dead at that point.”[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2016/10/pastor-3-others-guilty-in-fatal-beating-of-teen-trying-to-escape-church/]<br /> * Man Admits to Killing Cancer-Surviving Daughter, But Not Before Asking God to Intervene. 25-year-old Ryan Lawrence pleaded guilty to murdering his 21-month-old daughter, a survivor of eye cancer, in part because he may have been jealous of all the attention she was getting.[https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1804932/dad-battered-brave-toddler-to-death-with-a-baseball-bat-in-jealous-rage/]<br /> * Christian who &quot;dedicated his life to Jesus&quot;, Richard Keenan, who served as mayor of Hubbard in 2010 and 2011, was indicted last month eight counts of rape and 12 counts of attempted rape and gross sexual imposition of a 4 year old girl.[http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/ohio-ex-mayor-who-dedicated-life-to-christ-admits-to-raping-4-year-old-and-blames-her-as-willing/]<br /> * Brian Mitchell, a youth pastor at a North Olmsted church, a husband and father of three children under the age of 8, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday for raping an unnamed teenager.[http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/09/extremely_delusional_north_olm.html]<br /> * 24-year-old “Christian Warrior” named Bryce Cuellar was arrested after posting a YouTube video detailing how he was going to kill “gays, faggots, lesbians and satanists.”[http://www.ktnv.com/news/las-vegas-man-facing-charges-after-posting-threatening-youtube-video]<br /> * Pastor Who Said Pulse Victims Weren't Victims, Got 'What They Deserve' Arrested for Child Molestation. Controversial pastor Ken Adkins has been charged with two counts of child molestation in Georgia and is in the Glynn County jail, officials said.[http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2016-08-26/story/controversial-pastor-and-activist-ken-adkins-charged-child-molestation]<br /> * Gunman fatally shoots Pennsylvania churchgoer after fight over seat at Sunday service.[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/churchgoer-killed-fight-seat-sunday-service-article-1.2618098]<br /> * Jerry Childress, a 75-year-old church organist from Florida, was arrested for indecent exposure after a glory hole attempt went wrong.[http://americannewsx.com/religion/church-organist-arrested/]<br /> * An Acadiana priest has been arrested for allegedly possessing over 500 images of child pornography, according to the Louisiana State Police. Father Felix David Broussard, a priest at St. Bernard Roman Catholic Church in Breaux Bridge, was arrested today and booked into St. Martin Parish jail on 500 counts of pornography involving juveniles.[http://klfy.com/2016/07/27/breaux-bridge-priest-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges/]<br /> * A 3-year-old boy died on Sunday after he was accidentally left in a hot car parked outside a church, according to police. The child’s family was attending an afternoon Bible study at Rehoboth Praise Assembly in Dallas.[http://kdvr.com/2016/07/25/child-dies-in-hot-car-while-family-worships-in-church/]<br /> * London priest charged after allegedly gambling away more than $500,000 meant for Syrian refugees. [http://m.en.canoe.com/CNEWS/Crime/2016/07/14/22651721.html]<br /> * Man following &quot;god's orders&quot; tried to crush toddler daughter's skull with a bat to help her get to heaven.[http://www.wbir.com/news/deputies-toddler-attacked-at-motel-critically-injured/260712415]<br /> * Sam Sutter, A 26-year-old youth minister is facing sexual battery charges following his arrest. According to a Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office report, Sutter was involved in a sexual relationship with a teenage girl he met through his job at the Openwater Church. [http://wfla.com/2016/06/19/youth-pastor-with-odessa-church-arrested-on-sexual-battery-charges/]<br /> * Anti-gay pastor, Dave Reynolds, the recently fired pastor of the Cornerstone Bible Fellowship in Sherwood, Arkansas is currently facing 70 counts of distributing, possessing, or viewing child pornography.[http://www.arkansasmatters.com/news/local-news/new-details-in-child-porn-charges-against-former-sherwood-pastor]<br /> * The Catholic church in Pennsylvania has been accused of employing “mafia-like” tactics in a campaign to put pressure on individual Catholic lawmakers who support state legislation that would give victims of sexual abuse more time to sue their abusers.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/17/pennsylvania-catholic-church-sexual-abuse-bill-mafia-tactics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other]<br /> * David James Brown, head pastor at First Christian Church of Jeffersonville, Indiana. was arrested after allegedly seeking sex with a minor.[http://www.wdrb.com/story/32232744/jeffersonville-pastor-arrested-after-allegedly-seeking-sex-with-a-minor]<br /> * A former Vatican archbishop, Jozef Wesolowski, accused of paedophilia stored tens of thousands of child porn videos and photos on a computer in his office at the Holy See diplomatic compound in the Dominican Republic, it has emerged.[http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/vatican-paedophilia-scandal-archbishop-jozef-wesolowski-stored-over-100000-child-porn-videos-1467410]<br /> * John David Brock, 60, died after a snake bit him in the left arm and he refused medical treatment, according to the Bell County Sheriff's Office. Brock was handling a snake during a church service at Mossy Simpson Pentecostal Church in Jenson, Kentucky.[http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Man-dies-in-Bell-County-after-he-was-bitten-by-snake-during-church-service-318868451.html]<br /> * The president of a Christian charity in Iowa, Jon S. Petersen, of Cedar Rapids admitted that he embezzled nearly a half-million dollars in donations and used the money to pay for a sex addiction, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. [http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article78129452.html]<br /> * Virginia pastor, Christopher Alan Hogge, 48, has been charged eight counts of possession and distribution of child pornography, according to the Isle of Wight County Sheriff's Office.[http://wtvr.com/2016/05/23/virginia-pastor-arrested-on-child-porn-charges/]<br /> * A private Christian school in Kansas is reserving the right to expel students who have gay family members. [http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/05/20/christian-school-threatens-to-expel-pupils-if-they-have-a-gay-family-member/?utm_source=ET&amp;utm_medium=ETFB&amp;utm_campaign=portal&amp;utm_content=inf_11_60_2&amp;tse_id=INF_c1d0cb4ff39e4a1b90bc30417379d323]<br /> * Grace Baptist Church children’s pastor arrested in sex trafficking operation.[http://wate.com/2016/05/20/tbi-conduct-knoxville-human-trafficking-investigation/]<br /> * Vehemently Anti-LGBT Pastor Arrested On Child Pornography Charges.[http://theintellectualist.co/infamous-anti-lgbt-pastor-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges/]<br /> * Ohio seminary student arrested for alleged plan to have sex with adopted baby in Mexico [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/seminary-student-allegedly-planned-sex-baby-mexico-article-1.2515560]<br /> * Woman beats disabled man with his own cane for saying he doesn’t believe in God[http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/woman-beats-disabled-man-with-his-own-cane-because-he-said-he-doesnt-believe-in-god-police/]<br /> * Phoenix Woman Accused of Killing Atheist Victim, Then Keeping the Body as a “Shrine From God”[http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/64863225-story]<br /> * Lisa Biron, Anti-Gay Christian Lawyer, Arrested On Child Pornography Charges[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/20/lisa-biron-anti-gay-christian-lawyer-child-porn-charges_n_2166055.html]<br /> * Pastor Slept with Young Girls During Prayer Sessions as Part of their “Healing Process”[http://allchristiannews.com/pastor-slept-with-young-girls-during-prayer-sessions-as-part-of-their-healing-process/]<br /> * Sheriff's Office: Harvey catechism teacher promises students a photo of Santa, then shows them naked picture instead[http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/news/crime/13876211-148/catechism-teacher-in-harvey-showed]<br /> * Almost 800 babies and children were buried in a mass grave in Ireland near a home for unmarried mothers run by nuns.[http://churchandstate.org.uk/2014/06/almost-800-babies-buried-in-septic-tank-at-catholic-run-irish-home-for-unmarried-mothers/]<br /> * Alabama Pastor Made Daughter Watch While He Sexually Abused Minors.[http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/10/prosecutors_plan_to_introduce.html]<br /> * The pastor and two members of a Corona, CA church pleaded guilty on Monday to torturing a thirteen-year-old boy, including driving him into the desert and forcing him to dig his own grave. Lonny Lee Remmers, James Craig, and Darryll Duana Jeter Jr. abused the child at a group home run by Heart of Worship Community Church.[http://aattp.org/pastor-church-members-viciously-tortured-young-boy-forced-him-to-dig-own-grave-in-the-desert/]<br /> * Minneapolis church struck by lightning, destroying cross[http://www.fox9.com/weather/15331725-story]<br /> * Six Brothers Raped Their Sister For Years While ‘Christian’ Homeschool Parents Did Nothing.[http://reverbpress.com/justice/jackson-brothers-sexual-assault-sister-christian/]<br /> * A Tennessee pastor who was recently admonished by police for having sex with another man in a church van parked in a parking lot, was arrested this week for embezzling an estimated $60,000 from his church’s coffers.[http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/pastor-caught-having-gay-sex-in-van-spent-stolen-church-money-on-farmer-dating-website-police/]<br /> * Four of six homeschooled brothers, including a pastor, admit to molesting their sister.[http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/four-of-six-homeschooled-brothers-plead-guilty-to-molesting-their-sister-while-anti-school-parents-did-nothing/#.VV88faFKoyU.facebook]<br /> * Antigay Michigan Pastor Outed by Grindr Messages[http://www.mediaite.com/online/antigay-michigan-pastor-outed-by-grindr-messages/]<br /> * A Baptist preacher in Eureka Springs who features prominently in a new video urging repeal of the city's Ordinance 2223, which protects LGBT people from discrimination, pleaded guilty to a series of violent rapes in Oklahoma in 1977.[http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2015/04/20/eureka-spring-pastor-in-repeal-2223-ad-is-a-convicted-serial-rapist]<br /> * Texas church members accused of starving ‘demon-possessed’ toddler and then trying to resurrect him[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/texas-church-members-accused-of-starving-demon-possessed-toddler-and-then-trying-resurrect-him/]<br /> * Louisianal youth pastor is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old girl. Jonathan Bailey has been charged with one count of indecent relationship with a juvenile.[http://www.wdsu.com/news/local-news/new-orleans/youth-pastor-accused-of-inappropriate-relationship-with-juvenile/31530534?utm_source=Social&amp;utm_medium=FBPAGE&amp;utm_campaign=wdsutv&amp;Content%20Type=Story&amp;linkId=12612108]<br /> * Ax-wielding hair designer burns down Michigan adult store to please God[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/ax-wielding-hair-designer-burns-down-michigan-shop-to-please-god/]<br /> * An 11-year-old Canadian Aboriginal girl with leukaemia, who stopped chemotherapy after &quot;seeing a vision of Jesus,&quot; has died.[http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/makayla-sault-girl-who-refused-chemo-for-leukemia-dies-1.2829885]<br /> * Anti-LGBT Pastor Arrested for Grabbing Man’s Genitals at Indiana Park[http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/anti-lgbt-pastor-arrested-grabbing-mans-genitals-indiana-park]<br /> * Baptist church leader in Missouri arrested for soliciting &quot;dog sex&quot; on Craigslist.[http://gawker.com/baptist-church-leader-arrested-for-soliciting-dog-sex-o-1617858449?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&amp;utm_source=gawker_facebook&amp;utm_medium=socialflow]<br /> * Woman told police “she was driving and out of no where God told her that he would take it from here and she let go of the wheel and let him take it.” Shortly after letting go of the wheel she ran over a motorcyclist and drove off.[http://wane.com/2014/07/18/motorcyclist-i-said-to-myself-today-is-the-day-i-die/]<br /> <br /> * Florida woman accused of killing 2-year-old while re-enacting Bible story[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/28/florida-woman-accused-of-killing-2-year-old-while-re-enacting-bible-story/]<br /> <br /> {{ytv2|qmwEOuMGxu4|right}}<br /> * Evangelical Christians want access to more corpses … to hone their ‘raising the dead’ skills[http://freethinker.co.uk/2014/03/10/evangelical-christians-want-access-to-more-corpses-in-order-to-practice-raising-them-from-the-dead/]<br /> * Tennessee woman accused of drowning her baby says ‘Jesus came down’ and did it.[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/10/tennessee-woman-accused-of-drowning-her-baby-says-jesus-came-down-and-did-it/]<br /> * Files released by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee reveal that in 2007, Cardinal Timothy F. Dolan, then the archbishop there, requested permission from the Vatican to move nearly $57 million into a cemetery trust fund to protect the assets from victims of clergy sexual abuse who were demanding compensation. [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/us/dolan-sought-vatican-permission-to-shield-assets.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0]<br /> * Belief in god associated with poor mental health.[http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2013/04/belief-in-punitive-god-associated-with-poor-mental-health.html]<br /> * The chaplain of Milan’s San Vittore prison, 51-year-old Fr Alberto Barin, has been arrested for sustained sexual assault with multiple aggravations and for abuse of authority. Six non-Italian prisoners have accused him of demanding sexual acts in exchange for favours ranging from items of food to living conditions in the prison. Officers investigating the allegations were able to document the incidents by placing a videocamera in the chaplain’s office in the prison.[http://www.corriere.it/english/12_novembre_21/san-vittore-prison_463940e4-33da-11e2-a480-b74fe153b15c.shtml]<br /> *Rev. Ryan J. Muelhauser, Ex-Gay Counsellor, Arrested For Molestation Of Two Young Men[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/08/rev-ryan-j-muelhauser-molestation-_n_2094609.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&amp;ir=Gay%20Voices]<br /> <br /> * Priest embroiled in ivory smuggling controversy.[http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/27/world/asia/priest-ivory-controversy/index.html]<br /> * New Orleans pastor who was appointed in April to a local economic development board charged with seven counts of molestation of a juvenile[http://wap.wdsu.com/wap/news/text.jsp?sid=48&amp;nid=1491143881&amp;cid=4640&amp;scid=-1&amp;ith=3&amp;title=Local%20News&amp;headtitle=Local%20News]<br /> * Pregnant Teenager in Dominican Republic dies after doctors withold cancer treatment because the chemotherapy would harm her unborn child.[http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/17/world/americas/dominican-republic-abortion/index.html?hpt=hp_bn2]<br /> * Christian musician Randy Travis, who claimed in 2009 his faith in god allowed him to quit drinking in his 20s, was found naked and drunk in Texas, and arrested after he threatened to kill a law enforcement officer[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/08/drunk-and-naked-christian-music-star-randy-travis-threatens-cops-life/]<br /> * A Northern California jury has awarded $28 million in damages to a woman who said the Jehovah’s Witnesses allowed an adult member of a Fremont, Calif., church to molest her when she was a child. [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/us/28-million-awarded-in-jehovahs-witnesses-abuse-case.html?_r=3]<br /> * Christian school rejects admission of Mormon pupil[http://m.arkansasonline.com/news/2012/may/31/lr-christian-academy-rejects-mormon-pupil-20120531/]<br /> * Family Battle Offers Look Inside Lavish TV Ministry[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/05/us/tbn-fight-offers-glimpse-inside-lavish-tv-ministry.html?_r=1]<br /> * Court ruling: Jesus doesn't cure cancer.[http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6835139/Ruling-Jesus-doesn-t-heal-cancer]<br /> * Heralded &quot;Miracle&quot; toddler found in the wreckage of tornado, dies in hospital[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=10789913]<br /> * Christian fringe group intimidates Lowes into pulling advertisement from a reality show portrary Muslims as decent people[http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/12/my-take-is-all-american-muslim-begetting-all-american-bigotry/?hpt=hp_c2]<br /> * 6 HIV sufferers die after their pastor told them to stop taking their medication, because god would heal them.[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066106/Scandal-churches-claiming-cure-HIV-God-die-abandoning-medication.html]<br /> * Brazil rocked by abortion for 9-year-old rape victim: Church excommunicates mother and doctors – but not accused rapist[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brazil-rocked-by-abortion-for-9yearold-rape-victim-1640165.html]<br /> * Pentecostal Bishop Charles E. Brown indicted on rape, sexual battery charges[http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/11/no_bishop_indicted_on_rape_sex.html]<br /> * Killings in Norway spotlight anti-Muslim thought.[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/us/25debate.html?_r=4&amp;ref=global-home]<br /> * Austrian's religious headgear gives authorities a headache.{{rl|http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14135523}}<br /> * Pray For Newark claims amazing results as its Christian volunteers &quot;prayer walk&quot; the Newark city streets, seeking to pray down crime. Then murders rose 71%{{rl|http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/5/3/91235/90609/}}<br /> * Preacher sells debt removal through prayer[http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/consumer&amp;id=7984766]<br /> * Authorities have arrested a 52-year-old man they say committed a hate crime against a man he learned was a Muslim. They were having a conversation when the victim admitted he was a Muslim, which prompted the other man to stab him in the neck with a pocket knife.{{rl|http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/st-pete-man-accused-of-hate-crime-against-muslim/1149809}}<br /> * Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley told a church crowd just moments into his new administration that those who have not accepted Jesus as their savior are not his brothers and sisters, shocking some critics who questioned Tuesday whether he can be fair to non-Christians.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_alabama_governor_christians}}<br /> * The Salvation Army says it refuses to distribute Harry Potter and Twilight toys collected for needy children because they're incompatible with the charity's Christian beliefs.{{rl|http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/canada/2010/12/08/16478111.html}}<br /> * A couple who prayed for their sick toddler rather than take him to a doctor before his pneumonia death are on trial in Philadelphia, charged with involuntary manslaughter.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101207/ap_on_re_us/us_prayer_death_toddler}}<br /> * Archdiocese wants to recoup legal fees after a suit alleging abuse by priest in Burnsville was dismissed.[http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/faith/110501539.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU]<br /> * Minister, elders guilty of not reporting sexual abuse of a child - sought to have immunity from criminal liability in failing to report the case of suspected child abuse, &quot;arguing that they acted in good faith in persuading the parents and the perpetrator to make report of abuse.&quot;[http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Minister%2C+elders+guilty+of+not+reporting+abuse&amp;articleId=5584e3e1-cc52-4715-820c-be1eb16a82f9]<br /> * A Catholic Priest Charged with Sexually Assaulting Boy in ’08 Was Rearrested Last Week and Charged with Hiring Someone to Kill His Alleged Victim.{{rl|http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7307344.html}}<br /> * Baby dies as family jumps out of window to get away from the devil.{{rl|http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2010/10/24/15810081.html}}<br /> * Lamar advertising company will sell billboards to hookers but not atheists.{{rl|http://www.bnet.com/blog/advertising-business/lamar-sells-billboards-to-hookers-but-not-to-atheists/2412}}<br /> * Religious teen shoots and murders an atheist teen over an argument; judge does not consider it a hate crime and reduces the murder charge; parents outrages.{{rl|http://www.whotv.com/news/who-story-doyle-family-shooting-100810,0,3732283.story}}<br /> * Study shows atheists and agnostics are more knowledgeable about religion than religious people themselves.{{rl|http://pewforum.org/Other-Beliefs-and-Practices/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey.aspx}}<br /> * Bishop Eddie Long, a powerful anti-gay pastor becomes ensnared in his own sordid same-sex scandal{{rl|http://www.salon.com/life/this_week_in_crazy/index.html?story=/mwt/feature/2010/09/25/this_week_crazy_eddie_long}}<br /> * Deaf victim of sex abuse is suing pope{{rl|http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/23/deaf-victim-of-sex-abuse-is-suing-pope-and-going-public-with-his-story-for-the-first-time/}}<br /> * A fourth young male member of Bishop Eddie Long's megachurch is suing the prominent pastor, claiming Long coerced him into a sexual relationship. The lawsuit was filed by Spencer LeGrande, a member of New Birth Charlotte. New Birth Charlotte is a satellite church run by Long in Charlotte, N.C. The lawsuit said Long told LeGrande &quot;I will be your dad&quot; and invited the 17-year-old to journey to Kenya with him in July 2005. LeGrande said that Long gave him a sleeping pill on that trip and that the two engaged in sexual acts.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100924/ap_on_re_us/us_pastor_abuse_allegations_lawsuit}}<br /> <br /> * According to a recent study, religious belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to research published today. {{rl|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article571206.ece}}<br /> * Pastor George Randall &quot;Randy&quot; Scott, of the Bethel Temple Assembly Of God Church in Bryan, Texas, was arrested after returning from a trip to Sweden with his wife on for allegedly pretending to be a teenager online to meet other minor boys and then blackmailing them into having sex. {{rl|http://www.kbtx.com/local/headlines/100500214.html}}<br /> * Giant Jesus statue struck by lightning and destroyed. {{rl|http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/15/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning/}}<br /> * Thinking he was possessed by the devil, American cage fighter rips out still-beating heart of his training partner.{{rl|http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1282647/American-cage-fighter-rips-beating-heart-training-partner-fearing-possessed-devil.html}}<br /> * Christian singer leaves his wife and family and admits hes gay, while continuing his Christian musical career.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/15/us/15religion.html}}<br /> * Nun Excommunicated For Allowing life-saving Abortion[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126985072]<br /> * Janine Denomme, Woman Ordained As Catholic Priest, Denied Catholic Burial By Church{{rl|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/19/janine-denomme-woman-orda_n_582423.html}}<br /> * Guns, high-powered ammunition and explosives equipment have been seized in raids on 12 properties in and near Adelaide linked with the Agape Ministries of God.{{rl|http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/20/2904812.htm}}<br /> * City of Miami uses prayer group to ward off bad weather.{{rl|http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&amp;articleid=20100511_11_0_MIAMIO602438}}<br /> * Jehovah's Witness Couple Disown Son For Receiving Blood Transfusion.{{rl|http://news.peacefmonline.com/religion/201005/42722.php}}<br /> * Noah's ark found, says evangelical filmmaker.{{rl|http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/pc-certainty-of-noahs-ark-discovery-on-mount-ararat/story-e6frfku0-1225858591328}}<br /> * British court punishes atheist for leaving flyers in the prayer room of the John Lennon airport.{{rl|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7624578/Atheist-given-Asbo-for-leaflets-mocking-Jesus.html}}<br /> * Islamists have warned the creators of TV show South Park they could face violent retribution for depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit.{{rl|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8636455.stm}}<br /> * An episode of “South Park” that continued a story line involving the Prophet Muhammad was shown Wednesday night on Comedy Central with audio bleeps and image blocks reading “CENSORED” after a Muslim group warned the show’s creators that they could face violence for depicting that holy Islamic prophet. {{rl|http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/south-park-episode-is-altered-after-muslim-groups-warning/}}<br /> * Catholic church admits Norwegian Bishop resigned last year after admitting he was involved in child molestation.[http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=10305913]<br /> * Pope coordinated assignment of pedophile priest back into circulation.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/world/europe/26church.html}}<br /> {{ga}}<br /> * The Roman Catholic Church’s account of Pope Benedict XVI’s handing of a serial paedophile was called into question today when new documents emerged suggesting that his office was kept informed of the offender’s rapid return to working with children. {{rl|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7077196.ece}}<br /> * Pope Sexual Abuse Scandal: Benedict Implicated In Cover-Up Of Wisconsin Abuse Case{{rl|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/24/pope-sexual-abuse-lawrence-murphy_n_512483.html}}<br /> * Atheist group throws party for teens who had their prom canceled rather than allow a same-sex couple to attend the dance sponsored by religious school{{rl|http://www.examiner.com/x-8928-Philadelphia-Atheism-Examiner~y2010m3d12-Atheist-group-offers-to-hold-gay-friendly-prom}}<br /> * Religious massacres continue in Nigeria{{rl|http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704869304575109962258328770.html}}<br /> * Vatican chorister sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for papal gentleman-in-waiting{{rl|http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/04/vatican-gay-sex-scandal}}<br /> * Baby starved to death because he didn't say &quot;amen.&quot;{{rl|http://www.smh.com.au/world/baby-starved-to-death-because-he-did-not-say-amen-20100225-p4el.html}}<br /> * Pakistan's president sacrifices a goat each day to keep evil away{{rl|http://www.palibandaily.com/2010/02/23/a-goat-a-day-keeps-the-evil-away-pakistans-president-and-his-addiction-to-sacrifices/}}<br /> * Haiti's prime minister said Monday it's clear to him that the 10 U.S. Baptists who tried to take 33 children out of his quake-ravaged country without permission &quot;knew what they were doing was wrong.&quot;{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100201/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_americans_detained}}<br /> * A jury has found Scott Philip Roeder, 51, of Merriam, Kansas, guilty of premeditated first-degree murder in the slaying of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller.{{rl|http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/27216}}<br /> * Jeff and Marci Beagley have been charged with criminally negligent homicide for not providing medical treatment to their 16-year-old son, who died of an untreated urinary tract blockage. The family belongs to Followers of Christ Church, whose members shun medical care in favor of prayer.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wirestory?id=9550298&amp;page=2]<br /> * A Republican member of the Iowa Legislature is proposing lawmakers should be required to say &quot;so help me God&quot; when being sworn into office.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wirestory?id=9550298&amp;page=2]<br /> * Members of a Roanoke church have voted to leave the country's largest Lutheran denomination over its policy to allow gay clergy.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9550298]<br /> * Matt Baker, 38, a former Baptist minister, has been indicted for allegedly drugging and suffocating his wife Kari, whose 2006 death was initially ruled a suicide.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9551269]<br /> * A government witness said Wednesday that the five young woman who testified last year that evangelist Tony Alamo took them as a &quot;wife&quot; and sexually abused them as minors should receive $2.7 million each for physical and mental pain suffered.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9551976]<br /> * Three American Evangelical Christians go to Uganda and teach thousands (including police, national politicians, etc.) how gays and their agenda are trying to destroy Ugandan families and sodomize their children. Result: a bill to impose a death sentence for homosexual behavior.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/world/africa/04uganda.html}}<br /> * School board opts to fire public school teacher who refused to teach evolution, taught creationism and burned crosses into the arms of students{{rl|http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/06/21/Freshwater_decision.ART_ART_06-21-08_A1_ABAI539.html}}<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Theological_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Freethought Freethought 2019-09-07T20:43:56Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>'''Freethought'''&lt;ref&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freethought&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;https://www.dictionary.com/browse/free-thought&lt;/ref&gt; is a philosophical viewpoint that holds that beliefs should be formed on the basis of [[science]] and [[logic]] and should not be influenced by emotion, authority, tradition, or any [[dogma]]. The cognitive application of freethought is known as ''freethinking'', and practitioners of freethought are known as [[freethinker|freethinkers]].<br /> <br /> ==Overview==<br /> Freethought holds that individuals should neither accept nor reject ideas proposed as truth without recourse to knowledge and reason. Thus, freethinkers strive to build their beliefs on the basis of facts, [[scientific method|scientific inquiry]], and logical principles, independent of any factual/logical [[fallacy|fallacies]] or intellectually-limiting effects of authority, [[cognitive bias]], conventional wisdom, popular culture, prejudice, [[sectarianism]], tradition, [[urban legend]], and all other dogmatic or otherwise [[fallacious]] principles. As such, when applied to [[religion]], the philosophy of freethought holds that, given presently-known facts, established scientific theories, and logical principles, there is insufficient evidence to support the existence of [[supernatural]] phenomena.<br /> <br /> A line from &quot;Clifford's Credo&quot; by the 19th Century British mathematician and philosopher [[William Kingdon Clifford]] perhaps best describes the premise of freethought: ''&quot;It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.&quot;'' (see [[evidentialism]]) Since many laws, doctrines, and popular beliefs are based on dogmas, freethinkers' opinions are often at odds with commonly held established views.<br /> <br /> <br /> ===References===<br /> &lt;references/&gt;<br /> <br /> [[category:definitions]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Theists_in_the_news Theists in the news 2019-09-04T14:22:07Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>Modern stories and links of the many weird things religious people do that make news.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Priest in cuffs.jpg|right]]<br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * [[Theists in the news (archive)]] for many more stories<br /> * [[Republicans in the news]]<br /> * [[Democrats in the news]]<br /> * [[Christian terrorists in the news]]<br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> ==Theists in the news==<br /> <br /> * A high-ranking Vatican priest, Monsignor Luigi Capozzi who is a secretary to one of Pope Francis’ closest collaborators was arrested by Vatican police after they caught him hosting a cocaine-fueled homosexual orgy in a building right next to St. Peter’s Basilica.[https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/high-ranking-monsignor-with-link-to-pope-francis-caught-in-cocaine-fueled-g]<br /> * Kentucky principal, Phillip Todd Wilson, an outspoken Christian who campaigned to ban books deemed inappropriate from classrooms, was arrested for possessing and distributing child pornography.[https://bookriot.com/2019/08/28/principal-tied-to-censorship-arrested-faces-child-pornography-charges/][https://www.wtvq.com/2019/08/28/clark-county-principal-facing-child-pornography-charges/]<br /> * Idaho pastor, Bret Allen Welty, charged with child sex abuse.[https://idahonews.com/news/local/calvary-chapel-issues-statement-after-local-pastor-arrest]<br /> * Oklahoma State Senator Ralph Shortey, who voted for anti-trans ‘bathroom bill’ busted in hotel with underage boy, charged with child prostitution.[https://kfor.com/2017/03/16/oklahoma-state-senator-ralph-shortey-charged-with-engaging-in-child-prostitution/]<br /> * Florida minister, Frederic Sterry Smith, 62, of St. Augustine, president of Servant’s Heart Disaster Relief, a St. Augustine-based nonprofit and &quot;evangelical hands-on ministry devoted to helping hurricane victims in North America and the Caribbean, was charged with simple battery after writing a homophobic slur in a restaurant receipt and shoving it down the shirt of the restaurant's female manager.[https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/crime/2019/08/01/florida-man-writes-anti-gay-remark-restaurant-bill-assaults-woman-police-say/1887099001/]<br /> * A Christian school kindergarten teacher in the Chicago suburbs is facing charges related to sexual assault and child pornography after investigators say that she sent explicit material to minors for years. Shannon Griffin is the wife of the pastor of Jordan Baptist Church and is a teacher at the associated Jordan Baptist school in Oak Lawn, a suburb of Chicago. Christian school teacher who scolded girls to be modest was molesting male students. She was a moral scold who told girls they were dressing like sluts &amp; the entire time she was sending naked photos of herself to male students. [https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/07/christian-school-teacher-scolded-girls-modest-molesting-male-students/][https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/07/02/teacher-sexual-assault-shannon-griffin-burbank/][https://abc7chicago.com/burbank-teacher-charged-with-sex-assault-soliciting-child-porn-from-2-students/5375571/]<br /> * A principal in Louisiana has resigned after being arrested at a Washington, DC strip club. Holy Family Principal Michael Comeau was chaperoning a middle school trip to the nation's capital when he was arrested at Archibald's Gentlemen's Club in Northwest DC. Police were called to the club, just blocks from the White House, to found Comeau “standing in the roadway, refusing to move.&quot; Comeau reportedly refused to settle up with the club.[https://www.complex.com/life/2019/06/louisiana-school-principal-arrested-at-strip-club-in-dc]<br /> * The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $8 million to a teenager who was sexually abused and kidnapped by a teacher at her Catholic high school.The teenager's attorney, David Ring, said that the settlement — finalized by a court last week — is the largest that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles has ever paid to a single victim, The Associated Press reports. Over the past 15 years, the archdiocese has paid more than $740 million in sexual abuse settlements.[https://www.npr.org/2019/04/17/714212609/archdiocese-of-los-angeles-agrees-to-8-million-settlement-in-sex-abuse-case]<br /> * A large majority of priests in the Vatican are gay, although many are not sexually active, a new book claims. A total of about 80 percent of the most revered clerics in the Roman Catholic Church are homosexual despite the church’s opposition to gay rights, according to the extensively researched book by French journalist Frédéric Martel. The gay priests adhere to an unspoken code called “the closet,” where it is understood that, for instance, a cardinal or bishop who denounces homosexuality is more likely to be gay, according to the book “In the Closet of the Vatican.”[https://nypost.com/2019/02/14/80-percent-of-priests-in-the-vatican-are-gay-new-book/]<br /> * 7-year old boy killed after court-appointed guardian punishes him for not knowing 13 bible verses[https://fox11online.com/news/local/guardians-teen-charged-in-death-of-7-year-old-manitowoc-co-boy]<br /> * Evangelicals sue for right to deny shelter to homeless transgender people.Alliance Defending Freedom, the far-right evangelical legal group that defended the “right” of a baker to deny service to gay couples before the Supreme Court, has a new target.This time they’re suing to give a homeless shelter in Anchorage, Alaska, the “right” to deny help to transgender people. The federal court lawsuit seeks to overturn the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance that prohibits discrimination against LGBTQ people.[https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/01/evangelicals-sue-right-deny-shelter-homeless-transgender-people/]<br /> * Male Escort Exposes 36 Gay Priests in File Sent to Vatican Containing Explicit WhatsApp Chats and Erotic Photos[https://www.newsweek.com/male-escort-exposes-36-gay-priests-file-sent-vatican-containing-explicit-829968]<br /> * Vatican’s Third-Most Powerful Official Cardinal George Pell Convicted on All Charges He Sexually Abused Choir Boys in the 1990s[http://blackchristiannews.com/2018/12/vaticans-third-most-powerful-official-cardinal-george-pell-convicted-on-all-charges-he-sexually-abused-choir-boys-in-the-1990s/]<br /> * “Aryan Pride” for Jesus: An Oklahoma pastor is under arrest after being caught running a prostitution ring with a white supremacist. Pastor Walter Eugene Brazington Jr. is “being charged with procuring for prostitution and possession of a firearm while in the commission of a felony,” according to a report from Tulsa World.[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2017/12/oklahoma-pastor-busted-running-white-supremacist-prostitution-ring/]<br /> * Lawsuit: At least 14 kids abused at hands of North Charleston church volunteer. Jacop Robert Lee Hazlett, 28, of Proximity Drive in West Ashley, faces one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor under 11 years old, according to his arrest affidavit and court records. Hazlett had worked as a volunteer chaperone and day care provider since March for NewSpring Church, located at 5101 Ashley Phosphate Road, supervising children ages 3 to 5 in a room called &quot;the Tree House.&quot;[https://www.postandcourier.com/news/lawsuit-at-least-kids-abused-at-hands-of-north-charleston/article_7d97d7f2-f3d8-11e8-9ec7-6ffa7310138b.html]<br /> * An Illinois priest who spent time in prison for manufacturing and selling a date-rape drug has been removed from ministry again for getting involved in a criminal case without telling his superiors. Peoria Diocese Bishop Daniel Jenky removed the Rev. Jeffrey Windy from his post serving three Ottawa parishes in March.[https://www.bnd.com/news/state/illinois/article222188995.html]<br /> * Gun-related tragedy struck once again this week, this time at a Catholic Supply store in Ballwin, Missouri, a suburb of St. Lous. USA Today reports that a former pastor has been arrested after allegedly attempting to coerce three women into having sex with him at gunpoint. When one of them resisted, he shot 53-year-old Jamie Schmidt in the head and forced the other two to submit to his “deviant” demands. The shooter, 53-year-old Thomas Bruce, has a reputation for right-wing tirades on social media and has ranted against gun-free zones in the past. He was a huge fan of President Trump, attended his rallies, and regularly tweeted about Republican politics. His last tweet read “I’ve already forgotten you. #promisesmade #promiseskept #trump2020 #BuildTheWall” and his feed was full of retweets from white nationalist FOX anchor Laura Ingraham.[https://washingtonpress.com/2018/11/23/a-trump-obsessed-pastor-just-shot-a-woman-dead-and-sodomized-two-others-in-horrific-sex-assault/]<br /> * Catholic Church Shielded Priests Who Raped Boys, but It Helped Lock Up a Priest Who Swiped Bucks. The monsignor who gambled and traveled on the Archdiocese’s dime remained behind bars as a grand jury reported on the crimes of his peers who preyed on children.[https://www.thedailybeast.com/catholic-church-shielded-priests-who-raped-boys-but-it-helped-lock-up-a-priest-who-swiped-bucks]<br /> * Grand jury report: Priests ran child porn ring in Pittsburgh Diocese[http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-nws-pa-pittsburgh-diocese-porn-ring-20180815-story.html]<br /> * Pastor Timothy Lee Reddin did not practice what he preached, police claim. The Arkansas church leader was arrested this week for allegedly trying to meet with an underage boy to have sex, part of a police sting operation.[https://www.inquisitr.com/5025011/anti-gay-pastor-timothy-lee-reddin-arrested-sex-with-underage-boy/]<br /> * A former New Jersey pastor who co-founded the Creation Festival, which bills itself as the country's largest Christian music festival, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for sexually assaulting multiple young children. Harry Thomas, 75, who formerly pastored Come Alive New Testament Church in Medford and went on to help create the popular music festival, failed in withdrawing his guilty plea on Friday, the Associated Press reported.[https://www.christianpost.com/news/creation-festival-co-founder-sentenced-to-18-years-for-child-sex-abuse-i-deserve-to-be-cast-into-sea-226484/][http://www.startribune.com/ex-pastor-sentenced-to-18-years-in-child-sex-abuse-case/489423631/]<br /> * Revelations that a prominent U.S. cardinal sexually abused and harassed his adult seminarians have exposed an egregious abuse of power that has shocked Catholics on both sides of the Atlantic. But the Vatican has long been aware of its heterosexual equivalent — the sexual abuse of nuns by priests and bishops — and done little to stop it, an Associated Press analysis has found. An examination by the AP shows that cases of abused nuns have emerged in Europe, Africa, South America and Asia, demonstrating that the problem is global and pervasive, thanks to the sisters' second-class status in the church and their ingrained subservience to the men who run it.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/metoo-vatican-nuns-denounce-priests-1.4765021]<br /> * A longtime pastor of a Bogalusa church pleaded guilty to the theft of more than $95,000 in Social Security disability benefits, U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans said Thursday. Jerry R. Newton, 54, of Slidell, is set for an Oct. 25 sentencing hearing before U. S. District Court Judge Jane Triche Milazzo.[https://www.nola.com/northshore/index.ssf/2018/07/bogalusa_pastor_pleads_guilty.html]<br /> * The Vatican tribunal has convicted a former Holy See diplomat and sentenced him to 5 years in prison for possessing and distributing child pornography in the first such trial of its kind inside the Vatican.[https://apnews.com/76aa075fbd1b40a487bc75fdd8f56e8c] Note that the Vatican refused to revoke the perpetrator's diplomatic immunity so he could be prosecuted in the United States.[https://www.inquisitr.com/4954910/priest-and-former-vatican-diplomat-to-u-s-found-guilty-of-possessing-child-pornography/]<br /> * A Catholic priest is behind bars after admitting to plying an underage boy with alcohol and molesting him. Father Steven Michael Guidry and his attorney reported to the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office on June 13 and confessed to giving alcohol to the minor before sexually assaulting him.[https://wgno.com/2018/06/14/catholic-priest-arrested-for-molesting-16-year-old-boy/]<br /> * Diocese knew priest arrested for child sex crimes was abusing boys, authorities say. The Diocese of Erie knew since at least May 2010 of the abuse, but this priest was still in active ministry as recently as 2 months ago. The Catholic Church knowingly allows pedophiles to have access to children.[https://www.pennlive.com/news/2018/05/erie_priest_charged_with_child.html]<br /> * The Rev. William Thomas Faucher, accused of child porn and drug crimes, was role playing with a fellow author in some of the chatroom conversations in which he’s alleged to have said he wanted to rape and kill children, his attorney said in court Friday.[http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/article208855704.html]<br /> * A well-known Alabama evangelist, public speaker and author was arrested in Hoover Tuesday on child sex charges. Paul Edward Acton Bowen, a 37-year-old Gadsden native who now lives in Etowah County's Southside community, was taken into custody by Hoover police about 12:35 p.m. The founder of Acton Bowen Outreach Ministries is charged with second-degree sodomy, enticing a child to enter a vehicle or house for immoral purposes, and second-degree sex abuse. The victim was a young male, but police did not release his age except to say he is over 12 and under 16.[http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2018/04/alabama_evangelist_acton_bowen.html]<br /> * As they back Trump, evangelical leaders face their own sex scandals.[https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/03/31/they-back-trump-evangelical-leaders-face-their-own-sex-scandals/9JwpnbdWzHOzQ7tEAmxUPN/story.html]<br /> * A former Bossier Parish pastor has been arrested after admitting to police he had meth at his Bossier City home. Andy C. Harris, 56, of 2406 Benton Road in Bossier City, was charged with possession of a Schedule II controlled dangerous substance (methamphetamine) and possession of drug paraphernalia. [https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/crime/2018/03/09/benton-man-arrested-possession-meth/410682002/]<br /> * A 1,200-page dossier containing the names of 34 ‘actively gay’ priests and six seminarians in Italy has been sent to the Vatican by the archdiocese of Naples.The allegations were compiled by Francesco Mangiacapra, a gay male escort who told local media he couldn’t put up with the priests’ &quot;hypocrisy&quot; any longer.[http://www.newsweek.com/male-escort-exposes-36-gay-priests-file-sent-vatican-containing-explicit-829968]<br /> * Mari Lopez Lopez credited veganism and a faith in God as the cure for her breast cancer last year, just months before her breast cancer returned. She later died from cancer.[http://www.wfaa.com/article/news/youtuber-who-claimed-veganism-cured-her-cancer-dies-of-cancer/521951036]<br /> * Pastor George Nelson Gregory, 61, of Munhall, Pa., was caught by cops in the backseat of a car with another man who was completely naked and bound with nylon rope in the front seat. Gregory says he was counseling the man, who is battling a drug problem.[http://www.pennlive.com/daily-buzz/2018/02/pa_pastor_caught_by_cops_in_wi.html]<br /> * 100s of child porn images, LSD, ecstasy found in Boise priest’s home, prosecutor says. Longtime Catholic Rev. W. Thomas Faucher, 72, was brought into court in a wheelchair Monday evening for his arraignment on 14 different charges.[http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/crime/article198567664.html]<br /> * Memphis mega-church pastor Andy Savage admits he molested a minor days before his ‘True Love Waits’ workshop.[https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/memphis-mega-church-pastor-admits-he-molested-a-minor-days-before-his-true-love-waits-workshop/]<br /> * An Ohio priest under investigation for questionable communications with a minor took his life in Chicago. The Chicago Tribune reports that Father James Csaszar jumped from the 82-story Aqua Hotel in downtown Chicago and the death was ruled a suicide on Thursday by the Cook County medical examiner's office.[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-csaszar-ohio-priest-kills-himself-in-chicago-amid-investigation/]<br /> * Co-founder of nation’s largest Christian rock festival abused minors for 16 years, authorities say, Harry L. Thomas, 74, of Medford Township, faces charges of aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office. [https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/co-founder-of-nations-largest-christian-rock-festival-abused-minors-for-16-years-authorities-say/]<br /> * Ralph Shortey, former Trump campaign chairman, Anti-Gay 'Family Values' Former GOP State Senator Guilty of Child Sex Trafficking After Being Found With Teen Boy.[http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/_family_values_republican_state_senator_pleads_guilty_to_child_sex_trafficking_after_child_pornography_charges_dropped]<br /> * Conservative megachurch founder Bob Coy accused of molesting 4-year-old[https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/conservative-megachurch-founder-bob-coy-accused-of-molesting-4-year-old/]<br /> * Devin Patrick Kelley, a vocational bible instructor, and ex Air Force soldier, opened fire in a Texas church, killing 26 people including children.[https://viral.buzzunites.com/2017/11/05/devin-kelley-5-fast-facts-you-need-to-know/]<br /> * Amber James, the mother who killed her nine-year-old son on Halloween, says she prayed, thought about it, and cried before she strangled him to death to “save” him.[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/11/03/mom-who-murdered-son-on-halloween-prayed-about-it-first/]<br /> * A Middletown mother will spend 21/2 to 5 years in state prison for assaulting her daughter because the teen didn't recite Bible verses correctly.Rhonda Shoffner, 41, was sentenced by Dauphin County Judge John F. Cherry after she pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated assault, strangulation, child endangerment and making terroristic threats.[http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/10/mom_who_beat_daughter_for_not.html?utm_source=fark&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_content=link&amp;ICID=ref_fark]<br /> * The Vatican trial over $500,000 in donations to the pope’s pediatric hospital that were diverted to renovate a cardinal’s penthouse is reaching its conclusion, with neither the cardinal who benefited nor the contractor who was apparently paid twice for the work facing trial.[https://www.apnews.com/ed6e8fcc7b5146eabc65e6b83564be19/Anomalies-abound-in-Vatican-trial-over-diverted-donations]<br /> * Shattered faith: Nearly 100 sex abuse suits against Catholic priests rock island of Guam.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/04/guam-priest-child-sex-abuse-scandal/503680001/]<br /> * Vatican blames women for pedophile priest scandals. [http://www.neonnettle.com/news/2359-catholic-church-women-are-to-blame-for-pedophile-priests]<br /> * Vatican rocked: Police raid drug-fuelled gay orgy at cardinal's apartment.[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=11886097]<br /> * Christian fundamentalist pastor to stand trial over death of two-year-old granddaughter from pneumonia.[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/christian-faith-healer-pastor-trial-pneumonia-medicine-rowland-foster-ella-fundamentaliism-a7814261.html]<br /> * Faith-healing parents charged with murder in death of premature twin baby[http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-city/index.ssf/2017/06/followers_of_christ_parents_of.html#incart_river_index]<br /> * North Carolina televangelist Todd Coontz – author of numerous books on faith and finances – has been indicted on charges of tax fraud spanning more than a decade.[http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/23/534128363/north-carolina-televangelist-indicted-on-charges-of-tax-crimes]<br /> * Ferndale Mother Arrested For Attempted Homicide After ‘Trying to Remove the Demons’ from Her 11-Year-Old Child.[https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2017/jun/16/ferndale-mother-arrested-attempted-homicide-after/]<br /> * Juror jailed for contempt in mistrial of minister, Brooke Covington, who is accused of kidnapping and beating a parishioner to expel his 'homosexual demons'[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4576384/Gay-beating-case-hands-jury-4-years-incident.html]<br /> * Monsignor William A. Dombrow was able to steal $500,000 from a church-owned retirement home, and used the money to pay for gambling, expensive dinners and concerts. He pleaded guilty to four federal wire fraud counts on Thursday. The maligned priest previously ran Villa St. Joseph in Darby for the Philadelphia Archdiocese, which housed aging priests and treated those accused of sexual abuse. Much of the stolen money came from insurance payments for priests who died and from the estates of parishioners.[http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/05/priest_admits_to_stealing_500k.html#incart_river_home_pop]<br /> * Conservative Christian and Oklahoma lawmaker Ralph Shortey is charged with engaging in child prostitution and other felonies after being caught in a hotel room with an underage boy.[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ralph-shortey-oklahoma-lawmaker-hit-child-prostitution-charges-n734376]<br /> * Oklahoma missionary sentenced to 40 years for sexually assaulting children in Upendo Children's Home in Nairobi, Kenya. Matthew Lane Durham, 21, was sentenced to four decades in prison by Judge David L. Russell on four counts of &quot;engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places,&quot; according to court documents. &quot;In a span of just 33 days,&quot; prosecutors wrote to the court, Durham &quot;raped three girls -- ages 5, 9 and 15 -- at least eight times. During that same time period, he sexually molested a 12-year-old boy twice.&quot;[http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/07/us/missionary-sexual-assault-kenya-children/index.html]. Christian publications claim missionary was possessed by a Demon named &quot;Luke&quot;. [http://www.christianpost.com/news/teen-missionary-indicted-for-raping-children-at-orphanage-says-he-was-possessed-by-demon-named-luke-124428/]<br /> * Religious Parents Who Refused to Take Son to Hospital and Thought God Would Resurrect Him Found Guilty of First Degree Murder.[http://edmontonjournal.com/storyline/they-knew-he-was-dying-parents-guilty-of-1st-degree-murder-in-sons-death]<br /> * Word of Life Christian Church Pastor Tiffanie Irwin, her brother Joseph Irwin and mother and son church members Linda Morey and David Morey have entered guilty pleas in the church orchestrated beating of two teen boys, leaving one dead and the other severely injured. Reports indicate the teens were beaten because they discussed leaving the congregation. Lucas Leonard, 19, was severely beaten by members of the church last October, suffering injuries to the abdomen, genitals, back and thighs that ultimately proved to be fatal. At the time of the suspects arrest, police said the “spiritual counseling session” at the church was in reality an hours-long attack in which the teen boys were repeatedly whipped with cords, pummeled with fists, and kicked. They suffered severe injuries to the abdomen, genitals, back and thighs. A church member testified that the “counseling session” lasted for 14 hours and only stopped because Lucas “was dead at that point.”[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2016/10/pastor-3-others-guilty-in-fatal-beating-of-teen-trying-to-escape-church/]<br /> * Man Admits to Killing Cancer-Surviving Daughter, But Not Before Asking God to Intervene. 25-year-old Ryan Lawrence pleaded guilty to murdering his 21-month-old daughter, a survivor of eye cancer, in part because he may have been jealous of all the attention she was getting.[https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1804932/dad-battered-brave-toddler-to-death-with-a-baseball-bat-in-jealous-rage/]<br /> * Christian who &quot;dedicated his life to Jesus&quot;, Richard Keenan, who served as mayor of Hubbard in 2010 and 2011, was indicted last month eight counts of rape and 12 counts of attempted rape and gross sexual imposition of a 4 year old girl.[http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/ohio-ex-mayor-who-dedicated-life-to-christ-admits-to-raping-4-year-old-and-blames-her-as-willing/]<br /> * Brian Mitchell, a youth pastor at a North Olmsted church, a husband and father of three children under the age of 8, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday for raping an unnamed teenager.[http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/09/extremely_delusional_north_olm.html]<br /> * 24-year-old “Christian Warrior” named Bryce Cuellar was arrested after posting a YouTube video detailing how he was going to kill “gays, faggots, lesbians and satanists.”[http://www.ktnv.com/news/las-vegas-man-facing-charges-after-posting-threatening-youtube-video]<br /> * Pastor Who Said Pulse Victims Weren't Victims, Got 'What They Deserve' Arrested for Child Molestation. Controversial pastor Ken Adkins has been charged with two counts of child molestation in Georgia and is in the Glynn County jail, officials said.[http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2016-08-26/story/controversial-pastor-and-activist-ken-adkins-charged-child-molestation]<br /> * Gunman fatally shoots Pennsylvania churchgoer after fight over seat at Sunday service.[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/churchgoer-killed-fight-seat-sunday-service-article-1.2618098]<br /> * Jerry Childress, a 75-year-old church organist from Florida, was arrested for indecent exposure after a glory hole attempt went wrong.[http://americannewsx.com/religion/church-organist-arrested/]<br /> * An Acadiana priest has been arrested for allegedly possessing over 500 images of child pornography, according to the Louisiana State Police. Father Felix David Broussard, a priest at St. Bernard Roman Catholic Church in Breaux Bridge, was arrested today and booked into St. Martin Parish jail on 500 counts of pornography involving juveniles.[http://klfy.com/2016/07/27/breaux-bridge-priest-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges/]<br /> * A 3-year-old boy died on Sunday after he was accidentally left in a hot car parked outside a church, according to police. The child’s family was attending an afternoon Bible study at Rehoboth Praise Assembly in Dallas.[http://kdvr.com/2016/07/25/child-dies-in-hot-car-while-family-worships-in-church/]<br /> * London priest charged after allegedly gambling away more than $500,000 meant for Syrian refugees. [http://m.en.canoe.com/CNEWS/Crime/2016/07/14/22651721.html]<br /> * Man following &quot;god's orders&quot; tried to crush toddler daughter's skull with a bat to help her get to heaven.[http://www.wbir.com/news/deputies-toddler-attacked-at-motel-critically-injured/260712415]<br /> * Sam Sutter, A 26-year-old youth minister is facing sexual battery charges following his arrest. According to a Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office report, Sutter was involved in a sexual relationship with a teenage girl he met through his job at the Openwater Church. [http://wfla.com/2016/06/19/youth-pastor-with-odessa-church-arrested-on-sexual-battery-charges/]<br /> * Anti-gay pastor, Dave Reynolds, the recently fired pastor of the Cornerstone Bible Fellowship in Sherwood, Arkansas is currently facing 70 counts of distributing, possessing, or viewing child pornography.[http://www.arkansasmatters.com/news/local-news/new-details-in-child-porn-charges-against-former-sherwood-pastor]<br /> * The Catholic church in Pennsylvania has been accused of employing “mafia-like” tactics in a campaign to put pressure on individual Catholic lawmakers who support state legislation that would give victims of sexual abuse more time to sue their abusers.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/17/pennsylvania-catholic-church-sexual-abuse-bill-mafia-tactics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other]<br /> * David James Brown, head pastor at First Christian Church of Jeffersonville, Indiana. was arrested after allegedly seeking sex with a minor.[http://www.wdrb.com/story/32232744/jeffersonville-pastor-arrested-after-allegedly-seeking-sex-with-a-minor]<br /> * A former Vatican archbishop, Jozef Wesolowski, accused of paedophilia stored tens of thousands of child porn videos and photos on a computer in his office at the Holy See diplomatic compound in the Dominican Republic, it has emerged.[http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/vatican-paedophilia-scandal-archbishop-jozef-wesolowski-stored-over-100000-child-porn-videos-1467410]<br /> * John David Brock, 60, died after a snake bit him in the left arm and he refused medical treatment, according to the Bell County Sheriff's Office. Brock was handling a snake during a church service at Mossy Simpson Pentecostal Church in Jenson, Kentucky.[http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Man-dies-in-Bell-County-after-he-was-bitten-by-snake-during-church-service-318868451.html]<br /> * The president of a Christian charity in Iowa, Jon S. Petersen, of Cedar Rapids admitted that he embezzled nearly a half-million dollars in donations and used the money to pay for a sex addiction, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. [http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article78129452.html]<br /> * Virginia pastor, Christopher Alan Hogge, 48, has been charged eight counts of possession and distribution of child pornography, according to the Isle of Wight County Sheriff's Office.[http://wtvr.com/2016/05/23/virginia-pastor-arrested-on-child-porn-charges/]<br /> * A private Christian school in Kansas is reserving the right to expel students who have gay family members. [http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/05/20/christian-school-threatens-to-expel-pupils-if-they-have-a-gay-family-member/?utm_source=ET&amp;utm_medium=ETFB&amp;utm_campaign=portal&amp;utm_content=inf_11_60_2&amp;tse_id=INF_c1d0cb4ff39e4a1b90bc30417379d323]<br /> * Grace Baptist Church children’s pastor arrested in sex trafficking operation.[http://wate.com/2016/05/20/tbi-conduct-knoxville-human-trafficking-investigation/]<br /> * Vehemently Anti-LGBT Pastor Arrested On Child Pornography Charges.[http://theintellectualist.co/infamous-anti-lgbt-pastor-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges/]<br /> * Ohio seminary student arrested for alleged plan to have sex with adopted baby in Mexico [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/seminary-student-allegedly-planned-sex-baby-mexico-article-1.2515560]<br /> * Woman beats disabled man with his own cane for saying he doesn’t believe in God[http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/woman-beats-disabled-man-with-his-own-cane-because-he-said-he-doesnt-believe-in-god-police/]<br /> * Phoenix Woman Accused of Killing Atheist Victim, Then Keeping the Body as a “Shrine From God”[http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/64863225-story]<br /> * Lisa Biron, Anti-Gay Christian Lawyer, Arrested On Child Pornography Charges[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/20/lisa-biron-anti-gay-christian-lawyer-child-porn-charges_n_2166055.html]<br /> * Pastor Slept with Young Girls During Prayer Sessions as Part of their “Healing Process”[http://allchristiannews.com/pastor-slept-with-young-girls-during-prayer-sessions-as-part-of-their-healing-process/]<br /> * Sheriff's Office: Harvey catechism teacher promises students a photo of Santa, then shows them naked picture instead[http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/news/crime/13876211-148/catechism-teacher-in-harvey-showed]<br /> * Almost 800 babies and children were buried in a mass grave in Ireland near a home for unmarried mothers run by nuns.[http://churchandstate.org.uk/2014/06/almost-800-babies-buried-in-septic-tank-at-catholic-run-irish-home-for-unmarried-mothers/]<br /> * Alabama Pastor Made Daughter Watch While He Sexually Abused Minors.[http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/10/prosecutors_plan_to_introduce.html]<br /> * The pastor and two members of a Corona, CA church pleaded guilty on Monday to torturing a thirteen-year-old boy, including driving him into the desert and forcing him to dig his own grave. Lonny Lee Remmers, James Craig, and Darryll Duana Jeter Jr. abused the child at a group home run by Heart of Worship Community Church.[http://aattp.org/pastor-church-members-viciously-tortured-young-boy-forced-him-to-dig-own-grave-in-the-desert/]<br /> * Minneapolis church struck by lightning, destroying cross[http://www.fox9.com/weather/15331725-story]<br /> * Six Brothers Raped Their Sister For Years While ‘Christian’ Homeschool Parents Did Nothing.[http://reverbpress.com/justice/jackson-brothers-sexual-assault-sister-christian/]<br /> * A Tennessee pastor who was recently admonished by police for having sex with another man in a church van parked in a parking lot, was arrested this week for embezzling an estimated $60,000 from his church’s coffers.[http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/pastor-caught-having-gay-sex-in-van-spent-stolen-church-money-on-farmer-dating-website-police/]<br /> * Four of six homeschooled brothers, including a pastor, admit to molesting their sister.[http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/four-of-six-homeschooled-brothers-plead-guilty-to-molesting-their-sister-while-anti-school-parents-did-nothing/#.VV88faFKoyU.facebook]<br /> * Antigay Michigan Pastor Outed by Grindr Messages[http://www.mediaite.com/online/antigay-michigan-pastor-outed-by-grindr-messages/]<br /> * A Baptist preacher in Eureka Springs who features prominently in a new video urging repeal of the city's Ordinance 2223, which protects LGBT people from discrimination, pleaded guilty to a series of violent rapes in Oklahoma in 1977.[http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2015/04/20/eureka-spring-pastor-in-repeal-2223-ad-is-a-convicted-serial-rapist]<br /> * Texas church members accused of starving ‘demon-possessed’ toddler and then trying to resurrect him[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/texas-church-members-accused-of-starving-demon-possessed-toddler-and-then-trying-resurrect-him/]<br /> * Louisianal youth pastor is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old girl. Jonathan Bailey has been charged with one count of indecent relationship with a juvenile.[http://www.wdsu.com/news/local-news/new-orleans/youth-pastor-accused-of-inappropriate-relationship-with-juvenile/31530534?utm_source=Social&amp;utm_medium=FBPAGE&amp;utm_campaign=wdsutv&amp;Content%20Type=Story&amp;linkId=12612108]<br /> * Ax-wielding hair designer burns down Michigan adult store to please God[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/ax-wielding-hair-designer-burns-down-michigan-shop-to-please-god/]<br /> * An 11-year-old Canadian Aboriginal girl with leukaemia, who stopped chemotherapy after &quot;seeing a vision of Jesus,&quot; has died.[http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/makayla-sault-girl-who-refused-chemo-for-leukemia-dies-1.2829885]<br /> * Anti-LGBT Pastor Arrested for Grabbing Man’s Genitals at Indiana Park[http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/anti-lgbt-pastor-arrested-grabbing-mans-genitals-indiana-park]<br /> * Baptist church leader in Missouri arrested for soliciting &quot;dog sex&quot; on Craigslist.[http://gawker.com/baptist-church-leader-arrested-for-soliciting-dog-sex-o-1617858449?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&amp;utm_source=gawker_facebook&amp;utm_medium=socialflow]<br /> * Woman told police “she was driving and out of no where God told her that he would take it from here and she let go of the wheel and let him take it.” Shortly after letting go of the wheel she ran over a motorcyclist and drove off.[http://wane.com/2014/07/18/motorcyclist-i-said-to-myself-today-is-the-day-i-die/]<br /> <br /> * Florida woman accused of killing 2-year-old while re-enacting Bible story[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/28/florida-woman-accused-of-killing-2-year-old-while-re-enacting-bible-story/]<br /> <br /> {{ytv2|qmwEOuMGxu4|right}}<br /> * Evangelical Christians want access to more corpses … to hone their ‘raising the dead’ skills[http://freethinker.co.uk/2014/03/10/evangelical-christians-want-access-to-more-corpses-in-order-to-practice-raising-them-from-the-dead/]<br /> * Tennessee woman accused of drowning her baby says ‘Jesus came down’ and did it.[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/10/tennessee-woman-accused-of-drowning-her-baby-says-jesus-came-down-and-did-it/]<br /> * Files released by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee reveal that in 2007, Cardinal Timothy F. Dolan, then the archbishop there, requested permission from the Vatican to move nearly $57 million into a cemetery trust fund to protect the assets from victims of clergy sexual abuse who were demanding compensation. [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/us/dolan-sought-vatican-permission-to-shield-assets.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0]<br /> * Belief in god associated with poor mental health.[http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2013/04/belief-in-punitive-god-associated-with-poor-mental-health.html]<br /> * The chaplain of Milan’s San Vittore prison, 51-year-old Fr Alberto Barin, has been arrested for sustained sexual assault with multiple aggravations and for abuse of authority. Six non-Italian prisoners have accused him of demanding sexual acts in exchange for favours ranging from items of food to living conditions in the prison. Officers investigating the allegations were able to document the incidents by placing a videocamera in the chaplain’s office in the prison.[http://www.corriere.it/english/12_novembre_21/san-vittore-prison_463940e4-33da-11e2-a480-b74fe153b15c.shtml]<br /> *Rev. Ryan J. Muelhauser, Ex-Gay Counsellor, Arrested For Molestation Of Two Young Men[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/08/rev-ryan-j-muelhauser-molestation-_n_2094609.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&amp;ir=Gay%20Voices]<br /> <br /> * Priest embroiled in ivory smuggling controversy.[http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/27/world/asia/priest-ivory-controversy/index.html]<br /> * New Orleans pastor who was appointed in April to a local economic development board charged with seven counts of molestation of a juvenile[http://wap.wdsu.com/wap/news/text.jsp?sid=48&amp;nid=1491143881&amp;cid=4640&amp;scid=-1&amp;ith=3&amp;title=Local%20News&amp;headtitle=Local%20News]<br /> * Pregnant Teenager in Dominican Republic dies after doctors withold cancer treatment because the chemotherapy would harm her unborn child.[http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/17/world/americas/dominican-republic-abortion/index.html?hpt=hp_bn2]<br /> * Christian musician Randy Travis, who claimed in 2009 his faith in god allowed him to quit drinking in his 20s, was found naked and drunk in Texas, and arrested after he threatened to kill a law enforcement officer[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/08/drunk-and-naked-christian-music-star-randy-travis-threatens-cops-life/]<br /> * A Northern California jury has awarded $28 million in damages to a woman who said the Jehovah’s Witnesses allowed an adult member of a Fremont, Calif., church to molest her when she was a child. [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/us/28-million-awarded-in-jehovahs-witnesses-abuse-case.html?_r=3]<br /> * Christian school rejects admission of Mormon pupil[http://m.arkansasonline.com/news/2012/may/31/lr-christian-academy-rejects-mormon-pupil-20120531/]<br /> * Family Battle Offers Look Inside Lavish TV Ministry[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/05/us/tbn-fight-offers-glimpse-inside-lavish-tv-ministry.html?_r=1]<br /> * Court ruling: Jesus doesn't cure cancer.[http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6835139/Ruling-Jesus-doesn-t-heal-cancer]<br /> * Heralded &quot;Miracle&quot; toddler found in the wreckage of tornado, dies in hospital[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=10789913]<br /> * Christian fringe group intimidates Lowes into pulling advertisement from a reality show portrary Muslims as decent people[http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/12/my-take-is-all-american-muslim-begetting-all-american-bigotry/?hpt=hp_c2]<br /> * 6 HIV sufferers die after their pastor told them to stop taking their medication, because god would heal them.[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066106/Scandal-churches-claiming-cure-HIV-God-die-abandoning-medication.html]<br /> * Brazil rocked by abortion for 9-year-old rape victim: Church excommunicates mother and doctors – but not accused rapist[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brazil-rocked-by-abortion-for-9yearold-rape-victim-1640165.html]<br /> * Pentecostal Bishop Charles E. Brown indicted on rape, sexual battery charges[http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/11/no_bishop_indicted_on_rape_sex.html]<br /> * Killings in Norway spotlight anti-Muslim thought.[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/us/25debate.html?_r=4&amp;ref=global-home]<br /> * Austrian's religious headgear gives authorities a headache.{{rl|http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14135523}}<br /> * Pray For Newark claims amazing results as its Christian volunteers &quot;prayer walk&quot; the Newark city streets, seeking to pray down crime. Then murders rose 71%{{rl|http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/5/3/91235/90609/}}<br /> * Preacher sells debt removal through prayer[http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/consumer&amp;id=7984766]<br /> * Authorities have arrested a 52-year-old man they say committed a hate crime against a man he learned was a Muslim. They were having a conversation when the victim admitted he was a Muslim, which prompted the other man to stab him in the neck with a pocket knife.{{rl|http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/st-pete-man-accused-of-hate-crime-against-muslim/1149809}}<br /> * Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley told a church crowd just moments into his new administration that those who have not accepted Jesus as their savior are not his brothers and sisters, shocking some critics who questioned Tuesday whether he can be fair to non-Christians.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_alabama_governor_christians}}<br /> * The Salvation Army says it refuses to distribute Harry Potter and Twilight toys collected for needy children because they're incompatible with the charity's Christian beliefs.{{rl|http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/canada/2010/12/08/16478111.html}}<br /> * A couple who prayed for their sick toddler rather than take him to a doctor before his pneumonia death are on trial in Philadelphia, charged with involuntary manslaughter.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101207/ap_on_re_us/us_prayer_death_toddler}}<br /> * Archdiocese wants to recoup legal fees after a suit alleging abuse by priest in Burnsville was dismissed.[http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/faith/110501539.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU]<br /> * Minister, elders guilty of not reporting sexual abuse of a child - sought to have immunity from criminal liability in failing to report the case of suspected child abuse, &quot;arguing that they acted in good faith in persuading the parents and the perpetrator to make report of abuse.&quot;[http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Minister%2C+elders+guilty+of+not+reporting+abuse&amp;articleId=5584e3e1-cc52-4715-820c-be1eb16a82f9]<br /> * A Catholic Priest Charged with Sexually Assaulting Boy in ’08 Was Rearrested Last Week and Charged with Hiring Someone to Kill His Alleged Victim.{{rl|http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7307344.html}}<br /> * Baby dies as family jumps out of window to get away from the devil.{{rl|http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2010/10/24/15810081.html}}<br /> * Lamar advertising company will sell billboards to hookers but not atheists.{{rl|http://www.bnet.com/blog/advertising-business/lamar-sells-billboards-to-hookers-but-not-to-atheists/2412}}<br /> * Religious teen shoots and murders an atheist teen over an argument; judge does not consider it a hate crime and reduces the murder charge; parents outrages.{{rl|http://www.whotv.com/news/who-story-doyle-family-shooting-100810,0,3732283.story}}<br /> * Study shows atheists and agnostics are more knowledgeable about religion than religious people themselves.{{rl|http://pewforum.org/Other-Beliefs-and-Practices/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey.aspx}}<br /> * Bishop Eddie Long, a powerful anti-gay pastor becomes ensnared in his own sordid same-sex scandal{{rl|http://www.salon.com/life/this_week_in_crazy/index.html?story=/mwt/feature/2010/09/25/this_week_crazy_eddie_long}}<br /> * Deaf victim of sex abuse is suing pope{{rl|http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/23/deaf-victim-of-sex-abuse-is-suing-pope-and-going-public-with-his-story-for-the-first-time/}}<br /> * A fourth young male member of Bishop Eddie Long's megachurch is suing the prominent pastor, claiming Long coerced him into a sexual relationship. The lawsuit was filed by Spencer LeGrande, a member of New Birth Charlotte. New Birth Charlotte is a satellite church run by Long in Charlotte, N.C. The lawsuit said Long told LeGrande &quot;I will be your dad&quot; and invited the 17-year-old to journey to Kenya with him in July 2005. LeGrande said that Long gave him a sleeping pill on that trip and that the two engaged in sexual acts.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100924/ap_on_re_us/us_pastor_abuse_allegations_lawsuit}}<br /> <br /> * According to a recent study, religious belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to research published today. {{rl|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article571206.ece}}<br /> * Pastor George Randall &quot;Randy&quot; Scott, of the Bethel Temple Assembly Of God Church in Bryan, Texas, was arrested after returning from a trip to Sweden with his wife on for allegedly pretending to be a teenager online to meet other minor boys and then blackmailing them into having sex. {{rl|http://www.kbtx.com/local/headlines/100500214.html}}<br /> * Giant Jesus statue struck by lightning and destroyed. {{rl|http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/15/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning/}}<br /> * Thinking he was possessed by the devil, American cage fighter rips out still-beating heart of his training partner.{{rl|http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1282647/American-cage-fighter-rips-beating-heart-training-partner-fearing-possessed-devil.html}}<br /> * Christian singer leaves his wife and family and admits hes gay, while continuing his Christian musical career.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/15/us/15religion.html}}<br /> * Nun Excommunicated For Allowing life-saving Abortion[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126985072]<br /> * Janine Denomme, Woman Ordained As Catholic Priest, Denied Catholic Burial By Church{{rl|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/19/janine-denomme-woman-orda_n_582423.html}}<br /> * Guns, high-powered ammunition and explosives equipment have been seized in raids on 12 properties in and near Adelaide linked with the Agape Ministries of God.{{rl|http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/20/2904812.htm}}<br /> * City of Miami uses prayer group to ward off bad weather.{{rl|http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&amp;articleid=20100511_11_0_MIAMIO602438}}<br /> * Jehovah's Witness Couple Disown Son For Receiving Blood Transfusion.{{rl|http://news.peacefmonline.com/religion/201005/42722.php}}<br /> * Noah's ark found, says evangelical filmmaker.{{rl|http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/pc-certainty-of-noahs-ark-discovery-on-mount-ararat/story-e6frfku0-1225858591328}}<br /> * British court punishes atheist for leaving flyers in the prayer room of the John Lennon airport.{{rl|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7624578/Atheist-given-Asbo-for-leaflets-mocking-Jesus.html}}<br /> * Islamists have warned the creators of TV show South Park they could face violent retribution for depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit.{{rl|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8636455.stm}}<br /> * An episode of “South Park” that continued a story line involving the Prophet Muhammad was shown Wednesday night on Comedy Central with audio bleeps and image blocks reading “CENSORED” after a Muslim group warned the show’s creators that they could face violence for depicting that holy Islamic prophet. {{rl|http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/south-park-episode-is-altered-after-muslim-groups-warning/}}<br /> * Catholic church admits Norwegian Bishop resigned last year after admitting he was involved in child molestation.[http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=10305913]<br /> * Pope coordinated assignment of pedophile priest back into circulation.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/world/europe/26church.html}}<br /> {{ga}}<br /> * The Roman Catholic Church’s account of Pope Benedict XVI’s handing of a serial paedophile was called into question today when new documents emerged suggesting that his office was kept informed of the offender’s rapid return to working with children. {{rl|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7077196.ece}}<br /> * Pope Sexual Abuse Scandal: Benedict Implicated In Cover-Up Of Wisconsin Abuse Case{{rl|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/24/pope-sexual-abuse-lawrence-murphy_n_512483.html}}<br /> * Atheist group throws party for teens who had their prom canceled rather than allow a same-sex couple to attend the dance sponsored by religious school{{rl|http://www.examiner.com/x-8928-Philadelphia-Atheism-Examiner~y2010m3d12-Atheist-group-offers-to-hold-gay-friendly-prom}}<br /> * Religious massacres continue in Nigeria{{rl|http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704869304575109962258328770.html}}<br /> * Vatican chorister sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for papal gentleman-in-waiting{{rl|http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/04/vatican-gay-sex-scandal}}<br /> * Baby starved to death because he didn't say &quot;amen.&quot;{{rl|http://www.smh.com.au/world/baby-starved-to-death-because-he-did-not-say-amen-20100225-p4el.html}}<br /> * Pakistan's president sacrifices a goat each day to keep evil away{{rl|http://www.palibandaily.com/2010/02/23/a-goat-a-day-keeps-the-evil-away-pakistans-president-and-his-addiction-to-sacrifices/}}<br /> * Haiti's prime minister said Monday it's clear to him that the 10 U.S. Baptists who tried to take 33 children out of his quake-ravaged country without permission &quot;knew what they were doing was wrong.&quot;{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100201/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_americans_detained}}<br /> * A jury has found Scott Philip Roeder, 51, of Merriam, Kansas, guilty of premeditated first-degree murder in the slaying of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller.{{rl|http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/27216}}<br /> * Jeff and Marci Beagley have been charged with criminally negligent homicide for not providing medical treatment to their 16-year-old son, who died of an untreated urinary tract blockage. The family belongs to Followers of Christ Church, whose members shun medical care in favor of prayer.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wirestory?id=9550298&amp;page=2]<br /> * A Republican member of the Iowa Legislature is proposing lawmakers should be required to say &quot;so help me God&quot; when being sworn into office.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wirestory?id=9550298&amp;page=2]<br /> * Members of a Roanoke church have voted to leave the country's largest Lutheran denomination over its policy to allow gay clergy.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9550298]<br /> * Matt Baker, 38, a former Baptist minister, has been indicted for allegedly drugging and suffocating his wife Kari, whose 2006 death was initially ruled a suicide.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9551269]<br /> * A government witness said Wednesday that the five young woman who testified last year that evangelist Tony Alamo took them as a &quot;wife&quot; and sexually abused them as minors should receive $2.7 million each for physical and mental pain suffered.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9551976]<br /> * Three American Evangelical Christians go to Uganda and teach thousands (including police, national politicians, etc.) how gays and their agenda are trying to destroy Ugandan families and sodomize their children. Result: a bill to impose a death sentence for homosexual behavior.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/world/africa/04uganda.html}}<br /> * School board opts to fire public school teacher who refused to teach evolution, taught creationism and burned crosses into the arms of students{{rl|http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/06/21/Freshwater_decision.ART_ART_06-21-08_A1_ABAI539.html}}<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Theological_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Theists_in_the_news Theists in the news 2019-08-29T00:40:38Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>Modern stories and links of the many weird things religious people do that make news.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Priest in cuffs.jpg|right]]<br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * [[Theists in the news (archive)]] for many more stories<br /> * [[Republicans in the news]]<br /> * [[Democrats in the news]]<br /> * [[Christian terrorists in the news]]<br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> ==Theists in the news==<br /> <br /> * Kentucky principal, Phillip Todd Wilson, an outspoken Christian who campaigned to ban books deemed inappropriate from classrooms, was arrested for possessing and distributing child pornography.[https://bookriot.com/2019/08/28/principal-tied-to-censorship-arrested-faces-child-pornography-charges/][https://www.wtvq.com/2019/08/28/clark-county-principal-facing-child-pornography-charges/]<br /> * Idaho pastor, Bret Allen Welty, charged with child sex abuse.[https://idahonews.com/news/local/calvary-chapel-issues-statement-after-local-pastor-arrest]<br /> * Oklahoma State Senator Ralph Shortey, who voted for anti-trans ‘bathroom bill’ busted in hotel with underage boy, charged with child prostitution.[https://kfor.com/2017/03/16/oklahoma-state-senator-ralph-shortey-charged-with-engaging-in-child-prostitution/]<br /> * Florida minister, Frederic Sterry Smith, 62, of St. Augustine, president of Servant’s Heart Disaster Relief, a St. Augustine-based nonprofit and &quot;evangelical hands-on ministry devoted to helping hurricane victims in North America and the Caribbean, was charged with simple battery after writing a homophobic slur in a restaurant receipt and shoving it down the shirt of the restaurant's female manager.[https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/crime/2019/08/01/florida-man-writes-anti-gay-remark-restaurant-bill-assaults-woman-police-say/1887099001/]<br /> * A Christian school kindergarten teacher in the Chicago suburbs is facing charges related to sexual assault and child pornography after investigators say that she sent explicit material to minors for years. Shannon Griffin is the wife of the pastor of Jordan Baptist Church and is a teacher at the associated Jordan Baptist school in Oak Lawn, a suburb of Chicago. Christian school teacher who scolded girls to be modest was molesting male students. She was a moral scold who told girls they were dressing like sluts &amp; the entire time she was sending naked photos of herself to male students. [https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/07/christian-school-teacher-scolded-girls-modest-molesting-male-students/][https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/07/02/teacher-sexual-assault-shannon-griffin-burbank/][https://abc7chicago.com/burbank-teacher-charged-with-sex-assault-soliciting-child-porn-from-2-students/5375571/]<br /> * A principal in Louisiana has resigned after being arrested at a Washington, DC strip club. Holy Family Principal Michael Comeau was chaperoning a middle school trip to the nation's capital when he was arrested at Archibald's Gentlemen's Club in Northwest DC. Police were called to the club, just blocks from the White House, to found Comeau “standing in the roadway, refusing to move.&quot; Comeau reportedly refused to settle up with the club.[https://www.complex.com/life/2019/06/louisiana-school-principal-arrested-at-strip-club-in-dc]<br /> * The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $8 million to a teenager who was sexually abused and kidnapped by a teacher at her Catholic high school.The teenager's attorney, David Ring, said that the settlement — finalized by a court last week — is the largest that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles has ever paid to a single victim, The Associated Press reports. Over the past 15 years, the archdiocese has paid more than $740 million in sexual abuse settlements.[https://www.npr.org/2019/04/17/714212609/archdiocese-of-los-angeles-agrees-to-8-million-settlement-in-sex-abuse-case]<br /> * A large majority of priests in the Vatican are gay, although many are not sexually active, a new book claims. A total of about 80 percent of the most revered clerics in the Roman Catholic Church are homosexual despite the church’s opposition to gay rights, according to the extensively researched book by French journalist Frédéric Martel. The gay priests adhere to an unspoken code called “the closet,” where it is understood that, for instance, a cardinal or bishop who denounces homosexuality is more likely to be gay, according to the book “In the Closet of the Vatican.”[https://nypost.com/2019/02/14/80-percent-of-priests-in-the-vatican-are-gay-new-book/]<br /> * 7-year old boy killed after court-appointed guardian punishes him for not knowing 13 bible verses[https://fox11online.com/news/local/guardians-teen-charged-in-death-of-7-year-old-manitowoc-co-boy]<br /> * Evangelicals sue for right to deny shelter to homeless transgender people.Alliance Defending Freedom, the far-right evangelical legal group that defended the “right” of a baker to deny service to gay couples before the Supreme Court, has a new target.This time they’re suing to give a homeless shelter in Anchorage, Alaska, the “right” to deny help to transgender people. The federal court lawsuit seeks to overturn the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance that prohibits discrimination against LGBTQ people.[https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/01/evangelicals-sue-right-deny-shelter-homeless-transgender-people/]<br /> * Male Escort Exposes 36 Gay Priests in File Sent to Vatican Containing Explicit WhatsApp Chats and Erotic Photos[https://www.newsweek.com/male-escort-exposes-36-gay-priests-file-sent-vatican-containing-explicit-829968]<br /> * Vatican’s Third-Most Powerful Official Cardinal George Pell Convicted on All Charges He Sexually Abused Choir Boys in the 1990s[http://blackchristiannews.com/2018/12/vaticans-third-most-powerful-official-cardinal-george-pell-convicted-on-all-charges-he-sexually-abused-choir-boys-in-the-1990s/]<br /> * “Aryan Pride” for Jesus: An Oklahoma pastor is under arrest after being caught running a prostitution ring with a white supremacist. Pastor Walter Eugene Brazington Jr. is “being charged with procuring for prostitution and possession of a firearm while in the commission of a felony,” according to a report from Tulsa World.[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2017/12/oklahoma-pastor-busted-running-white-supremacist-prostitution-ring/]<br /> * Lawsuit: At least 14 kids abused at hands of North Charleston church volunteer. Jacop Robert Lee Hazlett, 28, of Proximity Drive in West Ashley, faces one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor under 11 years old, according to his arrest affidavit and court records. Hazlett had worked as a volunteer chaperone and day care provider since March for NewSpring Church, located at 5101 Ashley Phosphate Road, supervising children ages 3 to 5 in a room called &quot;the Tree House.&quot;[https://www.postandcourier.com/news/lawsuit-at-least-kids-abused-at-hands-of-north-charleston/article_7d97d7f2-f3d8-11e8-9ec7-6ffa7310138b.html]<br /> * An Illinois priest who spent time in prison for manufacturing and selling a date-rape drug has been removed from ministry again for getting involved in a criminal case without telling his superiors. Peoria Diocese Bishop Daniel Jenky removed the Rev. Jeffrey Windy from his post serving three Ottawa parishes in March.[https://www.bnd.com/news/state/illinois/article222188995.html]<br /> * Gun-related tragedy struck once again this week, this time at a Catholic Supply store in Ballwin, Missouri, a suburb of St. Lous. USA Today reports that a former pastor has been arrested after allegedly attempting to coerce three women into having sex with him at gunpoint. When one of them resisted, he shot 53-year-old Jamie Schmidt in the head and forced the other two to submit to his “deviant” demands. The shooter, 53-year-old Thomas Bruce, has a reputation for right-wing tirades on social media and has ranted against gun-free zones in the past. He was a huge fan of President Trump, attended his rallies, and regularly tweeted about Republican politics. His last tweet read “I’ve already forgotten you. #promisesmade #promiseskept #trump2020 #BuildTheWall” and his feed was full of retweets from white nationalist FOX anchor Laura Ingraham.[https://washingtonpress.com/2018/11/23/a-trump-obsessed-pastor-just-shot-a-woman-dead-and-sodomized-two-others-in-horrific-sex-assault/]<br /> * Catholic Church Shielded Priests Who Raped Boys, but It Helped Lock Up a Priest Who Swiped Bucks. The monsignor who gambled and traveled on the Archdiocese’s dime remained behind bars as a grand jury reported on the crimes of his peers who preyed on children.[https://www.thedailybeast.com/catholic-church-shielded-priests-who-raped-boys-but-it-helped-lock-up-a-priest-who-swiped-bucks]<br /> * Grand jury report: Priests ran child porn ring in Pittsburgh Diocese[http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-nws-pa-pittsburgh-diocese-porn-ring-20180815-story.html]<br /> * Pastor Timothy Lee Reddin did not practice what he preached, police claim. The Arkansas church leader was arrested this week for allegedly trying to meet with an underage boy to have sex, part of a police sting operation.[https://www.inquisitr.com/5025011/anti-gay-pastor-timothy-lee-reddin-arrested-sex-with-underage-boy/]<br /> * A former New Jersey pastor who co-founded the Creation Festival, which bills itself as the country's largest Christian music festival, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for sexually assaulting multiple young children. Harry Thomas, 75, who formerly pastored Come Alive New Testament Church in Medford and went on to help create the popular music festival, failed in withdrawing his guilty plea on Friday, the Associated Press reported.[https://www.christianpost.com/news/creation-festival-co-founder-sentenced-to-18-years-for-child-sex-abuse-i-deserve-to-be-cast-into-sea-226484/][http://www.startribune.com/ex-pastor-sentenced-to-18-years-in-child-sex-abuse-case/489423631/]<br /> * Revelations that a prominent U.S. cardinal sexually abused and harassed his adult seminarians have exposed an egregious abuse of power that has shocked Catholics on both sides of the Atlantic. But the Vatican has long been aware of its heterosexual equivalent — the sexual abuse of nuns by priests and bishops — and done little to stop it, an Associated Press analysis has found. An examination by the AP shows that cases of abused nuns have emerged in Europe, Africa, South America and Asia, demonstrating that the problem is global and pervasive, thanks to the sisters' second-class status in the church and their ingrained subservience to the men who run it.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/metoo-vatican-nuns-denounce-priests-1.4765021]<br /> * A longtime pastor of a Bogalusa church pleaded guilty to the theft of more than $95,000 in Social Security disability benefits, U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans said Thursday. Jerry R. Newton, 54, of Slidell, is set for an Oct. 25 sentencing hearing before U. S. District Court Judge Jane Triche Milazzo.[https://www.nola.com/northshore/index.ssf/2018/07/bogalusa_pastor_pleads_guilty.html]<br /> * The Vatican tribunal has convicted a former Holy See diplomat and sentenced him to 5 years in prison for possessing and distributing child pornography in the first such trial of its kind inside the Vatican.[https://apnews.com/76aa075fbd1b40a487bc75fdd8f56e8c] Note that the Vatican refused to revoke the perpetrator's diplomatic immunity so he could be prosecuted in the United States.[https://www.inquisitr.com/4954910/priest-and-former-vatican-diplomat-to-u-s-found-guilty-of-possessing-child-pornography/]<br /> * A Catholic priest is behind bars after admitting to plying an underage boy with alcohol and molesting him. Father Steven Michael Guidry and his attorney reported to the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office on June 13 and confessed to giving alcohol to the minor before sexually assaulting him.[https://wgno.com/2018/06/14/catholic-priest-arrested-for-molesting-16-year-old-boy/]<br /> * Diocese knew priest arrested for child sex crimes was abusing boys, authorities say. The Diocese of Erie knew since at least May 2010 of the abuse, but this priest was still in active ministry as recently as 2 months ago. The Catholic Church knowingly allows pedophiles to have access to children.[https://www.pennlive.com/news/2018/05/erie_priest_charged_with_child.html]<br /> * The Rev. William Thomas Faucher, accused of child porn and drug crimes, was role playing with a fellow author in some of the chatroom conversations in which he’s alleged to have said he wanted to rape and kill children, his attorney said in court Friday.[http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/article208855704.html]<br /> * A well-known Alabama evangelist, public speaker and author was arrested in Hoover Tuesday on child sex charges. Paul Edward Acton Bowen, a 37-year-old Gadsden native who now lives in Etowah County's Southside community, was taken into custody by Hoover police about 12:35 p.m. The founder of Acton Bowen Outreach Ministries is charged with second-degree sodomy, enticing a child to enter a vehicle or house for immoral purposes, and second-degree sex abuse. The victim was a young male, but police did not release his age except to say he is over 12 and under 16.[http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2018/04/alabama_evangelist_acton_bowen.html]<br /> * As they back Trump, evangelical leaders face their own sex scandals.[https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/03/31/they-back-trump-evangelical-leaders-face-their-own-sex-scandals/9JwpnbdWzHOzQ7tEAmxUPN/story.html]<br /> * A former Bossier Parish pastor has been arrested after admitting to police he had meth at his Bossier City home. Andy C. Harris, 56, of 2406 Benton Road in Bossier City, was charged with possession of a Schedule II controlled dangerous substance (methamphetamine) and possession of drug paraphernalia. [https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/crime/2018/03/09/benton-man-arrested-possession-meth/410682002/]<br /> * A 1,200-page dossier containing the names of 34 ‘actively gay’ priests and six seminarians in Italy has been sent to the Vatican by the archdiocese of Naples.The allegations were compiled by Francesco Mangiacapra, a gay male escort who told local media he couldn’t put up with the priests’ &quot;hypocrisy&quot; any longer.[http://www.newsweek.com/male-escort-exposes-36-gay-priests-file-sent-vatican-containing-explicit-829968]<br /> * Mari Lopez Lopez credited veganism and a faith in God as the cure for her breast cancer last year, just months before her breast cancer returned. She later died from cancer.[http://www.wfaa.com/article/news/youtuber-who-claimed-veganism-cured-her-cancer-dies-of-cancer/521951036]<br /> * Pastor George Nelson Gregory, 61, of Munhall, Pa., was caught by cops in the backseat of a car with another man who was completely naked and bound with nylon rope in the front seat. Gregory says he was counseling the man, who is battling a drug problem.[http://www.pennlive.com/daily-buzz/2018/02/pa_pastor_caught_by_cops_in_wi.html]<br /> * 100s of child porn images, LSD, ecstasy found in Boise priest’s home, prosecutor says. Longtime Catholic Rev. W. Thomas Faucher, 72, was brought into court in a wheelchair Monday evening for his arraignment on 14 different charges.[http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/crime/article198567664.html]<br /> * Memphis mega-church pastor Andy Savage admits he molested a minor days before his ‘True Love Waits’ workshop.[https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/memphis-mega-church-pastor-admits-he-molested-a-minor-days-before-his-true-love-waits-workshop/]<br /> * An Ohio priest under investigation for questionable communications with a minor took his life in Chicago. The Chicago Tribune reports that Father James Csaszar jumped from the 82-story Aqua Hotel in downtown Chicago and the death was ruled a suicide on Thursday by the Cook County medical examiner's office.[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-csaszar-ohio-priest-kills-himself-in-chicago-amid-investigation/]<br /> * Co-founder of nation’s largest Christian rock festival abused minors for 16 years, authorities say, Harry L. Thomas, 74, of Medford Township, faces charges of aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office. [https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/co-founder-of-nations-largest-christian-rock-festival-abused-minors-for-16-years-authorities-say/]<br /> * Ralph Shortey, former Trump campaign chairman, Anti-Gay 'Family Values' Former GOP State Senator Guilty of Child Sex Trafficking After Being Found With Teen Boy.[http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/_family_values_republican_state_senator_pleads_guilty_to_child_sex_trafficking_after_child_pornography_charges_dropped]<br /> * Conservative megachurch founder Bob Coy accused of molesting 4-year-old[https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/conservative-megachurch-founder-bob-coy-accused-of-molesting-4-year-old/]<br /> * Devin Patrick Kelley, a vocational bible instructor, and ex Air Force soldier, opened fire in a Texas church, killing 26 people including children.[https://viral.buzzunites.com/2017/11/05/devin-kelley-5-fast-facts-you-need-to-know/]<br /> * Amber James, the mother who killed her nine-year-old son on Halloween, says she prayed, thought about it, and cried before she strangled him to death to “save” him.[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/11/03/mom-who-murdered-son-on-halloween-prayed-about-it-first/]<br /> * A Middletown mother will spend 21/2 to 5 years in state prison for assaulting her daughter because the teen didn't recite Bible verses correctly.Rhonda Shoffner, 41, was sentenced by Dauphin County Judge John F. Cherry after she pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated assault, strangulation, child endangerment and making terroristic threats.[http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/10/mom_who_beat_daughter_for_not.html?utm_source=fark&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_content=link&amp;ICID=ref_fark]<br /> * The Vatican trial over $500,000 in donations to the pope’s pediatric hospital that were diverted to renovate a cardinal’s penthouse is reaching its conclusion, with neither the cardinal who benefited nor the contractor who was apparently paid twice for the work facing trial.[https://www.apnews.com/ed6e8fcc7b5146eabc65e6b83564be19/Anomalies-abound-in-Vatican-trial-over-diverted-donations]<br /> * Shattered faith: Nearly 100 sex abuse suits against Catholic priests rock island of Guam.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/04/guam-priest-child-sex-abuse-scandal/503680001/]<br /> * Vatican blames women for pedophile priest scandals. [http://www.neonnettle.com/news/2359-catholic-church-women-are-to-blame-for-pedophile-priests]<br /> * Vatican rocked: Police raid drug-fuelled gay orgy at cardinal's apartment.[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=11886097]<br /> * Christian fundamentalist pastor to stand trial over death of two-year-old granddaughter from pneumonia.[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/christian-faith-healer-pastor-trial-pneumonia-medicine-rowland-foster-ella-fundamentaliism-a7814261.html]<br /> * Faith-healing parents charged with murder in death of premature twin baby[http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-city/index.ssf/2017/06/followers_of_christ_parents_of.html#incart_river_index]<br /> * North Carolina televangelist Todd Coontz – author of numerous books on faith and finances – has been indicted on charges of tax fraud spanning more than a decade.[http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/23/534128363/north-carolina-televangelist-indicted-on-charges-of-tax-crimes]<br /> * Ferndale Mother Arrested For Attempted Homicide After ‘Trying to Remove the Demons’ from Her 11-Year-Old Child.[https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2017/jun/16/ferndale-mother-arrested-attempted-homicide-after/]<br /> * Juror jailed for contempt in mistrial of minister, Brooke Covington, who is accused of kidnapping and beating a parishioner to expel his 'homosexual demons'[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4576384/Gay-beating-case-hands-jury-4-years-incident.html]<br /> * Monsignor William A. Dombrow was able to steal $500,000 from a church-owned retirement home, and used the money to pay for gambling, expensive dinners and concerts. He pleaded guilty to four federal wire fraud counts on Thursday. The maligned priest previously ran Villa St. Joseph in Darby for the Philadelphia Archdiocese, which housed aging priests and treated those accused of sexual abuse. Much of the stolen money came from insurance payments for priests who died and from the estates of parishioners.[http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/05/priest_admits_to_stealing_500k.html#incart_river_home_pop]<br /> * Conservative Christian and Oklahoma lawmaker Ralph Shortey is charged with engaging in child prostitution and other felonies after being caught in a hotel room with an underage boy.[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ralph-shortey-oklahoma-lawmaker-hit-child-prostitution-charges-n734376]<br /> * Oklahoma missionary sentenced to 40 years for sexually assaulting children in Upendo Children's Home in Nairobi, Kenya. Matthew Lane Durham, 21, was sentenced to four decades in prison by Judge David L. Russell on four counts of &quot;engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places,&quot; according to court documents. &quot;In a span of just 33 days,&quot; prosecutors wrote to the court, Durham &quot;raped three girls -- ages 5, 9 and 15 -- at least eight times. During that same time period, he sexually molested a 12-year-old boy twice.&quot;[http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/07/us/missionary-sexual-assault-kenya-children/index.html]. Christian publications claim missionary was possessed by a Demon named &quot;Luke&quot;. [http://www.christianpost.com/news/teen-missionary-indicted-for-raping-children-at-orphanage-says-he-was-possessed-by-demon-named-luke-124428/]<br /> * Religious Parents Who Refused to Take Son to Hospital and Thought God Would Resurrect Him Found Guilty of First Degree Murder.[http://edmontonjournal.com/storyline/they-knew-he-was-dying-parents-guilty-of-1st-degree-murder-in-sons-death]<br /> * Word of Life Christian Church Pastor Tiffanie Irwin, her brother Joseph Irwin and mother and son church members Linda Morey and David Morey have entered guilty pleas in the church orchestrated beating of two teen boys, leaving one dead and the other severely injured. Reports indicate the teens were beaten because they discussed leaving the congregation. Lucas Leonard, 19, was severely beaten by members of the church last October, suffering injuries to the abdomen, genitals, back and thighs that ultimately proved to be fatal. At the time of the suspects arrest, police said the “spiritual counseling session” at the church was in reality an hours-long attack in which the teen boys were repeatedly whipped with cords, pummeled with fists, and kicked. They suffered severe injuries to the abdomen, genitals, back and thighs. A church member testified that the “counseling session” lasted for 14 hours and only stopped because Lucas “was dead at that point.”[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2016/10/pastor-3-others-guilty-in-fatal-beating-of-teen-trying-to-escape-church/]<br /> * Man Admits to Killing Cancer-Surviving Daughter, But Not Before Asking God to Intervene. 25-year-old Ryan Lawrence pleaded guilty to murdering his 21-month-old daughter, a survivor of eye cancer, in part because he may have been jealous of all the attention she was getting.[https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1804932/dad-battered-brave-toddler-to-death-with-a-baseball-bat-in-jealous-rage/]<br /> * Christian who &quot;dedicated his life to Jesus&quot;, Richard Keenan, who served as mayor of Hubbard in 2010 and 2011, was indicted last month eight counts of rape and 12 counts of attempted rape and gross sexual imposition of a 4 year old girl.[http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/ohio-ex-mayor-who-dedicated-life-to-christ-admits-to-raping-4-year-old-and-blames-her-as-willing/]<br /> * Brian Mitchell, a youth pastor at a North Olmsted church, a husband and father of three children under the age of 8, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday for raping an unnamed teenager.[http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/09/extremely_delusional_north_olm.html]<br /> * 24-year-old “Christian Warrior” named Bryce Cuellar was arrested after posting a YouTube video detailing how he was going to kill “gays, faggots, lesbians and satanists.”[http://www.ktnv.com/news/las-vegas-man-facing-charges-after-posting-threatening-youtube-video]<br /> * Pastor Who Said Pulse Victims Weren't Victims, Got 'What They Deserve' Arrested for Child Molestation. Controversial pastor Ken Adkins has been charged with two counts of child molestation in Georgia and is in the Glynn County jail, officials said.[http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2016-08-26/story/controversial-pastor-and-activist-ken-adkins-charged-child-molestation]<br /> * Gunman fatally shoots Pennsylvania churchgoer after fight over seat at Sunday service.[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/churchgoer-killed-fight-seat-sunday-service-article-1.2618098]<br /> * Jerry Childress, a 75-year-old church organist from Florida, was arrested for indecent exposure after a glory hole attempt went wrong.[http://americannewsx.com/religion/church-organist-arrested/]<br /> * An Acadiana priest has been arrested for allegedly possessing over 500 images of child pornography, according to the Louisiana State Police. Father Felix David Broussard, a priest at St. Bernard Roman Catholic Church in Breaux Bridge, was arrested today and booked into St. Martin Parish jail on 500 counts of pornography involving juveniles.[http://klfy.com/2016/07/27/breaux-bridge-priest-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges/]<br /> * A 3-year-old boy died on Sunday after he was accidentally left in a hot car parked outside a church, according to police. The child’s family was attending an afternoon Bible study at Rehoboth Praise Assembly in Dallas.[http://kdvr.com/2016/07/25/child-dies-in-hot-car-while-family-worships-in-church/]<br /> * London priest charged after allegedly gambling away more than $500,000 meant for Syrian refugees. [http://m.en.canoe.com/CNEWS/Crime/2016/07/14/22651721.html]<br /> * Man following &quot;god's orders&quot; tried to crush toddler daughter's skull with a bat to help her get to heaven.[http://www.wbir.com/news/deputies-toddler-attacked-at-motel-critically-injured/260712415]<br /> * Sam Sutter, A 26-year-old youth minister is facing sexual battery charges following his arrest. According to a Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office report, Sutter was involved in a sexual relationship with a teenage girl he met through his job at the Openwater Church. [http://wfla.com/2016/06/19/youth-pastor-with-odessa-church-arrested-on-sexual-battery-charges/]<br /> * Anti-gay pastor, Dave Reynolds, the recently fired pastor of the Cornerstone Bible Fellowship in Sherwood, Arkansas is currently facing 70 counts of distributing, possessing, or viewing child pornography.[http://www.arkansasmatters.com/news/local-news/new-details-in-child-porn-charges-against-former-sherwood-pastor]<br /> * The Catholic church in Pennsylvania has been accused of employing “mafia-like” tactics in a campaign to put pressure on individual Catholic lawmakers who support state legislation that would give victims of sexual abuse more time to sue their abusers.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/17/pennsylvania-catholic-church-sexual-abuse-bill-mafia-tactics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other]<br /> * David James Brown, head pastor at First Christian Church of Jeffersonville, Indiana. was arrested after allegedly seeking sex with a minor.[http://www.wdrb.com/story/32232744/jeffersonville-pastor-arrested-after-allegedly-seeking-sex-with-a-minor]<br /> * A former Vatican archbishop, Jozef Wesolowski, accused of paedophilia stored tens of thousands of child porn videos and photos on a computer in his office at the Holy See diplomatic compound in the Dominican Republic, it has emerged.[http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/vatican-paedophilia-scandal-archbishop-jozef-wesolowski-stored-over-100000-child-porn-videos-1467410]<br /> * John David Brock, 60, died after a snake bit him in the left arm and he refused medical treatment, according to the Bell County Sheriff's Office. Brock was handling a snake during a church service at Mossy Simpson Pentecostal Church in Jenson, Kentucky.[http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Man-dies-in-Bell-County-after-he-was-bitten-by-snake-during-church-service-318868451.html]<br /> * The president of a Christian charity in Iowa, Jon S. Petersen, of Cedar Rapids admitted that he embezzled nearly a half-million dollars in donations and used the money to pay for a sex addiction, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. [http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article78129452.html]<br /> * Virginia pastor, Christopher Alan Hogge, 48, has been charged eight counts of possession and distribution of child pornography, according to the Isle of Wight County Sheriff's Office.[http://wtvr.com/2016/05/23/virginia-pastor-arrested-on-child-porn-charges/]<br /> * A private Christian school in Kansas is reserving the right to expel students who have gay family members. [http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/05/20/christian-school-threatens-to-expel-pupils-if-they-have-a-gay-family-member/?utm_source=ET&amp;utm_medium=ETFB&amp;utm_campaign=portal&amp;utm_content=inf_11_60_2&amp;tse_id=INF_c1d0cb4ff39e4a1b90bc30417379d323]<br /> * Grace Baptist Church children’s pastor arrested in sex trafficking operation.[http://wate.com/2016/05/20/tbi-conduct-knoxville-human-trafficking-investigation/]<br /> * Vehemently Anti-LGBT Pastor Arrested On Child Pornography Charges.[http://theintellectualist.co/infamous-anti-lgbt-pastor-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges/]<br /> * Ohio seminary student arrested for alleged plan to have sex with adopted baby in Mexico [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/seminary-student-allegedly-planned-sex-baby-mexico-article-1.2515560]<br /> * Woman beats disabled man with his own cane for saying he doesn’t believe in God[http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/woman-beats-disabled-man-with-his-own-cane-because-he-said-he-doesnt-believe-in-god-police/]<br /> * Phoenix Woman Accused of Killing Atheist Victim, Then Keeping the Body as a “Shrine From God”[http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/64863225-story]<br /> * Lisa Biron, Anti-Gay Christian Lawyer, Arrested On Child Pornography Charges[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/20/lisa-biron-anti-gay-christian-lawyer-child-porn-charges_n_2166055.html]<br /> * Pastor Slept with Young Girls During Prayer Sessions as Part of their “Healing Process”[http://allchristiannews.com/pastor-slept-with-young-girls-during-prayer-sessions-as-part-of-their-healing-process/]<br /> * Sheriff's Office: Harvey catechism teacher promises students a photo of Santa, then shows them naked picture instead[http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/news/crime/13876211-148/catechism-teacher-in-harvey-showed]<br /> * Almost 800 babies and children were buried in a mass grave in Ireland near a home for unmarried mothers run by nuns.[http://churchandstate.org.uk/2014/06/almost-800-babies-buried-in-septic-tank-at-catholic-run-irish-home-for-unmarried-mothers/]<br /> * Alabama Pastor Made Daughter Watch While He Sexually Abused Minors.[http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/10/prosecutors_plan_to_introduce.html]<br /> * The pastor and two members of a Corona, CA church pleaded guilty on Monday to torturing a thirteen-year-old boy, including driving him into the desert and forcing him to dig his own grave. Lonny Lee Remmers, James Craig, and Darryll Duana Jeter Jr. abused the child at a group home run by Heart of Worship Community Church.[http://aattp.org/pastor-church-members-viciously-tortured-young-boy-forced-him-to-dig-own-grave-in-the-desert/]<br /> * Minneapolis church struck by lightning, destroying cross[http://www.fox9.com/weather/15331725-story]<br /> * Six Brothers Raped Their Sister For Years While ‘Christian’ Homeschool Parents Did Nothing.[http://reverbpress.com/justice/jackson-brothers-sexual-assault-sister-christian/]<br /> * A Tennessee pastor who was recently admonished by police for having sex with another man in a church van parked in a parking lot, was arrested this week for embezzling an estimated $60,000 from his church’s coffers.[http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/pastor-caught-having-gay-sex-in-van-spent-stolen-church-money-on-farmer-dating-website-police/]<br /> * Four of six homeschooled brothers, including a pastor, admit to molesting their sister.[http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/four-of-six-homeschooled-brothers-plead-guilty-to-molesting-their-sister-while-anti-school-parents-did-nothing/#.VV88faFKoyU.facebook]<br /> * Antigay Michigan Pastor Outed by Grindr Messages[http://www.mediaite.com/online/antigay-michigan-pastor-outed-by-grindr-messages/]<br /> * A Baptist preacher in Eureka Springs who features prominently in a new video urging repeal of the city's Ordinance 2223, which protects LGBT people from discrimination, pleaded guilty to a series of violent rapes in Oklahoma in 1977.[http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2015/04/20/eureka-spring-pastor-in-repeal-2223-ad-is-a-convicted-serial-rapist]<br /> * Texas church members accused of starving ‘demon-possessed’ toddler and then trying to resurrect him[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/texas-church-members-accused-of-starving-demon-possessed-toddler-and-then-trying-resurrect-him/]<br /> * Louisianal youth pastor is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old girl. Jonathan Bailey has been charged with one count of indecent relationship with a juvenile.[http://www.wdsu.com/news/local-news/new-orleans/youth-pastor-accused-of-inappropriate-relationship-with-juvenile/31530534?utm_source=Social&amp;utm_medium=FBPAGE&amp;utm_campaign=wdsutv&amp;Content%20Type=Story&amp;linkId=12612108]<br /> * Ax-wielding hair designer burns down Michigan adult store to please God[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/ax-wielding-hair-designer-burns-down-michigan-shop-to-please-god/]<br /> * An 11-year-old Canadian Aboriginal girl with leukaemia, who stopped chemotherapy after &quot;seeing a vision of Jesus,&quot; has died.[http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/makayla-sault-girl-who-refused-chemo-for-leukemia-dies-1.2829885]<br /> * Anti-LGBT Pastor Arrested for Grabbing Man’s Genitals at Indiana Park[http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/anti-lgbt-pastor-arrested-grabbing-mans-genitals-indiana-park]<br /> * Baptist church leader in Missouri arrested for soliciting &quot;dog sex&quot; on Craigslist.[http://gawker.com/baptist-church-leader-arrested-for-soliciting-dog-sex-o-1617858449?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&amp;utm_source=gawker_facebook&amp;utm_medium=socialflow]<br /> * Woman told police “she was driving and out of no where God told her that he would take it from here and she let go of the wheel and let him take it.” Shortly after letting go of the wheel she ran over a motorcyclist and drove off.[http://wane.com/2014/07/18/motorcyclist-i-said-to-myself-today-is-the-day-i-die/]<br /> <br /> * Florida woman accused of killing 2-year-old while re-enacting Bible story[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/28/florida-woman-accused-of-killing-2-year-old-while-re-enacting-bible-story/]<br /> <br /> {{ytv2|qmwEOuMGxu4|right}}<br /> * Evangelical Christians want access to more corpses … to hone their ‘raising the dead’ skills[http://freethinker.co.uk/2014/03/10/evangelical-christians-want-access-to-more-corpses-in-order-to-practice-raising-them-from-the-dead/]<br /> * Tennessee woman accused of drowning her baby says ‘Jesus came down’ and did it.[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/10/tennessee-woman-accused-of-drowning-her-baby-says-jesus-came-down-and-did-it/]<br /> * Files released by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee reveal that in 2007, Cardinal Timothy F. Dolan, then the archbishop there, requested permission from the Vatican to move nearly $57 million into a cemetery trust fund to protect the assets from victims of clergy sexual abuse who were demanding compensation. [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/us/dolan-sought-vatican-permission-to-shield-assets.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0]<br /> * Belief in god associated with poor mental health.[http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2013/04/belief-in-punitive-god-associated-with-poor-mental-health.html]<br /> * The chaplain of Milan’s San Vittore prison, 51-year-old Fr Alberto Barin, has been arrested for sustained sexual assault with multiple aggravations and for abuse of authority. Six non-Italian prisoners have accused him of demanding sexual acts in exchange for favours ranging from items of food to living conditions in the prison. Officers investigating the allegations were able to document the incidents by placing a videocamera in the chaplain’s office in the prison.[http://www.corriere.it/english/12_novembre_21/san-vittore-prison_463940e4-33da-11e2-a480-b74fe153b15c.shtml]<br /> *Rev. Ryan J. Muelhauser, Ex-Gay Counsellor, Arrested For Molestation Of Two Young Men[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/08/rev-ryan-j-muelhauser-molestation-_n_2094609.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&amp;ir=Gay%20Voices]<br /> <br /> * Priest embroiled in ivory smuggling controversy.[http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/27/world/asia/priest-ivory-controversy/index.html]<br /> * New Orleans pastor who was appointed in April to a local economic development board charged with seven counts of molestation of a juvenile[http://wap.wdsu.com/wap/news/text.jsp?sid=48&amp;nid=1491143881&amp;cid=4640&amp;scid=-1&amp;ith=3&amp;title=Local%20News&amp;headtitle=Local%20News]<br /> * Pregnant Teenager in Dominican Republic dies after doctors withold cancer treatment because the chemotherapy would harm her unborn child.[http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/17/world/americas/dominican-republic-abortion/index.html?hpt=hp_bn2]<br /> * Christian musician Randy Travis, who claimed in 2009 his faith in god allowed him to quit drinking in his 20s, was found naked and drunk in Texas, and arrested after he threatened to kill a law enforcement officer[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/08/drunk-and-naked-christian-music-star-randy-travis-threatens-cops-life/]<br /> * A Northern California jury has awarded $28 million in damages to a woman who said the Jehovah’s Witnesses allowed an adult member of a Fremont, Calif., church to molest her when she was a child. [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/us/28-million-awarded-in-jehovahs-witnesses-abuse-case.html?_r=3]<br /> * Christian school rejects admission of Mormon pupil[http://m.arkansasonline.com/news/2012/may/31/lr-christian-academy-rejects-mormon-pupil-20120531/]<br /> * Family Battle Offers Look Inside Lavish TV Ministry[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/05/us/tbn-fight-offers-glimpse-inside-lavish-tv-ministry.html?_r=1]<br /> * Court ruling: Jesus doesn't cure cancer.[http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6835139/Ruling-Jesus-doesn-t-heal-cancer]<br /> * Heralded &quot;Miracle&quot; toddler found in the wreckage of tornado, dies in hospital[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=10789913]<br /> * Christian fringe group intimidates Lowes into pulling advertisement from a reality show portrary Muslims as decent people[http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/12/my-take-is-all-american-muslim-begetting-all-american-bigotry/?hpt=hp_c2]<br /> * 6 HIV sufferers die after their pastor told them to stop taking their medication, because god would heal them.[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066106/Scandal-churches-claiming-cure-HIV-God-die-abandoning-medication.html]<br /> * Brazil rocked by abortion for 9-year-old rape victim: Church excommunicates mother and doctors – but not accused rapist[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brazil-rocked-by-abortion-for-9yearold-rape-victim-1640165.html]<br /> * Pentecostal Bishop Charles E. Brown indicted on rape, sexual battery charges[http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/11/no_bishop_indicted_on_rape_sex.html]<br /> * Killings in Norway spotlight anti-Muslim thought.[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/us/25debate.html?_r=4&amp;ref=global-home]<br /> * Austrian's religious headgear gives authorities a headache.{{rl|http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14135523}}<br /> * Pray For Newark claims amazing results as its Christian volunteers &quot;prayer walk&quot; the Newark city streets, seeking to pray down crime. Then murders rose 71%{{rl|http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/5/3/91235/90609/}}<br /> * Preacher sells debt removal through prayer[http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/consumer&amp;id=7984766]<br /> * Authorities have arrested a 52-year-old man they say committed a hate crime against a man he learned was a Muslim. They were having a conversation when the victim admitted he was a Muslim, which prompted the other man to stab him in the neck with a pocket knife.{{rl|http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/st-pete-man-accused-of-hate-crime-against-muslim/1149809}}<br /> * Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley told a church crowd just moments into his new administration that those who have not accepted Jesus as their savior are not his brothers and sisters, shocking some critics who questioned Tuesday whether he can be fair to non-Christians.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_alabama_governor_christians}}<br /> * The Salvation Army says it refuses to distribute Harry Potter and Twilight toys collected for needy children because they're incompatible with the charity's Christian beliefs.{{rl|http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/canada/2010/12/08/16478111.html}}<br /> * A couple who prayed for their sick toddler rather than take him to a doctor before his pneumonia death are on trial in Philadelphia, charged with involuntary manslaughter.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101207/ap_on_re_us/us_prayer_death_toddler}}<br /> * Archdiocese wants to recoup legal fees after a suit alleging abuse by priest in Burnsville was dismissed.[http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/faith/110501539.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU]<br /> * Minister, elders guilty of not reporting sexual abuse of a child - sought to have immunity from criminal liability in failing to report the case of suspected child abuse, &quot;arguing that they acted in good faith in persuading the parents and the perpetrator to make report of abuse.&quot;[http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Minister%2C+elders+guilty+of+not+reporting+abuse&amp;articleId=5584e3e1-cc52-4715-820c-be1eb16a82f9]<br /> * A Catholic Priest Charged with Sexually Assaulting Boy in ’08 Was Rearrested Last Week and Charged with Hiring Someone to Kill His Alleged Victim.{{rl|http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7307344.html}}<br /> * Baby dies as family jumps out of window to get away from the devil.{{rl|http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2010/10/24/15810081.html}}<br /> * Lamar advertising company will sell billboards to hookers but not atheists.{{rl|http://www.bnet.com/blog/advertising-business/lamar-sells-billboards-to-hookers-but-not-to-atheists/2412}}<br /> * Religious teen shoots and murders an atheist teen over an argument; judge does not consider it a hate crime and reduces the murder charge; parents outrages.{{rl|http://www.whotv.com/news/who-story-doyle-family-shooting-100810,0,3732283.story}}<br /> * Study shows atheists and agnostics are more knowledgeable about religion than religious people themselves.{{rl|http://pewforum.org/Other-Beliefs-and-Practices/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey.aspx}}<br /> * Bishop Eddie Long, a powerful anti-gay pastor becomes ensnared in his own sordid same-sex scandal{{rl|http://www.salon.com/life/this_week_in_crazy/index.html?story=/mwt/feature/2010/09/25/this_week_crazy_eddie_long}}<br /> * Deaf victim of sex abuse is suing pope{{rl|http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/23/deaf-victim-of-sex-abuse-is-suing-pope-and-going-public-with-his-story-for-the-first-time/}}<br /> * A fourth young male member of Bishop Eddie Long's megachurch is suing the prominent pastor, claiming Long coerced him into a sexual relationship. The lawsuit was filed by Spencer LeGrande, a member of New Birth Charlotte. New Birth Charlotte is a satellite church run by Long in Charlotte, N.C. The lawsuit said Long told LeGrande &quot;I will be your dad&quot; and invited the 17-year-old to journey to Kenya with him in July 2005. LeGrande said that Long gave him a sleeping pill on that trip and that the two engaged in sexual acts.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100924/ap_on_re_us/us_pastor_abuse_allegations_lawsuit}}<br /> <br /> * According to a recent study, religious belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to research published today. {{rl|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article571206.ece}}<br /> * Pastor George Randall &quot;Randy&quot; Scott, of the Bethel Temple Assembly Of God Church in Bryan, Texas, was arrested after returning from a trip to Sweden with his wife on for allegedly pretending to be a teenager online to meet other minor boys and then blackmailing them into having sex. {{rl|http://www.kbtx.com/local/headlines/100500214.html}}<br /> * Giant Jesus statue struck by lightning and destroyed. {{rl|http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/15/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning/}}<br /> * Thinking he was possessed by the devil, American cage fighter rips out still-beating heart of his training partner.{{rl|http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1282647/American-cage-fighter-rips-beating-heart-training-partner-fearing-possessed-devil.html}}<br /> * Christian singer leaves his wife and family and admits hes gay, while continuing his Christian musical career.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/15/us/15religion.html}}<br /> * Nun Excommunicated For Allowing life-saving Abortion[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126985072]<br /> * Janine Denomme, Woman Ordained As Catholic Priest, Denied Catholic Burial By Church{{rl|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/19/janine-denomme-woman-orda_n_582423.html}}<br /> * Guns, high-powered ammunition and explosives equipment have been seized in raids on 12 properties in and near Adelaide linked with the Agape Ministries of God.{{rl|http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/20/2904812.htm}}<br /> * City of Miami uses prayer group to ward off bad weather.{{rl|http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&amp;articleid=20100511_11_0_MIAMIO602438}}<br /> * Jehovah's Witness Couple Disown Son For Receiving Blood Transfusion.{{rl|http://news.peacefmonline.com/religion/201005/42722.php}}<br /> * Noah's ark found, says evangelical filmmaker.{{rl|http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/pc-certainty-of-noahs-ark-discovery-on-mount-ararat/story-e6frfku0-1225858591328}}<br /> * British court punishes atheist for leaving flyers in the prayer room of the John Lennon airport.{{rl|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7624578/Atheist-given-Asbo-for-leaflets-mocking-Jesus.html}}<br /> * Islamists have warned the creators of TV show South Park they could face violent retribution for depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit.{{rl|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8636455.stm}}<br /> * An episode of “South Park” that continued a story line involving the Prophet Muhammad was shown Wednesday night on Comedy Central with audio bleeps and image blocks reading “CENSORED” after a Muslim group warned the show’s creators that they could face violence for depicting that holy Islamic prophet. {{rl|http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/south-park-episode-is-altered-after-muslim-groups-warning/}}<br /> * Catholic church admits Norwegian Bishop resigned last year after admitting he was involved in child molestation.[http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=10305913]<br /> * Pope coordinated assignment of pedophile priest back into circulation.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/world/europe/26church.html}}<br /> {{ga}}<br /> * The Roman Catholic Church’s account of Pope Benedict XVI’s handing of a serial paedophile was called into question today when new documents emerged suggesting that his office was kept informed of the offender’s rapid return to working with children. {{rl|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7077196.ece}}<br /> * Pope Sexual Abuse Scandal: Benedict Implicated In Cover-Up Of Wisconsin Abuse Case{{rl|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/24/pope-sexual-abuse-lawrence-murphy_n_512483.html}}<br /> * Atheist group throws party for teens who had their prom canceled rather than allow a same-sex couple to attend the dance sponsored by religious school{{rl|http://www.examiner.com/x-8928-Philadelphia-Atheism-Examiner~y2010m3d12-Atheist-group-offers-to-hold-gay-friendly-prom}}<br /> * Religious massacres continue in Nigeria{{rl|http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704869304575109962258328770.html}}<br /> * Vatican chorister sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for papal gentleman-in-waiting{{rl|http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/04/vatican-gay-sex-scandal}}<br /> * Baby starved to death because he didn't say &quot;amen.&quot;{{rl|http://www.smh.com.au/world/baby-starved-to-death-because-he-did-not-say-amen-20100225-p4el.html}}<br /> * Pakistan's president sacrifices a goat each day to keep evil away{{rl|http://www.palibandaily.com/2010/02/23/a-goat-a-day-keeps-the-evil-away-pakistans-president-and-his-addiction-to-sacrifices/}}<br /> * Haiti's prime minister said Monday it's clear to him that the 10 U.S. Baptists who tried to take 33 children out of his quake-ravaged country without permission &quot;knew what they were doing was wrong.&quot;{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100201/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_americans_detained}}<br /> * A jury has found Scott Philip Roeder, 51, of Merriam, Kansas, guilty of premeditated first-degree murder in the slaying of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller.{{rl|http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/27216}}<br /> * Jeff and Marci Beagley have been charged with criminally negligent homicide for not providing medical treatment to their 16-year-old son, who died of an untreated urinary tract blockage. The family belongs to Followers of Christ Church, whose members shun medical care in favor of prayer.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wirestory?id=9550298&amp;page=2]<br /> * A Republican member of the Iowa Legislature is proposing lawmakers should be required to say &quot;so help me God&quot; when being sworn into office.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wirestory?id=9550298&amp;page=2]<br /> * Members of a Roanoke church have voted to leave the country's largest Lutheran denomination over its policy to allow gay clergy.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9550298]<br /> * Matt Baker, 38, a former Baptist minister, has been indicted for allegedly drugging and suffocating his wife Kari, whose 2006 death was initially ruled a suicide.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9551269]<br /> * A government witness said Wednesday that the five young woman who testified last year that evangelist Tony Alamo took them as a &quot;wife&quot; and sexually abused them as minors should receive $2.7 million each for physical and mental pain suffered.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9551976]<br /> * Three American Evangelical Christians go to Uganda and teach thousands (including police, national politicians, etc.) how gays and their agenda are trying to destroy Ugandan families and sodomize their children. Result: a bill to impose a death sentence for homosexual behavior.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/world/africa/04uganda.html}}<br /> * School board opts to fire public school teacher who refused to teach evolution, taught creationism and burned crosses into the arms of students{{rl|http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/06/21/Freshwater_decision.ART_ART_06-21-08_A1_ABAI539.html}}<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Theological_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Theists_in_the_news Theists in the news 2019-08-24T15:58:34Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>Modern stories and links of the many weird things religious people do that make news.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Priest in cuffs.jpg|right]]<br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * [[Theists in the news (archive)]] for many more stories<br /> * [[Republicans in the news]]<br /> * [[Democrats in the news]]<br /> * [[Christian terrorists in the news]]<br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> ==Theists in the news==<br /> <br /> * Idaho pastor, Bret Allen Welty, charged with child sex abuse.[https://idahonews.com/news/local/calvary-chapel-issues-statement-after-local-pastor-arrest]<br /> * Oklahoma State Senator Ralph Shortey, who voted for anti-trans ‘bathroom bill’ busted in hotel with underage boy, charged with child prostitution.[https://kfor.com/2017/03/16/oklahoma-state-senator-ralph-shortey-charged-with-engaging-in-child-prostitution/]<br /> * Florida minister, Frederic Sterry Smith, 62, of St. Augustine, president of Servant’s Heart Disaster Relief, a St. Augustine-based nonprofit and &quot;evangelical hands-on ministry devoted to helping hurricane victims in North America and the Caribbean, was charged with simple battery after writing a homophobic slur in a restaurant receipt and shoving it down the shirt of the restaurant's female manager.[https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/crime/2019/08/01/florida-man-writes-anti-gay-remark-restaurant-bill-assaults-woman-police-say/1887099001/]<br /> * A Christian school kindergarten teacher in the Chicago suburbs is facing charges related to sexual assault and child pornography after investigators say that she sent explicit material to minors for years. Shannon Griffin is the wife of the pastor of Jordan Baptist Church and is a teacher at the associated Jordan Baptist school in Oak Lawn, a suburb of Chicago. Christian school teacher who scolded girls to be modest was molesting male students. She was a moral scold who told girls they were dressing like sluts &amp; the entire time she was sending naked photos of herself to male students. [https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/07/christian-school-teacher-scolded-girls-modest-molesting-male-students/][https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/07/02/teacher-sexual-assault-shannon-griffin-burbank/][https://abc7chicago.com/burbank-teacher-charged-with-sex-assault-soliciting-child-porn-from-2-students/5375571/]<br /> * A principal in Louisiana has resigned after being arrested at a Washington, DC strip club. Holy Family Principal Michael Comeau was chaperoning a middle school trip to the nation's capital when he was arrested at Archibald's Gentlemen's Club in Northwest DC. Police were called to the club, just blocks from the White House, to found Comeau “standing in the roadway, refusing to move.&quot; Comeau reportedly refused to settle up with the club.[https://www.complex.com/life/2019/06/louisiana-school-principal-arrested-at-strip-club-in-dc]<br /> * The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $8 million to a teenager who was sexually abused and kidnapped by a teacher at her Catholic high school.The teenager's attorney, David Ring, said that the settlement — finalized by a court last week — is the largest that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles has ever paid to a single victim, The Associated Press reports. Over the past 15 years, the archdiocese has paid more than $740 million in sexual abuse settlements.[https://www.npr.org/2019/04/17/714212609/archdiocese-of-los-angeles-agrees-to-8-million-settlement-in-sex-abuse-case]<br /> * A large majority of priests in the Vatican are gay, although many are not sexually active, a new book claims. A total of about 80 percent of the most revered clerics in the Roman Catholic Church are homosexual despite the church’s opposition to gay rights, according to the extensively researched book by French journalist Frédéric Martel. The gay priests adhere to an unspoken code called “the closet,” where it is understood that, for instance, a cardinal or bishop who denounces homosexuality is more likely to be gay, according to the book “In the Closet of the Vatican.”[https://nypost.com/2019/02/14/80-percent-of-priests-in-the-vatican-are-gay-new-book/]<br /> * 7-year old boy killed after court-appointed guardian punishes him for not knowing 13 bible verses[https://fox11online.com/news/local/guardians-teen-charged-in-death-of-7-year-old-manitowoc-co-boy]<br /> * Evangelicals sue for right to deny shelter to homeless transgender people.Alliance Defending Freedom, the far-right evangelical legal group that defended the “right” of a baker to deny service to gay couples before the Supreme Court, has a new target.This time they’re suing to give a homeless shelter in Anchorage, Alaska, the “right” to deny help to transgender people. The federal court lawsuit seeks to overturn the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance that prohibits discrimination against LGBTQ people.[https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/01/evangelicals-sue-right-deny-shelter-homeless-transgender-people/]<br /> * Male Escort Exposes 36 Gay Priests in File Sent to Vatican Containing Explicit WhatsApp Chats and Erotic Photos[https://www.newsweek.com/male-escort-exposes-36-gay-priests-file-sent-vatican-containing-explicit-829968]<br /> * Vatican’s Third-Most Powerful Official Cardinal George Pell Convicted on All Charges He Sexually Abused Choir Boys in the 1990s[http://blackchristiannews.com/2018/12/vaticans-third-most-powerful-official-cardinal-george-pell-convicted-on-all-charges-he-sexually-abused-choir-boys-in-the-1990s/]<br /> * “Aryan Pride” for Jesus: An Oklahoma pastor is under arrest after being caught running a prostitution ring with a white supremacist. Pastor Walter Eugene Brazington Jr. is “being charged with procuring for prostitution and possession of a firearm while in the commission of a felony,” according to a report from Tulsa World.[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2017/12/oklahoma-pastor-busted-running-white-supremacist-prostitution-ring/]<br /> * Lawsuit: At least 14 kids abused at hands of North Charleston church volunteer. Jacop Robert Lee Hazlett, 28, of Proximity Drive in West Ashley, faces one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor under 11 years old, according to his arrest affidavit and court records. Hazlett had worked as a volunteer chaperone and day care provider since March for NewSpring Church, located at 5101 Ashley Phosphate Road, supervising children ages 3 to 5 in a room called &quot;the Tree House.&quot;[https://www.postandcourier.com/news/lawsuit-at-least-kids-abused-at-hands-of-north-charleston/article_7d97d7f2-f3d8-11e8-9ec7-6ffa7310138b.html]<br /> * An Illinois priest who spent time in prison for manufacturing and selling a date-rape drug has been removed from ministry again for getting involved in a criminal case without telling his superiors. Peoria Diocese Bishop Daniel Jenky removed the Rev. Jeffrey Windy from his post serving three Ottawa parishes in March.[https://www.bnd.com/news/state/illinois/article222188995.html]<br /> * Gun-related tragedy struck once again this week, this time at a Catholic Supply store in Ballwin, Missouri, a suburb of St. Lous. USA Today reports that a former pastor has been arrested after allegedly attempting to coerce three women into having sex with him at gunpoint. When one of them resisted, he shot 53-year-old Jamie Schmidt in the head and forced the other two to submit to his “deviant” demands. The shooter, 53-year-old Thomas Bruce, has a reputation for right-wing tirades on social media and has ranted against gun-free zones in the past. He was a huge fan of President Trump, attended his rallies, and regularly tweeted about Republican politics. His last tweet read “I’ve already forgotten you. #promisesmade #promiseskept #trump2020 #BuildTheWall” and his feed was full of retweets from white nationalist FOX anchor Laura Ingraham.[https://washingtonpress.com/2018/11/23/a-trump-obsessed-pastor-just-shot-a-woman-dead-and-sodomized-two-others-in-horrific-sex-assault/]<br /> * Catholic Church Shielded Priests Who Raped Boys, but It Helped Lock Up a Priest Who Swiped Bucks. The monsignor who gambled and traveled on the Archdiocese’s dime remained behind bars as a grand jury reported on the crimes of his peers who preyed on children.[https://www.thedailybeast.com/catholic-church-shielded-priests-who-raped-boys-but-it-helped-lock-up-a-priest-who-swiped-bucks]<br /> * Grand jury report: Priests ran child porn ring in Pittsburgh Diocese[http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-nws-pa-pittsburgh-diocese-porn-ring-20180815-story.html]<br /> * Pastor Timothy Lee Reddin did not practice what he preached, police claim. The Arkansas church leader was arrested this week for allegedly trying to meet with an underage boy to have sex, part of a police sting operation.[https://www.inquisitr.com/5025011/anti-gay-pastor-timothy-lee-reddin-arrested-sex-with-underage-boy/]<br /> * A former New Jersey pastor who co-founded the Creation Festival, which bills itself as the country's largest Christian music festival, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for sexually assaulting multiple young children. Harry Thomas, 75, who formerly pastored Come Alive New Testament Church in Medford and went on to help create the popular music festival, failed in withdrawing his guilty plea on Friday, the Associated Press reported.[https://www.christianpost.com/news/creation-festival-co-founder-sentenced-to-18-years-for-child-sex-abuse-i-deserve-to-be-cast-into-sea-226484/][http://www.startribune.com/ex-pastor-sentenced-to-18-years-in-child-sex-abuse-case/489423631/]<br /> * Revelations that a prominent U.S. cardinal sexually abused and harassed his adult seminarians have exposed an egregious abuse of power that has shocked Catholics on both sides of the Atlantic. But the Vatican has long been aware of its heterosexual equivalent — the sexual abuse of nuns by priests and bishops — and done little to stop it, an Associated Press analysis has found. An examination by the AP shows that cases of abused nuns have emerged in Europe, Africa, South America and Asia, demonstrating that the problem is global and pervasive, thanks to the sisters' second-class status in the church and their ingrained subservience to the men who run it.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/metoo-vatican-nuns-denounce-priests-1.4765021]<br /> * A longtime pastor of a Bogalusa church pleaded guilty to the theft of more than $95,000 in Social Security disability benefits, U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans said Thursday. Jerry R. Newton, 54, of Slidell, is set for an Oct. 25 sentencing hearing before U. S. District Court Judge Jane Triche Milazzo.[https://www.nola.com/northshore/index.ssf/2018/07/bogalusa_pastor_pleads_guilty.html]<br /> * The Vatican tribunal has convicted a former Holy See diplomat and sentenced him to 5 years in prison for possessing and distributing child pornography in the first such trial of its kind inside the Vatican.[https://apnews.com/76aa075fbd1b40a487bc75fdd8f56e8c] Note that the Vatican refused to revoke the perpetrator's diplomatic immunity so he could be prosecuted in the United States.[https://www.inquisitr.com/4954910/priest-and-former-vatican-diplomat-to-u-s-found-guilty-of-possessing-child-pornography/]<br /> * A Catholic priest is behind bars after admitting to plying an underage boy with alcohol and molesting him. Father Steven Michael Guidry and his attorney reported to the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office on June 13 and confessed to giving alcohol to the minor before sexually assaulting him.[https://wgno.com/2018/06/14/catholic-priest-arrested-for-molesting-16-year-old-boy/]<br /> * Diocese knew priest arrested for child sex crimes was abusing boys, authorities say. The Diocese of Erie knew since at least May 2010 of the abuse, but this priest was still in active ministry as recently as 2 months ago. The Catholic Church knowingly allows pedophiles to have access to children.[https://www.pennlive.com/news/2018/05/erie_priest_charged_with_child.html]<br /> * The Rev. William Thomas Faucher, accused of child porn and drug crimes, was role playing with a fellow author in some of the chatroom conversations in which he’s alleged to have said he wanted to rape and kill children, his attorney said in court Friday.[http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/article208855704.html]<br /> * A well-known Alabama evangelist, public speaker and author was arrested in Hoover Tuesday on child sex charges. Paul Edward Acton Bowen, a 37-year-old Gadsden native who now lives in Etowah County's Southside community, was taken into custody by Hoover police about 12:35 p.m. The founder of Acton Bowen Outreach Ministries is charged with second-degree sodomy, enticing a child to enter a vehicle or house for immoral purposes, and second-degree sex abuse. The victim was a young male, but police did not release his age except to say he is over 12 and under 16.[http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2018/04/alabama_evangelist_acton_bowen.html]<br /> * As they back Trump, evangelical leaders face their own sex scandals.[https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/03/31/they-back-trump-evangelical-leaders-face-their-own-sex-scandals/9JwpnbdWzHOzQ7tEAmxUPN/story.html]<br /> * A former Bossier Parish pastor has been arrested after admitting to police he had meth at his Bossier City home. Andy C. Harris, 56, of 2406 Benton Road in Bossier City, was charged with possession of a Schedule II controlled dangerous substance (methamphetamine) and possession of drug paraphernalia. [https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/crime/2018/03/09/benton-man-arrested-possession-meth/410682002/]<br /> * A 1,200-page dossier containing the names of 34 ‘actively gay’ priests and six seminarians in Italy has been sent to the Vatican by the archdiocese of Naples.The allegations were compiled by Francesco Mangiacapra, a gay male escort who told local media he couldn’t put up with the priests’ &quot;hypocrisy&quot; any longer.[http://www.newsweek.com/male-escort-exposes-36-gay-priests-file-sent-vatican-containing-explicit-829968]<br /> * Mari Lopez Lopez credited veganism and a faith in God as the cure for her breast cancer last year, just months before her breast cancer returned. She later died from cancer.[http://www.wfaa.com/article/news/youtuber-who-claimed-veganism-cured-her-cancer-dies-of-cancer/521951036]<br /> * Pastor George Nelson Gregory, 61, of Munhall, Pa., was caught by cops in the backseat of a car with another man who was completely naked and bound with nylon rope in the front seat. Gregory says he was counseling the man, who is battling a drug problem.[http://www.pennlive.com/daily-buzz/2018/02/pa_pastor_caught_by_cops_in_wi.html]<br /> * 100s of child porn images, LSD, ecstasy found in Boise priest’s home, prosecutor says. Longtime Catholic Rev. W. Thomas Faucher, 72, was brought into court in a wheelchair Monday evening for his arraignment on 14 different charges.[http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/crime/article198567664.html]<br /> * Memphis mega-church pastor Andy Savage admits he molested a minor days before his ‘True Love Waits’ workshop.[https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/memphis-mega-church-pastor-admits-he-molested-a-minor-days-before-his-true-love-waits-workshop/]<br /> * An Ohio priest under investigation for questionable communications with a minor took his life in Chicago. The Chicago Tribune reports that Father James Csaszar jumped from the 82-story Aqua Hotel in downtown Chicago and the death was ruled a suicide on Thursday by the Cook County medical examiner's office.[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-csaszar-ohio-priest-kills-himself-in-chicago-amid-investigation/]<br /> * Co-founder of nation’s largest Christian rock festival abused minors for 16 years, authorities say, Harry L. Thomas, 74, of Medford Township, faces charges of aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office. [https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/co-founder-of-nations-largest-christian-rock-festival-abused-minors-for-16-years-authorities-say/]<br /> * Ralph Shortey, former Trump campaign chairman, Anti-Gay 'Family Values' Former GOP State Senator Guilty of Child Sex Trafficking After Being Found With Teen Boy.[http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/_family_values_republican_state_senator_pleads_guilty_to_child_sex_trafficking_after_child_pornography_charges_dropped]<br /> * Conservative megachurch founder Bob Coy accused of molesting 4-year-old[https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/conservative-megachurch-founder-bob-coy-accused-of-molesting-4-year-old/]<br /> * Devin Patrick Kelley, a vocational bible instructor, and ex Air Force soldier, opened fire in a Texas church, killing 26 people including children.[https://viral.buzzunites.com/2017/11/05/devin-kelley-5-fast-facts-you-need-to-know/]<br /> * Amber James, the mother who killed her nine-year-old son on Halloween, says she prayed, thought about it, and cried before she strangled him to death to “save” him.[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/11/03/mom-who-murdered-son-on-halloween-prayed-about-it-first/]<br /> * A Middletown mother will spend 21/2 to 5 years in state prison for assaulting her daughter because the teen didn't recite Bible verses correctly.Rhonda Shoffner, 41, was sentenced by Dauphin County Judge John F. Cherry after she pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated assault, strangulation, child endangerment and making terroristic threats.[http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/10/mom_who_beat_daughter_for_not.html?utm_source=fark&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_content=link&amp;ICID=ref_fark]<br /> * The Vatican trial over $500,000 in donations to the pope’s pediatric hospital that were diverted to renovate a cardinal’s penthouse is reaching its conclusion, with neither the cardinal who benefited nor the contractor who was apparently paid twice for the work facing trial.[https://www.apnews.com/ed6e8fcc7b5146eabc65e6b83564be19/Anomalies-abound-in-Vatican-trial-over-diverted-donations]<br /> * Shattered faith: Nearly 100 sex abuse suits against Catholic priests rock island of Guam.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/04/guam-priest-child-sex-abuse-scandal/503680001/]<br /> * Vatican blames women for pedophile priest scandals. [http://www.neonnettle.com/news/2359-catholic-church-women-are-to-blame-for-pedophile-priests]<br /> * Vatican rocked: Police raid drug-fuelled gay orgy at cardinal's apartment.[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=11886097]<br /> * Christian fundamentalist pastor to stand trial over death of two-year-old granddaughter from pneumonia.[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/christian-faith-healer-pastor-trial-pneumonia-medicine-rowland-foster-ella-fundamentaliism-a7814261.html]<br /> * Faith-healing parents charged with murder in death of premature twin baby[http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-city/index.ssf/2017/06/followers_of_christ_parents_of.html#incart_river_index]<br /> * North Carolina televangelist Todd Coontz – author of numerous books on faith and finances – has been indicted on charges of tax fraud spanning more than a decade.[http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/23/534128363/north-carolina-televangelist-indicted-on-charges-of-tax-crimes]<br /> * Ferndale Mother Arrested For Attempted Homicide After ‘Trying to Remove the Demons’ from Her 11-Year-Old Child.[https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2017/jun/16/ferndale-mother-arrested-attempted-homicide-after/]<br /> * Juror jailed for contempt in mistrial of minister, Brooke Covington, who is accused of kidnapping and beating a parishioner to expel his 'homosexual demons'[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4576384/Gay-beating-case-hands-jury-4-years-incident.html]<br /> * Monsignor William A. Dombrow was able to steal $500,000 from a church-owned retirement home, and used the money to pay for gambling, expensive dinners and concerts. He pleaded guilty to four federal wire fraud counts on Thursday. The maligned priest previously ran Villa St. Joseph in Darby for the Philadelphia Archdiocese, which housed aging priests and treated those accused of sexual abuse. Much of the stolen money came from insurance payments for priests who died and from the estates of parishioners.[http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/05/priest_admits_to_stealing_500k.html#incart_river_home_pop]<br /> * Conservative Christian and Oklahoma lawmaker Ralph Shortey is charged with engaging in child prostitution and other felonies after being caught in a hotel room with an underage boy.[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ralph-shortey-oklahoma-lawmaker-hit-child-prostitution-charges-n734376]<br /> * Oklahoma missionary sentenced to 40 years for sexually assaulting children in Upendo Children's Home in Nairobi, Kenya. Matthew Lane Durham, 21, was sentenced to four decades in prison by Judge David L. Russell on four counts of &quot;engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places,&quot; according to court documents. &quot;In a span of just 33 days,&quot; prosecutors wrote to the court, Durham &quot;raped three girls -- ages 5, 9 and 15 -- at least eight times. During that same time period, he sexually molested a 12-year-old boy twice.&quot;[http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/07/us/missionary-sexual-assault-kenya-children/index.html]. Christian publications claim missionary was possessed by a Demon named &quot;Luke&quot;. [http://www.christianpost.com/news/teen-missionary-indicted-for-raping-children-at-orphanage-says-he-was-possessed-by-demon-named-luke-124428/]<br /> * Religious Parents Who Refused to Take Son to Hospital and Thought God Would Resurrect Him Found Guilty of First Degree Murder.[http://edmontonjournal.com/storyline/they-knew-he-was-dying-parents-guilty-of-1st-degree-murder-in-sons-death]<br /> * Word of Life Christian Church Pastor Tiffanie Irwin, her brother Joseph Irwin and mother and son church members Linda Morey and David Morey have entered guilty pleas in the church orchestrated beating of two teen boys, leaving one dead and the other severely injured. Reports indicate the teens were beaten because they discussed leaving the congregation. Lucas Leonard, 19, was severely beaten by members of the church last October, suffering injuries to the abdomen, genitals, back and thighs that ultimately proved to be fatal. At the time of the suspects arrest, police said the “spiritual counseling session” at the church was in reality an hours-long attack in which the teen boys were repeatedly whipped with cords, pummeled with fists, and kicked. They suffered severe injuries to the abdomen, genitals, back and thighs. A church member testified that the “counseling session” lasted for 14 hours and only stopped because Lucas “was dead at that point.”[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2016/10/pastor-3-others-guilty-in-fatal-beating-of-teen-trying-to-escape-church/]<br /> * Man Admits to Killing Cancer-Surviving Daughter, But Not Before Asking God to Intervene. 25-year-old Ryan Lawrence pleaded guilty to murdering his 21-month-old daughter, a survivor of eye cancer, in part because he may have been jealous of all the attention she was getting.[https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1804932/dad-battered-brave-toddler-to-death-with-a-baseball-bat-in-jealous-rage/]<br /> * Christian who &quot;dedicated his life to Jesus&quot;, Richard Keenan, who served as mayor of Hubbard in 2010 and 2011, was indicted last month eight counts of rape and 12 counts of attempted rape and gross sexual imposition of a 4 year old girl.[http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/ohio-ex-mayor-who-dedicated-life-to-christ-admits-to-raping-4-year-old-and-blames-her-as-willing/]<br /> * Brian Mitchell, a youth pastor at a North Olmsted church, a husband and father of three children under the age of 8, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday for raping an unnamed teenager.[http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/09/extremely_delusional_north_olm.html]<br /> * 24-year-old “Christian Warrior” named Bryce Cuellar was arrested after posting a YouTube video detailing how he was going to kill “gays, faggots, lesbians and satanists.”[http://www.ktnv.com/news/las-vegas-man-facing-charges-after-posting-threatening-youtube-video]<br /> * Pastor Who Said Pulse Victims Weren't Victims, Got 'What They Deserve' Arrested for Child Molestation. Controversial pastor Ken Adkins has been charged with two counts of child molestation in Georgia and is in the Glynn County jail, officials said.[http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2016-08-26/story/controversial-pastor-and-activist-ken-adkins-charged-child-molestation]<br /> * Gunman fatally shoots Pennsylvania churchgoer after fight over seat at Sunday service.[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/churchgoer-killed-fight-seat-sunday-service-article-1.2618098]<br /> * Jerry Childress, a 75-year-old church organist from Florida, was arrested for indecent exposure after a glory hole attempt went wrong.[http://americannewsx.com/religion/church-organist-arrested/]<br /> * An Acadiana priest has been arrested for allegedly possessing over 500 images of child pornography, according to the Louisiana State Police. Father Felix David Broussard, a priest at St. Bernard Roman Catholic Church in Breaux Bridge, was arrested today and booked into St. Martin Parish jail on 500 counts of pornography involving juveniles.[http://klfy.com/2016/07/27/breaux-bridge-priest-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges/]<br /> * A 3-year-old boy died on Sunday after he was accidentally left in a hot car parked outside a church, according to police. The child’s family was attending an afternoon Bible study at Rehoboth Praise Assembly in Dallas.[http://kdvr.com/2016/07/25/child-dies-in-hot-car-while-family-worships-in-church/]<br /> * London priest charged after allegedly gambling away more than $500,000 meant for Syrian refugees. [http://m.en.canoe.com/CNEWS/Crime/2016/07/14/22651721.html]<br /> * Man following &quot;god's orders&quot; tried to crush toddler daughter's skull with a bat to help her get to heaven.[http://www.wbir.com/news/deputies-toddler-attacked-at-motel-critically-injured/260712415]<br /> * Sam Sutter, A 26-year-old youth minister is facing sexual battery charges following his arrest. According to a Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office report, Sutter was involved in a sexual relationship with a teenage girl he met through his job at the Openwater Church. [http://wfla.com/2016/06/19/youth-pastor-with-odessa-church-arrested-on-sexual-battery-charges/]<br /> * Anti-gay pastor, Dave Reynolds, the recently fired pastor of the Cornerstone Bible Fellowship in Sherwood, Arkansas is currently facing 70 counts of distributing, possessing, or viewing child pornography.[http://www.arkansasmatters.com/news/local-news/new-details-in-child-porn-charges-against-former-sherwood-pastor]<br /> * The Catholic church in Pennsylvania has been accused of employing “mafia-like” tactics in a campaign to put pressure on individual Catholic lawmakers who support state legislation that would give victims of sexual abuse more time to sue their abusers.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/17/pennsylvania-catholic-church-sexual-abuse-bill-mafia-tactics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other]<br /> * David James Brown, head pastor at First Christian Church of Jeffersonville, Indiana. was arrested after allegedly seeking sex with a minor.[http://www.wdrb.com/story/32232744/jeffersonville-pastor-arrested-after-allegedly-seeking-sex-with-a-minor]<br /> * A former Vatican archbishop, Jozef Wesolowski, accused of paedophilia stored tens of thousands of child porn videos and photos on a computer in his office at the Holy See diplomatic compound in the Dominican Republic, it has emerged.[http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/vatican-paedophilia-scandal-archbishop-jozef-wesolowski-stored-over-100000-child-porn-videos-1467410]<br /> * John David Brock, 60, died after a snake bit him in the left arm and he refused medical treatment, according to the Bell County Sheriff's Office. Brock was handling a snake during a church service at Mossy Simpson Pentecostal Church in Jenson, Kentucky.[http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Man-dies-in-Bell-County-after-he-was-bitten-by-snake-during-church-service-318868451.html]<br /> * The president of a Christian charity in Iowa, Jon S. Petersen, of Cedar Rapids admitted that he embezzled nearly a half-million dollars in donations and used the money to pay for a sex addiction, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. [http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article78129452.html]<br /> * Virginia pastor, Christopher Alan Hogge, 48, has been charged eight counts of possession and distribution of child pornography, according to the Isle of Wight County Sheriff's Office.[http://wtvr.com/2016/05/23/virginia-pastor-arrested-on-child-porn-charges/]<br /> * A private Christian school in Kansas is reserving the right to expel students who have gay family members. [http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/05/20/christian-school-threatens-to-expel-pupils-if-they-have-a-gay-family-member/?utm_source=ET&amp;utm_medium=ETFB&amp;utm_campaign=portal&amp;utm_content=inf_11_60_2&amp;tse_id=INF_c1d0cb4ff39e4a1b90bc30417379d323]<br /> * Grace Baptist Church children’s pastor arrested in sex trafficking operation.[http://wate.com/2016/05/20/tbi-conduct-knoxville-human-trafficking-investigation/]<br /> * Vehemently Anti-LGBT Pastor Arrested On Child Pornography Charges.[http://theintellectualist.co/infamous-anti-lgbt-pastor-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges/]<br /> * Ohio seminary student arrested for alleged plan to have sex with adopted baby in Mexico [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/seminary-student-allegedly-planned-sex-baby-mexico-article-1.2515560]<br /> * Woman beats disabled man with his own cane for saying he doesn’t believe in God[http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/woman-beats-disabled-man-with-his-own-cane-because-he-said-he-doesnt-believe-in-god-police/]<br /> * Phoenix Woman Accused of Killing Atheist Victim, Then Keeping the Body as a “Shrine From God”[http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/64863225-story]<br /> * Lisa Biron, Anti-Gay Christian Lawyer, Arrested On Child Pornography Charges[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/20/lisa-biron-anti-gay-christian-lawyer-child-porn-charges_n_2166055.html]<br /> * Pastor Slept with Young Girls During Prayer Sessions as Part of their “Healing Process”[http://allchristiannews.com/pastor-slept-with-young-girls-during-prayer-sessions-as-part-of-their-healing-process/]<br /> * Sheriff's Office: Harvey catechism teacher promises students a photo of Santa, then shows them naked picture instead[http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/news/crime/13876211-148/catechism-teacher-in-harvey-showed]<br /> * Almost 800 babies and children were buried in a mass grave in Ireland near a home for unmarried mothers run by nuns.[http://churchandstate.org.uk/2014/06/almost-800-babies-buried-in-septic-tank-at-catholic-run-irish-home-for-unmarried-mothers/]<br /> * Alabama Pastor Made Daughter Watch While He Sexually Abused Minors.[http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/10/prosecutors_plan_to_introduce.html]<br /> * The pastor and two members of a Corona, CA church pleaded guilty on Monday to torturing a thirteen-year-old boy, including driving him into the desert and forcing him to dig his own grave. Lonny Lee Remmers, James Craig, and Darryll Duana Jeter Jr. abused the child at a group home run by Heart of Worship Community Church.[http://aattp.org/pastor-church-members-viciously-tortured-young-boy-forced-him-to-dig-own-grave-in-the-desert/]<br /> * Minneapolis church struck by lightning, destroying cross[http://www.fox9.com/weather/15331725-story]<br /> * Six Brothers Raped Their Sister For Years While ‘Christian’ Homeschool Parents Did Nothing.[http://reverbpress.com/justice/jackson-brothers-sexual-assault-sister-christian/]<br /> * A Tennessee pastor who was recently admonished by police for having sex with another man in a church van parked in a parking lot, was arrested this week for embezzling an estimated $60,000 from his church’s coffers.[http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/pastor-caught-having-gay-sex-in-van-spent-stolen-church-money-on-farmer-dating-website-police/]<br /> * Four of six homeschooled brothers, including a pastor, admit to molesting their sister.[http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/four-of-six-homeschooled-brothers-plead-guilty-to-molesting-their-sister-while-anti-school-parents-did-nothing/#.VV88faFKoyU.facebook]<br /> * Antigay Michigan Pastor Outed by Grindr Messages[http://www.mediaite.com/online/antigay-michigan-pastor-outed-by-grindr-messages/]<br /> * A Baptist preacher in Eureka Springs who features prominently in a new video urging repeal of the city's Ordinance 2223, which protects LGBT people from discrimination, pleaded guilty to a series of violent rapes in Oklahoma in 1977.[http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2015/04/20/eureka-spring-pastor-in-repeal-2223-ad-is-a-convicted-serial-rapist]<br /> * Texas church members accused of starving ‘demon-possessed’ toddler and then trying to resurrect him[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/texas-church-members-accused-of-starving-demon-possessed-toddler-and-then-trying-resurrect-him/]<br /> * Louisianal youth pastor is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old girl. Jonathan Bailey has been charged with one count of indecent relationship with a juvenile.[http://www.wdsu.com/news/local-news/new-orleans/youth-pastor-accused-of-inappropriate-relationship-with-juvenile/31530534?utm_source=Social&amp;utm_medium=FBPAGE&amp;utm_campaign=wdsutv&amp;Content%20Type=Story&amp;linkId=12612108]<br /> * Ax-wielding hair designer burns down Michigan adult store to please God[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/ax-wielding-hair-designer-burns-down-michigan-shop-to-please-god/]<br /> * An 11-year-old Canadian Aboriginal girl with leukaemia, who stopped chemotherapy after &quot;seeing a vision of Jesus,&quot; has died.[http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/makayla-sault-girl-who-refused-chemo-for-leukemia-dies-1.2829885]<br /> * Anti-LGBT Pastor Arrested for Grabbing Man’s Genitals at Indiana Park[http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/anti-lgbt-pastor-arrested-grabbing-mans-genitals-indiana-park]<br /> * Baptist church leader in Missouri arrested for soliciting &quot;dog sex&quot; on Craigslist.[http://gawker.com/baptist-church-leader-arrested-for-soliciting-dog-sex-o-1617858449?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&amp;utm_source=gawker_facebook&amp;utm_medium=socialflow]<br /> * Woman told police “she was driving and out of no where God told her that he would take it from here and she let go of the wheel and let him take it.” Shortly after letting go of the wheel she ran over a motorcyclist and drove off.[http://wane.com/2014/07/18/motorcyclist-i-said-to-myself-today-is-the-day-i-die/]<br /> <br /> * Florida woman accused of killing 2-year-old while re-enacting Bible story[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/28/florida-woman-accused-of-killing-2-year-old-while-re-enacting-bible-story/]<br /> <br /> {{ytv2|qmwEOuMGxu4|right}}<br /> * Evangelical Christians want access to more corpses … to hone their ‘raising the dead’ skills[http://freethinker.co.uk/2014/03/10/evangelical-christians-want-access-to-more-corpses-in-order-to-practice-raising-them-from-the-dead/]<br /> * Tennessee woman accused of drowning her baby says ‘Jesus came down’ and did it.[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/10/tennessee-woman-accused-of-drowning-her-baby-says-jesus-came-down-and-did-it/]<br /> * Files released by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee reveal that in 2007, Cardinal Timothy F. Dolan, then the archbishop there, requested permission from the Vatican to move nearly $57 million into a cemetery trust fund to protect the assets from victims of clergy sexual abuse who were demanding compensation. [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/us/dolan-sought-vatican-permission-to-shield-assets.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0]<br /> * Belief in god associated with poor mental health.[http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2013/04/belief-in-punitive-god-associated-with-poor-mental-health.html]<br /> * The chaplain of Milan’s San Vittore prison, 51-year-old Fr Alberto Barin, has been arrested for sustained sexual assault with multiple aggravations and for abuse of authority. Six non-Italian prisoners have accused him of demanding sexual acts in exchange for favours ranging from items of food to living conditions in the prison. Officers investigating the allegations were able to document the incidents by placing a videocamera in the chaplain’s office in the prison.[http://www.corriere.it/english/12_novembre_21/san-vittore-prison_463940e4-33da-11e2-a480-b74fe153b15c.shtml]<br /> *Rev. Ryan J. Muelhauser, Ex-Gay Counsellor, Arrested For Molestation Of Two Young Men[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/08/rev-ryan-j-muelhauser-molestation-_n_2094609.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&amp;ir=Gay%20Voices]<br /> <br /> * Priest embroiled in ivory smuggling controversy.[http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/27/world/asia/priest-ivory-controversy/index.html]<br /> * New Orleans pastor who was appointed in April to a local economic development board charged with seven counts of molestation of a juvenile[http://wap.wdsu.com/wap/news/text.jsp?sid=48&amp;nid=1491143881&amp;cid=4640&amp;scid=-1&amp;ith=3&amp;title=Local%20News&amp;headtitle=Local%20News]<br /> * Pregnant Teenager in Dominican Republic dies after doctors withold cancer treatment because the chemotherapy would harm her unborn child.[http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/17/world/americas/dominican-republic-abortion/index.html?hpt=hp_bn2]<br /> * Christian musician Randy Travis, who claimed in 2009 his faith in god allowed him to quit drinking in his 20s, was found naked and drunk in Texas, and arrested after he threatened to kill a law enforcement officer[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/08/drunk-and-naked-christian-music-star-randy-travis-threatens-cops-life/]<br /> * A Northern California jury has awarded $28 million in damages to a woman who said the Jehovah’s Witnesses allowed an adult member of a Fremont, Calif., church to molest her when she was a child. [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/us/28-million-awarded-in-jehovahs-witnesses-abuse-case.html?_r=3]<br /> * Christian school rejects admission of Mormon pupil[http://m.arkansasonline.com/news/2012/may/31/lr-christian-academy-rejects-mormon-pupil-20120531/]<br /> * Family Battle Offers Look Inside Lavish TV Ministry[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/05/us/tbn-fight-offers-glimpse-inside-lavish-tv-ministry.html?_r=1]<br /> * Court ruling: Jesus doesn't cure cancer.[http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6835139/Ruling-Jesus-doesn-t-heal-cancer]<br /> * Heralded &quot;Miracle&quot; toddler found in the wreckage of tornado, dies in hospital[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=10789913]<br /> * Christian fringe group intimidates Lowes into pulling advertisement from a reality show portrary Muslims as decent people[http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/12/my-take-is-all-american-muslim-begetting-all-american-bigotry/?hpt=hp_c2]<br /> * 6 HIV sufferers die after their pastor told them to stop taking their medication, because god would heal them.[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066106/Scandal-churches-claiming-cure-HIV-God-die-abandoning-medication.html]<br /> * Brazil rocked by abortion for 9-year-old rape victim: Church excommunicates mother and doctors – but not accused rapist[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brazil-rocked-by-abortion-for-9yearold-rape-victim-1640165.html]<br /> * Pentecostal Bishop Charles E. Brown indicted on rape, sexual battery charges[http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/11/no_bishop_indicted_on_rape_sex.html]<br /> * Killings in Norway spotlight anti-Muslim thought.[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/us/25debate.html?_r=4&amp;ref=global-home]<br /> * Austrian's religious headgear gives authorities a headache.{{rl|http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14135523}}<br /> * Pray For Newark claims amazing results as its Christian volunteers &quot;prayer walk&quot; the Newark city streets, seeking to pray down crime. Then murders rose 71%{{rl|http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/5/3/91235/90609/}}<br /> * Preacher sells debt removal through prayer[http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/consumer&amp;id=7984766]<br /> * Authorities have arrested a 52-year-old man they say committed a hate crime against a man he learned was a Muslim. They were having a conversation when the victim admitted he was a Muslim, which prompted the other man to stab him in the neck with a pocket knife.{{rl|http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/st-pete-man-accused-of-hate-crime-against-muslim/1149809}}<br /> * Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley told a church crowd just moments into his new administration that those who have not accepted Jesus as their savior are not his brothers and sisters, shocking some critics who questioned Tuesday whether he can be fair to non-Christians.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_alabama_governor_christians}}<br /> * The Salvation Army says it refuses to distribute Harry Potter and Twilight toys collected for needy children because they're incompatible with the charity's Christian beliefs.{{rl|http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/canada/2010/12/08/16478111.html}}<br /> * A couple who prayed for their sick toddler rather than take him to a doctor before his pneumonia death are on trial in Philadelphia, charged with involuntary manslaughter.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101207/ap_on_re_us/us_prayer_death_toddler}}<br /> * Archdiocese wants to recoup legal fees after a suit alleging abuse by priest in Burnsville was dismissed.[http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/faith/110501539.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU]<br /> * Minister, elders guilty of not reporting sexual abuse of a child - sought to have immunity from criminal liability in failing to report the case of suspected child abuse, &quot;arguing that they acted in good faith in persuading the parents and the perpetrator to make report of abuse.&quot;[http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Minister%2C+elders+guilty+of+not+reporting+abuse&amp;articleId=5584e3e1-cc52-4715-820c-be1eb16a82f9]<br /> * A Catholic Priest Charged with Sexually Assaulting Boy in ’08 Was Rearrested Last Week and Charged with Hiring Someone to Kill His Alleged Victim.{{rl|http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7307344.html}}<br /> * Baby dies as family jumps out of window to get away from the devil.{{rl|http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2010/10/24/15810081.html}}<br /> * Lamar advertising company will sell billboards to hookers but not atheists.{{rl|http://www.bnet.com/blog/advertising-business/lamar-sells-billboards-to-hookers-but-not-to-atheists/2412}}<br /> * Religious teen shoots and murders an atheist teen over an argument; judge does not consider it a hate crime and reduces the murder charge; parents outrages.{{rl|http://www.whotv.com/news/who-story-doyle-family-shooting-100810,0,3732283.story}}<br /> * Study shows atheists and agnostics are more knowledgeable about religion than religious people themselves.{{rl|http://pewforum.org/Other-Beliefs-and-Practices/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey.aspx}}<br /> * Bishop Eddie Long, a powerful anti-gay pastor becomes ensnared in his own sordid same-sex scandal{{rl|http://www.salon.com/life/this_week_in_crazy/index.html?story=/mwt/feature/2010/09/25/this_week_crazy_eddie_long}}<br /> * Deaf victim of sex abuse is suing pope{{rl|http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/23/deaf-victim-of-sex-abuse-is-suing-pope-and-going-public-with-his-story-for-the-first-time/}}<br /> * A fourth young male member of Bishop Eddie Long's megachurch is suing the prominent pastor, claiming Long coerced him into a sexual relationship. The lawsuit was filed by Spencer LeGrande, a member of New Birth Charlotte. New Birth Charlotte is a satellite church run by Long in Charlotte, N.C. The lawsuit said Long told LeGrande &quot;I will be your dad&quot; and invited the 17-year-old to journey to Kenya with him in July 2005. LeGrande said that Long gave him a sleeping pill on that trip and that the two engaged in sexual acts.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100924/ap_on_re_us/us_pastor_abuse_allegations_lawsuit}}<br /> <br /> * According to a recent study, religious belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to research published today. {{rl|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article571206.ece}}<br /> * Pastor George Randall &quot;Randy&quot; Scott, of the Bethel Temple Assembly Of God Church in Bryan, Texas, was arrested after returning from a trip to Sweden with his wife on for allegedly pretending to be a teenager online to meet other minor boys and then blackmailing them into having sex. {{rl|http://www.kbtx.com/local/headlines/100500214.html}}<br /> * Giant Jesus statue struck by lightning and destroyed. {{rl|http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/15/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning/}}<br /> * Thinking he was possessed by the devil, American cage fighter rips out still-beating heart of his training partner.{{rl|http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1282647/American-cage-fighter-rips-beating-heart-training-partner-fearing-possessed-devil.html}}<br /> * Christian singer leaves his wife and family and admits hes gay, while continuing his Christian musical career.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/15/us/15religion.html}}<br /> * Nun Excommunicated For Allowing life-saving Abortion[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126985072]<br /> * Janine Denomme, Woman Ordained As Catholic Priest, Denied Catholic Burial By Church{{rl|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/19/janine-denomme-woman-orda_n_582423.html}}<br /> * Guns, high-powered ammunition and explosives equipment have been seized in raids on 12 properties in and near Adelaide linked with the Agape Ministries of God.{{rl|http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/20/2904812.htm}}<br /> * City of Miami uses prayer group to ward off bad weather.{{rl|http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&amp;articleid=20100511_11_0_MIAMIO602438}}<br /> * Jehovah's Witness Couple Disown Son For Receiving Blood Transfusion.{{rl|http://news.peacefmonline.com/religion/201005/42722.php}}<br /> * Noah's ark found, says evangelical filmmaker.{{rl|http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/pc-certainty-of-noahs-ark-discovery-on-mount-ararat/story-e6frfku0-1225858591328}}<br /> * British court punishes atheist for leaving flyers in the prayer room of the John Lennon airport.{{rl|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7624578/Atheist-given-Asbo-for-leaflets-mocking-Jesus.html}}<br /> * Islamists have warned the creators of TV show South Park they could face violent retribution for depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit.{{rl|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8636455.stm}}<br /> * An episode of “South Park” that continued a story line involving the Prophet Muhammad was shown Wednesday night on Comedy Central with audio bleeps and image blocks reading “CENSORED” after a Muslim group warned the show’s creators that they could face violence for depicting that holy Islamic prophet. {{rl|http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/south-park-episode-is-altered-after-muslim-groups-warning/}}<br /> * Catholic church admits Norwegian Bishop resigned last year after admitting he was involved in child molestation.[http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=10305913]<br /> * Pope coordinated assignment of pedophile priest back into circulation.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/world/europe/26church.html}}<br /> {{ga}}<br /> * The Roman Catholic Church’s account of Pope Benedict XVI’s handing of a serial paedophile was called into question today when new documents emerged suggesting that his office was kept informed of the offender’s rapid return to working with children. {{rl|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7077196.ece}}<br /> * Pope Sexual Abuse Scandal: Benedict Implicated In Cover-Up Of Wisconsin Abuse Case{{rl|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/24/pope-sexual-abuse-lawrence-murphy_n_512483.html}}<br /> * Atheist group throws party for teens who had their prom canceled rather than allow a same-sex couple to attend the dance sponsored by religious school{{rl|http://www.examiner.com/x-8928-Philadelphia-Atheism-Examiner~y2010m3d12-Atheist-group-offers-to-hold-gay-friendly-prom}}<br /> * Religious massacres continue in Nigeria{{rl|http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704869304575109962258328770.html}}<br /> * Vatican chorister sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for papal gentleman-in-waiting{{rl|http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/04/vatican-gay-sex-scandal}}<br /> * Baby starved to death because he didn't say &quot;amen.&quot;{{rl|http://www.smh.com.au/world/baby-starved-to-death-because-he-did-not-say-amen-20100225-p4el.html}}<br /> * Pakistan's president sacrifices a goat each day to keep evil away{{rl|http://www.palibandaily.com/2010/02/23/a-goat-a-day-keeps-the-evil-away-pakistans-president-and-his-addiction-to-sacrifices/}}<br /> * Haiti's prime minister said Monday it's clear to him that the 10 U.S. Baptists who tried to take 33 children out of his quake-ravaged country without permission &quot;knew what they were doing was wrong.&quot;{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100201/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_americans_detained}}<br /> * A jury has found Scott Philip Roeder, 51, of Merriam, Kansas, guilty of premeditated first-degree murder in the slaying of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller.{{rl|http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/27216}}<br /> * Jeff and Marci Beagley have been charged with criminally negligent homicide for not providing medical treatment to their 16-year-old son, who died of an untreated urinary tract blockage. The family belongs to Followers of Christ Church, whose members shun medical care in favor of prayer.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wirestory?id=9550298&amp;page=2]<br /> * A Republican member of the Iowa Legislature is proposing lawmakers should be required to say &quot;so help me God&quot; when being sworn into office.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wirestory?id=9550298&amp;page=2]<br /> * Members of a Roanoke church have voted to leave the country's largest Lutheran denomination over its policy to allow gay clergy.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9550298]<br /> * Matt Baker, 38, a former Baptist minister, has been indicted for allegedly drugging and suffocating his wife Kari, whose 2006 death was initially ruled a suicide.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9551269]<br /> * A government witness said Wednesday that the five young woman who testified last year that evangelist Tony Alamo took them as a &quot;wife&quot; and sexually abused them as minors should receive $2.7 million each for physical and mental pain suffered.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9551976]<br /> * Three American Evangelical Christians go to Uganda and teach thousands (including police, national politicians, etc.) how gays and their agenda are trying to destroy Ugandan families and sodomize their children. Result: a bill to impose a death sentence for homosexual behavior.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/world/africa/04uganda.html}}<br /> * School board opts to fire public school teacher who refused to teach evolution, taught creationism and burned crosses into the arms of students{{rl|http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/06/21/Freshwater_decision.ART_ART_06-21-08_A1_ABAI539.html}}<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Theological_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Republicans_in_the_news Republicans in the news 2019-08-24T15:56:48Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div><br /> * * Oklahoma State Senator Ralph Shortey, who voted for anti-trans ‘bathroom bill’ busted in hotel with underage boy, charged with child prostitution.[https://kfor.com/2017/03/16/oklahoma-state-senator-ralph-shortey-charged-with-engaging-in-child-prostitution/]<br /> * Feds Arrest Neo-Nazi Trump Fan for Threatening to &quot;Exterminate&quot; Miami Hispanics - Washington state resident Eric Lin was not shy about his love for Adolf Hitler. According to a criminal complaint filed Friday, Lin enjoyed referencing the Third Reich in writing: He apparently sent a litany of Hitler-referencing death threats to a Hispanic woman in Miami and got himself arrested last week after he planned to wire a man $10,000 to beat her up, hatched a plot to kidnap her and stuff her in a plastic bin, and repeatedly vowed to kill every Hispanic person in the Magic City.[https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/neo-nazi-eric-lin-threatened-to-exterminate-miami-hispanics-fbi-says-11247579]<br /> * A Republican politician reportedly punched his wife in the face after she didn’t undress quickly enough when he wanted to have sex, according to a police report. Doug McLeod, a state legislator from Mississippi, was arrested on Saturday and charged with domestic violence.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/doug-mcleod-mississippi-domestic-violence-wife-arrest-punch-sex-a8924671.html]<br /> * Washington GOP state legislator Matt Shea taped at rally urging supporters to arm themselves with AR-15s for civil war.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/01/republican-matt-shea-rightwing-rally-guns?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other]<br /> * A white man in South Carolina has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to trying to hire a hit man to kill his black neighbor, hang him from a tree and leave a burning cross in his yard, prosecutors said.[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/us/hit-man-lynching.html]<br /> * Every extremist murder in the U.S. in 2018 was linked to right-wing extremism, according to an alarming new report from the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. The annual report found that at least 50 people were killed by extremists in 2018, marking a 35 percent increase from 2017. This makes 2018 the fourth-deadliest year on record for domestic extremist-related killings since 1970.[https://shareblue.com/extremist-murders-2018-right-wing-terrorism/][https://www.adl.org/murder-and-extremism-2018]<br /> * Despite calls for refunds, new campaign filings show Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith kept $50,000 in donations from major companies like Walmart and Facebook in the wake of her controversial special election victory in November. The latest Federal Election Commission filing -- released amid the government shutdown at the end of last week -- showed that Republican Hyde-Smith did not issue refunds to most of the corporate donors who asked for their campaign contributions to be returned in November in the wake of her “public hanging” comment.[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republican-cindy-hyde-smith-return-50000-donations-scandal/story?id=60086837]<br /> * In the first eight months of his presidency, President Trump made 1,137 false or misleading claims, an average of five a day. In October, as he barnstormed the country holding rallies in advance of the midterm elections, the president made 1,205 claims — an average of 39 a day.Combined with the rest of his presidency, that adds up to a total of 7,546 claims through Dec. 20, the 700th day of his term in office, according to The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/21/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/?noredirect=on]<br /> * A new terrorism database analysis shows almost two-thirds of the terror attacks in the United States last year were carried out by right-wing extremists.[https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/12/study-shows-two-thirds-us-terrorism-tied-right-wing-extremists]<br /> [[File:Right wing terrorists.jpg|right]]<br /> * A military veteran who had railed online against women and blacks opened fire in a Tallahassee yoga studio, killing two women and wounding five.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/03/man-with-groping-history-opens-fire-tallahassee-yoga-class-killing-two-police-say/?utm_term=.9c5fde0444f2]<br /> * Justice Dept. brings hate-crime charges against man accused of shooting black customers at Kentucky Kroger[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-dept-brings-hate-crime-charges-against-man-accused-of-shooting-black-customers-at-kentucky-kroger/2018/11/15/ce01bf66-e91d-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html?utm_term=.3128e815e4c4]<br /> * Gun-related tragedy struck once again this week, this time at a Catholic Supply store in Ballwin, Missouri, a suburb of St. Lous. USA Today reports that a former pastor has been arrested after allegedly attempting to coerce three women into having sex with him at gunpoint. When one of them resisted, he shot 53-year-old Jamie Schmidt in the head and forced the other two to submit to his “deviant” demands. The shooter, 53-year-old Thomas Bruce, has a reputation for right-wing tirades on social media and has ranted against gun-free zones in the past. He was a huge fan of President Trump, attended his rallies, and regularly tweeted about Republican politics. His last tweet read “I’ve already forgotten you. #promisesmade #promiseskept #trump2020 #BuildTheWall” and his feed was full of retweets from white nationalist FOX anchor Laura Ingraham.[https://washingtonpress.com/2018/11/23/a-trump-obsessed-pastor-just-shot-a-woman-dead-and-sodomized-two-others-in-horrific-sex-assault/]<br /> * School officials said a Republican candidate Melissa Howard, running for the GOP nomination in a Florida legislative seat lied about graduating from Miami University and faked her diploma, according to a new report.[http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/401383-university-says-gop-florida-house-candidate-faked-her-diploma-report]<br /> * Man Wearing MAGA Hat Arrested for Shoving Immigrant Onto Subway Tracks; Staten Island's Willie Ames, 47, is ​suspected by the NYPD to have shoved 24-year-old ​Mexican immigrant Luis Lopez onto the tracks on April 21. That while wearing, of course, a bright red &quot;Make American Great Again&quot; hat. According to the police, Ames had hurled slurs at Lopez and called him a &quot;f—ing Mexican.&quot;[https://www.pluralist.com/posts/599-man-wearing-maga-hat-arrested-for-shoving-immigrant-onto-subway-tracks/partners/43955]<br /> * Waffle House suspect Travis Reinking deemed himself a 'sovereign citizen,' part of anti-government group.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/04/22/waffle-house-suspect-travis-reinking-sovereign-citizen/540543002/]<br /> * As they back Trump, evangelical leaders face their own sex scandals.[https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/03/31/they-back-trump-evangelical-leaders-face-their-own-sex-scandals/9JwpnbdWzHOzQ7tEAmxUPN/story.html]<br /> * An Ohio lawmaker who routinely touted his Christian faith and anti-LGBT views has resigned after being caught having sex with a man in his office. Wes Goodman, who is the Republican state legislator for Ohio, is married to a woman who is assistant director of an annual anti-abortion rally known as March for Life.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/lawmaker-wes-goodman-anti-lgbt-resigns-sex-man-office-caught-ohio-republican-christian-family-values-a8060631.html]<br /> * A southern Utah Republican party official has been arrested in a prostitution sting a week after a politician from a neighboring city stepped down amid allegations that he met a prostitute in a taxpayer-funded hotel room. The Spectrum newspaper reports Iron County Republican Party treasurer Blake Cozzens was arrested Tuesday after paying $100 for sex acts he discussed in text messages with a confidential informant.[http://kutv.com/news/local/southern-utah-gop-official-arrested-in-prostitution-sting]<br /> * When GOP congressman Scott DesJarlais (TN) was a doctor, he had sexual relationships with his patients. Despite being a “pro-life” advocate, he pressured women in his life to have abortions, including his ex-wife, who had two abortions while they were together.[https://www.nova-magazine.net/republican-pro-life-congressman-slept-patients-paid-abortions/]<br /> * Trump campaign coordinator and &quot;family values&quot; republican pleads tuilty to child sex trafficking, faces live in prison.[http://www.newsweek.com/republican-sex-trafficking-child-trump-coordinator-716348]<br /> * Days after a former state senator pleaded guilty to federal child sex trafficking, Moore Police released body cam footage of the call that led the then-seated senator to be charged with state child prostitution charges. Ralph Shortey, 35, pleaded guilty to child sex trafficking in federal court last week; in exchange, child pornography charges were dropped.[http://kfor.com/2017/12/04/moore-police-release-body-cam-footage-from-night-state-senator-found-in-hotel-room-with-teen-boy/]<br /> * Republican congressperson Mia Love, from Utah, caught using campaign funds on trip to Disneyworld.[https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/over-seven-days-at-disney-world-rep-mia-love-used-a-lot-of-campaign-funds-wcz/]<br /> * Lane Maurice Davis, Donald Trump supporter and regular poster on T_D Reddit forum, stabs his father to death believing he was &quot;leftist&quot;.[https://www.goskagit.com/news/man-pleads-not-guilty-in-father-s-stabbing-death/article_479b3b6f-88d4-502d-ae77-ff5f098fb511.html][https://www.reddit.com/r/Fuckthealtright/comments/76y0os/t_d_poster_useattle4truth_murders_his_father/]<br /> * Pro-Life Congressman Won't Seek Re-Election After Reports He Urged Mistress to Get Abortion[http://time.com/4970013/tim-murphy-pennsylvania-congressman-abortion/]<br /> * Rep. Tim Murphy, popular with pro-life movement, urged abortion in affair, texts suggest. Another — a six-page memo to Mr. Murphy purportedly written by his chief of staff, Susan Mosychuk — described a hostile workplace in which Mr. Murphy repeatedly denigrated employees, threatened them and created a state of “terror.”[http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2017/10/03/rep-tim-Murphy-pro-life-sought-abortion-affair-shannon-edwards-susan-mosychuk-pennsylvania-chief-of-staff-congress-emails-texts/stories/201710030018?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_campaign=Echobox&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1507061392]<br /> * Former congressman &amp; mayor, Anthony Weiner Sentenced to 21 Months in Prison for sending obsene messages to an underage girl.[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-25/weiner-gets-prison-for-sexting-teen-in-case-that-jolted-election?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&amp;utm_content=business&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social]<br /> * &quot;Family Values&quot; Republican, Dr. Joey Hensley, Accused Of Breaking Up Marriage To Have Affair With His Cousin.[https://theintellectualist.co/family-values-republican-accused-of-breaking-up-marriage-to-have-affair-with-his-cousin/]<br /> * A former student of Kentucky's Transylvania University, Mitchell W. Adkins, was arrested Friday after he allegedly stormed a campus café with a machete and a bag of knives, quizzed students on their political affiliations, and injured two women. &quot;He asked somebody what their political affiliation was, they said ‘Republican,’ and the guy said, 'You are safe,'&quot; campus newspaper editor-in-chief Tristan Reynolds told the Lexington Herald-Leader. &quot;And then I realized what was going on and started getting people out.”[https://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/a-trump-supporter-allegedly-attacked-students-at-a-school?utm_term=.bpA5N1mzr#.yq5Yqx69b]<br /> * Conservative Christian and Oklahoma lawmaker Ralph Shortey is charged with engaging in child prostitution and other felonies after being caught in a hotel room with an underage boy.[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ralph-shortey-oklahoma-lawmaker-hit-child-prostitution-charges-n734376]<br /> * Republican lawmaker, Bill Cassidy, who promoted legislation to teach “abstinence-only” sex education in schools announced that his own unmarried high school-aged daughter has gotten pregnant.[http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/07/10/republican-abstinence-only-crusaders-17-year-old-daughter-is-pregnant/][http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/07/bill_cassidy_senate_campaign_r.html]<br /> * Republican congressman John Fleming of Louisiana tells his constituents that because he’s rich, he doesn’t work for them. [http://www.salon.com/2017/04/13/watch-republican-congressman-tells-his-constituents-that-because-hes-rich-he-doesnt-work-for-them/]<br /> * Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has surrendered to authorities on campaign finance violations and he's expected to resign soon rather than face impeachment. Bible-toting Bentley got smitten with a female staffer and got caught by his wife (now divorced) exchanging texted love notes and, on tape, talking to his sweetie about fondling her breasts. The woman's husband has a well-paid position as an adviser on faith matters. The crime wasn't the sex. The problem was the governor's effort to cover it up and using campaign and official resources on protecting himself and going after enemies. [http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2017/04/10/star-falls-in-alabama-governor-booked-on-ethics-charges]<br /> [[File:Crazy republicans.jpg|right]]<br /> * Oklahoma Republican State Senator Ralph Shortey, married with kids, was caught in a hotel with a teenage boy. Shortey has resigned from his Senate seat after being charged with three counts, including engaging in child prostitution, engaging in prostitution within 1,000 feet of a church and transporting minor for prostitution/lewdness.[http://www.koco.com/article/court-date-set-for-former-oklahoma-sen-ralph-shortey/9178322]<br /> * Alabama Republican, Rep. Jack Williams filed HB 428, a bill that would criminalize the sale of a smartphone or other internet access device without a pornography filter. Adults wanting to turn off the filters would pay a $20 fee and request the deactivation in writing.[http://abc3340.com/news/local/house-bill-would-put-porn-filters-on-cellphones]<br /> * Married-with-children Oklahoma state senator and Trump campaign chair Republican Ralph Shortey is under investigation after he was found in a motel room with an underage male.[http://www.towleroad.com/2017/03/ralph-shortey/?utm_content=buffer64f5d&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer]<br /> * Anti-gay republican outed as former drag queen. [http://issuehawk.com/igor/2014/05/05/anti-gay-republican-outed-as-former-drag-queen.html]<br /> <br /> * Sponsor Of Anti-LGBT “Bathroom Bill” Caught Sexually Harassing 34 Women, Exiled From Capitol Building[http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/04/12/sponsor-anti-lgbt-bathroom-bill-caught-sexually-harassing-34-women-exiled-capitol-building/]<br /> <br /> * Steve Wiles, a Republican state Senate candidate who supports North Carolina’s constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage, once worked as a female impersonator at a gay nightclub in Winston-Salem and was gay at the time, according to a co-owner of the nightclub and a former employee.[http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/gop-candidate-was-once-a-female-impersonator/article_a1029862-5a82-5752-90e4-eac7155bce1e.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.<br /> <br /> * Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania pled no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo of Floyd County, Kentucky was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins of Asbury Park, New Jersey pled guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker of Nashua, New Hampshire is a convicted child molester.<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor Philip Giordano of Waterbury, Connecticut is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8 and 10-year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor John Gosek of Oswego, New York was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner David Swartz of Richland County, Ohio pled guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.<br /> <br /> * Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain of Monroe County, Pennsylvania was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth of Kannapolis, N.C., is a convicted child rapist in Florida.<br /> <br /> * Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader of Witchita, Kansas pled guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency of Camden, New Jersey pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge of Soputhbay, California was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.<br /> <br /> * Republican pastor Mike Hintz of Des Moines, Iowa, who George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Peter Dibble of New London, Connecticut pled no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer of Arizona was charged with molesting his 9-year old step daughter after including her in an anti-Gore television commercial.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. and Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence both of Washington, D.C. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens of Columbus, Ohio was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.<br /> <br /> * Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio of Burke, Virginia was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Mark A. Grethen of Colorado Springs. Colorado was convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Randal David Ankeney of El Paso County, Arizona pled guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Dan Crane of Illinois had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist and Christian Coalition and South Carolina Republican leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.<br /> <br /> * Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline of Orange County, California was placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography.<br /> <br /> * Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman of Maryland was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.<br /> <br /> * Republican Committee Chairman and attorney Jeffrey Patti of Sparta, New Jersey was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Marty Glickman of Florida (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD. It was Glickman, interestingly enough, that claimed Bill Clinton came from a low rent state and had torn down all of the standards for the highest office in the land.<br /> <br /> * Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks of Quartz Hill, California was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.<br /> <br /> * Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway who had relocated to Maine from Huntsville, Alabama after having been accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.<br /> <br /> * Republican preacher Stephen White of West Chester, Pennsylvania, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.<br /> <br /> * Republican talk show host Jon Matthews of Houston, Texas pled guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling of Anderson, Indiana was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Paul Ingram of Thurston County, Washington pled guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican election board official Kevin Coan of St. Louis, Missouri was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Andrew Buhr, also of St. Louis, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Keith Westmoreland of Kingsport, Tennessee was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt of Pensacola, Florida was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Councilman Keola Childs of Hawaii County, Hawaii pled guilty to molesting a male child.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist John Butler of Cass County, Illinois was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican candidate Richard Gardner of Clark County, Nevada admitted to molesting his two daughters.<br /> <br /> * Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner of Lancaster, Pennsylvania was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter of Boothbay, Maine pled guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. of Wrightsville Borough, Delaware pled no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.<br /> <br /> * Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.<br /> <br /> * Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall of Virginia was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.<br /> <br /> * Republican city councilman Mark Harris of West Bend, Wisconsin, who has been described as a “good military man” and “church goer,” was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.<br /> <br /> * Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo of Bakersfield, California molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp, Russell Harding, pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.<br /> <br /> * Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen, Sr. of Kalispell, Montana, was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.<br /> <br /> ==List Of Convicted Republican Pedophiles:==<br /> <br /> Feel free to research these people independently.<br /> <br /> Compiled from: https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/awxa6e/jim_jordans_sex_abuse_scandal_comes_back_after/ehq2lsc/<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.[https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2005/3/29/103019/-]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fredericksburg.com/news/crime_courts/air-force-investigator-goes-to-prison-for-molesting-stafford-girl/article_ef749960-7ae3-548c-88de-cde2bec21f79.amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.[https://www.google.com/amp/www.poconorecord.com/article/20120426/NEWS90/204260334%3ftemplate=ampart]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.deseretnews.com/article/830211/NJ-man-pleads-guilty-to-Internet-porn-charges.amp]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.[http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2002/vol6n33/MislaRape-en.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.[https://www.google.com/amp/www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-philip-giordano-appeal-sex-charges-20151204-story,amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.[http://articles.latimes.com/2001/apr/06/local/me-47737]<br /> <br /> * Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.[https://www-m.cnn.com/2013/02/05/us/south-carolina-thurmond-daughter-obit/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&amp;rm=1]<br /> <br /> * Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.[http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Omaha-Church-Adds-Pastor-With-A-Past-303831061.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/nyregion/embroiled-first-selectman-takes-leave.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Donald &quot;Buz&quot; Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/25/us/teen-ager-in-ohio-testifies-to-sex-with-a-congressman.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/04/24/gop-activist-admits-to-child-porn/5af2adf0-bec8-4a10-b061-014de679422a/?utm_term=.217884e2f945]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1066630/mark-anthony-grethen-v-sandra-lynn-grethen/]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.[https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/gop-activist-accused-of-assaulting-another-girl]<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/photos/political-sex-scandals-43202982/image-dan-crane-43203720]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/02/opinion/journal-beverly-russell-s-prayers.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman* was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.[https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/2005034]<br /> <br /> * Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.[http://www.njherald.com/article/20060510/ARTICLE/305109971]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks* was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.[http://articles.latimes.com/2002/aug/20/local/me-brooks20]<br /> <br /> * Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/06/us/politics-the-senate-maine-candidate-again-faces-1990-child-sex-accusation.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican preacher Stephen White*, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.[http://www.thedp.com/article/2004/01/brother_stephen_convicted_of_soliciting_sex]<br /> <br /> * Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.[http://www.houstonpress.com/news/jon-matthews-conservative-talk-show-host-and-sex-offender-pulled-from-kpfts-prison-show-6740755]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-gay activist Earl &quot;Butch&quot; Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-02-10/news/0002100308_1_adoption-fight-molesting-woody-burton]<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/29/books/books-of-the-times-a-family-is-destroyed-by-a-sexual-chimera.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wnd.com/2001/03/8428/amp/]<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Andrew Buhr* was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1908&amp;dat=20040108&amp;id=SNwfAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=ZNkEAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=2505,474893&amp;hl=en]<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children].[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-06-20/news/0206200332_1_indecent-exposure-lawmaker-westmoreland]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.[http://www.sptimes.com/2003/06/11/State/Troopers_nab_antiabor.shtml]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Councilman Keola Childs* pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.[http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Oct/08/ln/hawaii710080338.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.[https://caselaw.findlaw.com/il-court-of-appeals/1113050.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.[https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2002/oct/14/assembly-candidate-gardner-ruled-ineligible-due-to/]<br /> <br /> * Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.[https://www.google.com/amp/amp.wgal.com/article/council-accepts-resignation-of-member-imprisoned-for-rape/6189408]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.[http://www.columbiatribune.com/5bd8f6fc-ba88-11e3-86e1-10604b9f6eda.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall* was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/15/AR2005101501539_3.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/29/us/republican-quits-governor-s-race-in-minnesota.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican director of the &quot;Young Republican Federation&quot; Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.[https://bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/registered-sex-offender-keeps-custody-of-daughter]<br /> <br /> * Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/missoulian.com/news/kalispell-businessman-richard-dasen-charged-with-prostitution-related-crimes/article_f04ce8a9-fa02-54fa-addd-267d2357a4a9.amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican state senator Ralph Shortey from Oklahoma admitted to being involved in sodomy with a 17 year old male prostitute and transporting child pornography.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/kfor.com/2018/06/04/prosecutors-say-former-oklahoma-senator-enticed-teen-with-sex-with-wife-groomed-victim-for-more-than-a-year/amp/]<br /> <br /> * Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert in jail for the payments he made to cover up raping his wrestlers when he was a high school coach.[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/us/dennis-hastert-released.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Judge and campaign official Tim Nolan for President Donald Trump indicted for human trafficking and forcing a minors (9] to engage in sexual activity and giving alcohol to minors (results from the court pending].[https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cincinnati.com/amp/463805002]<br /> <br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * [[Theists in the news]]<br /> * [[Christian terrorists in the news]]<br /> * [[Democrats in the news]] <br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Political_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Theists_in_the_news Theists in the news 2019-08-24T15:56:29Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>Modern stories and links of the many weird things religious people do that make news.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Priest in cuffs.jpg|right]]<br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * [[Theists in the news (archive)]] for many more stories<br /> * [[Republicans in the news]]<br /> * [[Democrats in the news]]<br /> * [[Christian terrorists in the news]]<br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> ==Theists in the news==<br /> <br /> * Oklahoma State Senator Ralph Shortey, who voted for anti-trans ‘bathroom bill’ busted in hotel with underage boy, charged with child prostitution.[https://kfor.com/2017/03/16/oklahoma-state-senator-ralph-shortey-charged-with-engaging-in-child-prostitution/]<br /> * Florida minister, Frederic Sterry Smith, 62, of St. Augustine, president of Servant’s Heart Disaster Relief, a St. Augustine-based nonprofit and &quot;evangelical hands-on ministry devoted to helping hurricane victims in North America and the Caribbean, was charged with simple battery after writing a homophobic slur in a restaurant receipt and shoving it down the shirt of the restaurant's female manager.[https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/crime/2019/08/01/florida-man-writes-anti-gay-remark-restaurant-bill-assaults-woman-police-say/1887099001/]<br /> * A Christian school kindergarten teacher in the Chicago suburbs is facing charges related to sexual assault and child pornography after investigators say that she sent explicit material to minors for years. Shannon Griffin is the wife of the pastor of Jordan Baptist Church and is a teacher at the associated Jordan Baptist school in Oak Lawn, a suburb of Chicago. Christian school teacher who scolded girls to be modest was molesting male students. She was a moral scold who told girls they were dressing like sluts &amp; the entire time she was sending naked photos of herself to male students. [https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/07/christian-school-teacher-scolded-girls-modest-molesting-male-students/][https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/07/02/teacher-sexual-assault-shannon-griffin-burbank/][https://abc7chicago.com/burbank-teacher-charged-with-sex-assault-soliciting-child-porn-from-2-students/5375571/]<br /> * A principal in Louisiana has resigned after being arrested at a Washington, DC strip club. Holy Family Principal Michael Comeau was chaperoning a middle school trip to the nation's capital when he was arrested at Archibald's Gentlemen's Club in Northwest DC. Police were called to the club, just blocks from the White House, to found Comeau “standing in the roadway, refusing to move.&quot; Comeau reportedly refused to settle up with the club.[https://www.complex.com/life/2019/06/louisiana-school-principal-arrested-at-strip-club-in-dc]<br /> * The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $8 million to a teenager who was sexually abused and kidnapped by a teacher at her Catholic high school.The teenager's attorney, David Ring, said that the settlement — finalized by a court last week — is the largest that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles has ever paid to a single victim, The Associated Press reports. Over the past 15 years, the archdiocese has paid more than $740 million in sexual abuse settlements.[https://www.npr.org/2019/04/17/714212609/archdiocese-of-los-angeles-agrees-to-8-million-settlement-in-sex-abuse-case]<br /> * A large majority of priests in the Vatican are gay, although many are not sexually active, a new book claims. A total of about 80 percent of the most revered clerics in the Roman Catholic Church are homosexual despite the church’s opposition to gay rights, according to the extensively researched book by French journalist Frédéric Martel. The gay priests adhere to an unspoken code called “the closet,” where it is understood that, for instance, a cardinal or bishop who denounces homosexuality is more likely to be gay, according to the book “In the Closet of the Vatican.”[https://nypost.com/2019/02/14/80-percent-of-priests-in-the-vatican-are-gay-new-book/]<br /> * 7-year old boy killed after court-appointed guardian punishes him for not knowing 13 bible verses[https://fox11online.com/news/local/guardians-teen-charged-in-death-of-7-year-old-manitowoc-co-boy]<br /> * Evangelicals sue for right to deny shelter to homeless transgender people.Alliance Defending Freedom, the far-right evangelical legal group that defended the “right” of a baker to deny service to gay couples before the Supreme Court, has a new target.This time they’re suing to give a homeless shelter in Anchorage, Alaska, the “right” to deny help to transgender people. The federal court lawsuit seeks to overturn the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance that prohibits discrimination against LGBTQ people.[https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/01/evangelicals-sue-right-deny-shelter-homeless-transgender-people/]<br /> * Male Escort Exposes 36 Gay Priests in File Sent to Vatican Containing Explicit WhatsApp Chats and Erotic Photos[https://www.newsweek.com/male-escort-exposes-36-gay-priests-file-sent-vatican-containing-explicit-829968]<br /> * Vatican’s Third-Most Powerful Official Cardinal George Pell Convicted on All Charges He Sexually Abused Choir Boys in the 1990s[http://blackchristiannews.com/2018/12/vaticans-third-most-powerful-official-cardinal-george-pell-convicted-on-all-charges-he-sexually-abused-choir-boys-in-the-1990s/]<br /> * “Aryan Pride” for Jesus: An Oklahoma pastor is under arrest after being caught running a prostitution ring with a white supremacist. Pastor Walter Eugene Brazington Jr. is “being charged with procuring for prostitution and possession of a firearm while in the commission of a felony,” according to a report from Tulsa World.[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2017/12/oklahoma-pastor-busted-running-white-supremacist-prostitution-ring/]<br /> * Lawsuit: At least 14 kids abused at hands of North Charleston church volunteer. Jacop Robert Lee Hazlett, 28, of Proximity Drive in West Ashley, faces one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor under 11 years old, according to his arrest affidavit and court records. Hazlett had worked as a volunteer chaperone and day care provider since March for NewSpring Church, located at 5101 Ashley Phosphate Road, supervising children ages 3 to 5 in a room called &quot;the Tree House.&quot;[https://www.postandcourier.com/news/lawsuit-at-least-kids-abused-at-hands-of-north-charleston/article_7d97d7f2-f3d8-11e8-9ec7-6ffa7310138b.html]<br /> * An Illinois priest who spent time in prison for manufacturing and selling a date-rape drug has been removed from ministry again for getting involved in a criminal case without telling his superiors. Peoria Diocese Bishop Daniel Jenky removed the Rev. Jeffrey Windy from his post serving three Ottawa parishes in March.[https://www.bnd.com/news/state/illinois/article222188995.html]<br /> * Gun-related tragedy struck once again this week, this time at a Catholic Supply store in Ballwin, Missouri, a suburb of St. Lous. USA Today reports that a former pastor has been arrested after allegedly attempting to coerce three women into having sex with him at gunpoint. When one of them resisted, he shot 53-year-old Jamie Schmidt in the head and forced the other two to submit to his “deviant” demands. The shooter, 53-year-old Thomas Bruce, has a reputation for right-wing tirades on social media and has ranted against gun-free zones in the past. He was a huge fan of President Trump, attended his rallies, and regularly tweeted about Republican politics. His last tweet read “I’ve already forgotten you. #promisesmade #promiseskept #trump2020 #BuildTheWall” and his feed was full of retweets from white nationalist FOX anchor Laura Ingraham.[https://washingtonpress.com/2018/11/23/a-trump-obsessed-pastor-just-shot-a-woman-dead-and-sodomized-two-others-in-horrific-sex-assault/]<br /> * Catholic Church Shielded Priests Who Raped Boys, but It Helped Lock Up a Priest Who Swiped Bucks. The monsignor who gambled and traveled on the Archdiocese’s dime remained behind bars as a grand jury reported on the crimes of his peers who preyed on children.[https://www.thedailybeast.com/catholic-church-shielded-priests-who-raped-boys-but-it-helped-lock-up-a-priest-who-swiped-bucks]<br /> * Grand jury report: Priests ran child porn ring in Pittsburgh Diocese[http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-nws-pa-pittsburgh-diocese-porn-ring-20180815-story.html]<br /> * Pastor Timothy Lee Reddin did not practice what he preached, police claim. The Arkansas church leader was arrested this week for allegedly trying to meet with an underage boy to have sex, part of a police sting operation.[https://www.inquisitr.com/5025011/anti-gay-pastor-timothy-lee-reddin-arrested-sex-with-underage-boy/]<br /> * A former New Jersey pastor who co-founded the Creation Festival, which bills itself as the country's largest Christian music festival, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for sexually assaulting multiple young children. Harry Thomas, 75, who formerly pastored Come Alive New Testament Church in Medford and went on to help create the popular music festival, failed in withdrawing his guilty plea on Friday, the Associated Press reported.[https://www.christianpost.com/news/creation-festival-co-founder-sentenced-to-18-years-for-child-sex-abuse-i-deserve-to-be-cast-into-sea-226484/][http://www.startribune.com/ex-pastor-sentenced-to-18-years-in-child-sex-abuse-case/489423631/]<br /> * Revelations that a prominent U.S. cardinal sexually abused and harassed his adult seminarians have exposed an egregious abuse of power that has shocked Catholics on both sides of the Atlantic. But the Vatican has long been aware of its heterosexual equivalent — the sexual abuse of nuns by priests and bishops — and done little to stop it, an Associated Press analysis has found. An examination by the AP shows that cases of abused nuns have emerged in Europe, Africa, South America and Asia, demonstrating that the problem is global and pervasive, thanks to the sisters' second-class status in the church and their ingrained subservience to the men who run it.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/metoo-vatican-nuns-denounce-priests-1.4765021]<br /> * A longtime pastor of a Bogalusa church pleaded guilty to the theft of more than $95,000 in Social Security disability benefits, U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans said Thursday. Jerry R. Newton, 54, of Slidell, is set for an Oct. 25 sentencing hearing before U. S. District Court Judge Jane Triche Milazzo.[https://www.nola.com/northshore/index.ssf/2018/07/bogalusa_pastor_pleads_guilty.html]<br /> * The Vatican tribunal has convicted a former Holy See diplomat and sentenced him to 5 years in prison for possessing and distributing child pornography in the first such trial of its kind inside the Vatican.[https://apnews.com/76aa075fbd1b40a487bc75fdd8f56e8c] Note that the Vatican refused to revoke the perpetrator's diplomatic immunity so he could be prosecuted in the United States.[https://www.inquisitr.com/4954910/priest-and-former-vatican-diplomat-to-u-s-found-guilty-of-possessing-child-pornography/]<br /> * A Catholic priest is behind bars after admitting to plying an underage boy with alcohol and molesting him. Father Steven Michael Guidry and his attorney reported to the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office on June 13 and confessed to giving alcohol to the minor before sexually assaulting him.[https://wgno.com/2018/06/14/catholic-priest-arrested-for-molesting-16-year-old-boy/]<br /> * Diocese knew priest arrested for child sex crimes was abusing boys, authorities say. The Diocese of Erie knew since at least May 2010 of the abuse, but this priest was still in active ministry as recently as 2 months ago. The Catholic Church knowingly allows pedophiles to have access to children.[https://www.pennlive.com/news/2018/05/erie_priest_charged_with_child.html]<br /> * The Rev. William Thomas Faucher, accused of child porn and drug crimes, was role playing with a fellow author in some of the chatroom conversations in which he’s alleged to have said he wanted to rape and kill children, his attorney said in court Friday.[http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/article208855704.html]<br /> * A well-known Alabama evangelist, public speaker and author was arrested in Hoover Tuesday on child sex charges. Paul Edward Acton Bowen, a 37-year-old Gadsden native who now lives in Etowah County's Southside community, was taken into custody by Hoover police about 12:35 p.m. The founder of Acton Bowen Outreach Ministries is charged with second-degree sodomy, enticing a child to enter a vehicle or house for immoral purposes, and second-degree sex abuse. The victim was a young male, but police did not release his age except to say he is over 12 and under 16.[http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2018/04/alabama_evangelist_acton_bowen.html]<br /> * As they back Trump, evangelical leaders face their own sex scandals.[https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/03/31/they-back-trump-evangelical-leaders-face-their-own-sex-scandals/9JwpnbdWzHOzQ7tEAmxUPN/story.html]<br /> * A former Bossier Parish pastor has been arrested after admitting to police he had meth at his Bossier City home. Andy C. Harris, 56, of 2406 Benton Road in Bossier City, was charged with possession of a Schedule II controlled dangerous substance (methamphetamine) and possession of drug paraphernalia. [https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/crime/2018/03/09/benton-man-arrested-possession-meth/410682002/]<br /> * A 1,200-page dossier containing the names of 34 ‘actively gay’ priests and six seminarians in Italy has been sent to the Vatican by the archdiocese of Naples.The allegations were compiled by Francesco Mangiacapra, a gay male escort who told local media he couldn’t put up with the priests’ &quot;hypocrisy&quot; any longer.[http://www.newsweek.com/male-escort-exposes-36-gay-priests-file-sent-vatican-containing-explicit-829968]<br /> * Mari Lopez Lopez credited veganism and a faith in God as the cure for her breast cancer last year, just months before her breast cancer returned. She later died from cancer.[http://www.wfaa.com/article/news/youtuber-who-claimed-veganism-cured-her-cancer-dies-of-cancer/521951036]<br /> * Pastor George Nelson Gregory, 61, of Munhall, Pa., was caught by cops in the backseat of a car with another man who was completely naked and bound with nylon rope in the front seat. Gregory says he was counseling the man, who is battling a drug problem.[http://www.pennlive.com/daily-buzz/2018/02/pa_pastor_caught_by_cops_in_wi.html]<br /> * 100s of child porn images, LSD, ecstasy found in Boise priest’s home, prosecutor says. Longtime Catholic Rev. W. Thomas Faucher, 72, was brought into court in a wheelchair Monday evening for his arraignment on 14 different charges.[http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/crime/article198567664.html]<br /> * Memphis mega-church pastor Andy Savage admits he molested a minor days before his ‘True Love Waits’ workshop.[https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/memphis-mega-church-pastor-admits-he-molested-a-minor-days-before-his-true-love-waits-workshop/]<br /> * An Ohio priest under investigation for questionable communications with a minor took his life in Chicago. The Chicago Tribune reports that Father James Csaszar jumped from the 82-story Aqua Hotel in downtown Chicago and the death was ruled a suicide on Thursday by the Cook County medical examiner's office.[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-csaszar-ohio-priest-kills-himself-in-chicago-amid-investigation/]<br /> * Co-founder of nation’s largest Christian rock festival abused minors for 16 years, authorities say, Harry L. Thomas, 74, of Medford Township, faces charges of aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office. [https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/co-founder-of-nations-largest-christian-rock-festival-abused-minors-for-16-years-authorities-say/]<br /> * Ralph Shortey, former Trump campaign chairman, Anti-Gay 'Family Values' Former GOP State Senator Guilty of Child Sex Trafficking After Being Found With Teen Boy.[http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/_family_values_republican_state_senator_pleads_guilty_to_child_sex_trafficking_after_child_pornography_charges_dropped]<br /> * Conservative megachurch founder Bob Coy accused of molesting 4-year-old[https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/conservative-megachurch-founder-bob-coy-accused-of-molesting-4-year-old/]<br /> * Devin Patrick Kelley, a vocational bible instructor, and ex Air Force soldier, opened fire in a Texas church, killing 26 people including children.[https://viral.buzzunites.com/2017/11/05/devin-kelley-5-fast-facts-you-need-to-know/]<br /> * Amber James, the mother who killed her nine-year-old son on Halloween, says she prayed, thought about it, and cried before she strangled him to death to “save” him.[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/11/03/mom-who-murdered-son-on-halloween-prayed-about-it-first/]<br /> * A Middletown mother will spend 21/2 to 5 years in state prison for assaulting her daughter because the teen didn't recite Bible verses correctly.Rhonda Shoffner, 41, was sentenced by Dauphin County Judge John F. Cherry after she pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated assault, strangulation, child endangerment and making terroristic threats.[http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/10/mom_who_beat_daughter_for_not.html?utm_source=fark&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_content=link&amp;ICID=ref_fark]<br /> * The Vatican trial over $500,000 in donations to the pope’s pediatric hospital that were diverted to renovate a cardinal’s penthouse is reaching its conclusion, with neither the cardinal who benefited nor the contractor who was apparently paid twice for the work facing trial.[https://www.apnews.com/ed6e8fcc7b5146eabc65e6b83564be19/Anomalies-abound-in-Vatican-trial-over-diverted-donations]<br /> * Shattered faith: Nearly 100 sex abuse suits against Catholic priests rock island of Guam.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/04/guam-priest-child-sex-abuse-scandal/503680001/]<br /> * Vatican blames women for pedophile priest scandals. [http://www.neonnettle.com/news/2359-catholic-church-women-are-to-blame-for-pedophile-priests]<br /> * Vatican rocked: Police raid drug-fuelled gay orgy at cardinal's apartment.[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=11886097]<br /> * Christian fundamentalist pastor to stand trial over death of two-year-old granddaughter from pneumonia.[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/christian-faith-healer-pastor-trial-pneumonia-medicine-rowland-foster-ella-fundamentaliism-a7814261.html]<br /> * Faith-healing parents charged with murder in death of premature twin baby[http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-city/index.ssf/2017/06/followers_of_christ_parents_of.html#incart_river_index]<br /> * North Carolina televangelist Todd Coontz – author of numerous books on faith and finances – has been indicted on charges of tax fraud spanning more than a decade.[http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/23/534128363/north-carolina-televangelist-indicted-on-charges-of-tax-crimes]<br /> * Ferndale Mother Arrested For Attempted Homicide After ‘Trying to Remove the Demons’ from Her 11-Year-Old Child.[https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2017/jun/16/ferndale-mother-arrested-attempted-homicide-after/]<br /> * Juror jailed for contempt in mistrial of minister, Brooke Covington, who is accused of kidnapping and beating a parishioner to expel his 'homosexual demons'[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4576384/Gay-beating-case-hands-jury-4-years-incident.html]<br /> * Monsignor William A. Dombrow was able to steal $500,000 from a church-owned retirement home, and used the money to pay for gambling, expensive dinners and concerts. He pleaded guilty to four federal wire fraud counts on Thursday. The maligned priest previously ran Villa St. Joseph in Darby for the Philadelphia Archdiocese, which housed aging priests and treated those accused of sexual abuse. Much of the stolen money came from insurance payments for priests who died and from the estates of parishioners.[http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/05/priest_admits_to_stealing_500k.html#incart_river_home_pop]<br /> * Conservative Christian and Oklahoma lawmaker Ralph Shortey is charged with engaging in child prostitution and other felonies after being caught in a hotel room with an underage boy.[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ralph-shortey-oklahoma-lawmaker-hit-child-prostitution-charges-n734376]<br /> * Oklahoma missionary sentenced to 40 years for sexually assaulting children in Upendo Children's Home in Nairobi, Kenya. Matthew Lane Durham, 21, was sentenced to four decades in prison by Judge David L. Russell on four counts of &quot;engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places,&quot; according to court documents. &quot;In a span of just 33 days,&quot; prosecutors wrote to the court, Durham &quot;raped three girls -- ages 5, 9 and 15 -- at least eight times. During that same time period, he sexually molested a 12-year-old boy twice.&quot;[http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/07/us/missionary-sexual-assault-kenya-children/index.html]. Christian publications claim missionary was possessed by a Demon named &quot;Luke&quot;. [http://www.christianpost.com/news/teen-missionary-indicted-for-raping-children-at-orphanage-says-he-was-possessed-by-demon-named-luke-124428/]<br /> * Religious Parents Who Refused to Take Son to Hospital and Thought God Would Resurrect Him Found Guilty of First Degree Murder.[http://edmontonjournal.com/storyline/they-knew-he-was-dying-parents-guilty-of-1st-degree-murder-in-sons-death]<br /> * Word of Life Christian Church Pastor Tiffanie Irwin, her brother Joseph Irwin and mother and son church members Linda Morey and David Morey have entered guilty pleas in the church orchestrated beating of two teen boys, leaving one dead and the other severely injured. Reports indicate the teens were beaten because they discussed leaving the congregation. Lucas Leonard, 19, was severely beaten by members of the church last October, suffering injuries to the abdomen, genitals, back and thighs that ultimately proved to be fatal. At the time of the suspects arrest, police said the “spiritual counseling session” at the church was in reality an hours-long attack in which the teen boys were repeatedly whipped with cords, pummeled with fists, and kicked. They suffered severe injuries to the abdomen, genitals, back and thighs. A church member testified that the “counseling session” lasted for 14 hours and only stopped because Lucas “was dead at that point.”[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2016/10/pastor-3-others-guilty-in-fatal-beating-of-teen-trying-to-escape-church/]<br /> * Man Admits to Killing Cancer-Surviving Daughter, But Not Before Asking God to Intervene. 25-year-old Ryan Lawrence pleaded guilty to murdering his 21-month-old daughter, a survivor of eye cancer, in part because he may have been jealous of all the attention she was getting.[https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1804932/dad-battered-brave-toddler-to-death-with-a-baseball-bat-in-jealous-rage/]<br /> * Christian who &quot;dedicated his life to Jesus&quot;, Richard Keenan, who served as mayor of Hubbard in 2010 and 2011, was indicted last month eight counts of rape and 12 counts of attempted rape and gross sexual imposition of a 4 year old girl.[http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/ohio-ex-mayor-who-dedicated-life-to-christ-admits-to-raping-4-year-old-and-blames-her-as-willing/]<br /> * Brian Mitchell, a youth pastor at a North Olmsted church, a husband and father of three children under the age of 8, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday for raping an unnamed teenager.[http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/09/extremely_delusional_north_olm.html]<br /> * 24-year-old “Christian Warrior” named Bryce Cuellar was arrested after posting a YouTube video detailing how he was going to kill “gays, faggots, lesbians and satanists.”[http://www.ktnv.com/news/las-vegas-man-facing-charges-after-posting-threatening-youtube-video]<br /> * Pastor Who Said Pulse Victims Weren't Victims, Got 'What They Deserve' Arrested for Child Molestation. Controversial pastor Ken Adkins has been charged with two counts of child molestation in Georgia and is in the Glynn County jail, officials said.[http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2016-08-26/story/controversial-pastor-and-activist-ken-adkins-charged-child-molestation]<br /> * Gunman fatally shoots Pennsylvania churchgoer after fight over seat at Sunday service.[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/churchgoer-killed-fight-seat-sunday-service-article-1.2618098]<br /> * Jerry Childress, a 75-year-old church organist from Florida, was arrested for indecent exposure after a glory hole attempt went wrong.[http://americannewsx.com/religion/church-organist-arrested/]<br /> * An Acadiana priest has been arrested for allegedly possessing over 500 images of child pornography, according to the Louisiana State Police. Father Felix David Broussard, a priest at St. Bernard Roman Catholic Church in Breaux Bridge, was arrested today and booked into St. Martin Parish jail on 500 counts of pornography involving juveniles.[http://klfy.com/2016/07/27/breaux-bridge-priest-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges/]<br /> * A 3-year-old boy died on Sunday after he was accidentally left in a hot car parked outside a church, according to police. The child’s family was attending an afternoon Bible study at Rehoboth Praise Assembly in Dallas.[http://kdvr.com/2016/07/25/child-dies-in-hot-car-while-family-worships-in-church/]<br /> * London priest charged after allegedly gambling away more than $500,000 meant for Syrian refugees. [http://m.en.canoe.com/CNEWS/Crime/2016/07/14/22651721.html]<br /> * Man following &quot;god's orders&quot; tried to crush toddler daughter's skull with a bat to help her get to heaven.[http://www.wbir.com/news/deputies-toddler-attacked-at-motel-critically-injured/260712415]<br /> * Sam Sutter, A 26-year-old youth minister is facing sexual battery charges following his arrest. According to a Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office report, Sutter was involved in a sexual relationship with a teenage girl he met through his job at the Openwater Church. [http://wfla.com/2016/06/19/youth-pastor-with-odessa-church-arrested-on-sexual-battery-charges/]<br /> * Anti-gay pastor, Dave Reynolds, the recently fired pastor of the Cornerstone Bible Fellowship in Sherwood, Arkansas is currently facing 70 counts of distributing, possessing, or viewing child pornography.[http://www.arkansasmatters.com/news/local-news/new-details-in-child-porn-charges-against-former-sherwood-pastor]<br /> * The Catholic church in Pennsylvania has been accused of employing “mafia-like” tactics in a campaign to put pressure on individual Catholic lawmakers who support state legislation that would give victims of sexual abuse more time to sue their abusers.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/17/pennsylvania-catholic-church-sexual-abuse-bill-mafia-tactics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other]<br /> * David James Brown, head pastor at First Christian Church of Jeffersonville, Indiana. was arrested after allegedly seeking sex with a minor.[http://www.wdrb.com/story/32232744/jeffersonville-pastor-arrested-after-allegedly-seeking-sex-with-a-minor]<br /> * A former Vatican archbishop, Jozef Wesolowski, accused of paedophilia stored tens of thousands of child porn videos and photos on a computer in his office at the Holy See diplomatic compound in the Dominican Republic, it has emerged.[http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/vatican-paedophilia-scandal-archbishop-jozef-wesolowski-stored-over-100000-child-porn-videos-1467410]<br /> * John David Brock, 60, died after a snake bit him in the left arm and he refused medical treatment, according to the Bell County Sheriff's Office. Brock was handling a snake during a church service at Mossy Simpson Pentecostal Church in Jenson, Kentucky.[http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Man-dies-in-Bell-County-after-he-was-bitten-by-snake-during-church-service-318868451.html]<br /> * The president of a Christian charity in Iowa, Jon S. Petersen, of Cedar Rapids admitted that he embezzled nearly a half-million dollars in donations and used the money to pay for a sex addiction, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. [http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article78129452.html]<br /> * Virginia pastor, Christopher Alan Hogge, 48, has been charged eight counts of possession and distribution of child pornography, according to the Isle of Wight County Sheriff's Office.[http://wtvr.com/2016/05/23/virginia-pastor-arrested-on-child-porn-charges/]<br /> * A private Christian school in Kansas is reserving the right to expel students who have gay family members. [http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/05/20/christian-school-threatens-to-expel-pupils-if-they-have-a-gay-family-member/?utm_source=ET&amp;utm_medium=ETFB&amp;utm_campaign=portal&amp;utm_content=inf_11_60_2&amp;tse_id=INF_c1d0cb4ff39e4a1b90bc30417379d323]<br /> * Grace Baptist Church children’s pastor arrested in sex trafficking operation.[http://wate.com/2016/05/20/tbi-conduct-knoxville-human-trafficking-investigation/]<br /> * Vehemently Anti-LGBT Pastor Arrested On Child Pornography Charges.[http://theintellectualist.co/infamous-anti-lgbt-pastor-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges/]<br /> * Ohio seminary student arrested for alleged plan to have sex with adopted baby in Mexico [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/seminary-student-allegedly-planned-sex-baby-mexico-article-1.2515560]<br /> * Woman beats disabled man with his own cane for saying he doesn’t believe in God[http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/woman-beats-disabled-man-with-his-own-cane-because-he-said-he-doesnt-believe-in-god-police/]<br /> * Phoenix Woman Accused of Killing Atheist Victim, Then Keeping the Body as a “Shrine From God”[http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/64863225-story]<br /> * Lisa Biron, Anti-Gay Christian Lawyer, Arrested On Child Pornography Charges[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/20/lisa-biron-anti-gay-christian-lawyer-child-porn-charges_n_2166055.html]<br /> * Pastor Slept with Young Girls During Prayer Sessions as Part of their “Healing Process”[http://allchristiannews.com/pastor-slept-with-young-girls-during-prayer-sessions-as-part-of-their-healing-process/]<br /> * Sheriff's Office: Harvey catechism teacher promises students a photo of Santa, then shows them naked picture instead[http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/news/crime/13876211-148/catechism-teacher-in-harvey-showed]<br /> * Almost 800 babies and children were buried in a mass grave in Ireland near a home for unmarried mothers run by nuns.[http://churchandstate.org.uk/2014/06/almost-800-babies-buried-in-septic-tank-at-catholic-run-irish-home-for-unmarried-mothers/]<br /> * Alabama Pastor Made Daughter Watch While He Sexually Abused Minors.[http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/10/prosecutors_plan_to_introduce.html]<br /> * The pastor and two members of a Corona, CA church pleaded guilty on Monday to torturing a thirteen-year-old boy, including driving him into the desert and forcing him to dig his own grave. Lonny Lee Remmers, James Craig, and Darryll Duana Jeter Jr. abused the child at a group home run by Heart of Worship Community Church.[http://aattp.org/pastor-church-members-viciously-tortured-young-boy-forced-him-to-dig-own-grave-in-the-desert/]<br /> * Minneapolis church struck by lightning, destroying cross[http://www.fox9.com/weather/15331725-story]<br /> * Six Brothers Raped Their Sister For Years While ‘Christian’ Homeschool Parents Did Nothing.[http://reverbpress.com/justice/jackson-brothers-sexual-assault-sister-christian/]<br /> * A Tennessee pastor who was recently admonished by police for having sex with another man in a church van parked in a parking lot, was arrested this week for embezzling an estimated $60,000 from his church’s coffers.[http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/pastor-caught-having-gay-sex-in-van-spent-stolen-church-money-on-farmer-dating-website-police/]<br /> * Four of six homeschooled brothers, including a pastor, admit to molesting their sister.[http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/four-of-six-homeschooled-brothers-plead-guilty-to-molesting-their-sister-while-anti-school-parents-did-nothing/#.VV88faFKoyU.facebook]<br /> * Antigay Michigan Pastor Outed by Grindr Messages[http://www.mediaite.com/online/antigay-michigan-pastor-outed-by-grindr-messages/]<br /> * A Baptist preacher in Eureka Springs who features prominently in a new video urging repeal of the city's Ordinance 2223, which protects LGBT people from discrimination, pleaded guilty to a series of violent rapes in Oklahoma in 1977.[http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2015/04/20/eureka-spring-pastor-in-repeal-2223-ad-is-a-convicted-serial-rapist]<br /> * Texas church members accused of starving ‘demon-possessed’ toddler and then trying to resurrect him[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/texas-church-members-accused-of-starving-demon-possessed-toddler-and-then-trying-resurrect-him/]<br /> * Louisianal youth pastor is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old girl. Jonathan Bailey has been charged with one count of indecent relationship with a juvenile.[http://www.wdsu.com/news/local-news/new-orleans/youth-pastor-accused-of-inappropriate-relationship-with-juvenile/31530534?utm_source=Social&amp;utm_medium=FBPAGE&amp;utm_campaign=wdsutv&amp;Content%20Type=Story&amp;linkId=12612108]<br /> * Ax-wielding hair designer burns down Michigan adult store to please God[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/ax-wielding-hair-designer-burns-down-michigan-shop-to-please-god/]<br /> * An 11-year-old Canadian Aboriginal girl with leukaemia, who stopped chemotherapy after &quot;seeing a vision of Jesus,&quot; has died.[http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/makayla-sault-girl-who-refused-chemo-for-leukemia-dies-1.2829885]<br /> * Anti-LGBT Pastor Arrested for Grabbing Man’s Genitals at Indiana Park[http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/anti-lgbt-pastor-arrested-grabbing-mans-genitals-indiana-park]<br /> * Baptist church leader in Missouri arrested for soliciting &quot;dog sex&quot; on Craigslist.[http://gawker.com/baptist-church-leader-arrested-for-soliciting-dog-sex-o-1617858449?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&amp;utm_source=gawker_facebook&amp;utm_medium=socialflow]<br /> * Woman told police “she was driving and out of no where God told her that he would take it from here and she let go of the wheel and let him take it.” Shortly after letting go of the wheel she ran over a motorcyclist and drove off.[http://wane.com/2014/07/18/motorcyclist-i-said-to-myself-today-is-the-day-i-die/]<br /> <br /> * Florida woman accused of killing 2-year-old while re-enacting Bible story[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/28/florida-woman-accused-of-killing-2-year-old-while-re-enacting-bible-story/]<br /> <br /> {{ytv2|qmwEOuMGxu4|right}}<br /> * Evangelical Christians want access to more corpses … to hone their ‘raising the dead’ skills[http://freethinker.co.uk/2014/03/10/evangelical-christians-want-access-to-more-corpses-in-order-to-practice-raising-them-from-the-dead/]<br /> * Tennessee woman accused of drowning her baby says ‘Jesus came down’ and did it.[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/10/tennessee-woman-accused-of-drowning-her-baby-says-jesus-came-down-and-did-it/]<br /> * Files released by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee reveal that in 2007, Cardinal Timothy F. Dolan, then the archbishop there, requested permission from the Vatican to move nearly $57 million into a cemetery trust fund to protect the assets from victims of clergy sexual abuse who were demanding compensation. [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/us/dolan-sought-vatican-permission-to-shield-assets.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0]<br /> * Belief in god associated with poor mental health.[http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2013/04/belief-in-punitive-god-associated-with-poor-mental-health.html]<br /> * The chaplain of Milan’s San Vittore prison, 51-year-old Fr Alberto Barin, has been arrested for sustained sexual assault with multiple aggravations and for abuse of authority. Six non-Italian prisoners have accused him of demanding sexual acts in exchange for favours ranging from items of food to living conditions in the prison. Officers investigating the allegations were able to document the incidents by placing a videocamera in the chaplain’s office in the prison.[http://www.corriere.it/english/12_novembre_21/san-vittore-prison_463940e4-33da-11e2-a480-b74fe153b15c.shtml]<br /> *Rev. Ryan J. Muelhauser, Ex-Gay Counsellor, Arrested For Molestation Of Two Young Men[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/08/rev-ryan-j-muelhauser-molestation-_n_2094609.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&amp;ir=Gay%20Voices]<br /> <br /> * Priest embroiled in ivory smuggling controversy.[http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/27/world/asia/priest-ivory-controversy/index.html]<br /> * New Orleans pastor who was appointed in April to a local economic development board charged with seven counts of molestation of a juvenile[http://wap.wdsu.com/wap/news/text.jsp?sid=48&amp;nid=1491143881&amp;cid=4640&amp;scid=-1&amp;ith=3&amp;title=Local%20News&amp;headtitle=Local%20News]<br /> * Pregnant Teenager in Dominican Republic dies after doctors withold cancer treatment because the chemotherapy would harm her unborn child.[http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/17/world/americas/dominican-republic-abortion/index.html?hpt=hp_bn2]<br /> * Christian musician Randy Travis, who claimed in 2009 his faith in god allowed him to quit drinking in his 20s, was found naked and drunk in Texas, and arrested after he threatened to kill a law enforcement officer[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/08/drunk-and-naked-christian-music-star-randy-travis-threatens-cops-life/]<br /> * A Northern California jury has awarded $28 million in damages to a woman who said the Jehovah’s Witnesses allowed an adult member of a Fremont, Calif., church to molest her when she was a child. [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/us/28-million-awarded-in-jehovahs-witnesses-abuse-case.html?_r=3]<br /> * Christian school rejects admission of Mormon pupil[http://m.arkansasonline.com/news/2012/may/31/lr-christian-academy-rejects-mormon-pupil-20120531/]<br /> * Family Battle Offers Look Inside Lavish TV Ministry[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/05/us/tbn-fight-offers-glimpse-inside-lavish-tv-ministry.html?_r=1]<br /> * Court ruling: Jesus doesn't cure cancer.[http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6835139/Ruling-Jesus-doesn-t-heal-cancer]<br /> * Heralded &quot;Miracle&quot; toddler found in the wreckage of tornado, dies in hospital[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=10789913]<br /> * Christian fringe group intimidates Lowes into pulling advertisement from a reality show portrary Muslims as decent people[http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/12/my-take-is-all-american-muslim-begetting-all-american-bigotry/?hpt=hp_c2]<br /> * 6 HIV sufferers die after their pastor told them to stop taking their medication, because god would heal them.[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066106/Scandal-churches-claiming-cure-HIV-God-die-abandoning-medication.html]<br /> * Brazil rocked by abortion for 9-year-old rape victim: Church excommunicates mother and doctors – but not accused rapist[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brazil-rocked-by-abortion-for-9yearold-rape-victim-1640165.html]<br /> * Pentecostal Bishop Charles E. Brown indicted on rape, sexual battery charges[http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/11/no_bishop_indicted_on_rape_sex.html]<br /> * Killings in Norway spotlight anti-Muslim thought.[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/us/25debate.html?_r=4&amp;ref=global-home]<br /> * Austrian's religious headgear gives authorities a headache.{{rl|http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14135523}}<br /> * Pray For Newark claims amazing results as its Christian volunteers &quot;prayer walk&quot; the Newark city streets, seeking to pray down crime. Then murders rose 71%{{rl|http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/5/3/91235/90609/}}<br /> * Preacher sells debt removal through prayer[http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/consumer&amp;id=7984766]<br /> * Authorities have arrested a 52-year-old man they say committed a hate crime against a man he learned was a Muslim. They were having a conversation when the victim admitted he was a Muslim, which prompted the other man to stab him in the neck with a pocket knife.{{rl|http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/st-pete-man-accused-of-hate-crime-against-muslim/1149809}}<br /> * Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley told a church crowd just moments into his new administration that those who have not accepted Jesus as their savior are not his brothers and sisters, shocking some critics who questioned Tuesday whether he can be fair to non-Christians.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_alabama_governor_christians}}<br /> * The Salvation Army says it refuses to distribute Harry Potter and Twilight toys collected for needy children because they're incompatible with the charity's Christian beliefs.{{rl|http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/canada/2010/12/08/16478111.html}}<br /> * A couple who prayed for their sick toddler rather than take him to a doctor before his pneumonia death are on trial in Philadelphia, charged with involuntary manslaughter.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101207/ap_on_re_us/us_prayer_death_toddler}}<br /> * Archdiocese wants to recoup legal fees after a suit alleging abuse by priest in Burnsville was dismissed.[http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/faith/110501539.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU]<br /> * Minister, elders guilty of not reporting sexual abuse of a child - sought to have immunity from criminal liability in failing to report the case of suspected child abuse, &quot;arguing that they acted in good faith in persuading the parents and the perpetrator to make report of abuse.&quot;[http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Minister%2C+elders+guilty+of+not+reporting+abuse&amp;articleId=5584e3e1-cc52-4715-820c-be1eb16a82f9]<br /> * A Catholic Priest Charged with Sexually Assaulting Boy in ’08 Was Rearrested Last Week and Charged with Hiring Someone to Kill His Alleged Victim.{{rl|http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7307344.html}}<br /> * Baby dies as family jumps out of window to get away from the devil.{{rl|http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2010/10/24/15810081.html}}<br /> * Lamar advertising company will sell billboards to hookers but not atheists.{{rl|http://www.bnet.com/blog/advertising-business/lamar-sells-billboards-to-hookers-but-not-to-atheists/2412}}<br /> * Religious teen shoots and murders an atheist teen over an argument; judge does not consider it a hate crime and reduces the murder charge; parents outrages.{{rl|http://www.whotv.com/news/who-story-doyle-family-shooting-100810,0,3732283.story}}<br /> * Study shows atheists and agnostics are more knowledgeable about religion than religious people themselves.{{rl|http://pewforum.org/Other-Beliefs-and-Practices/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey.aspx}}<br /> * Bishop Eddie Long, a powerful anti-gay pastor becomes ensnared in his own sordid same-sex scandal{{rl|http://www.salon.com/life/this_week_in_crazy/index.html?story=/mwt/feature/2010/09/25/this_week_crazy_eddie_long}}<br /> * Deaf victim of sex abuse is suing pope{{rl|http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/23/deaf-victim-of-sex-abuse-is-suing-pope-and-going-public-with-his-story-for-the-first-time/}}<br /> * A fourth young male member of Bishop Eddie Long's megachurch is suing the prominent pastor, claiming Long coerced him into a sexual relationship. The lawsuit was filed by Spencer LeGrande, a member of New Birth Charlotte. New Birth Charlotte is a satellite church run by Long in Charlotte, N.C. The lawsuit said Long told LeGrande &quot;I will be your dad&quot; and invited the 17-year-old to journey to Kenya with him in July 2005. LeGrande said that Long gave him a sleeping pill on that trip and that the two engaged in sexual acts.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100924/ap_on_re_us/us_pastor_abuse_allegations_lawsuit}}<br /> <br /> * According to a recent study, religious belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to research published today. {{rl|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article571206.ece}}<br /> * Pastor George Randall &quot;Randy&quot; Scott, of the Bethel Temple Assembly Of God Church in Bryan, Texas, was arrested after returning from a trip to Sweden with his wife on for allegedly pretending to be a teenager online to meet other minor boys and then blackmailing them into having sex. {{rl|http://www.kbtx.com/local/headlines/100500214.html}}<br /> * Giant Jesus statue struck by lightning and destroyed. {{rl|http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/15/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning/}}<br /> * Thinking he was possessed by the devil, American cage fighter rips out still-beating heart of his training partner.{{rl|http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1282647/American-cage-fighter-rips-beating-heart-training-partner-fearing-possessed-devil.html}}<br /> * Christian singer leaves his wife and family and admits hes gay, while continuing his Christian musical career.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/15/us/15religion.html}}<br /> * Nun Excommunicated For Allowing life-saving Abortion[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126985072]<br /> * Janine Denomme, Woman Ordained As Catholic Priest, Denied Catholic Burial By Church{{rl|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/19/janine-denomme-woman-orda_n_582423.html}}<br /> * Guns, high-powered ammunition and explosives equipment have been seized in raids on 12 properties in and near Adelaide linked with the Agape Ministries of God.{{rl|http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/20/2904812.htm}}<br /> * City of Miami uses prayer group to ward off bad weather.{{rl|http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&amp;articleid=20100511_11_0_MIAMIO602438}}<br /> * Jehovah's Witness Couple Disown Son For Receiving Blood Transfusion.{{rl|http://news.peacefmonline.com/religion/201005/42722.php}}<br /> * Noah's ark found, says evangelical filmmaker.{{rl|http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/pc-certainty-of-noahs-ark-discovery-on-mount-ararat/story-e6frfku0-1225858591328}}<br /> * British court punishes atheist for leaving flyers in the prayer room of the John Lennon airport.{{rl|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7624578/Atheist-given-Asbo-for-leaflets-mocking-Jesus.html}}<br /> * Islamists have warned the creators of TV show South Park they could face violent retribution for depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit.{{rl|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8636455.stm}}<br /> * An episode of “South Park” that continued a story line involving the Prophet Muhammad was shown Wednesday night on Comedy Central with audio bleeps and image blocks reading “CENSORED” after a Muslim group warned the show’s creators that they could face violence for depicting that holy Islamic prophet. {{rl|http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/south-park-episode-is-altered-after-muslim-groups-warning/}}<br /> * Catholic church admits Norwegian Bishop resigned last year after admitting he was involved in child molestation.[http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=10305913]<br /> * Pope coordinated assignment of pedophile priest back into circulation.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/world/europe/26church.html}}<br /> {{ga}}<br /> * The Roman Catholic Church’s account of Pope Benedict XVI’s handing of a serial paedophile was called into question today when new documents emerged suggesting that his office was kept informed of the offender’s rapid return to working with children. {{rl|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7077196.ece}}<br /> * Pope Sexual Abuse Scandal: Benedict Implicated In Cover-Up Of Wisconsin Abuse Case{{rl|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/24/pope-sexual-abuse-lawrence-murphy_n_512483.html}}<br /> * Atheist group throws party for teens who had their prom canceled rather than allow a same-sex couple to attend the dance sponsored by religious school{{rl|http://www.examiner.com/x-8928-Philadelphia-Atheism-Examiner~y2010m3d12-Atheist-group-offers-to-hold-gay-friendly-prom}}<br /> * Religious massacres continue in Nigeria{{rl|http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704869304575109962258328770.html}}<br /> * Vatican chorister sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for papal gentleman-in-waiting{{rl|http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/04/vatican-gay-sex-scandal}}<br /> * Baby starved to death because he didn't say &quot;amen.&quot;{{rl|http://www.smh.com.au/world/baby-starved-to-death-because-he-did-not-say-amen-20100225-p4el.html}}<br /> * Pakistan's president sacrifices a goat each day to keep evil away{{rl|http://www.palibandaily.com/2010/02/23/a-goat-a-day-keeps-the-evil-away-pakistans-president-and-his-addiction-to-sacrifices/}}<br /> * Haiti's prime minister said Monday it's clear to him that the 10 U.S. Baptists who tried to take 33 children out of his quake-ravaged country without permission &quot;knew what they were doing was wrong.&quot;{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100201/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_americans_detained}}<br /> * A jury has found Scott Philip Roeder, 51, of Merriam, Kansas, guilty of premeditated first-degree murder in the slaying of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller.{{rl|http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/27216}}<br /> * Jeff and Marci Beagley have been charged with criminally negligent homicide for not providing medical treatment to their 16-year-old son, who died of an untreated urinary tract blockage. The family belongs to Followers of Christ Church, whose members shun medical care in favor of prayer.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wirestory?id=9550298&amp;page=2]<br /> * A Republican member of the Iowa Legislature is proposing lawmakers should be required to say &quot;so help me God&quot; when being sworn into office.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wirestory?id=9550298&amp;page=2]<br /> * Members of a Roanoke church have voted to leave the country's largest Lutheran denomination over its policy to allow gay clergy.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9550298]<br /> * Matt Baker, 38, a former Baptist minister, has been indicted for allegedly drugging and suffocating his wife Kari, whose 2006 death was initially ruled a suicide.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9551269]<br /> * A government witness said Wednesday that the five young woman who testified last year that evangelist Tony Alamo took them as a &quot;wife&quot; and sexually abused them as minors should receive $2.7 million each for physical and mental pain suffered.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9551976]<br /> * Three American Evangelical Christians go to Uganda and teach thousands (including police, national politicians, etc.) how gays and their agenda are trying to destroy Ugandan families and sodomize their children. Result: a bill to impose a death sentence for homosexual behavior.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/world/africa/04uganda.html}}<br /> * School board opts to fire public school teacher who refused to teach evolution, taught creationism and burned crosses into the arms of students{{rl|http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/06/21/Freshwater_decision.ART_ART_06-21-08_A1_ABAI539.html}}<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Theological_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Republicans_in_the_news Republicans in the news 2019-08-20T20:33:58Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div><br /> * Feds Arrest Neo-Nazi Trump Fan for Threatening to &quot;Exterminate&quot; Miami Hispanics - Washington state resident Eric Lin was not shy about his love for Adolf Hitler. According to a criminal complaint filed Friday, Lin enjoyed referencing the Third Reich in writing: He apparently sent a litany of Hitler-referencing death threats to a Hispanic woman in Miami and got himself arrested last week after he planned to wire a man $10,000 to beat her up, hatched a plot to kidnap her and stuff her in a plastic bin, and repeatedly vowed to kill every Hispanic person in the Magic City.[https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/neo-nazi-eric-lin-threatened-to-exterminate-miami-hispanics-fbi-says-11247579]<br /> * A Republican politician reportedly punched his wife in the face after she didn’t undress quickly enough when he wanted to have sex, according to a police report. Doug McLeod, a state legislator from Mississippi, was arrested on Saturday and charged with domestic violence.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/doug-mcleod-mississippi-domestic-violence-wife-arrest-punch-sex-a8924671.html]<br /> * Washington GOP state legislator Matt Shea taped at rally urging supporters to arm themselves with AR-15s for civil war.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/01/republican-matt-shea-rightwing-rally-guns?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other]<br /> * A white man in South Carolina has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to trying to hire a hit man to kill his black neighbor, hang him from a tree and leave a burning cross in his yard, prosecutors said.[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/us/hit-man-lynching.html]<br /> * Every extremist murder in the U.S. in 2018 was linked to right-wing extremism, according to an alarming new report from the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. The annual report found that at least 50 people were killed by extremists in 2018, marking a 35 percent increase from 2017. This makes 2018 the fourth-deadliest year on record for domestic extremist-related killings since 1970.[https://shareblue.com/extremist-murders-2018-right-wing-terrorism/][https://www.adl.org/murder-and-extremism-2018]<br /> * Despite calls for refunds, new campaign filings show Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith kept $50,000 in donations from major companies like Walmart and Facebook in the wake of her controversial special election victory in November. The latest Federal Election Commission filing -- released amid the government shutdown at the end of last week -- showed that Republican Hyde-Smith did not issue refunds to most of the corporate donors who asked for their campaign contributions to be returned in November in the wake of her “public hanging” comment.[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republican-cindy-hyde-smith-return-50000-donations-scandal/story?id=60086837]<br /> * In the first eight months of his presidency, President Trump made 1,137 false or misleading claims, an average of five a day. In October, as he barnstormed the country holding rallies in advance of the midterm elections, the president made 1,205 claims — an average of 39 a day.Combined with the rest of his presidency, that adds up to a total of 7,546 claims through Dec. 20, the 700th day of his term in office, according to The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/21/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/?noredirect=on]<br /> * A new terrorism database analysis shows almost two-thirds of the terror attacks in the United States last year were carried out by right-wing extremists.[https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/12/study-shows-two-thirds-us-terrorism-tied-right-wing-extremists]<br /> [[File:Right wing terrorists.jpg|right]]<br /> * A military veteran who had railed online against women and blacks opened fire in a Tallahassee yoga studio, killing two women and wounding five.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/03/man-with-groping-history-opens-fire-tallahassee-yoga-class-killing-two-police-say/?utm_term=.9c5fde0444f2]<br /> * Justice Dept. brings hate-crime charges against man accused of shooting black customers at Kentucky Kroger[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-dept-brings-hate-crime-charges-against-man-accused-of-shooting-black-customers-at-kentucky-kroger/2018/11/15/ce01bf66-e91d-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html?utm_term=.3128e815e4c4]<br /> * Gun-related tragedy struck once again this week, this time at a Catholic Supply store in Ballwin, Missouri, a suburb of St. Lous. USA Today reports that a former pastor has been arrested after allegedly attempting to coerce three women into having sex with him at gunpoint. When one of them resisted, he shot 53-year-old Jamie Schmidt in the head and forced the other two to submit to his “deviant” demands. The shooter, 53-year-old Thomas Bruce, has a reputation for right-wing tirades on social media and has ranted against gun-free zones in the past. He was a huge fan of President Trump, attended his rallies, and regularly tweeted about Republican politics. His last tweet read “I’ve already forgotten you. #promisesmade #promiseskept #trump2020 #BuildTheWall” and his feed was full of retweets from white nationalist FOX anchor Laura Ingraham.[https://washingtonpress.com/2018/11/23/a-trump-obsessed-pastor-just-shot-a-woman-dead-and-sodomized-two-others-in-horrific-sex-assault/]<br /> * School officials said a Republican candidate Melissa Howard, running for the GOP nomination in a Florida legislative seat lied about graduating from Miami University and faked her diploma, according to a new report.[http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/401383-university-says-gop-florida-house-candidate-faked-her-diploma-report]<br /> * Man Wearing MAGA Hat Arrested for Shoving Immigrant Onto Subway Tracks; Staten Island's Willie Ames, 47, is ​suspected by the NYPD to have shoved 24-year-old ​Mexican immigrant Luis Lopez onto the tracks on April 21. That while wearing, of course, a bright red &quot;Make American Great Again&quot; hat. According to the police, Ames had hurled slurs at Lopez and called him a &quot;f—ing Mexican.&quot;[https://www.pluralist.com/posts/599-man-wearing-maga-hat-arrested-for-shoving-immigrant-onto-subway-tracks/partners/43955]<br /> * Waffle House suspect Travis Reinking deemed himself a 'sovereign citizen,' part of anti-government group.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/04/22/waffle-house-suspect-travis-reinking-sovereign-citizen/540543002/]<br /> * As they back Trump, evangelical leaders face their own sex scandals.[https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/03/31/they-back-trump-evangelical-leaders-face-their-own-sex-scandals/9JwpnbdWzHOzQ7tEAmxUPN/story.html]<br /> * An Ohio lawmaker who routinely touted his Christian faith and anti-LGBT views has resigned after being caught having sex with a man in his office. Wes Goodman, who is the Republican state legislator for Ohio, is married to a woman who is assistant director of an annual anti-abortion rally known as March for Life.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/lawmaker-wes-goodman-anti-lgbt-resigns-sex-man-office-caught-ohio-republican-christian-family-values-a8060631.html]<br /> * A southern Utah Republican party official has been arrested in a prostitution sting a week after a politician from a neighboring city stepped down amid allegations that he met a prostitute in a taxpayer-funded hotel room. The Spectrum newspaper reports Iron County Republican Party treasurer Blake Cozzens was arrested Tuesday after paying $100 for sex acts he discussed in text messages with a confidential informant.[http://kutv.com/news/local/southern-utah-gop-official-arrested-in-prostitution-sting]<br /> * When GOP congressman Scott DesJarlais (TN) was a doctor, he had sexual relationships with his patients. Despite being a “pro-life” advocate, he pressured women in his life to have abortions, including his ex-wife, who had two abortions while they were together.[https://www.nova-magazine.net/republican-pro-life-congressman-slept-patients-paid-abortions/]<br /> * Trump campaign coordinator and &quot;family values&quot; republican pleads tuilty to child sex trafficking, faces live in prison.[http://www.newsweek.com/republican-sex-trafficking-child-trump-coordinator-716348]<br /> * Days after a former state senator pleaded guilty to federal child sex trafficking, Moore Police released body cam footage of the call that led the then-seated senator to be charged with state child prostitution charges. Ralph Shortey, 35, pleaded guilty to child sex trafficking in federal court last week; in exchange, child pornography charges were dropped.[http://kfor.com/2017/12/04/moore-police-release-body-cam-footage-from-night-state-senator-found-in-hotel-room-with-teen-boy/]<br /> * Republican congressperson Mia Love, from Utah, caught using campaign funds on trip to Disneyworld.[https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/over-seven-days-at-disney-world-rep-mia-love-used-a-lot-of-campaign-funds-wcz/]<br /> * Lane Maurice Davis, Donald Trump supporter and regular poster on T_D Reddit forum, stabs his father to death believing he was &quot;leftist&quot;.[https://www.goskagit.com/news/man-pleads-not-guilty-in-father-s-stabbing-death/article_479b3b6f-88d4-502d-ae77-ff5f098fb511.html][https://www.reddit.com/r/Fuckthealtright/comments/76y0os/t_d_poster_useattle4truth_murders_his_father/]<br /> * Pro-Life Congressman Won't Seek Re-Election After Reports He Urged Mistress to Get Abortion[http://time.com/4970013/tim-murphy-pennsylvania-congressman-abortion/]<br /> * Rep. Tim Murphy, popular with pro-life movement, urged abortion in affair, texts suggest. Another — a six-page memo to Mr. Murphy purportedly written by his chief of staff, Susan Mosychuk — described a hostile workplace in which Mr. Murphy repeatedly denigrated employees, threatened them and created a state of “terror.”[http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2017/10/03/rep-tim-Murphy-pro-life-sought-abortion-affair-shannon-edwards-susan-mosychuk-pennsylvania-chief-of-staff-congress-emails-texts/stories/201710030018?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_campaign=Echobox&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1507061392]<br /> * Former congressman &amp; mayor, Anthony Weiner Sentenced to 21 Months in Prison for sending obsene messages to an underage girl.[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-25/weiner-gets-prison-for-sexting-teen-in-case-that-jolted-election?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&amp;utm_content=business&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social]<br /> * &quot;Family Values&quot; Republican, Dr. Joey Hensley, Accused Of Breaking Up Marriage To Have Affair With His Cousin.[https://theintellectualist.co/family-values-republican-accused-of-breaking-up-marriage-to-have-affair-with-his-cousin/]<br /> * A former student of Kentucky's Transylvania University, Mitchell W. Adkins, was arrested Friday after he allegedly stormed a campus café with a machete and a bag of knives, quizzed students on their political affiliations, and injured two women. &quot;He asked somebody what their political affiliation was, they said ‘Republican,’ and the guy said, 'You are safe,'&quot; campus newspaper editor-in-chief Tristan Reynolds told the Lexington Herald-Leader. &quot;And then I realized what was going on and started getting people out.”[https://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/a-trump-supporter-allegedly-attacked-students-at-a-school?utm_term=.bpA5N1mzr#.yq5Yqx69b]<br /> * Conservative Christian and Oklahoma lawmaker Ralph Shortey is charged with engaging in child prostitution and other felonies after being caught in a hotel room with an underage boy.[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ralph-shortey-oklahoma-lawmaker-hit-child-prostitution-charges-n734376]<br /> * Republican lawmaker, Bill Cassidy, who promoted legislation to teach “abstinence-only” sex education in schools announced that his own unmarried high school-aged daughter has gotten pregnant.[http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/07/10/republican-abstinence-only-crusaders-17-year-old-daughter-is-pregnant/][http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/07/bill_cassidy_senate_campaign_r.html]<br /> * Republican congressman John Fleming of Louisiana tells his constituents that because he’s rich, he doesn’t work for them. [http://www.salon.com/2017/04/13/watch-republican-congressman-tells-his-constituents-that-because-hes-rich-he-doesnt-work-for-them/]<br /> * Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has surrendered to authorities on campaign finance violations and he's expected to resign soon rather than face impeachment. Bible-toting Bentley got smitten with a female staffer and got caught by his wife (now divorced) exchanging texted love notes and, on tape, talking to his sweetie about fondling her breasts. The woman's husband has a well-paid position as an adviser on faith matters. The crime wasn't the sex. The problem was the governor's effort to cover it up and using campaign and official resources on protecting himself and going after enemies. [http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2017/04/10/star-falls-in-alabama-governor-booked-on-ethics-charges]<br /> [[File:Crazy republicans.jpg|right]]<br /> * Oklahoma Republican State Senator Ralph Shortey, married with kids, was caught in a hotel with a teenage boy. Shortey has resigned from his Senate seat after being charged with three counts, including engaging in child prostitution, engaging in prostitution within 1,000 feet of a church and transporting minor for prostitution/lewdness.[http://www.koco.com/article/court-date-set-for-former-oklahoma-sen-ralph-shortey/9178322]<br /> * Alabama Republican, Rep. Jack Williams filed HB 428, a bill that would criminalize the sale of a smartphone or other internet access device without a pornography filter. Adults wanting to turn off the filters would pay a $20 fee and request the deactivation in writing.[http://abc3340.com/news/local/house-bill-would-put-porn-filters-on-cellphones]<br /> * Married-with-children Oklahoma state senator and Trump campaign chair Republican Ralph Shortey is under investigation after he was found in a motel room with an underage male.[http://www.towleroad.com/2017/03/ralph-shortey/?utm_content=buffer64f5d&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer]<br /> * Anti-gay republican outed as former drag queen. [http://issuehawk.com/igor/2014/05/05/anti-gay-republican-outed-as-former-drag-queen.html]<br /> <br /> * Sponsor Of Anti-LGBT “Bathroom Bill” Caught Sexually Harassing 34 Women, Exiled From Capitol Building[http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/04/12/sponsor-anti-lgbt-bathroom-bill-caught-sexually-harassing-34-women-exiled-capitol-building/]<br /> <br /> * Steve Wiles, a Republican state Senate candidate who supports North Carolina’s constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage, once worked as a female impersonator at a gay nightclub in Winston-Salem and was gay at the time, according to a co-owner of the nightclub and a former employee.[http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/gop-candidate-was-once-a-female-impersonator/article_a1029862-5a82-5752-90e4-eac7155bce1e.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.<br /> <br /> * Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania pled no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo of Floyd County, Kentucky was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins of Asbury Park, New Jersey pled guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker of Nashua, New Hampshire is a convicted child molester.<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor Philip Giordano of Waterbury, Connecticut is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8 and 10-year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor John Gosek of Oswego, New York was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner David Swartz of Richland County, Ohio pled guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.<br /> <br /> * Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain of Monroe County, Pennsylvania was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth of Kannapolis, N.C., is a convicted child rapist in Florida.<br /> <br /> * Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader of Witchita, Kansas pled guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency of Camden, New Jersey pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge of Soputhbay, California was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.<br /> <br /> * Republican pastor Mike Hintz of Des Moines, Iowa, who George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Peter Dibble of New London, Connecticut pled no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer of Arizona was charged with molesting his 9-year old step daughter after including her in an anti-Gore television commercial.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. and Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence both of Washington, D.C. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens of Columbus, Ohio was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.<br /> <br /> * Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio of Burke, Virginia was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Mark A. Grethen of Colorado Springs. Colorado was convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Randal David Ankeney of El Paso County, Arizona pled guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Dan Crane of Illinois had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist and Christian Coalition and South Carolina Republican leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.<br /> <br /> * Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline of Orange County, California was placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography.<br /> <br /> * Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman of Maryland was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.<br /> <br /> * Republican Committee Chairman and attorney Jeffrey Patti of Sparta, New Jersey was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Marty Glickman of Florida (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD. It was Glickman, interestingly enough, that claimed Bill Clinton came from a low rent state and had torn down all of the standards for the highest office in the land.<br /> <br /> * Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks of Quartz Hill, California was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.<br /> <br /> * Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway who had relocated to Maine from Huntsville, Alabama after having been accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.<br /> <br /> * Republican preacher Stephen White of West Chester, Pennsylvania, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.<br /> <br /> * Republican talk show host Jon Matthews of Houston, Texas pled guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling of Anderson, Indiana was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Paul Ingram of Thurston County, Washington pled guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican election board official Kevin Coan of St. Louis, Missouri was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Andrew Buhr, also of St. Louis, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Keith Westmoreland of Kingsport, Tennessee was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt of Pensacola, Florida was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Councilman Keola Childs of Hawaii County, Hawaii pled guilty to molesting a male child.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist John Butler of Cass County, Illinois was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican candidate Richard Gardner of Clark County, Nevada admitted to molesting his two daughters.<br /> <br /> * Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner of Lancaster, Pennsylvania was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter of Boothbay, Maine pled guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. of Wrightsville Borough, Delaware pled no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.<br /> <br /> * Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.<br /> <br /> * Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall of Virginia was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.<br /> <br /> * Republican city councilman Mark Harris of West Bend, Wisconsin, who has been described as a “good military man” and “church goer,” was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.<br /> <br /> * Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo of Bakersfield, California molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp, Russell Harding, pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.<br /> <br /> * Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen, Sr. of Kalispell, Montana, was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.<br /> <br /> ==List Of Convicted Republican Pedophiles:==<br /> <br /> Feel free to research these people independently.<br /> <br /> Compiled from: https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/awxa6e/jim_jordans_sex_abuse_scandal_comes_back_after/ehq2lsc/<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.[https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2005/3/29/103019/-]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fredericksburg.com/news/crime_courts/air-force-investigator-goes-to-prison-for-molesting-stafford-girl/article_ef749960-7ae3-548c-88de-cde2bec21f79.amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.[https://www.google.com/amp/www.poconorecord.com/article/20120426/NEWS90/204260334%3ftemplate=ampart]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.deseretnews.com/article/830211/NJ-man-pleads-guilty-to-Internet-porn-charges.amp]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.[http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2002/vol6n33/MislaRape-en.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.[https://www.google.com/amp/www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-philip-giordano-appeal-sex-charges-20151204-story,amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.[http://articles.latimes.com/2001/apr/06/local/me-47737]<br /> <br /> * Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.[https://www-m.cnn.com/2013/02/05/us/south-carolina-thurmond-daughter-obit/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&amp;rm=1]<br /> <br /> * Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.[http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Omaha-Church-Adds-Pastor-With-A-Past-303831061.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/nyregion/embroiled-first-selectman-takes-leave.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Donald &quot;Buz&quot; Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/25/us/teen-ager-in-ohio-testifies-to-sex-with-a-congressman.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/04/24/gop-activist-admits-to-child-porn/5af2adf0-bec8-4a10-b061-014de679422a/?utm_term=.217884e2f945]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1066630/mark-anthony-grethen-v-sandra-lynn-grethen/]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.[https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/gop-activist-accused-of-assaulting-another-girl]<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/photos/political-sex-scandals-43202982/image-dan-crane-43203720]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/02/opinion/journal-beverly-russell-s-prayers.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman* was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.[https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/2005034]<br /> <br /> * Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.[http://www.njherald.com/article/20060510/ARTICLE/305109971]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks* was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.[http://articles.latimes.com/2002/aug/20/local/me-brooks20]<br /> <br /> * Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/06/us/politics-the-senate-maine-candidate-again-faces-1990-child-sex-accusation.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican preacher Stephen White*, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.[http://www.thedp.com/article/2004/01/brother_stephen_convicted_of_soliciting_sex]<br /> <br /> * Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.[http://www.houstonpress.com/news/jon-matthews-conservative-talk-show-host-and-sex-offender-pulled-from-kpfts-prison-show-6740755]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-gay activist Earl &quot;Butch&quot; Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-02-10/news/0002100308_1_adoption-fight-molesting-woody-burton]<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/29/books/books-of-the-times-a-family-is-destroyed-by-a-sexual-chimera.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wnd.com/2001/03/8428/amp/]<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Andrew Buhr* was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1908&amp;dat=20040108&amp;id=SNwfAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=ZNkEAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=2505,474893&amp;hl=en]<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children].[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-06-20/news/0206200332_1_indecent-exposure-lawmaker-westmoreland]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.[http://www.sptimes.com/2003/06/11/State/Troopers_nab_antiabor.shtml]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Councilman Keola Childs* pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.[http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Oct/08/ln/hawaii710080338.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.[https://caselaw.findlaw.com/il-court-of-appeals/1113050.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.[https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2002/oct/14/assembly-candidate-gardner-ruled-ineligible-due-to/]<br /> <br /> * Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.[https://www.google.com/amp/amp.wgal.com/article/council-accepts-resignation-of-member-imprisoned-for-rape/6189408]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.[http://www.columbiatribune.com/5bd8f6fc-ba88-11e3-86e1-10604b9f6eda.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall* was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/15/AR2005101501539_3.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/29/us/republican-quits-governor-s-race-in-minnesota.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican director of the &quot;Young Republican Federation&quot; Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.[https://bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/registered-sex-offender-keeps-custody-of-daughter]<br /> <br /> * Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/missoulian.com/news/kalispell-businessman-richard-dasen-charged-with-prostitution-related-crimes/article_f04ce8a9-fa02-54fa-addd-267d2357a4a9.amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican state senator Ralph Shortey from Oklahoma admitted to being involved in sodomy with a 17 year old male prostitute and transporting child pornography.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/kfor.com/2018/06/04/prosecutors-say-former-oklahoma-senator-enticed-teen-with-sex-with-wife-groomed-victim-for-more-than-a-year/amp/]<br /> <br /> * Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert in jail for the payments he made to cover up raping his wrestlers when he was a high school coach.[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/us/dennis-hastert-released.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Judge and campaign official Tim Nolan for President Donald Trump indicted for human trafficking and forcing a minors (9] to engage in sexual activity and giving alcohol to minors (results from the court pending].[https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cincinnati.com/amp/463805002]<br /> <br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * [[Theists in the news]]<br /> * [[Christian terrorists in the news]]<br /> * [[Democrats in the news]] <br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Political_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Ronald_Reagan Ronald Reagan 2019-08-12T14:44:46Z <p>Pile: /* Reagan in a nutshell */</p> <hr /> <div>Ronald Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). Born in Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s, where he was an actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), and a spokesman for General Electric (GE). His start in politics occurred during his work for GE. Originally a member of the Democratic Party, he switched to the Republican Party in 1962, at the age of 51. After delivering a rousing speech in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy in 1964, he was persuaded to seek the California governorship, winning two years later and again in 1970. He was defeated in his run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968 as well as 1976, but won both the nomination and election in 1980.<br /> <br /> As president, Reagan implemented bold new political and economic initiatives. His supply-side economic policies, dubbed &quot;Reaganomics,&quot; (later called &quot;Voodoo economics&quot; by George H. Bush) included deregulation and substantial tax cuts implemented in 1981. In his first term he survived an assassination attempt, took a hard line against organized labor, and ordered military actions in Grenada. He was reelected in 1984. His second term was marked by the bombing of Libya and the Iran-Contra affair. The president had previously ordered a massive military buildup in an arms race with the Soviet Union, forgoing the strategy of détente. He publicly described the USSR as an &quot;evil empire&quot; and supported anti-Communist movements worldwide. <br /> <br /> Reagan left office in 1989. In 1994, the former president disclosed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease earlier in the year; he died ten years later at the age of ninety-three. <br /> <br /> Reagan is held up as a hero in the conservative Republican movement. However, his actual record is far from exemplary. Reagan is largely credited with first implementing the concept of &quot;supply side economics&quot; which suggested that if we cut taxes on the rich, there will be a &quot;trickle down&quot; effect benefiting all aspects of society. Regan also ran up one the largest budget deficits in the history of the country at that time, and increased the national debt more than any other president before him.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Remembering reagan.jpg|right]]<br /> <br /> ====Things Conservatives May Not Know/Acknowledge About Ronald Reagan====<br /> <br /> * Reagan raised taxes 11 times during his presidency.<br /> * Reagan signed the &quot;Therapeutic Abortion Act,&quot; into law, in an effort to reduce the number of &quot;back-room abortions&quot; performed in California. This legalized abortion prior to Roe v Wade.&lt;ref&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan#cite_note-Cannon51-74&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> * Reagan supported gun control.&lt;ref&gt;In a speech at George Washington University, where he was treated after being shot by John W. Hinckley, Reagan called on Congress to enact a law requiring a seven-day waiting period for the purchase of handguns. This later became the Brady Law. &quot;I support the Brady Bill,&quot; he said in a March 28, 1991 speech, &quot;and I urge the Congress to enact it without further delay.&quot;&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and The Fairness Doctrine:====<br /> In 1987 the Supreme Court ruled that the [http://bsalert.com/news/354/A_Primer_On_The_Fairness_Doctrine_How_We_Screwed_Up.html fairness doctrine] was not mandated by congress and therefore unenforceable by the FCC. In 1987 both houses of Congress voted to make The Fairness Doctrine enforceable. Reagan vetoed it and killed it. The Fairness Doctrine, among other things, mandated equal time in the media for opposing viewpoints, required news media to not ignore important news of critical interest to the community, and generally helped delineate editorial from advertising.<br /> <br /> ====Reagan's responsibility for the 2000-era economic depression====<br /> {{ytv|8xiKqowqbOk|right}}<br /> “''This bill is the most important legislation for financial institutions in the last 50 years. It provides a long-term solution for troubled thrift institutions. ... All in all, I think we hit the jackpot.''” So declared Ronald Reagan in 1982, as he signed the Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act. Traditionally, the U.S. government ran significant budget deficits only in times of war or economic emergency. Federal debt as a percentage of G.D.P. fell steadily from the end of World War II until 1980. But indebtedness began rising under Reagan; it fell again in the Clinton years, but resumed its rise under the Bush administration, leaving us ill prepared for the emergency now upon us.<br /> <br /> The increase in public debt was, however, dwarfed by the rise in private debt, made possible by financial deregulation. The change in America’s financial rules was Reagan’s biggest legacy. And it’s the gift that keeps on taking.<br /> <br /> The immediate effect of Garn-St. Germain was to turn the Savings and Loan industry from a problem into a catastrophe. The S.&amp; L. crisis has been written out of the Reagan hagiography, but the fact is that deregulation in effect gave the industry — whose deposits were federally insured — a license to gamble with taxpayers’ money, at best, or simply to loot it, at worst. By the time the government closed the books on the affair, taxpayers had lost $130 billion, back when that was a lot of money.<br /> <br /> But there was also a longer-term effect. Reagan-era legislative changes essentially ended New Deal restrictions on mortgage lending — restrictions that, in particular, limited the ability of families to buy homes without putting a significant amount of money down.<br /> <br /> These restrictions were put in place in the 1930s by political leaders who had just experienced a terrible financial crisis, and were trying to prevent another. But by 1980 the memory of the Depression had faded. Government, declared Reagan, is the problem, not the solution; the magic of the marketplace must be set free. And so the precautionary rules were scrapped.&lt;ref&gt;Paul Krugman, New York Times 06/01/09 {{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/opinion/01krugman.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and the metric system: A time line.====<br /> 1975: The Metric Conversion Act of 1975 (Public Law 94-168) passed by Congress and the U.S. Metric Board is created.<br /> <br /> 1979: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) requires wine producers and importers to switch to metric.<br /> <br /> 1980: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) requires distilled spirits producers and importers to switch to metric.<br /> <br /> 1982: Reagan disbands U.S. Metric Board and fires everyone associated with it.<br /> [[File:Reagan investigations.jpg|right|400px]]<br /> ====Reagan and Gun Control====<br /> *Reagan supported and signed a 15-day waiting period when he was governor of California. He then blamed it on the Democrats.<br /> <br /> *Reagan supported and signed a law &quot;prohibiting the carrying of loaded firearms on one's person or in a vehicle, in any public place or on any public street.&quot; The law was aimed at stopping the Black Panthers after their march on the California State Capitol, but affected all gun owners. He then blamed it on the Democrats.<br /> <br /> *Reagan supported and signed a ban on the transfer of new manufacture fully automatic firearms while president and blamed it on the Democrats.<br /> <br /> *Reagan vocally supported the Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban after his presidency in the early 90s. Which were then blamed on the Democrats.<br /> <br /> *Reagan said he does not support citizens' rights to own an AK-47 and did not believe it was a sporting weapon.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/reaganak47.asp&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=nG4V_6pCLVo&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and racism====<br /> <br /> * Ronald Reagan described African delegates to the UN as &quot;monkeys&quot;, in newly-unearthed tapes published by a US magazine. He made the comment in a 1971 telephone call with then-President Richard Nixon. Mr Reagan, who was governor of California at the time, was angered that African delegates at the UN sided against the US in a vote. Members of the Tanzanian delegation started dancing after the UN voted to recognise China and expel Taiwan. Mr Reagan, who was a supporter of Taiwan, called the president the following day to express his apparent frustration. He said: &quot;To see those... monkeys from those African countries - damn them, they're still uncomfortable wearing shoes!&quot; Mr Nixon, who quit as president in 1974, can then be heard laughing. Reagan publicly defended the apartheid states of Rhodesia and South Africa in the 1970s.&lt;ref&gt;https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49177034&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and homosexuality====<br /> <br /> Despite his own son being gay, in 1982 Reagan signed a Defense Department directive 1332.14 that stated, &quot;homosexuality is incompatible with military service&quot; and persons who engaged in homosexual acts or stated that they are homosexual or bisexual are to be discharged.&lt;ref&gt;D.O.D. Directive 1332.14, January 28, 1982; http://dont.stanford.edu/regulations/regulation41.pdf&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and &quot;Ketchup is a vegetable&quot;====<br /> <br /> In 1981, Ronald Reagan's budget director, David Stockman, proposed classifying ketchup as a vegetable as part of Reagan's budget cuts for federally financed school lunch programs (it would make it cheaper to satisfy the requirements on vegetable content of lunches). The suggestion was widely ridiculed and the proposal was killed.<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and the arms race====<br /> [[File:Reagan deal.png|right]]<br /> * Russia offered to eliminate all ballistic missiles if the U.S. would cease its &quot;Star Wars&quot; missile development program. Reagan refused and continued spending on this ill-fated financial boondoggle and blew the chance for disarmament.<br /> <br /> :'''Reykjavík Summit''': The US made progress by agreeing to reduce intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe, but movement toward a major arms control agreement broke down in a dispute over the U.S. space-based antimissile program, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Gorbachev argued that SDI could render Soviet nuclear forces useless, eliminating the concept of mutual deterrence and leaving his country vulnerable to attack. Reagan offered to defer deployment of SDI for ten years, but was determined to continue research and development. The deadlock prevented a major arms control agreement.&lt;ref&gt;Beschloss, Michael R., and Strobe Talbott. At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the Cold War. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and the AIDS crisis====<br /> <br /> * throughout the beginnings of the crisis, had DoHHS officials say that everything was being done that could be to combat the epidemic and no more funding was needed<br /> <br /> :Following discovery of the first cases in 1981, it soon became clear a national health crisis was developing. But President Reagan's response was &quot;halting and ineffective,&quot; according to his biographer Lou Cannon. Those infected initially with this mysterious disease -- all gay men -- found themselves targeted with an unprecedented level of mean-spirited hostility.<br /> <br /> A significant source of Reagan's support came from the newly identified religious right and the Moral Majority, a political-action group founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell. AIDS became the tool, and gay men the target, for the politics of fear, hate and discrimination. Falwell said &quot;AIDS is the wrath of God upon homosexuals.&quot; Reagan's communications director Pat Buchanan argued that AIDS is &quot;nature's revenge on gay men.&quot;&lt;ref&gt;Reagan's AIDS Legacy, San Francisco Chronicle, 06/08/04 {{rl|http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/06/08/EDG777163F1.DTL}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> {{ytv|do0x-Egc6oA|right|Ronald Reagan's infamous &quot;evil empire&quot; speech. &quot;I would rather see my little girls die now, still believing in God, than have them grow up under Communism and one day die no longer believing in God.&quot;}}<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and drugs====<br /> <br /> * Under Ronald Reagan, and the &quot;Just Say No&quot; campaign, the incarceration rate increased dramatically, though ironically Reagan was responsible for the introduction of crack cocaine into urban areas.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/webb.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and union busting====<br /> <br /> * In 1981 Air Traffic Controllers went on strike over wretched job conditions. Reagan fired the 11,345 striking air traffic controllers who had ignored the order to go back to work, and banned them from federal service for life (which was later rescinded).&lt;ref&gt;http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/09/1107835/-Remembering-Reagan-s-Sweet-Little-Lie-to-the-Air-Traffic-Controllers&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and energy issues====<br /> <br /> :In June, 1979, President Jimmy Carter proposed a “new solar strategy” to “move our<br /> Nation toward true energy security and abundant, readily available energy supplies.” In an effort to set an<br /> example for the country, Carter had solar panels installed on the roof of the White House West Wing. The<br /> panels were used to heat water for the staff mess and other areas of the White House.<br /> <br /> :At the time, President Carter warned “a generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a<br /> museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be a small part of one of the greatest and most<br /> [[File:Im reagan.jpg|right|300px]]<br /> exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people; harnessing the power of the Sun to enrich our<br /> lives as we move away from our crippling dependence on foreign oil.”<br /> <br /> :The White House solar panels were a symbol of the Carter Administration’s commitment to reduce<br /> America’s dependence of foreign sources of energy, according to Hakes, who was the Administrator of the<br /> Energy Information Administration at the U.S. Department of Energy during the Clinton presidency. “Behind that<br /> was a whole package of tax incentives, research and development and loans that made it much more than a<br /> symbol,” Hakes added. “There was actually a very substantive attempt to move ahead the expanded use of solar<br /> energy.”<br /> <br /> :'''President Ronald Reagan took the solar panels down in 1986''' when the White House roof was being repaired.[http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/newsreleases/2007/07-18.pdf]<br /> <br /> =====Sabotaging solar power=====<br /> <br /> :''&quot;The budget for the [Solar Energy Research] Institute--which President Jimmy Carter had created to spearhead solar innovation--was slashed [under Reagan] from $124 million in 1980 to $59 million in 1982. Scientists who had left tenured university jobs to work [on the project] were given two weeks notice and no severance pay. The squelching of the institute--later partly re-funded and renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory--marked the start of Reagan's campaign against solar power. By the end of 1985, when Congress and the administration allowed tax credits for solar homes to lapse, the dream of a solar era had faded. The solar water heater President Carter had installed on the White House roof in 1979 was dismantled and junked. Solar water heating went from a billion-dollar industry to peanuts overnight; thousands of sun-minded businesses went bankrupt.&quot;''<br /> ::--Arthur Allen, Prodigal Sun, as reported in Mother Jones, March/April 2000<br /> [[Image:Ronald reagan socialized medicine.jpg|right|300px]]<br /> :''&quot;After the 1973 war and the first Arab oil shock, look at what America did and what Denmark did. What we did was say, &quot;Wow! We've got to really take on this issue.&quot; So beginning with President Ford and President Carter we said we were going to double the fuel efficiency of American cars from about 13 mpg then to I think it was 27.5. We were going to do it over ten years and we did it. We were so successful doing that we helped break OPEC in the late '70s and early '80s and crater the price of oil. That worked out so well that Ronald Reagan, when he came along, said, &quot;That's enough of that!&quot; He ripped off the solar panels that Jimmy Carter had put on the White House roof -- they were recently auctioned online.... Some of those solar companies that we spawned in the '70's and '80's -- they went bust also when we removed our subsidies and taxes. They were bought by Japan. I can't tell you how grateful the innovators and corporate leaders of Japan and Denmark are today for all the money America invested in research in wind and solar, spawning companies here which went bust in the '80s when we removed the subsidies from them.... One of the leading wind innovators in America, in fact, was given a medal of honor by the government of Denmark. All his technology ended up there.&quot;''<br /> ::--Thomas Friedman , New York Times columnist, interviewed by Terry Gross of WHYY's &quot;Fresh Air,&quot; about the revelations in his book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, 8 September 2008<br /> <br /> ====Ronald Reagan's cabinet choices====<br /> <br /> * '''James Watt''', Reagan's Secretary of the Interior said, ''&quot;We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand.&quot;'' and ''“My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns”''<br /> <br /> :What is the Secretary of the Interior in charge of?<br /> :*Office of Insular Affairs, National Business Center, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, Office of Surface Mining, Bureau of Reclamation, Fish and Wildlife Service, Minerals Management Service, National Park Service, Geological Survey<br /> <br /> :For someone who didn't seem too fond of trees, it should have come as no surprise that Ronald Reagan would appoint James Watt to be his Secretary of the Interior. James Watt was, according to the Audubon Society, &quot;arguably the most anti-environment secretary ever.&quot; Watt was not just anti-environment, he was a simpleton. Testifying before Congress, Watt was asked if he agreed that natural resources should be preserved for future generations. His response:<br /> <br /> :''&quot;I do not know how many future generations we can count of before the Lord returns.&quot;''<br /> ::--James Watt, February 5, 1981<br /> <br /> :However, it was not Watts' stance on environmental issues that compelled the Reagan administration to eventually force his resignation. It was the fallout from the following comment he made to a group of lobbyists regarding the makeup of his coal-leasing commission:<br /> <br /> :''&quot;We have every kind of mix you can have. I have a black, I have a woman, two Jews and a cripple.&quot;''<br /> ::--James Watt, September 21, 1983<br /> <br /> :Eighteen days later, Watt resigned.<br /> <br /> ====Cartoonist Tim Krieger on Reagan====<br /> <br /> &quot;His legacy includes the dismantling of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the final dirty win of Management over Labor, the outsourcing of America’s manufacturing base, the embezzlement of almost all the country's wealth by 1% of its citizens, the scapegoating of the poor and black, the War on Drugs, the eviction of schizophrenics into the streets, AIDS, acid rain, Iran-Contra, and, let’s not forget, the corpses of two hundred forty United States Marines. He moved the center of political discourse in this country to somewhere in between Richard Nixon and Augusto Pinochet. He believed in astrology and Armageddon and didn't know the difference between history and movies; his stories were lies and his jokes were scripted. He was the triumph of image over truth, paving the way for even more vapid spokesmodels like George W. Bush. He was, as everyone agrees, exactly what he appeared to be—nothing. He made me ashamed to be an American. If there was any justice in this world his Presidential Library would contain nothing but boys' adventure books and bad cowboy movies, and the only things named after him would be shopping malls and Potter's Fields. Let the earth where he is buried be seeded with salt.&quot;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and the Taliban====<br /> <br /> Reagan was directly responsible for arming and training Taliban fighters, including [[Osama Bin Laden]]:<br /> <br /> {{bluebox|Proclamation 5034—Afghanistan Day, 1983<br /> By the President of the United States of America, 21 March 1983<br /> <br /> The tragedy of Afghanistan continues as the valiant and courageous Afghan freedom fighters [The Taliban] persevere in standing up against the brutal power of the Soviet invasion and occupation. The Afghan people are struggling to reclaim their freedom, which was taken from them when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December of 1979.<br /> <br /> In this three-year period the Soviet Union has been unable to subjugate Afghanistan. The Soviet forces are pitted against an extraordinary people who, in their determination to preserve the character of their ancient land, have organized an effective and still spreading country-wide resistance. The resistance of the Afghan freedom fighters is an example to all the world of the invincibility of the ideals we in this country hold most dear, the ideals of freedom and independence.<br /> <br /> We must also recognize that the sacrifices required to maintain this resistance are very high. Millions have gone into exile as refugees. We will probably never know the numbers of people killed and maimed, poisoned and gased, of the homes that have been destroyed, and of the lives that have been shattered and stricken with grief.<br /> <br /> It is, therefore, incumbent upon us as Americans to reflect on the events in Afghanistan, to think about the agony which these brave people bear, and to maintain our condemnation of the continuing Soviet occupation. Our observance again this year of Afghanistan Day on March 21, the Afghan New Year, will recall for all the world America's unflagging sympathy for a determined people, its support for their refugees and commitment to achieving a political settlement for Afghanistan which will free that country from tyranny's yoke.<br /> <br /> The Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 65, has designated March 21, 1983 as &quot;Afghanistan Day&quot; and has requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of that day.<br /> <br /> Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate March 21, 1983 as Afghanistan Day.<br /> <br /> In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-first day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and seventh.<br /> <br /> Ronald Reagan }}<br /> <br /> ====Reagan quotes====<br /> <br /> 10 Oct 1965 California gubernatorial candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in the Fresno Bee as saying: &quot;We should declare war on North Vietnam... It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and be home by Christmas.&quot;<br /> <br /> 20 Oct 1965 California gubernatorial candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in the Los Angeles Times as saying: &quot;I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at the point of a bayonet, if necessary.&quot;<br /> <br /> 17 Jun 1966 California gubernatorial candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in the Los Angeles Times as saying: &quot;I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.&quot;<br /> [[Image:National-Debt-GDP.gif|right]]<br /> 16 Oct 1967 Ronald Reagan is quoted in the Los Angeles Times as saying: &quot;I have a feeling that we are doing better in the (Vietnam) war than the people have been told.&quot;<br /> <br /> 15 May 1969 Regarding the ongoing student protests at UC Berkeley, California governor Ronald Reagan is quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle as saying: &quot;If there has to be a bloodbath, then let's get it over with.&quot;<br /> <br /> 17 May 1976 Ronald Reagan tells Time magazine: &quot;Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say 'But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time.'&quot;<br /> <br /> 1979 Ronald Reagan: &quot;The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted... The suppressed study reveals that 80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees.&quot;<br /> <br /> 1980 During an interview with televangelist Jim Bakker on the PTL network, presidential candidate Ronald Reagan predicts that &quot;We may be the generation that sees Armageddon.&quot;<br /> <br /> 15 Feb 1980 Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in the Burlington Free Press as saying: &quot;All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.&quot; The claim is provably false.<br /> <br /> 14 Apr 1980 Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in Time magazine as saying: &quot;History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20 percent of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government... When it reaches 25 percent, there comes an increase in lawlessness.&quot; The claim is provably false.<br /> <br /> 21 Apr 1980 Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in Newsweek magazine as saying: &quot;Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G.I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything.&quot; The claim is provably false.<br /> <br /> 10 May 1980 Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in the Chicago Tribune as saying: &quot;Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon.&quot; The claim is provably false.<br /> <br /> 10 Sep 1980 Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in Sierra magazine as saying: &quot;Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation. So let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emissions standards from man-made sources.&quot; The claim is provably false.<br /> <br /> 9 Oct 1980 Ronald Reagan is quoted in the Los Angeles Times as saying: &quot;Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93% of the oxides of nitrogen.&quot; The claim is provably false.<br /> <br /> 20 Oct 1980 Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in Time magazine as saying: &quot;I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I have a suspicion that one little mountain out there, in these last several months, has probably released more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere than has been released in the last ten years of automobile driving or things of that kind.&quot; The claim is provably false.<br /> <br /> 24 Oct 1980 During a nationally-televised campaign speech, Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan declares: &quot;Mr. Carter is acting as if he hasn't been in charge for the past three and a half years; as if someone else was responsible for the largest deficit in American history.&quot; (Carter's total deficit: $252 billion; Reagan's: $1.4 trillion)<br /> <br /> 6 Mar 1981 Ronald Reagan's second press conference held, in which names of reporters are drawn out of a jellybean jar. Those not chosen (including Associated Press and two of the Big Three TV networks) mostly boycott the conference in disgust.<br /> <br /> 23 Nov 1981 After President Reagan vetoes an emergency spending bill which would have prevented a shutdown of the federal government, House Speaker Tip O'Neill tells a reporter: &quot;He knows less about the budget than any president in my lifetime. He can't even carry on a conversation about the budget. It's an absolute and utter disgrace.&quot;<br /> <br /> May 1982 President Ronald Reagan declares: &quot;In England, if a criminal carried a gun, even though he didn't use it, he was tried for first-degree murder and hung if he was found guilty.&quot;<br /> <br /> 7 Mar 1983 President Ronald Reagan tells a group of ultraconservatives that &quot;this country is compelled by scripture and the Lord Jesus Christ to oppose Russia with all military and political means.&quot;<br /> <br /> 21 Sep 1983 Ronald Reagan's Secretary of the Interior, James Watt, describes his staff's racial diversity to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: &quot;We have every mixture you can have. I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent.&quot; Watt is forced to resign 18 days later over these comments.<br /> <br /> 31 Jan 1984 President Ronald Reagan tells Good Morning America: &quot;What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless who are homeless, you might say, by choice.&quot;<br /> <br /> 6 Mar 1984 Former President Jimmy Carter observes: &quot;President Reagan doesn't always check the facts before he makes statements, and the press accepts this as kind of amusing.&quot;<br /> <br /> 30 Apr 1984 When a student at Shanghai's University of Fudan asks which life experiences best prepared him for being President of the United States, Ronald Reagan replies: &quot;You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off.&quot;<br /> <br /> 4 Dec 1985 Anticipating arms control discussions with his Soviet counterpart, President Reagan draws on an extraterrestrial analogy: &quot;[H]ow easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from some other species from another planet outside in the universe. We'd forget all the little local differences that we have between our countries ...&quot;<br /> <br /> 21 Mar 1986 In an interview with the New York Times, President Ronald Reagan repeats his long-debunked claim: &quot;In England, if a criminal carried a gun, even though he didn't use it, he was tried for first-degree murder and hung if he was found guilty.&quot;<br /> <br /> 17 Feb 1987 Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev reveals Reagan's preoccupation with space aliens: &quot;At our meeting in Geneva, the U.S. President said that if the earth faced an invasion by extraterrestials, the United States and the Soviet Union would join forces to repel such an invasion. I shall not dispute the hypothesis, though I think it's early yet to worry about such an intrusion...&quot;<br /> <br /> May 1987 According to his authorized biography (published in 2000), Reagan wonders aloud about the AIDS pandemic: &quot;Maybe the Lord brought down this plague... [because] illicit sex is against the Ten Commandments.&quot; [Dutch, p. 458]<br /> <br /> 15 Sep 1987 During a luncheon with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnatze in the White House, President Reagan once again wondered what would happen if the Earth were under attack from an external threat: &quot;Don't you think the United States and the Soviet Union would be together?&quot;<br /> <br /> 4 May 1988 During a question-and-answer session in Chicago, President Reagan revisits his 'invaders from space' notion: &quot;I've often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer -- a power from outer space, from another planet. Wouldn't we all of a sudden find that we didn't have any differences between us at all, we were all human beings, citizens of the world, and wouldn't we come together to fight that particular threat?&quot;<br /> <br /> [[File:Reagan social security.jpg|right]]<br /> ====Reagan in a nutshell====<br /> <br /> Criminal:<br /> *Iran-Contra treason.<br /> *Lied to Congress - set the standard for avoiding responsibility: &quot;I don't recall.&quot;<br /> *Likely encouraged Iran to keep US Embassy hostages until he was into office.<br /> <br /> Fiscal:<br /> *Supply-side economics (lower taxes on rich, and it will somehow &quot;trickle-down&quot; to the poor)<br /> *National debt tripled.<br /> *$12 billion trade surplus --&gt; $100+ billion trade deficit.<br /> *Deregulated savings and loans, precipitated huge economic crisis.<br /> *Raised taxes eleven times.<br /> *Taxed the poor, cut taxes for the rich.<br /> *SDI &quot;Star Wars&quot; boondoggle.<br /> *Military spending increased to match imaginary spending in USSR.<br /> *Deregulation caused oil bust.<br /> *Broke air traffic control union.<br /> <br /> Social:<br /> *Gutted social welfare. <br /> *Dismantled the mental healthcare system.<br /> *Release of mental patients without recourse, homeless population up.<br /> *Ignored AIDS crisis.<br /> *Abstinence-only sex education.<br /> *Strengthened ATF, banned automatic weapons, blamed Democrats for it.<br /> *Privatized the prison industry and made incarceration a profitable industry.<br /> *Increased spending for War on Drugs.<br /> *Increasing national drinking age from 18 to 21, then threatened to pull federal funding from states if they challenged him.<br /> *Underfunded NEA.<br /> *EPA Superfund grants manipulated to help Republicans in local elections.<br /> *Deregulated kids' tv, initiated 22 minute toy ads.<br /> *Killed energy programs (even removed solar panels from White House).<br /> *Legalized abortion in CA as governor, prior to Roe v. Wade.<br /> *Supported gun control<br /> *Crack in the ghettos. (? Due to support for Contras and Noriega?)<br /> *Though Richard Nixon created the DEA and started the &quot;War on Drugs&quot;, Reagan and his wife kicked the campaign into a full-scale media frenzy with &quot;Just Say No&quot;.<br /> <br /> Foreign:<br /> *Wars all over Central America, incl Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras.<br /> *Promoted Iran-Iraq war.<br /> *Sent Marines into Beirut, abandoned mission after terrorist bombing.<br /> *Broke detente with USSR until Gorbachev personally made things better.<br /> *Backed Contras in drug running schemes.<br /> *Supported right-wing dictators and movements everywhere, including:<br /> *Apartheid regime in SA.<br /> *Marcos regime in Phillipines.<br /> *Saddam Hussein and Baathist regime in Iraq, even after Kurds gassed.<br /> *Taliban in Afghanistan.<br /> *Invasion of Panama (condemned by the OAS &amp; Geneva Conventions) to extract former CIA operative Manuel Noreiga.<br /> *Augusto Pinochet in Chile.<br /> *Called African delegates at the UN &quot;Monkeys&quot;<br /> <br /> Concepts:<br /> *Welfare queens.<br /> *Trees cause pollution.<br /> *Ketchup as a vegetable.<br /> <br /> Appointments:<br /> *30+ convicted appointees.<br /> *Ed Meese at Justice, porn freak.<br /> *James Watt at Interior, idiot, corrupt.<br /> *William Casey at CIA, religious nut, strikes into Afghanistan.<br /> *HUD a corrupt mess in general.<br /> *Politicised CIA.<br /> *Robert Bork to SCOTUS (failed), segregationist and asshole.<br /> *Antonin Scalia, same but he got in.<br /> <br /> Personal:<br /> *Unfit to serve due to Alzheimer's disease by term's end.<br /> *Paid shill by GE and insurance industry to lobby against government healthcare.<br /> *McCarthyite.<br /> *Backed Moral Majority.<br /> *Pardoned Robert Walker, who went on to kill his wife.<br /> *Started presidential campaign at racist murder crime scene in Philadelphia, MS.<br /> *Laid wreath and made speech at SS cemetery in Germany.<br /> *Vietnam War a &quot;noble cause.&quot;<br /> *Helped start right-wing noise machine, by promoting myth of liberal media and destroying Fairness Doctrine<br /> *Hated sex, made Ron Jr. feel like a sissy and quit ballet.<br /> *Believed in astrology and used it to run government.<br /> *Innovated &quot;talking points&quot; cue cards.<br /> *&quot;I don't recall&quot; to weasel out of press questions.<br /> *Confused movies with reality.<br /> *Joked about bombing Russia during a mic check, which inflamed the rest of the world.<br /> <br /> ===Other opinions on Reagan===<br /> <br /> ====Christopher Hitchens====<br /> <br /> {{bluebox|The stupidity of Ronald Reagan.<br /> By Christopher Hitchens, Posted Monday, June 7, 2004, at 1:03 PM ET<br /> <br /> Not long ago, I was invited to be the specter at the feast during &quot;Ronald Reagan Appreciation Week&quot; at Wabash College in Indiana. One of my opponents was Dinesh D'Souza: He wasn't the only one who maintained that Reagan had been historically vindicated by the wreckage of the Soviet Union. Some of us on the left had also been very glad indeed to see the end of the Russian empire and the Cold War. But nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.<br /> <br /> Ronald Reagan claimed that the Russian language had no word for &quot;freedom.&quot; (The word is &quot;svoboda&quot;; it's quite well attested in Russian literature.) Ronald Reagan said that intercontinental ballistic missiles (not that there are any non-ballistic missiles—a corruption of language that isn't his fault) could be recalled once launched. Ronald Reagan said that he sought a &quot;Star Wars&quot; defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R. Ronald Reagan professed to be annoyed when people called it &quot;Star Wars,&quot; even though he had ended his speech on the subject with the lame quip, &quot;May the force be with you.&quot; Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars. Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the &quot;End Times&quot; foreshadowed in the Bible. In the Oval Office, Ronald Reagan told Yitzhak Shamir and Simon Wiesenthal, on two separate occasions, that he himself had assisted personally at the liberation of the Nazi death camps.<br /> <br /> There was more to Ronald Reagan than that. Reagan announced that apartheid South Africa had &quot;stood beside us in every war we've ever fought,&quot; when the South African leadership had been on the other side in the most recent world war. Reagan allowed Alexander Haig to greenlight the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, fired him when that went too far and led to mayhem in Beirut, then ran away from Lebanon altogether when the Marine barracks were bombed, and then unbelievably accused Tip O'Neill and the Democrats of &quot;scuttling.&quot; Reagan sold heavy weapons to the Iranian mullahs and lied about it, saying that all the weapons he hadn't sold them (and hadn't traded for hostages in any case) would, all the same, have fit on a small truck. Reagan then diverted the profits of this criminal trade to an illegal war in Nicaragua and lied unceasingly about that, too. Reagan then modestly let his underlings maintain that he was too dense to understand the connection between the two impeachable crimes. He then switched without any apparent strain to a policy of backing Saddam Hussein against Iran. (If Margaret Thatcher's intelligence services had not bugged Oliver North in London and become infuriated because all European nations were boycotting Iran at Reagan's request, we might still not know about this.)<br /> <br /> One could go on. I only saw him once up close, which happened to be when he got a question he didn't like. Was it true that his staff in the 1980 debates had stolen President Carter's briefing book? (They had.) The famously genial grin turned into a rictus of senile fury: I was looking at a cruel and stupid lizard. His reply was that maybe his staff had, and maybe they hadn't, but what about the leak of the Pentagon Papers? Thus, a secret theft of presidential documents was equated with the public disclosure of needful information. This was a man never short of a cheap jibe or the sort of falsehood that would, however laughable, buy him some time.<br /> <br /> The fox, as has been pointed out by more than one philosopher, knows many small things, whereas the hedgehog knows one big thing. Ronald Reagan was neither a fox nor a hedgehog. He was as dumb as a stump. He could have had anyone in the world to dinner, any night of the week, but took most of his meals on a White House TV tray. He had no friends, only cronies. His children didn't like him all that much. He met his second wife—the one that you remember—because she needed to get off a Hollywood blacklist and he was the man to see. Year in and year out in Washington, I could not believe that such a man had even been a poor governor of California in a bad year, let alone that such a smart country would put up with such an obvious phony and loon.<br /> <br /> However, there came a day when Mikhail Gorbachev visited Washington and when the Marriott Hotel—host of the summit press conferences—turned its restaurant into the &quot;Glasnost Cafe.&quot; On the sidewalk, LaRouche supporters wearing Reagan masks paraded with umbrellas, in mimicry of Neville Chamberlain. I huddled from dawn to dusk with friends, wondering if it could be real. Many of those friends had twice my IQ, or let's say six times that of the then-chief executive. These friends had all deeply wanted either Jimmy Carter or Walter Mondale to be, presumably successively, the president instead of Reagan. They would go on to put Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen bumper stickers on their vehicles. No doubt they wish that Mondale had been in the White House when the U.S.S.R. threw in the towel, just as they presumably yearn to have had Dukakis on watch when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. I have been wondering ever since not just about the stupidity of American politics, but about the need of so many American intellectuals to prove themselves clever by showing that they are smarter than the latest idiot in power, or the latest Republican at any rate.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.slate.com/id/2101842/&lt;/ref&gt; }}<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> &lt;references/&gt;<br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/05/reagan-centennial/<br /> * Salon: Behind the Ronald Reagan myth: “No one had ever entered the White House so grossly ill informed” [http://www.salon.com/2015/12/27/behind_the_ronald_reagan_myth_no_one_had_ever_entered_the_white_house_so_grossly_ill_informed/]<br /> <br /> {{wip}}<br /> <br /> <br /> [[category:historical arguments]]<br /> [[category:people|Reagan]]<br /> [[category:theists|Reagan]]<br /> [[category:gun control]]<br /> [[category:US presidents]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/File:Reagan_social_security.jpg File:Reagan social security.jpg 2019-08-12T14:43:45Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div></div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Theists_in_the_news Theists in the news 2019-08-04T17:30:44Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>Modern stories and links of the many weird things religious people do that make news.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Priest in cuffs.jpg|right]]<br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * [[Theists in the news (archive)]] for many more stories<br /> * [[Republicans in the news]]<br /> * [[Democrats in the news]]<br /> * [[Christian terrorists in the news]]<br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> ==Theists in the news==<br /> <br /> * Florida minister, Frederic Sterry Smith, 62, of St. Augustine, president of Servant’s Heart Disaster Relief, a St. Augustine-based nonprofit and &quot;evangelical hands-on ministry devoted to helping hurricane victims in North America and the Caribbean, was charged with simple battery after writing a homophobic slur in a restaurant receipt and shoving it down the shirt of the restaurant's female manager.[https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/crime/2019/08/01/florida-man-writes-anti-gay-remark-restaurant-bill-assaults-woman-police-say/1887099001/]<br /> * A Christian school kindergarten teacher in the Chicago suburbs is facing charges related to sexual assault and child pornography after investigators say that she sent explicit material to minors for years. Shannon Griffin is the wife of the pastor of Jordan Baptist Church and is a teacher at the associated Jordan Baptist school in Oak Lawn, a suburb of Chicago. Christian school teacher who scolded girls to be modest was molesting male students. She was a moral scold who told girls they were dressing like sluts &amp; the entire time she was sending naked photos of herself to male students. [https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/07/christian-school-teacher-scolded-girls-modest-molesting-male-students/][https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/07/02/teacher-sexual-assault-shannon-griffin-burbank/][https://abc7chicago.com/burbank-teacher-charged-with-sex-assault-soliciting-child-porn-from-2-students/5375571/]<br /> * A principal in Louisiana has resigned after being arrested at a Washington, DC strip club. Holy Family Principal Michael Comeau was chaperoning a middle school trip to the nation's capital when he was arrested at Archibald's Gentlemen's Club in Northwest DC. Police were called to the club, just blocks from the White House, to found Comeau “standing in the roadway, refusing to move.&quot; Comeau reportedly refused to settle up with the club.[https://www.complex.com/life/2019/06/louisiana-school-principal-arrested-at-strip-club-in-dc]<br /> * The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $8 million to a teenager who was sexually abused and kidnapped by a teacher at her Catholic high school.The teenager's attorney, David Ring, said that the settlement — finalized by a court last week — is the largest that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles has ever paid to a single victim, The Associated Press reports. Over the past 15 years, the archdiocese has paid more than $740 million in sexual abuse settlements.[https://www.npr.org/2019/04/17/714212609/archdiocese-of-los-angeles-agrees-to-8-million-settlement-in-sex-abuse-case]<br /> * A large majority of priests in the Vatican are gay, although many are not sexually active, a new book claims. A total of about 80 percent of the most revered clerics in the Roman Catholic Church are homosexual despite the church’s opposition to gay rights, according to the extensively researched book by French journalist Frédéric Martel. The gay priests adhere to an unspoken code called “the closet,” where it is understood that, for instance, a cardinal or bishop who denounces homosexuality is more likely to be gay, according to the book “In the Closet of the Vatican.”[https://nypost.com/2019/02/14/80-percent-of-priests-in-the-vatican-are-gay-new-book/]<br /> * 7-year old boy killed after court-appointed guardian punishes him for not knowing 13 bible verses[https://fox11online.com/news/local/guardians-teen-charged-in-death-of-7-year-old-manitowoc-co-boy]<br /> * Evangelicals sue for right to deny shelter to homeless transgender people.Alliance Defending Freedom, the far-right evangelical legal group that defended the “right” of a baker to deny service to gay couples before the Supreme Court, has a new target.This time they’re suing to give a homeless shelter in Anchorage, Alaska, the “right” to deny help to transgender people. The federal court lawsuit seeks to overturn the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance that prohibits discrimination against LGBTQ people.[https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/01/evangelicals-sue-right-deny-shelter-homeless-transgender-people/]<br /> * Male Escort Exposes 36 Gay Priests in File Sent to Vatican Containing Explicit WhatsApp Chats and Erotic Photos[https://www.newsweek.com/male-escort-exposes-36-gay-priests-file-sent-vatican-containing-explicit-829968]<br /> * Vatican’s Third-Most Powerful Official Cardinal George Pell Convicted on All Charges He Sexually Abused Choir Boys in the 1990s[http://blackchristiannews.com/2018/12/vaticans-third-most-powerful-official-cardinal-george-pell-convicted-on-all-charges-he-sexually-abused-choir-boys-in-the-1990s/]<br /> * “Aryan Pride” for Jesus: An Oklahoma pastor is under arrest after being caught running a prostitution ring with a white supremacist. Pastor Walter Eugene Brazington Jr. is “being charged with procuring for prostitution and possession of a firearm while in the commission of a felony,” according to a report from Tulsa World.[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2017/12/oklahoma-pastor-busted-running-white-supremacist-prostitution-ring/]<br /> * Lawsuit: At least 14 kids abused at hands of North Charleston church volunteer. Jacop Robert Lee Hazlett, 28, of Proximity Drive in West Ashley, faces one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor under 11 years old, according to his arrest affidavit and court records. Hazlett had worked as a volunteer chaperone and day care provider since March for NewSpring Church, located at 5101 Ashley Phosphate Road, supervising children ages 3 to 5 in a room called &quot;the Tree House.&quot;[https://www.postandcourier.com/news/lawsuit-at-least-kids-abused-at-hands-of-north-charleston/article_7d97d7f2-f3d8-11e8-9ec7-6ffa7310138b.html]<br /> * An Illinois priest who spent time in prison for manufacturing and selling a date-rape drug has been removed from ministry again for getting involved in a criminal case without telling his superiors. Peoria Diocese Bishop Daniel Jenky removed the Rev. Jeffrey Windy from his post serving three Ottawa parishes in March.[https://www.bnd.com/news/state/illinois/article222188995.html]<br /> * Gun-related tragedy struck once again this week, this time at a Catholic Supply store in Ballwin, Missouri, a suburb of St. Lous. USA Today reports that a former pastor has been arrested after allegedly attempting to coerce three women into having sex with him at gunpoint. When one of them resisted, he shot 53-year-old Jamie Schmidt in the head and forced the other two to submit to his “deviant” demands. The shooter, 53-year-old Thomas Bruce, has a reputation for right-wing tirades on social media and has ranted against gun-free zones in the past. He was a huge fan of President Trump, attended his rallies, and regularly tweeted about Republican politics. His last tweet read “I’ve already forgotten you. #promisesmade #promiseskept #trump2020 #BuildTheWall” and his feed was full of retweets from white nationalist FOX anchor Laura Ingraham.[https://washingtonpress.com/2018/11/23/a-trump-obsessed-pastor-just-shot-a-woman-dead-and-sodomized-two-others-in-horrific-sex-assault/]<br /> * Catholic Church Shielded Priests Who Raped Boys, but It Helped Lock Up a Priest Who Swiped Bucks. The monsignor who gambled and traveled on the Archdiocese’s dime remained behind bars as a grand jury reported on the crimes of his peers who preyed on children.[https://www.thedailybeast.com/catholic-church-shielded-priests-who-raped-boys-but-it-helped-lock-up-a-priest-who-swiped-bucks]<br /> * Grand jury report: Priests ran child porn ring in Pittsburgh Diocese[http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-nws-pa-pittsburgh-diocese-porn-ring-20180815-story.html]<br /> * Pastor Timothy Lee Reddin did not practice what he preached, police claim. The Arkansas church leader was arrested this week for allegedly trying to meet with an underage boy to have sex, part of a police sting operation.[https://www.inquisitr.com/5025011/anti-gay-pastor-timothy-lee-reddin-arrested-sex-with-underage-boy/]<br /> * A former New Jersey pastor who co-founded the Creation Festival, which bills itself as the country's largest Christian music festival, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for sexually assaulting multiple young children. Harry Thomas, 75, who formerly pastored Come Alive New Testament Church in Medford and went on to help create the popular music festival, failed in withdrawing his guilty plea on Friday, the Associated Press reported.[https://www.christianpost.com/news/creation-festival-co-founder-sentenced-to-18-years-for-child-sex-abuse-i-deserve-to-be-cast-into-sea-226484/][http://www.startribune.com/ex-pastor-sentenced-to-18-years-in-child-sex-abuse-case/489423631/]<br /> * Revelations that a prominent U.S. cardinal sexually abused and harassed his adult seminarians have exposed an egregious abuse of power that has shocked Catholics on both sides of the Atlantic. But the Vatican has long been aware of its heterosexual equivalent — the sexual abuse of nuns by priests and bishops — and done little to stop it, an Associated Press analysis has found. An examination by the AP shows that cases of abused nuns have emerged in Europe, Africa, South America and Asia, demonstrating that the problem is global and pervasive, thanks to the sisters' second-class status in the church and their ingrained subservience to the men who run it.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/metoo-vatican-nuns-denounce-priests-1.4765021]<br /> * A longtime pastor of a Bogalusa church pleaded guilty to the theft of more than $95,000 in Social Security disability benefits, U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans said Thursday. Jerry R. Newton, 54, of Slidell, is set for an Oct. 25 sentencing hearing before U. S. District Court Judge Jane Triche Milazzo.[https://www.nola.com/northshore/index.ssf/2018/07/bogalusa_pastor_pleads_guilty.html]<br /> * The Vatican tribunal has convicted a former Holy See diplomat and sentenced him to 5 years in prison for possessing and distributing child pornography in the first such trial of its kind inside the Vatican.[https://apnews.com/76aa075fbd1b40a487bc75fdd8f56e8c] Note that the Vatican refused to revoke the perpetrator's diplomatic immunity so he could be prosecuted in the United States.[https://www.inquisitr.com/4954910/priest-and-former-vatican-diplomat-to-u-s-found-guilty-of-possessing-child-pornography/]<br /> * A Catholic priest is behind bars after admitting to plying an underage boy with alcohol and molesting him. Father Steven Michael Guidry and his attorney reported to the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office on June 13 and confessed to giving alcohol to the minor before sexually assaulting him.[https://wgno.com/2018/06/14/catholic-priest-arrested-for-molesting-16-year-old-boy/]<br /> * Diocese knew priest arrested for child sex crimes was abusing boys, authorities say. The Diocese of Erie knew since at least May 2010 of the abuse, but this priest was still in active ministry as recently as 2 months ago. The Catholic Church knowingly allows pedophiles to have access to children.[https://www.pennlive.com/news/2018/05/erie_priest_charged_with_child.html]<br /> * The Rev. William Thomas Faucher, accused of child porn and drug crimes, was role playing with a fellow author in some of the chatroom conversations in which he’s alleged to have said he wanted to rape and kill children, his attorney said in court Friday.[http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/article208855704.html]<br /> * A well-known Alabama evangelist, public speaker and author was arrested in Hoover Tuesday on child sex charges. Paul Edward Acton Bowen, a 37-year-old Gadsden native who now lives in Etowah County's Southside community, was taken into custody by Hoover police about 12:35 p.m. The founder of Acton Bowen Outreach Ministries is charged with second-degree sodomy, enticing a child to enter a vehicle or house for immoral purposes, and second-degree sex abuse. The victim was a young male, but police did not release his age except to say he is over 12 and under 16.[http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2018/04/alabama_evangelist_acton_bowen.html]<br /> * As they back Trump, evangelical leaders face their own sex scandals.[https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/03/31/they-back-trump-evangelical-leaders-face-their-own-sex-scandals/9JwpnbdWzHOzQ7tEAmxUPN/story.html]<br /> * A former Bossier Parish pastor has been arrested after admitting to police he had meth at his Bossier City home. Andy C. Harris, 56, of 2406 Benton Road in Bossier City, was charged with possession of a Schedule II controlled dangerous substance (methamphetamine) and possession of drug paraphernalia. [https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/crime/2018/03/09/benton-man-arrested-possession-meth/410682002/]<br /> * A 1,200-page dossier containing the names of 34 ‘actively gay’ priests and six seminarians in Italy has been sent to the Vatican by the archdiocese of Naples.The allegations were compiled by Francesco Mangiacapra, a gay male escort who told local media he couldn’t put up with the priests’ &quot;hypocrisy&quot; any longer.[http://www.newsweek.com/male-escort-exposes-36-gay-priests-file-sent-vatican-containing-explicit-829968]<br /> * Mari Lopez Lopez credited veganism and a faith in God as the cure for her breast cancer last year, just months before her breast cancer returned. She later died from cancer.[http://www.wfaa.com/article/news/youtuber-who-claimed-veganism-cured-her-cancer-dies-of-cancer/521951036]<br /> * Pastor George Nelson Gregory, 61, of Munhall, Pa., was caught by cops in the backseat of a car with another man who was completely naked and bound with nylon rope in the front seat. Gregory says he was counseling the man, who is battling a drug problem.[http://www.pennlive.com/daily-buzz/2018/02/pa_pastor_caught_by_cops_in_wi.html]<br /> * 100s of child porn images, LSD, ecstasy found in Boise priest’s home, prosecutor says. Longtime Catholic Rev. W. Thomas Faucher, 72, was brought into court in a wheelchair Monday evening for his arraignment on 14 different charges.[http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/crime/article198567664.html]<br /> * Memphis mega-church pastor Andy Savage admits he molested a minor days before his ‘True Love Waits’ workshop.[https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/memphis-mega-church-pastor-admits-he-molested-a-minor-days-before-his-true-love-waits-workshop/]<br /> * An Ohio priest under investigation for questionable communications with a minor took his life in Chicago. The Chicago Tribune reports that Father James Csaszar jumped from the 82-story Aqua Hotel in downtown Chicago and the death was ruled a suicide on Thursday by the Cook County medical examiner's office.[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-csaszar-ohio-priest-kills-himself-in-chicago-amid-investigation/]<br /> * Co-founder of nation’s largest Christian rock festival abused minors for 16 years, authorities say, Harry L. Thomas, 74, of Medford Township, faces charges of aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office. [https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/co-founder-of-nations-largest-christian-rock-festival-abused-minors-for-16-years-authorities-say/]<br /> * Ralph Shortey, former Trump campaign chairman, Anti-Gay 'Family Values' Former GOP State Senator Guilty of Child Sex Trafficking After Being Found With Teen Boy.[http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/_family_values_republican_state_senator_pleads_guilty_to_child_sex_trafficking_after_child_pornography_charges_dropped]<br /> * Conservative megachurch founder Bob Coy accused of molesting 4-year-old[https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/conservative-megachurch-founder-bob-coy-accused-of-molesting-4-year-old/]<br /> * Devin Patrick Kelley, a vocational bible instructor, and ex Air Force soldier, opened fire in a Texas church, killing 26 people including children.[https://viral.buzzunites.com/2017/11/05/devin-kelley-5-fast-facts-you-need-to-know/]<br /> * Amber James, the mother who killed her nine-year-old son on Halloween, says she prayed, thought about it, and cried before she strangled him to death to “save” him.[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/11/03/mom-who-murdered-son-on-halloween-prayed-about-it-first/]<br /> * A Middletown mother will spend 21/2 to 5 years in state prison for assaulting her daughter because the teen didn't recite Bible verses correctly.Rhonda Shoffner, 41, was sentenced by Dauphin County Judge John F. Cherry after she pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated assault, strangulation, child endangerment and making terroristic threats.[http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/10/mom_who_beat_daughter_for_not.html?utm_source=fark&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_content=link&amp;ICID=ref_fark]<br /> * The Vatican trial over $500,000 in donations to the pope’s pediatric hospital that were diverted to renovate a cardinal’s penthouse is reaching its conclusion, with neither the cardinal who benefited nor the contractor who was apparently paid twice for the work facing trial.[https://www.apnews.com/ed6e8fcc7b5146eabc65e6b83564be19/Anomalies-abound-in-Vatican-trial-over-diverted-donations]<br /> * Shattered faith: Nearly 100 sex abuse suits against Catholic priests rock island of Guam.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/04/guam-priest-child-sex-abuse-scandal/503680001/]<br /> * Vatican blames women for pedophile priest scandals. [http://www.neonnettle.com/news/2359-catholic-church-women-are-to-blame-for-pedophile-priests]<br /> * Vatican rocked: Police raid drug-fuelled gay orgy at cardinal's apartment.[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=11886097]<br /> * Christian fundamentalist pastor to stand trial over death of two-year-old granddaughter from pneumonia.[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/christian-faith-healer-pastor-trial-pneumonia-medicine-rowland-foster-ella-fundamentaliism-a7814261.html]<br /> * Faith-healing parents charged with murder in death of premature twin baby[http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-city/index.ssf/2017/06/followers_of_christ_parents_of.html#incart_river_index]<br /> * North Carolina televangelist Todd Coontz – author of numerous books on faith and finances – has been indicted on charges of tax fraud spanning more than a decade.[http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/23/534128363/north-carolina-televangelist-indicted-on-charges-of-tax-crimes]<br /> * Ferndale Mother Arrested For Attempted Homicide After ‘Trying to Remove the Demons’ from Her 11-Year-Old Child.[https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2017/jun/16/ferndale-mother-arrested-attempted-homicide-after/]<br /> * Juror jailed for contempt in mistrial of minister, Brooke Covington, who is accused of kidnapping and beating a parishioner to expel his 'homosexual demons'[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4576384/Gay-beating-case-hands-jury-4-years-incident.html]<br /> * Monsignor William A. Dombrow was able to steal $500,000 from a church-owned retirement home, and used the money to pay for gambling, expensive dinners and concerts. He pleaded guilty to four federal wire fraud counts on Thursday. The maligned priest previously ran Villa St. Joseph in Darby for the Philadelphia Archdiocese, which housed aging priests and treated those accused of sexual abuse. Much of the stolen money came from insurance payments for priests who died and from the estates of parishioners.[http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/05/priest_admits_to_stealing_500k.html#incart_river_home_pop]<br /> * Conservative Christian and Oklahoma lawmaker Ralph Shortey is charged with engaging in child prostitution and other felonies after being caught in a hotel room with an underage boy.[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ralph-shortey-oklahoma-lawmaker-hit-child-prostitution-charges-n734376]<br /> * Oklahoma missionary sentenced to 40 years for sexually assaulting children in Upendo Children's Home in Nairobi, Kenya. Matthew Lane Durham, 21, was sentenced to four decades in prison by Judge David L. Russell on four counts of &quot;engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places,&quot; according to court documents. &quot;In a span of just 33 days,&quot; prosecutors wrote to the court, Durham &quot;raped three girls -- ages 5, 9 and 15 -- at least eight times. During that same time period, he sexually molested a 12-year-old boy twice.&quot;[http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/07/us/missionary-sexual-assault-kenya-children/index.html]. Christian publications claim missionary was possessed by a Demon named &quot;Luke&quot;. [http://www.christianpost.com/news/teen-missionary-indicted-for-raping-children-at-orphanage-says-he-was-possessed-by-demon-named-luke-124428/]<br /> * Religious Parents Who Refused to Take Son to Hospital and Thought God Would Resurrect Him Found Guilty of First Degree Murder.[http://edmontonjournal.com/storyline/they-knew-he-was-dying-parents-guilty-of-1st-degree-murder-in-sons-death]<br /> * Word of Life Christian Church Pastor Tiffanie Irwin, her brother Joseph Irwin and mother and son church members Linda Morey and David Morey have entered guilty pleas in the church orchestrated beating of two teen boys, leaving one dead and the other severely injured. Reports indicate the teens were beaten because they discussed leaving the congregation. Lucas Leonard, 19, was severely beaten by members of the church last October, suffering injuries to the abdomen, genitals, back and thighs that ultimately proved to be fatal. At the time of the suspects arrest, police said the “spiritual counseling session” at the church was in reality an hours-long attack in which the teen boys were repeatedly whipped with cords, pummeled with fists, and kicked. They suffered severe injuries to the abdomen, genitals, back and thighs. A church member testified that the “counseling session” lasted for 14 hours and only stopped because Lucas “was dead at that point.”[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2016/10/pastor-3-others-guilty-in-fatal-beating-of-teen-trying-to-escape-church/]<br /> * Man Admits to Killing Cancer-Surviving Daughter, But Not Before Asking God to Intervene. 25-year-old Ryan Lawrence pleaded guilty to murdering his 21-month-old daughter, a survivor of eye cancer, in part because he may have been jealous of all the attention she was getting.[https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1804932/dad-battered-brave-toddler-to-death-with-a-baseball-bat-in-jealous-rage/]<br /> * Christian who &quot;dedicated his life to Jesus&quot;, Richard Keenan, who served as mayor of Hubbard in 2010 and 2011, was indicted last month eight counts of rape and 12 counts of attempted rape and gross sexual imposition of a 4 year old girl.[http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/ohio-ex-mayor-who-dedicated-life-to-christ-admits-to-raping-4-year-old-and-blames-her-as-willing/]<br /> * Brian Mitchell, a youth pastor at a North Olmsted church, a husband and father of three children under the age of 8, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday for raping an unnamed teenager.[http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/09/extremely_delusional_north_olm.html]<br /> * 24-year-old “Christian Warrior” named Bryce Cuellar was arrested after posting a YouTube video detailing how he was going to kill “gays, faggots, lesbians and satanists.”[http://www.ktnv.com/news/las-vegas-man-facing-charges-after-posting-threatening-youtube-video]<br /> * Pastor Who Said Pulse Victims Weren't Victims, Got 'What They Deserve' Arrested for Child Molestation. Controversial pastor Ken Adkins has been charged with two counts of child molestation in Georgia and is in the Glynn County jail, officials said.[http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2016-08-26/story/controversial-pastor-and-activist-ken-adkins-charged-child-molestation]<br /> * Gunman fatally shoots Pennsylvania churchgoer after fight over seat at Sunday service.[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/churchgoer-killed-fight-seat-sunday-service-article-1.2618098]<br /> * Jerry Childress, a 75-year-old church organist from Florida, was arrested for indecent exposure after a glory hole attempt went wrong.[http://americannewsx.com/religion/church-organist-arrested/]<br /> * An Acadiana priest has been arrested for allegedly possessing over 500 images of child pornography, according to the Louisiana State Police. Father Felix David Broussard, a priest at St. Bernard Roman Catholic Church in Breaux Bridge, was arrested today and booked into St. Martin Parish jail on 500 counts of pornography involving juveniles.[http://klfy.com/2016/07/27/breaux-bridge-priest-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges/]<br /> * A 3-year-old boy died on Sunday after he was accidentally left in a hot car parked outside a church, according to police. The child’s family was attending an afternoon Bible study at Rehoboth Praise Assembly in Dallas.[http://kdvr.com/2016/07/25/child-dies-in-hot-car-while-family-worships-in-church/]<br /> * London priest charged after allegedly gambling away more than $500,000 meant for Syrian refugees. [http://m.en.canoe.com/CNEWS/Crime/2016/07/14/22651721.html]<br /> * Man following &quot;god's orders&quot; tried to crush toddler daughter's skull with a bat to help her get to heaven.[http://www.wbir.com/news/deputies-toddler-attacked-at-motel-critically-injured/260712415]<br /> * Sam Sutter, A 26-year-old youth minister is facing sexual battery charges following his arrest. According to a Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office report, Sutter was involved in a sexual relationship with a teenage girl he met through his job at the Openwater Church. [http://wfla.com/2016/06/19/youth-pastor-with-odessa-church-arrested-on-sexual-battery-charges/]<br /> * Anti-gay pastor, Dave Reynolds, the recently fired pastor of the Cornerstone Bible Fellowship in Sherwood, Arkansas is currently facing 70 counts of distributing, possessing, or viewing child pornography.[http://www.arkansasmatters.com/news/local-news/new-details-in-child-porn-charges-against-former-sherwood-pastor]<br /> * The Catholic church in Pennsylvania has been accused of employing “mafia-like” tactics in a campaign to put pressure on individual Catholic lawmakers who support state legislation that would give victims of sexual abuse more time to sue their abusers.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/17/pennsylvania-catholic-church-sexual-abuse-bill-mafia-tactics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other]<br /> * David James Brown, head pastor at First Christian Church of Jeffersonville, Indiana. was arrested after allegedly seeking sex with a minor.[http://www.wdrb.com/story/32232744/jeffersonville-pastor-arrested-after-allegedly-seeking-sex-with-a-minor]<br /> * A former Vatican archbishop, Jozef Wesolowski, accused of paedophilia stored tens of thousands of child porn videos and photos on a computer in his office at the Holy See diplomatic compound in the Dominican Republic, it has emerged.[http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/vatican-paedophilia-scandal-archbishop-jozef-wesolowski-stored-over-100000-child-porn-videos-1467410]<br /> * John David Brock, 60, died after a snake bit him in the left arm and he refused medical treatment, according to the Bell County Sheriff's Office. Brock was handling a snake during a church service at Mossy Simpson Pentecostal Church in Jenson, Kentucky.[http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Man-dies-in-Bell-County-after-he-was-bitten-by-snake-during-church-service-318868451.html]<br /> * The president of a Christian charity in Iowa, Jon S. Petersen, of Cedar Rapids admitted that he embezzled nearly a half-million dollars in donations and used the money to pay for a sex addiction, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. [http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article78129452.html]<br /> * Virginia pastor, Christopher Alan Hogge, 48, has been charged eight counts of possession and distribution of child pornography, according to the Isle of Wight County Sheriff's Office.[http://wtvr.com/2016/05/23/virginia-pastor-arrested-on-child-porn-charges/]<br /> * A private Christian school in Kansas is reserving the right to expel students who have gay family members. [http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/05/20/christian-school-threatens-to-expel-pupils-if-they-have-a-gay-family-member/?utm_source=ET&amp;utm_medium=ETFB&amp;utm_campaign=portal&amp;utm_content=inf_11_60_2&amp;tse_id=INF_c1d0cb4ff39e4a1b90bc30417379d323]<br /> * Grace Baptist Church children’s pastor arrested in sex trafficking operation.[http://wate.com/2016/05/20/tbi-conduct-knoxville-human-trafficking-investigation/]<br /> * Vehemently Anti-LGBT Pastor Arrested On Child Pornography Charges.[http://theintellectualist.co/infamous-anti-lgbt-pastor-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges/]<br /> * Ohio seminary student arrested for alleged plan to have sex with adopted baby in Mexico [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/seminary-student-allegedly-planned-sex-baby-mexico-article-1.2515560]<br /> * Woman beats disabled man with his own cane for saying he doesn’t believe in God[http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/woman-beats-disabled-man-with-his-own-cane-because-he-said-he-doesnt-believe-in-god-police/]<br /> * Phoenix Woman Accused of Killing Atheist Victim, Then Keeping the Body as a “Shrine From God”[http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/64863225-story]<br /> * Lisa Biron, Anti-Gay Christian Lawyer, Arrested On Child Pornography Charges[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/20/lisa-biron-anti-gay-christian-lawyer-child-porn-charges_n_2166055.html]<br /> * Pastor Slept with Young Girls During Prayer Sessions as Part of their “Healing Process”[http://allchristiannews.com/pastor-slept-with-young-girls-during-prayer-sessions-as-part-of-their-healing-process/]<br /> * Sheriff's Office: Harvey catechism teacher promises students a photo of Santa, then shows them naked picture instead[http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/news/crime/13876211-148/catechism-teacher-in-harvey-showed]<br /> * Almost 800 babies and children were buried in a mass grave in Ireland near a home for unmarried mothers run by nuns.[http://churchandstate.org.uk/2014/06/almost-800-babies-buried-in-septic-tank-at-catholic-run-irish-home-for-unmarried-mothers/]<br /> * Alabama Pastor Made Daughter Watch While He Sexually Abused Minors.[http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/10/prosecutors_plan_to_introduce.html]<br /> * The pastor and two members of a Corona, CA church pleaded guilty on Monday to torturing a thirteen-year-old boy, including driving him into the desert and forcing him to dig his own grave. Lonny Lee Remmers, James Craig, and Darryll Duana Jeter Jr. abused the child at a group home run by Heart of Worship Community Church.[http://aattp.org/pastor-church-members-viciously-tortured-young-boy-forced-him-to-dig-own-grave-in-the-desert/]<br /> * Minneapolis church struck by lightning, destroying cross[http://www.fox9.com/weather/15331725-story]<br /> * Six Brothers Raped Their Sister For Years While ‘Christian’ Homeschool Parents Did Nothing.[http://reverbpress.com/justice/jackson-brothers-sexual-assault-sister-christian/]<br /> * A Tennessee pastor who was recently admonished by police for having sex with another man in a church van parked in a parking lot, was arrested this week for embezzling an estimated $60,000 from his church’s coffers.[http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/pastor-caught-having-gay-sex-in-van-spent-stolen-church-money-on-farmer-dating-website-police/]<br /> * Four of six homeschooled brothers, including a pastor, admit to molesting their sister.[http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/four-of-six-homeschooled-brothers-plead-guilty-to-molesting-their-sister-while-anti-school-parents-did-nothing/#.VV88faFKoyU.facebook]<br /> * Antigay Michigan Pastor Outed by Grindr Messages[http://www.mediaite.com/online/antigay-michigan-pastor-outed-by-grindr-messages/]<br /> * A Baptist preacher in Eureka Springs who features prominently in a new video urging repeal of the city's Ordinance 2223, which protects LGBT people from discrimination, pleaded guilty to a series of violent rapes in Oklahoma in 1977.[http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2015/04/20/eureka-spring-pastor-in-repeal-2223-ad-is-a-convicted-serial-rapist]<br /> * Texas church members accused of starving ‘demon-possessed’ toddler and then trying to resurrect him[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/texas-church-members-accused-of-starving-demon-possessed-toddler-and-then-trying-resurrect-him/]<br /> * Louisianal youth pastor is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old girl. Jonathan Bailey has been charged with one count of indecent relationship with a juvenile.[http://www.wdsu.com/news/local-news/new-orleans/youth-pastor-accused-of-inappropriate-relationship-with-juvenile/31530534?utm_source=Social&amp;utm_medium=FBPAGE&amp;utm_campaign=wdsutv&amp;Content%20Type=Story&amp;linkId=12612108]<br /> * Ax-wielding hair designer burns down Michigan adult store to please God[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/ax-wielding-hair-designer-burns-down-michigan-shop-to-please-god/]<br /> * An 11-year-old Canadian Aboriginal girl with leukaemia, who stopped chemotherapy after &quot;seeing a vision of Jesus,&quot; has died.[http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/makayla-sault-girl-who-refused-chemo-for-leukemia-dies-1.2829885]<br /> * Anti-LGBT Pastor Arrested for Grabbing Man’s Genitals at Indiana Park[http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/anti-lgbt-pastor-arrested-grabbing-mans-genitals-indiana-park]<br /> * Baptist church leader in Missouri arrested for soliciting &quot;dog sex&quot; on Craigslist.[http://gawker.com/baptist-church-leader-arrested-for-soliciting-dog-sex-o-1617858449?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&amp;utm_source=gawker_facebook&amp;utm_medium=socialflow]<br /> * Woman told police “she was driving and out of no where God told her that he would take it from here and she let go of the wheel and let him take it.” Shortly after letting go of the wheel she ran over a motorcyclist and drove off.[http://wane.com/2014/07/18/motorcyclist-i-said-to-myself-today-is-the-day-i-die/]<br /> <br /> * Florida woman accused of killing 2-year-old while re-enacting Bible story[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/28/florida-woman-accused-of-killing-2-year-old-while-re-enacting-bible-story/]<br /> <br /> {{ytv2|qmwEOuMGxu4|right}}<br /> * Evangelical Christians want access to more corpses … to hone their ‘raising the dead’ skills[http://freethinker.co.uk/2014/03/10/evangelical-christians-want-access-to-more-corpses-in-order-to-practice-raising-them-from-the-dead/]<br /> * Tennessee woman accused of drowning her baby says ‘Jesus came down’ and did it.[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/10/tennessee-woman-accused-of-drowning-her-baby-says-jesus-came-down-and-did-it/]<br /> * Files released by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee reveal that in 2007, Cardinal Timothy F. Dolan, then the archbishop there, requested permission from the Vatican to move nearly $57 million into a cemetery trust fund to protect the assets from victims of clergy sexual abuse who were demanding compensation. [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/us/dolan-sought-vatican-permission-to-shield-assets.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0]<br /> * Belief in god associated with poor mental health.[http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2013/04/belief-in-punitive-god-associated-with-poor-mental-health.html]<br /> * The chaplain of Milan’s San Vittore prison, 51-year-old Fr Alberto Barin, has been arrested for sustained sexual assault with multiple aggravations and for abuse of authority. Six non-Italian prisoners have accused him of demanding sexual acts in exchange for favours ranging from items of food to living conditions in the prison. Officers investigating the allegations were able to document the incidents by placing a videocamera in the chaplain’s office in the prison.[http://www.corriere.it/english/12_novembre_21/san-vittore-prison_463940e4-33da-11e2-a480-b74fe153b15c.shtml]<br /> *Rev. Ryan J. Muelhauser, Ex-Gay Counsellor, Arrested For Molestation Of Two Young Men[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/08/rev-ryan-j-muelhauser-molestation-_n_2094609.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&amp;ir=Gay%20Voices]<br /> <br /> * Priest embroiled in ivory smuggling controversy.[http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/27/world/asia/priest-ivory-controversy/index.html]<br /> * New Orleans pastor who was appointed in April to a local economic development board charged with seven counts of molestation of a juvenile[http://wap.wdsu.com/wap/news/text.jsp?sid=48&amp;nid=1491143881&amp;cid=4640&amp;scid=-1&amp;ith=3&amp;title=Local%20News&amp;headtitle=Local%20News]<br /> * Pregnant Teenager in Dominican Republic dies after doctors withold cancer treatment because the chemotherapy would harm her unborn child.[http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/17/world/americas/dominican-republic-abortion/index.html?hpt=hp_bn2]<br /> * Christian musician Randy Travis, who claimed in 2009 his faith in god allowed him to quit drinking in his 20s, was found naked and drunk in Texas, and arrested after he threatened to kill a law enforcement officer[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/08/drunk-and-naked-christian-music-star-randy-travis-threatens-cops-life/]<br /> * A Northern California jury has awarded $28 million in damages to a woman who said the Jehovah’s Witnesses allowed an adult member of a Fremont, Calif., church to molest her when she was a child. [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/us/28-million-awarded-in-jehovahs-witnesses-abuse-case.html?_r=3]<br /> * Christian school rejects admission of Mormon pupil[http://m.arkansasonline.com/news/2012/may/31/lr-christian-academy-rejects-mormon-pupil-20120531/]<br /> * Family Battle Offers Look Inside Lavish TV Ministry[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/05/us/tbn-fight-offers-glimpse-inside-lavish-tv-ministry.html?_r=1]<br /> * Court ruling: Jesus doesn't cure cancer.[http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6835139/Ruling-Jesus-doesn-t-heal-cancer]<br /> * Heralded &quot;Miracle&quot; toddler found in the wreckage of tornado, dies in hospital[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=10789913]<br /> * Christian fringe group intimidates Lowes into pulling advertisement from a reality show portrary Muslims as decent people[http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/12/my-take-is-all-american-muslim-begetting-all-american-bigotry/?hpt=hp_c2]<br /> * 6 HIV sufferers die after their pastor told them to stop taking their medication, because god would heal them.[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066106/Scandal-churches-claiming-cure-HIV-God-die-abandoning-medication.html]<br /> * Brazil rocked by abortion for 9-year-old rape victim: Church excommunicates mother and doctors – but not accused rapist[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brazil-rocked-by-abortion-for-9yearold-rape-victim-1640165.html]<br /> * Pentecostal Bishop Charles E. Brown indicted on rape, sexual battery charges[http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/11/no_bishop_indicted_on_rape_sex.html]<br /> * Killings in Norway spotlight anti-Muslim thought.[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/us/25debate.html?_r=4&amp;ref=global-home]<br /> * Austrian's religious headgear gives authorities a headache.{{rl|http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14135523}}<br /> * Pray For Newark claims amazing results as its Christian volunteers &quot;prayer walk&quot; the Newark city streets, seeking to pray down crime. Then murders rose 71%{{rl|http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/5/3/91235/90609/}}<br /> * Preacher sells debt removal through prayer[http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/consumer&amp;id=7984766]<br /> * Authorities have arrested a 52-year-old man they say committed a hate crime against a man he learned was a Muslim. They were having a conversation when the victim admitted he was a Muslim, which prompted the other man to stab him in the neck with a pocket knife.{{rl|http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/st-pete-man-accused-of-hate-crime-against-muslim/1149809}}<br /> * Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley told a church crowd just moments into his new administration that those who have not accepted Jesus as their savior are not his brothers and sisters, shocking some critics who questioned Tuesday whether he can be fair to non-Christians.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_alabama_governor_christians}}<br /> * The Salvation Army says it refuses to distribute Harry Potter and Twilight toys collected for needy children because they're incompatible with the charity's Christian beliefs.{{rl|http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/canada/2010/12/08/16478111.html}}<br /> * A couple who prayed for their sick toddler rather than take him to a doctor before his pneumonia death are on trial in Philadelphia, charged with involuntary manslaughter.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101207/ap_on_re_us/us_prayer_death_toddler}}<br /> * Archdiocese wants to recoup legal fees after a suit alleging abuse by priest in Burnsville was dismissed.[http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/faith/110501539.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU]<br /> * Minister, elders guilty of not reporting sexual abuse of a child - sought to have immunity from criminal liability in failing to report the case of suspected child abuse, &quot;arguing that they acted in good faith in persuading the parents and the perpetrator to make report of abuse.&quot;[http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Minister%2C+elders+guilty+of+not+reporting+abuse&amp;articleId=5584e3e1-cc52-4715-820c-be1eb16a82f9]<br /> * A Catholic Priest Charged with Sexually Assaulting Boy in ’08 Was Rearrested Last Week and Charged with Hiring Someone to Kill His Alleged Victim.{{rl|http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7307344.html}}<br /> * Baby dies as family jumps out of window to get away from the devil.{{rl|http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2010/10/24/15810081.html}}<br /> * Lamar advertising company will sell billboards to hookers but not atheists.{{rl|http://www.bnet.com/blog/advertising-business/lamar-sells-billboards-to-hookers-but-not-to-atheists/2412}}<br /> * Religious teen shoots and murders an atheist teen over an argument; judge does not consider it a hate crime and reduces the murder charge; parents outrages.{{rl|http://www.whotv.com/news/who-story-doyle-family-shooting-100810,0,3732283.story}}<br /> * Study shows atheists and agnostics are more knowledgeable about religion than religious people themselves.{{rl|http://pewforum.org/Other-Beliefs-and-Practices/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey.aspx}}<br /> * Bishop Eddie Long, a powerful anti-gay pastor becomes ensnared in his own sordid same-sex scandal{{rl|http://www.salon.com/life/this_week_in_crazy/index.html?story=/mwt/feature/2010/09/25/this_week_crazy_eddie_long}}<br /> * Deaf victim of sex abuse is suing pope{{rl|http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/23/deaf-victim-of-sex-abuse-is-suing-pope-and-going-public-with-his-story-for-the-first-time/}}<br /> * A fourth young male member of Bishop Eddie Long's megachurch is suing the prominent pastor, claiming Long coerced him into a sexual relationship. The lawsuit was filed by Spencer LeGrande, a member of New Birth Charlotte. New Birth Charlotte is a satellite church run by Long in Charlotte, N.C. The lawsuit said Long told LeGrande &quot;I will be your dad&quot; and invited the 17-year-old to journey to Kenya with him in July 2005. LeGrande said that Long gave him a sleeping pill on that trip and that the two engaged in sexual acts.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100924/ap_on_re_us/us_pastor_abuse_allegations_lawsuit}}<br /> <br /> * According to a recent study, religious belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to research published today. {{rl|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article571206.ece}}<br /> * Pastor George Randall &quot;Randy&quot; Scott, of the Bethel Temple Assembly Of God Church in Bryan, Texas, was arrested after returning from a trip to Sweden with his wife on for allegedly pretending to be a teenager online to meet other minor boys and then blackmailing them into having sex. {{rl|http://www.kbtx.com/local/headlines/100500214.html}}<br /> * Giant Jesus statue struck by lightning and destroyed. {{rl|http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/15/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning/}}<br /> * Thinking he was possessed by the devil, American cage fighter rips out still-beating heart of his training partner.{{rl|http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1282647/American-cage-fighter-rips-beating-heart-training-partner-fearing-possessed-devil.html}}<br /> * Christian singer leaves his wife and family and admits hes gay, while continuing his Christian musical career.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/15/us/15religion.html}}<br /> * Nun Excommunicated For Allowing life-saving Abortion[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126985072]<br /> * Janine Denomme, Woman Ordained As Catholic Priest, Denied Catholic Burial By Church{{rl|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/19/janine-denomme-woman-orda_n_582423.html}}<br /> * Guns, high-powered ammunition and explosives equipment have been seized in raids on 12 properties in and near Adelaide linked with the Agape Ministries of God.{{rl|http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/20/2904812.htm}}<br /> * City of Miami uses prayer group to ward off bad weather.{{rl|http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&amp;articleid=20100511_11_0_MIAMIO602438}}<br /> * Jehovah's Witness Couple Disown Son For Receiving Blood Transfusion.{{rl|http://news.peacefmonline.com/religion/201005/42722.php}}<br /> * Noah's ark found, says evangelical filmmaker.{{rl|http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/pc-certainty-of-noahs-ark-discovery-on-mount-ararat/story-e6frfku0-1225858591328}}<br /> * British court punishes atheist for leaving flyers in the prayer room of the John Lennon airport.{{rl|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7624578/Atheist-given-Asbo-for-leaflets-mocking-Jesus.html}}<br /> * Islamists have warned the creators of TV show South Park they could face violent retribution for depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit.{{rl|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8636455.stm}}<br /> * An episode of “South Park” that continued a story line involving the Prophet Muhammad was shown Wednesday night on Comedy Central with audio bleeps and image blocks reading “CENSORED” after a Muslim group warned the show’s creators that they could face violence for depicting that holy Islamic prophet. {{rl|http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/south-park-episode-is-altered-after-muslim-groups-warning/}}<br /> * Catholic church admits Norwegian Bishop resigned last year after admitting he was involved in child molestation.[http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=10305913]<br /> * Pope coordinated assignment of pedophile priest back into circulation.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/world/europe/26church.html}}<br /> {{ga}}<br /> * The Roman Catholic Church’s account of Pope Benedict XVI’s handing of a serial paedophile was called into question today when new documents emerged suggesting that his office was kept informed of the offender’s rapid return to working with children. {{rl|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7077196.ece}}<br /> * Pope Sexual Abuse Scandal: Benedict Implicated In Cover-Up Of Wisconsin Abuse Case{{rl|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/24/pope-sexual-abuse-lawrence-murphy_n_512483.html}}<br /> * Atheist group throws party for teens who had their prom canceled rather than allow a same-sex couple to attend the dance sponsored by religious school{{rl|http://www.examiner.com/x-8928-Philadelphia-Atheism-Examiner~y2010m3d12-Atheist-group-offers-to-hold-gay-friendly-prom}}<br /> * Religious massacres continue in Nigeria{{rl|http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704869304575109962258328770.html}}<br /> * Vatican chorister sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for papal gentleman-in-waiting{{rl|http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/04/vatican-gay-sex-scandal}}<br /> * Baby starved to death because he didn't say &quot;amen.&quot;{{rl|http://www.smh.com.au/world/baby-starved-to-death-because-he-did-not-say-amen-20100225-p4el.html}}<br /> * Pakistan's president sacrifices a goat each day to keep evil away{{rl|http://www.palibandaily.com/2010/02/23/a-goat-a-day-keeps-the-evil-away-pakistans-president-and-his-addiction-to-sacrifices/}}<br /> * Haiti's prime minister said Monday it's clear to him that the 10 U.S. Baptists who tried to take 33 children out of his quake-ravaged country without permission &quot;knew what they were doing was wrong.&quot;{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100201/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_americans_detained}}<br /> * A jury has found Scott Philip Roeder, 51, of Merriam, Kansas, guilty of premeditated first-degree murder in the slaying of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller.{{rl|http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/27216}}<br /> * Jeff and Marci Beagley have been charged with criminally negligent homicide for not providing medical treatment to their 16-year-old son, who died of an untreated urinary tract blockage. The family belongs to Followers of Christ Church, whose members shun medical care in favor of prayer.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wirestory?id=9550298&amp;page=2]<br /> * A Republican member of the Iowa Legislature is proposing lawmakers should be required to say &quot;so help me God&quot; when being sworn into office.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wirestory?id=9550298&amp;page=2]<br /> * Members of a Roanoke church have voted to leave the country's largest Lutheran denomination over its policy to allow gay clergy.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9550298]<br /> * Matt Baker, 38, a former Baptist minister, has been indicted for allegedly drugging and suffocating his wife Kari, whose 2006 death was initially ruled a suicide.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9551269]<br /> * A government witness said Wednesday that the five young woman who testified last year that evangelist Tony Alamo took them as a &quot;wife&quot; and sexually abused them as minors should receive $2.7 million each for physical and mental pain suffered.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9551976]<br /> * Three American Evangelical Christians go to Uganda and teach thousands (including police, national politicians, etc.) how gays and their agenda are trying to destroy Ugandan families and sodomize their children. Result: a bill to impose a death sentence for homosexual behavior.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/world/africa/04uganda.html}}<br /> * School board opts to fire public school teacher who refused to teach evolution, taught creationism and burned crosses into the arms of students{{rl|http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/06/21/Freshwater_decision.ART_ART_06-21-08_A1_ABAI539.html}}<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Theological_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Ronald_Reagan Ronald Reagan 2019-07-31T14:22:03Z <p>Pile: /* Reagan and racism */</p> <hr /> <div>Ronald Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). Born in Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s, where he was an actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), and a spokesman for General Electric (GE). His start in politics occurred during his work for GE. Originally a member of the Democratic Party, he switched to the Republican Party in 1962, at the age of 51. After delivering a rousing speech in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy in 1964, he was persuaded to seek the California governorship, winning two years later and again in 1970. He was defeated in his run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968 as well as 1976, but won both the nomination and election in 1980.<br /> <br /> As president, Reagan implemented bold new political and economic initiatives. His supply-side economic policies, dubbed &quot;Reaganomics,&quot; (later called &quot;Voodoo economics&quot; by George H. Bush) included deregulation and substantial tax cuts implemented in 1981. In his first term he survived an assassination attempt, took a hard line against organized labor, and ordered military actions in Grenada. He was reelected in 1984. His second term was marked by the bombing of Libya and the Iran-Contra affair. The president had previously ordered a massive military buildup in an arms race with the Soviet Union, forgoing the strategy of détente. He publicly described the USSR as an &quot;evil empire&quot; and supported anti-Communist movements worldwide. <br /> <br /> Reagan left office in 1989. In 1994, the former president disclosed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease earlier in the year; he died ten years later at the age of ninety-three. <br /> <br /> Reagan is held up as a hero in the conservative Republican movement. However, his actual record is far from exemplary. Reagan is largely credited with first implementing the concept of &quot;supply side economics&quot; which suggested that if we cut taxes on the rich, there will be a &quot;trickle down&quot; effect benefiting all aspects of society. Regan also ran up one the largest budget deficits in the history of the country at that time, and increased the national debt more than any other president before him.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Remembering reagan.jpg|right]]<br /> <br /> ====Things Conservatives May Not Know/Acknowledge About Ronald Reagan====<br /> <br /> * Reagan raised taxes 11 times during his presidency.<br /> * Reagan signed the &quot;Therapeutic Abortion Act,&quot; into law, in an effort to reduce the number of &quot;back-room abortions&quot; performed in California. This legalized abortion prior to Roe v Wade.&lt;ref&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan#cite_note-Cannon51-74&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> * Reagan supported gun control.&lt;ref&gt;In a speech at George Washington University, where he was treated after being shot by John W. Hinckley, Reagan called on Congress to enact a law requiring a seven-day waiting period for the purchase of handguns. This later became the Brady Law. &quot;I support the Brady Bill,&quot; he said in a March 28, 1991 speech, &quot;and I urge the Congress to enact it without further delay.&quot;&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and The Fairness Doctrine:====<br /> In 1987 the Supreme Court ruled that the [http://bsalert.com/news/354/A_Primer_On_The_Fairness_Doctrine_How_We_Screwed_Up.html fairness doctrine] was not mandated by congress and therefore unenforceable by the FCC. In 1987 both houses of Congress voted to make The Fairness Doctrine enforceable. Reagan vetoed it and killed it. The Fairness Doctrine, among other things, mandated equal time in the media for opposing viewpoints, required news media to not ignore important news of critical interest to the community, and generally helped delineate editorial from advertising.<br /> <br /> ====Reagan's responsibility for the 2000-era economic depression====<br /> {{ytv|8xiKqowqbOk|right}}<br /> “''This bill is the most important legislation for financial institutions in the last 50 years. It provides a long-term solution for troubled thrift institutions. ... All in all, I think we hit the jackpot.''” So declared Ronald Reagan in 1982, as he signed the Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act. Traditionally, the U.S. government ran significant budget deficits only in times of war or economic emergency. Federal debt as a percentage of G.D.P. fell steadily from the end of World War II until 1980. But indebtedness began rising under Reagan; it fell again in the Clinton years, but resumed its rise under the Bush administration, leaving us ill prepared for the emergency now upon us.<br /> <br /> The increase in public debt was, however, dwarfed by the rise in private debt, made possible by financial deregulation. The change in America’s financial rules was Reagan’s biggest legacy. And it’s the gift that keeps on taking.<br /> <br /> The immediate effect of Garn-St. Germain was to turn the Savings and Loan industry from a problem into a catastrophe. The S.&amp; L. crisis has been written out of the Reagan hagiography, but the fact is that deregulation in effect gave the industry — whose deposits were federally insured — a license to gamble with taxpayers’ money, at best, or simply to loot it, at worst. By the time the government closed the books on the affair, taxpayers had lost $130 billion, back when that was a lot of money.<br /> <br /> But there was also a longer-term effect. Reagan-era legislative changes essentially ended New Deal restrictions on mortgage lending — restrictions that, in particular, limited the ability of families to buy homes without putting a significant amount of money down.<br /> <br /> These restrictions were put in place in the 1930s by political leaders who had just experienced a terrible financial crisis, and were trying to prevent another. But by 1980 the memory of the Depression had faded. Government, declared Reagan, is the problem, not the solution; the magic of the marketplace must be set free. And so the precautionary rules were scrapped.&lt;ref&gt;Paul Krugman, New York Times 06/01/09 {{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/opinion/01krugman.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and the metric system: A time line.====<br /> 1975: The Metric Conversion Act of 1975 (Public Law 94-168) passed by Congress and the U.S. Metric Board is created.<br /> <br /> 1979: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) requires wine producers and importers to switch to metric.<br /> <br /> 1980: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) requires distilled spirits producers and importers to switch to metric.<br /> <br /> 1982: Reagan disbands U.S. Metric Board and fires everyone associated with it.<br /> [[File:Reagan investigations.jpg|right|400px]]<br /> ====Reagan and Gun Control====<br /> *Reagan supported and signed a 15-day waiting period when he was governor of California. He then blamed it on the Democrats.<br /> <br /> *Reagan supported and signed a law &quot;prohibiting the carrying of loaded firearms on one's person or in a vehicle, in any public place or on any public street.&quot; The law was aimed at stopping the Black Panthers after their march on the California State Capitol, but affected all gun owners. He then blamed it on the Democrats.<br /> <br /> *Reagan supported and signed a ban on the transfer of new manufacture fully automatic firearms while president and blamed it on the Democrats.<br /> <br /> *Reagan vocally supported the Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban after his presidency in the early 90s. Which were then blamed on the Democrats.<br /> <br /> *Reagan said he does not support citizens' rights to own an AK-47 and did not believe it was a sporting weapon.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/reaganak47.asp&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=nG4V_6pCLVo&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and racism====<br /> <br /> * Ronald Reagan described African delegates to the UN as &quot;monkeys&quot;, in newly-unearthed tapes published by a US magazine. He made the comment in a 1971 telephone call with then-President Richard Nixon. Mr Reagan, who was governor of California at the time, was angered that African delegates at the UN sided against the US in a vote. Members of the Tanzanian delegation started dancing after the UN voted to recognise China and expel Taiwan. Mr Reagan, who was a supporter of Taiwan, called the president the following day to express his apparent frustration. He said: &quot;To see those... monkeys from those African countries - damn them, they're still uncomfortable wearing shoes!&quot; Mr Nixon, who quit as president in 1974, can then be heard laughing. Reagan publicly defended the apartheid states of Rhodesia and South Africa in the 1970s.&lt;ref&gt;https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49177034&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and homosexuality====<br /> <br /> Despite his own son being gay, in 1982 Reagan signed a Defense Department directive 1332.14 that stated, &quot;homosexuality is incompatible with military service&quot; and persons who engaged in homosexual acts or stated that they are homosexual or bisexual are to be discharged.&lt;ref&gt;D.O.D. Directive 1332.14, January 28, 1982; http://dont.stanford.edu/regulations/regulation41.pdf&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and &quot;Ketchup is a vegetable&quot;====<br /> <br /> In 1981, Ronald Reagan's budget director, David Stockman, proposed classifying ketchup as a vegetable as part of Reagan's budget cuts for federally financed school lunch programs (it would make it cheaper to satisfy the requirements on vegetable content of lunches). The suggestion was widely ridiculed and the proposal was killed.<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and the arms race====<br /> [[File:Reagan deal.png|right]]<br /> * Russia offered to eliminate all ballistic missiles if the U.S. would cease its &quot;Star Wars&quot; missile development program. Reagan refused and continued spending on this ill-fated financial boondoggle and blew the chance for disarmament.<br /> <br /> :'''Reykjavík Summit''': The US made progress by agreeing to reduce intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe, but movement toward a major arms control agreement broke down in a dispute over the U.S. space-based antimissile program, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Gorbachev argued that SDI could render Soviet nuclear forces useless, eliminating the concept of mutual deterrence and leaving his country vulnerable to attack. Reagan offered to defer deployment of SDI for ten years, but was determined to continue research and development. The deadlock prevented a major arms control agreement.&lt;ref&gt;Beschloss, Michael R., and Strobe Talbott. At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the Cold War. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and the AIDS crisis====<br /> <br /> * throughout the beginnings of the crisis, had DoHHS officials say that everything was being done that could be to combat the epidemic and no more funding was needed<br /> <br /> :Following discovery of the first cases in 1981, it soon became clear a national health crisis was developing. But President Reagan's response was &quot;halting and ineffective,&quot; according to his biographer Lou Cannon. Those infected initially with this mysterious disease -- all gay men -- found themselves targeted with an unprecedented level of mean-spirited hostility.<br /> <br /> A significant source of Reagan's support came from the newly identified religious right and the Moral Majority, a political-action group founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell. AIDS became the tool, and gay men the target, for the politics of fear, hate and discrimination. Falwell said &quot;AIDS is the wrath of God upon homosexuals.&quot; Reagan's communications director Pat Buchanan argued that AIDS is &quot;nature's revenge on gay men.&quot;&lt;ref&gt;Reagan's AIDS Legacy, San Francisco Chronicle, 06/08/04 {{rl|http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/06/08/EDG777163F1.DTL}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> {{ytv|do0x-Egc6oA|right|Ronald Reagan's infamous &quot;evil empire&quot; speech. &quot;I would rather see my little girls die now, still believing in God, than have them grow up under Communism and one day die no longer believing in God.&quot;}}<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and drugs====<br /> <br /> * Under Ronald Reagan, and the &quot;Just Say No&quot; campaign, the incarceration rate increased dramatically, though ironically Reagan was responsible for the introduction of crack cocaine into urban areas.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/webb.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and union busting====<br /> <br /> * In 1981 Air Traffic Controllers went on strike over wretched job conditions. Reagan fired the 11,345 striking air traffic controllers who had ignored the order to go back to work, and banned them from federal service for life (which was later rescinded).&lt;ref&gt;http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/09/1107835/-Remembering-Reagan-s-Sweet-Little-Lie-to-the-Air-Traffic-Controllers&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and energy issues====<br /> <br /> :In June, 1979, President Jimmy Carter proposed a “new solar strategy” to “move our<br /> Nation toward true energy security and abundant, readily available energy supplies.” In an effort to set an<br /> example for the country, Carter had solar panels installed on the roof of the White House West Wing. The<br /> panels were used to heat water for the staff mess and other areas of the White House.<br /> <br /> :At the time, President Carter warned “a generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a<br /> museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be a small part of one of the greatest and most<br /> [[File:Im reagan.jpg|right|300px]]<br /> exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people; harnessing the power of the Sun to enrich our<br /> lives as we move away from our crippling dependence on foreign oil.”<br /> <br /> :The White House solar panels were a symbol of the Carter Administration’s commitment to reduce<br /> America’s dependence of foreign sources of energy, according to Hakes, who was the Administrator of the<br /> Energy Information Administration at the U.S. Department of Energy during the Clinton presidency. “Behind that<br /> was a whole package of tax incentives, research and development and loans that made it much more than a<br /> symbol,” Hakes added. “There was actually a very substantive attempt to move ahead the expanded use of solar<br /> energy.”<br /> <br /> :'''President Ronald Reagan took the solar panels down in 1986''' when the White House roof was being repaired.[http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/newsreleases/2007/07-18.pdf]<br /> <br /> =====Sabotaging solar power=====<br /> <br /> :''&quot;The budget for the [Solar Energy Research] Institute--which President Jimmy Carter had created to spearhead solar innovation--was slashed [under Reagan] from $124 million in 1980 to $59 million in 1982. Scientists who had left tenured university jobs to work [on the project] were given two weeks notice and no severance pay. The squelching of the institute--later partly re-funded and renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory--marked the start of Reagan's campaign against solar power. By the end of 1985, when Congress and the administration allowed tax credits for solar homes to lapse, the dream of a solar era had faded. The solar water heater President Carter had installed on the White House roof in 1979 was dismantled and junked. Solar water heating went from a billion-dollar industry to peanuts overnight; thousands of sun-minded businesses went bankrupt.&quot;''<br /> ::--Arthur Allen, Prodigal Sun, as reported in Mother Jones, March/April 2000<br /> [[Image:Ronald reagan socialized medicine.jpg|right|300px]]<br /> :''&quot;After the 1973 war and the first Arab oil shock, look at what America did and what Denmark did. What we did was say, &quot;Wow! We've got to really take on this issue.&quot; So beginning with President Ford and President Carter we said we were going to double the fuel efficiency of American cars from about 13 mpg then to I think it was 27.5. We were going to do it over ten years and we did it. We were so successful doing that we helped break OPEC in the late '70s and early '80s and crater the price of oil. That worked out so well that Ronald Reagan, when he came along, said, &quot;That's enough of that!&quot; He ripped off the solar panels that Jimmy Carter had put on the White House roof -- they were recently auctioned online.... Some of those solar companies that we spawned in the '70's and '80's -- they went bust also when we removed our subsidies and taxes. They were bought by Japan. I can't tell you how grateful the innovators and corporate leaders of Japan and Denmark are today for all the money America invested in research in wind and solar, spawning companies here which went bust in the '80s when we removed the subsidies from them.... One of the leading wind innovators in America, in fact, was given a medal of honor by the government of Denmark. All his technology ended up there.&quot;''<br /> ::--Thomas Friedman , New York Times columnist, interviewed by Terry Gross of WHYY's &quot;Fresh Air,&quot; about the revelations in his book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, 8 September 2008<br /> <br /> ====Ronald Reagan's cabinet choices====<br /> <br /> * '''James Watt''', Reagan's Secretary of the Interior said, ''&quot;We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand.&quot;'' and ''“My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns”''<br /> <br /> :What is the Secretary of the Interior in charge of?<br /> :*Office of Insular Affairs, National Business Center, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, Office of Surface Mining, Bureau of Reclamation, Fish and Wildlife Service, Minerals Management Service, National Park Service, Geological Survey<br /> <br /> :For someone who didn't seem too fond of trees, it should have come as no surprise that Ronald Reagan would appoint James Watt to be his Secretary of the Interior. James Watt was, according to the Audubon Society, &quot;arguably the most anti-environment secretary ever.&quot; Watt was not just anti-environment, he was a simpleton. Testifying before Congress, Watt was asked if he agreed that natural resources should be preserved for future generations. His response:<br /> <br /> :''&quot;I do not know how many future generations we can count of before the Lord returns.&quot;''<br /> ::--James Watt, February 5, 1981<br /> <br /> :However, it was not Watts' stance on environmental issues that compelled the Reagan administration to eventually force his resignation. It was the fallout from the following comment he made to a group of lobbyists regarding the makeup of his coal-leasing commission:<br /> <br /> :''&quot;We have every kind of mix you can have. I have a black, I have a woman, two Jews and a cripple.&quot;''<br /> ::--James Watt, September 21, 1983<br /> <br /> :Eighteen days later, Watt resigned.<br /> <br /> ====Cartoonist Tim Krieger on Reagan====<br /> <br /> &quot;His legacy includes the dismantling of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the final dirty win of Management over Labor, the outsourcing of America’s manufacturing base, the embezzlement of almost all the country's wealth by 1% of its citizens, the scapegoating of the poor and black, the War on Drugs, the eviction of schizophrenics into the streets, AIDS, acid rain, Iran-Contra, and, let’s not forget, the corpses of two hundred forty United States Marines. He moved the center of political discourse in this country to somewhere in between Richard Nixon and Augusto Pinochet. He believed in astrology and Armageddon and didn't know the difference between history and movies; his stories were lies and his jokes were scripted. He was the triumph of image over truth, paving the way for even more vapid spokesmodels like George W. Bush. He was, as everyone agrees, exactly what he appeared to be—nothing. He made me ashamed to be an American. If there was any justice in this world his Presidential Library would contain nothing but boys' adventure books and bad cowboy movies, and the only things named after him would be shopping malls and Potter's Fields. Let the earth where he is buried be seeded with salt.&quot;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and the Taliban====<br /> <br /> Reagan was directly responsible for arming and training Taliban fighters, including [[Osama Bin Laden]]:<br /> <br /> {{bluebox|Proclamation 5034—Afghanistan Day, 1983<br /> By the President of the United States of America, 21 March 1983<br /> <br /> The tragedy of Afghanistan continues as the valiant and courageous Afghan freedom fighters [The Taliban] persevere in standing up against the brutal power of the Soviet invasion and occupation. The Afghan people are struggling to reclaim their freedom, which was taken from them when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December of 1979.<br /> <br /> In this three-year period the Soviet Union has been unable to subjugate Afghanistan. The Soviet forces are pitted against an extraordinary people who, in their determination to preserve the character of their ancient land, have organized an effective and still spreading country-wide resistance. The resistance of the Afghan freedom fighters is an example to all the world of the invincibility of the ideals we in this country hold most dear, the ideals of freedom and independence.<br /> <br /> We must also recognize that the sacrifices required to maintain this resistance are very high. Millions have gone into exile as refugees. We will probably never know the numbers of people killed and maimed, poisoned and gased, of the homes that have been destroyed, and of the lives that have been shattered and stricken with grief.<br /> <br /> It is, therefore, incumbent upon us as Americans to reflect on the events in Afghanistan, to think about the agony which these brave people bear, and to maintain our condemnation of the continuing Soviet occupation. Our observance again this year of Afghanistan Day on March 21, the Afghan New Year, will recall for all the world America's unflagging sympathy for a determined people, its support for their refugees and commitment to achieving a political settlement for Afghanistan which will free that country from tyranny's yoke.<br /> <br /> The Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 65, has designated March 21, 1983 as &quot;Afghanistan Day&quot; and has requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of that day.<br /> <br /> Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate March 21, 1983 as Afghanistan Day.<br /> <br /> In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-first day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and seventh.<br /> <br /> Ronald Reagan }}<br /> <br /> ====Reagan quotes====<br /> <br /> 10 Oct 1965 California gubernatorial candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in the Fresno Bee as saying: &quot;We should declare war on North Vietnam... It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and be home by Christmas.&quot;<br /> <br /> 20 Oct 1965 California gubernatorial candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in the Los Angeles Times as saying: &quot;I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at the point of a bayonet, if necessary.&quot;<br /> <br /> 17 Jun 1966 California gubernatorial candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in the Los Angeles Times as saying: &quot;I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.&quot;<br /> [[Image:National-Debt-GDP.gif|right]]<br /> 16 Oct 1967 Ronald Reagan is quoted in the Los Angeles Times as saying: &quot;I have a feeling that we are doing better in the (Vietnam) war than the people have been told.&quot;<br /> <br /> 15 May 1969 Regarding the ongoing student protests at UC Berkeley, California governor Ronald Reagan is quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle as saying: &quot;If there has to be a bloodbath, then let's get it over with.&quot;<br /> <br /> 17 May 1976 Ronald Reagan tells Time magazine: &quot;Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say 'But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time.'&quot;<br /> <br /> 1979 Ronald Reagan: &quot;The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted... The suppressed study reveals that 80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees.&quot;<br /> <br /> 1980 During an interview with televangelist Jim Bakker on the PTL network, presidential candidate Ronald Reagan predicts that &quot;We may be the generation that sees Armageddon.&quot;<br /> <br /> 15 Feb 1980 Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in the Burlington Free Press as saying: &quot;All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.&quot; The claim is provably false.<br /> <br /> 14 Apr 1980 Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in Time magazine as saying: &quot;History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20 percent of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government... When it reaches 25 percent, there comes an increase in lawlessness.&quot; The claim is provably false.<br /> <br /> 21 Apr 1980 Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in Newsweek magazine as saying: &quot;Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G.I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything.&quot; The claim is provably false.<br /> <br /> 10 May 1980 Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in the Chicago Tribune as saying: &quot;Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon.&quot; The claim is provably false.<br /> <br /> 10 Sep 1980 Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in Sierra magazine as saying: &quot;Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation. So let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emissions standards from man-made sources.&quot; The claim is provably false.<br /> <br /> 9 Oct 1980 Ronald Reagan is quoted in the Los Angeles Times as saying: &quot;Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93% of the oxides of nitrogen.&quot; The claim is provably false.<br /> <br /> 20 Oct 1980 Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in Time magazine as saying: &quot;I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I have a suspicion that one little mountain out there, in these last several months, has probably released more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere than has been released in the last ten years of automobile driving or things of that kind.&quot; The claim is provably false.<br /> <br /> 24 Oct 1980 During a nationally-televised campaign speech, Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan declares: &quot;Mr. Carter is acting as if he hasn't been in charge for the past three and a half years; as if someone else was responsible for the largest deficit in American history.&quot; (Carter's total deficit: $252 billion; Reagan's: $1.4 trillion)<br /> <br /> 6 Mar 1981 Ronald Reagan's second press conference held, in which names of reporters are drawn out of a jellybean jar. Those not chosen (including Associated Press and two of the Big Three TV networks) mostly boycott the conference in disgust.<br /> <br /> 23 Nov 1981 After President Reagan vetoes an emergency spending bill which would have prevented a shutdown of the federal government, House Speaker Tip O'Neill tells a reporter: &quot;He knows less about the budget than any president in my lifetime. He can't even carry on a conversation about the budget. It's an absolute and utter disgrace.&quot;<br /> <br /> May 1982 President Ronald Reagan declares: &quot;In England, if a criminal carried a gun, even though he didn't use it, he was tried for first-degree murder and hung if he was found guilty.&quot;<br /> <br /> 7 Mar 1983 President Ronald Reagan tells a group of ultraconservatives that &quot;this country is compelled by scripture and the Lord Jesus Christ to oppose Russia with all military and political means.&quot;<br /> <br /> 21 Sep 1983 Ronald Reagan's Secretary of the Interior, James Watt, describes his staff's racial diversity to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: &quot;We have every mixture you can have. I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent.&quot; Watt is forced to resign 18 days later over these comments.<br /> <br /> 31 Jan 1984 President Ronald Reagan tells Good Morning America: &quot;What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless who are homeless, you might say, by choice.&quot;<br /> <br /> 6 Mar 1984 Former President Jimmy Carter observes: &quot;President Reagan doesn't always check the facts before he makes statements, and the press accepts this as kind of amusing.&quot;<br /> <br /> 30 Apr 1984 When a student at Shanghai's University of Fudan asks which life experiences best prepared him for being President of the United States, Ronald Reagan replies: &quot;You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off.&quot;<br /> <br /> 4 Dec 1985 Anticipating arms control discussions with his Soviet counterpart, President Reagan draws on an extraterrestrial analogy: &quot;[H]ow easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from some other species from another planet outside in the universe. We'd forget all the little local differences that we have between our countries ...&quot;<br /> <br /> 21 Mar 1986 In an interview with the New York Times, President Ronald Reagan repeats his long-debunked claim: &quot;In England, if a criminal carried a gun, even though he didn't use it, he was tried for first-degree murder and hung if he was found guilty.&quot;<br /> <br /> 17 Feb 1987 Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev reveals Reagan's preoccupation with space aliens: &quot;At our meeting in Geneva, the U.S. President said that if the earth faced an invasion by extraterrestials, the United States and the Soviet Union would join forces to repel such an invasion. I shall not dispute the hypothesis, though I think it's early yet to worry about such an intrusion...&quot;<br /> <br /> May 1987 According to his authorized biography (published in 2000), Reagan wonders aloud about the AIDS pandemic: &quot;Maybe the Lord brought down this plague... [because] illicit sex is against the Ten Commandments.&quot; [Dutch, p. 458]<br /> <br /> 15 Sep 1987 During a luncheon with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnatze in the White House, President Reagan once again wondered what would happen if the Earth were under attack from an external threat: &quot;Don't you think the United States and the Soviet Union would be together?&quot;<br /> <br /> 4 May 1988 During a question-and-answer session in Chicago, President Reagan revisits his 'invaders from space' notion: &quot;I've often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer -- a power from outer space, from another planet. Wouldn't we all of a sudden find that we didn't have any differences between us at all, we were all human beings, citizens of the world, and wouldn't we come together to fight that particular threat?&quot;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan in a nutshell====<br /> <br /> Criminal:<br /> *Iran-Contra treason.<br /> *Lied to Congress - set the standard for avoiding responsibility: &quot;I don't recall.&quot;<br /> *Likely encouraged Iran to keep US Embassy hostages until he was into office.<br /> <br /> Fiscal:<br /> *Supply-side economics (lower taxes on rich, and it will somehow &quot;trickle-down&quot; to the poor)<br /> *National debt tripled.<br /> *$12 billion trade surplus --&gt; $100+ billion trade deficit.<br /> *Deregulated savings and loans, precipitated huge economic crisis.<br /> *Raised taxes eleven times.<br /> *Taxed the poor, cut taxes for the rich.<br /> *SDI &quot;Star Wars&quot; boondoggle.<br /> *Military spending increased to match imaginary spending in USSR.<br /> *Deregulation caused oil bust.<br /> *Broke air traffic control union.<br /> <br /> Social:<br /> *Gutted social welfare. <br /> *Dismantled the mental healthcare system.<br /> *Release of mental patients without recourse, homeless population up.<br /> *Ignored AIDS crisis.<br /> *Abstinence-only sex education.<br /> *Strengthened ATF, banned automatic weapons, blamed Democrats for it.<br /> *Privatized the prison industry and made incarceration a profitable industry.<br /> *Increased spending for War on Drugs.<br /> *Increasing national drinking age from 18 to 21, then threatened to pull federal funding from states if they challenged him.<br /> *Underfunded NEA.<br /> *EPA Superfund grants manipulated to help Republicans in local elections.<br /> *Deregulated kids' tv, initiated 22 minute toy ads.<br /> *Killed energy programs (even removed solar panels from White House).<br /> *Legalized abortion in CA as governor, prior to Roe v. Wade.<br /> *Supported gun control<br /> *Crack in the ghettos. (? Due to support for Contras and Noriega?)<br /> *Though Richard Nixon created the DEA and started the &quot;War on Drugs&quot;, Reagan and his wife kicked the campaign into a full-scale media frenzy with &quot;Just Say No&quot;.<br /> <br /> Foreign:<br /> *Wars all over Central America, incl Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras.<br /> *Promoted Iran-Iraq war.<br /> *Sent Marines into Beirut, abandoned mission after terrorist bombing.<br /> *Broke detente with USSR until Gorbachev personally made things better.<br /> *Backed Contras in drug running schemes.<br /> *Supported right-wing dictators and movements everywhere, including:<br /> *Apartheid regime in SA.<br /> *Marcos regime in Phillipines.<br /> *Saddam Hussein and Baathist regime in Iraq, even after Kurds gassed.<br /> *Taliban in Afghanistan.<br /> *Invasion of Panama (condemned by the OAS &amp; Geneva Conventions) to extract former CIA operative Manuel Noreiga.<br /> *Augusto Pinochet in Chile.<br /> *Called African delegates at the UN &quot;Monkeys&quot;<br /> <br /> Concepts:<br /> *Welfare queens.<br /> *Trees cause pollution.<br /> *Ketchup as a vegetable.<br /> <br /> Appointments:<br /> *30+ convicted appointees.<br /> *Ed Meese at Justice, porn freak.<br /> *James Watt at Interior, idiot, corrupt.<br /> *William Casey at CIA, religious nut, strikes into Afghanistan.<br /> *HUD a corrupt mess in general.<br /> *Politicised CIA.<br /> *Robert Bork to SCOTUS (failed), segregationist and asshole.<br /> *Antonin Scalia, same but he got in.<br /> <br /> Personal:<br /> *Unfit to serve due to Alzheimer's disease by term's end.<br /> *Paid shill by GE and insurance industry to lobby against government healthcare.<br /> *McCarthyite.<br /> *Backed Moral Majority.<br /> *Pardoned Robert Walker, who went on to kill his wife.<br /> *Started presidential campaign at racist murder crime scene in Philadelphia, MS.<br /> *Laid wreath and made speech at SS cemetery in Germany.<br /> *Vietnam War a &quot;noble cause.&quot;<br /> *Helped start right-wing noise machine, by promoting myth of liberal media and destroying Fairness Doctrine<br /> *Hated sex, made Ron Jr. feel like a sissy and quit ballet.<br /> *Believed in astrology and used it to run government.<br /> *Innovated &quot;talking points&quot; cue cards.<br /> *&quot;I don't recall&quot; to weasel out of press questions.<br /> *Confused movies with reality.<br /> *Joked about bombing Russia during a mic check, which inflamed the rest of the world.<br /> <br /> ===Other opinions on Reagan===<br /> <br /> ====Christopher Hitchens====<br /> <br /> {{bluebox|The stupidity of Ronald Reagan.<br /> By Christopher Hitchens, Posted Monday, June 7, 2004, at 1:03 PM ET<br /> <br /> Not long ago, I was invited to be the specter at the feast during &quot;Ronald Reagan Appreciation Week&quot; at Wabash College in Indiana. One of my opponents was Dinesh D'Souza: He wasn't the only one who maintained that Reagan had been historically vindicated by the wreckage of the Soviet Union. Some of us on the left had also been very glad indeed to see the end of the Russian empire and the Cold War. But nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.<br /> <br /> Ronald Reagan claimed that the Russian language had no word for &quot;freedom.&quot; (The word is &quot;svoboda&quot;; it's quite well attested in Russian literature.) Ronald Reagan said that intercontinental ballistic missiles (not that there are any non-ballistic missiles—a corruption of language that isn't his fault) could be recalled once launched. Ronald Reagan said that he sought a &quot;Star Wars&quot; defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R. Ronald Reagan professed to be annoyed when people called it &quot;Star Wars,&quot; even though he had ended his speech on the subject with the lame quip, &quot;May the force be with you.&quot; Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars. Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the &quot;End Times&quot; foreshadowed in the Bible. In the Oval Office, Ronald Reagan told Yitzhak Shamir and Simon Wiesenthal, on two separate occasions, that he himself had assisted personally at the liberation of the Nazi death camps.<br /> <br /> There was more to Ronald Reagan than that. Reagan announced that apartheid South Africa had &quot;stood beside us in every war we've ever fought,&quot; when the South African leadership had been on the other side in the most recent world war. Reagan allowed Alexander Haig to greenlight the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, fired him when that went too far and led to mayhem in Beirut, then ran away from Lebanon altogether when the Marine barracks were bombed, and then unbelievably accused Tip O'Neill and the Democrats of &quot;scuttling.&quot; Reagan sold heavy weapons to the Iranian mullahs and lied about it, saying that all the weapons he hadn't sold them (and hadn't traded for hostages in any case) would, all the same, have fit on a small truck. Reagan then diverted the profits of this criminal trade to an illegal war in Nicaragua and lied unceasingly about that, too. Reagan then modestly let his underlings maintain that he was too dense to understand the connection between the two impeachable crimes. He then switched without any apparent strain to a policy of backing Saddam Hussein against Iran. (If Margaret Thatcher's intelligence services had not bugged Oliver North in London and become infuriated because all European nations were boycotting Iran at Reagan's request, we might still not know about this.)<br /> <br /> One could go on. I only saw him once up close, which happened to be when he got a question he didn't like. Was it true that his staff in the 1980 debates had stolen President Carter's briefing book? (They had.) The famously genial grin turned into a rictus of senile fury: I was looking at a cruel and stupid lizard. His reply was that maybe his staff had, and maybe they hadn't, but what about the leak of the Pentagon Papers? Thus, a secret theft of presidential documents was equated with the public disclosure of needful information. This was a man never short of a cheap jibe or the sort of falsehood that would, however laughable, buy him some time.<br /> <br /> The fox, as has been pointed out by more than one philosopher, knows many small things, whereas the hedgehog knows one big thing. Ronald Reagan was neither a fox nor a hedgehog. He was as dumb as a stump. He could have had anyone in the world to dinner, any night of the week, but took most of his meals on a White House TV tray. He had no friends, only cronies. His children didn't like him all that much. He met his second wife—the one that you remember—because she needed to get off a Hollywood blacklist and he was the man to see. Year in and year out in Washington, I could not believe that such a man had even been a poor governor of California in a bad year, let alone that such a smart country would put up with such an obvious phony and loon.<br /> <br /> However, there came a day when Mikhail Gorbachev visited Washington and when the Marriott Hotel—host of the summit press conferences—turned its restaurant into the &quot;Glasnost Cafe.&quot; On the sidewalk, LaRouche supporters wearing Reagan masks paraded with umbrellas, in mimicry of Neville Chamberlain. I huddled from dawn to dusk with friends, wondering if it could be real. Many of those friends had twice my IQ, or let's say six times that of the then-chief executive. These friends had all deeply wanted either Jimmy Carter or Walter Mondale to be, presumably successively, the president instead of Reagan. They would go on to put Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen bumper stickers on their vehicles. No doubt they wish that Mondale had been in the White House when the U.S.S.R. threw in the towel, just as they presumably yearn to have had Dukakis on watch when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. I have been wondering ever since not just about the stupidity of American politics, but about the need of so many American intellectuals to prove themselves clever by showing that they are smarter than the latest idiot in power, or the latest Republican at any rate.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.slate.com/id/2101842/&lt;/ref&gt; }}<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> &lt;references/&gt;<br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/05/reagan-centennial/<br /> * Salon: Behind the Ronald Reagan myth: “No one had ever entered the White House so grossly ill informed” [http://www.salon.com/2015/12/27/behind_the_ronald_reagan_myth_no_one_had_ever_entered_the_white_house_so_grossly_ill_informed/]<br /> <br /> {{wip}}<br /> <br /> <br /> [[category:historical arguments]]<br /> [[category:people|Reagan]]<br /> [[category:theists|Reagan]]<br /> [[category:gun control]]<br /> [[category:US presidents]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Ronald_Reagan Ronald Reagan 2019-07-31T14:19:45Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>Ronald Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). Born in Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s, where he was an actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), and a spokesman for General Electric (GE). His start in politics occurred during his work for GE. Originally a member of the Democratic Party, he switched to the Republican Party in 1962, at the age of 51. After delivering a rousing speech in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy in 1964, he was persuaded to seek the California governorship, winning two years later and again in 1970. He was defeated in his run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968 as well as 1976, but won both the nomination and election in 1980.<br /> <br /> As president, Reagan implemented bold new political and economic initiatives. His supply-side economic policies, dubbed &quot;Reaganomics,&quot; (later called &quot;Voodoo economics&quot; by George H. Bush) included deregulation and substantial tax cuts implemented in 1981. In his first term he survived an assassination attempt, took a hard line against organized labor, and ordered military actions in Grenada. He was reelected in 1984. His second term was marked by the bombing of Libya and the Iran-Contra affair. The president had previously ordered a massive military buildup in an arms race with the Soviet Union, forgoing the strategy of détente. He publicly described the USSR as an &quot;evil empire&quot; and supported anti-Communist movements worldwide. <br /> <br /> Reagan left office in 1989. In 1994, the former president disclosed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease earlier in the year; he died ten years later at the age of ninety-three. <br /> <br /> Reagan is held up as a hero in the conservative Republican movement. However, his actual record is far from exemplary. Reagan is largely credited with first implementing the concept of &quot;supply side economics&quot; which suggested that if we cut taxes on the rich, there will be a &quot;trickle down&quot; effect benefiting all aspects of society. Regan also ran up one the largest budget deficits in the history of the country at that time, and increased the national debt more than any other president before him.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Remembering reagan.jpg|right]]<br /> <br /> ====Things Conservatives May Not Know/Acknowledge About Ronald Reagan====<br /> <br /> * Reagan raised taxes 11 times during his presidency.<br /> * Reagan signed the &quot;Therapeutic Abortion Act,&quot; into law, in an effort to reduce the number of &quot;back-room abortions&quot; performed in California. This legalized abortion prior to Roe v Wade.&lt;ref&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan#cite_note-Cannon51-74&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> * Reagan supported gun control.&lt;ref&gt;In a speech at George Washington University, where he was treated after being shot by John W. Hinckley, Reagan called on Congress to enact a law requiring a seven-day waiting period for the purchase of handguns. This later became the Brady Law. &quot;I support the Brady Bill,&quot; he said in a March 28, 1991 speech, &quot;and I urge the Congress to enact it without further delay.&quot;&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and The Fairness Doctrine:====<br /> In 1987 the Supreme Court ruled that the [http://bsalert.com/news/354/A_Primer_On_The_Fairness_Doctrine_How_We_Screwed_Up.html fairness doctrine] was not mandated by congress and therefore unenforceable by the FCC. In 1987 both houses of Congress voted to make The Fairness Doctrine enforceable. Reagan vetoed it and killed it. The Fairness Doctrine, among other things, mandated equal time in the media for opposing viewpoints, required news media to not ignore important news of critical interest to the community, and generally helped delineate editorial from advertising.<br /> <br /> ====Reagan's responsibility for the 2000-era economic depression====<br /> {{ytv|8xiKqowqbOk|right}}<br /> “''This bill is the most important legislation for financial institutions in the last 50 years. It provides a long-term solution for troubled thrift institutions. ... All in all, I think we hit the jackpot.''” So declared Ronald Reagan in 1982, as he signed the Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act. Traditionally, the U.S. government ran significant budget deficits only in times of war or economic emergency. Federal debt as a percentage of G.D.P. fell steadily from the end of World War II until 1980. But indebtedness began rising under Reagan; it fell again in the Clinton years, but resumed its rise under the Bush administration, leaving us ill prepared for the emergency now upon us.<br /> <br /> The increase in public debt was, however, dwarfed by the rise in private debt, made possible by financial deregulation. The change in America’s financial rules was Reagan’s biggest legacy. And it’s the gift that keeps on taking.<br /> <br /> The immediate effect of Garn-St. Germain was to turn the Savings and Loan industry from a problem into a catastrophe. The S.&amp; L. crisis has been written out of the Reagan hagiography, but the fact is that deregulation in effect gave the industry — whose deposits were federally insured — a license to gamble with taxpayers’ money, at best, or simply to loot it, at worst. By the time the government closed the books on the affair, taxpayers had lost $130 billion, back when that was a lot of money.<br /> <br /> But there was also a longer-term effect. Reagan-era legislative changes essentially ended New Deal restrictions on mortgage lending — restrictions that, in particular, limited the ability of families to buy homes without putting a significant amount of money down.<br /> <br /> These restrictions were put in place in the 1930s by political leaders who had just experienced a terrible financial crisis, and were trying to prevent another. But by 1980 the memory of the Depression had faded. Government, declared Reagan, is the problem, not the solution; the magic of the marketplace must be set free. And so the precautionary rules were scrapped.&lt;ref&gt;Paul Krugman, New York Times 06/01/09 {{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/opinion/01krugman.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and the metric system: A time line.====<br /> 1975: The Metric Conversion Act of 1975 (Public Law 94-168) passed by Congress and the U.S. Metric Board is created.<br /> <br /> 1979: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) requires wine producers and importers to switch to metric.<br /> <br /> 1980: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) requires distilled spirits producers and importers to switch to metric.<br /> <br /> 1982: Reagan disbands U.S. Metric Board and fires everyone associated with it.<br /> [[File:Reagan investigations.jpg|right|400px]]<br /> ====Reagan and Gun Control====<br /> *Reagan supported and signed a 15-day waiting period when he was governor of California. He then blamed it on the Democrats.<br /> <br /> *Reagan supported and signed a law &quot;prohibiting the carrying of loaded firearms on one's person or in a vehicle, in any public place or on any public street.&quot; The law was aimed at stopping the Black Panthers after their march on the California State Capitol, but affected all gun owners. He then blamed it on the Democrats.<br /> <br /> *Reagan supported and signed a ban on the transfer of new manufacture fully automatic firearms while president and blamed it on the Democrats.<br /> <br /> *Reagan vocally supported the Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban after his presidency in the early 90s. Which were then blamed on the Democrats.<br /> <br /> *Reagan said he does not support citizens' rights to own an AK-47 and did not believe it was a sporting weapon.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/reaganak47.asp&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=nG4V_6pCLVo&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and racism====<br /> <br /> * Ronald Reagan described African delegates to the UN as &quot;monkeys&quot;, in newly-unearthed tapes published by a US magazine. He made the comment in a 1971 telephone call with then-President Richard Nixon. Mr Reagan, who was governor of California at the time, was angered that African delegates at the UN sided against the US in a vote. Members of the Tanzanian delegation started dancing after the UN voted to recognise China and expel Taiwan. Mr Reagan, who was a supporter of Taiwan, called the president the following day to express his apparent frustration. He said: &quot;To see those... monkeys from those African countries - damn them, they're still uncomfortable wearing shoes!&quot; Mr Nixon, who quit as president in 1974, can then be heard laughing.&lt;ref&gt;https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49177034&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and homosexuality====<br /> <br /> Despite his own son being gay, in 1982 Reagan signed a Defense Department directive 1332.14 that stated, &quot;homosexuality is incompatible with military service&quot; and persons who engaged in homosexual acts or stated that they are homosexual or bisexual are to be discharged.&lt;ref&gt;D.O.D. Directive 1332.14, January 28, 1982; http://dont.stanford.edu/regulations/regulation41.pdf&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and &quot;Ketchup is a vegetable&quot;====<br /> <br /> In 1981, Ronald Reagan's budget director, David Stockman, proposed classifying ketchup as a vegetable as part of Reagan's budget cuts for federally financed school lunch programs (it would make it cheaper to satisfy the requirements on vegetable content of lunches). The suggestion was widely ridiculed and the proposal was killed.<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and the arms race====<br /> [[File:Reagan deal.png|right]]<br /> * Russia offered to eliminate all ballistic missiles if the U.S. would cease its &quot;Star Wars&quot; missile development program. Reagan refused and continued spending on this ill-fated financial boondoggle and blew the chance for disarmament.<br /> <br /> :'''Reykjavík Summit''': The US made progress by agreeing to reduce intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe, but movement toward a major arms control agreement broke down in a dispute over the U.S. space-based antimissile program, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Gorbachev argued that SDI could render Soviet nuclear forces useless, eliminating the concept of mutual deterrence and leaving his country vulnerable to attack. Reagan offered to defer deployment of SDI for ten years, but was determined to continue research and development. The deadlock prevented a major arms control agreement.&lt;ref&gt;Beschloss, Michael R., and Strobe Talbott. At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the Cold War. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and the AIDS crisis====<br /> <br /> * throughout the beginnings of the crisis, had DoHHS officials say that everything was being done that could be to combat the epidemic and no more funding was needed<br /> <br /> :Following discovery of the first cases in 1981, it soon became clear a national health crisis was developing. But President Reagan's response was &quot;halting and ineffective,&quot; according to his biographer Lou Cannon. Those infected initially with this mysterious disease -- all gay men -- found themselves targeted with an unprecedented level of mean-spirited hostility.<br /> <br /> A significant source of Reagan's support came from the newly identified religious right and the Moral Majority, a political-action group founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell. AIDS became the tool, and gay men the target, for the politics of fear, hate and discrimination. Falwell said &quot;AIDS is the wrath of God upon homosexuals.&quot; Reagan's communications director Pat Buchanan argued that AIDS is &quot;nature's revenge on gay men.&quot;&lt;ref&gt;Reagan's AIDS Legacy, San Francisco Chronicle, 06/08/04 {{rl|http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/06/08/EDG777163F1.DTL}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> {{ytv|do0x-Egc6oA|right|Ronald Reagan's infamous &quot;evil empire&quot; speech. &quot;I would rather see my little girls die now, still believing in God, than have them grow up under Communism and one day die no longer believing in God.&quot;}}<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and drugs====<br /> <br /> * Under Ronald Reagan, and the &quot;Just Say No&quot; campaign, the incarceration rate increased dramatically, though ironically Reagan was responsible for the introduction of crack cocaine into urban areas.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/webb.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and union busting====<br /> <br /> * In 1981 Air Traffic Controllers went on strike over wretched job conditions. Reagan fired the 11,345 striking air traffic controllers who had ignored the order to go back to work, and banned them from federal service for life (which was later rescinded).&lt;ref&gt;http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/09/1107835/-Remembering-Reagan-s-Sweet-Little-Lie-to-the-Air-Traffic-Controllers&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and energy issues====<br /> <br /> :In June, 1979, President Jimmy Carter proposed a “new solar strategy” to “move our<br /> Nation toward true energy security and abundant, readily available energy supplies.” In an effort to set an<br /> example for the country, Carter had solar panels installed on the roof of the White House West Wing. The<br /> panels were used to heat water for the staff mess and other areas of the White House.<br /> <br /> :At the time, President Carter warned “a generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a<br /> museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be a small part of one of the greatest and most<br /> [[File:Im reagan.jpg|right|300px]]<br /> exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people; harnessing the power of the Sun to enrich our<br /> lives as we move away from our crippling dependence on foreign oil.”<br /> <br /> :The White House solar panels were a symbol of the Carter Administration’s commitment to reduce<br /> America’s dependence of foreign sources of energy, according to Hakes, who was the Administrator of the<br /> Energy Information Administration at the U.S. Department of Energy during the Clinton presidency. “Behind that<br /> was a whole package of tax incentives, research and development and loans that made it much more than a<br /> symbol,” Hakes added. “There was actually a very substantive attempt to move ahead the expanded use of solar<br /> energy.”<br /> <br /> :'''President Ronald Reagan took the solar panels down in 1986''' when the White House roof was being repaired.[http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/newsreleases/2007/07-18.pdf]<br /> <br /> =====Sabotaging solar power=====<br /> <br /> :''&quot;The budget for the [Solar Energy Research] Institute--which President Jimmy Carter had created to spearhead solar innovation--was slashed [under Reagan] from $124 million in 1980 to $59 million in 1982. Scientists who had left tenured university jobs to work [on the project] were given two weeks notice and no severance pay. The squelching of the institute--later partly re-funded and renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory--marked the start of Reagan's campaign against solar power. By the end of 1985, when Congress and the administration allowed tax credits for solar homes to lapse, the dream of a solar era had faded. The solar water heater President Carter had installed on the White House roof in 1979 was dismantled and junked. Solar water heating went from a billion-dollar industry to peanuts overnight; thousands of sun-minded businesses went bankrupt.&quot;''<br /> ::--Arthur Allen, Prodigal Sun, as reported in Mother Jones, March/April 2000<br /> [[Image:Ronald reagan socialized medicine.jpg|right|300px]]<br /> :''&quot;After the 1973 war and the first Arab oil shock, look at what America did and what Denmark did. What we did was say, &quot;Wow! We've got to really take on this issue.&quot; So beginning with President Ford and President Carter we said we were going to double the fuel efficiency of American cars from about 13 mpg then to I think it was 27.5. We were going to do it over ten years and we did it. We were so successful doing that we helped break OPEC in the late '70s and early '80s and crater the price of oil. That worked out so well that Ronald Reagan, when he came along, said, &quot;That's enough of that!&quot; He ripped off the solar panels that Jimmy Carter had put on the White House roof -- they were recently auctioned online.... Some of those solar companies that we spawned in the '70's and '80's -- they went bust also when we removed our subsidies and taxes. They were bought by Japan. I can't tell you how grateful the innovators and corporate leaders of Japan and Denmark are today for all the money America invested in research in wind and solar, spawning companies here which went bust in the '80s when we removed the subsidies from them.... One of the leading wind innovators in America, in fact, was given a medal of honor by the government of Denmark. All his technology ended up there.&quot;''<br /> ::--Thomas Friedman , New York Times columnist, interviewed by Terry Gross of WHYY's &quot;Fresh Air,&quot; about the revelations in his book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, 8 September 2008<br /> <br /> ====Ronald Reagan's cabinet choices====<br /> <br /> * '''James Watt''', Reagan's Secretary of the Interior said, ''&quot;We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand.&quot;'' and ''“My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns”''<br /> <br /> :What is the Secretary of the Interior in charge of?<br /> :*Office of Insular Affairs, National Business Center, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, Office of Surface Mining, Bureau of Reclamation, Fish and Wildlife Service, Minerals Management Service, National Park Service, Geological Survey<br /> <br /> :For someone who didn't seem too fond of trees, it should have come as no surprise that Ronald Reagan would appoint James Watt to be his Secretary of the Interior. James Watt was, according to the Audubon Society, &quot;arguably the most anti-environment secretary ever.&quot; Watt was not just anti-environment, he was a simpleton. Testifying before Congress, Watt was asked if he agreed that natural resources should be preserved for future generations. His response:<br /> <br /> :''&quot;I do not know how many future generations we can count of before the Lord returns.&quot;''<br /> ::--James Watt, February 5, 1981<br /> <br /> :However, it was not Watts' stance on environmental issues that compelled the Reagan administration to eventually force his resignation. It was the fallout from the following comment he made to a group of lobbyists regarding the makeup of his coal-leasing commission:<br /> <br /> :''&quot;We have every kind of mix you can have. I have a black, I have a woman, two Jews and a cripple.&quot;''<br /> ::--James Watt, September 21, 1983<br /> <br /> :Eighteen days later, Watt resigned.<br /> <br /> ====Cartoonist Tim Krieger on Reagan====<br /> <br /> &quot;His legacy includes the dismantling of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the final dirty win of Management over Labor, the outsourcing of America’s manufacturing base, the embezzlement of almost all the country's wealth by 1% of its citizens, the scapegoating of the poor and black, the War on Drugs, the eviction of schizophrenics into the streets, AIDS, acid rain, Iran-Contra, and, let’s not forget, the corpses of two hundred forty United States Marines. He moved the center of political discourse in this country to somewhere in between Richard Nixon and Augusto Pinochet. He believed in astrology and Armageddon and didn't know the difference between history and movies; his stories were lies and his jokes were scripted. He was the triumph of image over truth, paving the way for even more vapid spokesmodels like George W. Bush. He was, as everyone agrees, exactly what he appeared to be—nothing. He made me ashamed to be an American. If there was any justice in this world his Presidential Library would contain nothing but boys' adventure books and bad cowboy movies, and the only things named after him would be shopping malls and Potter's Fields. Let the earth where he is buried be seeded with salt.&quot;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan and the Taliban====<br /> <br /> Reagan was directly responsible for arming and training Taliban fighters, including [[Osama Bin Laden]]:<br /> <br /> {{bluebox|Proclamation 5034—Afghanistan Day, 1983<br /> By the President of the United States of America, 21 March 1983<br /> <br /> The tragedy of Afghanistan continues as the valiant and courageous Afghan freedom fighters [The Taliban] persevere in standing up against the brutal power of the Soviet invasion and occupation. The Afghan people are struggling to reclaim their freedom, which was taken from them when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December of 1979.<br /> <br /> In this three-year period the Soviet Union has been unable to subjugate Afghanistan. The Soviet forces are pitted against an extraordinary people who, in their determination to preserve the character of their ancient land, have organized an effective and still spreading country-wide resistance. The resistance of the Afghan freedom fighters is an example to all the world of the invincibility of the ideals we in this country hold most dear, the ideals of freedom and independence.<br /> <br /> We must also recognize that the sacrifices required to maintain this resistance are very high. Millions have gone into exile as refugees. We will probably never know the numbers of people killed and maimed, poisoned and gased, of the homes that have been destroyed, and of the lives that have been shattered and stricken with grief.<br /> <br /> It is, therefore, incumbent upon us as Americans to reflect on the events in Afghanistan, to think about the agony which these brave people bear, and to maintain our condemnation of the continuing Soviet occupation. Our observance again this year of Afghanistan Day on March 21, the Afghan New Year, will recall for all the world America's unflagging sympathy for a determined people, its support for their refugees and commitment to achieving a political settlement for Afghanistan which will free that country from tyranny's yoke.<br /> <br /> The Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 65, has designated March 21, 1983 as &quot;Afghanistan Day&quot; and has requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of that day.<br /> <br /> Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate March 21, 1983 as Afghanistan Day.<br /> <br /> In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-first day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and seventh.<br /> <br /> Ronald Reagan }}<br /> <br /> ====Reagan quotes====<br /> <br /> 10 Oct 1965 California gubernatorial candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in the Fresno Bee as saying: &quot;We should declare war on North Vietnam... It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and be home by Christmas.&quot;<br /> <br /> 20 Oct 1965 California gubernatorial candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in the Los Angeles Times as saying: &quot;I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at the point of a bayonet, if necessary.&quot;<br /> <br /> 17 Jun 1966 California gubernatorial candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in the Los Angeles Times as saying: &quot;I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.&quot;<br /> [[Image:National-Debt-GDP.gif|right]]<br /> 16 Oct 1967 Ronald Reagan is quoted in the Los Angeles Times as saying: &quot;I have a feeling that we are doing better in the (Vietnam) war than the people have been told.&quot;<br /> <br /> 15 May 1969 Regarding the ongoing student protests at UC Berkeley, California governor Ronald Reagan is quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle as saying: &quot;If there has to be a bloodbath, then let's get it over with.&quot;<br /> <br /> 17 May 1976 Ronald Reagan tells Time magazine: &quot;Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say 'But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time.'&quot;<br /> <br /> 1979 Ronald Reagan: &quot;The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted... The suppressed study reveals that 80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees.&quot;<br /> <br /> 1980 During an interview with televangelist Jim Bakker on the PTL network, presidential candidate Ronald Reagan predicts that &quot;We may be the generation that sees Armageddon.&quot;<br /> <br /> 15 Feb 1980 Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in the Burlington Free Press as saying: &quot;All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.&quot; The claim is provably false.<br /> <br /> 14 Apr 1980 Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in Time magazine as saying: &quot;History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20 percent of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government... When it reaches 25 percent, there comes an increase in lawlessness.&quot; The claim is provably false.<br /> <br /> 21 Apr 1980 Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in Newsweek magazine as saying: &quot;Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G.I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything.&quot; The claim is provably false.<br /> <br /> 10 May 1980 Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in the Chicago Tribune as saying: &quot;Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon.&quot; The claim is provably false.<br /> <br /> 10 Sep 1980 Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in Sierra magazine as saying: &quot;Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation. So let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emissions standards from man-made sources.&quot; The claim is provably false.<br /> <br /> 9 Oct 1980 Ronald Reagan is quoted in the Los Angeles Times as saying: &quot;Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93% of the oxides of nitrogen.&quot; The claim is provably false.<br /> <br /> 20 Oct 1980 Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in Time magazine as saying: &quot;I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I have a suspicion that one little mountain out there, in these last several months, has probably released more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere than has been released in the last ten years of automobile driving or things of that kind.&quot; The claim is provably false.<br /> <br /> 24 Oct 1980 During a nationally-televised campaign speech, Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan declares: &quot;Mr. Carter is acting as if he hasn't been in charge for the past three and a half years; as if someone else was responsible for the largest deficit in American history.&quot; (Carter's total deficit: $252 billion; Reagan's: $1.4 trillion)<br /> <br /> 6 Mar 1981 Ronald Reagan's second press conference held, in which names of reporters are drawn out of a jellybean jar. Those not chosen (including Associated Press and two of the Big Three TV networks) mostly boycott the conference in disgust.<br /> <br /> 23 Nov 1981 After President Reagan vetoes an emergency spending bill which would have prevented a shutdown of the federal government, House Speaker Tip O'Neill tells a reporter: &quot;He knows less about the budget than any president in my lifetime. He can't even carry on a conversation about the budget. It's an absolute and utter disgrace.&quot;<br /> <br /> May 1982 President Ronald Reagan declares: &quot;In England, if a criminal carried a gun, even though he didn't use it, he was tried for first-degree murder and hung if he was found guilty.&quot;<br /> <br /> 7 Mar 1983 President Ronald Reagan tells a group of ultraconservatives that &quot;this country is compelled by scripture and the Lord Jesus Christ to oppose Russia with all military and political means.&quot;<br /> <br /> 21 Sep 1983 Ronald Reagan's Secretary of the Interior, James Watt, describes his staff's racial diversity to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: &quot;We have every mixture you can have. I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent.&quot; Watt is forced to resign 18 days later over these comments.<br /> <br /> 31 Jan 1984 President Ronald Reagan tells Good Morning America: &quot;What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless who are homeless, you might say, by choice.&quot;<br /> <br /> 6 Mar 1984 Former President Jimmy Carter observes: &quot;President Reagan doesn't always check the facts before he makes statements, and the press accepts this as kind of amusing.&quot;<br /> <br /> 30 Apr 1984 When a student at Shanghai's University of Fudan asks which life experiences best prepared him for being President of the United States, Ronald Reagan replies: &quot;You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off.&quot;<br /> <br /> 4 Dec 1985 Anticipating arms control discussions with his Soviet counterpart, President Reagan draws on an extraterrestrial analogy: &quot;[H]ow easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from some other species from another planet outside in the universe. We'd forget all the little local differences that we have between our countries ...&quot;<br /> <br /> 21 Mar 1986 In an interview with the New York Times, President Ronald Reagan repeats his long-debunked claim: &quot;In England, if a criminal carried a gun, even though he didn't use it, he was tried for first-degree murder and hung if he was found guilty.&quot;<br /> <br /> 17 Feb 1987 Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev reveals Reagan's preoccupation with space aliens: &quot;At our meeting in Geneva, the U.S. President said that if the earth faced an invasion by extraterrestials, the United States and the Soviet Union would join forces to repel such an invasion. I shall not dispute the hypothesis, though I think it's early yet to worry about such an intrusion...&quot;<br /> <br /> May 1987 According to his authorized biography (published in 2000), Reagan wonders aloud about the AIDS pandemic: &quot;Maybe the Lord brought down this plague... [because] illicit sex is against the Ten Commandments.&quot; [Dutch, p. 458]<br /> <br /> 15 Sep 1987 During a luncheon with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnatze in the White House, President Reagan once again wondered what would happen if the Earth were under attack from an external threat: &quot;Don't you think the United States and the Soviet Union would be together?&quot;<br /> <br /> 4 May 1988 During a question-and-answer session in Chicago, President Reagan revisits his 'invaders from space' notion: &quot;I've often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer -- a power from outer space, from another planet. Wouldn't we all of a sudden find that we didn't have any differences between us at all, we were all human beings, citizens of the world, and wouldn't we come together to fight that particular threat?&quot;<br /> <br /> ====Reagan in a nutshell====<br /> <br /> Criminal:<br /> *Iran-Contra treason.<br /> *Lied to Congress - set the standard for avoiding responsibility: &quot;I don't recall.&quot;<br /> *Likely encouraged Iran to keep US Embassy hostages until he was into office.<br /> <br /> Fiscal:<br /> *Supply-side economics (lower taxes on rich, and it will somehow &quot;trickle-down&quot; to the poor)<br /> *National debt tripled.<br /> *$12 billion trade surplus --&gt; $100+ billion trade deficit.<br /> *Deregulated savings and loans, precipitated huge economic crisis.<br /> *Raised taxes eleven times.<br /> *Taxed the poor, cut taxes for the rich.<br /> *SDI &quot;Star Wars&quot; boondoggle.<br /> *Military spending increased to match imaginary spending in USSR.<br /> *Deregulation caused oil bust.<br /> *Broke air traffic control union.<br /> <br /> Social:<br /> *Gutted social welfare. <br /> *Dismantled the mental healthcare system.<br /> *Release of mental patients without recourse, homeless population up.<br /> *Ignored AIDS crisis.<br /> *Abstinence-only sex education.<br /> *Strengthened ATF, banned automatic weapons, blamed Democrats for it.<br /> *Privatized the prison industry and made incarceration a profitable industry.<br /> *Increased spending for War on Drugs.<br /> *Increasing national drinking age from 18 to 21, then threatened to pull federal funding from states if they challenged him.<br /> *Underfunded NEA.<br /> *EPA Superfund grants manipulated to help Republicans in local elections.<br /> *Deregulated kids' tv, initiated 22 minute toy ads.<br /> *Killed energy programs (even removed solar panels from White House).<br /> *Legalized abortion in CA as governor, prior to Roe v. Wade.<br /> *Supported gun control<br /> *Crack in the ghettos. (? Due to support for Contras and Noriega?)<br /> *Though Richard Nixon created the DEA and started the &quot;War on Drugs&quot;, Reagan and his wife kicked the campaign into a full-scale media frenzy with &quot;Just Say No&quot;.<br /> <br /> Foreign:<br /> *Wars all over Central America, incl Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras.<br /> *Promoted Iran-Iraq war.<br /> *Sent Marines into Beirut, abandoned mission after terrorist bombing.<br /> *Broke detente with USSR until Gorbachev personally made things better.<br /> *Backed Contras in drug running schemes.<br /> *Supported right-wing dictators and movements everywhere, including:<br /> *Apartheid regime in SA.<br /> *Marcos regime in Phillipines.<br /> *Saddam Hussein and Baathist regime in Iraq, even after Kurds gassed.<br /> *Taliban in Afghanistan.<br /> *Invasion of Panama (condemned by the OAS &amp; Geneva Conventions) to extract former CIA operative Manuel Noreiga.<br /> *Augusto Pinochet in Chile.<br /> *Called African delegates at the UN &quot;Monkeys&quot;<br /> <br /> Concepts:<br /> *Welfare queens.<br /> *Trees cause pollution.<br /> *Ketchup as a vegetable.<br /> <br /> Appointments:<br /> *30+ convicted appointees.<br /> *Ed Meese at Justice, porn freak.<br /> *James Watt at Interior, idiot, corrupt.<br /> *William Casey at CIA, religious nut, strikes into Afghanistan.<br /> *HUD a corrupt mess in general.<br /> *Politicised CIA.<br /> *Robert Bork to SCOTUS (failed), segregationist and asshole.<br /> *Antonin Scalia, same but he got in.<br /> <br /> Personal:<br /> *Unfit to serve due to Alzheimer's disease by term's end.<br /> *Paid shill by GE and insurance industry to lobby against government healthcare.<br /> *McCarthyite.<br /> *Backed Moral Majority.<br /> *Pardoned Robert Walker, who went on to kill his wife.<br /> *Started presidential campaign at racist murder crime scene in Philadelphia, MS.<br /> *Laid wreath and made speech at SS cemetery in Germany.<br /> *Vietnam War a &quot;noble cause.&quot;<br /> *Helped start right-wing noise machine, by promoting myth of liberal media and destroying Fairness Doctrine<br /> *Hated sex, made Ron Jr. feel like a sissy and quit ballet.<br /> *Believed in astrology and used it to run government.<br /> *Innovated &quot;talking points&quot; cue cards.<br /> *&quot;I don't recall&quot; to weasel out of press questions.<br /> *Confused movies with reality.<br /> *Joked about bombing Russia during a mic check, which inflamed the rest of the world.<br /> <br /> ===Other opinions on Reagan===<br /> <br /> ====Christopher Hitchens====<br /> <br /> {{bluebox|The stupidity of Ronald Reagan.<br /> By Christopher Hitchens, Posted Monday, June 7, 2004, at 1:03 PM ET<br /> <br /> Not long ago, I was invited to be the specter at the feast during &quot;Ronald Reagan Appreciation Week&quot; at Wabash College in Indiana. One of my opponents was Dinesh D'Souza: He wasn't the only one who maintained that Reagan had been historically vindicated by the wreckage of the Soviet Union. Some of us on the left had also been very glad indeed to see the end of the Russian empire and the Cold War. But nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.<br /> <br /> Ronald Reagan claimed that the Russian language had no word for &quot;freedom.&quot; (The word is &quot;svoboda&quot;; it's quite well attested in Russian literature.) Ronald Reagan said that intercontinental ballistic missiles (not that there are any non-ballistic missiles—a corruption of language that isn't his fault) could be recalled once launched. Ronald Reagan said that he sought a &quot;Star Wars&quot; defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R. Ronald Reagan professed to be annoyed when people called it &quot;Star Wars,&quot; even though he had ended his speech on the subject with the lame quip, &quot;May the force be with you.&quot; Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars. Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the &quot;End Times&quot; foreshadowed in the Bible. In the Oval Office, Ronald Reagan told Yitzhak Shamir and Simon Wiesenthal, on two separate occasions, that he himself had assisted personally at the liberation of the Nazi death camps.<br /> <br /> There was more to Ronald Reagan than that. Reagan announced that apartheid South Africa had &quot;stood beside us in every war we've ever fought,&quot; when the South African leadership had been on the other side in the most recent world war. Reagan allowed Alexander Haig to greenlight the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, fired him when that went too far and led to mayhem in Beirut, then ran away from Lebanon altogether when the Marine barracks were bombed, and then unbelievably accused Tip O'Neill and the Democrats of &quot;scuttling.&quot; Reagan sold heavy weapons to the Iranian mullahs and lied about it, saying that all the weapons he hadn't sold them (and hadn't traded for hostages in any case) would, all the same, have fit on a small truck. Reagan then diverted the profits of this criminal trade to an illegal war in Nicaragua and lied unceasingly about that, too. Reagan then modestly let his underlings maintain that he was too dense to understand the connection between the two impeachable crimes. He then switched without any apparent strain to a policy of backing Saddam Hussein against Iran. (If Margaret Thatcher's intelligence services had not bugged Oliver North in London and become infuriated because all European nations were boycotting Iran at Reagan's request, we might still not know about this.)<br /> <br /> One could go on. I only saw him once up close, which happened to be when he got a question he didn't like. Was it true that his staff in the 1980 debates had stolen President Carter's briefing book? (They had.) The famously genial grin turned into a rictus of senile fury: I was looking at a cruel and stupid lizard. His reply was that maybe his staff had, and maybe they hadn't, but what about the leak of the Pentagon Papers? Thus, a secret theft of presidential documents was equated with the public disclosure of needful information. This was a man never short of a cheap jibe or the sort of falsehood that would, however laughable, buy him some time.<br /> <br /> The fox, as has been pointed out by more than one philosopher, knows many small things, whereas the hedgehog knows one big thing. Ronald Reagan was neither a fox nor a hedgehog. He was as dumb as a stump. He could have had anyone in the world to dinner, any night of the week, but took most of his meals on a White House TV tray. He had no friends, only cronies. His children didn't like him all that much. He met his second wife—the one that you remember—because she needed to get off a Hollywood blacklist and he was the man to see. Year in and year out in Washington, I could not believe that such a man had even been a poor governor of California in a bad year, let alone that such a smart country would put up with such an obvious phony and loon.<br /> <br /> However, there came a day when Mikhail Gorbachev visited Washington and when the Marriott Hotel—host of the summit press conferences—turned its restaurant into the &quot;Glasnost Cafe.&quot; On the sidewalk, LaRouche supporters wearing Reagan masks paraded with umbrellas, in mimicry of Neville Chamberlain. I huddled from dawn to dusk with friends, wondering if it could be real. Many of those friends had twice my IQ, or let's say six times that of the then-chief executive. These friends had all deeply wanted either Jimmy Carter or Walter Mondale to be, presumably successively, the president instead of Reagan. They would go on to put Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen bumper stickers on their vehicles. No doubt they wish that Mondale had been in the White House when the U.S.S.R. threw in the towel, just as they presumably yearn to have had Dukakis on watch when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. I have been wondering ever since not just about the stupidity of American politics, but about the need of so many American intellectuals to prove themselves clever by showing that they are smarter than the latest idiot in power, or the latest Republican at any rate.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.slate.com/id/2101842/&lt;/ref&gt; }}<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> &lt;references/&gt;<br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/05/reagan-centennial/<br /> * Salon: Behind the Ronald Reagan myth: “No one had ever entered the White House so grossly ill informed” [http://www.salon.com/2015/12/27/behind_the_ronald_reagan_myth_no_one_had_ever_entered_the_white_house_so_grossly_ill_informed/]<br /> <br /> {{wip}}<br /> <br /> <br /> [[category:historical arguments]]<br /> [[category:people|Reagan]]<br /> [[category:theists|Reagan]]<br /> [[category:gun control]]<br /> [[category:US presidents]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Science_vs_Industry Science vs Industry 2019-07-25T15:21:52Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>This page documents examples of where industry and science conflicted or colluded with each other in ways that were not of interest to the people or the truth.<br /> <br /> ==Industry Collusion and Manipulation==<br /> <br /> * Court documents reveal Monsanto's efforts to fight glyphosate's 'severe stigma'. Social Sharing. Canadian firm hired to recruit scientists to publish studies that ultimately defended Roundup's key ingredient.The documents also reveal communications between Monsanto and a Canadian firm hired to recruit scientists to publish studies that ultimately defended glyphosate — some of which were secretly reviewed by Monsanto prior to publication. All those papers, as previously reported by CBC/Radio-Canada, were also used as part of Health Canada's re-approval process of glyphosate in 2017.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/glyphosate-monsanto-intertek-studies-1.4902229]<br /> <br /> * Fired Quebec scientist blew the whistle on pesticide lobby influence.[https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/03/21/news/fired-quebec-scientist-blew-whistle-pesticide-lobby-influence]<br /> <br /> * Rush To Produce, Sell Vaccine Put Kids In Philippines At Risk. &quot;What bothers me most about this story is risk communication,&quot; says Rodriguez, who studies dengue in South America. &quot;There was a lot of uncertainty from the beginning [about the vaccine's safety]. That needed to be communicated explicitly. You need to be honest about what evidence is out there.&quot; In April, the Philippine government indicted 14 government officials over the deaths of 10 children who received the Dengvaxia vaccine. The government said the officials acted with &quot;undue haste&quot; in procuring the vaccine and launching the mass immunization campaign. The Philippine Department of Justice said the campaign started before the clinical trials were finished. In some instances children were given the vaccine by untrained health workers and allegedly without a proper physical beforehand. Some children allegedly had preexisting medical conditions that made the immunization dangerous. But these children were still inoculated, the government found. Six Sanofi officials were also indicted for not properly helping children who had serious reactions to the shot.[https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/05/03/719037789/botched-vaccine-launch-has-deadly-repercussions]<br /> * Radium Girls - information on industry using women to handle toxic materials and covering it up.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls]<br /> * Monsanto secretly ran “Let Nothing Go” campaign that paid internet trolls to post pro-Monsanto comments all across the internet[https://www.monsanto.news/2018-06-28-monsanto-secretly-ran-let-nothing-go-campaign-paid-internet-trolls.html]<br /> * EU regulators based a decision to relicense the controversial weedkiller glyphosate on an assessment plagiarised from industry reports, according to a report for the European parliament.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/eu-glyphosate-approval-was-based-on-plagiarised-monsanto-text-report-finds]<br /> * Judge in Roundup maker’s first federal trial had banned discussion of the company’s alleged manipulation of science. Monsanto is facing its first federal trial over allegations that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, but a US judge has blocked attorneys from discussing the corporation’s alleged manipulation of science. In an extraordinary move in a packed San Francisco courtroom on Monday, US judge Vince Chhabria threatened to sanction and “shut down” a cancer patient’s attorney for violating his ban on talking about Monsanto’s influence on government regulators and cancer research.[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/25/monsanto-federal-trial-roundup-cancer]<br /> * A broad new scientific analysis of the cancer-causing potential of glyphosate herbicides, the most widely used weedkilling products in the world, has found that people with high exposures to the popular pesticides have a 41% increased risk of developing a type of cancer called non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/14/weed-killing-products-increase-cancer-risk-of-cancer]<br /> * IARC responds to the claims its study claiming Glyphosate was probably carcinogenic, was incorrect and says media distorting actual reports. From reading, the IARC claims are based on the review of more than 1000 independent scientific studies. The idea that one particular study contradicts their overall findings and should be used to dismiss the IARC study is absurd. IARC also calls attention to concern over industry badgering scientists to reveal their findings prior to publication and peer review.[https://www.iarc.fr/featured-news/media-centre-iarc-news-glyphosate/]<br /> * The world’s most used weedkiller damages the beneficial bacteria in the guts of honeybees and makes them more prone to deadly infections, new research has found. Previous studies have shown that pesticides such as neonicotinoids cause harm to bees, whose pollination is vital to about three-quarters of all food crops. Glyphosate, manufactured by Monsanto, targets an enzyme only found in plants and bacteria. However, the new study shows that glyphosate damages the microbiota that honeybees need to grow and to fight off pathogens. The findings show glyphosate, the most used agricultural chemical ever, may be contributing to the global decline in bees, along with the loss of habitat.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/24/monsanto-weedkiller-harms-bees-research-finds]<br /> * Court Orders EPA To Ban Chlorpyrifos, A Pesticide Linked To Brain Damage In Kids.[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-ban-pesticide-chlorpyrifos_us_5b6c6d0ce4b0ae32af96318e]<br /> * A federal jury today convicted a Birmingham lawyer and an Alabama coal company executive in a scheme to bribe a state legislator to use his office to oppose Environmental Protection Agency actions in north Birmingham, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr. and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Holloman.[https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndal/pr/federal-jury-convicts-lawyer-and-coal-company-executive-bribing-state-legislator]<br /> * When Trump administration officials opposed a WHO breast-feeding resolution, they followed a long history of policymakers listening to baby-formula manufacturers.[https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/07/the-epic-battle-between-breast-milk-and-infant-formula-companies/564782/]<br /> * Monsanto 'bullied scientists' and hid weedkiller cancer risk, lawyer tells court[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jul/09/monsanto-trial-roundup-weedkiller-cancer-dewayne-johnson]<br /> * Why Trump's new CDC director is an abysmal choice: Redfield worked closely with the Christian organization, Americans for a Sound AIDS/HIV Policy. The group maintained AIDS was &quot;God's judgment&quot; against homosexuals, spread in an America weakened by single-parent households and loss of family values.[https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/13/opinions/trumps-terrible-choice-for-cdc-redfield-garrett/index.html]<br /> * After more than 40 years of widespread use, new scientific tests show formulated weedkillers have higher rates of toxicity to human cells.The tests are part of the US National Toxicology Program’s (NTP) first-ever examination of herbicide formulations made with the active ingredient glyphosate, but that also include other chemicals. While regulators have previously required extensive testing of glyphosate in isolation, government scientists have not fully examined the toxicity of the more complex products sold to consumers, farmers and others. Monsanto introduced its glyphosate-based Roundup brand in 1974. But it is only now, after more than 40 years of widespread use, that the government is investigating the toxicity of “glyphosate-based herbicides” on human cells.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/08/weedkiller-tests-monsanto-health-dangers-active-ingredient]<br /> * Popular article (that made the front page of a high-ranked subReddit) entitled, &quot;Millennials 'have no qualms about GM crops' unlike older generation&quot; was in actuality, a &quot;study&quot; commissioned by the Agricultural BiotechnologyCouncil, which is an industry lobbying group. The Agricultural Biotechnology Council (ABC) is a UK corporate lobby group funded by major biottechnology companies and run from the offices of a PR company, Lexington Communications. On its website, ABC lists members as comprising: BASF, Bayer CropScience, Dow AgroSciences, Pioneer (which is part of DuPont), Monsanto, Syngenta. &quot;In typical astroturf fashion they try to draw some kind of connection with &quot;Millennials&quot; to give themselves credibility.&quot;[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/07/millennials-have-no-qualms-gm-crops-unlike-older-generation/][https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/8hnt5r/millennials_have_no_qualms_about_gm_crops_unlike/dylh1u0/]<br /> * Under Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has dramatically shifted away from its stated mission to “protect human and environmental health.” Instead, the agency is clearly favoring the interests of the polluting industries that it is mandated to regulate, according to a study.[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304360]<br /> * Weedkiller found in granola and crackers, internal FDA emails show. The FDA has been testing food samples for traces of glyphosate for two years, but the agency has not yet released any official result. Other findings detailed in the FDA documents show that in 2016 Chamkasem found glyphosate in numerous samples of honey. Chamkasem also found glyphosate in oatmeal products. The FDA temporarily suspended testing after those findings, and Chamkasem’s lab was “reassigned to other programs”, the FDA documents show. The FDA has said those tests were not part of its official glyphosate residue assignment.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/30/fda-weedkiller-glyphosate-in-food-internal-emails]<br /> * &quot;Eating Pasta Linked to Weight Loss in New Study,&quot; Newsweek reported this month, racking up more than 22,500 Facebook likes, shares, and comments. The happy news also went viral on the Independent, the New York Daily News, and Business Insider. What those and many other stories failed to note, however, was that three of the scientists behind the study in question had financial conflicts as tangled as a bowl of spaghetti, including ties to the world’s largest pasta company, the Barilla Group. At least 10 peer-reviewed studies about pasta published since 2008 were either funded directly by Barilla or, like the one published this month, were carried out by scientists who have had financial ties to the company.[https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemlee/pasta-barilla-science-funding]<br /> * Senate Confirms Climate Change Denier To Lead NASA, Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) will take over control of the space agency after seven-month standoff. Bridenstine will become the first elected official to hold the NASA administrator job. He joins a Cabinet already loaded with people who question the near-universal scientific consensus that climate change is real and that human activity is the primary cause. The final vote ― which was 50-49 along party lines ― came one day after the Senate narrowly advanced Bridenstine’s nomination, thanks to an about-face from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and a key vote from Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.). Rubio[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jim-bridenstine-nasa-confirmation_us_5ad8aab7e4b03c426dac081c]<br /> * Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine sued agricultural giant Monsanto on Monday, alleging the company concealed dangers posed by a toxic chemical compound it manufactured for nearly a half century. In the suit, filed in the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court in Cincinnati, prosecutors argued that the company should pay for the clean-up of what it says are dozens of rivers, lakes and other water bodies contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/monsanto-concealed-effects-toxic-chemical-decades-ohio-ag-alleges-n853866]<br /> * The world’s most widely used insecticides pose a serious danger to both honeybees and wild bees, according to a major new assessment from the European Union’s scientific risk assessors. The conclusion, based on analysis of more than 1,500 studies, makes it highly likely that the neonicotinoid pesticides will be banned from all fields across the EU when nations vote on the issue next month.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/28/total-ban-on-bee-harming-pesticides-likely-after-major-new-eu-analysis]<br /> * DuPont vs. the World: Chemical Giant Covered Up Health Risks of Teflon Contamination Across Globe[https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/23/dupont_vs_the_world_chemical_giant]<br /> * GOP senators who pushed Trump to ditch Paris deal took over $10 million from fossil fuel industry.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/01/republican-senators-paris-climate-deal-energy-donations]<br /> * With backing from a sugar lobby, scientists promoted dietary fat as the cause of coronary heart disease instead of sugar, according to a historical document review published in JAMA Internal Medicine.[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/12/sugar-industry-paid-research-heart-disease-jama-report]<br /> * Oregon sues Monsanto, alleges company knowingly sold toxic PCBs for decades.[http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2018/01/oregon_sues_monsanto_alleges_c.html]<br /> * Government scientists blocked from the biggest meeting in their field[https://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/22/us-geological-survey-scientists-blocked-from-conference-interior-department/]<br /> * Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Net Neutrality Narrative Is False[https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/vbympa/net-neutrality-fcc-inspector-general-report]<br /> * The Slow Demise of Asbestos, the Carcinogen that Gave ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Snow[https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-slow-demise-of-asbestos-the-carcinogen-that-gave-the-wizard-of-oz-snow]<br /> * Trump reverses ban on Nazi created pesticide after receiving huge donation from chemical company[https://www.snopes.com/trump-reverses-insecticide-ban-dow-chemicals/]<br /> * Sugar industry withheld research effects of sucrose 50 years ago, study claims Researchers say negative health impacts of sucrose could have been combated sooner had research been released – but industry bodies dispute the findings.In 1967, when scientists were arguing over the link between sugar consumption and increased risk of heart disease, researchers now claim that the International Sugar Research Foundation (ISRF) withheld findings that rats that were fed a high-sugar diet had higher levels of triglycerides (a fat found in the blood) than those fed starch. In a move researchers from the University of California at San Francisco have compared to the tobacco industry’s self-preservation tactics, the foundation stopped funding the project.[https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2017/nov/21/sugar-industry-withheld-research-effects-of-sucrose-50-years-ago-study-claims]<br /> * As cigarette sales decline worldwide, the tobacco giant Phillip Morris Inc. is scrambling to restructure and embrace potentially more profitable “smoke-free” products. The revamp involves setting up an $80 million foundation called the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. The World Health Organization rebuked Phillip Morris and accused it of being disingenuous about consumer health, citing decades of research meddling and deceptive marketing. It declared it would have nothing to do with the foundation and warned governments the world over to do the same.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/philip-morris-sets-up-80m-research-foundation-who-flips-them-the-bird/]<br /> * Monsanto banned from European parliament: MEPs withdraw parliamentary access after the firm shunned a hearing into allegations that it unduly influenced studies into the safety of glyphosate used in its RoundUp weedkiller.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/28/monsanto-banned-from-european-parliament]<br /> * Coca-Cola secretly spent $1.5 million to fund an entire network of academic researchers whose goal was to shift the national health conversation away from the harms of sugary beverages. Instead, their research focused on the benefits of exercise—i.e., the health risks of sedentary and inactive lifestyles.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/the-new-study-suggesting-sitting-will-kill-you-is-kind-of-a-raging-dumpster-fire/]<br /> * Union of Concerned Scientists complains that the Trump administration's &quot;Chief Scientist&quot; at the USDA is not a scientist: Sam Clovis—a conservative talk radio host, Trump campaign co-chair, and climate denier with no training in science—for the role of chief scientist at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). [http://blog.ucsusa.org/mike-lavender/the-case-against-clovis-why-trumps-usda-chief-scientist-nominee-is-the-wrong-choice]<br /> * Almost All of FCC’s New Advisory Panel Works for Telecoms, most of which are against Net Neutrality.[http://www.thedailybeast.com/almost-all-of-fccs-new-advisory-panel-works-for-telecoms]<br /> * Court evidence reveals Monsanto involved with published Scientific Studies Without Disclosing Conflicts of Interest to publishers.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/monsanto-secret-documents/]<br /> * Internal Emails Show Monsanto Made Substantial Contributions to Published Expert Panel Manuscript.[http://baumhedlundlaw.com/pdf/monsanto-documents/3-Internal-Emails-Show-Monsanto-Made-Substantial-Contributions-to-Published-Expert-Panel-Manuscript.pdf]<br /> * Monsanto secret documents revealed, contianing correspondence between Dr. William Heydens and Ashely Roberts regarding the Expert Panel Manuscript. Dr. Heydens went “through the entire document and “indicated what I think should stay, what can go, and in a couple spots I did a little editing. I took a crack at adding a little text: on page 10 to address John’s comments about toxicologists’ use of Hill’s criteria … see what you think; it made sense to me, but I’m not sure if it will to others – please feel free to further modify and/or run by Cary.” at *1. The edited draft is also attached and challenged for confidentiality.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/monsanto-secret-documents/]<br /> * Court documents reveal Monsanto was ghost-writing academic papers defending its products and attacking critics.The documents underscore the lengths to which the agrochemical company goes to protect its image. Documents show that Henry I. Miller, an academic and a vocal proponent of genetically modified crops, asked Monsanto to draft an article for him that largely mirrored one that appeared under his name on Forbes's website in 2015. Mr. Miller could not be reached for comment. A similar issue appeared in academic research. An academic involved in writing research funded by Monsanto, John Acquavella, a former Monsanto employee, appeared to express discomfort with the process, writing in a 2015 email to a Monsanto executive, &quot;I can't be part of deceptive authorship on a presentation or publication.&quot; He also said of the way the company was trying to present the authorship: &quot;We call that ghost writing and it is unethical.&quot; Mr. Miller's 2015 article on Forbes's website was an attack on the findings of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization that had labeled glyphosate a probable carcinogen, a finding disputed by other regulatory bodies.[https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/08/03/227249/monsanto-leaks-suggest-it-tried-to-kill-cancer-research-on-roundup-weed-killer?utm_source=feedburnerFaceBook&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29]<br /> * The FCC Insists It Can't Stop Impostors From Lying About My Views On Net Neutrality.[https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20170710/10071737756/fcc-insists-it-cant-stop-impostors-lying-about-my-views-net-neutrality.shtml]<br /> * DOW CHEMICAL DONATES $1 MILLION TO TRUMP, ASKS ADMINISTRATION TO IGNORE PESTICIDE STUDY.[http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/04/dow-chemical-endangered-species]<br /> * E.P.A. Official Pressured Scientist on Congressional Testimony, Emails Show: The Environmental Protection Agency’s chief of staff pressured the top scientist on the agency’s scientific review board to alter her congressional testimony and play down the dismissal of expert advisers.[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/us/politics/epa-official-pressured-scientist-on-congressional-testimony-emails-show.html]<br /> * Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science]<br /> * Monsanto's GMO-friendly pesticide, Dicamba is causing widespread devastation in Missouri.[http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/dicamba-damage-is-back-and-possibly-worse-than-before/article_2e33ec05-ae98-5468-92f8-bccf6bcd7698.html]<br /> * Arkansas's pesticide regulators have stepped into the middle of an epic battle between weeds and chemicals, which has now morphed into a battle between farmers. Hundreds of farmers say their crops have been damaged by a weedkiller that was sprayed on neighboring fields. Today, the Arkansas Plant Board voted to impose an unprecedented ban on that chemical. The tension — which even led to a farmer's murder — is over a weedkiller called dicamba. The chemical moved into the weed-control spotlight a few years ago, when Monsanto created soybean and cotton plants that were genetically modified to survive it.[http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/06/23/534117683/arkansas-tries-to-stop-an-epidemic-of-herbicide-damage]<br /> * Glyphosate, an herbicide and the active ingredient in Monsanto Co's (MON.N) popular Roundup weed killer, will be added to California's list of chemicals known to cause cancer effective July 7, the state's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) said on Monday. Monsanto vowed to continue its legal fight against the designation, required under a state law known as Proposition 65, and called the decision &quot;unwarranted on the basis of science and the law.&quot;[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-glyphosate-california-idUSKBN19H2K1]<br /> * The EPA's Inspector General Is Probing Whether An Agency Staffer Colluded With Monsanto.[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-inspector-general-probing-collusion-with-monsanto_us_59372108e4b0aba888b99dca]<br /> * Monsanto Hires Internet Trolls to Cover Up Roundup’s Cancer Risk.[https://www.ecowatch.com/monsanto-hires-internet-trolls-2401703407.html]<br /> * President Donald Trump's nominee for Deputy Secretary of the Interior said today that Trump's economic policy could take priority over climate science. In his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Energy &amp; Natural Resources Committee, David Bernhardt said that he will consider science on climate change but that Trump's policy opinions that prioritize jobs could outweigh scientific conclusions.[http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/interior-dept-nominee-trumps-views-outweigh-climate-science/story?id=47492689]<br /> <br /> * White House Moves to Block Ethics Inquiry Into Ex-Lobbyists on Payroll. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/us/politics/trump-white-house-government-ethics-lobbyists.html]<br /> <br /> * U.S. judge finds that Aetna deceived the public about its reasons for quitting participation in the government's healthcare exchange under the Affordable Care Act.[http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-aetna-obamacare-20170123-story.html]<br /> <br /> * E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board - replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html?_r=0&amp;referer=]<br /> <br /> * The original &quot;food pyramid,&quot; a diagram instructing the public on the proper healthy allocation of different food types, given to the US government by nutritionists was altered for the benefit of the food industry and grain growers.[https://proteinpower.com/drmike/2014/02/19/death-food-pyramid/]<br /> <br /> * &quot;Cosmos&quot; episode explains How Corporations Fund Science Denial. An entire episode was devoted to the Clair Patterson, who discovered that lead was entering the atmosphere through the burning of leaded gasoline. Yet, it took twenty years for unleaded gas to become the norm.[http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/04/cosmos-neil-tyson-lead-industry-science-denial][http://www.space.com/25579-cosmos-recap-earth-age-lead-poisoning.html]<br /> <br /> * In the 1960s, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the risks of sugar and highlighted the hazards of fat, according to a newly published article in JAMA Internal Medicine. The article draws on internal documents to show that an industry group called the Sugar Research Foundation wanted to &quot;refute&quot; concerns about sugar's possible role in heart disease. The SRF then sponsored research by Harvard scientists that did just that. The result was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1967, with no disclosure of the sugar industry funding. [http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat]<br /> <br /> * Editor quits journal over pay-for-expedited peer-review offer. With a tweet yesterday, an editor of Scientific Reports, one of Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG’s) open-access journals, has resigned in a very public protest of NPG’s recent decision to allow authors to pay money to expedite peer review of their submitted papers. “My objections are that it sets up a two-tiered system and instead of the best science being published in a timely fashion it will further shift the balance to well-funded labs and groups,” Mark Maslin, a biogeographer at University College London, tells ScienceInsider.[http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/03/updated-editor-quits-journal-over-pay-expedited-peer-review-offer]<br /> <br /> * House of Commons committee to open hearings on neonic pesticide with industry-biased panel.[http://menafn.com/1095300543/House-of-Commons-committee-to-open-hearings-on-neonic-pesticide-with-industry-biased-panel]<br /> * The EPA Finally Admitted That the World’s Most Popular Pesticide Kills Bees—20 Years Too Late.[http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2016/01/epa-finds-major-pesticide-toxic-bees]<br /> <br /> * NASA executives waste $80M renewing an industry contract to produce a spacesuit inferior to what the government's own engineers were designing. NASA leaders claimed the contract was necessary to, &quot;keep industry engaged in spacesuit design&quot;, but the report dismisses this idea, noting the agency's in-house Advanced Space Suit Project shared several contractors and primary subcontractors.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/nasas-spacesuit-program-is-something-of-a-hot-mess/]<br /> <br /> == Monsanto/Bayer Controversies ==<br /> <br /> * Pesticide Created By Bayer Accidentally Kills Off Twelve-Mile Stretch of Trees in Oregon.[https://althealthworks.com/16015/pesticide-created-by-bayer-accidentally-kills-off-twelve-miles-worth-of-trees-in-oregon/]<br /> <br /> * The law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei &amp; Goldman made public today hundreds of pages of newly de-classified internal Monsanto documents, including company email exchanges, reports, studies and other memoranda.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/4-19-new-monsanto-papers-docs/]<br /> <br /> * A new study by the non-profit claims to have found 19 major beer and wine brands whose products contain the pesticide glyphosate, a.k.a. one of the ingredients present in the weed killer Roundup..[http://www.grubstreet.com/2019/02/pesticides-major-beer-wine-brands.html]<br /> <br /> * Five things to know about Bayer and Monsanto, including its connection to Nazi gas chambers.[https://phys.org/news/2018-08-bayer-monsanto.html]<br /> <br /> * Shareholders of the German chemical giant Bayer staged a full-blown revolt at a heated 13-hour meeting in Bonn on Friday, arguing that the management failed to see the company was inheriting a raft of nightmarish litigation associated with glyphosate when it bought U.S. agrichemical giant Monsanto for $66 billion last year. The investors are furious that a blue-riband European company is now potentially exposed to billions of dollars of claims over the glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup, created by Monsanto. Two U.S. court verdicts over the past year found that the world's most popular herbicide caused cancer, hauling shares in Bayer down about 40 percent since August. Bayer has appealed those decisions but is now facing an avalanche of some 13,400 claims. &quot;It is about time Bayer came to grips with the fact that they purchased Monsanto’s misconduct and, now, need to do right by the victims. It’s time to resolve these lawsuits and give Bayer shareholders confidence again in corporate leadership,&quot; said Brent Wisner, an attorney at Baum, Hedlund, Aristei &amp; Goldman, which is representing plaintiffs in the lawsuits against Monsanto.[https://www.politico.eu/article/glyphosate-revolt-rocks-germany-inc-bayer-shareholders-vote/]<br /> <br /> * Concerns over glyphosate pass from human health to the soil.Experts say the weedkiller’s impact on soil health represents a serious threat to Europe’s long-term food security. [https://www.politico.eu/article/glyphosate-concerns-pass-from-human-health-to-soil/]<br /> <br /> * Washington State University researchers have found a variety of diseases and other health problems in the second- and third-generation offspring of rats exposed to glyphosate, the world's most popular weed killer. In the first study of its kind, the researchers saw descendants of exposed rats developing prostate, kidney and ovarian diseases, obesity and birth abnormalities. Michael Skinner, a WSU professor of biological sciences, and his colleagues exposed pregnant rats to the herbicide between their eighth and 14th days of gestation. The dose—half the amount expected to show no adverse effect—produced no apparent ill effects on either the parents or the first generation of offspring. But writing in the journal Scientific Reports, the researchers say they saw &quot;dramatic increases&quot; in several pathologies affecting the second and third generations. The second generation had &quot;significant increases&quot; in testis, ovary and mammary gland diseases, as well as obesity. In third-generation males, the researchers saw a 30 percent increase in prostate disease—three times that of a control population. The third generation of females had a 40 percent increase in kidney disease, or four times that of the controls.[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-42860-0][https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-04-health-effects-popular-weed-killer.html]<br /> <br /> * Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees, Erick V. S. Motta, Kasie Raymann, and Nancy A. Moran<br /> PNAS published ahead of print September 24, 2018. &quot;Increased mortality of honey bee colonies has been attributed to several factors but is not fully understood. The herbicide glyphosate is expected to be innocuous to animals, including bees, because it targets an enzyme only found in plants and microorganisms. However, bees rely on a specialized gut microbiota that benefits growth and provides defense against pathogens. Most bee gut bacteria contain the enzyme targeted by glyphosate, but vary in whether they possess susceptible versions and, correspondingly, in tolerance to glyphosate. Exposing bees to glyphosate alters the bee gut community and increases susceptibility to infection by opportunistic pathogens. Understanding how glyphosate impacts bee gut symbionts and bee health will help elucidate a possible role of this chemical in colony decline.&quot; [https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1803880115]<br /> <br /> * Consuming a mixture of sugar syrup and glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, alters honey bees’ microbiomes, and these changes increased mortality among insects exposed to pathogenic bacteria, according to a study.[https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/herbicide-may-harm-microbiome-of-bees-64860]<br /> <br /> * Attorneys for a couple who claim Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer gave them both cancer tried to convince a California jury Thursday that the agrochemical company engaged in decades of fraud to hide the fact that the herbicide is carcinogenic. Wisner on Thursday ran through a list of Monsanto’s newly revealed alleged sins, starting with the so-called IBT scandal. The company seemingly planted one of its employees at a contract lab called Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories (IBT) in the 1970s to fake negative mouse carcinogenicity data for Roundup’s active ingredient glyphosate that were to be used to win regulatory approval for the weed killer in 1975; planned an attack to discredit the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cancer research agency, anticipating the agency would classify glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen in 2015; and exploited “deep connections” within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to classify glyphosate as non-carcinogenic.[https://www.courthousenews.com/roundup-trial-monsanto-used-fake-data-to-win-over-regulators/]<br /> <br /> * Glyphosate Worse than We Could Imagine. “It’s Everywhere” Glyphosate residues have been found in tap water, orange juice, children’s urine, breast milk, chips, snacks, beer, wine, cereals, eggs, oatmeal, wheat products, and most conventional foods tested. It’s everywhere, in brief.[https://www.globalresearch.ca/glyphosate-worse/5674472]<br /> <br /> * The overlooked impact of rising glyphosate use on phosphorus loading in agricultural watersheds. The herbicide glyphosate dominates the global pesticide market, with applied tonnage increasing steadily worldwide. Glyphosate's capacity to degrade rapidly is often used to argue against potential toxicological effects, but the phosphorus (P) it contains persists in the environment and can influence soil P accumulation and losses to surrounding freshwater systems, which are prone to nutrient pollution.[https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/fee.1985]<br /> <br /> * Louisiana sugar cane farmers are using Glyphosate as a &quot;chemical ripener&quot; on crops.[https://www.lsuagcenter.com/portals/communications/publications/agmag/archive/2008/spring/use-of-glyphosate-to-enhance-sugar-production-in-louisiana]<br /> <br /> == Politics verses science ==<br /> <br /> * After Republican Protest, Oregon's Climate Plan Dies.[https://politics.slashdot.org/story/19/06/26/0023255/after-republican-protest-oregons-climate-plan-dies]<br /> <br /> <br /> == Trump administration's questionable respect for science ==<br /> <br /> * Trump to nominate former Monsanto executive to top interior department position. Aurelia Skipwith, who worked as a lawyer and in research at Monsanto, will be nominated to run the Fish and Wildlife Service.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/23/aurelia-skipwith-monsanto-fish-wildlife-service-interior-department]<br /> <br /> <br /> * Trump Quietly Nominates Mass Surveillance Advocate To “Protect” Your Privacy Rights[http://theantimedia.org/trump-mass-surveillance-privacy/]<br /> <br /> * Trump officially nominates Sam Clovis, climate-denying conservative talk radio host as USDA’s top scientist.[https://thinkprogress.org/sam-clovis-officially-nominated-still-not-a-scientist-d47be4ffb1a8]<br /> <br /> * Trump's 5 Most “Anti-Science” Moves, Scientific American [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-5-most-ldquo-anti-science-rdquo-moves/]<br /> <br /> * Donald Trump's War On Science, New Yorker [http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/donald-trumps-war-on-science]<br /> <br /> * Trump has launched a blitzkrieg in the wars on science and Earth’s climate, The Guardian, [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/mar/28/trump-has-launched-a-blitzkrieg-in-the-wars-on-science-and-earths-climate]<br /> <br /> ===Anti-science head of the EPA under the Trump administration===<br /> <br /> * Scott Pruitt’s Attack on Science Would Paralyze the E.P.A.[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/opinion/pruitt-attack-science-epa.html]<br /> <br /> * Trump’s embattled EPA head Scott Pruitt has come down on the side of polluters on just about every issue that faces the US, so it is with little surprise that in a recent interview he signaled that he may try to fight back against California’s fuel economy requirements.[https://electrek.co/2018/03/14/epa-chief-scott-pruitt-signals-war-with-california-over-cafe-mileage-standards/]<br /> <br /> * Trump Re-Nominates Anti-Wildlife Climate Denier to Top Environment Post[https://www.ecowatch.com/ceq-nominee-white-2524022932.html]<br /> <br /> * Pruitt drives out EPA staff, hires unqualified former banker pal[http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pruitt-drives-out-epa-staff-hires-unqualified-former-banker-pal-1122919491794]<br /> <br /> * EPA seeks to scrap rule protecting drinking water for third of Americans[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/27/epa-clean-water-rule-drinking]<br /> <br /> * E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board - replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html?_r=0&amp;referer=]<br /> <br /> * EPA Scientists Worry Their New Boss Doesn't Want Science. [https://www.wired.com/2017/02/epa-scientists-worry-new-boss-doesnt-want-science/]<br /> <br /> * President Trump's pick to run the Environmental Protection Agaency is a self-described “leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda,” Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma’s attorney general since 2011, has repeatedly sued the agency and other government entities over environmental rules and regulations, at times in direct cooperation with fossil fuel companies.[http://www.factcheck.org/2016/12/facts-trumps-epa-nominee/] <br /> <br /> :From Factcheck.org on Trumps head of the EPA:<br /> <br /> ** Pruitt’s questionable claims include:<br /> ** He falsely said in May that scientists “disagree about the degree” and “connection” of global warming “to the actions of mankind.” As we have written time and time again, the vast majority of climate scientists believe global warming is real and human-caused.<br /> **He also said the Clean Power Plan will “significantly” increase electricity prices. Whether the price change is “significant” is a matter of opinion, but the Energy Information Administration estimates that prices under the plan would range from a 7 percent decrease to a 7 percent increase between 2025 and 2040, depending on the region.<br /> **He implied in April 2014 that’s there’s no evidence to support a link between fracking and water contamination. There is some evidence to support a link in certain instances, but not enough to definitively conclude that contamination is widespread, as we wrote in early December.<br /> <br /> * Climate change cynic Scott Pruitt takes over as Donald Trump's head of Environmental Protection Agency[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/17/climate-change-cynic-scott-pruitt-takes-donald-trumps-head-environmental/]<br /> <br /> <br /> * The Union of Concerned Scientists, has compiled a list of 80 Trump administration attacks on science since taking office, and Trump's next EPA head, Andrew Wheeler has been the driving force behind many of them. Below are 10 of the more egregious ways he has undermined the EPA's time-honored role to protect public health and the environment so far[https://www.ecowatch.com/andrew-wheeler-decimated-epa-protections-2639209982.html]<br /> <br /> ===Anti-science appointees to the USDA===<br /> <br /> * Incompetence Looms: Trump To Appoint Non-Scientist As USDA's Chief Scientist[https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2017/05/14/trump-will-appoint-incompetent-non-scientist-as-usdas-chief-scientist/2/#1276211e1276]<br /> * The Trump administration is planning to nominate Sam Clovis — the Department of Agriculture’s senior White House adviser — as head of USDA’s Research, Education and Economics division, according to individuals briefed on the decision. The move would mark a break with recent Republican and Democratic administrations alike, which have previously reserved the high-level position for scientists with expertise in agricultural research. Clovis — a former economics professor and talk radio host in Iowa who served as one of the Trump campaign’s first policy advisers — has bachelor’s degrees in political science and government, a master’s in business administration and a doctoral degree in public administration[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/13/trumps-expected-choice-for-the-leading-usda-science-job-isnt-a-trained-scientist/]<br /> * Trump’s Expected Pick for Top USDA Scientist Is Not a Scientist[https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-expected-pick-for-top-usda-scientist-is-not-a-scientist]<br /> <br /> ==Industry/Government Attacks On Scientists==<br /> <br /> * State-funded scientists could be prevented from lobbying for change in their field under Cabinet Office proposals. Senior scientists have denounced a potential move to “muzzle” colleagues whose findings are disliked by the government. The proposal – announced by the Cabinet Office earlier this month – would block researchers who receive government grants from using their results to lobby for changes to laws or regulations. For example, an academic whose government-funded research showed that new regulations were proving particularly harmful to the homeless would not be able to call for policy change. Similarly, ecologists who found out that new planning laws were harming wildlife would not be able to raise the issue in public, while climate scientists whose findings undermined government energy policy could have work suppressed.[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/20/scientists-attack-muzzling-government-state-funded-cabinet-office]<br /> <br /> * Renown Canadian scientist personally attacked by industry after expressing concern over GMOs. [https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/glp-facts/david-suzuki-canadas-science-guy-turned-eccentric-anti-gmo-chemical-scaremonger/]<br /> <br /> ==Other articles==<br /> <br /> <br /> * Roundup’s Risks Could Go Well Beyond Cancer - Evidence of the cheap herbicide’s danger to biological functions and the environment continues to mount. Why are U.S. regulators not listening?[https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-04/roundup-cancer-risk-is-only-one-danger-to-humans-animals?fbclid=IwAR1Nr2PV2V-6jFzgsFmGLEaWiU05yYJnOKJVxeqDfWmNF32fzy5UTGgWqz4]<br /> * Los Angeles County Bans Use of Roundup Weed Killer.[https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2019-03-22/los-angeles-county-bans-use-of-roundup-weed-killer]<br /> * The Monsanto Papers - information on current court cases regarding Monsanto/Bayer.[https://usrtk.org/monsanto-papers/]<br /> * The secret tactics Monsanto used to protect Roundup, its star product[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JszHrMZ7dx4]<br /> * In the latest stage of a decade-long legal tussle, the appeals court in Lyon, France on Thursday found in favor of farmer Paul Francois’ claim that Monsanto’s Lasso weedkiller had made him sick and that the product’s labeling had been inadequate. Francois, 55, says he suffered neurological problems, including memory loss, fainting and headaches, after accidentally inhaling Lasso in 2004 while working on his farm. “Mr Francois justifiably concludes that the product, due to its inadequate labeling that did not respect applicable regulations, did not offer the level of safety he could legitimately expect,” the court said in its ruling. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-monsanto-lawsuit/french-court-finds-bayers-monsanto-liable-for-farmers-sickness-idUSKCN1RN1JA?il=0]<br /> * A new report found glyphosate, a weed-killing chemical that some health authorities link to cancer, in a number of popular breakfast foods and cereals marketed to children. The study by the non-profit Environmental Working Group (EWG) discovered trace amounts of the most widely used herbicide in the country in oats, granolas and snack bars. Thirty-one out of 45 tested products had levels higher than what some scientists consider safe for children. Recently, some scientists, doctors and activists around the world have worked to keep glyphosate out of crops due to concerns that it is a dangerous carcinogen.[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/glyphosate-roundup-chemical-found-in-childrens-breakfast-foods/]<br /> * Judge Upholds Verdict That Found Monsanto’s Roundup Caused a Man’s Cancer. [https://theantimedia.com/judge-monsanto-roundup-cancer/]<br /> * A collaborative study by three US universities reported that individuals with particularly high exposures to glyphosate-based herbicides (Roundup), for instance those spraying it, could have a 41% increased relative risk of developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1383574218300887]<br /> * Is RoundUp carcinogenic? The trouble is, for every research paper that purports to show a link between glyphosate-based herbicides and cancer, there is another which finds the exact opposite. This hasn’t been helped by the fact that many of the studies may not have been entirely objective. “A lot of the studies backing glyphosate have been funded by entities in a position to profit from the continuing sales. But one of the factors that have left commentators suspicious of the potential toxicity of these herbicides has been incidents of combative corporate behaviour. In the latest trial, Monsanto has caused eyebrows to raise by obtaining a ban preventing attorneys for the plaintiffs from presenting information regarding its alleged influence on research.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/09/spray-pray-is-roundup-carcinogenic-monsanto-farmers-suing]<br /> * A 3M plant in Decatur, Alabama has admitted in a letter to the EPA that it violated a federal toxic substance law by releasing illegal chemicals into the Tennessee River. The letter was sent to the Environmental Protection Agency on April, 3, 2019, in it 3M admits to the non-compliance of a 2009 update to the Toxic Substances Control Act. A Washington, D.C. based law firm sent the letter on behalf of the company: <br /> “On behalf of 3M Company (”3M”), I am writing to voluntary disclose non-compliance with Section 5(e) of the Toxic Substance Control Act (“TSCA”), at 3M’s Decatur, Alabama Plant.” The statement continues saying, 3M admits to releasing perfluorobutanesulfonamide (FBSA) and possibly fluorinated sulfonamide alcohol (FBSEE) into the Tennessee River. [http://1057news.com/2019/06/21/07/18/36/3m-admits-to-releasing-toxic-chemicals-into-the-tennessee-river-for-over-a-decade/]<br /> * The biotech company Monsanto had genetically modified these new soybeans so that they tolerate a herbicide called dicamba. It allows farmers to spray dicamba on their soybeans; it kills the weeds, but their dicamba-tolerant crop is fine. But the new herbicide is now causing damage to other crops in the region.[https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/07/19/742836972/rogue-weedkiller-vapors-are-threatening-soybean-science]<br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * Science-Mart, Privatizing American Science, Philip Mirowski [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674046467]<br /> <br /> * [[Theists in the news]]<br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Industry]]<br /> [[Category:Science]]<br /> [[Category:Scientific_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Science_vs_Industry Science vs Industry 2019-07-25T15:20:53Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>This page documents examples of where industry and science conflicted or colluded with each other in ways that were not of interest to the people or the truth.<br /> <br /> ==Industry Collusion and Manipulation==<br /> <br /> * Court documents reveal Monsanto's efforts to fight glyphosate's 'severe stigma'. Social Sharing. Canadian firm hired to recruit scientists to publish studies that ultimately defended Roundup's key ingredient.The documents also reveal communications between Monsanto and a Canadian firm hired to recruit scientists to publish studies that ultimately defended glyphosate — some of which were secretly reviewed by Monsanto prior to publication. All those papers, as previously reported by CBC/Radio-Canada, were also used as part of Health Canada's re-approval process of glyphosate in 2017.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/glyphosate-monsanto-intertek-studies-1.4902229]<br /> <br /> * Fired Quebec scientist blew the whistle on pesticide lobby influence.[https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/03/21/news/fired-quebec-scientist-blew-whistle-pesticide-lobby-influence]<br /> <br /> * Rush To Produce, Sell Vaccine Put Kids In Philippines At Risk. &quot;What bothers me most about this story is risk communication,&quot; says Rodriguez, who studies dengue in South America. &quot;There was a lot of uncertainty from the beginning [about the vaccine's safety]. That needed to be communicated explicitly. You need to be honest about what evidence is out there.&quot; In April, the Philippine government indicted 14 government officials over the deaths of 10 children who received the Dengvaxia vaccine. The government said the officials acted with &quot;undue haste&quot; in procuring the vaccine and launching the mass immunization campaign. The Philippine Department of Justice said the campaign started before the clinical trials were finished. In some instances children were given the vaccine by untrained health workers and allegedly without a proper physical beforehand. Some children allegedly had preexisting medical conditions that made the immunization dangerous. But these children were still inoculated, the government found. Six Sanofi officials were also indicted for not properly helping children who had serious reactions to the shot.[https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/05/03/719037789/botched-vaccine-launch-has-deadly-repercussions]<br /> * Radium Girls - information on industry using women to handle toxic materials and covering it up.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls]<br /> * Monsanto secretly ran “Let Nothing Go” campaign that paid internet trolls to post pro-Monsanto comments all across the internet[https://www.monsanto.news/2018-06-28-monsanto-secretly-ran-let-nothing-go-campaign-paid-internet-trolls.html]<br /> * EU regulators based a decision to relicense the controversial weedkiller glyphosate on an assessment plagiarised from industry reports, according to a report for the European parliament.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/eu-glyphosate-approval-was-based-on-plagiarised-monsanto-text-report-finds]<br /> * Judge in Roundup maker’s first federal trial had banned discussion of the company’s alleged manipulation of science. Monsanto is facing its first federal trial over allegations that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, but a US judge has blocked attorneys from discussing the corporation’s alleged manipulation of science. In an extraordinary move in a packed San Francisco courtroom on Monday, US judge Vince Chhabria threatened to sanction and “shut down” a cancer patient’s attorney for violating his ban on talking about Monsanto’s influence on government regulators and cancer research.[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/25/monsanto-federal-trial-roundup-cancer]<br /> * A broad new scientific analysis of the cancer-causing potential of glyphosate herbicides, the most widely used weedkilling products in the world, has found that people with high exposures to the popular pesticides have a 41% increased risk of developing a type of cancer called non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/14/weed-killing-products-increase-cancer-risk-of-cancer]<br /> * IARC responds to the claims its study claiming Glyphosate was probably carcinogenic, was incorrect and says media distorting actual reports. From reading, the IARC claims are based on the review of more than 1000 independent scientific studies. The idea that one particular study contradicts their overall findings and should be used to dismiss the IARC study is absurd. IARC also calls attention to concern over industry badgering scientists to reveal their findings prior to publication and peer review.[https://www.iarc.fr/featured-news/media-centre-iarc-news-glyphosate/]<br /> * The world’s most used weedkiller damages the beneficial bacteria in the guts of honeybees and makes them more prone to deadly infections, new research has found. Previous studies have shown that pesticides such as neonicotinoids cause harm to bees, whose pollination is vital to about three-quarters of all food crops. Glyphosate, manufactured by Monsanto, targets an enzyme only found in plants and bacteria. However, the new study shows that glyphosate damages the microbiota that honeybees need to grow and to fight off pathogens. The findings show glyphosate, the most used agricultural chemical ever, may be contributing to the global decline in bees, along with the loss of habitat.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/24/monsanto-weedkiller-harms-bees-research-finds]<br /> * Court Orders EPA To Ban Chlorpyrifos, A Pesticide Linked To Brain Damage In Kids.[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-ban-pesticide-chlorpyrifos_us_5b6c6d0ce4b0ae32af96318e]<br /> * A federal jury today convicted a Birmingham lawyer and an Alabama coal company executive in a scheme to bribe a state legislator to use his office to oppose Environmental Protection Agency actions in north Birmingham, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr. and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Holloman.[https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndal/pr/federal-jury-convicts-lawyer-and-coal-company-executive-bribing-state-legislator]<br /> * When Trump administration officials opposed a WHO breast-feeding resolution, they followed a long history of policymakers listening to baby-formula manufacturers.[https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/07/the-epic-battle-between-breast-milk-and-infant-formula-companies/564782/]<br /> * Monsanto 'bullied scientists' and hid weedkiller cancer risk, lawyer tells court[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jul/09/monsanto-trial-roundup-weedkiller-cancer-dewayne-johnson]<br /> * Why Trump's new CDC director is an abysmal choice: Redfield worked closely with the Christian organization, Americans for a Sound AIDS/HIV Policy. The group maintained AIDS was &quot;God's judgment&quot; against homosexuals, spread in an America weakened by single-parent households and loss of family values.[https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/13/opinions/trumps-terrible-choice-for-cdc-redfield-garrett/index.html]<br /> * After more than 40 years of widespread use, new scientific tests show formulated weedkillers have higher rates of toxicity to human cells.The tests are part of the US National Toxicology Program’s (NTP) first-ever examination of herbicide formulations made with the active ingredient glyphosate, but that also include other chemicals. While regulators have previously required extensive testing of glyphosate in isolation, government scientists have not fully examined the toxicity of the more complex products sold to consumers, farmers and others. Monsanto introduced its glyphosate-based Roundup brand in 1974. But it is only now, after more than 40 years of widespread use, that the government is investigating the toxicity of “glyphosate-based herbicides” on human cells.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/08/weedkiller-tests-monsanto-health-dangers-active-ingredient]<br /> * Popular article (that made the front page of a high-ranked subReddit) entitled, &quot;Millennials 'have no qualms about GM crops' unlike older generation&quot; was in actuality, a &quot;study&quot; commissioned by the Agricultural BiotechnologyCouncil, which is an industry lobbying group. The Agricultural Biotechnology Council (ABC) is a UK corporate lobby group funded by major biottechnology companies and run from the offices of a PR company, Lexington Communications. On its website, ABC lists members as comprising: BASF, Bayer CropScience, Dow AgroSciences, Pioneer (which is part of DuPont), Monsanto, Syngenta. &quot;In typical astroturf fashion they try to draw some kind of connection with &quot;Millennials&quot; to give themselves credibility.&quot;[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/07/millennials-have-no-qualms-gm-crops-unlike-older-generation/][https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/8hnt5r/millennials_have_no_qualms_about_gm_crops_unlike/dylh1u0/]<br /> * Under Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has dramatically shifted away from its stated mission to “protect human and environmental health.” Instead, the agency is clearly favoring the interests of the polluting industries that it is mandated to regulate, according to a study.[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304360]<br /> * Weedkiller found in granola and crackers, internal FDA emails show. The FDA has been testing food samples for traces of glyphosate for two years, but the agency has not yet released any official result. Other findings detailed in the FDA documents show that in 2016 Chamkasem found glyphosate in numerous samples of honey. Chamkasem also found glyphosate in oatmeal products. The FDA temporarily suspended testing after those findings, and Chamkasem’s lab was “reassigned to other programs”, the FDA documents show. The FDA has said those tests were not part of its official glyphosate residue assignment.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/30/fda-weedkiller-glyphosate-in-food-internal-emails]<br /> * &quot;Eating Pasta Linked to Weight Loss in New Study,&quot; Newsweek reported this month, racking up more than 22,500 Facebook likes, shares, and comments. The happy news also went viral on the Independent, the New York Daily News, and Business Insider. What those and many other stories failed to note, however, was that three of the scientists behind the study in question had financial conflicts as tangled as a bowl of spaghetti, including ties to the world’s largest pasta company, the Barilla Group. At least 10 peer-reviewed studies about pasta published since 2008 were either funded directly by Barilla or, like the one published this month, were carried out by scientists who have had financial ties to the company.[https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemlee/pasta-barilla-science-funding]<br /> * Senate Confirms Climate Change Denier To Lead NASA, Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) will take over control of the space agency after seven-month standoff. Bridenstine will become the first elected official to hold the NASA administrator job. He joins a Cabinet already loaded with people who question the near-universal scientific consensus that climate change is real and that human activity is the primary cause. The final vote ― which was 50-49 along party lines ― came one day after the Senate narrowly advanced Bridenstine’s nomination, thanks to an about-face from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and a key vote from Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.). Rubio[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jim-bridenstine-nasa-confirmation_us_5ad8aab7e4b03c426dac081c]<br /> * Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine sued agricultural giant Monsanto on Monday, alleging the company concealed dangers posed by a toxic chemical compound it manufactured for nearly a half century. In the suit, filed in the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court in Cincinnati, prosecutors argued that the company should pay for the clean-up of what it says are dozens of rivers, lakes and other water bodies contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/monsanto-concealed-effects-toxic-chemical-decades-ohio-ag-alleges-n853866]<br /> * The world’s most widely used insecticides pose a serious danger to both honeybees and wild bees, according to a major new assessment from the European Union’s scientific risk assessors. The conclusion, based on analysis of more than 1,500 studies, makes it highly likely that the neonicotinoid pesticides will be banned from all fields across the EU when nations vote on the issue next month.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/28/total-ban-on-bee-harming-pesticides-likely-after-major-new-eu-analysis]<br /> * DuPont vs. the World: Chemical Giant Covered Up Health Risks of Teflon Contamination Across Globe[https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/23/dupont_vs_the_world_chemical_giant]<br /> * GOP senators who pushed Trump to ditch Paris deal took over $10 million from fossil fuel industry.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/01/republican-senators-paris-climate-deal-energy-donations]<br /> * With backing from a sugar lobby, scientists promoted dietary fat as the cause of coronary heart disease instead of sugar, according to a historical document review published in JAMA Internal Medicine.[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/12/sugar-industry-paid-research-heart-disease-jama-report]<br /> * Oregon sues Monsanto, alleges company knowingly sold toxic PCBs for decades.[http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2018/01/oregon_sues_monsanto_alleges_c.html]<br /> * Government scientists blocked from the biggest meeting in their field[https://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/22/us-geological-survey-scientists-blocked-from-conference-interior-department/]<br /> * Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Net Neutrality Narrative Is False[https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/vbympa/net-neutrality-fcc-inspector-general-report]<br /> * The Slow Demise of Asbestos, the Carcinogen that Gave ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Snow[https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-slow-demise-of-asbestos-the-carcinogen-that-gave-the-wizard-of-oz-snow]<br /> * Trump reverses ban on Nazi created pesticide after receiving huge donation from chemical company[https://www.snopes.com/trump-reverses-insecticide-ban-dow-chemicals/]<br /> * Sugar industry withheld research effects of sucrose 50 years ago, study claims Researchers say negative health impacts of sucrose could have been combated sooner had research been released – but industry bodies dispute the findings.In 1967, when scientists were arguing over the link between sugar consumption and increased risk of heart disease, researchers now claim that the International Sugar Research Foundation (ISRF) withheld findings that rats that were fed a high-sugar diet had higher levels of triglycerides (a fat found in the blood) than those fed starch. In a move researchers from the University of California at San Francisco have compared to the tobacco industry’s self-preservation tactics, the foundation stopped funding the project.[https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2017/nov/21/sugar-industry-withheld-research-effects-of-sucrose-50-years-ago-study-claims]<br /> * As cigarette sales decline worldwide, the tobacco giant Phillip Morris Inc. is scrambling to restructure and embrace potentially more profitable “smoke-free” products. The revamp involves setting up an $80 million foundation called the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. The World Health Organization rebuked Phillip Morris and accused it of being disingenuous about consumer health, citing decades of research meddling and deceptive marketing. It declared it would have nothing to do with the foundation and warned governments the world over to do the same.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/philip-morris-sets-up-80m-research-foundation-who-flips-them-the-bird/]<br /> * Monsanto banned from European parliament: MEPs withdraw parliamentary access after the firm shunned a hearing into allegations that it unduly influenced studies into the safety of glyphosate used in its RoundUp weedkiller.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/28/monsanto-banned-from-european-parliament]<br /> * Coca-Cola secretly spent $1.5 million to fund an entire network of academic researchers whose goal was to shift the national health conversation away from the harms of sugary beverages. Instead, their research focused on the benefits of exercise—i.e., the health risks of sedentary and inactive lifestyles.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/the-new-study-suggesting-sitting-will-kill-you-is-kind-of-a-raging-dumpster-fire/]<br /> * Union of Concerned Scientists complains that the Trump administration's &quot;Chief Scientist&quot; at the USDA is not a scientist: Sam Clovis—a conservative talk radio host, Trump campaign co-chair, and climate denier with no training in science—for the role of chief scientist at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). [http://blog.ucsusa.org/mike-lavender/the-case-against-clovis-why-trumps-usda-chief-scientist-nominee-is-the-wrong-choice]<br /> * Almost All of FCC’s New Advisory Panel Works for Telecoms, most of which are against Net Neutrality.[http://www.thedailybeast.com/almost-all-of-fccs-new-advisory-panel-works-for-telecoms]<br /> * Court evidence reveals Monsanto involved with published Scientific Studies Without Disclosing Conflicts of Interest to publishers.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/monsanto-secret-documents/]<br /> * Internal Emails Show Monsanto Made Substantial Contributions to Published Expert Panel Manuscript.[http://baumhedlundlaw.com/pdf/monsanto-documents/3-Internal-Emails-Show-Monsanto-Made-Substantial-Contributions-to-Published-Expert-Panel-Manuscript.pdf]<br /> * Monsanto secret documents revealed, contianing correspondence between Dr. William Heydens and Ashely Roberts regarding the Expert Panel Manuscript. Dr. Heydens went “through the entire document and “indicated what I think should stay, what can go, and in a couple spots I did a little editing. I took a crack at adding a little text: on page 10 to address John’s comments about toxicologists’ use of Hill’s criteria … see what you think; it made sense to me, but I’m not sure if it will to others – please feel free to further modify and/or run by Cary.” at *1. The edited draft is also attached and challenged for confidentiality.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/monsanto-secret-documents/]<br /> * Court documents reveal Monsanto was ghost-writing academic papers defending its products and attacking critics.The documents underscore the lengths to which the agrochemical company goes to protect its image. Documents show that Henry I. Miller, an academic and a vocal proponent of genetically modified crops, asked Monsanto to draft an article for him that largely mirrored one that appeared under his name on Forbes's website in 2015. Mr. Miller could not be reached for comment. A similar issue appeared in academic research. An academic involved in writing research funded by Monsanto, John Acquavella, a former Monsanto employee, appeared to express discomfort with the process, writing in a 2015 email to a Monsanto executive, &quot;I can't be part of deceptive authorship on a presentation or publication.&quot; He also said of the way the company was trying to present the authorship: &quot;We call that ghost writing and it is unethical.&quot; Mr. Miller's 2015 article on Forbes's website was an attack on the findings of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization that had labeled glyphosate a probable carcinogen, a finding disputed by other regulatory bodies.[https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/08/03/227249/monsanto-leaks-suggest-it-tried-to-kill-cancer-research-on-roundup-weed-killer?utm_source=feedburnerFaceBook&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29]<br /> * The FCC Insists It Can't Stop Impostors From Lying About My Views On Net Neutrality.[https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20170710/10071737756/fcc-insists-it-cant-stop-impostors-lying-about-my-views-net-neutrality.shtml]<br /> * DOW CHEMICAL DONATES $1 MILLION TO TRUMP, ASKS ADMINISTRATION TO IGNORE PESTICIDE STUDY.[http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/04/dow-chemical-endangered-species]<br /> * E.P.A. Official Pressured Scientist on Congressional Testimony, Emails Show: The Environmental Protection Agency’s chief of staff pressured the top scientist on the agency’s scientific review board to alter her congressional testimony and play down the dismissal of expert advisers.[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/us/politics/epa-official-pressured-scientist-on-congressional-testimony-emails-show.html]<br /> * Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science]<br /> * Monsanto's GMO-friendly pesticide, Dicamba is causing widespread devastation in Missouri.[http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/dicamba-damage-is-back-and-possibly-worse-than-before/article_2e33ec05-ae98-5468-92f8-bccf6bcd7698.html]<br /> * Arkansas's pesticide regulators have stepped into the middle of an epic battle between weeds and chemicals, which has now morphed into a battle between farmers. Hundreds of farmers say their crops have been damaged by a weedkiller that was sprayed on neighboring fields. Today, the Arkansas Plant Board voted to impose an unprecedented ban on that chemical. The tension — which even led to a farmer's murder — is over a weedkiller called dicamba. The chemical moved into the weed-control spotlight a few years ago, when Monsanto created soybean and cotton plants that were genetically modified to survive it.[http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/06/23/534117683/arkansas-tries-to-stop-an-epidemic-of-herbicide-damage]<br /> * Glyphosate, an herbicide and the active ingredient in Monsanto Co's (MON.N) popular Roundup weed killer, will be added to California's list of chemicals known to cause cancer effective July 7, the state's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) said on Monday. Monsanto vowed to continue its legal fight against the designation, required under a state law known as Proposition 65, and called the decision &quot;unwarranted on the basis of science and the law.&quot;[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-glyphosate-california-idUSKBN19H2K1]<br /> * The EPA's Inspector General Is Probing Whether An Agency Staffer Colluded With Monsanto.[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-inspector-general-probing-collusion-with-monsanto_us_59372108e4b0aba888b99dca]<br /> * Monsanto Hires Internet Trolls to Cover Up Roundup’s Cancer Risk.[https://www.ecowatch.com/monsanto-hires-internet-trolls-2401703407.html]<br /> * President Donald Trump's nominee for Deputy Secretary of the Interior said today that Trump's economic policy could take priority over climate science. In his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Energy &amp; Natural Resources Committee, David Bernhardt said that he will consider science on climate change but that Trump's policy opinions that prioritize jobs could outweigh scientific conclusions.[http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/interior-dept-nominee-trumps-views-outweigh-climate-science/story?id=47492689]<br /> <br /> * White House Moves to Block Ethics Inquiry Into Ex-Lobbyists on Payroll. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/us/politics/trump-white-house-government-ethics-lobbyists.html]<br /> <br /> * U.S. judge finds that Aetna deceived the public about its reasons for quitting participation in the government's healthcare exchange under the Affordable Care Act.[http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-aetna-obamacare-20170123-story.html]<br /> <br /> * E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board - replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html?_r=0&amp;referer=]<br /> <br /> * The original &quot;food pyramid,&quot; a diagram instructing the public on the proper healthy allocation of different food types, given to the US government by nutritionists was altered for the benefit of the food industry and grain growers.[https://proteinpower.com/drmike/2014/02/19/death-food-pyramid/]<br /> <br /> * &quot;Cosmos&quot; episode explains How Corporations Fund Science Denial. An entire episode was devoted to the Clair Patterson, who discovered that lead was entering the atmosphere through the burning of leaded gasoline. Yet, it took twenty years for unleaded gas to become the norm.[http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/04/cosmos-neil-tyson-lead-industry-science-denial][http://www.space.com/25579-cosmos-recap-earth-age-lead-poisoning.html]<br /> <br /> * In the 1960s, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the risks of sugar and highlighted the hazards of fat, according to a newly published article in JAMA Internal Medicine. The article draws on internal documents to show that an industry group called the Sugar Research Foundation wanted to &quot;refute&quot; concerns about sugar's possible role in heart disease. The SRF then sponsored research by Harvard scientists that did just that. The result was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1967, with no disclosure of the sugar industry funding. [http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat]<br /> <br /> * Editor quits journal over pay-for-expedited peer-review offer. With a tweet yesterday, an editor of Scientific Reports, one of Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG’s) open-access journals, has resigned in a very public protest of NPG’s recent decision to allow authors to pay money to expedite peer review of their submitted papers. “My objections are that it sets up a two-tiered system and instead of the best science being published in a timely fashion it will further shift the balance to well-funded labs and groups,” Mark Maslin, a biogeographer at University College London, tells ScienceInsider.[http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/03/updated-editor-quits-journal-over-pay-expedited-peer-review-offer]<br /> <br /> * House of Commons committee to open hearings on neonic pesticide with industry-biased panel.[http://menafn.com/1095300543/House-of-Commons-committee-to-open-hearings-on-neonic-pesticide-with-industry-biased-panel]<br /> * The EPA Finally Admitted That the World’s Most Popular Pesticide Kills Bees—20 Years Too Late.[http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2016/01/epa-finds-major-pesticide-toxic-bees]<br /> <br /> * NASA executives waste $80M renewing an industry contract to produce a spacesuit inferior to what the government's own engineers were designing. NASA leaders claimed the contract was necessary to, &quot;keep industry engaged in spacesuit design&quot;, but the report dismisses this idea, noting the agency's in-house Advanced Space Suit Project shared several contractors and primary subcontractors.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/nasas-spacesuit-program-is-something-of-a-hot-mess/]<br /> <br /> == Monsanto/Bayer Controversies ==<br /> <br /> * Pesticide Created By Bayer Accidentally Kills Off Twelve-Mile Stretch of Trees in Oregon.[https://althealthworks.com/16015/pesticide-created-by-bayer-accidentally-kills-off-twelve-miles-worth-of-trees-in-oregon/]<br /> <br /> * The law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei &amp; Goldman made public today hundreds of pages of newly de-classified internal Monsanto documents, including company email exchanges, reports, studies and other memoranda.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/4-19-new-monsanto-papers-docs/]<br /> <br /> * A new study by the non-profit claims to have found 19 major beer and wine brands whose products contain the pesticide glyphosate, a.k.a. one of the ingredients present in the weed killer Roundup..[http://www.grubstreet.com/2019/02/pesticides-major-beer-wine-brands.html]<br /> <br /> * Five things to know about Bayer and Monsanto, including its connection to Nazi gas chambers.[https://phys.org/news/2018-08-bayer-monsanto.html]<br /> <br /> * Shareholders of the German chemical giant Bayer staged a full-blown revolt at a heated 13-hour meeting in Bonn on Friday, arguing that the management failed to see the company was inheriting a raft of nightmarish litigation associated with glyphosate when it bought U.S. agrichemical giant Monsanto for $66 billion last year. The investors are furious that a blue-riband European company is now potentially exposed to billions of dollars of claims over the glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup, created by Monsanto. Two U.S. court verdicts over the past year found that the world's most popular herbicide caused cancer, hauling shares in Bayer down about 40 percent since August. Bayer has appealed those decisions but is now facing an avalanche of some 13,400 claims. &quot;It is about time Bayer came to grips with the fact that they purchased Monsanto’s misconduct and, now, need to do right by the victims. It’s time to resolve these lawsuits and give Bayer shareholders confidence again in corporate leadership,&quot; said Brent Wisner, an attorney at Baum, Hedlund, Aristei &amp; Goldman, which is representing plaintiffs in the lawsuits against Monsanto.[https://www.politico.eu/article/glyphosate-revolt-rocks-germany-inc-bayer-shareholders-vote/]<br /> <br /> * Concerns over glyphosate pass from human health to the soil.Experts say the weedkiller’s impact on soil health represents a serious threat to Europe’s long-term food security. [https://www.politico.eu/article/glyphosate-concerns-pass-from-human-health-to-soil/]<br /> <br /> * Washington State University researchers have found a variety of diseases and other health problems in the second- and third-generation offspring of rats exposed to glyphosate, the world's most popular weed killer. In the first study of its kind, the researchers saw descendants of exposed rats developing prostate, kidney and ovarian diseases, obesity and birth abnormalities. Michael Skinner, a WSU professor of biological sciences, and his colleagues exposed pregnant rats to the herbicide between their eighth and 14th days of gestation. The dose—half the amount expected to show no adverse effect—produced no apparent ill effects on either the parents or the first generation of offspring. But writing in the journal Scientific Reports, the researchers say they saw &quot;dramatic increases&quot; in several pathologies affecting the second and third generations. The second generation had &quot;significant increases&quot; in testis, ovary and mammary gland diseases, as well as obesity. In third-generation males, the researchers saw a 30 percent increase in prostate disease—three times that of a control population. The third generation of females had a 40 percent increase in kidney disease, or four times that of the controls.[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-42860-0][https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-04-health-effects-popular-weed-killer.html]<br /> <br /> * Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees, Erick V. S. Motta, Kasie Raymann, and Nancy A. Moran<br /> PNAS published ahead of print September 24, 2018. &quot;Increased mortality of honey bee colonies has been attributed to several factors but is not fully understood. The herbicide glyphosate is expected to be innocuous to animals, including bees, because it targets an enzyme only found in plants and microorganisms. However, bees rely on a specialized gut microbiota that benefits growth and provides defense against pathogens. Most bee gut bacteria contain the enzyme targeted by glyphosate, but vary in whether they possess susceptible versions and, correspondingly, in tolerance to glyphosate. Exposing bees to glyphosate alters the bee gut community and increases susceptibility to infection by opportunistic pathogens. Understanding how glyphosate impacts bee gut symbionts and bee health will help elucidate a possible role of this chemical in colony decline.&quot; [https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1803880115]<br /> <br /> * Consuming a mixture of sugar syrup and glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, alters honey bees’ microbiomes, and these changes increased mortality among insects exposed to pathogenic bacteria, according to a study.[https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/herbicide-may-harm-microbiome-of-bees-64860]<br /> <br /> * Attorneys for a couple who claim Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer gave them both cancer tried to convince a California jury Thursday that the agrochemical company engaged in decades of fraud to hide the fact that the herbicide is carcinogenic. Wisner on Thursday ran through a list of Monsanto’s newly revealed alleged sins, starting with the so-called IBT scandal. The company seemingly planted one of its employees at a contract lab called Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories (IBT) in the 1970s to fake negative mouse carcinogenicity data for Roundup’s active ingredient glyphosate that were to be used to win regulatory approval for the weed killer in 1975; planned an attack to discredit the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cancer research agency, anticipating the agency would classify glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen in 2015; and exploited “deep connections” within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to classify glyphosate as non-carcinogenic.[https://www.courthousenews.com/roundup-trial-monsanto-used-fake-data-to-win-over-regulators/]<br /> <br /> * Glyphosate Worse than We Could Imagine. “It’s Everywhere” Glyphosate residues have been found in tap water, orange juice, children’s urine, breast milk, chips, snacks, beer, wine, cereals, eggs, oatmeal, wheat products, and most conventional foods tested. It’s everywhere, in brief.[https://www.globalresearch.ca/glyphosate-worse/5674472]<br /> <br /> * The overlooked impact of rising glyphosate use on phosphorus loading in agricultural watersheds. The herbicide glyphosate dominates the global pesticide market, with applied tonnage increasing steadily worldwide. Glyphosate's capacity to degrade rapidly is often used to argue against potential toxicological effects, but the phosphorus (P) it contains persists in the environment and can influence soil P accumulation and losses to surrounding freshwater systems, which are prone to nutrient pollution.[https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/fee.1985]<br /> <br /> * Louisiana sugar cane farmers are using Glyphosate as a &quot;chemical ripener&quot; on crops.[https://www.lsuagcenter.com/portals/communications/publications/agmag/archive/2008/spring/use-of-glyphosate-to-enhance-sugar-production-in-louisiana]<br /> <br /> == Politics verses science ==<br /> <br /> * After Republican Protest, Oregon's Climate Plan Dies.[https://politics.slashdot.org/story/19/06/26/0023255/after-republican-protest-oregons-climate-plan-dies]<br /> <br /> <br /> == Trump administration's questionable respect for science ==<br /> <br /> * Trump to nominate former Monsanto executive to top interior department position. Aurelia Skipwith, who worked as a lawyer and in research at Monsanto, will be nominated to run the Fish and Wildlife Service.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/23/aurelia-skipwith-monsanto-fish-wildlife-service-interior-department]<br /> <br /> <br /> * Trump Quietly Nominates Mass Surveillance Advocate To “Protect” Your Privacy Rights[http://theantimedia.org/trump-mass-surveillance-privacy/]<br /> <br /> * Trump officially nominates Sam Clovis, climate-denying conservative talk radio host as USDA’s top scientist.[https://thinkprogress.org/sam-clovis-officially-nominated-still-not-a-scientist-d47be4ffb1a8]<br /> <br /> * Trump's 5 Most “Anti-Science” Moves, Scientific American [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-5-most-ldquo-anti-science-rdquo-moves/]<br /> <br /> * Donald Trump's War On Science, New Yorker [http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/donald-trumps-war-on-science]<br /> <br /> * Trump has launched a blitzkrieg in the wars on science and Earth’s climate, The Guardian, [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/mar/28/trump-has-launched-a-blitzkrieg-in-the-wars-on-science-and-earths-climate]<br /> <br /> ===Anti-science head of the EPA under the Trump administration===<br /> <br /> * Scott Pruitt’s Attack on Science Would Paralyze the E.P.A.[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/opinion/pruitt-attack-science-epa.html]<br /> <br /> * Trump’s embattled EPA head Scott Pruitt has come down on the side of polluters on just about every issue that faces the US, so it is with little surprise that in a recent interview he signaled that he may try to fight back against California’s fuel economy requirements.[https://electrek.co/2018/03/14/epa-chief-scott-pruitt-signals-war-with-california-over-cafe-mileage-standards/]<br /> <br /> * The Union of Concerned Scientists, has compiled a list of 80 Trump administration attacks on science since taking office, and Trump's next EPA head, Andrew Wheeler has been the driving force behind many of them. Below are 10 of the more egregious ways he has undermined the EPA's time-honored role to protect public health and the environment so far[https://www.ecowatch.com/andrew-wheeler-decimated-epa-protections-2639209982.html]<br /> <br /> * Trump Re-Nominates Anti-Wildlife Climate Denier to Top Environment Post[https://www.ecowatch.com/ceq-nominee-white-2524022932.html]<br /> <br /> * Pruitt drives out EPA staff, hires unqualified former banker pal[http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pruitt-drives-out-epa-staff-hires-unqualified-former-banker-pal-1122919491794]<br /> <br /> * EPA seeks to scrap rule protecting drinking water for third of Americans[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/27/epa-clean-water-rule-drinking]<br /> <br /> * E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board - replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html?_r=0&amp;referer=]<br /> <br /> * EPA Scientists Worry Their New Boss Doesn't Want Science. [https://www.wired.com/2017/02/epa-scientists-worry-new-boss-doesnt-want-science/]<br /> <br /> * President Trump's pick to run the Environmental Protection Agaency is a self-described “leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda,” Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma’s attorney general since 2011, has repeatedly sued the agency and other government entities over environmental rules and regulations, at times in direct cooperation with fossil fuel companies.[http://www.factcheck.org/2016/12/facts-trumps-epa-nominee/] <br /> <br /> :From Factcheck.org on Trumps head of the EPA:<br /> <br /> ** Pruitt’s questionable claims include:<br /> ** He falsely said in May that scientists “disagree about the degree” and “connection” of global warming “to the actions of mankind.” As we have written time and time again, the vast majority of climate scientists believe global warming is real and human-caused.<br /> **He also said the Clean Power Plan will “significantly” increase electricity prices. Whether the price change is “significant” is a matter of opinion, but the Energy Information Administration estimates that prices under the plan would range from a 7 percent decrease to a 7 percent increase between 2025 and 2040, depending on the region.<br /> **He implied in April 2014 that’s there’s no evidence to support a link between fracking and water contamination. There is some evidence to support a link in certain instances, but not enough to definitively conclude that contamination is widespread, as we wrote in early December.<br /> <br /> * Climate change cynic Scott Pruitt takes over as Donald Trump's head of Environmental Protection Agency[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/17/climate-change-cynic-scott-pruitt-takes-donald-trumps-head-environmental/]<br /> <br /> ===Anti-science appointees to the USDA===<br /> <br /> * Incompetence Looms: Trump To Appoint Non-Scientist As USDA's Chief Scientist[https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2017/05/14/trump-will-appoint-incompetent-non-scientist-as-usdas-chief-scientist/2/#1276211e1276]<br /> * The Trump administration is planning to nominate Sam Clovis — the Department of Agriculture’s senior White House adviser — as head of USDA’s Research, Education and Economics division, according to individuals briefed on the decision. The move would mark a break with recent Republican and Democratic administrations alike, which have previously reserved the high-level position for scientists with expertise in agricultural research. Clovis — a former economics professor and talk radio host in Iowa who served as one of the Trump campaign’s first policy advisers — has bachelor’s degrees in political science and government, a master’s in business administration and a doctoral degree in public administration[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/13/trumps-expected-choice-for-the-leading-usda-science-job-isnt-a-trained-scientist/]<br /> * Trump’s Expected Pick for Top USDA Scientist Is Not a Scientist[https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-expected-pick-for-top-usda-scientist-is-not-a-scientist]<br /> <br /> ==Industry/Government Attacks On Scientists==<br /> <br /> * State-funded scientists could be prevented from lobbying for change in their field under Cabinet Office proposals. Senior scientists have denounced a potential move to “muzzle” colleagues whose findings are disliked by the government. The proposal – announced by the Cabinet Office earlier this month – would block researchers who receive government grants from using their results to lobby for changes to laws or regulations. For example, an academic whose government-funded research showed that new regulations were proving particularly harmful to the homeless would not be able to call for policy change. Similarly, ecologists who found out that new planning laws were harming wildlife would not be able to raise the issue in public, while climate scientists whose findings undermined government energy policy could have work suppressed.[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/20/scientists-attack-muzzling-government-state-funded-cabinet-office]<br /> <br /> * Renown Canadian scientist personally attacked by industry after expressing concern over GMOs. [https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/glp-facts/david-suzuki-canadas-science-guy-turned-eccentric-anti-gmo-chemical-scaremonger/]<br /> <br /> ==Other articles==<br /> <br /> <br /> * Roundup’s Risks Could Go Well Beyond Cancer - Evidence of the cheap herbicide’s danger to biological functions and the environment continues to mount. Why are U.S. regulators not listening?[https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-04/roundup-cancer-risk-is-only-one-danger-to-humans-animals?fbclid=IwAR1Nr2PV2V-6jFzgsFmGLEaWiU05yYJnOKJVxeqDfWmNF32fzy5UTGgWqz4]<br /> * Los Angeles County Bans Use of Roundup Weed Killer.[https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2019-03-22/los-angeles-county-bans-use-of-roundup-weed-killer]<br /> * The Monsanto Papers - information on current court cases regarding Monsanto/Bayer.[https://usrtk.org/monsanto-papers/]<br /> * The secret tactics Monsanto used to protect Roundup, its star product[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JszHrMZ7dx4]<br /> * In the latest stage of a decade-long legal tussle, the appeals court in Lyon, France on Thursday found in favor of farmer Paul Francois’ claim that Monsanto’s Lasso weedkiller had made him sick and that the product’s labeling had been inadequate. Francois, 55, says he suffered neurological problems, including memory loss, fainting and headaches, after accidentally inhaling Lasso in 2004 while working on his farm. “Mr Francois justifiably concludes that the product, due to its inadequate labeling that did not respect applicable regulations, did not offer the level of safety he could legitimately expect,” the court said in its ruling. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-monsanto-lawsuit/french-court-finds-bayers-monsanto-liable-for-farmers-sickness-idUSKCN1RN1JA?il=0]<br /> * A new report found glyphosate, a weed-killing chemical that some health authorities link to cancer, in a number of popular breakfast foods and cereals marketed to children. The study by the non-profit Environmental Working Group (EWG) discovered trace amounts of the most widely used herbicide in the country in oats, granolas and snack bars. Thirty-one out of 45 tested products had levels higher than what some scientists consider safe for children. Recently, some scientists, doctors and activists around the world have worked to keep glyphosate out of crops due to concerns that it is a dangerous carcinogen.[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/glyphosate-roundup-chemical-found-in-childrens-breakfast-foods/]<br /> * Judge Upholds Verdict That Found Monsanto’s Roundup Caused a Man’s Cancer. [https://theantimedia.com/judge-monsanto-roundup-cancer/]<br /> * A collaborative study by three US universities reported that individuals with particularly high exposures to glyphosate-based herbicides (Roundup), for instance those spraying it, could have a 41% increased relative risk of developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1383574218300887]<br /> * Is RoundUp carcinogenic? The trouble is, for every research paper that purports to show a link between glyphosate-based herbicides and cancer, there is another which finds the exact opposite. This hasn’t been helped by the fact that many of the studies may not have been entirely objective. “A lot of the studies backing glyphosate have been funded by entities in a position to profit from the continuing sales. But one of the factors that have left commentators suspicious of the potential toxicity of these herbicides has been incidents of combative corporate behaviour. In the latest trial, Monsanto has caused eyebrows to raise by obtaining a ban preventing attorneys for the plaintiffs from presenting information regarding its alleged influence on research.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/09/spray-pray-is-roundup-carcinogenic-monsanto-farmers-suing]<br /> * A 3M plant in Decatur, Alabama has admitted in a letter to the EPA that it violated a federal toxic substance law by releasing illegal chemicals into the Tennessee River. The letter was sent to the Environmental Protection Agency on April, 3, 2019, in it 3M admits to the non-compliance of a 2009 update to the Toxic Substances Control Act. A Washington, D.C. based law firm sent the letter on behalf of the company: <br /> “On behalf of 3M Company (”3M”), I am writing to voluntary disclose non-compliance with Section 5(e) of the Toxic Substance Control Act (“TSCA”), at 3M’s Decatur, Alabama Plant.” The statement continues saying, 3M admits to releasing perfluorobutanesulfonamide (FBSA) and possibly fluorinated sulfonamide alcohol (FBSEE) into the Tennessee River. [http://1057news.com/2019/06/21/07/18/36/3m-admits-to-releasing-toxic-chemicals-into-the-tennessee-river-for-over-a-decade/]<br /> * The biotech company Monsanto had genetically modified these new soybeans so that they tolerate a herbicide called dicamba. It allows farmers to spray dicamba on their soybeans; it kills the weeds, but their dicamba-tolerant crop is fine. But the new herbicide is now causing damage to other crops in the region.[https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/07/19/742836972/rogue-weedkiller-vapors-are-threatening-soybean-science]<br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * Science-Mart, Privatizing American Science, Philip Mirowski [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674046467]<br /> <br /> * [[Theists in the news]]<br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Industry]]<br /> [[Category:Science]]<br /> [[Category:Scientific_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Science_vs_Industry Science vs Industry 2019-07-22T17:23:39Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>This page documents examples of where industry and science conflicted or colluded with each other in ways that were not of interest to the people or the truth.<br /> <br /> ==Industry Collusion and Manipulation==<br /> <br /> * Court documents reveal Monsanto's efforts to fight glyphosate's 'severe stigma'. Social Sharing. Canadian firm hired to recruit scientists to publish studies that ultimately defended Roundup's key ingredient.The documents also reveal communications between Monsanto and a Canadian firm hired to recruit scientists to publish studies that ultimately defended glyphosate — some of which were secretly reviewed by Monsanto prior to publication. All those papers, as previously reported by CBC/Radio-Canada, were also used as part of Health Canada's re-approval process of glyphosate in 2017.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/glyphosate-monsanto-intertek-studies-1.4902229]<br /> <br /> * Fired Quebec scientist blew the whistle on pesticide lobby influence.[https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/03/21/news/fired-quebec-scientist-blew-whistle-pesticide-lobby-influence]<br /> <br /> * Rush To Produce, Sell Vaccine Put Kids In Philippines At Risk. &quot;What bothers me most about this story is risk communication,&quot; says Rodriguez, who studies dengue in South America. &quot;There was a lot of uncertainty from the beginning [about the vaccine's safety]. That needed to be communicated explicitly. You need to be honest about what evidence is out there.&quot; In April, the Philippine government indicted 14 government officials over the deaths of 10 children who received the Dengvaxia vaccine. The government said the officials acted with &quot;undue haste&quot; in procuring the vaccine and launching the mass immunization campaign. The Philippine Department of Justice said the campaign started before the clinical trials were finished. In some instances children were given the vaccine by untrained health workers and allegedly without a proper physical beforehand. Some children allegedly had preexisting medical conditions that made the immunization dangerous. But these children were still inoculated, the government found. Six Sanofi officials were also indicted for not properly helping children who had serious reactions to the shot.[https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/05/03/719037789/botched-vaccine-launch-has-deadly-repercussions]<br /> * Radium Girls - information on industry using women to handle toxic materials and covering it up.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls]<br /> * Monsanto secretly ran “Let Nothing Go” campaign that paid internet trolls to post pro-Monsanto comments all across the internet[https://www.monsanto.news/2018-06-28-monsanto-secretly-ran-let-nothing-go-campaign-paid-internet-trolls.html]<br /> * EU regulators based a decision to relicense the controversial weedkiller glyphosate on an assessment plagiarised from industry reports, according to a report for the European parliament.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/eu-glyphosate-approval-was-based-on-plagiarised-monsanto-text-report-finds]<br /> * Judge in Roundup maker’s first federal trial had banned discussion of the company’s alleged manipulation of science. Monsanto is facing its first federal trial over allegations that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, but a US judge has blocked attorneys from discussing the corporation’s alleged manipulation of science. In an extraordinary move in a packed San Francisco courtroom on Monday, US judge Vince Chhabria threatened to sanction and “shut down” a cancer patient’s attorney for violating his ban on talking about Monsanto’s influence on government regulators and cancer research.[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/25/monsanto-federal-trial-roundup-cancer]<br /> * A broad new scientific analysis of the cancer-causing potential of glyphosate herbicides, the most widely used weedkilling products in the world, has found that people with high exposures to the popular pesticides have a 41% increased risk of developing a type of cancer called non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/14/weed-killing-products-increase-cancer-risk-of-cancer]<br /> * IARC responds to the claims its study claiming Glyphosate was probably carcinogenic, was incorrect and says media distorting actual reports. From reading, the IARC claims are based on the review of more than 1000 independent scientific studies. The idea that one particular study contradicts their overall findings and should be used to dismiss the IARC study is absurd. IARC also calls attention to concern over industry badgering scientists to reveal their findings prior to publication and peer review.[https://www.iarc.fr/featured-news/media-centre-iarc-news-glyphosate/]<br /> * The world’s most used weedkiller damages the beneficial bacteria in the guts of honeybees and makes them more prone to deadly infections, new research has found. Previous studies have shown that pesticides such as neonicotinoids cause harm to bees, whose pollination is vital to about three-quarters of all food crops. Glyphosate, manufactured by Monsanto, targets an enzyme only found in plants and bacteria. However, the new study shows that glyphosate damages the microbiota that honeybees need to grow and to fight off pathogens. The findings show glyphosate, the most used agricultural chemical ever, may be contributing to the global decline in bees, along with the loss of habitat.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/24/monsanto-weedkiller-harms-bees-research-finds]<br /> * Court Orders EPA To Ban Chlorpyrifos, A Pesticide Linked To Brain Damage In Kids.[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-ban-pesticide-chlorpyrifos_us_5b6c6d0ce4b0ae32af96318e]<br /> * A federal jury today convicted a Birmingham lawyer and an Alabama coal company executive in a scheme to bribe a state legislator to use his office to oppose Environmental Protection Agency actions in north Birmingham, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr. and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Holloman.[https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndal/pr/federal-jury-convicts-lawyer-and-coal-company-executive-bribing-state-legislator]<br /> * When Trump administration officials opposed a WHO breast-feeding resolution, they followed a long history of policymakers listening to baby-formula manufacturers.[https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/07/the-epic-battle-between-breast-milk-and-infant-formula-companies/564782/]<br /> * Monsanto 'bullied scientists' and hid weedkiller cancer risk, lawyer tells court[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jul/09/monsanto-trial-roundup-weedkiller-cancer-dewayne-johnson]<br /> * Why Trump's new CDC director is an abysmal choice: Redfield worked closely with the Christian organization, Americans for a Sound AIDS/HIV Policy. The group maintained AIDS was &quot;God's judgment&quot; against homosexuals, spread in an America weakened by single-parent households and loss of family values.[https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/13/opinions/trumps-terrible-choice-for-cdc-redfield-garrett/index.html]<br /> * After more than 40 years of widespread use, new scientific tests show formulated weedkillers have higher rates of toxicity to human cells.The tests are part of the US National Toxicology Program’s (NTP) first-ever examination of herbicide formulations made with the active ingredient glyphosate, but that also include other chemicals. While regulators have previously required extensive testing of glyphosate in isolation, government scientists have not fully examined the toxicity of the more complex products sold to consumers, farmers and others. Monsanto introduced its glyphosate-based Roundup brand in 1974. But it is only now, after more than 40 years of widespread use, that the government is investigating the toxicity of “glyphosate-based herbicides” on human cells.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/08/weedkiller-tests-monsanto-health-dangers-active-ingredient]<br /> * Popular article (that made the front page of a high-ranked subReddit) entitled, &quot;Millennials 'have no qualms about GM crops' unlike older generation&quot; was in actuality, a &quot;study&quot; commissioned by the Agricultural BiotechnologyCouncil, which is an industry lobbying group. The Agricultural Biotechnology Council (ABC) is a UK corporate lobby group funded by major biottechnology companies and run from the offices of a PR company, Lexington Communications. On its website, ABC lists members as comprising: BASF, Bayer CropScience, Dow AgroSciences, Pioneer (which is part of DuPont), Monsanto, Syngenta. &quot;In typical astroturf fashion they try to draw some kind of connection with &quot;Millennials&quot; to give themselves credibility.&quot;[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/07/millennials-have-no-qualms-gm-crops-unlike-older-generation/][https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/8hnt5r/millennials_have_no_qualms_about_gm_crops_unlike/dylh1u0/]<br /> * Under Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has dramatically shifted away from its stated mission to “protect human and environmental health.” Instead, the agency is clearly favoring the interests of the polluting industries that it is mandated to regulate, according to a study.[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304360]<br /> * Weedkiller found in granola and crackers, internal FDA emails show. The FDA has been testing food samples for traces of glyphosate for two years, but the agency has not yet released any official result. Other findings detailed in the FDA documents show that in 2016 Chamkasem found glyphosate in numerous samples of honey. Chamkasem also found glyphosate in oatmeal products. The FDA temporarily suspended testing after those findings, and Chamkasem’s lab was “reassigned to other programs”, the FDA documents show. The FDA has said those tests were not part of its official glyphosate residue assignment.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/30/fda-weedkiller-glyphosate-in-food-internal-emails]<br /> * &quot;Eating Pasta Linked to Weight Loss in New Study,&quot; Newsweek reported this month, racking up more than 22,500 Facebook likes, shares, and comments. The happy news also went viral on the Independent, the New York Daily News, and Business Insider. What those and many other stories failed to note, however, was that three of the scientists behind the study in question had financial conflicts as tangled as a bowl of spaghetti, including ties to the world’s largest pasta company, the Barilla Group. At least 10 peer-reviewed studies about pasta published since 2008 were either funded directly by Barilla or, like the one published this month, were carried out by scientists who have had financial ties to the company.[https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemlee/pasta-barilla-science-funding]<br /> * Senate Confirms Climate Change Denier To Lead NASA, Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) will take over control of the space agency after seven-month standoff. Bridenstine will become the first elected official to hold the NASA administrator job. He joins a Cabinet already loaded with people who question the near-universal scientific consensus that climate change is real and that human activity is the primary cause. The final vote ― which was 50-49 along party lines ― came one day after the Senate narrowly advanced Bridenstine’s nomination, thanks to an about-face from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and a key vote from Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.). Rubio[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jim-bridenstine-nasa-confirmation_us_5ad8aab7e4b03c426dac081c]<br /> * Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine sued agricultural giant Monsanto on Monday, alleging the company concealed dangers posed by a toxic chemical compound it manufactured for nearly a half century. In the suit, filed in the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court in Cincinnati, prosecutors argued that the company should pay for the clean-up of what it says are dozens of rivers, lakes and other water bodies contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/monsanto-concealed-effects-toxic-chemical-decades-ohio-ag-alleges-n853866]<br /> * The world’s most widely used insecticides pose a serious danger to both honeybees and wild bees, according to a major new assessment from the European Union’s scientific risk assessors. The conclusion, based on analysis of more than 1,500 studies, makes it highly likely that the neonicotinoid pesticides will be banned from all fields across the EU when nations vote on the issue next month.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/28/total-ban-on-bee-harming-pesticides-likely-after-major-new-eu-analysis]<br /> * DuPont vs. the World: Chemical Giant Covered Up Health Risks of Teflon Contamination Across Globe[https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/23/dupont_vs_the_world_chemical_giant]<br /> * GOP senators who pushed Trump to ditch Paris deal took over $10 million from fossil fuel industry.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/01/republican-senators-paris-climate-deal-energy-donations]<br /> * With backing from a sugar lobby, scientists promoted dietary fat as the cause of coronary heart disease instead of sugar, according to a historical document review published in JAMA Internal Medicine.[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/12/sugar-industry-paid-research-heart-disease-jama-report]<br /> * Oregon sues Monsanto, alleges company knowingly sold toxic PCBs for decades.[http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2018/01/oregon_sues_monsanto_alleges_c.html]<br /> * Government scientists blocked from the biggest meeting in their field[https://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/22/us-geological-survey-scientists-blocked-from-conference-interior-department/]<br /> * Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Net Neutrality Narrative Is False[https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/vbympa/net-neutrality-fcc-inspector-general-report]<br /> * The Slow Demise of Asbestos, the Carcinogen that Gave ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Snow[https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-slow-demise-of-asbestos-the-carcinogen-that-gave-the-wizard-of-oz-snow]<br /> * Trump reverses ban on Nazi created pesticide after receiving huge donation from chemical company[https://www.snopes.com/trump-reverses-insecticide-ban-dow-chemicals/]<br /> * Sugar industry withheld research effects of sucrose 50 years ago, study claims Researchers say negative health impacts of sucrose could have been combated sooner had research been released – but industry bodies dispute the findings.In 1967, when scientists were arguing over the link between sugar consumption and increased risk of heart disease, researchers now claim that the International Sugar Research Foundation (ISRF) withheld findings that rats that were fed a high-sugar diet had higher levels of triglycerides (a fat found in the blood) than those fed starch. In a move researchers from the University of California at San Francisco have compared to the tobacco industry’s self-preservation tactics, the foundation stopped funding the project.[https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2017/nov/21/sugar-industry-withheld-research-effects-of-sucrose-50-years-ago-study-claims]<br /> * As cigarette sales decline worldwide, the tobacco giant Phillip Morris Inc. is scrambling to restructure and embrace potentially more profitable “smoke-free” products. The revamp involves setting up an $80 million foundation called the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. The World Health Organization rebuked Phillip Morris and accused it of being disingenuous about consumer health, citing decades of research meddling and deceptive marketing. It declared it would have nothing to do with the foundation and warned governments the world over to do the same.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/philip-morris-sets-up-80m-research-foundation-who-flips-them-the-bird/]<br /> * Monsanto banned from European parliament: MEPs withdraw parliamentary access after the firm shunned a hearing into allegations that it unduly influenced studies into the safety of glyphosate used in its RoundUp weedkiller.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/28/monsanto-banned-from-european-parliament]<br /> * Coca-Cola secretly spent $1.5 million to fund an entire network of academic researchers whose goal was to shift the national health conversation away from the harms of sugary beverages. Instead, their research focused on the benefits of exercise—i.e., the health risks of sedentary and inactive lifestyles.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/the-new-study-suggesting-sitting-will-kill-you-is-kind-of-a-raging-dumpster-fire/]<br /> * Union of Concerned Scientists complains that the Trump administration's &quot;Chief Scientist&quot; at the USDA is not a scientist: Sam Clovis—a conservative talk radio host, Trump campaign co-chair, and climate denier with no training in science—for the role of chief scientist at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). [http://blog.ucsusa.org/mike-lavender/the-case-against-clovis-why-trumps-usda-chief-scientist-nominee-is-the-wrong-choice]<br /> * Almost All of FCC’s New Advisory Panel Works for Telecoms, most of which are against Net Neutrality.[http://www.thedailybeast.com/almost-all-of-fccs-new-advisory-panel-works-for-telecoms]<br /> * Court evidence reveals Monsanto involved with published Scientific Studies Without Disclosing Conflicts of Interest to publishers.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/monsanto-secret-documents/]<br /> * Internal Emails Show Monsanto Made Substantial Contributions to Published Expert Panel Manuscript.[http://baumhedlundlaw.com/pdf/monsanto-documents/3-Internal-Emails-Show-Monsanto-Made-Substantial-Contributions-to-Published-Expert-Panel-Manuscript.pdf]<br /> * Monsanto secret documents revealed, contianing correspondence between Dr. William Heydens and Ashely Roberts regarding the Expert Panel Manuscript. Dr. Heydens went “through the entire document and “indicated what I think should stay, what can go, and in a couple spots I did a little editing. I took a crack at adding a little text: on page 10 to address John’s comments about toxicologists’ use of Hill’s criteria … see what you think; it made sense to me, but I’m not sure if it will to others – please feel free to further modify and/or run by Cary.” at *1. The edited draft is also attached and challenged for confidentiality.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/monsanto-secret-documents/]<br /> * Court documents reveal Monsanto was ghost-writing academic papers defending its products and attacking critics.The documents underscore the lengths to which the agrochemical company goes to protect its image. Documents show that Henry I. Miller, an academic and a vocal proponent of genetically modified crops, asked Monsanto to draft an article for him that largely mirrored one that appeared under his name on Forbes's website in 2015. Mr. Miller could not be reached for comment. A similar issue appeared in academic research. An academic involved in writing research funded by Monsanto, John Acquavella, a former Monsanto employee, appeared to express discomfort with the process, writing in a 2015 email to a Monsanto executive, &quot;I can't be part of deceptive authorship on a presentation or publication.&quot; He also said of the way the company was trying to present the authorship: &quot;We call that ghost writing and it is unethical.&quot; Mr. Miller's 2015 article on Forbes's website was an attack on the findings of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization that had labeled glyphosate a probable carcinogen, a finding disputed by other regulatory bodies.[https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/08/03/227249/monsanto-leaks-suggest-it-tried-to-kill-cancer-research-on-roundup-weed-killer?utm_source=feedburnerFaceBook&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29]<br /> * The FCC Insists It Can't Stop Impostors From Lying About My Views On Net Neutrality.[https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20170710/10071737756/fcc-insists-it-cant-stop-impostors-lying-about-my-views-net-neutrality.shtml]<br /> * DOW CHEMICAL DONATES $1 MILLION TO TRUMP, ASKS ADMINISTRATION TO IGNORE PESTICIDE STUDY.[http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/04/dow-chemical-endangered-species]<br /> * E.P.A. Official Pressured Scientist on Congressional Testimony, Emails Show: The Environmental Protection Agency’s chief of staff pressured the top scientist on the agency’s scientific review board to alter her congressional testimony and play down the dismissal of expert advisers.[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/us/politics/epa-official-pressured-scientist-on-congressional-testimony-emails-show.html]<br /> * Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science]<br /> * Monsanto's GMO-friendly pesticide, Dicamba is causing widespread devastation in Missouri.[http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/dicamba-damage-is-back-and-possibly-worse-than-before/article_2e33ec05-ae98-5468-92f8-bccf6bcd7698.html]<br /> * Arkansas's pesticide regulators have stepped into the middle of an epic battle between weeds and chemicals, which has now morphed into a battle between farmers. Hundreds of farmers say their crops have been damaged by a weedkiller that was sprayed on neighboring fields. Today, the Arkansas Plant Board voted to impose an unprecedented ban on that chemical. The tension — which even led to a farmer's murder — is over a weedkiller called dicamba. The chemical moved into the weed-control spotlight a few years ago, when Monsanto created soybean and cotton plants that were genetically modified to survive it.[http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/06/23/534117683/arkansas-tries-to-stop-an-epidemic-of-herbicide-damage]<br /> * Glyphosate, an herbicide and the active ingredient in Monsanto Co's (MON.N) popular Roundup weed killer, will be added to California's list of chemicals known to cause cancer effective July 7, the state's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) said on Monday. Monsanto vowed to continue its legal fight against the designation, required under a state law known as Proposition 65, and called the decision &quot;unwarranted on the basis of science and the law.&quot;[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-glyphosate-california-idUSKBN19H2K1]<br /> * The EPA's Inspector General Is Probing Whether An Agency Staffer Colluded With Monsanto.[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-inspector-general-probing-collusion-with-monsanto_us_59372108e4b0aba888b99dca]<br /> * Monsanto Hires Internet Trolls to Cover Up Roundup’s Cancer Risk.[https://www.ecowatch.com/monsanto-hires-internet-trolls-2401703407.html]<br /> * President Donald Trump's nominee for Deputy Secretary of the Interior said today that Trump's economic policy could take priority over climate science. In his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Energy &amp; Natural Resources Committee, David Bernhardt said that he will consider science on climate change but that Trump's policy opinions that prioritize jobs could outweigh scientific conclusions.[http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/interior-dept-nominee-trumps-views-outweigh-climate-science/story?id=47492689]<br /> <br /> * White House Moves to Block Ethics Inquiry Into Ex-Lobbyists on Payroll. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/us/politics/trump-white-house-government-ethics-lobbyists.html]<br /> <br /> * U.S. judge finds that Aetna deceived the public about its reasons for quitting participation in the government's healthcare exchange under the Affordable Care Act.[http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-aetna-obamacare-20170123-story.html]<br /> <br /> * E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board - replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html?_r=0&amp;referer=]<br /> <br /> * The original &quot;food pyramid,&quot; a diagram instructing the public on the proper healthy allocation of different food types, given to the US government by nutritionists was altered for the benefit of the food industry and grain growers.[https://proteinpower.com/drmike/2014/02/19/death-food-pyramid/]<br /> <br /> * &quot;Cosmos&quot; episode explains How Corporations Fund Science Denial. An entire episode was devoted to the Clair Patterson, who discovered that lead was entering the atmosphere through the burning of leaded gasoline. Yet, it took twenty years for unleaded gas to become the norm.[http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/04/cosmos-neil-tyson-lead-industry-science-denial][http://www.space.com/25579-cosmos-recap-earth-age-lead-poisoning.html]<br /> <br /> * In the 1960s, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the risks of sugar and highlighted the hazards of fat, according to a newly published article in JAMA Internal Medicine. The article draws on internal documents to show that an industry group called the Sugar Research Foundation wanted to &quot;refute&quot; concerns about sugar's possible role in heart disease. The SRF then sponsored research by Harvard scientists that did just that. The result was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1967, with no disclosure of the sugar industry funding. [http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat]<br /> <br /> * Editor quits journal over pay-for-expedited peer-review offer. With a tweet yesterday, an editor of Scientific Reports, one of Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG’s) open-access journals, has resigned in a very public protest of NPG’s recent decision to allow authors to pay money to expedite peer review of their submitted papers. “My objections are that it sets up a two-tiered system and instead of the best science being published in a timely fashion it will further shift the balance to well-funded labs and groups,” Mark Maslin, a biogeographer at University College London, tells ScienceInsider.[http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/03/updated-editor-quits-journal-over-pay-expedited-peer-review-offer]<br /> <br /> * House of Commons committee to open hearings on neonic pesticide with industry-biased panel.[http://menafn.com/1095300543/House-of-Commons-committee-to-open-hearings-on-neonic-pesticide-with-industry-biased-panel]<br /> * The EPA Finally Admitted That the World’s Most Popular Pesticide Kills Bees—20 Years Too Late.[http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2016/01/epa-finds-major-pesticide-toxic-bees]<br /> <br /> * NASA executives waste $80M renewing an industry contract to produce a spacesuit inferior to what the government's own engineers were designing. NASA leaders claimed the contract was necessary to, &quot;keep industry engaged in spacesuit design&quot;, but the report dismisses this idea, noting the agency's in-house Advanced Space Suit Project shared several contractors and primary subcontractors.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/nasas-spacesuit-program-is-something-of-a-hot-mess/]<br /> <br /> == Monsanto/Bayer Controversies ==<br /> <br /> * Pesticide Created By Bayer Accidentally Kills Off Twelve-Mile Stretch of Trees in Oregon.[https://althealthworks.com/16015/pesticide-created-by-bayer-accidentally-kills-off-twelve-miles-worth-of-trees-in-oregon/]<br /> <br /> * The law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei &amp; Goldman made public today hundreds of pages of newly de-classified internal Monsanto documents, including company email exchanges, reports, studies and other memoranda.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/4-19-new-monsanto-papers-docs/]<br /> <br /> * A new study by the non-profit claims to have found 19 major beer and wine brands whose products contain the pesticide glyphosate, a.k.a. one of the ingredients present in the weed killer Roundup..[http://www.grubstreet.com/2019/02/pesticides-major-beer-wine-brands.html]<br /> <br /> * Five things to know about Bayer and Monsanto, including its connection to Nazi gas chambers.[https://phys.org/news/2018-08-bayer-monsanto.html]<br /> <br /> * Shareholders of the German chemical giant Bayer staged a full-blown revolt at a heated 13-hour meeting in Bonn on Friday, arguing that the management failed to see the company was inheriting a raft of nightmarish litigation associated with glyphosate when it bought U.S. agrichemical giant Monsanto for $66 billion last year. The investors are furious that a blue-riband European company is now potentially exposed to billions of dollars of claims over the glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup, created by Monsanto. Two U.S. court verdicts over the past year found that the world's most popular herbicide caused cancer, hauling shares in Bayer down about 40 percent since August. Bayer has appealed those decisions but is now facing an avalanche of some 13,400 claims. &quot;It is about time Bayer came to grips with the fact that they purchased Monsanto’s misconduct and, now, need to do right by the victims. It’s time to resolve these lawsuits and give Bayer shareholders confidence again in corporate leadership,&quot; said Brent Wisner, an attorney at Baum, Hedlund, Aristei &amp; Goldman, which is representing plaintiffs in the lawsuits against Monsanto.[https://www.politico.eu/article/glyphosate-revolt-rocks-germany-inc-bayer-shareholders-vote/]<br /> <br /> * Concerns over glyphosate pass from human health to the soil.Experts say the weedkiller’s impact on soil health represents a serious threat to Europe’s long-term food security. [https://www.politico.eu/article/glyphosate-concerns-pass-from-human-health-to-soil/]<br /> <br /> * Washington State University researchers have found a variety of diseases and other health problems in the second- and third-generation offspring of rats exposed to glyphosate, the world's most popular weed killer. In the first study of its kind, the researchers saw descendants of exposed rats developing prostate, kidney and ovarian diseases, obesity and birth abnormalities. Michael Skinner, a WSU professor of biological sciences, and his colleagues exposed pregnant rats to the herbicide between their eighth and 14th days of gestation. The dose—half the amount expected to show no adverse effect—produced no apparent ill effects on either the parents or the first generation of offspring. But writing in the journal Scientific Reports, the researchers say they saw &quot;dramatic increases&quot; in several pathologies affecting the second and third generations. The second generation had &quot;significant increases&quot; in testis, ovary and mammary gland diseases, as well as obesity. In third-generation males, the researchers saw a 30 percent increase in prostate disease—three times that of a control population. The third generation of females had a 40 percent increase in kidney disease, or four times that of the controls.[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-42860-0][https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-04-health-effects-popular-weed-killer.html]<br /> <br /> * Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees, Erick V. S. Motta, Kasie Raymann, and Nancy A. Moran<br /> PNAS published ahead of print September 24, 2018. &quot;Increased mortality of honey bee colonies has been attributed to several factors but is not fully understood. The herbicide glyphosate is expected to be innocuous to animals, including bees, because it targets an enzyme only found in plants and microorganisms. However, bees rely on a specialized gut microbiota that benefits growth and provides defense against pathogens. Most bee gut bacteria contain the enzyme targeted by glyphosate, but vary in whether they possess susceptible versions and, correspondingly, in tolerance to glyphosate. Exposing bees to glyphosate alters the bee gut community and increases susceptibility to infection by opportunistic pathogens. Understanding how glyphosate impacts bee gut symbionts and bee health will help elucidate a possible role of this chemical in colony decline.&quot; [https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1803880115]<br /> <br /> * Consuming a mixture of sugar syrup and glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, alters honey bees’ microbiomes, and these changes increased mortality among insects exposed to pathogenic bacteria, according to a study.[https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/herbicide-may-harm-microbiome-of-bees-64860]<br /> <br /> * Attorneys for a couple who claim Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer gave them both cancer tried to convince a California jury Thursday that the agrochemical company engaged in decades of fraud to hide the fact that the herbicide is carcinogenic. Wisner on Thursday ran through a list of Monsanto’s newly revealed alleged sins, starting with the so-called IBT scandal. The company seemingly planted one of its employees at a contract lab called Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories (IBT) in the 1970s to fake negative mouse carcinogenicity data for Roundup’s active ingredient glyphosate that were to be used to win regulatory approval for the weed killer in 1975; planned an attack to discredit the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cancer research agency, anticipating the agency would classify glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen in 2015; and exploited “deep connections” within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to classify glyphosate as non-carcinogenic.[https://www.courthousenews.com/roundup-trial-monsanto-used-fake-data-to-win-over-regulators/]<br /> <br /> * Glyphosate Worse than We Could Imagine. “It’s Everywhere” Glyphosate residues have been found in tap water, orange juice, children’s urine, breast milk, chips, snacks, beer, wine, cereals, eggs, oatmeal, wheat products, and most conventional foods tested. It’s everywhere, in brief.[https://www.globalresearch.ca/glyphosate-worse/5674472]<br /> <br /> * The overlooked impact of rising glyphosate use on phosphorus loading in agricultural watersheds. The herbicide glyphosate dominates the global pesticide market, with applied tonnage increasing steadily worldwide. Glyphosate's capacity to degrade rapidly is often used to argue against potential toxicological effects, but the phosphorus (P) it contains persists in the environment and can influence soil P accumulation and losses to surrounding freshwater systems, which are prone to nutrient pollution.[https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/fee.1985]<br /> <br /> * Louisiana sugar cane farmers are using Glyphosate as a &quot;chemical ripener&quot; on crops.[https://www.lsuagcenter.com/portals/communications/publications/agmag/archive/2008/spring/use-of-glyphosate-to-enhance-sugar-production-in-louisiana]<br /> <br /> == Politics verses science ==<br /> <br /> * After Republican Protest, Oregon's Climate Plan Dies.[https://politics.slashdot.org/story/19/06/26/0023255/after-republican-protest-oregons-climate-plan-dies]<br /> <br /> <br /> == Trump administration's questionable respect for science ==<br /> <br /> * Trump to nominate former Monsanto executive to top interior department position. Aurelia Skipwith, who worked as a lawyer and in research at Monsanto, will be nominated to run the Fish and Wildlife Service.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/23/aurelia-skipwith-monsanto-fish-wildlife-service-interior-department]<br /> <br /> <br /> * Trump Quietly Nominates Mass Surveillance Advocate To “Protect” Your Privacy Rights[http://theantimedia.org/trump-mass-surveillance-privacy/]<br /> <br /> * Trump officially nominates Sam Clovis, climate-denying conservative talk radio host as USDA’s top scientist.[https://thinkprogress.org/sam-clovis-officially-nominated-still-not-a-scientist-d47be4ffb1a8]<br /> <br /> * Trump's 5 Most “Anti-Science” Moves, Scientific American [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-5-most-ldquo-anti-science-rdquo-moves/]<br /> <br /> * Donald Trump's War On Science, New Yorker [http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/donald-trumps-war-on-science]<br /> <br /> * Trump has launched a blitzkrieg in the wars on science and Earth’s climate, The Guardian, [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/mar/28/trump-has-launched-a-blitzkrieg-in-the-wars-on-science-and-earths-climate]<br /> <br /> ===Anti-science head of the EPA under the Trump administration===<br /> <br /> * Scott Pruitt’s Attack on Science Would Paralyze the E.P.A.[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/opinion/pruitt-attack-science-epa.html]<br /> <br /> * Trump’s embattled EPA head Scott Pruitt has come down on the side of polluters on just about every issue that faces the US, so it is with little surprise that in a recent interview he signaled that he may try to fight back against California’s fuel economy requirements.[https://electrek.co/2018/03/14/epa-chief-scott-pruitt-signals-war-with-california-over-cafe-mileage-standards/]<br /> <br /> * Trump Re-Nominates Anti-Wildlife Climate Denier to Top Environment Post[https://www.ecowatch.com/ceq-nominee-white-2524022932.html]<br /> <br /> * Pruitt drives out EPA staff, hires unqualified former banker pal[http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pruitt-drives-out-epa-staff-hires-unqualified-former-banker-pal-1122919491794]<br /> <br /> * EPA seeks to scrap rule protecting drinking water for third of Americans[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/27/epa-clean-water-rule-drinking]<br /> <br /> * E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board - replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html?_r=0&amp;referer=]<br /> <br /> * EPA Scientists Worry Their New Boss Doesn't Want Science. [https://www.wired.com/2017/02/epa-scientists-worry-new-boss-doesnt-want-science/]<br /> <br /> * President Trump's pick to run the Environmental Protection Agaency is a self-described “leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda,” Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma’s attorney general since 2011, has repeatedly sued the agency and other government entities over environmental rules and regulations, at times in direct cooperation with fossil fuel companies.[http://www.factcheck.org/2016/12/facts-trumps-epa-nominee/] <br /> <br /> :From Factcheck.org on Trumps head of the EPA:<br /> <br /> ** Pruitt’s questionable claims include:<br /> ** He falsely said in May that scientists “disagree about the degree” and “connection” of global warming “to the actions of mankind.” As we have written time and time again, the vast majority of climate scientists believe global warming is real and human-caused.<br /> **He also said the Clean Power Plan will “significantly” increase electricity prices. Whether the price change is “significant” is a matter of opinion, but the Energy Information Administration estimates that prices under the plan would range from a 7 percent decrease to a 7 percent increase between 2025 and 2040, depending on the region.<br /> **He implied in April 2014 that’s there’s no evidence to support a link between fracking and water contamination. There is some evidence to support a link in certain instances, but not enough to definitively conclude that contamination is widespread, as we wrote in early December.<br /> <br /> * Climate change cynic Scott Pruitt takes over as Donald Trump's head of Environmental Protection Agency[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/17/climate-change-cynic-scott-pruitt-takes-donald-trumps-head-environmental/]<br /> <br /> ===Anti-science appointees to the USDA===<br /> <br /> * Incompetence Looms: Trump To Appoint Non-Scientist As USDA's Chief Scientist[https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2017/05/14/trump-will-appoint-incompetent-non-scientist-as-usdas-chief-scientist/2/#1276211e1276]<br /> * The Trump administration is planning to nominate Sam Clovis — the Department of Agriculture’s senior White House adviser — as head of USDA’s Research, Education and Economics division, according to individuals briefed on the decision. The move would mark a break with recent Republican and Democratic administrations alike, which have previously reserved the high-level position for scientists with expertise in agricultural research. Clovis — a former economics professor and talk radio host in Iowa who served as one of the Trump campaign’s first policy advisers — has bachelor’s degrees in political science and government, a master’s in business administration and a doctoral degree in public administration[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/13/trumps-expected-choice-for-the-leading-usda-science-job-isnt-a-trained-scientist/]<br /> * Trump’s Expected Pick for Top USDA Scientist Is Not a Scientist[https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-expected-pick-for-top-usda-scientist-is-not-a-scientist]<br /> <br /> ==Industry/Government Attacks On Scientists==<br /> <br /> * State-funded scientists could be prevented from lobbying for change in their field under Cabinet Office proposals. Senior scientists have denounced a potential move to “muzzle” colleagues whose findings are disliked by the government. The proposal – announced by the Cabinet Office earlier this month – would block researchers who receive government grants from using their results to lobby for changes to laws or regulations. For example, an academic whose government-funded research showed that new regulations were proving particularly harmful to the homeless would not be able to call for policy change. Similarly, ecologists who found out that new planning laws were harming wildlife would not be able to raise the issue in public, while climate scientists whose findings undermined government energy policy could have work suppressed.[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/20/scientists-attack-muzzling-government-state-funded-cabinet-office]<br /> <br /> * Renown Canadian scientist personally attacked by industry after expressing concern over GMOs. [https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/glp-facts/david-suzuki-canadas-science-guy-turned-eccentric-anti-gmo-chemical-scaremonger/]<br /> <br /> ==Other articles==<br /> <br /> <br /> * Roundup’s Risks Could Go Well Beyond Cancer - Evidence of the cheap herbicide’s danger to biological functions and the environment continues to mount. Why are U.S. regulators not listening?[https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-04/roundup-cancer-risk-is-only-one-danger-to-humans-animals?fbclid=IwAR1Nr2PV2V-6jFzgsFmGLEaWiU05yYJnOKJVxeqDfWmNF32fzy5UTGgWqz4]<br /> * Los Angeles County Bans Use of Roundup Weed Killer.[https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2019-03-22/los-angeles-county-bans-use-of-roundup-weed-killer]<br /> * The Monsanto Papers - information on current court cases regarding Monsanto/Bayer.[https://usrtk.org/monsanto-papers/]<br /> * The secret tactics Monsanto used to protect Roundup, its star product[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JszHrMZ7dx4]<br /> * In the latest stage of a decade-long legal tussle, the appeals court in Lyon, France on Thursday found in favor of farmer Paul Francois’ claim that Monsanto’s Lasso weedkiller had made him sick and that the product’s labeling had been inadequate. Francois, 55, says he suffered neurological problems, including memory loss, fainting and headaches, after accidentally inhaling Lasso in 2004 while working on his farm. “Mr Francois justifiably concludes that the product, due to its inadequate labeling that did not respect applicable regulations, did not offer the level of safety he could legitimately expect,” the court said in its ruling. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-monsanto-lawsuit/french-court-finds-bayers-monsanto-liable-for-farmers-sickness-idUSKCN1RN1JA?il=0]<br /> * A new report found glyphosate, a weed-killing chemical that some health authorities link to cancer, in a number of popular breakfast foods and cereals marketed to children. The study by the non-profit Environmental Working Group (EWG) discovered trace amounts of the most widely used herbicide in the country in oats, granolas and snack bars. Thirty-one out of 45 tested products had levels higher than what some scientists consider safe for children. Recently, some scientists, doctors and activists around the world have worked to keep glyphosate out of crops due to concerns that it is a dangerous carcinogen.[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/glyphosate-roundup-chemical-found-in-childrens-breakfast-foods/]<br /> * Judge Upholds Verdict That Found Monsanto’s Roundup Caused a Man’s Cancer. [https://theantimedia.com/judge-monsanto-roundup-cancer/]<br /> * A collaborative study by three US universities reported that individuals with particularly high exposures to glyphosate-based herbicides (Roundup), for instance those spraying it, could have a 41% increased relative risk of developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1383574218300887]<br /> * Is RoundUp carcinogenic? The trouble is, for every research paper that purports to show a link between glyphosate-based herbicides and cancer, there is another which finds the exact opposite. This hasn’t been helped by the fact that many of the studies may not have been entirely objective. “A lot of the studies backing glyphosate have been funded by entities in a position to profit from the continuing sales. But one of the factors that have left commentators suspicious of the potential toxicity of these herbicides has been incidents of combative corporate behaviour. In the latest trial, Monsanto has caused eyebrows to raise by obtaining a ban preventing attorneys for the plaintiffs from presenting information regarding its alleged influence on research.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/09/spray-pray-is-roundup-carcinogenic-monsanto-farmers-suing]<br /> * A 3M plant in Decatur, Alabama has admitted in a letter to the EPA that it violated a federal toxic substance law by releasing illegal chemicals into the Tennessee River. The letter was sent to the Environmental Protection Agency on April, 3, 2019, in it 3M admits to the non-compliance of a 2009 update to the Toxic Substances Control Act. A Washington, D.C. based law firm sent the letter on behalf of the company: <br /> “On behalf of 3M Company (”3M”), I am writing to voluntary disclose non-compliance with Section 5(e) of the Toxic Substance Control Act (“TSCA”), at 3M’s Decatur, Alabama Plant.” The statement continues saying, 3M admits to releasing perfluorobutanesulfonamide (FBSA) and possibly fluorinated sulfonamide alcohol (FBSEE) into the Tennessee River. [http://1057news.com/2019/06/21/07/18/36/3m-admits-to-releasing-toxic-chemicals-into-the-tennessee-river-for-over-a-decade/]<br /> * The biotech company Monsanto had genetically modified these new soybeans so that they tolerate a herbicide called dicamba. It allows farmers to spray dicamba on their soybeans; it kills the weeds, but their dicamba-tolerant crop is fine. But the new herbicide is now causing damage to other crops in the region.[https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/07/19/742836972/rogue-weedkiller-vapors-are-threatening-soybean-science]<br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * Science-Mart, Privatizing American Science, Philip Mirowski [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674046467]<br /> <br /> * [[Theists in the news]]<br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Industry]]<br /> [[Category:Science]]<br /> [[Category:Scientific_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Theists_in_the_news Theists in the news 2019-07-14T00:12:27Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>Modern stories and links of the many weird things religious people do that make news.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Priest in cuffs.jpg|right]]<br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * [[Theists in the news (archive)]] for many more stories<br /> * [[Republicans in the news]]<br /> * [[Democrats in the news]]<br /> * [[Christian terrorists in the news]]<br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> ==Theists in the news==<br /> <br /> * A Christian school kindergarten teacher in the Chicago suburbs is facing charges related to sexual assault and child pornography after investigators say that she sent explicit material to minors for years. Shannon Griffin is the wife of the pastor of Jordan Baptist Church and is a teacher at the associated Jordan Baptist school in Oak Lawn, a suburb of Chicago. Christian school teacher who scolded girls to be modest was molesting male students. She was a moral scold who told girls they were dressing like sluts &amp; the entire time she was sending naked photos of herself to male students. [https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/07/christian-school-teacher-scolded-girls-modest-molesting-male-students/][https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/07/02/teacher-sexual-assault-shannon-griffin-burbank/][https://abc7chicago.com/burbank-teacher-charged-with-sex-assault-soliciting-child-porn-from-2-students/5375571/]<br /> * A principal in Louisiana has resigned after being arrested at a Washington, DC strip club. Holy Family Principal Michael Comeau was chaperoning a middle school trip to the nation's capital when he was arrested at Archibald's Gentlemen's Club in Northwest DC. Police were called to the club, just blocks from the White House, to found Comeau “standing in the roadway, refusing to move.&quot; Comeau reportedly refused to settle up with the club.[https://www.complex.com/life/2019/06/louisiana-school-principal-arrested-at-strip-club-in-dc]<br /> * The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $8 million to a teenager who was sexually abused and kidnapped by a teacher at her Catholic high school.The teenager's attorney, David Ring, said that the settlement — finalized by a court last week — is the largest that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles has ever paid to a single victim, The Associated Press reports. Over the past 15 years, the archdiocese has paid more than $740 million in sexual abuse settlements.[https://www.npr.org/2019/04/17/714212609/archdiocese-of-los-angeles-agrees-to-8-million-settlement-in-sex-abuse-case]<br /> * A large majority of priests in the Vatican are gay, although many are not sexually active, a new book claims. A total of about 80 percent of the most revered clerics in the Roman Catholic Church are homosexual despite the church’s opposition to gay rights, according to the extensively researched book by French journalist Frédéric Martel. The gay priests adhere to an unspoken code called “the closet,” where it is understood that, for instance, a cardinal or bishop who denounces homosexuality is more likely to be gay, according to the book “In the Closet of the Vatican.”[https://nypost.com/2019/02/14/80-percent-of-priests-in-the-vatican-are-gay-new-book/]<br /> * 7-year old boy killed after court-appointed guardian punishes him for not knowing 13 bible verses[https://fox11online.com/news/local/guardians-teen-charged-in-death-of-7-year-old-manitowoc-co-boy]<br /> * Evangelicals sue for right to deny shelter to homeless transgender people.Alliance Defending Freedom, the far-right evangelical legal group that defended the “right” of a baker to deny service to gay couples before the Supreme Court, has a new target.This time they’re suing to give a homeless shelter in Anchorage, Alaska, the “right” to deny help to transgender people. The federal court lawsuit seeks to overturn the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance that prohibits discrimination against LGBTQ people.[https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/01/evangelicals-sue-right-deny-shelter-homeless-transgender-people/]<br /> * Male Escort Exposes 36 Gay Priests in File Sent to Vatican Containing Explicit WhatsApp Chats and Erotic Photos[https://www.newsweek.com/male-escort-exposes-36-gay-priests-file-sent-vatican-containing-explicit-829968]<br /> * Vatican’s Third-Most Powerful Official Cardinal George Pell Convicted on All Charges He Sexually Abused Choir Boys in the 1990s[http://blackchristiannews.com/2018/12/vaticans-third-most-powerful-official-cardinal-george-pell-convicted-on-all-charges-he-sexually-abused-choir-boys-in-the-1990s/]<br /> * “Aryan Pride” for Jesus: An Oklahoma pastor is under arrest after being caught running a prostitution ring with a white supremacist. Pastor Walter Eugene Brazington Jr. is “being charged with procuring for prostitution and possession of a firearm while in the commission of a felony,” according to a report from Tulsa World.[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2017/12/oklahoma-pastor-busted-running-white-supremacist-prostitution-ring/]<br /> * Lawsuit: At least 14 kids abused at hands of North Charleston church volunteer. Jacop Robert Lee Hazlett, 28, of Proximity Drive in West Ashley, faces one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor under 11 years old, according to his arrest affidavit and court records. Hazlett had worked as a volunteer chaperone and day care provider since March for NewSpring Church, located at 5101 Ashley Phosphate Road, supervising children ages 3 to 5 in a room called &quot;the Tree House.&quot;[https://www.postandcourier.com/news/lawsuit-at-least-kids-abused-at-hands-of-north-charleston/article_7d97d7f2-f3d8-11e8-9ec7-6ffa7310138b.html]<br /> * An Illinois priest who spent time in prison for manufacturing and selling a date-rape drug has been removed from ministry again for getting involved in a criminal case without telling his superiors. Peoria Diocese Bishop Daniel Jenky removed the Rev. Jeffrey Windy from his post serving three Ottawa parishes in March.[https://www.bnd.com/news/state/illinois/article222188995.html]<br /> * Gun-related tragedy struck once again this week, this time at a Catholic Supply store in Ballwin, Missouri, a suburb of St. Lous. USA Today reports that a former pastor has been arrested after allegedly attempting to coerce three women into having sex with him at gunpoint. When one of them resisted, he shot 53-year-old Jamie Schmidt in the head and forced the other two to submit to his “deviant” demands. The shooter, 53-year-old Thomas Bruce, has a reputation for right-wing tirades on social media and has ranted against gun-free zones in the past. He was a huge fan of President Trump, attended his rallies, and regularly tweeted about Republican politics. His last tweet read “I’ve already forgotten you. #promisesmade #promiseskept #trump2020 #BuildTheWall” and his feed was full of retweets from white nationalist FOX anchor Laura Ingraham.[https://washingtonpress.com/2018/11/23/a-trump-obsessed-pastor-just-shot-a-woman-dead-and-sodomized-two-others-in-horrific-sex-assault/]<br /> * Catholic Church Shielded Priests Who Raped Boys, but It Helped Lock Up a Priest Who Swiped Bucks. The monsignor who gambled and traveled on the Archdiocese’s dime remained behind bars as a grand jury reported on the crimes of his peers who preyed on children.[https://www.thedailybeast.com/catholic-church-shielded-priests-who-raped-boys-but-it-helped-lock-up-a-priest-who-swiped-bucks]<br /> * Grand jury report: Priests ran child porn ring in Pittsburgh Diocese[http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-nws-pa-pittsburgh-diocese-porn-ring-20180815-story.html]<br /> * Pastor Timothy Lee Reddin did not practice what he preached, police claim. The Arkansas church leader was arrested this week for allegedly trying to meet with an underage boy to have sex, part of a police sting operation.[https://www.inquisitr.com/5025011/anti-gay-pastor-timothy-lee-reddin-arrested-sex-with-underage-boy/]<br /> * A former New Jersey pastor who co-founded the Creation Festival, which bills itself as the country's largest Christian music festival, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for sexually assaulting multiple young children. Harry Thomas, 75, who formerly pastored Come Alive New Testament Church in Medford and went on to help create the popular music festival, failed in withdrawing his guilty plea on Friday, the Associated Press reported.[https://www.christianpost.com/news/creation-festival-co-founder-sentenced-to-18-years-for-child-sex-abuse-i-deserve-to-be-cast-into-sea-226484/][http://www.startribune.com/ex-pastor-sentenced-to-18-years-in-child-sex-abuse-case/489423631/]<br /> * Revelations that a prominent U.S. cardinal sexually abused and harassed his adult seminarians have exposed an egregious abuse of power that has shocked Catholics on both sides of the Atlantic. But the Vatican has long been aware of its heterosexual equivalent — the sexual abuse of nuns by priests and bishops — and done little to stop it, an Associated Press analysis has found. An examination by the AP shows that cases of abused nuns have emerged in Europe, Africa, South America and Asia, demonstrating that the problem is global and pervasive, thanks to the sisters' second-class status in the church and their ingrained subservience to the men who run it.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/metoo-vatican-nuns-denounce-priests-1.4765021]<br /> * A longtime pastor of a Bogalusa church pleaded guilty to the theft of more than $95,000 in Social Security disability benefits, U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans said Thursday. Jerry R. Newton, 54, of Slidell, is set for an Oct. 25 sentencing hearing before U. S. District Court Judge Jane Triche Milazzo.[https://www.nola.com/northshore/index.ssf/2018/07/bogalusa_pastor_pleads_guilty.html]<br /> * The Vatican tribunal has convicted a former Holy See diplomat and sentenced him to 5 years in prison for possessing and distributing child pornography in the first such trial of its kind inside the Vatican.[https://apnews.com/76aa075fbd1b40a487bc75fdd8f56e8c] Note that the Vatican refused to revoke the perpetrator's diplomatic immunity so he could be prosecuted in the United States.[https://www.inquisitr.com/4954910/priest-and-former-vatican-diplomat-to-u-s-found-guilty-of-possessing-child-pornography/]<br /> * A Catholic priest is behind bars after admitting to plying an underage boy with alcohol and molesting him. Father Steven Michael Guidry and his attorney reported to the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office on June 13 and confessed to giving alcohol to the minor before sexually assaulting him.[https://wgno.com/2018/06/14/catholic-priest-arrested-for-molesting-16-year-old-boy/]<br /> * Diocese knew priest arrested for child sex crimes was abusing boys, authorities say. The Diocese of Erie knew since at least May 2010 of the abuse, but this priest was still in active ministry as recently as 2 months ago. The Catholic Church knowingly allows pedophiles to have access to children.[https://www.pennlive.com/news/2018/05/erie_priest_charged_with_child.html]<br /> * The Rev. William Thomas Faucher, accused of child porn and drug crimes, was role playing with a fellow author in some of the chatroom conversations in which he’s alleged to have said he wanted to rape and kill children, his attorney said in court Friday.[http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/article208855704.html]<br /> * A well-known Alabama evangelist, public speaker and author was arrested in Hoover Tuesday on child sex charges. Paul Edward Acton Bowen, a 37-year-old Gadsden native who now lives in Etowah County's Southside community, was taken into custody by Hoover police about 12:35 p.m. The founder of Acton Bowen Outreach Ministries is charged with second-degree sodomy, enticing a child to enter a vehicle or house for immoral purposes, and second-degree sex abuse. The victim was a young male, but police did not release his age except to say he is over 12 and under 16.[http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2018/04/alabama_evangelist_acton_bowen.html]<br /> * As they back Trump, evangelical leaders face their own sex scandals.[https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/03/31/they-back-trump-evangelical-leaders-face-their-own-sex-scandals/9JwpnbdWzHOzQ7tEAmxUPN/story.html]<br /> * A former Bossier Parish pastor has been arrested after admitting to police he had meth at his Bossier City home. Andy C. Harris, 56, of 2406 Benton Road in Bossier City, was charged with possession of a Schedule II controlled dangerous substance (methamphetamine) and possession of drug paraphernalia. [https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/crime/2018/03/09/benton-man-arrested-possession-meth/410682002/]<br /> * A 1,200-page dossier containing the names of 34 ‘actively gay’ priests and six seminarians in Italy has been sent to the Vatican by the archdiocese of Naples.The allegations were compiled by Francesco Mangiacapra, a gay male escort who told local media he couldn’t put up with the priests’ &quot;hypocrisy&quot; any longer.[http://www.newsweek.com/male-escort-exposes-36-gay-priests-file-sent-vatican-containing-explicit-829968]<br /> * Mari Lopez Lopez credited veganism and a faith in God as the cure for her breast cancer last year, just months before her breast cancer returned. She later died from cancer.[http://www.wfaa.com/article/news/youtuber-who-claimed-veganism-cured-her-cancer-dies-of-cancer/521951036]<br /> * Pastor George Nelson Gregory, 61, of Munhall, Pa., was caught by cops in the backseat of a car with another man who was completely naked and bound with nylon rope in the front seat. Gregory says he was counseling the man, who is battling a drug problem.[http://www.pennlive.com/daily-buzz/2018/02/pa_pastor_caught_by_cops_in_wi.html]<br /> * 100s of child porn images, LSD, ecstasy found in Boise priest’s home, prosecutor says. Longtime Catholic Rev. W. Thomas Faucher, 72, was brought into court in a wheelchair Monday evening for his arraignment on 14 different charges.[http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/crime/article198567664.html]<br /> * Memphis mega-church pastor Andy Savage admits he molested a minor days before his ‘True Love Waits’ workshop.[https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/memphis-mega-church-pastor-admits-he-molested-a-minor-days-before-his-true-love-waits-workshop/]<br /> * An Ohio priest under investigation for questionable communications with a minor took his life in Chicago. The Chicago Tribune reports that Father James Csaszar jumped from the 82-story Aqua Hotel in downtown Chicago and the death was ruled a suicide on Thursday by the Cook County medical examiner's office.[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-csaszar-ohio-priest-kills-himself-in-chicago-amid-investigation/]<br /> * Co-founder of nation’s largest Christian rock festival abused minors for 16 years, authorities say, Harry L. Thomas, 74, of Medford Township, faces charges of aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office. [https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/co-founder-of-nations-largest-christian-rock-festival-abused-minors-for-16-years-authorities-say/]<br /> * Ralph Shortey, former Trump campaign chairman, Anti-Gay 'Family Values' Former GOP State Senator Guilty of Child Sex Trafficking After Being Found With Teen Boy.[http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/_family_values_republican_state_senator_pleads_guilty_to_child_sex_trafficking_after_child_pornography_charges_dropped]<br /> * Conservative megachurch founder Bob Coy accused of molesting 4-year-old[https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/conservative-megachurch-founder-bob-coy-accused-of-molesting-4-year-old/]<br /> * Devin Patrick Kelley, a vocational bible instructor, and ex Air Force soldier, opened fire in a Texas church, killing 26 people including children.[https://viral.buzzunites.com/2017/11/05/devin-kelley-5-fast-facts-you-need-to-know/]<br /> * Amber James, the mother who killed her nine-year-old son on Halloween, says she prayed, thought about it, and cried before she strangled him to death to “save” him.[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/11/03/mom-who-murdered-son-on-halloween-prayed-about-it-first/]<br /> * A Middletown mother will spend 21/2 to 5 years in state prison for assaulting her daughter because the teen didn't recite Bible verses correctly.Rhonda Shoffner, 41, was sentenced by Dauphin County Judge John F. Cherry after she pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated assault, strangulation, child endangerment and making terroristic threats.[http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/10/mom_who_beat_daughter_for_not.html?utm_source=fark&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_content=link&amp;ICID=ref_fark]<br /> * The Vatican trial over $500,000 in donations to the pope’s pediatric hospital that were diverted to renovate a cardinal’s penthouse is reaching its conclusion, with neither the cardinal who benefited nor the contractor who was apparently paid twice for the work facing trial.[https://www.apnews.com/ed6e8fcc7b5146eabc65e6b83564be19/Anomalies-abound-in-Vatican-trial-over-diverted-donations]<br /> * Shattered faith: Nearly 100 sex abuse suits against Catholic priests rock island of Guam.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/04/guam-priest-child-sex-abuse-scandal/503680001/]<br /> * Vatican blames women for pedophile priest scandals. [http://www.neonnettle.com/news/2359-catholic-church-women-are-to-blame-for-pedophile-priests]<br /> * Vatican rocked: Police raid drug-fuelled gay orgy at cardinal's apartment.[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=11886097]<br /> * Christian fundamentalist pastor to stand trial over death of two-year-old granddaughter from pneumonia.[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/christian-faith-healer-pastor-trial-pneumonia-medicine-rowland-foster-ella-fundamentaliism-a7814261.html]<br /> * Faith-healing parents charged with murder in death of premature twin baby[http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-city/index.ssf/2017/06/followers_of_christ_parents_of.html#incart_river_index]<br /> * North Carolina televangelist Todd Coontz – author of numerous books on faith and finances – has been indicted on charges of tax fraud spanning more than a decade.[http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/23/534128363/north-carolina-televangelist-indicted-on-charges-of-tax-crimes]<br /> * Ferndale Mother Arrested For Attempted Homicide After ‘Trying to Remove the Demons’ from Her 11-Year-Old Child.[https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2017/jun/16/ferndale-mother-arrested-attempted-homicide-after/]<br /> * Juror jailed for contempt in mistrial of minister, Brooke Covington, who is accused of kidnapping and beating a parishioner to expel his 'homosexual demons'[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4576384/Gay-beating-case-hands-jury-4-years-incident.html]<br /> * Monsignor William A. Dombrow was able to steal $500,000 from a church-owned retirement home, and used the money to pay for gambling, expensive dinners and concerts. He pleaded guilty to four federal wire fraud counts on Thursday. The maligned priest previously ran Villa St. Joseph in Darby for the Philadelphia Archdiocese, which housed aging priests and treated those accused of sexual abuse. Much of the stolen money came from insurance payments for priests who died and from the estates of parishioners.[http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/05/priest_admits_to_stealing_500k.html#incart_river_home_pop]<br /> * Conservative Christian and Oklahoma lawmaker Ralph Shortey is charged with engaging in child prostitution and other felonies after being caught in a hotel room with an underage boy.[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ralph-shortey-oklahoma-lawmaker-hit-child-prostitution-charges-n734376]<br /> * Oklahoma missionary sentenced to 40 years for sexually assaulting children in Upendo Children's Home in Nairobi, Kenya. Matthew Lane Durham, 21, was sentenced to four decades in prison by Judge David L. Russell on four counts of &quot;engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places,&quot; according to court documents. &quot;In a span of just 33 days,&quot; prosecutors wrote to the court, Durham &quot;raped three girls -- ages 5, 9 and 15 -- at least eight times. During that same time period, he sexually molested a 12-year-old boy twice.&quot;[http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/07/us/missionary-sexual-assault-kenya-children/index.html]. Christian publications claim missionary was possessed by a Demon named &quot;Luke&quot;. [http://www.christianpost.com/news/teen-missionary-indicted-for-raping-children-at-orphanage-says-he-was-possessed-by-demon-named-luke-124428/]<br /> * Religious Parents Who Refused to Take Son to Hospital and Thought God Would Resurrect Him Found Guilty of First Degree Murder.[http://edmontonjournal.com/storyline/they-knew-he-was-dying-parents-guilty-of-1st-degree-murder-in-sons-death]<br /> * Word of Life Christian Church Pastor Tiffanie Irwin, her brother Joseph Irwin and mother and son church members Linda Morey and David Morey have entered guilty pleas in the church orchestrated beating of two teen boys, leaving one dead and the other severely injured. Reports indicate the teens were beaten because they discussed leaving the congregation. Lucas Leonard, 19, was severely beaten by members of the church last October, suffering injuries to the abdomen, genitals, back and thighs that ultimately proved to be fatal. At the time of the suspects arrest, police said the “spiritual counseling session” at the church was in reality an hours-long attack in which the teen boys were repeatedly whipped with cords, pummeled with fists, and kicked. They suffered severe injuries to the abdomen, genitals, back and thighs. A church member testified that the “counseling session” lasted for 14 hours and only stopped because Lucas “was dead at that point.”[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2016/10/pastor-3-others-guilty-in-fatal-beating-of-teen-trying-to-escape-church/]<br /> * Man Admits to Killing Cancer-Surviving Daughter, But Not Before Asking God to Intervene. 25-year-old Ryan Lawrence pleaded guilty to murdering his 21-month-old daughter, a survivor of eye cancer, in part because he may have been jealous of all the attention she was getting.[https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1804932/dad-battered-brave-toddler-to-death-with-a-baseball-bat-in-jealous-rage/]<br /> * Christian who &quot;dedicated his life to Jesus&quot;, Richard Keenan, who served as mayor of Hubbard in 2010 and 2011, was indicted last month eight counts of rape and 12 counts of attempted rape and gross sexual imposition of a 4 year old girl.[http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/ohio-ex-mayor-who-dedicated-life-to-christ-admits-to-raping-4-year-old-and-blames-her-as-willing/]<br /> * Brian Mitchell, a youth pastor at a North Olmsted church, a husband and father of three children under the age of 8, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday for raping an unnamed teenager.[http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/09/extremely_delusional_north_olm.html]<br /> * 24-year-old “Christian Warrior” named Bryce Cuellar was arrested after posting a YouTube video detailing how he was going to kill “gays, faggots, lesbians and satanists.”[http://www.ktnv.com/news/las-vegas-man-facing-charges-after-posting-threatening-youtube-video]<br /> * Pastor Who Said Pulse Victims Weren't Victims, Got 'What They Deserve' Arrested for Child Molestation. Controversial pastor Ken Adkins has been charged with two counts of child molestation in Georgia and is in the Glynn County jail, officials said.[http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2016-08-26/story/controversial-pastor-and-activist-ken-adkins-charged-child-molestation]<br /> * Gunman fatally shoots Pennsylvania churchgoer after fight over seat at Sunday service.[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/churchgoer-killed-fight-seat-sunday-service-article-1.2618098]<br /> * Jerry Childress, a 75-year-old church organist from Florida, was arrested for indecent exposure after a glory hole attempt went wrong.[http://americannewsx.com/religion/church-organist-arrested/]<br /> * An Acadiana priest has been arrested for allegedly possessing over 500 images of child pornography, according to the Louisiana State Police. Father Felix David Broussard, a priest at St. Bernard Roman Catholic Church in Breaux Bridge, was arrested today and booked into St. Martin Parish jail on 500 counts of pornography involving juveniles.[http://klfy.com/2016/07/27/breaux-bridge-priest-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges/]<br /> * A 3-year-old boy died on Sunday after he was accidentally left in a hot car parked outside a church, according to police. The child’s family was attending an afternoon Bible study at Rehoboth Praise Assembly in Dallas.[http://kdvr.com/2016/07/25/child-dies-in-hot-car-while-family-worships-in-church/]<br /> * London priest charged after allegedly gambling away more than $500,000 meant for Syrian refugees. [http://m.en.canoe.com/CNEWS/Crime/2016/07/14/22651721.html]<br /> * Man following &quot;god's orders&quot; tried to crush toddler daughter's skull with a bat to help her get to heaven.[http://www.wbir.com/news/deputies-toddler-attacked-at-motel-critically-injured/260712415]<br /> * Sam Sutter, A 26-year-old youth minister is facing sexual battery charges following his arrest. According to a Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office report, Sutter was involved in a sexual relationship with a teenage girl he met through his job at the Openwater Church. [http://wfla.com/2016/06/19/youth-pastor-with-odessa-church-arrested-on-sexual-battery-charges/]<br /> * Anti-gay pastor, Dave Reynolds, the recently fired pastor of the Cornerstone Bible Fellowship in Sherwood, Arkansas is currently facing 70 counts of distributing, possessing, or viewing child pornography.[http://www.arkansasmatters.com/news/local-news/new-details-in-child-porn-charges-against-former-sherwood-pastor]<br /> * The Catholic church in Pennsylvania has been accused of employing “mafia-like” tactics in a campaign to put pressure on individual Catholic lawmakers who support state legislation that would give victims of sexual abuse more time to sue their abusers.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/17/pennsylvania-catholic-church-sexual-abuse-bill-mafia-tactics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other]<br /> * David James Brown, head pastor at First Christian Church of Jeffersonville, Indiana. was arrested after allegedly seeking sex with a minor.[http://www.wdrb.com/story/32232744/jeffersonville-pastor-arrested-after-allegedly-seeking-sex-with-a-minor]<br /> * A former Vatican archbishop, Jozef Wesolowski, accused of paedophilia stored tens of thousands of child porn videos and photos on a computer in his office at the Holy See diplomatic compound in the Dominican Republic, it has emerged.[http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/vatican-paedophilia-scandal-archbishop-jozef-wesolowski-stored-over-100000-child-porn-videos-1467410]<br /> * John David Brock, 60, died after a snake bit him in the left arm and he refused medical treatment, according to the Bell County Sheriff's Office. Brock was handling a snake during a church service at Mossy Simpson Pentecostal Church in Jenson, Kentucky.[http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Man-dies-in-Bell-County-after-he-was-bitten-by-snake-during-church-service-318868451.html]<br /> * The president of a Christian charity in Iowa, Jon S. Petersen, of Cedar Rapids admitted that he embezzled nearly a half-million dollars in donations and used the money to pay for a sex addiction, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. [http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article78129452.html]<br /> * Virginia pastor, Christopher Alan Hogge, 48, has been charged eight counts of possession and distribution of child pornography, according to the Isle of Wight County Sheriff's Office.[http://wtvr.com/2016/05/23/virginia-pastor-arrested-on-child-porn-charges/]<br /> * A private Christian school in Kansas is reserving the right to expel students who have gay family members. [http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/05/20/christian-school-threatens-to-expel-pupils-if-they-have-a-gay-family-member/?utm_source=ET&amp;utm_medium=ETFB&amp;utm_campaign=portal&amp;utm_content=inf_11_60_2&amp;tse_id=INF_c1d0cb4ff39e4a1b90bc30417379d323]<br /> * Grace Baptist Church children’s pastor arrested in sex trafficking operation.[http://wate.com/2016/05/20/tbi-conduct-knoxville-human-trafficking-investigation/]<br /> * Vehemently Anti-LGBT Pastor Arrested On Child Pornography Charges.[http://theintellectualist.co/infamous-anti-lgbt-pastor-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges/]<br /> * Ohio seminary student arrested for alleged plan to have sex with adopted baby in Mexico [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/seminary-student-allegedly-planned-sex-baby-mexico-article-1.2515560]<br /> * Woman beats disabled man with his own cane for saying he doesn’t believe in God[http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/woman-beats-disabled-man-with-his-own-cane-because-he-said-he-doesnt-believe-in-god-police/]<br /> * Phoenix Woman Accused of Killing Atheist Victim, Then Keeping the Body as a “Shrine From God”[http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/64863225-story]<br /> * Lisa Biron, Anti-Gay Christian Lawyer, Arrested On Child Pornography Charges[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/20/lisa-biron-anti-gay-christian-lawyer-child-porn-charges_n_2166055.html]<br /> * Pastor Slept with Young Girls During Prayer Sessions as Part of their “Healing Process”[http://allchristiannews.com/pastor-slept-with-young-girls-during-prayer-sessions-as-part-of-their-healing-process/]<br /> * Sheriff's Office: Harvey catechism teacher promises students a photo of Santa, then shows them naked picture instead[http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/news/crime/13876211-148/catechism-teacher-in-harvey-showed]<br /> * Almost 800 babies and children were buried in a mass grave in Ireland near a home for unmarried mothers run by nuns.[http://churchandstate.org.uk/2014/06/almost-800-babies-buried-in-septic-tank-at-catholic-run-irish-home-for-unmarried-mothers/]<br /> * Alabama Pastor Made Daughter Watch While He Sexually Abused Minors.[http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/10/prosecutors_plan_to_introduce.html]<br /> * The pastor and two members of a Corona, CA church pleaded guilty on Monday to torturing a thirteen-year-old boy, including driving him into the desert and forcing him to dig his own grave. Lonny Lee Remmers, James Craig, and Darryll Duana Jeter Jr. abused the child at a group home run by Heart of Worship Community Church.[http://aattp.org/pastor-church-members-viciously-tortured-young-boy-forced-him-to-dig-own-grave-in-the-desert/]<br /> * Minneapolis church struck by lightning, destroying cross[http://www.fox9.com/weather/15331725-story]<br /> * Six Brothers Raped Their Sister For Years While ‘Christian’ Homeschool Parents Did Nothing.[http://reverbpress.com/justice/jackson-brothers-sexual-assault-sister-christian/]<br /> * A Tennessee pastor who was recently admonished by police for having sex with another man in a church van parked in a parking lot, was arrested this week for embezzling an estimated $60,000 from his church’s coffers.[http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/pastor-caught-having-gay-sex-in-van-spent-stolen-church-money-on-farmer-dating-website-police/]<br /> * Four of six homeschooled brothers, including a pastor, admit to molesting their sister.[http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/four-of-six-homeschooled-brothers-plead-guilty-to-molesting-their-sister-while-anti-school-parents-did-nothing/#.VV88faFKoyU.facebook]<br /> * Antigay Michigan Pastor Outed by Grindr Messages[http://www.mediaite.com/online/antigay-michigan-pastor-outed-by-grindr-messages/]<br /> * A Baptist preacher in Eureka Springs who features prominently in a new video urging repeal of the city's Ordinance 2223, which protects LGBT people from discrimination, pleaded guilty to a series of violent rapes in Oklahoma in 1977.[http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2015/04/20/eureka-spring-pastor-in-repeal-2223-ad-is-a-convicted-serial-rapist]<br /> * Texas church members accused of starving ‘demon-possessed’ toddler and then trying to resurrect him[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/texas-church-members-accused-of-starving-demon-possessed-toddler-and-then-trying-resurrect-him/]<br /> * Louisianal youth pastor is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old girl. Jonathan Bailey has been charged with one count of indecent relationship with a juvenile.[http://www.wdsu.com/news/local-news/new-orleans/youth-pastor-accused-of-inappropriate-relationship-with-juvenile/31530534?utm_source=Social&amp;utm_medium=FBPAGE&amp;utm_campaign=wdsutv&amp;Content%20Type=Story&amp;linkId=12612108]<br /> * Ax-wielding hair designer burns down Michigan adult store to please God[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/ax-wielding-hair-designer-burns-down-michigan-shop-to-please-god/]<br /> * An 11-year-old Canadian Aboriginal girl with leukaemia, who stopped chemotherapy after &quot;seeing a vision of Jesus,&quot; has died.[http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/makayla-sault-girl-who-refused-chemo-for-leukemia-dies-1.2829885]<br /> * Anti-LGBT Pastor Arrested for Grabbing Man’s Genitals at Indiana Park[http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/anti-lgbt-pastor-arrested-grabbing-mans-genitals-indiana-park]<br /> * Baptist church leader in Missouri arrested for soliciting &quot;dog sex&quot; on Craigslist.[http://gawker.com/baptist-church-leader-arrested-for-soliciting-dog-sex-o-1617858449?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&amp;utm_source=gawker_facebook&amp;utm_medium=socialflow]<br /> * Woman told police “she was driving and out of no where God told her that he would take it from here and she let go of the wheel and let him take it.” Shortly after letting go of the wheel she ran over a motorcyclist and drove off.[http://wane.com/2014/07/18/motorcyclist-i-said-to-myself-today-is-the-day-i-die/]<br /> <br /> * Florida woman accused of killing 2-year-old while re-enacting Bible story[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/28/florida-woman-accused-of-killing-2-year-old-while-re-enacting-bible-story/]<br /> <br /> {{ytv2|qmwEOuMGxu4|right}}<br /> * Evangelical Christians want access to more corpses … to hone their ‘raising the dead’ skills[http://freethinker.co.uk/2014/03/10/evangelical-christians-want-access-to-more-corpses-in-order-to-practice-raising-them-from-the-dead/]<br /> * Tennessee woman accused of drowning her baby says ‘Jesus came down’ and did it.[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/10/tennessee-woman-accused-of-drowning-her-baby-says-jesus-came-down-and-did-it/]<br /> * Files released by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee reveal that in 2007, Cardinal Timothy F. Dolan, then the archbishop there, requested permission from the Vatican to move nearly $57 million into a cemetery trust fund to protect the assets from victims of clergy sexual abuse who were demanding compensation. [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/us/dolan-sought-vatican-permission-to-shield-assets.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0]<br /> * Belief in god associated with poor mental health.[http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2013/04/belief-in-punitive-god-associated-with-poor-mental-health.html]<br /> * The chaplain of Milan’s San Vittore prison, 51-year-old Fr Alberto Barin, has been arrested for sustained sexual assault with multiple aggravations and for abuse of authority. Six non-Italian prisoners have accused him of demanding sexual acts in exchange for favours ranging from items of food to living conditions in the prison. Officers investigating the allegations were able to document the incidents by placing a videocamera in the chaplain’s office in the prison.[http://www.corriere.it/english/12_novembre_21/san-vittore-prison_463940e4-33da-11e2-a480-b74fe153b15c.shtml]<br /> *Rev. Ryan J. Muelhauser, Ex-Gay Counsellor, Arrested For Molestation Of Two Young Men[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/08/rev-ryan-j-muelhauser-molestation-_n_2094609.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&amp;ir=Gay%20Voices]<br /> <br /> * Priest embroiled in ivory smuggling controversy.[http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/27/world/asia/priest-ivory-controversy/index.html]<br /> * New Orleans pastor who was appointed in April to a local economic development board charged with seven counts of molestation of a juvenile[http://wap.wdsu.com/wap/news/text.jsp?sid=48&amp;nid=1491143881&amp;cid=4640&amp;scid=-1&amp;ith=3&amp;title=Local%20News&amp;headtitle=Local%20News]<br /> * Pregnant Teenager in Dominican Republic dies after doctors withold cancer treatment because the chemotherapy would harm her unborn child.[http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/17/world/americas/dominican-republic-abortion/index.html?hpt=hp_bn2]<br /> * Christian musician Randy Travis, who claimed in 2009 his faith in god allowed him to quit drinking in his 20s, was found naked and drunk in Texas, and arrested after he threatened to kill a law enforcement officer[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/08/drunk-and-naked-christian-music-star-randy-travis-threatens-cops-life/]<br /> * A Northern California jury has awarded $28 million in damages to a woman who said the Jehovah’s Witnesses allowed an adult member of a Fremont, Calif., church to molest her when she was a child. [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/us/28-million-awarded-in-jehovahs-witnesses-abuse-case.html?_r=3]<br /> * Christian school rejects admission of Mormon pupil[http://m.arkansasonline.com/news/2012/may/31/lr-christian-academy-rejects-mormon-pupil-20120531/]<br /> * Family Battle Offers Look Inside Lavish TV Ministry[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/05/us/tbn-fight-offers-glimpse-inside-lavish-tv-ministry.html?_r=1]<br /> * Court ruling: Jesus doesn't cure cancer.[http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6835139/Ruling-Jesus-doesn-t-heal-cancer]<br /> * Heralded &quot;Miracle&quot; toddler found in the wreckage of tornado, dies in hospital[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=10789913]<br /> * Christian fringe group intimidates Lowes into pulling advertisement from a reality show portrary Muslims as decent people[http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/12/my-take-is-all-american-muslim-begetting-all-american-bigotry/?hpt=hp_c2]<br /> * 6 HIV sufferers die after their pastor told them to stop taking their medication, because god would heal them.[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066106/Scandal-churches-claiming-cure-HIV-God-die-abandoning-medication.html]<br /> * Brazil rocked by abortion for 9-year-old rape victim: Church excommunicates mother and doctors – but not accused rapist[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brazil-rocked-by-abortion-for-9yearold-rape-victim-1640165.html]<br /> * Pentecostal Bishop Charles E. Brown indicted on rape, sexual battery charges[http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/11/no_bishop_indicted_on_rape_sex.html]<br /> * Killings in Norway spotlight anti-Muslim thought.[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/us/25debate.html?_r=4&amp;ref=global-home]<br /> * Austrian's religious headgear gives authorities a headache.{{rl|http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14135523}}<br /> * Pray For Newark claims amazing results as its Christian volunteers &quot;prayer walk&quot; the Newark city streets, seeking to pray down crime. Then murders rose 71%{{rl|http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/5/3/91235/90609/}}<br /> * Preacher sells debt removal through prayer[http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/consumer&amp;id=7984766]<br /> * Authorities have arrested a 52-year-old man they say committed a hate crime against a man he learned was a Muslim. They were having a conversation when the victim admitted he was a Muslim, which prompted the other man to stab him in the neck with a pocket knife.{{rl|http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/st-pete-man-accused-of-hate-crime-against-muslim/1149809}}<br /> * Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley told a church crowd just moments into his new administration that those who have not accepted Jesus as their savior are not his brothers and sisters, shocking some critics who questioned Tuesday whether he can be fair to non-Christians.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_alabama_governor_christians}}<br /> * The Salvation Army says it refuses to distribute Harry Potter and Twilight toys collected for needy children because they're incompatible with the charity's Christian beliefs.{{rl|http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/canada/2010/12/08/16478111.html}}<br /> * A couple who prayed for their sick toddler rather than take him to a doctor before his pneumonia death are on trial in Philadelphia, charged with involuntary manslaughter.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101207/ap_on_re_us/us_prayer_death_toddler}}<br /> * Archdiocese wants to recoup legal fees after a suit alleging abuse by priest in Burnsville was dismissed.[http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/faith/110501539.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU]<br /> * Minister, elders guilty of not reporting sexual abuse of a child - sought to have immunity from criminal liability in failing to report the case of suspected child abuse, &quot;arguing that they acted in good faith in persuading the parents and the perpetrator to make report of abuse.&quot;[http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Minister%2C+elders+guilty+of+not+reporting+abuse&amp;articleId=5584e3e1-cc52-4715-820c-be1eb16a82f9]<br /> * A Catholic Priest Charged with Sexually Assaulting Boy in ’08 Was Rearrested Last Week and Charged with Hiring Someone to Kill His Alleged Victim.{{rl|http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7307344.html}}<br /> * Baby dies as family jumps out of window to get away from the devil.{{rl|http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2010/10/24/15810081.html}}<br /> * Lamar advertising company will sell billboards to hookers but not atheists.{{rl|http://www.bnet.com/blog/advertising-business/lamar-sells-billboards-to-hookers-but-not-to-atheists/2412}}<br /> * Religious teen shoots and murders an atheist teen over an argument; judge does not consider it a hate crime and reduces the murder charge; parents outrages.{{rl|http://www.whotv.com/news/who-story-doyle-family-shooting-100810,0,3732283.story}}<br /> * Study shows atheists and agnostics are more knowledgeable about religion than religious people themselves.{{rl|http://pewforum.org/Other-Beliefs-and-Practices/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey.aspx}}<br /> * Bishop Eddie Long, a powerful anti-gay pastor becomes ensnared in his own sordid same-sex scandal{{rl|http://www.salon.com/life/this_week_in_crazy/index.html?story=/mwt/feature/2010/09/25/this_week_crazy_eddie_long}}<br /> * Deaf victim of sex abuse is suing pope{{rl|http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/23/deaf-victim-of-sex-abuse-is-suing-pope-and-going-public-with-his-story-for-the-first-time/}}<br /> * A fourth young male member of Bishop Eddie Long's megachurch is suing the prominent pastor, claiming Long coerced him into a sexual relationship. The lawsuit was filed by Spencer LeGrande, a member of New Birth Charlotte. New Birth Charlotte is a satellite church run by Long in Charlotte, N.C. The lawsuit said Long told LeGrande &quot;I will be your dad&quot; and invited the 17-year-old to journey to Kenya with him in July 2005. LeGrande said that Long gave him a sleeping pill on that trip and that the two engaged in sexual acts.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100924/ap_on_re_us/us_pastor_abuse_allegations_lawsuit}}<br /> <br /> * According to a recent study, religious belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to research published today. {{rl|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article571206.ece}}<br /> * Pastor George Randall &quot;Randy&quot; Scott, of the Bethel Temple Assembly Of God Church in Bryan, Texas, was arrested after returning from a trip to Sweden with his wife on for allegedly pretending to be a teenager online to meet other minor boys and then blackmailing them into having sex. {{rl|http://www.kbtx.com/local/headlines/100500214.html}}<br /> * Giant Jesus statue struck by lightning and destroyed. {{rl|http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/15/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning/}}<br /> * Thinking he was possessed by the devil, American cage fighter rips out still-beating heart of his training partner.{{rl|http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1282647/American-cage-fighter-rips-beating-heart-training-partner-fearing-possessed-devil.html}}<br /> * Christian singer leaves his wife and family and admits hes gay, while continuing his Christian musical career.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/15/us/15religion.html}}<br /> * Nun Excommunicated For Allowing life-saving Abortion[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126985072]<br /> * Janine Denomme, Woman Ordained As Catholic Priest, Denied Catholic Burial By Church{{rl|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/19/janine-denomme-woman-orda_n_582423.html}}<br /> * Guns, high-powered ammunition and explosives equipment have been seized in raids on 12 properties in and near Adelaide linked with the Agape Ministries of God.{{rl|http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/20/2904812.htm}}<br /> * City of Miami uses prayer group to ward off bad weather.{{rl|http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&amp;articleid=20100511_11_0_MIAMIO602438}}<br /> * Jehovah's Witness Couple Disown Son For Receiving Blood Transfusion.{{rl|http://news.peacefmonline.com/religion/201005/42722.php}}<br /> * Noah's ark found, says evangelical filmmaker.{{rl|http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/pc-certainty-of-noahs-ark-discovery-on-mount-ararat/story-e6frfku0-1225858591328}}<br /> * British court punishes atheist for leaving flyers in the prayer room of the John Lennon airport.{{rl|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7624578/Atheist-given-Asbo-for-leaflets-mocking-Jesus.html}}<br /> * Islamists have warned the creators of TV show South Park they could face violent retribution for depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit.{{rl|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8636455.stm}}<br /> * An episode of “South Park” that continued a story line involving the Prophet Muhammad was shown Wednesday night on Comedy Central with audio bleeps and image blocks reading “CENSORED” after a Muslim group warned the show’s creators that they could face violence for depicting that holy Islamic prophet. {{rl|http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/south-park-episode-is-altered-after-muslim-groups-warning/}}<br /> * Catholic church admits Norwegian Bishop resigned last year after admitting he was involved in child molestation.[http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=10305913]<br /> * Pope coordinated assignment of pedophile priest back into circulation.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/world/europe/26church.html}}<br /> {{ga}}<br /> * The Roman Catholic Church’s account of Pope Benedict XVI’s handing of a serial paedophile was called into question today when new documents emerged suggesting that his office was kept informed of the offender’s rapid return to working with children. {{rl|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7077196.ece}}<br /> * Pope Sexual Abuse Scandal: Benedict Implicated In Cover-Up Of Wisconsin Abuse Case{{rl|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/24/pope-sexual-abuse-lawrence-murphy_n_512483.html}}<br /> * Atheist group throws party for teens who had their prom canceled rather than allow a same-sex couple to attend the dance sponsored by religious school{{rl|http://www.examiner.com/x-8928-Philadelphia-Atheism-Examiner~y2010m3d12-Atheist-group-offers-to-hold-gay-friendly-prom}}<br /> * Religious massacres continue in Nigeria{{rl|http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704869304575109962258328770.html}}<br /> * Vatican chorister sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for papal gentleman-in-waiting{{rl|http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/04/vatican-gay-sex-scandal}}<br /> * Baby starved to death because he didn't say &quot;amen.&quot;{{rl|http://www.smh.com.au/world/baby-starved-to-death-because-he-did-not-say-amen-20100225-p4el.html}}<br /> * Pakistan's president sacrifices a goat each day to keep evil away{{rl|http://www.palibandaily.com/2010/02/23/a-goat-a-day-keeps-the-evil-away-pakistans-president-and-his-addiction-to-sacrifices/}}<br /> * Haiti's prime minister said Monday it's clear to him that the 10 U.S. Baptists who tried to take 33 children out of his quake-ravaged country without permission &quot;knew what they were doing was wrong.&quot;{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100201/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_americans_detained}}<br /> * A jury has found Scott Philip Roeder, 51, of Merriam, Kansas, guilty of premeditated first-degree murder in the slaying of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller.{{rl|http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/27216}}<br /> * Jeff and Marci Beagley have been charged with criminally negligent homicide for not providing medical treatment to their 16-year-old son, who died of an untreated urinary tract blockage. The family belongs to Followers of Christ Church, whose members shun medical care in favor of prayer.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wirestory?id=9550298&amp;page=2]<br /> * A Republican member of the Iowa Legislature is proposing lawmakers should be required to say &quot;so help me God&quot; when being sworn into office.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wirestory?id=9550298&amp;page=2]<br /> * Members of a Roanoke church have voted to leave the country's largest Lutheran denomination over its policy to allow gay clergy.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9550298]<br /> * Matt Baker, 38, a former Baptist minister, has been indicted for allegedly drugging and suffocating his wife Kari, whose 2006 death was initially ruled a suicide.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9551269]<br /> * A government witness said Wednesday that the five young woman who testified last year that evangelist Tony Alamo took them as a &quot;wife&quot; and sexually abused them as minors should receive $2.7 million each for physical and mental pain suffered.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9551976]<br /> * Three American Evangelical Christians go to Uganda and teach thousands (including police, national politicians, etc.) how gays and their agenda are trying to destroy Ugandan families and sodomize their children. Result: a bill to impose a death sentence for homosexual behavior.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/world/africa/04uganda.html}}<br /> * School board opts to fire public school teacher who refused to teach evolution, taught creationism and burned crosses into the arms of students{{rl|http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/06/21/Freshwater_decision.ART_ART_06-21-08_A1_ABAI539.html}}<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Theological_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Theists_in_the_news Theists in the news 2019-07-14T00:08:16Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>Modern stories and links of the many weird things religious people do that make news.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Priest in cuffs.jpg|right]]<br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * [[Theists in the news (archive)]] for many more stories<br /> * [[Republicans in the news]]<br /> * [[Democrats in the news]]<br /> * [[Christian terrorists in the news]]<br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> ==Theists in the news==<br /> <br /> * A Christian school kindergarten teacher in the Chicago suburbs is facing charges related to sexual assault and child pornography after investigators say that she sent explicit material to minors for years. Shannon Griffin is the wife of the pastor of Jordan Baptist Church and is a teacher at the associated Jordan Baptist school in Oak Lawn, a suburb of Chicago. Christian school teacher who scolded girls to be modest was molesting male students. She was a moral scold who told girls they were dressing like sluts &amp; the entire time she was sending naked photos of herself to male students. [https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/07/christian-school-teacher-scolded-girls-modest-molesting-male-students/]<br /> * A principal in Louisiana has resigned after being arrested at a Washington, DC strip club. Holy Family Principal Michael Comeau was chaperoning a middle school trip to the nation's capital when he was arrested at Archibald's Gentlemen's Club in Northwest DC. Police were called to the club, just blocks from the White House, to found Comeau “standing in the roadway, refusing to move.&quot; Comeau reportedly refused to settle up with the club.[https://www.complex.com/life/2019/06/louisiana-school-principal-arrested-at-strip-club-in-dc]<br /> * The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $8 million to a teenager who was sexually abused and kidnapped by a teacher at her Catholic high school.The teenager's attorney, David Ring, said that the settlement — finalized by a court last week — is the largest that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles has ever paid to a single victim, The Associated Press reports. Over the past 15 years, the archdiocese has paid more than $740 million in sexual abuse settlements.[https://www.npr.org/2019/04/17/714212609/archdiocese-of-los-angeles-agrees-to-8-million-settlement-in-sex-abuse-case]<br /> * A large majority of priests in the Vatican are gay, although many are not sexually active, a new book claims. A total of about 80 percent of the most revered clerics in the Roman Catholic Church are homosexual despite the church’s opposition to gay rights, according to the extensively researched book by French journalist Frédéric Martel. The gay priests adhere to an unspoken code called “the closet,” where it is understood that, for instance, a cardinal or bishop who denounces homosexuality is more likely to be gay, according to the book “In the Closet of the Vatican.”[https://nypost.com/2019/02/14/80-percent-of-priests-in-the-vatican-are-gay-new-book/]<br /> * 7-year old boy killed after court-appointed guardian punishes him for not knowing 13 bible verses[https://fox11online.com/news/local/guardians-teen-charged-in-death-of-7-year-old-manitowoc-co-boy]<br /> * Evangelicals sue for right to deny shelter to homeless transgender people.Alliance Defending Freedom, the far-right evangelical legal group that defended the “right” of a baker to deny service to gay couples before the Supreme Court, has a new target.This time they’re suing to give a homeless shelter in Anchorage, Alaska, the “right” to deny help to transgender people. The federal court lawsuit seeks to overturn the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance that prohibits discrimination against LGBTQ people.[https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/01/evangelicals-sue-right-deny-shelter-homeless-transgender-people/]<br /> * Male Escort Exposes 36 Gay Priests in File Sent to Vatican Containing Explicit WhatsApp Chats and Erotic Photos[https://www.newsweek.com/male-escort-exposes-36-gay-priests-file-sent-vatican-containing-explicit-829968]<br /> * Vatican’s Third-Most Powerful Official Cardinal George Pell Convicted on All Charges He Sexually Abused Choir Boys in the 1990s[http://blackchristiannews.com/2018/12/vaticans-third-most-powerful-official-cardinal-george-pell-convicted-on-all-charges-he-sexually-abused-choir-boys-in-the-1990s/]<br /> * “Aryan Pride” for Jesus: An Oklahoma pastor is under arrest after being caught running a prostitution ring with a white supremacist. Pastor Walter Eugene Brazington Jr. is “being charged with procuring for prostitution and possession of a firearm while in the commission of a felony,” according to a report from Tulsa World.[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2017/12/oklahoma-pastor-busted-running-white-supremacist-prostitution-ring/]<br /> * Lawsuit: At least 14 kids abused at hands of North Charleston church volunteer. Jacop Robert Lee Hazlett, 28, of Proximity Drive in West Ashley, faces one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor under 11 years old, according to his arrest affidavit and court records. Hazlett had worked as a volunteer chaperone and day care provider since March for NewSpring Church, located at 5101 Ashley Phosphate Road, supervising children ages 3 to 5 in a room called &quot;the Tree House.&quot;[https://www.postandcourier.com/news/lawsuit-at-least-kids-abused-at-hands-of-north-charleston/article_7d97d7f2-f3d8-11e8-9ec7-6ffa7310138b.html]<br /> * An Illinois priest who spent time in prison for manufacturing and selling a date-rape drug has been removed from ministry again for getting involved in a criminal case without telling his superiors. Peoria Diocese Bishop Daniel Jenky removed the Rev. Jeffrey Windy from his post serving three Ottawa parishes in March.[https://www.bnd.com/news/state/illinois/article222188995.html]<br /> * Gun-related tragedy struck once again this week, this time at a Catholic Supply store in Ballwin, Missouri, a suburb of St. Lous. USA Today reports that a former pastor has been arrested after allegedly attempting to coerce three women into having sex with him at gunpoint. When one of them resisted, he shot 53-year-old Jamie Schmidt in the head and forced the other two to submit to his “deviant” demands. The shooter, 53-year-old Thomas Bruce, has a reputation for right-wing tirades on social media and has ranted against gun-free zones in the past. He was a huge fan of President Trump, attended his rallies, and regularly tweeted about Republican politics. His last tweet read “I’ve already forgotten you. #promisesmade #promiseskept #trump2020 #BuildTheWall” and his feed was full of retweets from white nationalist FOX anchor Laura Ingraham.[https://washingtonpress.com/2018/11/23/a-trump-obsessed-pastor-just-shot-a-woman-dead-and-sodomized-two-others-in-horrific-sex-assault/]<br /> * Catholic Church Shielded Priests Who Raped Boys, but It Helped Lock Up a Priest Who Swiped Bucks. The monsignor who gambled and traveled on the Archdiocese’s dime remained behind bars as a grand jury reported on the crimes of his peers who preyed on children.[https://www.thedailybeast.com/catholic-church-shielded-priests-who-raped-boys-but-it-helped-lock-up-a-priest-who-swiped-bucks]<br /> * Grand jury report: Priests ran child porn ring in Pittsburgh Diocese[http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-nws-pa-pittsburgh-diocese-porn-ring-20180815-story.html]<br /> * Pastor Timothy Lee Reddin did not practice what he preached, police claim. The Arkansas church leader was arrested this week for allegedly trying to meet with an underage boy to have sex, part of a police sting operation.[https://www.inquisitr.com/5025011/anti-gay-pastor-timothy-lee-reddin-arrested-sex-with-underage-boy/]<br /> * A former New Jersey pastor who co-founded the Creation Festival, which bills itself as the country's largest Christian music festival, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for sexually assaulting multiple young children. Harry Thomas, 75, who formerly pastored Come Alive New Testament Church in Medford and went on to help create the popular music festival, failed in withdrawing his guilty plea on Friday, the Associated Press reported.[https://www.christianpost.com/news/creation-festival-co-founder-sentenced-to-18-years-for-child-sex-abuse-i-deserve-to-be-cast-into-sea-226484/][http://www.startribune.com/ex-pastor-sentenced-to-18-years-in-child-sex-abuse-case/489423631/]<br /> * Revelations that a prominent U.S. cardinal sexually abused and harassed his adult seminarians have exposed an egregious abuse of power that has shocked Catholics on both sides of the Atlantic. But the Vatican has long been aware of its heterosexual equivalent — the sexual abuse of nuns by priests and bishops — and done little to stop it, an Associated Press analysis has found. An examination by the AP shows that cases of abused nuns have emerged in Europe, Africa, South America and Asia, demonstrating that the problem is global and pervasive, thanks to the sisters' second-class status in the church and their ingrained subservience to the men who run it.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/metoo-vatican-nuns-denounce-priests-1.4765021]<br /> * A longtime pastor of a Bogalusa church pleaded guilty to the theft of more than $95,000 in Social Security disability benefits, U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans said Thursday. Jerry R. Newton, 54, of Slidell, is set for an Oct. 25 sentencing hearing before U. S. District Court Judge Jane Triche Milazzo.[https://www.nola.com/northshore/index.ssf/2018/07/bogalusa_pastor_pleads_guilty.html]<br /> * The Vatican tribunal has convicted a former Holy See diplomat and sentenced him to 5 years in prison for possessing and distributing child pornography in the first such trial of its kind inside the Vatican.[https://apnews.com/76aa075fbd1b40a487bc75fdd8f56e8c] Note that the Vatican refused to revoke the perpetrator's diplomatic immunity so he could be prosecuted in the United States.[https://www.inquisitr.com/4954910/priest-and-former-vatican-diplomat-to-u-s-found-guilty-of-possessing-child-pornography/]<br /> * A Catholic priest is behind bars after admitting to plying an underage boy with alcohol and molesting him. Father Steven Michael Guidry and his attorney reported to the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office on June 13 and confessed to giving alcohol to the minor before sexually assaulting him.[https://wgno.com/2018/06/14/catholic-priest-arrested-for-molesting-16-year-old-boy/]<br /> * Diocese knew priest arrested for child sex crimes was abusing boys, authorities say. The Diocese of Erie knew since at least May 2010 of the abuse, but this priest was still in active ministry as recently as 2 months ago. The Catholic Church knowingly allows pedophiles to have access to children.[https://www.pennlive.com/news/2018/05/erie_priest_charged_with_child.html]<br /> * The Rev. William Thomas Faucher, accused of child porn and drug crimes, was role playing with a fellow author in some of the chatroom conversations in which he’s alleged to have said he wanted to rape and kill children, his attorney said in court Friday.[http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/article208855704.html]<br /> * A well-known Alabama evangelist, public speaker and author was arrested in Hoover Tuesday on child sex charges. Paul Edward Acton Bowen, a 37-year-old Gadsden native who now lives in Etowah County's Southside community, was taken into custody by Hoover police about 12:35 p.m. The founder of Acton Bowen Outreach Ministries is charged with second-degree sodomy, enticing a child to enter a vehicle or house for immoral purposes, and second-degree sex abuse. The victim was a young male, but police did not release his age except to say he is over 12 and under 16.[http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2018/04/alabama_evangelist_acton_bowen.html]<br /> * As they back Trump, evangelical leaders face their own sex scandals.[https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/03/31/they-back-trump-evangelical-leaders-face-their-own-sex-scandals/9JwpnbdWzHOzQ7tEAmxUPN/story.html]<br /> * A former Bossier Parish pastor has been arrested after admitting to police he had meth at his Bossier City home. Andy C. Harris, 56, of 2406 Benton Road in Bossier City, was charged with possession of a Schedule II controlled dangerous substance (methamphetamine) and possession of drug paraphernalia. [https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/crime/2018/03/09/benton-man-arrested-possession-meth/410682002/]<br /> * A 1,200-page dossier containing the names of 34 ‘actively gay’ priests and six seminarians in Italy has been sent to the Vatican by the archdiocese of Naples.The allegations were compiled by Francesco Mangiacapra, a gay male escort who told local media he couldn’t put up with the priests’ &quot;hypocrisy&quot; any longer.[http://www.newsweek.com/male-escort-exposes-36-gay-priests-file-sent-vatican-containing-explicit-829968]<br /> * Mari Lopez Lopez credited veganism and a faith in God as the cure for her breast cancer last year, just months before her breast cancer returned. She later died from cancer.[http://www.wfaa.com/article/news/youtuber-who-claimed-veganism-cured-her-cancer-dies-of-cancer/521951036]<br /> * Pastor George Nelson Gregory, 61, of Munhall, Pa., was caught by cops in the backseat of a car with another man who was completely naked and bound with nylon rope in the front seat. Gregory says he was counseling the man, who is battling a drug problem.[http://www.pennlive.com/daily-buzz/2018/02/pa_pastor_caught_by_cops_in_wi.html]<br /> * 100s of child porn images, LSD, ecstasy found in Boise priest’s home, prosecutor says. Longtime Catholic Rev. W. Thomas Faucher, 72, was brought into court in a wheelchair Monday evening for his arraignment on 14 different charges.[http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/crime/article198567664.html]<br /> * Memphis mega-church pastor Andy Savage admits he molested a minor days before his ‘True Love Waits’ workshop.[https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/memphis-mega-church-pastor-admits-he-molested-a-minor-days-before-his-true-love-waits-workshop/]<br /> * An Ohio priest under investigation for questionable communications with a minor took his life in Chicago. The Chicago Tribune reports that Father James Csaszar jumped from the 82-story Aqua Hotel in downtown Chicago and the death was ruled a suicide on Thursday by the Cook County medical examiner's office.[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-csaszar-ohio-priest-kills-himself-in-chicago-amid-investigation/]<br /> * Co-founder of nation’s largest Christian rock festival abused minors for 16 years, authorities say, Harry L. Thomas, 74, of Medford Township, faces charges of aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office. [https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/co-founder-of-nations-largest-christian-rock-festival-abused-minors-for-16-years-authorities-say/]<br /> * Ralph Shortey, former Trump campaign chairman, Anti-Gay 'Family Values' Former GOP State Senator Guilty of Child Sex Trafficking After Being Found With Teen Boy.[http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/_family_values_republican_state_senator_pleads_guilty_to_child_sex_trafficking_after_child_pornography_charges_dropped]<br /> * Conservative megachurch founder Bob Coy accused of molesting 4-year-old[https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/conservative-megachurch-founder-bob-coy-accused-of-molesting-4-year-old/]<br /> * Devin Patrick Kelley, a vocational bible instructor, and ex Air Force soldier, opened fire in a Texas church, killing 26 people including children.[https://viral.buzzunites.com/2017/11/05/devin-kelley-5-fast-facts-you-need-to-know/]<br /> * Amber James, the mother who killed her nine-year-old son on Halloween, says she prayed, thought about it, and cried before she strangled him to death to “save” him.[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/11/03/mom-who-murdered-son-on-halloween-prayed-about-it-first/]<br /> * A Middletown mother will spend 21/2 to 5 years in state prison for assaulting her daughter because the teen didn't recite Bible verses correctly.Rhonda Shoffner, 41, was sentenced by Dauphin County Judge John F. Cherry after she pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated assault, strangulation, child endangerment and making terroristic threats.[http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/10/mom_who_beat_daughter_for_not.html?utm_source=fark&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_content=link&amp;ICID=ref_fark]<br /> * The Vatican trial over $500,000 in donations to the pope’s pediatric hospital that were diverted to renovate a cardinal’s penthouse is reaching its conclusion, with neither the cardinal who benefited nor the contractor who was apparently paid twice for the work facing trial.[https://www.apnews.com/ed6e8fcc7b5146eabc65e6b83564be19/Anomalies-abound-in-Vatican-trial-over-diverted-donations]<br /> * Shattered faith: Nearly 100 sex abuse suits against Catholic priests rock island of Guam.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/04/guam-priest-child-sex-abuse-scandal/503680001/]<br /> * Vatican blames women for pedophile priest scandals. [http://www.neonnettle.com/news/2359-catholic-church-women-are-to-blame-for-pedophile-priests]<br /> * Vatican rocked: Police raid drug-fuelled gay orgy at cardinal's apartment.[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=11886097]<br /> * Christian fundamentalist pastor to stand trial over death of two-year-old granddaughter from pneumonia.[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/christian-faith-healer-pastor-trial-pneumonia-medicine-rowland-foster-ella-fundamentaliism-a7814261.html]<br /> * Faith-healing parents charged with murder in death of premature twin baby[http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-city/index.ssf/2017/06/followers_of_christ_parents_of.html#incart_river_index]<br /> * North Carolina televangelist Todd Coontz – author of numerous books on faith and finances – has been indicted on charges of tax fraud spanning more than a decade.[http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/23/534128363/north-carolina-televangelist-indicted-on-charges-of-tax-crimes]<br /> * Ferndale Mother Arrested For Attempted Homicide After ‘Trying to Remove the Demons’ from Her 11-Year-Old Child.[https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2017/jun/16/ferndale-mother-arrested-attempted-homicide-after/]<br /> * Juror jailed for contempt in mistrial of minister, Brooke Covington, who is accused of kidnapping and beating a parishioner to expel his 'homosexual demons'[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4576384/Gay-beating-case-hands-jury-4-years-incident.html]<br /> * Monsignor William A. Dombrow was able to steal $500,000 from a church-owned retirement home, and used the money to pay for gambling, expensive dinners and concerts. He pleaded guilty to four federal wire fraud counts on Thursday. The maligned priest previously ran Villa St. Joseph in Darby for the Philadelphia Archdiocese, which housed aging priests and treated those accused of sexual abuse. Much of the stolen money came from insurance payments for priests who died and from the estates of parishioners.[http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/05/priest_admits_to_stealing_500k.html#incart_river_home_pop]<br /> * Conservative Christian and Oklahoma lawmaker Ralph Shortey is charged with engaging in child prostitution and other felonies after being caught in a hotel room with an underage boy.[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ralph-shortey-oklahoma-lawmaker-hit-child-prostitution-charges-n734376]<br /> * Oklahoma missionary sentenced to 40 years for sexually assaulting children in Upendo Children's Home in Nairobi, Kenya. Matthew Lane Durham, 21, was sentenced to four decades in prison by Judge David L. Russell on four counts of &quot;engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places,&quot; according to court documents. &quot;In a span of just 33 days,&quot; prosecutors wrote to the court, Durham &quot;raped three girls -- ages 5, 9 and 15 -- at least eight times. During that same time period, he sexually molested a 12-year-old boy twice.&quot;[http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/07/us/missionary-sexual-assault-kenya-children/index.html]. Christian publications claim missionary was possessed by a Demon named &quot;Luke&quot;. [http://www.christianpost.com/news/teen-missionary-indicted-for-raping-children-at-orphanage-says-he-was-possessed-by-demon-named-luke-124428/]<br /> * Religious Parents Who Refused to Take Son to Hospital and Thought God Would Resurrect Him Found Guilty of First Degree Murder.[http://edmontonjournal.com/storyline/they-knew-he-was-dying-parents-guilty-of-1st-degree-murder-in-sons-death]<br /> * Word of Life Christian Church Pastor Tiffanie Irwin, her brother Joseph Irwin and mother and son church members Linda Morey and David Morey have entered guilty pleas in the church orchestrated beating of two teen boys, leaving one dead and the other severely injured. Reports indicate the teens were beaten because they discussed leaving the congregation. Lucas Leonard, 19, was severely beaten by members of the church last October, suffering injuries to the abdomen, genitals, back and thighs that ultimately proved to be fatal. At the time of the suspects arrest, police said the “spiritual counseling session” at the church was in reality an hours-long attack in which the teen boys were repeatedly whipped with cords, pummeled with fists, and kicked. They suffered severe injuries to the abdomen, genitals, back and thighs. A church member testified that the “counseling session” lasted for 14 hours and only stopped because Lucas “was dead at that point.”[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2016/10/pastor-3-others-guilty-in-fatal-beating-of-teen-trying-to-escape-church/]<br /> * Man Admits to Killing Cancer-Surviving Daughter, But Not Before Asking God to Intervene. 25-year-old Ryan Lawrence pleaded guilty to murdering his 21-month-old daughter, a survivor of eye cancer, in part because he may have been jealous of all the attention she was getting.[https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1804932/dad-battered-brave-toddler-to-death-with-a-baseball-bat-in-jealous-rage/]<br /> * Christian who &quot;dedicated his life to Jesus&quot;, Richard Keenan, who served as mayor of Hubbard in 2010 and 2011, was indicted last month eight counts of rape and 12 counts of attempted rape and gross sexual imposition of a 4 year old girl.[http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/ohio-ex-mayor-who-dedicated-life-to-christ-admits-to-raping-4-year-old-and-blames-her-as-willing/]<br /> * Brian Mitchell, a youth pastor at a North Olmsted church, a husband and father of three children under the age of 8, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday for raping an unnamed teenager.[http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/09/extremely_delusional_north_olm.html]<br /> * 24-year-old “Christian Warrior” named Bryce Cuellar was arrested after posting a YouTube video detailing how he was going to kill “gays, faggots, lesbians and satanists.”[http://www.ktnv.com/news/las-vegas-man-facing-charges-after-posting-threatening-youtube-video]<br /> * Pastor Who Said Pulse Victims Weren't Victims, Got 'What They Deserve' Arrested for Child Molestation. Controversial pastor Ken Adkins has been charged with two counts of child molestation in Georgia and is in the Glynn County jail, officials said.[http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2016-08-26/story/controversial-pastor-and-activist-ken-adkins-charged-child-molestation]<br /> * Gunman fatally shoots Pennsylvania churchgoer after fight over seat at Sunday service.[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/churchgoer-killed-fight-seat-sunday-service-article-1.2618098]<br /> * Jerry Childress, a 75-year-old church organist from Florida, was arrested for indecent exposure after a glory hole attempt went wrong.[http://americannewsx.com/religion/church-organist-arrested/]<br /> * An Acadiana priest has been arrested for allegedly possessing over 500 images of child pornography, according to the Louisiana State Police. Father Felix David Broussard, a priest at St. Bernard Roman Catholic Church in Breaux Bridge, was arrested today and booked into St. Martin Parish jail on 500 counts of pornography involving juveniles.[http://klfy.com/2016/07/27/breaux-bridge-priest-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges/]<br /> * A 3-year-old boy died on Sunday after he was accidentally left in a hot car parked outside a church, according to police. The child’s family was attending an afternoon Bible study at Rehoboth Praise Assembly in Dallas.[http://kdvr.com/2016/07/25/child-dies-in-hot-car-while-family-worships-in-church/]<br /> * London priest charged after allegedly gambling away more than $500,000 meant for Syrian refugees. [http://m.en.canoe.com/CNEWS/Crime/2016/07/14/22651721.html]<br /> * Man following &quot;god's orders&quot; tried to crush toddler daughter's skull with a bat to help her get to heaven.[http://www.wbir.com/news/deputies-toddler-attacked-at-motel-critically-injured/260712415]<br /> * Sam Sutter, A 26-year-old youth minister is facing sexual battery charges following his arrest. According to a Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office report, Sutter was involved in a sexual relationship with a teenage girl he met through his job at the Openwater Church. [http://wfla.com/2016/06/19/youth-pastor-with-odessa-church-arrested-on-sexual-battery-charges/]<br /> * Anti-gay pastor, Dave Reynolds, the recently fired pastor of the Cornerstone Bible Fellowship in Sherwood, Arkansas is currently facing 70 counts of distributing, possessing, or viewing child pornography.[http://www.arkansasmatters.com/news/local-news/new-details-in-child-porn-charges-against-former-sherwood-pastor]<br /> * The Catholic church in Pennsylvania has been accused of employing “mafia-like” tactics in a campaign to put pressure on individual Catholic lawmakers who support state legislation that would give victims of sexual abuse more time to sue their abusers.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/17/pennsylvania-catholic-church-sexual-abuse-bill-mafia-tactics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other]<br /> * David James Brown, head pastor at First Christian Church of Jeffersonville, Indiana. was arrested after allegedly seeking sex with a minor.[http://www.wdrb.com/story/32232744/jeffersonville-pastor-arrested-after-allegedly-seeking-sex-with-a-minor]<br /> * A former Vatican archbishop, Jozef Wesolowski, accused of paedophilia stored tens of thousands of child porn videos and photos on a computer in his office at the Holy See diplomatic compound in the Dominican Republic, it has emerged.[http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/vatican-paedophilia-scandal-archbishop-jozef-wesolowski-stored-over-100000-child-porn-videos-1467410]<br /> * John David Brock, 60, died after a snake bit him in the left arm and he refused medical treatment, according to the Bell County Sheriff's Office. Brock was handling a snake during a church service at Mossy Simpson Pentecostal Church in Jenson, Kentucky.[http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Man-dies-in-Bell-County-after-he-was-bitten-by-snake-during-church-service-318868451.html]<br /> * The president of a Christian charity in Iowa, Jon S. Petersen, of Cedar Rapids admitted that he embezzled nearly a half-million dollars in donations and used the money to pay for a sex addiction, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. [http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article78129452.html]<br /> * Virginia pastor, Christopher Alan Hogge, 48, has been charged eight counts of possession and distribution of child pornography, according to the Isle of Wight County Sheriff's Office.[http://wtvr.com/2016/05/23/virginia-pastor-arrested-on-child-porn-charges/]<br /> * A private Christian school in Kansas is reserving the right to expel students who have gay family members. [http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/05/20/christian-school-threatens-to-expel-pupils-if-they-have-a-gay-family-member/?utm_source=ET&amp;utm_medium=ETFB&amp;utm_campaign=portal&amp;utm_content=inf_11_60_2&amp;tse_id=INF_c1d0cb4ff39e4a1b90bc30417379d323]<br /> * Grace Baptist Church children’s pastor arrested in sex trafficking operation.[http://wate.com/2016/05/20/tbi-conduct-knoxville-human-trafficking-investigation/]<br /> * Vehemently Anti-LGBT Pastor Arrested On Child Pornography Charges.[http://theintellectualist.co/infamous-anti-lgbt-pastor-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges/]<br /> * Ohio seminary student arrested for alleged plan to have sex with adopted baby in Mexico [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/seminary-student-allegedly-planned-sex-baby-mexico-article-1.2515560]<br /> * Woman beats disabled man with his own cane for saying he doesn’t believe in God[http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/woman-beats-disabled-man-with-his-own-cane-because-he-said-he-doesnt-believe-in-god-police/]<br /> * Phoenix Woman Accused of Killing Atheist Victim, Then Keeping the Body as a “Shrine From God”[http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/64863225-story]<br /> * Lisa Biron, Anti-Gay Christian Lawyer, Arrested On Child Pornography Charges[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/20/lisa-biron-anti-gay-christian-lawyer-child-porn-charges_n_2166055.html]<br /> * Pastor Slept with Young Girls During Prayer Sessions as Part of their “Healing Process”[http://allchristiannews.com/pastor-slept-with-young-girls-during-prayer-sessions-as-part-of-their-healing-process/]<br /> * Sheriff's Office: Harvey catechism teacher promises students a photo of Santa, then shows them naked picture instead[http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/news/crime/13876211-148/catechism-teacher-in-harvey-showed]<br /> * Almost 800 babies and children were buried in a mass grave in Ireland near a home for unmarried mothers run by nuns.[http://churchandstate.org.uk/2014/06/almost-800-babies-buried-in-septic-tank-at-catholic-run-irish-home-for-unmarried-mothers/]<br /> * Alabama Pastor Made Daughter Watch While He Sexually Abused Minors.[http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/10/prosecutors_plan_to_introduce.html]<br /> * The pastor and two members of a Corona, CA church pleaded guilty on Monday to torturing a thirteen-year-old boy, including driving him into the desert and forcing him to dig his own grave. Lonny Lee Remmers, James Craig, and Darryll Duana Jeter Jr. abused the child at a group home run by Heart of Worship Community Church.[http://aattp.org/pastor-church-members-viciously-tortured-young-boy-forced-him-to-dig-own-grave-in-the-desert/]<br /> * Minneapolis church struck by lightning, destroying cross[http://www.fox9.com/weather/15331725-story]<br /> * Six Brothers Raped Their Sister For Years While ‘Christian’ Homeschool Parents Did Nothing.[http://reverbpress.com/justice/jackson-brothers-sexual-assault-sister-christian/]<br /> * A Tennessee pastor who was recently admonished by police for having sex with another man in a church van parked in a parking lot, was arrested this week for embezzling an estimated $60,000 from his church’s coffers.[http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/pastor-caught-having-gay-sex-in-van-spent-stolen-church-money-on-farmer-dating-website-police/]<br /> * Four of six homeschooled brothers, including a pastor, admit to molesting their sister.[http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/four-of-six-homeschooled-brothers-plead-guilty-to-molesting-their-sister-while-anti-school-parents-did-nothing/#.VV88faFKoyU.facebook]<br /> * Antigay Michigan Pastor Outed by Grindr Messages[http://www.mediaite.com/online/antigay-michigan-pastor-outed-by-grindr-messages/]<br /> * A Baptist preacher in Eureka Springs who features prominently in a new video urging repeal of the city's Ordinance 2223, which protects LGBT people from discrimination, pleaded guilty to a series of violent rapes in Oklahoma in 1977.[http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2015/04/20/eureka-spring-pastor-in-repeal-2223-ad-is-a-convicted-serial-rapist]<br /> * Texas church members accused of starving ‘demon-possessed’ toddler and then trying to resurrect him[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/texas-church-members-accused-of-starving-demon-possessed-toddler-and-then-trying-resurrect-him/]<br /> * Louisianal youth pastor is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old girl. Jonathan Bailey has been charged with one count of indecent relationship with a juvenile.[http://www.wdsu.com/news/local-news/new-orleans/youth-pastor-accused-of-inappropriate-relationship-with-juvenile/31530534?utm_source=Social&amp;utm_medium=FBPAGE&amp;utm_campaign=wdsutv&amp;Content%20Type=Story&amp;linkId=12612108]<br /> * Ax-wielding hair designer burns down Michigan adult store to please God[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/ax-wielding-hair-designer-burns-down-michigan-shop-to-please-god/]<br /> * An 11-year-old Canadian Aboriginal girl with leukaemia, who stopped chemotherapy after &quot;seeing a vision of Jesus,&quot; has died.[http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/makayla-sault-girl-who-refused-chemo-for-leukemia-dies-1.2829885]<br /> * Anti-LGBT Pastor Arrested for Grabbing Man’s Genitals at Indiana Park[http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/anti-lgbt-pastor-arrested-grabbing-mans-genitals-indiana-park]<br /> * Baptist church leader in Missouri arrested for soliciting &quot;dog sex&quot; on Craigslist.[http://gawker.com/baptist-church-leader-arrested-for-soliciting-dog-sex-o-1617858449?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&amp;utm_source=gawker_facebook&amp;utm_medium=socialflow]<br /> * Woman told police “she was driving and out of no where God told her that he would take it from here and she let go of the wheel and let him take it.” Shortly after letting go of the wheel she ran over a motorcyclist and drove off.[http://wane.com/2014/07/18/motorcyclist-i-said-to-myself-today-is-the-day-i-die/]<br /> <br /> * Florida woman accused of killing 2-year-old while re-enacting Bible story[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/28/florida-woman-accused-of-killing-2-year-old-while-re-enacting-bible-story/]<br /> <br /> {{ytv2|qmwEOuMGxu4|right}}<br /> * Evangelical Christians want access to more corpses … to hone their ‘raising the dead’ skills[http://freethinker.co.uk/2014/03/10/evangelical-christians-want-access-to-more-corpses-in-order-to-practice-raising-them-from-the-dead/]<br /> * Tennessee woman accused of drowning her baby says ‘Jesus came down’ and did it.[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/10/tennessee-woman-accused-of-drowning-her-baby-says-jesus-came-down-and-did-it/]<br /> * Files released by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee reveal that in 2007, Cardinal Timothy F. Dolan, then the archbishop there, requested permission from the Vatican to move nearly $57 million into a cemetery trust fund to protect the assets from victims of clergy sexual abuse who were demanding compensation. [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/us/dolan-sought-vatican-permission-to-shield-assets.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0]<br /> * Belief in god associated with poor mental health.[http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2013/04/belief-in-punitive-god-associated-with-poor-mental-health.html]<br /> * The chaplain of Milan’s San Vittore prison, 51-year-old Fr Alberto Barin, has been arrested for sustained sexual assault with multiple aggravations and for abuse of authority. Six non-Italian prisoners have accused him of demanding sexual acts in exchange for favours ranging from items of food to living conditions in the prison. Officers investigating the allegations were able to document the incidents by placing a videocamera in the chaplain’s office in the prison.[http://www.corriere.it/english/12_novembre_21/san-vittore-prison_463940e4-33da-11e2-a480-b74fe153b15c.shtml]<br /> *Rev. Ryan J. Muelhauser, Ex-Gay Counsellor, Arrested For Molestation Of Two Young Men[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/08/rev-ryan-j-muelhauser-molestation-_n_2094609.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&amp;ir=Gay%20Voices]<br /> <br /> * Priest embroiled in ivory smuggling controversy.[http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/27/world/asia/priest-ivory-controversy/index.html]<br /> * New Orleans pastor who was appointed in April to a local economic development board charged with seven counts of molestation of a juvenile[http://wap.wdsu.com/wap/news/text.jsp?sid=48&amp;nid=1491143881&amp;cid=4640&amp;scid=-1&amp;ith=3&amp;title=Local%20News&amp;headtitle=Local%20News]<br /> * Pregnant Teenager in Dominican Republic dies after doctors withold cancer treatment because the chemotherapy would harm her unborn child.[http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/17/world/americas/dominican-republic-abortion/index.html?hpt=hp_bn2]<br /> * Christian musician Randy Travis, who claimed in 2009 his faith in god allowed him to quit drinking in his 20s, was found naked and drunk in Texas, and arrested after he threatened to kill a law enforcement officer[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/08/drunk-and-naked-christian-music-star-randy-travis-threatens-cops-life/]<br /> * A Northern California jury has awarded $28 million in damages to a woman who said the Jehovah’s Witnesses allowed an adult member of a Fremont, Calif., church to molest her when she was a child. [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/us/28-million-awarded-in-jehovahs-witnesses-abuse-case.html?_r=3]<br /> * Christian school rejects admission of Mormon pupil[http://m.arkansasonline.com/news/2012/may/31/lr-christian-academy-rejects-mormon-pupil-20120531/]<br /> * Family Battle Offers Look Inside Lavish TV Ministry[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/05/us/tbn-fight-offers-glimpse-inside-lavish-tv-ministry.html?_r=1]<br /> * Court ruling: Jesus doesn't cure cancer.[http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6835139/Ruling-Jesus-doesn-t-heal-cancer]<br /> * Heralded &quot;Miracle&quot; toddler found in the wreckage of tornado, dies in hospital[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=10789913]<br /> * Christian fringe group intimidates Lowes into pulling advertisement from a reality show portrary Muslims as decent people[http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/12/my-take-is-all-american-muslim-begetting-all-american-bigotry/?hpt=hp_c2]<br /> * 6 HIV sufferers die after their pastor told them to stop taking their medication, because god would heal them.[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066106/Scandal-churches-claiming-cure-HIV-God-die-abandoning-medication.html]<br /> * Brazil rocked by abortion for 9-year-old rape victim: Church excommunicates mother and doctors – but not accused rapist[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brazil-rocked-by-abortion-for-9yearold-rape-victim-1640165.html]<br /> * Pentecostal Bishop Charles E. Brown indicted on rape, sexual battery charges[http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/11/no_bishop_indicted_on_rape_sex.html]<br /> * Killings in Norway spotlight anti-Muslim thought.[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/us/25debate.html?_r=4&amp;ref=global-home]<br /> * Austrian's religious headgear gives authorities a headache.{{rl|http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14135523}}<br /> * Pray For Newark claims amazing results as its Christian volunteers &quot;prayer walk&quot; the Newark city streets, seeking to pray down crime. Then murders rose 71%{{rl|http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/5/3/91235/90609/}}<br /> * Preacher sells debt removal through prayer[http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/consumer&amp;id=7984766]<br /> * Authorities have arrested a 52-year-old man they say committed a hate crime against a man he learned was a Muslim. They were having a conversation when the victim admitted he was a Muslim, which prompted the other man to stab him in the neck with a pocket knife.{{rl|http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/st-pete-man-accused-of-hate-crime-against-muslim/1149809}}<br /> * Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley told a church crowd just moments into his new administration that those who have not accepted Jesus as their savior are not his brothers and sisters, shocking some critics who questioned Tuesday whether he can be fair to non-Christians.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_alabama_governor_christians}}<br /> * The Salvation Army says it refuses to distribute Harry Potter and Twilight toys collected for needy children because they're incompatible with the charity's Christian beliefs.{{rl|http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/canada/2010/12/08/16478111.html}}<br /> * A couple who prayed for their sick toddler rather than take him to a doctor before his pneumonia death are on trial in Philadelphia, charged with involuntary manslaughter.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101207/ap_on_re_us/us_prayer_death_toddler}}<br /> * Archdiocese wants to recoup legal fees after a suit alleging abuse by priest in Burnsville was dismissed.[http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/faith/110501539.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU]<br /> * Minister, elders guilty of not reporting sexual abuse of a child - sought to have immunity from criminal liability in failing to report the case of suspected child abuse, &quot;arguing that they acted in good faith in persuading the parents and the perpetrator to make report of abuse.&quot;[http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Minister%2C+elders+guilty+of+not+reporting+abuse&amp;articleId=5584e3e1-cc52-4715-820c-be1eb16a82f9]<br /> * A Catholic Priest Charged with Sexually Assaulting Boy in ’08 Was Rearrested Last Week and Charged with Hiring Someone to Kill His Alleged Victim.{{rl|http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7307344.html}}<br /> * Baby dies as family jumps out of window to get away from the devil.{{rl|http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2010/10/24/15810081.html}}<br /> * Lamar advertising company will sell billboards to hookers but not atheists.{{rl|http://www.bnet.com/blog/advertising-business/lamar-sells-billboards-to-hookers-but-not-to-atheists/2412}}<br /> * Religious teen shoots and murders an atheist teen over an argument; judge does not consider it a hate crime and reduces the murder charge; parents outrages.{{rl|http://www.whotv.com/news/who-story-doyle-family-shooting-100810,0,3732283.story}}<br /> * Study shows atheists and agnostics are more knowledgeable about religion than religious people themselves.{{rl|http://pewforum.org/Other-Beliefs-and-Practices/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey.aspx}}<br /> * Bishop Eddie Long, a powerful anti-gay pastor becomes ensnared in his own sordid same-sex scandal{{rl|http://www.salon.com/life/this_week_in_crazy/index.html?story=/mwt/feature/2010/09/25/this_week_crazy_eddie_long}}<br /> * Deaf victim of sex abuse is suing pope{{rl|http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/23/deaf-victim-of-sex-abuse-is-suing-pope-and-going-public-with-his-story-for-the-first-time/}}<br /> * A fourth young male member of Bishop Eddie Long's megachurch is suing the prominent pastor, claiming Long coerced him into a sexual relationship. The lawsuit was filed by Spencer LeGrande, a member of New Birth Charlotte. New Birth Charlotte is a satellite church run by Long in Charlotte, N.C. The lawsuit said Long told LeGrande &quot;I will be your dad&quot; and invited the 17-year-old to journey to Kenya with him in July 2005. LeGrande said that Long gave him a sleeping pill on that trip and that the two engaged in sexual acts.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100924/ap_on_re_us/us_pastor_abuse_allegations_lawsuit}}<br /> <br /> * According to a recent study, religious belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to research published today. {{rl|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article571206.ece}}<br /> * Pastor George Randall &quot;Randy&quot; Scott, of the Bethel Temple Assembly Of God Church in Bryan, Texas, was arrested after returning from a trip to Sweden with his wife on for allegedly pretending to be a teenager online to meet other minor boys and then blackmailing them into having sex. {{rl|http://www.kbtx.com/local/headlines/100500214.html}}<br /> * Giant Jesus statue struck by lightning and destroyed. {{rl|http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/15/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning/}}<br /> * Thinking he was possessed by the devil, American cage fighter rips out still-beating heart of his training partner.{{rl|http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1282647/American-cage-fighter-rips-beating-heart-training-partner-fearing-possessed-devil.html}}<br /> * Christian singer leaves his wife and family and admits hes gay, while continuing his Christian musical career.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/15/us/15religion.html}}<br /> * Nun Excommunicated For Allowing life-saving Abortion[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126985072]<br /> * Janine Denomme, Woman Ordained As Catholic Priest, Denied Catholic Burial By Church{{rl|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/19/janine-denomme-woman-orda_n_582423.html}}<br /> * Guns, high-powered ammunition and explosives equipment have been seized in raids on 12 properties in and near Adelaide linked with the Agape Ministries of God.{{rl|http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/20/2904812.htm}}<br /> * City of Miami uses prayer group to ward off bad weather.{{rl|http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&amp;articleid=20100511_11_0_MIAMIO602438}}<br /> * Jehovah's Witness Couple Disown Son For Receiving Blood Transfusion.{{rl|http://news.peacefmonline.com/religion/201005/42722.php}}<br /> * Noah's ark found, says evangelical filmmaker.{{rl|http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/pc-certainty-of-noahs-ark-discovery-on-mount-ararat/story-e6frfku0-1225858591328}}<br /> * British court punishes atheist for leaving flyers in the prayer room of the John Lennon airport.{{rl|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7624578/Atheist-given-Asbo-for-leaflets-mocking-Jesus.html}}<br /> * Islamists have warned the creators of TV show South Park they could face violent retribution for depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit.{{rl|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8636455.stm}}<br /> * An episode of “South Park” that continued a story line involving the Prophet Muhammad was shown Wednesday night on Comedy Central with audio bleeps and image blocks reading “CENSORED” after a Muslim group warned the show’s creators that they could face violence for depicting that holy Islamic prophet. {{rl|http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/south-park-episode-is-altered-after-muslim-groups-warning/}}<br /> * Catholic church admits Norwegian Bishop resigned last year after admitting he was involved in child molestation.[http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=10305913]<br /> * Pope coordinated assignment of pedophile priest back into circulation.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/world/europe/26church.html}}<br /> {{ga}}<br /> * The Roman Catholic Church’s account of Pope Benedict XVI’s handing of a serial paedophile was called into question today when new documents emerged suggesting that his office was kept informed of the offender’s rapid return to working with children. {{rl|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7077196.ece}}<br /> * Pope Sexual Abuse Scandal: Benedict Implicated In Cover-Up Of Wisconsin Abuse Case{{rl|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/24/pope-sexual-abuse-lawrence-murphy_n_512483.html}}<br /> * Atheist group throws party for teens who had their prom canceled rather than allow a same-sex couple to attend the dance sponsored by religious school{{rl|http://www.examiner.com/x-8928-Philadelphia-Atheism-Examiner~y2010m3d12-Atheist-group-offers-to-hold-gay-friendly-prom}}<br /> * Religious massacres continue in Nigeria{{rl|http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704869304575109962258328770.html}}<br /> * Vatican chorister sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for papal gentleman-in-waiting{{rl|http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/04/vatican-gay-sex-scandal}}<br /> * Baby starved to death because he didn't say &quot;amen.&quot;{{rl|http://www.smh.com.au/world/baby-starved-to-death-because-he-did-not-say-amen-20100225-p4el.html}}<br /> * Pakistan's president sacrifices a goat each day to keep evil away{{rl|http://www.palibandaily.com/2010/02/23/a-goat-a-day-keeps-the-evil-away-pakistans-president-and-his-addiction-to-sacrifices/}}<br /> * Haiti's prime minister said Monday it's clear to him that the 10 U.S. Baptists who tried to take 33 children out of his quake-ravaged country without permission &quot;knew what they were doing was wrong.&quot;{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100201/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_americans_detained}}<br /> * A jury has found Scott Philip Roeder, 51, of Merriam, Kansas, guilty of premeditated first-degree murder in the slaying of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller.{{rl|http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/27216}}<br /> * Jeff and Marci Beagley have been charged with criminally negligent homicide for not providing medical treatment to their 16-year-old son, who died of an untreated urinary tract blockage. The family belongs to Followers of Christ Church, whose members shun medical care in favor of prayer.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wirestory?id=9550298&amp;page=2]<br /> * A Republican member of the Iowa Legislature is proposing lawmakers should be required to say &quot;so help me God&quot; when being sworn into office.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wirestory?id=9550298&amp;page=2]<br /> * Members of a Roanoke church have voted to leave the country's largest Lutheran denomination over its policy to allow gay clergy.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9550298]<br /> * Matt Baker, 38, a former Baptist minister, has been indicted for allegedly drugging and suffocating his wife Kari, whose 2006 death was initially ruled a suicide.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9551269]<br /> * A government witness said Wednesday that the five young woman who testified last year that evangelist Tony Alamo took them as a &quot;wife&quot; and sexually abused them as minors should receive $2.7 million each for physical and mental pain suffered.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9551976]<br /> * Three American Evangelical Christians go to Uganda and teach thousands (including police, national politicians, etc.) how gays and their agenda are trying to destroy Ugandan families and sodomize their children. Result: a bill to impose a death sentence for homosexual behavior.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/world/africa/04uganda.html}}<br /> * School board opts to fire public school teacher who refused to teach evolution, taught creationism and burned crosses into the arms of students{{rl|http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/06/21/Freshwater_decision.ART_ART_06-21-08_A1_ABAI539.html}}<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Theological_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Good_Bible_Advice Good Bible Advice 2019-06-28T15:47:56Z <p>Pile: /* &quot;Thoughts and Prayers&quot; are worthless */</p> <hr /> <div>===&quot;Thoughts and Prayers&quot; are worthless===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|James|2:14-16|What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?|NIV}}<br /> <br /> ===Refrain from anger and vengeance; &quot;Turn the other cheek&quot; Do not harm those that harm you.===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew|5:39|<br /> Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.}}<br /> {{biblequote|Psalm|37:8|Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret--it leads only to evil.|NIV}}<br /> <br /> ===If someone asks for something of you, give it to them===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew|5:42|<br /> Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.}}<br /> <br /> ===Abandon Childish Ways; Think and act like an adult.===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|1 Corinthians|13:11|<br /> When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.}}<br /> <br /> ===We are judged by our works===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Corinthians|5:10|For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad}}<br /> <br /> ===Love your enemies===<br /> <br /> Jesus makes it quite clear, hatred is not Christian, even hatred of an enemy.<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew|5:43-44|<br /> Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Leviticus|19:18|<br /> Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Ephesians|4:31|<br /> Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.}}<br /> <br /> ===Charity towards others is most important===<br /> {{biblequote|1 Corinthians|13:13|And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.}}<br /> <br /> <br /> ===God takes care of everybody, not just good Christians===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew|5:45|<br /> That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.}}<br /> <br /> ===The Golden Rule===<br /> <br /> Treat others as you would like yourself treated.<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Leviticus|19:18|<br /> Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew|7:12|<br /> Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Luke|6:31|<br /> And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Galations|5:14|<br /> For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.}}<br /> <br /> ===Love is all that's important===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew|22:35-40|<br /> Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, 36 Master which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love they neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Romans|13:8|<br /> Owe no man anything, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.}}<br /> <br /> ===Use your own judgment; don't believe everything===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Proverbs|14:15|The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|1 Thessalonians|5:21|Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.}}<br /> <br /> ===Be tolerant of immigrants and aliens===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Exodus|22:21|&quot;Do not mistreat an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in Egypt.|NIV}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Leviticus|19:34|The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.|NIV}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Malachi|3:5|Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.}}<br /> <br /> ==Treat Strangers/Immigrants Kindly==<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Exodus|22:21|You shall not wrong or oppress a resident alien; for you were aliens in the land of Egypt<br /> }}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Deuteronomy|24:14-15|You shall not oppress a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or a foreigner residing in your cities. You will pay his wages on that day, before the sun sets (for he is poor and needs the money), lest he cry out against you to the Lord, and you are guilty of sin.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Deuteronomy|1:1| Give the members of your community a fair hearing, and judge rightly between one person and another, whether citizen or resident alien.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Leviticus|19:34|The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the foreigner as yourself, for you were foreign in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Leviticus|25:35|If any of your people become poor and unable to support themselves among you, help them as you would a foreigner or stranger, so they may continue to live among you.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Leviticus|27:19|Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Zechariah|7:9-11|This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Jeremiah|22:3|Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Malachi|3:5-6|I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers, and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Ezekiel|47:22|You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners who reside among you and have begotten children among you. They shall be to you as citizens of Israel; with you they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Job|29:15-17|I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger. I broke the fangs of the unrighteous, and made them drop their prey from their teeth.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew|25:35|I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.}}<br /> <br /> <br /> == See also ==<br /> * [[Theological Criticisms#Arguments Against Scripture|Arguments against scripture]]<br /> * [[Bible rules]]<br /> * [[Bad Bible Advice]]<br /> * [[Crazy Bible]]<br /> * [[Good Bible Advice]]<br /> * [[Magic Bible]]<br /> <br /> [[category:scripture]]<br /> [[category:scriptural arguments]]<br /> [[category:theological arguments]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Good_Bible_Advice Good Bible Advice 2019-06-28T15:47:38Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>===&quot;Thoughts and Prayers&quot; are worthless===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|James|2:14-16|What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?|NIV}}<br /> <br /> ===Refrain from anger and vengeance; &quot;Turn the other cheek&quot; Do not harm those that harm you.===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew|5:39|<br /> Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.}}<br /> {{biblequote|Psalm|37:8|Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret--it leads only to evil.|NIV}}<br /> <br /> ===If someone asks for something of you, give it to them===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew|5:42|<br /> Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.}}<br /> <br /> ===Abandon Childish Ways; Think and act like an adult.===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|1 Corinthians|13:11|<br /> When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.}}<br /> <br /> ===We are judged by our works===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Corinthians|5:10|For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad}}<br /> <br /> ===Love your enemies===<br /> <br /> Jesus makes it quite clear, hatred is not Christian, even hatred of an enemy.<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew|5:43-44|<br /> Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Leviticus|19:18|<br /> Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Ephesians|4:31|<br /> Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.}}<br /> <br /> ===Charity towards others is most important===<br /> {{biblequote|1 Corinthians|13:13|And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.}}<br /> <br /> <br /> ===God takes care of everybody, not just good Christians===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew|5:45|<br /> That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.}}<br /> <br /> ===The Golden Rule===<br /> <br /> Treat others as you would like yourself treated.<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Leviticus|19:18|<br /> Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew|7:12|<br /> Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Luke|6:31|<br /> And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Galations|5:14|<br /> For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.}}<br /> <br /> ===Love is all that's important===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew|22:35-40|<br /> Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, 36 Master which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love they neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Romans|13:8|<br /> Owe no man anything, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.}}<br /> <br /> ===Use your own judgment; don't believe everything===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Proverbs|14:15|The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|1 Thessalonians|5:21|Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.}}<br /> <br /> ===Be tolerant of immigrants and aliens===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Exodus|22:21|&quot;Do not mistreat an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in Egypt.|NIV}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Leviticus|19:34|The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.|NIV}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Malachi|3:5|Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.}}<br /> <br /> ==Treat Strangers/Immigrants Kindly==<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Exodus|22:21|You shall not wrong or oppress a resident alien; for you were aliens in the land of Egypt<br /> }}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Deuteronomy|24:14-15|You shall not oppress a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or a foreigner residing in your cities. You will pay his wages on that day, before the sun sets (for he is poor and needs the money), lest he cry out against you to the Lord, and you are guilty of sin.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Deuteronomy|1:1| Give the members of your community a fair hearing, and judge rightly between one person and another, whether citizen or resident alien.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Leviticus|19:34|The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the foreigner as yourself, for you were foreign in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Leviticus|25:35|If any of your people become poor and unable to support themselves among you, help them as you would a foreigner or stranger, so they may continue to live among you.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Leviticus|27:19|Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Zechariah|7:9-11|This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Jeremiah|22:3|Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Malachi|3:5-6|I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers, and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Ezekiel|47:22|You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners who reside among you and have begotten children among you. They shall be to you as citizens of Israel; with you they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Job|29:15-17|I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger. I broke the fangs of the unrighteous, and made them drop their prey from their teeth.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew|25:35|I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.}}<br /> <br /> <br /> == See also ==<br /> * [[Theological Criticisms#Arguments Against Scripture|Arguments against scripture]]<br /> * [[Bible rules]]<br /> * [[Bad Bible Advice]]<br /> * [[Crazy Bible]]<br /> * [[Good Bible Advice]]<br /> * [[Magic Bible]]<br /> <br /> [[category:scripture]]<br /> [[category:scriptural arguments]]<br /> [[category:theological arguments]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Good_Bible_Advice Good Bible Advice 2019-06-28T15:44:51Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>===Refrain from anger and vengeance; &quot;Turn the other cheek&quot; Do not harm those that harm you.===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew|5:39|<br /> Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.}}<br /> {{biblequote|Psalm|37:8|Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret--it leads only to evil.|NIV}}<br /> <br /> ===If someone asks for something of you, give it to them===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew|5:42|<br /> Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.}}<br /> <br /> ===Abandon Childish Ways; Think and act like an adult.===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|1 Corinthians|13:11|<br /> When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.}}<br /> <br /> ===We are judged by our works===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Corinthians|5:10|For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad}}<br /> <br /> ===Love your enemies===<br /> <br /> Jesus makes it quite clear, hatred is not Christian, even hatred of an enemy.<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew|5:43-44|<br /> Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Leviticus|19:18|<br /> Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Ephesians|4:31|<br /> Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.}}<br /> <br /> ===Charity towards others is most important===<br /> {{biblequote|1 Corinthians|13:13|And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.}}<br /> <br /> <br /> ===God takes care of everybody, not just good Christians===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew|5:45|<br /> That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.}}<br /> <br /> ===The Golden Rule===<br /> <br /> Treat others as you would like yourself treated.<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Leviticus|19:18|<br /> Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew|7:12|<br /> Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Luke|6:31|<br /> And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Galations|5:14|<br /> For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.}}<br /> <br /> ===Love is all that's important===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew|22:35-40|<br /> Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, 36 Master which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love they neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Romans|13:8|<br /> Owe no man anything, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.}}<br /> <br /> ===Use your own judgment; don't believe everything===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Proverbs|14:15|The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|1 Thessalonians|5:21|Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.}}<br /> <br /> ===Be tolerant of immigrants and aliens===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Exodus|22:21|&quot;Do not mistreat an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in Egypt.|NIV}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Leviticus|19:34|The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.|NIV}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Malachi|3:5|Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.}}<br /> <br /> ==Treat Strangers/Immigrants Kindly==<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Exodus|22:21|You shall not wrong or oppress a resident alien; for you were aliens in the land of Egypt<br /> }}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Deuteronomy|24:14-15|You shall not oppress a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or a foreigner residing in your cities. You will pay his wages on that day, before the sun sets (for he is poor and needs the money), lest he cry out against you to the Lord, and you are guilty of sin.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Deuteronomy|1:1| Give the members of your community a fair hearing, and judge rightly between one person and another, whether citizen or resident alien.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Leviticus|19:34|The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the foreigner as yourself, for you were foreign in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Leviticus|25:35|If any of your people become poor and unable to support themselves among you, help them as you would a foreigner or stranger, so they may continue to live among you.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Leviticus|27:19|Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Zechariah|7:9-11|This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Jeremiah|22:3|Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Malachi|3:5-6|I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers, and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Ezekiel|47:22|You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners who reside among you and have begotten children among you. They shall be to you as citizens of Israel; with you they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Job|29:15-17|I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger. I broke the fangs of the unrighteous, and made them drop their prey from their teeth.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew|25:35|I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.}}<br /> <br /> <br /> == See also ==<br /> * [[Theological Criticisms#Arguments Against Scripture|Arguments against scripture]]<br /> * [[Bible rules]]<br /> * [[Bad Bible Advice]]<br /> * [[Crazy Bible]]<br /> * [[Good Bible Advice]]<br /> * [[Magic Bible]]<br /> <br /> [[category:scripture]]<br /> [[category:scriptural arguments]]<br /> [[category:theological arguments]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Good_Bible_Advice Good Bible Advice 2019-06-28T15:43:37Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>===Refrain from anger and vengeance; &quot;Turn the other cheek&quot; Do not harm those that harm you.===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew|5:39|<br /> Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.}}<br /> {{biblequote|Psalm|37:8|Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret--it leads only to evil.|NIV}}<br /> <br /> ===If someone asks for something of you, give it to them===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew|5:42|<br /> Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.}}<br /> <br /> ===Abandon Childish Ways; Think and act like an adult.===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|1 Corinthians|13:11|<br /> When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.}}<br /> <br /> ===We are judged by our works===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Corinthians|5:10|For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad}}<br /> <br /> ===Love your enemies===<br /> <br /> Jesus makes it quite clear, hatred is not Christian, even hatred of an enemy.<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew|5:43-44|<br /> Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Leviticus|19:18|<br /> Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Ephesians|4:31|<br /> Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.}}<br /> <br /> ===Charity towards others is most important===<br /> {{biblequote|1 Corinthians|13:13|And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.}}<br /> <br /> <br /> ===God takes care of everybody, not just good Christians===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew|5:45|<br /> That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.}}<br /> <br /> ===The Golden Rule===<br /> <br /> Treat others as you would like yourself treated.<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Leviticus|19:18|<br /> Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew|7:12|<br /> Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Luke|6:31|<br /> And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Galations|5:14|<br /> For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.}}<br /> <br /> ===Love is all that's important===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew|22:35-40|<br /> Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, 36 Master which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love they neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Romans|13:8|<br /> Owe no man anything, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.}}<br /> <br /> ===Use your own judgment; don't believe everything===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Proverbs|14:15|The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|1 Thessalonians|5:21|Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.}}<br /> <br /> ===Be tolerant of immigrants and aliens===<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Exodus|22:21|&quot;Do not mistreat an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in Egypt.|NIV}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Leviticus|19:34|The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.|NIV}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Malachi|3:5|Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.}}<br /> <br /> ==Treat Strangers/Immigrants Kindly==<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Exodus 22:21|You shall not wrong or oppress a resident alien; for you were aliens in the land of Egypt<br /> }}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Deuteronomy 24:14-15|You shall not oppress a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or a foreigner residing in your cities. You will pay his wages on that day, before the sun sets (for he is poor and needs the money), lest he cry out against you to the Lord, and you are guilty of sin.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Deuteronomy 1:1| Give the members of your community a fair hearing, and judge rightly between one person and another, whether citizen or resident alien.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Leviticus 19:34|The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the foreigner as yourself, for you were foreign in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Leviticus 25:35|If any of your people become poor and unable to support themselves among you, help them as you would a foreigner or stranger, so they may continue to live among you.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Leviticus 27:19|Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Zechariah 7:9-11|This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Jeremiah 22:3|Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Malachi 3:5-6|I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers, and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Ezekiel 47:22|You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners who reside among you and have begotten children among you. They shall be to you as citizens of Israel; with you they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Job 29:15-17|I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger. I broke the fangs of the unrighteous, and made them drop their prey from their teeth.}}<br /> <br /> {{biblequote|Matthew 25:35|I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.}}<br /> <br /> <br /> == See also ==<br /> * [[Theological Criticisms#Arguments Against Scripture|Arguments against scripture]]<br /> * [[Bible rules]]<br /> * [[Bad Bible Advice]]<br /> * [[Crazy Bible]]<br /> * [[Good Bible Advice]]<br /> * [[Magic Bible]]<br /> <br /> [[category:scripture]]<br /> [[category:scriptural arguments]]<br /> [[category:theological arguments]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Science_vs_Industry Science vs Industry 2019-06-26T14:58:51Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>This page documents examples of where industry and science conflicted or colluded with each other in ways that were not of interest to the people or the truth.<br /> <br /> ==Industry Collusion and Manipulation==<br /> <br /> * Court documents reveal Monsanto's efforts to fight glyphosate's 'severe stigma'. Social Sharing. Canadian firm hired to recruit scientists to publish studies that ultimately defended Roundup's key ingredient.The documents also reveal communications between Monsanto and a Canadian firm hired to recruit scientists to publish studies that ultimately defended glyphosate — some of which were secretly reviewed by Monsanto prior to publication. All those papers, as previously reported by CBC/Radio-Canada, were also used as part of Health Canada's re-approval process of glyphosate in 2017.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/glyphosate-monsanto-intertek-studies-1.4902229]<br /> <br /> * Fired Quebec scientist blew the whistle on pesticide lobby influence.[https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/03/21/news/fired-quebec-scientist-blew-whistle-pesticide-lobby-influence]<br /> <br /> * Rush To Produce, Sell Vaccine Put Kids In Philippines At Risk. &quot;What bothers me most about this story is risk communication,&quot; says Rodriguez, who studies dengue in South America. &quot;There was a lot of uncertainty from the beginning [about the vaccine's safety]. That needed to be communicated explicitly. You need to be honest about what evidence is out there.&quot; In April, the Philippine government indicted 14 government officials over the deaths of 10 children who received the Dengvaxia vaccine. The government said the officials acted with &quot;undue haste&quot; in procuring the vaccine and launching the mass immunization campaign. The Philippine Department of Justice said the campaign started before the clinical trials were finished. In some instances children were given the vaccine by untrained health workers and allegedly without a proper physical beforehand. Some children allegedly had preexisting medical conditions that made the immunization dangerous. But these children were still inoculated, the government found. Six Sanofi officials were also indicted for not properly helping children who had serious reactions to the shot.[https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/05/03/719037789/botched-vaccine-launch-has-deadly-repercussions]<br /> * Radium Girls - information on industry using women to handle toxic materials and covering it up.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls]<br /> * Monsanto secretly ran “Let Nothing Go” campaign that paid internet trolls to post pro-Monsanto comments all across the internet[https://www.monsanto.news/2018-06-28-monsanto-secretly-ran-let-nothing-go-campaign-paid-internet-trolls.html]<br /> * EU regulators based a decision to relicense the controversial weedkiller glyphosate on an assessment plagiarised from industry reports, according to a report for the European parliament.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/eu-glyphosate-approval-was-based-on-plagiarised-monsanto-text-report-finds]<br /> * Judge in Roundup maker’s first federal trial had banned discussion of the company’s alleged manipulation of science. Monsanto is facing its first federal trial over allegations that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, but a US judge has blocked attorneys from discussing the corporation’s alleged manipulation of science. In an extraordinary move in a packed San Francisco courtroom on Monday, US judge Vince Chhabria threatened to sanction and “shut down” a cancer patient’s attorney for violating his ban on talking about Monsanto’s influence on government regulators and cancer research.[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/25/monsanto-federal-trial-roundup-cancer]<br /> * A broad new scientific analysis of the cancer-causing potential of glyphosate herbicides, the most widely used weedkilling products in the world, has found that people with high exposures to the popular pesticides have a 41% increased risk of developing a type of cancer called non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/14/weed-killing-products-increase-cancer-risk-of-cancer]<br /> * IARC responds to the claims its study claiming Glyphosate was probably carcinogenic, was incorrect and says media distorting actual reports. From reading, the IARC claims are based on the review of more than 1000 independent scientific studies. The idea that one particular study contradicts their overall findings and should be used to dismiss the IARC study is absurd. IARC also calls attention to concern over industry badgering scientists to reveal their findings prior to publication and peer review.[https://www.iarc.fr/featured-news/media-centre-iarc-news-glyphosate/]<br /> * The world’s most used weedkiller damages the beneficial bacteria in the guts of honeybees and makes them more prone to deadly infections, new research has found. Previous studies have shown that pesticides such as neonicotinoids cause harm to bees, whose pollination is vital to about three-quarters of all food crops. Glyphosate, manufactured by Monsanto, targets an enzyme only found in plants and bacteria. However, the new study shows that glyphosate damages the microbiota that honeybees need to grow and to fight off pathogens. The findings show glyphosate, the most used agricultural chemical ever, may be contributing to the global decline in bees, along with the loss of habitat.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/24/monsanto-weedkiller-harms-bees-research-finds]<br /> * Court Orders EPA To Ban Chlorpyrifos, A Pesticide Linked To Brain Damage In Kids.[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-ban-pesticide-chlorpyrifos_us_5b6c6d0ce4b0ae32af96318e]<br /> * A federal jury today convicted a Birmingham lawyer and an Alabama coal company executive in a scheme to bribe a state legislator to use his office to oppose Environmental Protection Agency actions in north Birmingham, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr. and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Holloman.[https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndal/pr/federal-jury-convicts-lawyer-and-coal-company-executive-bribing-state-legislator]<br /> * When Trump administration officials opposed a WHO breast-feeding resolution, they followed a long history of policymakers listening to baby-formula manufacturers.[https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/07/the-epic-battle-between-breast-milk-and-infant-formula-companies/564782/]<br /> * Monsanto 'bullied scientists' and hid weedkiller cancer risk, lawyer tells court[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jul/09/monsanto-trial-roundup-weedkiller-cancer-dewayne-johnson]<br /> * Why Trump's new CDC director is an abysmal choice: Redfield worked closely with the Christian organization, Americans for a Sound AIDS/HIV Policy. The group maintained AIDS was &quot;God's judgment&quot; against homosexuals, spread in an America weakened by single-parent households and loss of family values.[https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/13/opinions/trumps-terrible-choice-for-cdc-redfield-garrett/index.html]<br /> * After more than 40 years of widespread use, new scientific tests show formulated weedkillers have higher rates of toxicity to human cells.The tests are part of the US National Toxicology Program’s (NTP) first-ever examination of herbicide formulations made with the active ingredient glyphosate, but that also include other chemicals. While regulators have previously required extensive testing of glyphosate in isolation, government scientists have not fully examined the toxicity of the more complex products sold to consumers, farmers and others. Monsanto introduced its glyphosate-based Roundup brand in 1974. But it is only now, after more than 40 years of widespread use, that the government is investigating the toxicity of “glyphosate-based herbicides” on human cells.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/08/weedkiller-tests-monsanto-health-dangers-active-ingredient]<br /> * Popular article (that made the front page of a high-ranked subReddit) entitled, &quot;Millennials 'have no qualms about GM crops' unlike older generation&quot; was in actuality, a &quot;study&quot; commissioned by the Agricultural BiotechnologyCouncil, which is an industry lobbying group. The Agricultural Biotechnology Council (ABC) is a UK corporate lobby group funded by major biottechnology companies and run from the offices of a PR company, Lexington Communications. On its website, ABC lists members as comprising: BASF, Bayer CropScience, Dow AgroSciences, Pioneer (which is part of DuPont), Monsanto, Syngenta. &quot;In typical astroturf fashion they try to draw some kind of connection with &quot;Millennials&quot; to give themselves credibility.&quot;[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/07/millennials-have-no-qualms-gm-crops-unlike-older-generation/][https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/8hnt5r/millennials_have_no_qualms_about_gm_crops_unlike/dylh1u0/]<br /> * Under Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has dramatically shifted away from its stated mission to “protect human and environmental health.” Instead, the agency is clearly favoring the interests of the polluting industries that it is mandated to regulate, according to a study.[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304360]<br /> * Weedkiller found in granola and crackers, internal FDA emails show. The FDA has been testing food samples for traces of glyphosate for two years, but the agency has not yet released any official result. Other findings detailed in the FDA documents show that in 2016 Chamkasem found glyphosate in numerous samples of honey. Chamkasem also found glyphosate in oatmeal products. The FDA temporarily suspended testing after those findings, and Chamkasem’s lab was “reassigned to other programs”, the FDA documents show. The FDA has said those tests were not part of its official glyphosate residue assignment.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/30/fda-weedkiller-glyphosate-in-food-internal-emails]<br /> * &quot;Eating Pasta Linked to Weight Loss in New Study,&quot; Newsweek reported this month, racking up more than 22,500 Facebook likes, shares, and comments. The happy news also went viral on the Independent, the New York Daily News, and Business Insider. What those and many other stories failed to note, however, was that three of the scientists behind the study in question had financial conflicts as tangled as a bowl of spaghetti, including ties to the world’s largest pasta company, the Barilla Group. At least 10 peer-reviewed studies about pasta published since 2008 were either funded directly by Barilla or, like the one published this month, were carried out by scientists who have had financial ties to the company.[https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemlee/pasta-barilla-science-funding]<br /> * Senate Confirms Climate Change Denier To Lead NASA, Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) will take over control of the space agency after seven-month standoff. Bridenstine will become the first elected official to hold the NASA administrator job. He joins a Cabinet already loaded with people who question the near-universal scientific consensus that climate change is real and that human activity is the primary cause. The final vote ― which was 50-49 along party lines ― came one day after the Senate narrowly advanced Bridenstine’s nomination, thanks to an about-face from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and a key vote from Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.). Rubio[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jim-bridenstine-nasa-confirmation_us_5ad8aab7e4b03c426dac081c]<br /> * Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine sued agricultural giant Monsanto on Monday, alleging the company concealed dangers posed by a toxic chemical compound it manufactured for nearly a half century. In the suit, filed in the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court in Cincinnati, prosecutors argued that the company should pay for the clean-up of what it says are dozens of rivers, lakes and other water bodies contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/monsanto-concealed-effects-toxic-chemical-decades-ohio-ag-alleges-n853866]<br /> * The world’s most widely used insecticides pose a serious danger to both honeybees and wild bees, according to a major new assessment from the European Union’s scientific risk assessors. The conclusion, based on analysis of more than 1,500 studies, makes it highly likely that the neonicotinoid pesticides will be banned from all fields across the EU when nations vote on the issue next month.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/28/total-ban-on-bee-harming-pesticides-likely-after-major-new-eu-analysis]<br /> * DuPont vs. the World: Chemical Giant Covered Up Health Risks of Teflon Contamination Across Globe[https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/23/dupont_vs_the_world_chemical_giant]<br /> * GOP senators who pushed Trump to ditch Paris deal took over $10 million from fossil fuel industry.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/01/republican-senators-paris-climate-deal-energy-donations]<br /> * With backing from a sugar lobby, scientists promoted dietary fat as the cause of coronary heart disease instead of sugar, according to a historical document review published in JAMA Internal Medicine.[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/12/sugar-industry-paid-research-heart-disease-jama-report]<br /> * Oregon sues Monsanto, alleges company knowingly sold toxic PCBs for decades.[http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2018/01/oregon_sues_monsanto_alleges_c.html]<br /> * Government scientists blocked from the biggest meeting in their field[https://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/22/us-geological-survey-scientists-blocked-from-conference-interior-department/]<br /> * Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Net Neutrality Narrative Is False[https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/vbympa/net-neutrality-fcc-inspector-general-report]<br /> * The Slow Demise of Asbestos, the Carcinogen that Gave ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Snow[https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-slow-demise-of-asbestos-the-carcinogen-that-gave-the-wizard-of-oz-snow]<br /> * Trump reverses ban on Nazi created pesticide after receiving huge donation from chemical company[https://www.snopes.com/trump-reverses-insecticide-ban-dow-chemicals/]<br /> * Sugar industry withheld research effects of sucrose 50 years ago, study claims Researchers say negative health impacts of sucrose could have been combated sooner had research been released – but industry bodies dispute the findings.In 1967, when scientists were arguing over the link between sugar consumption and increased risk of heart disease, researchers now claim that the International Sugar Research Foundation (ISRF) withheld findings that rats that were fed a high-sugar diet had higher levels of triglycerides (a fat found in the blood) than those fed starch. In a move researchers from the University of California at San Francisco have compared to the tobacco industry’s self-preservation tactics, the foundation stopped funding the project.[https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2017/nov/21/sugar-industry-withheld-research-effects-of-sucrose-50-years-ago-study-claims]<br /> * As cigarette sales decline worldwide, the tobacco giant Phillip Morris Inc. is scrambling to restructure and embrace potentially more profitable “smoke-free” products. The revamp involves setting up an $80 million foundation called the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. The World Health Organization rebuked Phillip Morris and accused it of being disingenuous about consumer health, citing decades of research meddling and deceptive marketing. It declared it would have nothing to do with the foundation and warned governments the world over to do the same.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/philip-morris-sets-up-80m-research-foundation-who-flips-them-the-bird/]<br /> * Monsanto banned from European parliament: MEPs withdraw parliamentary access after the firm shunned a hearing into allegations that it unduly influenced studies into the safety of glyphosate used in its RoundUp weedkiller.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/28/monsanto-banned-from-european-parliament]<br /> * Coca-Cola secretly spent $1.5 million to fund an entire network of academic researchers whose goal was to shift the national health conversation away from the harms of sugary beverages. Instead, their research focused on the benefits of exercise—i.e., the health risks of sedentary and inactive lifestyles.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/the-new-study-suggesting-sitting-will-kill-you-is-kind-of-a-raging-dumpster-fire/]<br /> * Union of Concerned Scientists complains that the Trump administration's &quot;Chief Scientist&quot; at the USDA is not a scientist: Sam Clovis—a conservative talk radio host, Trump campaign co-chair, and climate denier with no training in science—for the role of chief scientist at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). [http://blog.ucsusa.org/mike-lavender/the-case-against-clovis-why-trumps-usda-chief-scientist-nominee-is-the-wrong-choice]<br /> * Almost All of FCC’s New Advisory Panel Works for Telecoms, most of which are against Net Neutrality.[http://www.thedailybeast.com/almost-all-of-fccs-new-advisory-panel-works-for-telecoms]<br /> * Court evidence reveals Monsanto involved with published Scientific Studies Without Disclosing Conflicts of Interest to publishers.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/monsanto-secret-documents/]<br /> * Internal Emails Show Monsanto Made Substantial Contributions to Published Expert Panel Manuscript.[http://baumhedlundlaw.com/pdf/monsanto-documents/3-Internal-Emails-Show-Monsanto-Made-Substantial-Contributions-to-Published-Expert-Panel-Manuscript.pdf]<br /> * Monsanto secret documents revealed, contianing correspondence between Dr. William Heydens and Ashely Roberts regarding the Expert Panel Manuscript. Dr. Heydens went “through the entire document and “indicated what I think should stay, what can go, and in a couple spots I did a little editing. I took a crack at adding a little text: on page 10 to address John’s comments about toxicologists’ use of Hill’s criteria … see what you think; it made sense to me, but I’m not sure if it will to others – please feel free to further modify and/or run by Cary.” at *1. The edited draft is also attached and challenged for confidentiality.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/monsanto-secret-documents/]<br /> * Court documents reveal Monsanto was ghost-writing academic papers defending its products and attacking critics.The documents underscore the lengths to which the agrochemical company goes to protect its image. Documents show that Henry I. Miller, an academic and a vocal proponent of genetically modified crops, asked Monsanto to draft an article for him that largely mirrored one that appeared under his name on Forbes's website in 2015. Mr. Miller could not be reached for comment. A similar issue appeared in academic research. An academic involved in writing research funded by Monsanto, John Acquavella, a former Monsanto employee, appeared to express discomfort with the process, writing in a 2015 email to a Monsanto executive, &quot;I can't be part of deceptive authorship on a presentation or publication.&quot; He also said of the way the company was trying to present the authorship: &quot;We call that ghost writing and it is unethical.&quot; Mr. Miller's 2015 article on Forbes's website was an attack on the findings of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization that had labeled glyphosate a probable carcinogen, a finding disputed by other regulatory bodies.[https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/08/03/227249/monsanto-leaks-suggest-it-tried-to-kill-cancer-research-on-roundup-weed-killer?utm_source=feedburnerFaceBook&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29]<br /> * The FCC Insists It Can't Stop Impostors From Lying About My Views On Net Neutrality.[https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20170710/10071737756/fcc-insists-it-cant-stop-impostors-lying-about-my-views-net-neutrality.shtml]<br /> * DOW CHEMICAL DONATES $1 MILLION TO TRUMP, ASKS ADMINISTRATION TO IGNORE PESTICIDE STUDY.[http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/04/dow-chemical-endangered-species]<br /> * E.P.A. Official Pressured Scientist on Congressional Testimony, Emails Show: The Environmental Protection Agency’s chief of staff pressured the top scientist on the agency’s scientific review board to alter her congressional testimony and play down the dismissal of expert advisers.[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/us/politics/epa-official-pressured-scientist-on-congressional-testimony-emails-show.html]<br /> * Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science]<br /> * Monsanto's GMO-friendly pesticide, Dicamba is causing widespread devastation in Missouri.[http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/dicamba-damage-is-back-and-possibly-worse-than-before/article_2e33ec05-ae98-5468-92f8-bccf6bcd7698.html]<br /> * Arkansas's pesticide regulators have stepped into the middle of an epic battle between weeds and chemicals, which has now morphed into a battle between farmers. Hundreds of farmers say their crops have been damaged by a weedkiller that was sprayed on neighboring fields. Today, the Arkansas Plant Board voted to impose an unprecedented ban on that chemical. The tension — which even led to a farmer's murder — is over a weedkiller called dicamba. The chemical moved into the weed-control spotlight a few years ago, when Monsanto created soybean and cotton plants that were genetically modified to survive it.[http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/06/23/534117683/arkansas-tries-to-stop-an-epidemic-of-herbicide-damage]<br /> * Glyphosate, an herbicide and the active ingredient in Monsanto Co's (MON.N) popular Roundup weed killer, will be added to California's list of chemicals known to cause cancer effective July 7, the state's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) said on Monday. Monsanto vowed to continue its legal fight against the designation, required under a state law known as Proposition 65, and called the decision &quot;unwarranted on the basis of science and the law.&quot;[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-glyphosate-california-idUSKBN19H2K1]<br /> * The EPA's Inspector General Is Probing Whether An Agency Staffer Colluded With Monsanto.[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-inspector-general-probing-collusion-with-monsanto_us_59372108e4b0aba888b99dca]<br /> * Monsanto Hires Internet Trolls to Cover Up Roundup’s Cancer Risk.[https://www.ecowatch.com/monsanto-hires-internet-trolls-2401703407.html]<br /> * President Donald Trump's nominee for Deputy Secretary of the Interior said today that Trump's economic policy could take priority over climate science. In his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Energy &amp; Natural Resources Committee, David Bernhardt said that he will consider science on climate change but that Trump's policy opinions that prioritize jobs could outweigh scientific conclusions.[http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/interior-dept-nominee-trumps-views-outweigh-climate-science/story?id=47492689]<br /> <br /> * White House Moves to Block Ethics Inquiry Into Ex-Lobbyists on Payroll. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/us/politics/trump-white-house-government-ethics-lobbyists.html]<br /> <br /> * U.S. judge finds that Aetna deceived the public about its reasons for quitting participation in the government's healthcare exchange under the Affordable Care Act.[http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-aetna-obamacare-20170123-story.html]<br /> <br /> * E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board - replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html?_r=0&amp;referer=]<br /> <br /> * The original &quot;food pyramid,&quot; a diagram instructing the public on the proper healthy allocation of different food types, given to the US government by nutritionists was altered for the benefit of the food industry and grain growers.[https://proteinpower.com/drmike/2014/02/19/death-food-pyramid/]<br /> <br /> * &quot;Cosmos&quot; episode explains How Corporations Fund Science Denial. An entire episode was devoted to the Clair Patterson, who discovered that lead was entering the atmosphere through the burning of leaded gasoline. Yet, it took twenty years for unleaded gas to become the norm.[http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/04/cosmos-neil-tyson-lead-industry-science-denial][http://www.space.com/25579-cosmos-recap-earth-age-lead-poisoning.html]<br /> <br /> * In the 1960s, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the risks of sugar and highlighted the hazards of fat, according to a newly published article in JAMA Internal Medicine. The article draws on internal documents to show that an industry group called the Sugar Research Foundation wanted to &quot;refute&quot; concerns about sugar's possible role in heart disease. The SRF then sponsored research by Harvard scientists that did just that. The result was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1967, with no disclosure of the sugar industry funding. [http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat]<br /> <br /> * Editor quits journal over pay-for-expedited peer-review offer. With a tweet yesterday, an editor of Scientific Reports, one of Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG’s) open-access journals, has resigned in a very public protest of NPG’s recent decision to allow authors to pay money to expedite peer review of their submitted papers. “My objections are that it sets up a two-tiered system and instead of the best science being published in a timely fashion it will further shift the balance to well-funded labs and groups,” Mark Maslin, a biogeographer at University College London, tells ScienceInsider.[http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/03/updated-editor-quits-journal-over-pay-expedited-peer-review-offer]<br /> <br /> * House of Commons committee to open hearings on neonic pesticide with industry-biased panel.[http://menafn.com/1095300543/House-of-Commons-committee-to-open-hearings-on-neonic-pesticide-with-industry-biased-panel]<br /> * The EPA Finally Admitted That the World’s Most Popular Pesticide Kills Bees—20 Years Too Late.[http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2016/01/epa-finds-major-pesticide-toxic-bees]<br /> <br /> * NASA executives waste $80M renewing an industry contract to produce a spacesuit inferior to what the government's own engineers were designing. NASA leaders claimed the contract was necessary to, &quot;keep industry engaged in spacesuit design&quot;, but the report dismisses this idea, noting the agency's in-house Advanced Space Suit Project shared several contractors and primary subcontractors.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/nasas-spacesuit-program-is-something-of-a-hot-mess/]<br /> <br /> == Monsanto/Bayer Controversies ==<br /> <br /> * Pesticide Created By Bayer Accidentally Kills Off Twelve-Mile Stretch of Trees in Oregon.[https://althealthworks.com/16015/pesticide-created-by-bayer-accidentally-kills-off-twelve-miles-worth-of-trees-in-oregon/]<br /> <br /> * The law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei &amp; Goldman made public today hundreds of pages of newly de-classified internal Monsanto documents, including company email exchanges, reports, studies and other memoranda.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/4-19-new-monsanto-papers-docs/]<br /> <br /> * A new study by the non-profit claims to have found 19 major beer and wine brands whose products contain the pesticide glyphosate, a.k.a. one of the ingredients present in the weed killer Roundup..[http://www.grubstreet.com/2019/02/pesticides-major-beer-wine-brands.html]<br /> <br /> * Five things to know about Bayer and Monsanto, including its connection to Nazi gas chambers.[https://phys.org/news/2018-08-bayer-monsanto.html]<br /> <br /> * Shareholders of the German chemical giant Bayer staged a full-blown revolt at a heated 13-hour meeting in Bonn on Friday, arguing that the management failed to see the company was inheriting a raft of nightmarish litigation associated with glyphosate when it bought U.S. agrichemical giant Monsanto for $66 billion last year. The investors are furious that a blue-riband European company is now potentially exposed to billions of dollars of claims over the glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup, created by Monsanto. Two U.S. court verdicts over the past year found that the world's most popular herbicide caused cancer, hauling shares in Bayer down about 40 percent since August. Bayer has appealed those decisions but is now facing an avalanche of some 13,400 claims. &quot;It is about time Bayer came to grips with the fact that they purchased Monsanto’s misconduct and, now, need to do right by the victims. It’s time to resolve these lawsuits and give Bayer shareholders confidence again in corporate leadership,&quot; said Brent Wisner, an attorney at Baum, Hedlund, Aristei &amp; Goldman, which is representing plaintiffs in the lawsuits against Monsanto.[https://www.politico.eu/article/glyphosate-revolt-rocks-germany-inc-bayer-shareholders-vote/]<br /> <br /> * Concerns over glyphosate pass from human health to the soil.Experts say the weedkiller’s impact on soil health represents a serious threat to Europe’s long-term food security. [https://www.politico.eu/article/glyphosate-concerns-pass-from-human-health-to-soil/]<br /> <br /> * Washington State University researchers have found a variety of diseases and other health problems in the second- and third-generation offspring of rats exposed to glyphosate, the world's most popular weed killer. In the first study of its kind, the researchers saw descendants of exposed rats developing prostate, kidney and ovarian diseases, obesity and birth abnormalities. Michael Skinner, a WSU professor of biological sciences, and his colleagues exposed pregnant rats to the herbicide between their eighth and 14th days of gestation. The dose—half the amount expected to show no adverse effect—produced no apparent ill effects on either the parents or the first generation of offspring. But writing in the journal Scientific Reports, the researchers say they saw &quot;dramatic increases&quot; in several pathologies affecting the second and third generations. The second generation had &quot;significant increases&quot; in testis, ovary and mammary gland diseases, as well as obesity. In third-generation males, the researchers saw a 30 percent increase in prostate disease—three times that of a control population. The third generation of females had a 40 percent increase in kidney disease, or four times that of the controls.[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-42860-0][https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-04-health-effects-popular-weed-killer.html]<br /> <br /> * Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees, Erick V. S. Motta, Kasie Raymann, and Nancy A. Moran<br /> PNAS published ahead of print September 24, 2018. &quot;Increased mortality of honey bee colonies has been attributed to several factors but is not fully understood. The herbicide glyphosate is expected to be innocuous to animals, including bees, because it targets an enzyme only found in plants and microorganisms. However, bees rely on a specialized gut microbiota that benefits growth and provides defense against pathogens. Most bee gut bacteria contain the enzyme targeted by glyphosate, but vary in whether they possess susceptible versions and, correspondingly, in tolerance to glyphosate. Exposing bees to glyphosate alters the bee gut community and increases susceptibility to infection by opportunistic pathogens. Understanding how glyphosate impacts bee gut symbionts and bee health will help elucidate a possible role of this chemical in colony decline.&quot; [https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1803880115]<br /> <br /> * Consuming a mixture of sugar syrup and glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, alters honey bees’ microbiomes, and these changes increased mortality among insects exposed to pathogenic bacteria, according to a study.[https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/herbicide-may-harm-microbiome-of-bees-64860]<br /> <br /> * Attorneys for a couple who claim Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer gave them both cancer tried to convince a California jury Thursday that the agrochemical company engaged in decades of fraud to hide the fact that the herbicide is carcinogenic. Wisner on Thursday ran through a list of Monsanto’s newly revealed alleged sins, starting with the so-called IBT scandal. The company seemingly planted one of its employees at a contract lab called Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories (IBT) in the 1970s to fake negative mouse carcinogenicity data for Roundup’s active ingredient glyphosate that were to be used to win regulatory approval for the weed killer in 1975; planned an attack to discredit the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cancer research agency, anticipating the agency would classify glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen in 2015; and exploited “deep connections” within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to classify glyphosate as non-carcinogenic.[https://www.courthousenews.com/roundup-trial-monsanto-used-fake-data-to-win-over-regulators/]<br /> <br /> * Glyphosate Worse than We Could Imagine. “It’s Everywhere” Glyphosate residues have been found in tap water, orange juice, children’s urine, breast milk, chips, snacks, beer, wine, cereals, eggs, oatmeal, wheat products, and most conventional foods tested. It’s everywhere, in brief.[https://www.globalresearch.ca/glyphosate-worse/5674472]<br /> <br /> * The overlooked impact of rising glyphosate use on phosphorus loading in agricultural watersheds. The herbicide glyphosate dominates the global pesticide market, with applied tonnage increasing steadily worldwide. Glyphosate's capacity to degrade rapidly is often used to argue against potential toxicological effects, but the phosphorus (P) it contains persists in the environment and can influence soil P accumulation and losses to surrounding freshwater systems, which are prone to nutrient pollution.[https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/fee.1985]<br /> <br /> * Louisiana sugar cane farmers are using Glyphosate as a &quot;chemical ripener&quot; on crops.[https://www.lsuagcenter.com/portals/communications/publications/agmag/archive/2008/spring/use-of-glyphosate-to-enhance-sugar-production-in-louisiana]<br /> <br /> == Politics verses science ==<br /> <br /> * After Republican Protest, Oregon's Climate Plan Dies.[https://politics.slashdot.org/story/19/06/26/0023255/after-republican-protest-oregons-climate-plan-dies]<br /> <br /> <br /> == Trump administration's questionable respect for science ==<br /> <br /> * Trump to nominate former Monsanto executive to top interior department position. Aurelia Skipwith, who worked as a lawyer and in research at Monsanto, will be nominated to run the Fish and Wildlife Service.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/23/aurelia-skipwith-monsanto-fish-wildlife-service-interior-department]<br /> <br /> <br /> * Trump Quietly Nominates Mass Surveillance Advocate To “Protect” Your Privacy Rights[http://theantimedia.org/trump-mass-surveillance-privacy/]<br /> <br /> * Trump officially nominates Sam Clovis, climate-denying conservative talk radio host as USDA’s top scientist.[https://thinkprogress.org/sam-clovis-officially-nominated-still-not-a-scientist-d47be4ffb1a8]<br /> <br /> * Trump's 5 Most “Anti-Science” Moves, Scientific American [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-5-most-ldquo-anti-science-rdquo-moves/]<br /> <br /> * Donald Trump's War On Science, New Yorker [http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/donald-trumps-war-on-science]<br /> <br /> * Trump has launched a blitzkrieg in the wars on science and Earth’s climate, The Guardian, [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/mar/28/trump-has-launched-a-blitzkrieg-in-the-wars-on-science-and-earths-climate]<br /> <br /> ===Anti-science head of the EPA under the Trump administration===<br /> <br /> * Scott Pruitt’s Attack on Science Would Paralyze the E.P.A.[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/opinion/pruitt-attack-science-epa.html]<br /> <br /> * Trump’s embattled EPA head Scott Pruitt has come down on the side of polluters on just about every issue that faces the US, so it is with little surprise that in a recent interview he signaled that he may try to fight back against California’s fuel economy requirements.[https://electrek.co/2018/03/14/epa-chief-scott-pruitt-signals-war-with-california-over-cafe-mileage-standards/]<br /> <br /> * Trump Re-Nominates Anti-Wildlife Climate Denier to Top Environment Post[https://www.ecowatch.com/ceq-nominee-white-2524022932.html]<br /> <br /> * Pruitt drives out EPA staff, hires unqualified former banker pal[http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pruitt-drives-out-epa-staff-hires-unqualified-former-banker-pal-1122919491794]<br /> <br /> * EPA seeks to scrap rule protecting drinking water for third of Americans[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/27/epa-clean-water-rule-drinking]<br /> <br /> * E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board - replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html?_r=0&amp;referer=]<br /> <br /> * EPA Scientists Worry Their New Boss Doesn't Want Science. [https://www.wired.com/2017/02/epa-scientists-worry-new-boss-doesnt-want-science/]<br /> <br /> * President Trump's pick to run the Environmental Protection Agaency is a self-described “leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda,” Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma’s attorney general since 2011, has repeatedly sued the agency and other government entities over environmental rules and regulations, at times in direct cooperation with fossil fuel companies.[http://www.factcheck.org/2016/12/facts-trumps-epa-nominee/] <br /> <br /> :From Factcheck.org on Trumps head of the EPA:<br /> <br /> ** Pruitt’s questionable claims include:<br /> ** He falsely said in May that scientists “disagree about the degree” and “connection” of global warming “to the actions of mankind.” As we have written time and time again, the vast majority of climate scientists believe global warming is real and human-caused.<br /> **He also said the Clean Power Plan will “significantly” increase electricity prices. Whether the price change is “significant” is a matter of opinion, but the Energy Information Administration estimates that prices under the plan would range from a 7 percent decrease to a 7 percent increase between 2025 and 2040, depending on the region.<br /> **He implied in April 2014 that’s there’s no evidence to support a link between fracking and water contamination. There is some evidence to support a link in certain instances, but not enough to definitively conclude that contamination is widespread, as we wrote in early December.<br /> <br /> * Climate change cynic Scott Pruitt takes over as Donald Trump's head of Environmental Protection Agency[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/17/climate-change-cynic-scott-pruitt-takes-donald-trumps-head-environmental/]<br /> <br /> ===Anti-science appointees to the USDA===<br /> <br /> * Incompetence Looms: Trump To Appoint Non-Scientist As USDA's Chief Scientist[https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2017/05/14/trump-will-appoint-incompetent-non-scientist-as-usdas-chief-scientist/2/#1276211e1276]<br /> * The Trump administration is planning to nominate Sam Clovis — the Department of Agriculture’s senior White House adviser — as head of USDA’s Research, Education and Economics division, according to individuals briefed on the decision. The move would mark a break with recent Republican and Democratic administrations alike, which have previously reserved the high-level position for scientists with expertise in agricultural research. Clovis — a former economics professor and talk radio host in Iowa who served as one of the Trump campaign’s first policy advisers — has bachelor’s degrees in political science and government, a master’s in business administration and a doctoral degree in public administration[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/13/trumps-expected-choice-for-the-leading-usda-science-job-isnt-a-trained-scientist/]<br /> * Trump’s Expected Pick for Top USDA Scientist Is Not a Scientist[https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-expected-pick-for-top-usda-scientist-is-not-a-scientist]<br /> <br /> ==Industry/Government Attacks On Scientists==<br /> <br /> * State-funded scientists could be prevented from lobbying for change in their field under Cabinet Office proposals. Senior scientists have denounced a potential move to “muzzle” colleagues whose findings are disliked by the government. The proposal – announced by the Cabinet Office earlier this month – would block researchers who receive government grants from using their results to lobby for changes to laws or regulations. For example, an academic whose government-funded research showed that new regulations were proving particularly harmful to the homeless would not be able to call for policy change. Similarly, ecologists who found out that new planning laws were harming wildlife would not be able to raise the issue in public, while climate scientists whose findings undermined government energy policy could have work suppressed.[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/20/scientists-attack-muzzling-government-state-funded-cabinet-office]<br /> <br /> * Renown Canadian scientist personally attacked by industry after expressing concern over GMOs. [https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/glp-facts/david-suzuki-canadas-science-guy-turned-eccentric-anti-gmo-chemical-scaremonger/]<br /> <br /> ==Other articles==<br /> <br /> <br /> * Roundup’s Risks Could Go Well Beyond Cancer - Evidence of the cheap herbicide’s danger to biological functions and the environment continues to mount. Why are U.S. regulators not listening?[https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-04/roundup-cancer-risk-is-only-one-danger-to-humans-animals?fbclid=IwAR1Nr2PV2V-6jFzgsFmGLEaWiU05yYJnOKJVxeqDfWmNF32fzy5UTGgWqz4]<br /> * Los Angeles County Bans Use of Roundup Weed Killer.[https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2019-03-22/los-angeles-county-bans-use-of-roundup-weed-killer]<br /> * The Monsanto Papers - information on current court cases regarding Monsanto/Bayer.[https://usrtk.org/monsanto-papers/]<br /> * The secret tactics Monsanto used to protect Roundup, its star product[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JszHrMZ7dx4]<br /> * In the latest stage of a decade-long legal tussle, the appeals court in Lyon, France on Thursday found in favor of farmer Paul Francois’ claim that Monsanto’s Lasso weedkiller had made him sick and that the product’s labeling had been inadequate. Francois, 55, says he suffered neurological problems, including memory loss, fainting and headaches, after accidentally inhaling Lasso in 2004 while working on his farm. “Mr Francois justifiably concludes that the product, due to its inadequate labeling that did not respect applicable regulations, did not offer the level of safety he could legitimately expect,” the court said in its ruling. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-monsanto-lawsuit/french-court-finds-bayers-monsanto-liable-for-farmers-sickness-idUSKCN1RN1JA?il=0]<br /> * A new report found glyphosate, a weed-killing chemical that some health authorities link to cancer, in a number of popular breakfast foods and cereals marketed to children. The study by the non-profit Environmental Working Group (EWG) discovered trace amounts of the most widely used herbicide in the country in oats, granolas and snack bars. Thirty-one out of 45 tested products had levels higher than what some scientists consider safe for children. Recently, some scientists, doctors and activists around the world have worked to keep glyphosate out of crops due to concerns that it is a dangerous carcinogen.[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/glyphosate-roundup-chemical-found-in-childrens-breakfast-foods/]<br /> * Judge Upholds Verdict That Found Monsanto’s Roundup Caused a Man’s Cancer. [https://theantimedia.com/judge-monsanto-roundup-cancer/]<br /> * A collaborative study by three US universities reported that individuals with particularly high exposures to glyphosate-based herbicides (Roundup), for instance those spraying it, could have a 41% increased relative risk of developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1383574218300887]<br /> * Is RoundUp carcinogenic? The trouble is, for every research paper that purports to show a link between glyphosate-based herbicides and cancer, there is another which finds the exact opposite. This hasn’t been helped by the fact that many of the studies may not have been entirely objective. “A lot of the studies backing glyphosate have been funded by entities in a position to profit from the continuing sales. But one of the factors that have left commentators suspicious of the potential toxicity of these herbicides has been incidents of combative corporate behaviour. In the latest trial, Monsanto has caused eyebrows to raise by obtaining a ban preventing attorneys for the plaintiffs from presenting information regarding its alleged influence on research.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/09/spray-pray-is-roundup-carcinogenic-monsanto-farmers-suing]<br /> * A 3M plant in Decatur, Alabama has admitted in a letter to the EPA that it violated a federal toxic substance law by releasing illegal chemicals into the Tennessee River. The letter was sent to the Environmental Protection Agency on April, 3, 2019, in it 3M admits to the non-compliance of a 2009 update to the Toxic Substances Control Act. A Washington, D.C. based law firm sent the letter on behalf of the company: <br /> “On behalf of 3M Company (”3M”), I am writing to voluntary disclose non-compliance with Section 5(e) of the Toxic Substance Control Act (“TSCA”), at 3M’s Decatur, Alabama Plant.” The statement continues saying, 3M admits to releasing perfluorobutanesulfonamide (FBSA) and possibly fluorinated sulfonamide alcohol (FBSEE) into the Tennessee River. [http://1057news.com/2019/06/21/07/18/36/3m-admits-to-releasing-toxic-chemicals-into-the-tennessee-river-for-over-a-decade/]<br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * Science-Mart, Privatizing American Science, Philip Mirowski [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674046467]<br /> <br /> * [[Theists in the news]]<br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Industry]]<br /> [[Category:Science]]<br /> [[Category:Scientific_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Science_vs_Industry Science vs Industry 2019-06-23T15:24:07Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>This page documents examples of where industry and science conflicted or colluded with each other in ways that were not of interest to the people or the truth.<br /> <br /> ==Industry Collusion and Manipulation==<br /> <br /> * Court documents reveal Monsanto's efforts to fight glyphosate's 'severe stigma'. Social Sharing. Canadian firm hired to recruit scientists to publish studies that ultimately defended Roundup's key ingredient.The documents also reveal communications between Monsanto and a Canadian firm hired to recruit scientists to publish studies that ultimately defended glyphosate — some of which were secretly reviewed by Monsanto prior to publication. All those papers, as previously reported by CBC/Radio-Canada, were also used as part of Health Canada's re-approval process of glyphosate in 2017.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/glyphosate-monsanto-intertek-studies-1.4902229]<br /> <br /> * Fired Quebec scientist blew the whistle on pesticide lobby influence.[https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/03/21/news/fired-quebec-scientist-blew-whistle-pesticide-lobby-influence]<br /> <br /> * Rush To Produce, Sell Vaccine Put Kids In Philippines At Risk. &quot;What bothers me most about this story is risk communication,&quot; says Rodriguez, who studies dengue in South America. &quot;There was a lot of uncertainty from the beginning [about the vaccine's safety]. That needed to be communicated explicitly. You need to be honest about what evidence is out there.&quot; In April, the Philippine government indicted 14 government officials over the deaths of 10 children who received the Dengvaxia vaccine. The government said the officials acted with &quot;undue haste&quot; in procuring the vaccine and launching the mass immunization campaign. The Philippine Department of Justice said the campaign started before the clinical trials were finished. In some instances children were given the vaccine by untrained health workers and allegedly without a proper physical beforehand. Some children allegedly had preexisting medical conditions that made the immunization dangerous. But these children were still inoculated, the government found. Six Sanofi officials were also indicted for not properly helping children who had serious reactions to the shot.[https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/05/03/719037789/botched-vaccine-launch-has-deadly-repercussions]<br /> * Radium Girls - information on industry using women to handle toxic materials and covering it up.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls]<br /> * Monsanto secretly ran “Let Nothing Go” campaign that paid internet trolls to post pro-Monsanto comments all across the internet[https://www.monsanto.news/2018-06-28-monsanto-secretly-ran-let-nothing-go-campaign-paid-internet-trolls.html]<br /> * EU regulators based a decision to relicense the controversial weedkiller glyphosate on an assessment plagiarised from industry reports, according to a report for the European parliament.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/eu-glyphosate-approval-was-based-on-plagiarised-monsanto-text-report-finds]<br /> * Judge in Roundup maker’s first federal trial had banned discussion of the company’s alleged manipulation of science. Monsanto is facing its first federal trial over allegations that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, but a US judge has blocked attorneys from discussing the corporation’s alleged manipulation of science. In an extraordinary move in a packed San Francisco courtroom on Monday, US judge Vince Chhabria threatened to sanction and “shut down” a cancer patient’s attorney for violating his ban on talking about Monsanto’s influence on government regulators and cancer research.[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/25/monsanto-federal-trial-roundup-cancer]<br /> * A broad new scientific analysis of the cancer-causing potential of glyphosate herbicides, the most widely used weedkilling products in the world, has found that people with high exposures to the popular pesticides have a 41% increased risk of developing a type of cancer called non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/14/weed-killing-products-increase-cancer-risk-of-cancer]<br /> * IARC responds to the claims its study claiming Glyphosate was probably carcinogenic, was incorrect and says media distorting actual reports. From reading, the IARC claims are based on the review of more than 1000 independent scientific studies. The idea that one particular study contradicts their overall findings and should be used to dismiss the IARC study is absurd. IARC also calls attention to concern over industry badgering scientists to reveal their findings prior to publication and peer review.[https://www.iarc.fr/featured-news/media-centre-iarc-news-glyphosate/]<br /> * The world’s most used weedkiller damages the beneficial bacteria in the guts of honeybees and makes them more prone to deadly infections, new research has found. Previous studies have shown that pesticides such as neonicotinoids cause harm to bees, whose pollination is vital to about three-quarters of all food crops. Glyphosate, manufactured by Monsanto, targets an enzyme only found in plants and bacteria. However, the new study shows that glyphosate damages the microbiota that honeybees need to grow and to fight off pathogens. The findings show glyphosate, the most used agricultural chemical ever, may be contributing to the global decline in bees, along with the loss of habitat.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/24/monsanto-weedkiller-harms-bees-research-finds]<br /> * Court Orders EPA To Ban Chlorpyrifos, A Pesticide Linked To Brain Damage In Kids.[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-ban-pesticide-chlorpyrifos_us_5b6c6d0ce4b0ae32af96318e]<br /> * A federal jury today convicted a Birmingham lawyer and an Alabama coal company executive in a scheme to bribe a state legislator to use his office to oppose Environmental Protection Agency actions in north Birmingham, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr. and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Holloman.[https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndal/pr/federal-jury-convicts-lawyer-and-coal-company-executive-bribing-state-legislator]<br /> * When Trump administration officials opposed a WHO breast-feeding resolution, they followed a long history of policymakers listening to baby-formula manufacturers.[https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/07/the-epic-battle-between-breast-milk-and-infant-formula-companies/564782/]<br /> * Monsanto 'bullied scientists' and hid weedkiller cancer risk, lawyer tells court[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jul/09/monsanto-trial-roundup-weedkiller-cancer-dewayne-johnson]<br /> * Why Trump's new CDC director is an abysmal choice: Redfield worked closely with the Christian organization, Americans for a Sound AIDS/HIV Policy. The group maintained AIDS was &quot;God's judgment&quot; against homosexuals, spread in an America weakened by single-parent households and loss of family values.[https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/13/opinions/trumps-terrible-choice-for-cdc-redfield-garrett/index.html]<br /> * After more than 40 years of widespread use, new scientific tests show formulated weedkillers have higher rates of toxicity to human cells.The tests are part of the US National Toxicology Program’s (NTP) first-ever examination of herbicide formulations made with the active ingredient glyphosate, but that also include other chemicals. While regulators have previously required extensive testing of glyphosate in isolation, government scientists have not fully examined the toxicity of the more complex products sold to consumers, farmers and others. Monsanto introduced its glyphosate-based Roundup brand in 1974. But it is only now, after more than 40 years of widespread use, that the government is investigating the toxicity of “glyphosate-based herbicides” on human cells.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/08/weedkiller-tests-monsanto-health-dangers-active-ingredient]<br /> * Popular article (that made the front page of a high-ranked subReddit) entitled, &quot;Millennials 'have no qualms about GM crops' unlike older generation&quot; was in actuality, a &quot;study&quot; commissioned by the Agricultural BiotechnologyCouncil, which is an industry lobbying group. The Agricultural Biotechnology Council (ABC) is a UK corporate lobby group funded by major biottechnology companies and run from the offices of a PR company, Lexington Communications. On its website, ABC lists members as comprising: BASF, Bayer CropScience, Dow AgroSciences, Pioneer (which is part of DuPont), Monsanto, Syngenta. &quot;In typical astroturf fashion they try to draw some kind of connection with &quot;Millennials&quot; to give themselves credibility.&quot;[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/07/millennials-have-no-qualms-gm-crops-unlike-older-generation/][https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/8hnt5r/millennials_have_no_qualms_about_gm_crops_unlike/dylh1u0/]<br /> * Under Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has dramatically shifted away from its stated mission to “protect human and environmental health.” Instead, the agency is clearly favoring the interests of the polluting industries that it is mandated to regulate, according to a study.[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304360]<br /> * Weedkiller found in granola and crackers, internal FDA emails show. The FDA has been testing food samples for traces of glyphosate for two years, but the agency has not yet released any official result. Other findings detailed in the FDA documents show that in 2016 Chamkasem found glyphosate in numerous samples of honey. Chamkasem also found glyphosate in oatmeal products. The FDA temporarily suspended testing after those findings, and Chamkasem’s lab was “reassigned to other programs”, the FDA documents show. The FDA has said those tests were not part of its official glyphosate residue assignment.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/30/fda-weedkiller-glyphosate-in-food-internal-emails]<br /> * &quot;Eating Pasta Linked to Weight Loss in New Study,&quot; Newsweek reported this month, racking up more than 22,500 Facebook likes, shares, and comments. The happy news also went viral on the Independent, the New York Daily News, and Business Insider. What those and many other stories failed to note, however, was that three of the scientists behind the study in question had financial conflicts as tangled as a bowl of spaghetti, including ties to the world’s largest pasta company, the Barilla Group. At least 10 peer-reviewed studies about pasta published since 2008 were either funded directly by Barilla or, like the one published this month, were carried out by scientists who have had financial ties to the company.[https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemlee/pasta-barilla-science-funding]<br /> * Senate Confirms Climate Change Denier To Lead NASA, Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) will take over control of the space agency after seven-month standoff. Bridenstine will become the first elected official to hold the NASA administrator job. He joins a Cabinet already loaded with people who question the near-universal scientific consensus that climate change is real and that human activity is the primary cause. The final vote ― which was 50-49 along party lines ― came one day after the Senate narrowly advanced Bridenstine’s nomination, thanks to an about-face from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and a key vote from Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.). Rubio[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jim-bridenstine-nasa-confirmation_us_5ad8aab7e4b03c426dac081c]<br /> * Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine sued agricultural giant Monsanto on Monday, alleging the company concealed dangers posed by a toxic chemical compound it manufactured for nearly a half century. In the suit, filed in the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court in Cincinnati, prosecutors argued that the company should pay for the clean-up of what it says are dozens of rivers, lakes and other water bodies contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/monsanto-concealed-effects-toxic-chemical-decades-ohio-ag-alleges-n853866]<br /> * The world’s most widely used insecticides pose a serious danger to both honeybees and wild bees, according to a major new assessment from the European Union’s scientific risk assessors. The conclusion, based on analysis of more than 1,500 studies, makes it highly likely that the neonicotinoid pesticides will be banned from all fields across the EU when nations vote on the issue next month.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/28/total-ban-on-bee-harming-pesticides-likely-after-major-new-eu-analysis]<br /> * DuPont vs. the World: Chemical Giant Covered Up Health Risks of Teflon Contamination Across Globe[https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/23/dupont_vs_the_world_chemical_giant]<br /> * GOP senators who pushed Trump to ditch Paris deal took over $10 million from fossil fuel industry.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/01/republican-senators-paris-climate-deal-energy-donations]<br /> * With backing from a sugar lobby, scientists promoted dietary fat as the cause of coronary heart disease instead of sugar, according to a historical document review published in JAMA Internal Medicine.[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/12/sugar-industry-paid-research-heart-disease-jama-report]<br /> * Oregon sues Monsanto, alleges company knowingly sold toxic PCBs for decades.[http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2018/01/oregon_sues_monsanto_alleges_c.html]<br /> * Government scientists blocked from the biggest meeting in their field[https://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/22/us-geological-survey-scientists-blocked-from-conference-interior-department/]<br /> * Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Net Neutrality Narrative Is False[https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/vbympa/net-neutrality-fcc-inspector-general-report]<br /> * The Slow Demise of Asbestos, the Carcinogen that Gave ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Snow[https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-slow-demise-of-asbestos-the-carcinogen-that-gave-the-wizard-of-oz-snow]<br /> * Trump reverses ban on Nazi created pesticide after receiving huge donation from chemical company[https://www.snopes.com/trump-reverses-insecticide-ban-dow-chemicals/]<br /> * Sugar industry withheld research effects of sucrose 50 years ago, study claims Researchers say negative health impacts of sucrose could have been combated sooner had research been released – but industry bodies dispute the findings.In 1967, when scientists were arguing over the link between sugar consumption and increased risk of heart disease, researchers now claim that the International Sugar Research Foundation (ISRF) withheld findings that rats that were fed a high-sugar diet had higher levels of triglycerides (a fat found in the blood) than those fed starch. In a move researchers from the University of California at San Francisco have compared to the tobacco industry’s self-preservation tactics, the foundation stopped funding the project.[https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2017/nov/21/sugar-industry-withheld-research-effects-of-sucrose-50-years-ago-study-claims]<br /> * As cigarette sales decline worldwide, the tobacco giant Phillip Morris Inc. is scrambling to restructure and embrace potentially more profitable “smoke-free” products. The revamp involves setting up an $80 million foundation called the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. The World Health Organization rebuked Phillip Morris and accused it of being disingenuous about consumer health, citing decades of research meddling and deceptive marketing. It declared it would have nothing to do with the foundation and warned governments the world over to do the same.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/philip-morris-sets-up-80m-research-foundation-who-flips-them-the-bird/]<br /> * Monsanto banned from European parliament: MEPs withdraw parliamentary access after the firm shunned a hearing into allegations that it unduly influenced studies into the safety of glyphosate used in its RoundUp weedkiller.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/28/monsanto-banned-from-european-parliament]<br /> * Coca-Cola secretly spent $1.5 million to fund an entire network of academic researchers whose goal was to shift the national health conversation away from the harms of sugary beverages. Instead, their research focused on the benefits of exercise—i.e., the health risks of sedentary and inactive lifestyles.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/the-new-study-suggesting-sitting-will-kill-you-is-kind-of-a-raging-dumpster-fire/]<br /> * Union of Concerned Scientists complains that the Trump administration's &quot;Chief Scientist&quot; at the USDA is not a scientist: Sam Clovis—a conservative talk radio host, Trump campaign co-chair, and climate denier with no training in science—for the role of chief scientist at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). [http://blog.ucsusa.org/mike-lavender/the-case-against-clovis-why-trumps-usda-chief-scientist-nominee-is-the-wrong-choice]<br /> * Almost All of FCC’s New Advisory Panel Works for Telecoms, most of which are against Net Neutrality.[http://www.thedailybeast.com/almost-all-of-fccs-new-advisory-panel-works-for-telecoms]<br /> * Court evidence reveals Monsanto involved with published Scientific Studies Without Disclosing Conflicts of Interest to publishers.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/monsanto-secret-documents/]<br /> * Internal Emails Show Monsanto Made Substantial Contributions to Published Expert Panel Manuscript.[http://baumhedlundlaw.com/pdf/monsanto-documents/3-Internal-Emails-Show-Monsanto-Made-Substantial-Contributions-to-Published-Expert-Panel-Manuscript.pdf]<br /> * Monsanto secret documents revealed, contianing correspondence between Dr. William Heydens and Ashely Roberts regarding the Expert Panel Manuscript. Dr. Heydens went “through the entire document and “indicated what I think should stay, what can go, and in a couple spots I did a little editing. I took a crack at adding a little text: on page 10 to address John’s comments about toxicologists’ use of Hill’s criteria … see what you think; it made sense to me, but I’m not sure if it will to others – please feel free to further modify and/or run by Cary.” at *1. The edited draft is also attached and challenged for confidentiality.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/monsanto-secret-documents/]<br /> * Court documents reveal Monsanto was ghost-writing academic papers defending its products and attacking critics.The documents underscore the lengths to which the agrochemical company goes to protect its image. Documents show that Henry I. Miller, an academic and a vocal proponent of genetically modified crops, asked Monsanto to draft an article for him that largely mirrored one that appeared under his name on Forbes's website in 2015. Mr. Miller could not be reached for comment. A similar issue appeared in academic research. An academic involved in writing research funded by Monsanto, John Acquavella, a former Monsanto employee, appeared to express discomfort with the process, writing in a 2015 email to a Monsanto executive, &quot;I can't be part of deceptive authorship on a presentation or publication.&quot; He also said of the way the company was trying to present the authorship: &quot;We call that ghost writing and it is unethical.&quot; Mr. Miller's 2015 article on Forbes's website was an attack on the findings of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization that had labeled glyphosate a probable carcinogen, a finding disputed by other regulatory bodies.[https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/08/03/227249/monsanto-leaks-suggest-it-tried-to-kill-cancer-research-on-roundup-weed-killer?utm_source=feedburnerFaceBook&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29]<br /> * The FCC Insists It Can't Stop Impostors From Lying About My Views On Net Neutrality.[https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20170710/10071737756/fcc-insists-it-cant-stop-impostors-lying-about-my-views-net-neutrality.shtml]<br /> * DOW CHEMICAL DONATES $1 MILLION TO TRUMP, ASKS ADMINISTRATION TO IGNORE PESTICIDE STUDY.[http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/04/dow-chemical-endangered-species]<br /> * E.P.A. Official Pressured Scientist on Congressional Testimony, Emails Show: The Environmental Protection Agency’s chief of staff pressured the top scientist on the agency’s scientific review board to alter her congressional testimony and play down the dismissal of expert advisers.[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/us/politics/epa-official-pressured-scientist-on-congressional-testimony-emails-show.html]<br /> * Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science]<br /> * Monsanto's GMO-friendly pesticide, Dicamba is causing widespread devastation in Missouri.[http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/dicamba-damage-is-back-and-possibly-worse-than-before/article_2e33ec05-ae98-5468-92f8-bccf6bcd7698.html]<br /> * Arkansas's pesticide regulators have stepped into the middle of an epic battle between weeds and chemicals, which has now morphed into a battle between farmers. Hundreds of farmers say their crops have been damaged by a weedkiller that was sprayed on neighboring fields. Today, the Arkansas Plant Board voted to impose an unprecedented ban on that chemical. The tension — which even led to a farmer's murder — is over a weedkiller called dicamba. The chemical moved into the weed-control spotlight a few years ago, when Monsanto created soybean and cotton plants that were genetically modified to survive it.[http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/06/23/534117683/arkansas-tries-to-stop-an-epidemic-of-herbicide-damage]<br /> * Glyphosate, an herbicide and the active ingredient in Monsanto Co's (MON.N) popular Roundup weed killer, will be added to California's list of chemicals known to cause cancer effective July 7, the state's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) said on Monday. Monsanto vowed to continue its legal fight against the designation, required under a state law known as Proposition 65, and called the decision &quot;unwarranted on the basis of science and the law.&quot;[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-glyphosate-california-idUSKBN19H2K1]<br /> * The EPA's Inspector General Is Probing Whether An Agency Staffer Colluded With Monsanto.[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-inspector-general-probing-collusion-with-monsanto_us_59372108e4b0aba888b99dca]<br /> * Monsanto Hires Internet Trolls to Cover Up Roundup’s Cancer Risk.[https://www.ecowatch.com/monsanto-hires-internet-trolls-2401703407.html]<br /> * President Donald Trump's nominee for Deputy Secretary of the Interior said today that Trump's economic policy could take priority over climate science. In his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Energy &amp; Natural Resources Committee, David Bernhardt said that he will consider science on climate change but that Trump's policy opinions that prioritize jobs could outweigh scientific conclusions.[http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/interior-dept-nominee-trumps-views-outweigh-climate-science/story?id=47492689]<br /> <br /> * White House Moves to Block Ethics Inquiry Into Ex-Lobbyists on Payroll. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/us/politics/trump-white-house-government-ethics-lobbyists.html]<br /> <br /> * U.S. judge finds that Aetna deceived the public about its reasons for quitting participation in the government's healthcare exchange under the Affordable Care Act.[http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-aetna-obamacare-20170123-story.html]<br /> <br /> * E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board - replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html?_r=0&amp;referer=]<br /> <br /> * The original &quot;food pyramid,&quot; a diagram instructing the public on the proper healthy allocation of different food types, given to the US government by nutritionists was altered for the benefit of the food industry and grain growers.[https://proteinpower.com/drmike/2014/02/19/death-food-pyramid/]<br /> <br /> * &quot;Cosmos&quot; episode explains How Corporations Fund Science Denial. An entire episode was devoted to the Clair Patterson, who discovered that lead was entering the atmosphere through the burning of leaded gasoline. Yet, it took twenty years for unleaded gas to become the norm.[http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/04/cosmos-neil-tyson-lead-industry-science-denial][http://www.space.com/25579-cosmos-recap-earth-age-lead-poisoning.html]<br /> <br /> * In the 1960s, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the risks of sugar and highlighted the hazards of fat, according to a newly published article in JAMA Internal Medicine. The article draws on internal documents to show that an industry group called the Sugar Research Foundation wanted to &quot;refute&quot; concerns about sugar's possible role in heart disease. The SRF then sponsored research by Harvard scientists that did just that. The result was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1967, with no disclosure of the sugar industry funding. [http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat]<br /> <br /> * Editor quits journal over pay-for-expedited peer-review offer. With a tweet yesterday, an editor of Scientific Reports, one of Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG’s) open-access journals, has resigned in a very public protest of NPG’s recent decision to allow authors to pay money to expedite peer review of their submitted papers. “My objections are that it sets up a two-tiered system and instead of the best science being published in a timely fashion it will further shift the balance to well-funded labs and groups,” Mark Maslin, a biogeographer at University College London, tells ScienceInsider.[http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/03/updated-editor-quits-journal-over-pay-expedited-peer-review-offer]<br /> <br /> * House of Commons committee to open hearings on neonic pesticide with industry-biased panel.[http://menafn.com/1095300543/House-of-Commons-committee-to-open-hearings-on-neonic-pesticide-with-industry-biased-panel]<br /> * The EPA Finally Admitted That the World’s Most Popular Pesticide Kills Bees—20 Years Too Late.[http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2016/01/epa-finds-major-pesticide-toxic-bees]<br /> <br /> * NASA executives waste $80M renewing an industry contract to produce a spacesuit inferior to what the government's own engineers were designing. NASA leaders claimed the contract was necessary to, &quot;keep industry engaged in spacesuit design&quot;, but the report dismisses this idea, noting the agency's in-house Advanced Space Suit Project shared several contractors and primary subcontractors.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/nasas-spacesuit-program-is-something-of-a-hot-mess/]<br /> <br /> == Monsanto/Bayer Controversies ==<br /> <br /> * Pesticide Created By Bayer Accidentally Kills Off Twelve-Mile Stretch of Trees in Oregon.[https://althealthworks.com/16015/pesticide-created-by-bayer-accidentally-kills-off-twelve-miles-worth-of-trees-in-oregon/]<br /> <br /> * The law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei &amp; Goldman made public today hundreds of pages of newly de-classified internal Monsanto documents, including company email exchanges, reports, studies and other memoranda.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/4-19-new-monsanto-papers-docs/]<br /> <br /> * A new study by the non-profit claims to have found 19 major beer and wine brands whose products contain the pesticide glyphosate, a.k.a. one of the ingredients present in the weed killer Roundup..[http://www.grubstreet.com/2019/02/pesticides-major-beer-wine-brands.html]<br /> <br /> * Five things to know about Bayer and Monsanto, including its connection to Nazi gas chambers.[https://phys.org/news/2018-08-bayer-monsanto.html]<br /> <br /> * Shareholders of the German chemical giant Bayer staged a full-blown revolt at a heated 13-hour meeting in Bonn on Friday, arguing that the management failed to see the company was inheriting a raft of nightmarish litigation associated with glyphosate when it bought U.S. agrichemical giant Monsanto for $66 billion last year. The investors are furious that a blue-riband European company is now potentially exposed to billions of dollars of claims over the glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup, created by Monsanto. Two U.S. court verdicts over the past year found that the world's most popular herbicide caused cancer, hauling shares in Bayer down about 40 percent since August. Bayer has appealed those decisions but is now facing an avalanche of some 13,400 claims. &quot;It is about time Bayer came to grips with the fact that they purchased Monsanto’s misconduct and, now, need to do right by the victims. It’s time to resolve these lawsuits and give Bayer shareholders confidence again in corporate leadership,&quot; said Brent Wisner, an attorney at Baum, Hedlund, Aristei &amp; Goldman, which is representing plaintiffs in the lawsuits against Monsanto.[https://www.politico.eu/article/glyphosate-revolt-rocks-germany-inc-bayer-shareholders-vote/]<br /> <br /> * Concerns over glyphosate pass from human health to the soil.Experts say the weedkiller’s impact on soil health represents a serious threat to Europe’s long-term food security. [https://www.politico.eu/article/glyphosate-concerns-pass-from-human-health-to-soil/]<br /> <br /> * Washington State University researchers have found a variety of diseases and other health problems in the second- and third-generation offspring of rats exposed to glyphosate, the world's most popular weed killer. In the first study of its kind, the researchers saw descendants of exposed rats developing prostate, kidney and ovarian diseases, obesity and birth abnormalities. Michael Skinner, a WSU professor of biological sciences, and his colleagues exposed pregnant rats to the herbicide between their eighth and 14th days of gestation. The dose—half the amount expected to show no adverse effect—produced no apparent ill effects on either the parents or the first generation of offspring. But writing in the journal Scientific Reports, the researchers say they saw &quot;dramatic increases&quot; in several pathologies affecting the second and third generations. The second generation had &quot;significant increases&quot; in testis, ovary and mammary gland diseases, as well as obesity. In third-generation males, the researchers saw a 30 percent increase in prostate disease—three times that of a control population. The third generation of females had a 40 percent increase in kidney disease, or four times that of the controls.[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-42860-0][https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-04-health-effects-popular-weed-killer.html]<br /> <br /> * Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees, Erick V. S. Motta, Kasie Raymann, and Nancy A. Moran<br /> PNAS published ahead of print September 24, 2018. &quot;Increased mortality of honey bee colonies has been attributed to several factors but is not fully understood. The herbicide glyphosate is expected to be innocuous to animals, including bees, because it targets an enzyme only found in plants and microorganisms. However, bees rely on a specialized gut microbiota that benefits growth and provides defense against pathogens. Most bee gut bacteria contain the enzyme targeted by glyphosate, but vary in whether they possess susceptible versions and, correspondingly, in tolerance to glyphosate. Exposing bees to glyphosate alters the bee gut community and increases susceptibility to infection by opportunistic pathogens. Understanding how glyphosate impacts bee gut symbionts and bee health will help elucidate a possible role of this chemical in colony decline.&quot; [https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1803880115]<br /> <br /> * Consuming a mixture of sugar syrup and glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, alters honey bees’ microbiomes, and these changes increased mortality among insects exposed to pathogenic bacteria, according to a study.[https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/herbicide-may-harm-microbiome-of-bees-64860]<br /> <br /> * Attorneys for a couple who claim Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer gave them both cancer tried to convince a California jury Thursday that the agrochemical company engaged in decades of fraud to hide the fact that the herbicide is carcinogenic. Wisner on Thursday ran through a list of Monsanto’s newly revealed alleged sins, starting with the so-called IBT scandal. The company seemingly planted one of its employees at a contract lab called Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories (IBT) in the 1970s to fake negative mouse carcinogenicity data for Roundup’s active ingredient glyphosate that were to be used to win regulatory approval for the weed killer in 1975; planned an attack to discredit the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cancer research agency, anticipating the agency would classify glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen in 2015; and exploited “deep connections” within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to classify glyphosate as non-carcinogenic.[https://www.courthousenews.com/roundup-trial-monsanto-used-fake-data-to-win-over-regulators/]<br /> <br /> * Glyphosate Worse than We Could Imagine. “It’s Everywhere” Glyphosate residues have been found in tap water, orange juice, children’s urine, breast milk, chips, snacks, beer, wine, cereals, eggs, oatmeal, wheat products, and most conventional foods tested. It’s everywhere, in brief.[https://www.globalresearch.ca/glyphosate-worse/5674472]<br /> <br /> * The overlooked impact of rising glyphosate use on phosphorus loading in agricultural watersheds. The herbicide glyphosate dominates the global pesticide market, with applied tonnage increasing steadily worldwide. Glyphosate's capacity to degrade rapidly is often used to argue against potential toxicological effects, but the phosphorus (P) it contains persists in the environment and can influence soil P accumulation and losses to surrounding freshwater systems, which are prone to nutrient pollution.[https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/fee.1985]<br /> <br /> * Louisiana sugar cane farmers are using Glyphosate as a &quot;chemical ripener&quot; on crops.[https://www.lsuagcenter.com/portals/communications/publications/agmag/archive/2008/spring/use-of-glyphosate-to-enhance-sugar-production-in-louisiana]<br /> <br /> == Trump administration's questionable respect for science ==<br /> <br /> * Trump to nominate former Monsanto executive to top interior department position. Aurelia Skipwith, who worked as a lawyer and in research at Monsanto, will be nominated to run the Fish and Wildlife Service.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/23/aurelia-skipwith-monsanto-fish-wildlife-service-interior-department]<br /> <br /> <br /> * Trump Quietly Nominates Mass Surveillance Advocate To “Protect” Your Privacy Rights[http://theantimedia.org/trump-mass-surveillance-privacy/]<br /> <br /> * Trump officially nominates Sam Clovis, climate-denying conservative talk radio host as USDA’s top scientist.[https://thinkprogress.org/sam-clovis-officially-nominated-still-not-a-scientist-d47be4ffb1a8]<br /> <br /> * Trump's 5 Most “Anti-Science” Moves, Scientific American [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-5-most-ldquo-anti-science-rdquo-moves/]<br /> <br /> * Donald Trump's War On Science, New Yorker [http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/donald-trumps-war-on-science]<br /> <br /> * Trump has launched a blitzkrieg in the wars on science and Earth’s climate, The Guardian, [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/mar/28/trump-has-launched-a-blitzkrieg-in-the-wars-on-science-and-earths-climate]<br /> <br /> ===Anti-science head of the EPA under the Trump administration===<br /> <br /> * Scott Pruitt’s Attack on Science Would Paralyze the E.P.A.[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/opinion/pruitt-attack-science-epa.html]<br /> <br /> * Trump’s embattled EPA head Scott Pruitt has come down on the side of polluters on just about every issue that faces the US, so it is with little surprise that in a recent interview he signaled that he may try to fight back against California’s fuel economy requirements.[https://electrek.co/2018/03/14/epa-chief-scott-pruitt-signals-war-with-california-over-cafe-mileage-standards/]<br /> <br /> * Trump Re-Nominates Anti-Wildlife Climate Denier to Top Environment Post[https://www.ecowatch.com/ceq-nominee-white-2524022932.html]<br /> <br /> * Pruitt drives out EPA staff, hires unqualified former banker pal[http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pruitt-drives-out-epa-staff-hires-unqualified-former-banker-pal-1122919491794]<br /> <br /> * EPA seeks to scrap rule protecting drinking water for third of Americans[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/27/epa-clean-water-rule-drinking]<br /> <br /> * E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board - replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html?_r=0&amp;referer=]<br /> <br /> * EPA Scientists Worry Their New Boss Doesn't Want Science. [https://www.wired.com/2017/02/epa-scientists-worry-new-boss-doesnt-want-science/]<br /> <br /> * President Trump's pick to run the Environmental Protection Agaency is a self-described “leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda,” Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma’s attorney general since 2011, has repeatedly sued the agency and other government entities over environmental rules and regulations, at times in direct cooperation with fossil fuel companies.[http://www.factcheck.org/2016/12/facts-trumps-epa-nominee/] <br /> <br /> :From Factcheck.org on Trumps head of the EPA:<br /> <br /> ** Pruitt’s questionable claims include:<br /> ** He falsely said in May that scientists “disagree about the degree” and “connection” of global warming “to the actions of mankind.” As we have written time and time again, the vast majority of climate scientists believe global warming is real and human-caused.<br /> **He also said the Clean Power Plan will “significantly” increase electricity prices. Whether the price change is “significant” is a matter of opinion, but the Energy Information Administration estimates that prices under the plan would range from a 7 percent decrease to a 7 percent increase between 2025 and 2040, depending on the region.<br /> **He implied in April 2014 that’s there’s no evidence to support a link between fracking and water contamination. There is some evidence to support a link in certain instances, but not enough to definitively conclude that contamination is widespread, as we wrote in early December.<br /> <br /> * Climate change cynic Scott Pruitt takes over as Donald Trump's head of Environmental Protection Agency[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/17/climate-change-cynic-scott-pruitt-takes-donald-trumps-head-environmental/]<br /> <br /> ===Anti-science appointees to the USDA===<br /> <br /> * Incompetence Looms: Trump To Appoint Non-Scientist As USDA's Chief Scientist[https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2017/05/14/trump-will-appoint-incompetent-non-scientist-as-usdas-chief-scientist/2/#1276211e1276]<br /> * The Trump administration is planning to nominate Sam Clovis — the Department of Agriculture’s senior White House adviser — as head of USDA’s Research, Education and Economics division, according to individuals briefed on the decision. The move would mark a break with recent Republican and Democratic administrations alike, which have previously reserved the high-level position for scientists with expertise in agricultural research. Clovis — a former economics professor and talk radio host in Iowa who served as one of the Trump campaign’s first policy advisers — has bachelor’s degrees in political science and government, a master’s in business administration and a doctoral degree in public administration[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/13/trumps-expected-choice-for-the-leading-usda-science-job-isnt-a-trained-scientist/]<br /> * Trump’s Expected Pick for Top USDA Scientist Is Not a Scientist[https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-expected-pick-for-top-usda-scientist-is-not-a-scientist]<br /> <br /> ==Industry/Government Attacks On Scientists==<br /> <br /> * State-funded scientists could be prevented from lobbying for change in their field under Cabinet Office proposals. Senior scientists have denounced a potential move to “muzzle” colleagues whose findings are disliked by the government. The proposal – announced by the Cabinet Office earlier this month – would block researchers who receive government grants from using their results to lobby for changes to laws or regulations. For example, an academic whose government-funded research showed that new regulations were proving particularly harmful to the homeless would not be able to call for policy change. Similarly, ecologists who found out that new planning laws were harming wildlife would not be able to raise the issue in public, while climate scientists whose findings undermined government energy policy could have work suppressed.[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/20/scientists-attack-muzzling-government-state-funded-cabinet-office]<br /> <br /> * Renown Canadian scientist personally attacked by industry after expressing concern over GMOs. [https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/glp-facts/david-suzuki-canadas-science-guy-turned-eccentric-anti-gmo-chemical-scaremonger/]<br /> <br /> ==Other articles==<br /> <br /> <br /> * Roundup’s Risks Could Go Well Beyond Cancer - Evidence of the cheap herbicide’s danger to biological functions and the environment continues to mount. Why are U.S. regulators not listening?[https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-04/roundup-cancer-risk-is-only-one-danger-to-humans-animals?fbclid=IwAR1Nr2PV2V-6jFzgsFmGLEaWiU05yYJnOKJVxeqDfWmNF32fzy5UTGgWqz4]<br /> * Los Angeles County Bans Use of Roundup Weed Killer.[https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2019-03-22/los-angeles-county-bans-use-of-roundup-weed-killer]<br /> * The Monsanto Papers - information on current court cases regarding Monsanto/Bayer.[https://usrtk.org/monsanto-papers/]<br /> * The secret tactics Monsanto used to protect Roundup, its star product[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JszHrMZ7dx4]<br /> * In the latest stage of a decade-long legal tussle, the appeals court in Lyon, France on Thursday found in favor of farmer Paul Francois’ claim that Monsanto’s Lasso weedkiller had made him sick and that the product’s labeling had been inadequate. Francois, 55, says he suffered neurological problems, including memory loss, fainting and headaches, after accidentally inhaling Lasso in 2004 while working on his farm. “Mr Francois justifiably concludes that the product, due to its inadequate labeling that did not respect applicable regulations, did not offer the level of safety he could legitimately expect,” the court said in its ruling. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-monsanto-lawsuit/french-court-finds-bayers-monsanto-liable-for-farmers-sickness-idUSKCN1RN1JA?il=0]<br /> * A new report found glyphosate, a weed-killing chemical that some health authorities link to cancer, in a number of popular breakfast foods and cereals marketed to children. The study by the non-profit Environmental Working Group (EWG) discovered trace amounts of the most widely used herbicide in the country in oats, granolas and snack bars. Thirty-one out of 45 tested products had levels higher than what some scientists consider safe for children. Recently, some scientists, doctors and activists around the world have worked to keep glyphosate out of crops due to concerns that it is a dangerous carcinogen.[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/glyphosate-roundup-chemical-found-in-childrens-breakfast-foods/]<br /> * Judge Upholds Verdict That Found Monsanto’s Roundup Caused a Man’s Cancer. [https://theantimedia.com/judge-monsanto-roundup-cancer/]<br /> * A collaborative study by three US universities reported that individuals with particularly high exposures to glyphosate-based herbicides (Roundup), for instance those spraying it, could have a 41% increased relative risk of developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1383574218300887]<br /> * Is RoundUp carcinogenic? The trouble is, for every research paper that purports to show a link between glyphosate-based herbicides and cancer, there is another which finds the exact opposite. This hasn’t been helped by the fact that many of the studies may not have been entirely objective. “A lot of the studies backing glyphosate have been funded by entities in a position to profit from the continuing sales. But one of the factors that have left commentators suspicious of the potential toxicity of these herbicides has been incidents of combative corporate behaviour. In the latest trial, Monsanto has caused eyebrows to raise by obtaining a ban preventing attorneys for the plaintiffs from presenting information regarding its alleged influence on research.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/09/spray-pray-is-roundup-carcinogenic-monsanto-farmers-suing]<br /> * A 3M plant in Decatur, Alabama has admitted in a letter to the EPA that it violated a federal toxic substance law by releasing illegal chemicals into the Tennessee River. The letter was sent to the Environmental Protection Agency on April, 3, 2019, in it 3M admits to the non-compliance of a 2009 update to the Toxic Substances Control Act. A Washington, D.C. based law firm sent the letter on behalf of the company: <br /> “On behalf of 3M Company (”3M”), I am writing to voluntary disclose non-compliance with Section 5(e) of the Toxic Substance Control Act (“TSCA”), at 3M’s Decatur, Alabama Plant.” The statement continues saying, 3M admits to releasing perfluorobutanesulfonamide (FBSA) and possibly fluorinated sulfonamide alcohol (FBSEE) into the Tennessee River. [http://1057news.com/2019/06/21/07/18/36/3m-admits-to-releasing-toxic-chemicals-into-the-tennessee-river-for-over-a-decade/]<br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * Science-Mart, Privatizing American Science, Philip Mirowski [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674046467]<br /> <br /> * [[Theists in the news]]<br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Industry]]<br /> [[Category:Science]]<br /> [[Category:Scientific_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Science_vs_Industry Science vs Industry 2019-06-10T18:21:17Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>This page documents examples of where industry and science conflicted or colluded with each other in ways that were not of interest to the people or the truth.<br /> <br /> ==Industry Collusion and Manipulation==<br /> <br /> * Court documents reveal Monsanto's efforts to fight glyphosate's 'severe stigma'. Social Sharing. Canadian firm hired to recruit scientists to publish studies that ultimately defended Roundup's key ingredient.The documents also reveal communications between Monsanto and a Canadian firm hired to recruit scientists to publish studies that ultimately defended glyphosate — some of which were secretly reviewed by Monsanto prior to publication. All those papers, as previously reported by CBC/Radio-Canada, were also used as part of Health Canada's re-approval process of glyphosate in 2017.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/glyphosate-monsanto-intertek-studies-1.4902229]<br /> <br /> * Fired Quebec scientist blew the whistle on pesticide lobby influence.[https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/03/21/news/fired-quebec-scientist-blew-whistle-pesticide-lobby-influence]<br /> <br /> * Rush To Produce, Sell Vaccine Put Kids In Philippines At Risk. &quot;What bothers me most about this story is risk communication,&quot; says Rodriguez, who studies dengue in South America. &quot;There was a lot of uncertainty from the beginning [about the vaccine's safety]. That needed to be communicated explicitly. You need to be honest about what evidence is out there.&quot; In April, the Philippine government indicted 14 government officials over the deaths of 10 children who received the Dengvaxia vaccine. The government said the officials acted with &quot;undue haste&quot; in procuring the vaccine and launching the mass immunization campaign. The Philippine Department of Justice said the campaign started before the clinical trials were finished. In some instances children were given the vaccine by untrained health workers and allegedly without a proper physical beforehand. Some children allegedly had preexisting medical conditions that made the immunization dangerous. But these children were still inoculated, the government found. Six Sanofi officials were also indicted for not properly helping children who had serious reactions to the shot.[https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/05/03/719037789/botched-vaccine-launch-has-deadly-repercussions]<br /> * Radium Girls - information on industry using women to handle toxic materials and covering it up.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls]<br /> * Monsanto secretly ran “Let Nothing Go” campaign that paid internet trolls to post pro-Monsanto comments all across the internet[https://www.monsanto.news/2018-06-28-monsanto-secretly-ran-let-nothing-go-campaign-paid-internet-trolls.html]<br /> * EU regulators based a decision to relicense the controversial weedkiller glyphosate on an assessment plagiarised from industry reports, according to a report for the European parliament.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/eu-glyphosate-approval-was-based-on-plagiarised-monsanto-text-report-finds]<br /> * Judge in Roundup maker’s first federal trial had banned discussion of the company’s alleged manipulation of science. Monsanto is facing its first federal trial over allegations that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, but a US judge has blocked attorneys from discussing the corporation’s alleged manipulation of science. In an extraordinary move in a packed San Francisco courtroom on Monday, US judge Vince Chhabria threatened to sanction and “shut down” a cancer patient’s attorney for violating his ban on talking about Monsanto’s influence on government regulators and cancer research.[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/25/monsanto-federal-trial-roundup-cancer]<br /> * A broad new scientific analysis of the cancer-causing potential of glyphosate herbicides, the most widely used weedkilling products in the world, has found that people with high exposures to the popular pesticides have a 41% increased risk of developing a type of cancer called non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/14/weed-killing-products-increase-cancer-risk-of-cancer]<br /> * IARC responds to the claims its study claiming Glyphosate was probably carcinogenic, was incorrect and says media distorting actual reports. From reading, the IARC claims are based on the review of more than 1000 independent scientific studies. The idea that one particular study contradicts their overall findings and should be used to dismiss the IARC study is absurd. IARC also calls attention to concern over industry badgering scientists to reveal their findings prior to publication and peer review.[https://www.iarc.fr/featured-news/media-centre-iarc-news-glyphosate/]<br /> * The world’s most used weedkiller damages the beneficial bacteria in the guts of honeybees and makes them more prone to deadly infections, new research has found. Previous studies have shown that pesticides such as neonicotinoids cause harm to bees, whose pollination is vital to about three-quarters of all food crops. Glyphosate, manufactured by Monsanto, targets an enzyme only found in plants and bacteria. However, the new study shows that glyphosate damages the microbiota that honeybees need to grow and to fight off pathogens. The findings show glyphosate, the most used agricultural chemical ever, may be contributing to the global decline in bees, along with the loss of habitat.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/24/monsanto-weedkiller-harms-bees-research-finds]<br /> * Court Orders EPA To Ban Chlorpyrifos, A Pesticide Linked To Brain Damage In Kids.[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-ban-pesticide-chlorpyrifos_us_5b6c6d0ce4b0ae32af96318e]<br /> * A federal jury today convicted a Birmingham lawyer and an Alabama coal company executive in a scheme to bribe a state legislator to use his office to oppose Environmental Protection Agency actions in north Birmingham, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr. and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Holloman.[https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndal/pr/federal-jury-convicts-lawyer-and-coal-company-executive-bribing-state-legislator]<br /> * When Trump administration officials opposed a WHO breast-feeding resolution, they followed a long history of policymakers listening to baby-formula manufacturers.[https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/07/the-epic-battle-between-breast-milk-and-infant-formula-companies/564782/]<br /> * Monsanto 'bullied scientists' and hid weedkiller cancer risk, lawyer tells court[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jul/09/monsanto-trial-roundup-weedkiller-cancer-dewayne-johnson]<br /> * Why Trump's new CDC director is an abysmal choice: Redfield worked closely with the Christian organization, Americans for a Sound AIDS/HIV Policy. The group maintained AIDS was &quot;God's judgment&quot; against homosexuals, spread in an America weakened by single-parent households and loss of family values.[https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/13/opinions/trumps-terrible-choice-for-cdc-redfield-garrett/index.html]<br /> * After more than 40 years of widespread use, new scientific tests show formulated weedkillers have higher rates of toxicity to human cells.The tests are part of the US National Toxicology Program’s (NTP) first-ever examination of herbicide formulations made with the active ingredient glyphosate, but that also include other chemicals. While regulators have previously required extensive testing of glyphosate in isolation, government scientists have not fully examined the toxicity of the more complex products sold to consumers, farmers and others. Monsanto introduced its glyphosate-based Roundup brand in 1974. But it is only now, after more than 40 years of widespread use, that the government is investigating the toxicity of “glyphosate-based herbicides” on human cells.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/08/weedkiller-tests-monsanto-health-dangers-active-ingredient]<br /> * Popular article (that made the front page of a high-ranked subReddit) entitled, &quot;Millennials 'have no qualms about GM crops' unlike older generation&quot; was in actuality, a &quot;study&quot; commissioned by the Agricultural BiotechnologyCouncil, which is an industry lobbying group. The Agricultural Biotechnology Council (ABC) is a UK corporate lobby group funded by major biottechnology companies and run from the offices of a PR company, Lexington Communications. On its website, ABC lists members as comprising: BASF, Bayer CropScience, Dow AgroSciences, Pioneer (which is part of DuPont), Monsanto, Syngenta. &quot;In typical astroturf fashion they try to draw some kind of connection with &quot;Millennials&quot; to give themselves credibility.&quot;[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/07/millennials-have-no-qualms-gm-crops-unlike-older-generation/][https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/8hnt5r/millennials_have_no_qualms_about_gm_crops_unlike/dylh1u0/]<br /> * Under Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has dramatically shifted away from its stated mission to “protect human and environmental health.” Instead, the agency is clearly favoring the interests of the polluting industries that it is mandated to regulate, according to a study.[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304360]<br /> * Weedkiller found in granola and crackers, internal FDA emails show. The FDA has been testing food samples for traces of glyphosate for two years, but the agency has not yet released any official result. Other findings detailed in the FDA documents show that in 2016 Chamkasem found glyphosate in numerous samples of honey. Chamkasem also found glyphosate in oatmeal products. The FDA temporarily suspended testing after those findings, and Chamkasem’s lab was “reassigned to other programs”, the FDA documents show. The FDA has said those tests were not part of its official glyphosate residue assignment.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/30/fda-weedkiller-glyphosate-in-food-internal-emails]<br /> * &quot;Eating Pasta Linked to Weight Loss in New Study,&quot; Newsweek reported this month, racking up more than 22,500 Facebook likes, shares, and comments. The happy news also went viral on the Independent, the New York Daily News, and Business Insider. What those and many other stories failed to note, however, was that three of the scientists behind the study in question had financial conflicts as tangled as a bowl of spaghetti, including ties to the world’s largest pasta company, the Barilla Group. At least 10 peer-reviewed studies about pasta published since 2008 were either funded directly by Barilla or, like the one published this month, were carried out by scientists who have had financial ties to the company.[https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemlee/pasta-barilla-science-funding]<br /> * Senate Confirms Climate Change Denier To Lead NASA, Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) will take over control of the space agency after seven-month standoff. Bridenstine will become the first elected official to hold the NASA administrator job. He joins a Cabinet already loaded with people who question the near-universal scientific consensus that climate change is real and that human activity is the primary cause. The final vote ― which was 50-49 along party lines ― came one day after the Senate narrowly advanced Bridenstine’s nomination, thanks to an about-face from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and a key vote from Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.). Rubio[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jim-bridenstine-nasa-confirmation_us_5ad8aab7e4b03c426dac081c]<br /> * Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine sued agricultural giant Monsanto on Monday, alleging the company concealed dangers posed by a toxic chemical compound it manufactured for nearly a half century. In the suit, filed in the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court in Cincinnati, prosecutors argued that the company should pay for the clean-up of what it says are dozens of rivers, lakes and other water bodies contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/monsanto-concealed-effects-toxic-chemical-decades-ohio-ag-alleges-n853866]<br /> * The world’s most widely used insecticides pose a serious danger to both honeybees and wild bees, according to a major new assessment from the European Union’s scientific risk assessors. The conclusion, based on analysis of more than 1,500 studies, makes it highly likely that the neonicotinoid pesticides will be banned from all fields across the EU when nations vote on the issue next month.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/28/total-ban-on-bee-harming-pesticides-likely-after-major-new-eu-analysis]<br /> * DuPont vs. the World: Chemical Giant Covered Up Health Risks of Teflon Contamination Across Globe[https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/23/dupont_vs_the_world_chemical_giant]<br /> * GOP senators who pushed Trump to ditch Paris deal took over $10 million from fossil fuel industry.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/01/republican-senators-paris-climate-deal-energy-donations]<br /> * With backing from a sugar lobby, scientists promoted dietary fat as the cause of coronary heart disease instead of sugar, according to a historical document review published in JAMA Internal Medicine.[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/12/sugar-industry-paid-research-heart-disease-jama-report]<br /> * Oregon sues Monsanto, alleges company knowingly sold toxic PCBs for decades.[http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2018/01/oregon_sues_monsanto_alleges_c.html]<br /> * Government scientists blocked from the biggest meeting in their field[https://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/22/us-geological-survey-scientists-blocked-from-conference-interior-department/]<br /> * Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Net Neutrality Narrative Is False[https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/vbympa/net-neutrality-fcc-inspector-general-report]<br /> * The Slow Demise of Asbestos, the Carcinogen that Gave ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Snow[https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-slow-demise-of-asbestos-the-carcinogen-that-gave-the-wizard-of-oz-snow]<br /> * Trump reverses ban on Nazi created pesticide after receiving huge donation from chemical company[https://www.snopes.com/trump-reverses-insecticide-ban-dow-chemicals/]<br /> * Sugar industry withheld research effects of sucrose 50 years ago, study claims Researchers say negative health impacts of sucrose could have been combated sooner had research been released – but industry bodies dispute the findings.In 1967, when scientists were arguing over the link between sugar consumption and increased risk of heart disease, researchers now claim that the International Sugar Research Foundation (ISRF) withheld findings that rats that were fed a high-sugar diet had higher levels of triglycerides (a fat found in the blood) than those fed starch. In a move researchers from the University of California at San Francisco have compared to the tobacco industry’s self-preservation tactics, the foundation stopped funding the project.[https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2017/nov/21/sugar-industry-withheld-research-effects-of-sucrose-50-years-ago-study-claims]<br /> * As cigarette sales decline worldwide, the tobacco giant Phillip Morris Inc. is scrambling to restructure and embrace potentially more profitable “smoke-free” products. The revamp involves setting up an $80 million foundation called the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. The World Health Organization rebuked Phillip Morris and accused it of being disingenuous about consumer health, citing decades of research meddling and deceptive marketing. It declared it would have nothing to do with the foundation and warned governments the world over to do the same.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/philip-morris-sets-up-80m-research-foundation-who-flips-them-the-bird/]<br /> * Monsanto banned from European parliament: MEPs withdraw parliamentary access after the firm shunned a hearing into allegations that it unduly influenced studies into the safety of glyphosate used in its RoundUp weedkiller.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/28/monsanto-banned-from-european-parliament]<br /> * Coca-Cola secretly spent $1.5 million to fund an entire network of academic researchers whose goal was to shift the national health conversation away from the harms of sugary beverages. Instead, their research focused on the benefits of exercise—i.e., the health risks of sedentary and inactive lifestyles.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/the-new-study-suggesting-sitting-will-kill-you-is-kind-of-a-raging-dumpster-fire/]<br /> * Union of Concerned Scientists complains that the Trump administration's &quot;Chief Scientist&quot; at the USDA is not a scientist: Sam Clovis—a conservative talk radio host, Trump campaign co-chair, and climate denier with no training in science—for the role of chief scientist at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). [http://blog.ucsusa.org/mike-lavender/the-case-against-clovis-why-trumps-usda-chief-scientist-nominee-is-the-wrong-choice]<br /> * Almost All of FCC’s New Advisory Panel Works for Telecoms, most of which are against Net Neutrality.[http://www.thedailybeast.com/almost-all-of-fccs-new-advisory-panel-works-for-telecoms]<br /> * Court evidence reveals Monsanto involved with published Scientific Studies Without Disclosing Conflicts of Interest to publishers.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/monsanto-secret-documents/]<br /> * Internal Emails Show Monsanto Made Substantial Contributions to Published Expert Panel Manuscript.[http://baumhedlundlaw.com/pdf/monsanto-documents/3-Internal-Emails-Show-Monsanto-Made-Substantial-Contributions-to-Published-Expert-Panel-Manuscript.pdf]<br /> * Monsanto secret documents revealed, contianing correspondence between Dr. William Heydens and Ashely Roberts regarding the Expert Panel Manuscript. Dr. Heydens went “through the entire document and “indicated what I think should stay, what can go, and in a couple spots I did a little editing. I took a crack at adding a little text: on page 10 to address John’s comments about toxicologists’ use of Hill’s criteria … see what you think; it made sense to me, but I’m not sure if it will to others – please feel free to further modify and/or run by Cary.” at *1. The edited draft is also attached and challenged for confidentiality.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/monsanto-secret-documents/]<br /> * Court documents reveal Monsanto was ghost-writing academic papers defending its products and attacking critics.The documents underscore the lengths to which the agrochemical company goes to protect its image. Documents show that Henry I. Miller, an academic and a vocal proponent of genetically modified crops, asked Monsanto to draft an article for him that largely mirrored one that appeared under his name on Forbes's website in 2015. Mr. Miller could not be reached for comment. A similar issue appeared in academic research. An academic involved in writing research funded by Monsanto, John Acquavella, a former Monsanto employee, appeared to express discomfort with the process, writing in a 2015 email to a Monsanto executive, &quot;I can't be part of deceptive authorship on a presentation or publication.&quot; He also said of the way the company was trying to present the authorship: &quot;We call that ghost writing and it is unethical.&quot; Mr. Miller's 2015 article on Forbes's website was an attack on the findings of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization that had labeled glyphosate a probable carcinogen, a finding disputed by other regulatory bodies.[https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/08/03/227249/monsanto-leaks-suggest-it-tried-to-kill-cancer-research-on-roundup-weed-killer?utm_source=feedburnerFaceBook&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29]<br /> * The FCC Insists It Can't Stop Impostors From Lying About My Views On Net Neutrality.[https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20170710/10071737756/fcc-insists-it-cant-stop-impostors-lying-about-my-views-net-neutrality.shtml]<br /> * DOW CHEMICAL DONATES $1 MILLION TO TRUMP, ASKS ADMINISTRATION TO IGNORE PESTICIDE STUDY.[http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/04/dow-chemical-endangered-species]<br /> * E.P.A. Official Pressured Scientist on Congressional Testimony, Emails Show: The Environmental Protection Agency’s chief of staff pressured the top scientist on the agency’s scientific review board to alter her congressional testimony and play down the dismissal of expert advisers.[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/us/politics/epa-official-pressured-scientist-on-congressional-testimony-emails-show.html]<br /> * Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science]<br /> * Monsanto's GMO-friendly pesticide, Dicamba is causing widespread devastation in Missouri.[http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/dicamba-damage-is-back-and-possibly-worse-than-before/article_2e33ec05-ae98-5468-92f8-bccf6bcd7698.html]<br /> * Arkansas's pesticide regulators have stepped into the middle of an epic battle between weeds and chemicals, which has now morphed into a battle between farmers. Hundreds of farmers say their crops have been damaged by a weedkiller that was sprayed on neighboring fields. Today, the Arkansas Plant Board voted to impose an unprecedented ban on that chemical. The tension — which even led to a farmer's murder — is over a weedkiller called dicamba. The chemical moved into the weed-control spotlight a few years ago, when Monsanto created soybean and cotton plants that were genetically modified to survive it.[http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/06/23/534117683/arkansas-tries-to-stop-an-epidemic-of-herbicide-damage]<br /> * Glyphosate, an herbicide and the active ingredient in Monsanto Co's (MON.N) popular Roundup weed killer, will be added to California's list of chemicals known to cause cancer effective July 7, the state's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) said on Monday. Monsanto vowed to continue its legal fight against the designation, required under a state law known as Proposition 65, and called the decision &quot;unwarranted on the basis of science and the law.&quot;[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-glyphosate-california-idUSKBN19H2K1]<br /> * The EPA's Inspector General Is Probing Whether An Agency Staffer Colluded With Monsanto.[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-inspector-general-probing-collusion-with-monsanto_us_59372108e4b0aba888b99dca]<br /> * Monsanto Hires Internet Trolls to Cover Up Roundup’s Cancer Risk.[https://www.ecowatch.com/monsanto-hires-internet-trolls-2401703407.html]<br /> * President Donald Trump's nominee for Deputy Secretary of the Interior said today that Trump's economic policy could take priority over climate science. In his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Energy &amp; Natural Resources Committee, David Bernhardt said that he will consider science on climate change but that Trump's policy opinions that prioritize jobs could outweigh scientific conclusions.[http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/interior-dept-nominee-trumps-views-outweigh-climate-science/story?id=47492689]<br /> <br /> * White House Moves to Block Ethics Inquiry Into Ex-Lobbyists on Payroll. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/us/politics/trump-white-house-government-ethics-lobbyists.html]<br /> <br /> * U.S. judge finds that Aetna deceived the public about its reasons for quitting participation in the government's healthcare exchange under the Affordable Care Act.[http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-aetna-obamacare-20170123-story.html]<br /> <br /> * E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board - replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html?_r=0&amp;referer=]<br /> <br /> * The original &quot;food pyramid,&quot; a diagram instructing the public on the proper healthy allocation of different food types, given to the US government by nutritionists was altered for the benefit of the food industry and grain growers.[https://proteinpower.com/drmike/2014/02/19/death-food-pyramid/]<br /> <br /> * &quot;Cosmos&quot; episode explains How Corporations Fund Science Denial. An entire episode was devoted to the Clair Patterson, who discovered that lead was entering the atmosphere through the burning of leaded gasoline. Yet, it took twenty years for unleaded gas to become the norm.[http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/04/cosmos-neil-tyson-lead-industry-science-denial][http://www.space.com/25579-cosmos-recap-earth-age-lead-poisoning.html]<br /> <br /> * In the 1960s, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the risks of sugar and highlighted the hazards of fat, according to a newly published article in JAMA Internal Medicine. The article draws on internal documents to show that an industry group called the Sugar Research Foundation wanted to &quot;refute&quot; concerns about sugar's possible role in heart disease. The SRF then sponsored research by Harvard scientists that did just that. The result was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1967, with no disclosure of the sugar industry funding. [http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat]<br /> <br /> * Editor quits journal over pay-for-expedited peer-review offer. With a tweet yesterday, an editor of Scientific Reports, one of Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG’s) open-access journals, has resigned in a very public protest of NPG’s recent decision to allow authors to pay money to expedite peer review of their submitted papers. “My objections are that it sets up a two-tiered system and instead of the best science being published in a timely fashion it will further shift the balance to well-funded labs and groups,” Mark Maslin, a biogeographer at University College London, tells ScienceInsider.[http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/03/updated-editor-quits-journal-over-pay-expedited-peer-review-offer]<br /> <br /> * House of Commons committee to open hearings on neonic pesticide with industry-biased panel.[http://menafn.com/1095300543/House-of-Commons-committee-to-open-hearings-on-neonic-pesticide-with-industry-biased-panel]<br /> * The EPA Finally Admitted That the World’s Most Popular Pesticide Kills Bees—20 Years Too Late.[http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2016/01/epa-finds-major-pesticide-toxic-bees]<br /> <br /> * NASA executives waste $80M renewing an industry contract to produce a spacesuit inferior to what the government's own engineers were designing. NASA leaders claimed the contract was necessary to, &quot;keep industry engaged in spacesuit design&quot;, but the report dismisses this idea, noting the agency's in-house Advanced Space Suit Project shared several contractors and primary subcontractors.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/nasas-spacesuit-program-is-something-of-a-hot-mess/]<br /> <br /> == Monsanto/Bayer Controversies ==<br /> <br /> * Pesticide Created By Bayer Accidentally Kills Off Twelve-Mile Stretch of Trees in Oregon.[https://althealthworks.com/16015/pesticide-created-by-bayer-accidentally-kills-off-twelve-miles-worth-of-trees-in-oregon/]<br /> <br /> * The law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei &amp; Goldman made public today hundreds of pages of newly de-classified internal Monsanto documents, including company email exchanges, reports, studies and other memoranda.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/4-19-new-monsanto-papers-docs/]<br /> <br /> * A new study by the non-profit claims to have found 19 major beer and wine brands whose products contain the pesticide glyphosate, a.k.a. one of the ingredients present in the weed killer Roundup..[http://www.grubstreet.com/2019/02/pesticides-major-beer-wine-brands.html]<br /> <br /> * Five things to know about Bayer and Monsanto, including its connection to Nazi gas chambers.[https://phys.org/news/2018-08-bayer-monsanto.html]<br /> <br /> * Shareholders of the German chemical giant Bayer staged a full-blown revolt at a heated 13-hour meeting in Bonn on Friday, arguing that the management failed to see the company was inheriting a raft of nightmarish litigation associated with glyphosate when it bought U.S. agrichemical giant Monsanto for $66 billion last year. The investors are furious that a blue-riband European company is now potentially exposed to billions of dollars of claims over the glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup, created by Monsanto. Two U.S. court verdicts over the past year found that the world's most popular herbicide caused cancer, hauling shares in Bayer down about 40 percent since August. Bayer has appealed those decisions but is now facing an avalanche of some 13,400 claims. &quot;It is about time Bayer came to grips with the fact that they purchased Monsanto’s misconduct and, now, need to do right by the victims. It’s time to resolve these lawsuits and give Bayer shareholders confidence again in corporate leadership,&quot; said Brent Wisner, an attorney at Baum, Hedlund, Aristei &amp; Goldman, which is representing plaintiffs in the lawsuits against Monsanto.[https://www.politico.eu/article/glyphosate-revolt-rocks-germany-inc-bayer-shareholders-vote/]<br /> <br /> * Concerns over glyphosate pass from human health to the soil.Experts say the weedkiller’s impact on soil health represents a serious threat to Europe’s long-term food security. [https://www.politico.eu/article/glyphosate-concerns-pass-from-human-health-to-soil/]<br /> <br /> * Washington State University researchers have found a variety of diseases and other health problems in the second- and third-generation offspring of rats exposed to glyphosate, the world's most popular weed killer. In the first study of its kind, the researchers saw descendants of exposed rats developing prostate, kidney and ovarian diseases, obesity and birth abnormalities. Michael Skinner, a WSU professor of biological sciences, and his colleagues exposed pregnant rats to the herbicide between their eighth and 14th days of gestation. The dose—half the amount expected to show no adverse effect—produced no apparent ill effects on either the parents or the first generation of offspring. But writing in the journal Scientific Reports, the researchers say they saw &quot;dramatic increases&quot; in several pathologies affecting the second and third generations. The second generation had &quot;significant increases&quot; in testis, ovary and mammary gland diseases, as well as obesity. In third-generation males, the researchers saw a 30 percent increase in prostate disease—three times that of a control population. The third generation of females had a 40 percent increase in kidney disease, or four times that of the controls.[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-42860-0][https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-04-health-effects-popular-weed-killer.html]<br /> <br /> * Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees, Erick V. S. Motta, Kasie Raymann, and Nancy A. Moran<br /> PNAS published ahead of print September 24, 2018. &quot;Increased mortality of honey bee colonies has been attributed to several factors but is not fully understood. The herbicide glyphosate is expected to be innocuous to animals, including bees, because it targets an enzyme only found in plants and microorganisms. However, bees rely on a specialized gut microbiota that benefits growth and provides defense against pathogens. Most bee gut bacteria contain the enzyme targeted by glyphosate, but vary in whether they possess susceptible versions and, correspondingly, in tolerance to glyphosate. Exposing bees to glyphosate alters the bee gut community and increases susceptibility to infection by opportunistic pathogens. Understanding how glyphosate impacts bee gut symbionts and bee health will help elucidate a possible role of this chemical in colony decline.&quot; [https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1803880115]<br /> <br /> * Consuming a mixture of sugar syrup and glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, alters honey bees’ microbiomes, and these changes increased mortality among insects exposed to pathogenic bacteria, according to a study.[https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/herbicide-may-harm-microbiome-of-bees-64860]<br /> <br /> * Attorneys for a couple who claim Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer gave them both cancer tried to convince a California jury Thursday that the agrochemical company engaged in decades of fraud to hide the fact that the herbicide is carcinogenic. Wisner on Thursday ran through a list of Monsanto’s newly revealed alleged sins, starting with the so-called IBT scandal. The company seemingly planted one of its employees at a contract lab called Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories (IBT) in the 1970s to fake negative mouse carcinogenicity data for Roundup’s active ingredient glyphosate that were to be used to win regulatory approval for the weed killer in 1975; planned an attack to discredit the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cancer research agency, anticipating the agency would classify glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen in 2015; and exploited “deep connections” within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to classify glyphosate as non-carcinogenic.[https://www.courthousenews.com/roundup-trial-monsanto-used-fake-data-to-win-over-regulators/]<br /> <br /> * Glyphosate Worse than We Could Imagine. “It’s Everywhere” Glyphosate residues have been found in tap water, orange juice, children’s urine, breast milk, chips, snacks, beer, wine, cereals, eggs, oatmeal, wheat products, and most conventional foods tested. It’s everywhere, in brief.[https://www.globalresearch.ca/glyphosate-worse/5674472]<br /> <br /> * The overlooked impact of rising glyphosate use on phosphorus loading in agricultural watersheds. The herbicide glyphosate dominates the global pesticide market, with applied tonnage increasing steadily worldwide. Glyphosate's capacity to degrade rapidly is often used to argue against potential toxicological effects, but the phosphorus (P) it contains persists in the environment and can influence soil P accumulation and losses to surrounding freshwater systems, which are prone to nutrient pollution.[https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/fee.1985]<br /> <br /> * Louisiana sugar cane farmers are using Glyphosate as a &quot;chemical ripener&quot; on crops.[https://www.lsuagcenter.com/portals/communications/publications/agmag/archive/2008/spring/use-of-glyphosate-to-enhance-sugar-production-in-louisiana]<br /> <br /> == Trump administration's questionable respect for science ==<br /> <br /> * Trump to nominate former Monsanto executive to top interior department position. Aurelia Skipwith, who worked as a lawyer and in research at Monsanto, will be nominated to run the Fish and Wildlife Service.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/23/aurelia-skipwith-monsanto-fish-wildlife-service-interior-department]<br /> <br /> <br /> * Trump Quietly Nominates Mass Surveillance Advocate To “Protect” Your Privacy Rights[http://theantimedia.org/trump-mass-surveillance-privacy/]<br /> <br /> * Trump officially nominates Sam Clovis, climate-denying conservative talk radio host as USDA’s top scientist.[https://thinkprogress.org/sam-clovis-officially-nominated-still-not-a-scientist-d47be4ffb1a8]<br /> <br /> * Trump's 5 Most “Anti-Science” Moves, Scientific American [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-5-most-ldquo-anti-science-rdquo-moves/]<br /> <br /> * Donald Trump's War On Science, New Yorker [http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/donald-trumps-war-on-science]<br /> <br /> * Trump has launched a blitzkrieg in the wars on science and Earth’s climate, The Guardian, [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/mar/28/trump-has-launched-a-blitzkrieg-in-the-wars-on-science-and-earths-climate]<br /> <br /> ===Anti-science head of the EPA under the Trump administration===<br /> <br /> * Scott Pruitt’s Attack on Science Would Paralyze the E.P.A.[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/opinion/pruitt-attack-science-epa.html]<br /> <br /> * Trump’s embattled EPA head Scott Pruitt has come down on the side of polluters on just about every issue that faces the US, so it is with little surprise that in a recent interview he signaled that he may try to fight back against California’s fuel economy requirements.[https://electrek.co/2018/03/14/epa-chief-scott-pruitt-signals-war-with-california-over-cafe-mileage-standards/]<br /> <br /> * Trump Re-Nominates Anti-Wildlife Climate Denier to Top Environment Post[https://www.ecowatch.com/ceq-nominee-white-2524022932.html]<br /> <br /> * Pruitt drives out EPA staff, hires unqualified former banker pal[http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pruitt-drives-out-epa-staff-hires-unqualified-former-banker-pal-1122919491794]<br /> <br /> * EPA seeks to scrap rule protecting drinking water for third of Americans[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/27/epa-clean-water-rule-drinking]<br /> <br /> * E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board - replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html?_r=0&amp;referer=]<br /> <br /> * EPA Scientists Worry Their New Boss Doesn't Want Science. [https://www.wired.com/2017/02/epa-scientists-worry-new-boss-doesnt-want-science/]<br /> <br /> * President Trump's pick to run the Environmental Protection Agaency is a self-described “leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda,” Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma’s attorney general since 2011, has repeatedly sued the agency and other government entities over environmental rules and regulations, at times in direct cooperation with fossil fuel companies.[http://www.factcheck.org/2016/12/facts-trumps-epa-nominee/] <br /> <br /> :From Factcheck.org on Trumps head of the EPA:<br /> <br /> ** Pruitt’s questionable claims include:<br /> ** He falsely said in May that scientists “disagree about the degree” and “connection” of global warming “to the actions of mankind.” As we have written time and time again, the vast majority of climate scientists believe global warming is real and human-caused.<br /> **He also said the Clean Power Plan will “significantly” increase electricity prices. Whether the price change is “significant” is a matter of opinion, but the Energy Information Administration estimates that prices under the plan would range from a 7 percent decrease to a 7 percent increase between 2025 and 2040, depending on the region.<br /> **He implied in April 2014 that’s there’s no evidence to support a link between fracking and water contamination. There is some evidence to support a link in certain instances, but not enough to definitively conclude that contamination is widespread, as we wrote in early December.<br /> <br /> * Climate change cynic Scott Pruitt takes over as Donald Trump's head of Environmental Protection Agency[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/17/climate-change-cynic-scott-pruitt-takes-donald-trumps-head-environmental/]<br /> <br /> ===Anti-science appointees to the USDA===<br /> <br /> * Incompetence Looms: Trump To Appoint Non-Scientist As USDA's Chief Scientist[https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2017/05/14/trump-will-appoint-incompetent-non-scientist-as-usdas-chief-scientist/2/#1276211e1276]<br /> * The Trump administration is planning to nominate Sam Clovis — the Department of Agriculture’s senior White House adviser — as head of USDA’s Research, Education and Economics division, according to individuals briefed on the decision. The move would mark a break with recent Republican and Democratic administrations alike, which have previously reserved the high-level position for scientists with expertise in agricultural research. Clovis — a former economics professor and talk radio host in Iowa who served as one of the Trump campaign’s first policy advisers — has bachelor’s degrees in political science and government, a master’s in business administration and a doctoral degree in public administration[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/13/trumps-expected-choice-for-the-leading-usda-science-job-isnt-a-trained-scientist/]<br /> * Trump’s Expected Pick for Top USDA Scientist Is Not a Scientist[https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-expected-pick-for-top-usda-scientist-is-not-a-scientist]<br /> <br /> ==Industry/Government Attacks On Scientists==<br /> <br /> * State-funded scientists could be prevented from lobbying for change in their field under Cabinet Office proposals. Senior scientists have denounced a potential move to “muzzle” colleagues whose findings are disliked by the government. The proposal – announced by the Cabinet Office earlier this month – would block researchers who receive government grants from using their results to lobby for changes to laws or regulations. For example, an academic whose government-funded research showed that new regulations were proving particularly harmful to the homeless would not be able to call for policy change. Similarly, ecologists who found out that new planning laws were harming wildlife would not be able to raise the issue in public, while climate scientists whose findings undermined government energy policy could have work suppressed.[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/20/scientists-attack-muzzling-government-state-funded-cabinet-office]<br /> <br /> * Renown Canadian scientist personally attacked by industry after expressing concern over GMOs. [https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/glp-facts/david-suzuki-canadas-science-guy-turned-eccentric-anti-gmo-chemical-scaremonger/]<br /> <br /> ==Other articles==<br /> <br /> <br /> * Roundup’s Risks Could Go Well Beyond Cancer - Evidence of the cheap herbicide’s danger to biological functions and the environment continues to mount. Why are U.S. regulators not listening?[https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-04/roundup-cancer-risk-is-only-one-danger-to-humans-animals?fbclid=IwAR1Nr2PV2V-6jFzgsFmGLEaWiU05yYJnOKJVxeqDfWmNF32fzy5UTGgWqz4]<br /> * Los Angeles County Bans Use of Roundup Weed Killer.[https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2019-03-22/los-angeles-county-bans-use-of-roundup-weed-killer]<br /> * The Monsanto Papers - information on current court cases regarding Monsanto/Bayer.[https://usrtk.org/monsanto-papers/]<br /> * The secret tactics Monsanto used to protect Roundup, its star product[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JszHrMZ7dx4]<br /> * In the latest stage of a decade-long legal tussle, the appeals court in Lyon, France on Thursday found in favor of farmer Paul Francois’ claim that Monsanto’s Lasso weedkiller had made him sick and that the product’s labeling had been inadequate. Francois, 55, says he suffered neurological problems, including memory loss, fainting and headaches, after accidentally inhaling Lasso in 2004 while working on his farm. “Mr Francois justifiably concludes that the product, due to its inadequate labeling that did not respect applicable regulations, did not offer the level of safety he could legitimately expect,” the court said in its ruling. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-monsanto-lawsuit/french-court-finds-bayers-monsanto-liable-for-farmers-sickness-idUSKCN1RN1JA?il=0]<br /> * A new report found glyphosate, a weed-killing chemical that some health authorities link to cancer, in a number of popular breakfast foods and cereals marketed to children. The study by the non-profit Environmental Working Group (EWG) discovered trace amounts of the most widely used herbicide in the country in oats, granolas and snack bars. Thirty-one out of 45 tested products had levels higher than what some scientists consider safe for children. Recently, some scientists, doctors and activists around the world have worked to keep glyphosate out of crops due to concerns that it is a dangerous carcinogen.[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/glyphosate-roundup-chemical-found-in-childrens-breakfast-foods/]<br /> * Judge Upholds Verdict That Found Monsanto’s Roundup Caused a Man’s Cancer. [https://theantimedia.com/judge-monsanto-roundup-cancer/]<br /> * A collaborative study by three US universities reported that individuals with particularly high exposures to glyphosate-based herbicides (Roundup), for instance those spraying it, could have a 41% increased relative risk of developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1383574218300887]<br /> * Is RoundUp carcinogenic? The trouble is, for every research paper that purports to show a link between glyphosate-based herbicides and cancer, there is another which finds the exact opposite. This hasn’t been helped by the fact that many of the studies may not have been entirely objective. “A lot of the studies backing glyphosate have been funded by entities in a position to profit from the continuing sales. But one of the factors that have left commentators suspicious of the potential toxicity of these herbicides has been incidents of combative corporate behaviour. In the latest trial, Monsanto has caused eyebrows to raise by obtaining a ban preventing attorneys for the plaintiffs from presenting information regarding its alleged influence on research.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/09/spray-pray-is-roundup-carcinogenic-monsanto-farmers-suing]<br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * Science-Mart, Privatizing American Science, Philip Mirowski [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674046467]<br /> <br /> * [[Theists in the news]]<br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Industry]]<br /> [[Category:Science]]<br /> [[Category:Scientific_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Theists_in_the_news Theists in the news 2019-06-02T18:21:11Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>Modern stories and links of the many weird things religious people do that make news.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Priest in cuffs.jpg|right]]<br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * [[Theists in the news (archive)]] for many more stories<br /> * [[Republicans in the news]]<br /> * [[Democrats in the news]]<br /> * [[Christian terrorists in the news]]<br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> ==Theists in the news==<br /> <br /> * A principal in Louisiana has resigned after being arrested at a Washington, DC strip club. Holy Family Principal Michael Comeau was chaperoning a middle school trip to the nation's capital when he was arrested at Archibald's Gentlemen's Club in Northwest DC. Police were called to the club, just blocks from the White House, to found Comeau “standing in the roadway, refusing to move.&quot; Comeau reportedly refused to settle up with the club.[https://www.complex.com/life/2019/06/louisiana-school-principal-arrested-at-strip-club-in-dc]<br /> * The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $8 million to a teenager who was sexually abused and kidnapped by a teacher at her Catholic high school.The teenager's attorney, David Ring, said that the settlement — finalized by a court last week — is the largest that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles has ever paid to a single victim, The Associated Press reports. Over the past 15 years, the archdiocese has paid more than $740 million in sexual abuse settlements.[https://www.npr.org/2019/04/17/714212609/archdiocese-of-los-angeles-agrees-to-8-million-settlement-in-sex-abuse-case]<br /> * A large majority of priests in the Vatican are gay, although many are not sexually active, a new book claims. A total of about 80 percent of the most revered clerics in the Roman Catholic Church are homosexual despite the church’s opposition to gay rights, according to the extensively researched book by French journalist Frédéric Martel. The gay priests adhere to an unspoken code called “the closet,” where it is understood that, for instance, a cardinal or bishop who denounces homosexuality is more likely to be gay, according to the book “In the Closet of the Vatican.”[https://nypost.com/2019/02/14/80-percent-of-priests-in-the-vatican-are-gay-new-book/]<br /> * 7-year old boy killed after court-appointed guardian punishes him for not knowing 13 bible verses[https://fox11online.com/news/local/guardians-teen-charged-in-death-of-7-year-old-manitowoc-co-boy]<br /> * Evangelicals sue for right to deny shelter to homeless transgender people.Alliance Defending Freedom, the far-right evangelical legal group that defended the “right” of a baker to deny service to gay couples before the Supreme Court, has a new target.This time they’re suing to give a homeless shelter in Anchorage, Alaska, the “right” to deny help to transgender people. The federal court lawsuit seeks to overturn the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance that prohibits discrimination against LGBTQ people.[https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/01/evangelicals-sue-right-deny-shelter-homeless-transgender-people/]<br /> * Male Escort Exposes 36 Gay Priests in File Sent to Vatican Containing Explicit WhatsApp Chats and Erotic Photos[https://www.newsweek.com/male-escort-exposes-36-gay-priests-file-sent-vatican-containing-explicit-829968]<br /> * Vatican’s Third-Most Powerful Official Cardinal George Pell Convicted on All Charges He Sexually Abused Choir Boys in the 1990s[http://blackchristiannews.com/2018/12/vaticans-third-most-powerful-official-cardinal-george-pell-convicted-on-all-charges-he-sexually-abused-choir-boys-in-the-1990s/]<br /> * “Aryan Pride” for Jesus: An Oklahoma pastor is under arrest after being caught running a prostitution ring with a white supremacist. Pastor Walter Eugene Brazington Jr. is “being charged with procuring for prostitution and possession of a firearm while in the commission of a felony,” according to a report from Tulsa World.[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2017/12/oklahoma-pastor-busted-running-white-supremacist-prostitution-ring/]<br /> * Lawsuit: At least 14 kids abused at hands of North Charleston church volunteer. Jacop Robert Lee Hazlett, 28, of Proximity Drive in West Ashley, faces one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor under 11 years old, according to his arrest affidavit and court records. Hazlett had worked as a volunteer chaperone and day care provider since March for NewSpring Church, located at 5101 Ashley Phosphate Road, supervising children ages 3 to 5 in a room called &quot;the Tree House.&quot;[https://www.postandcourier.com/news/lawsuit-at-least-kids-abused-at-hands-of-north-charleston/article_7d97d7f2-f3d8-11e8-9ec7-6ffa7310138b.html]<br /> * An Illinois priest who spent time in prison for manufacturing and selling a date-rape drug has been removed from ministry again for getting involved in a criminal case without telling his superiors. Peoria Diocese Bishop Daniel Jenky removed the Rev. Jeffrey Windy from his post serving three Ottawa parishes in March.[https://www.bnd.com/news/state/illinois/article222188995.html]<br /> * Gun-related tragedy struck once again this week, this time at a Catholic Supply store in Ballwin, Missouri, a suburb of St. Lous. USA Today reports that a former pastor has been arrested after allegedly attempting to coerce three women into having sex with him at gunpoint. When one of them resisted, he shot 53-year-old Jamie Schmidt in the head and forced the other two to submit to his “deviant” demands. The shooter, 53-year-old Thomas Bruce, has a reputation for right-wing tirades on social media and has ranted against gun-free zones in the past. He was a huge fan of President Trump, attended his rallies, and regularly tweeted about Republican politics. His last tweet read “I’ve already forgotten you. #promisesmade #promiseskept #trump2020 #BuildTheWall” and his feed was full of retweets from white nationalist FOX anchor Laura Ingraham.[https://washingtonpress.com/2018/11/23/a-trump-obsessed-pastor-just-shot-a-woman-dead-and-sodomized-two-others-in-horrific-sex-assault/]<br /> * Catholic Church Shielded Priests Who Raped Boys, but It Helped Lock Up a Priest Who Swiped Bucks. The monsignor who gambled and traveled on the Archdiocese’s dime remained behind bars as a grand jury reported on the crimes of his peers who preyed on children.[https://www.thedailybeast.com/catholic-church-shielded-priests-who-raped-boys-but-it-helped-lock-up-a-priest-who-swiped-bucks]<br /> * Grand jury report: Priests ran child porn ring in Pittsburgh Diocese[http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-nws-pa-pittsburgh-diocese-porn-ring-20180815-story.html]<br /> * Pastor Timothy Lee Reddin did not practice what he preached, police claim. The Arkansas church leader was arrested this week for allegedly trying to meet with an underage boy to have sex, part of a police sting operation.[https://www.inquisitr.com/5025011/anti-gay-pastor-timothy-lee-reddin-arrested-sex-with-underage-boy/]<br /> * A former New Jersey pastor who co-founded the Creation Festival, which bills itself as the country's largest Christian music festival, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for sexually assaulting multiple young children. Harry Thomas, 75, who formerly pastored Come Alive New Testament Church in Medford and went on to help create the popular music festival, failed in withdrawing his guilty plea on Friday, the Associated Press reported.[https://www.christianpost.com/news/creation-festival-co-founder-sentenced-to-18-years-for-child-sex-abuse-i-deserve-to-be-cast-into-sea-226484/][http://www.startribune.com/ex-pastor-sentenced-to-18-years-in-child-sex-abuse-case/489423631/]<br /> * Revelations that a prominent U.S. cardinal sexually abused and harassed his adult seminarians have exposed an egregious abuse of power that has shocked Catholics on both sides of the Atlantic. But the Vatican has long been aware of its heterosexual equivalent — the sexual abuse of nuns by priests and bishops — and done little to stop it, an Associated Press analysis has found. An examination by the AP shows that cases of abused nuns have emerged in Europe, Africa, South America and Asia, demonstrating that the problem is global and pervasive, thanks to the sisters' second-class status in the church and their ingrained subservience to the men who run it.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/metoo-vatican-nuns-denounce-priests-1.4765021]<br /> * A longtime pastor of a Bogalusa church pleaded guilty to the theft of more than $95,000 in Social Security disability benefits, U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans said Thursday. Jerry R. Newton, 54, of Slidell, is set for an Oct. 25 sentencing hearing before U. S. District Court Judge Jane Triche Milazzo.[https://www.nola.com/northshore/index.ssf/2018/07/bogalusa_pastor_pleads_guilty.html]<br /> * The Vatican tribunal has convicted a former Holy See diplomat and sentenced him to 5 years in prison for possessing and distributing child pornography in the first such trial of its kind inside the Vatican.[https://apnews.com/76aa075fbd1b40a487bc75fdd8f56e8c] Note that the Vatican refused to revoke the perpetrator's diplomatic immunity so he could be prosecuted in the United States.[https://www.inquisitr.com/4954910/priest-and-former-vatican-diplomat-to-u-s-found-guilty-of-possessing-child-pornography/]<br /> * A Catholic priest is behind bars after admitting to plying an underage boy with alcohol and molesting him. Father Steven Michael Guidry and his attorney reported to the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office on June 13 and confessed to giving alcohol to the minor before sexually assaulting him.[https://wgno.com/2018/06/14/catholic-priest-arrested-for-molesting-16-year-old-boy/]<br /> * Diocese knew priest arrested for child sex crimes was abusing boys, authorities say. The Diocese of Erie knew since at least May 2010 of the abuse, but this priest was still in active ministry as recently as 2 months ago. The Catholic Church knowingly allows pedophiles to have access to children.[https://www.pennlive.com/news/2018/05/erie_priest_charged_with_child.html]<br /> * The Rev. William Thomas Faucher, accused of child porn and drug crimes, was role playing with a fellow author in some of the chatroom conversations in which he’s alleged to have said he wanted to rape and kill children, his attorney said in court Friday.[http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/article208855704.html]<br /> * A well-known Alabama evangelist, public speaker and author was arrested in Hoover Tuesday on child sex charges. Paul Edward Acton Bowen, a 37-year-old Gadsden native who now lives in Etowah County's Southside community, was taken into custody by Hoover police about 12:35 p.m. The founder of Acton Bowen Outreach Ministries is charged with second-degree sodomy, enticing a child to enter a vehicle or house for immoral purposes, and second-degree sex abuse. The victim was a young male, but police did not release his age except to say he is over 12 and under 16.[http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2018/04/alabama_evangelist_acton_bowen.html]<br /> * As they back Trump, evangelical leaders face their own sex scandals.[https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/03/31/they-back-trump-evangelical-leaders-face-their-own-sex-scandals/9JwpnbdWzHOzQ7tEAmxUPN/story.html]<br /> * A former Bossier Parish pastor has been arrested after admitting to police he had meth at his Bossier City home. Andy C. Harris, 56, of 2406 Benton Road in Bossier City, was charged with possession of a Schedule II controlled dangerous substance (methamphetamine) and possession of drug paraphernalia. [https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/crime/2018/03/09/benton-man-arrested-possession-meth/410682002/]<br /> * A 1,200-page dossier containing the names of 34 ‘actively gay’ priests and six seminarians in Italy has been sent to the Vatican by the archdiocese of Naples.The allegations were compiled by Francesco Mangiacapra, a gay male escort who told local media he couldn’t put up with the priests’ &quot;hypocrisy&quot; any longer.[http://www.newsweek.com/male-escort-exposes-36-gay-priests-file-sent-vatican-containing-explicit-829968]<br /> * Mari Lopez Lopez credited veganism and a faith in God as the cure for her breast cancer last year, just months before her breast cancer returned. She later died from cancer.[http://www.wfaa.com/article/news/youtuber-who-claimed-veganism-cured-her-cancer-dies-of-cancer/521951036]<br /> * Pastor George Nelson Gregory, 61, of Munhall, Pa., was caught by cops in the backseat of a car with another man who was completely naked and bound with nylon rope in the front seat. Gregory says he was counseling the man, who is battling a drug problem.[http://www.pennlive.com/daily-buzz/2018/02/pa_pastor_caught_by_cops_in_wi.html]<br /> * 100s of child porn images, LSD, ecstasy found in Boise priest’s home, prosecutor says. Longtime Catholic Rev. W. Thomas Faucher, 72, was brought into court in a wheelchair Monday evening for his arraignment on 14 different charges.[http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/crime/article198567664.html]<br /> * Memphis mega-church pastor Andy Savage admits he molested a minor days before his ‘True Love Waits’ workshop.[https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/memphis-mega-church-pastor-admits-he-molested-a-minor-days-before-his-true-love-waits-workshop/]<br /> * An Ohio priest under investigation for questionable communications with a minor took his life in Chicago. The Chicago Tribune reports that Father James Csaszar jumped from the 82-story Aqua Hotel in downtown Chicago and the death was ruled a suicide on Thursday by the Cook County medical examiner's office.[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-csaszar-ohio-priest-kills-himself-in-chicago-amid-investigation/]<br /> * Co-founder of nation’s largest Christian rock festival abused minors for 16 years, authorities say, Harry L. Thomas, 74, of Medford Township, faces charges of aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office. [https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/co-founder-of-nations-largest-christian-rock-festival-abused-minors-for-16-years-authorities-say/]<br /> * Ralph Shortey, former Trump campaign chairman, Anti-Gay 'Family Values' Former GOP State Senator Guilty of Child Sex Trafficking After Being Found With Teen Boy.[http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/_family_values_republican_state_senator_pleads_guilty_to_child_sex_trafficking_after_child_pornography_charges_dropped]<br /> * Conservative megachurch founder Bob Coy accused of molesting 4-year-old[https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/conservative-megachurch-founder-bob-coy-accused-of-molesting-4-year-old/]<br /> * Devin Patrick Kelley, a vocational bible instructor, and ex Air Force soldier, opened fire in a Texas church, killing 26 people including children.[https://viral.buzzunites.com/2017/11/05/devin-kelley-5-fast-facts-you-need-to-know/]<br /> * Amber James, the mother who killed her nine-year-old son on Halloween, says she prayed, thought about it, and cried before she strangled him to death to “save” him.[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/11/03/mom-who-murdered-son-on-halloween-prayed-about-it-first/]<br /> * A Middletown mother will spend 21/2 to 5 years in state prison for assaulting her daughter because the teen didn't recite Bible verses correctly.Rhonda Shoffner, 41, was sentenced by Dauphin County Judge John F. Cherry after she pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated assault, strangulation, child endangerment and making terroristic threats.[http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/10/mom_who_beat_daughter_for_not.html?utm_source=fark&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_content=link&amp;ICID=ref_fark]<br /> * The Vatican trial over $500,000 in donations to the pope’s pediatric hospital that were diverted to renovate a cardinal’s penthouse is reaching its conclusion, with neither the cardinal who benefited nor the contractor who was apparently paid twice for the work facing trial.[https://www.apnews.com/ed6e8fcc7b5146eabc65e6b83564be19/Anomalies-abound-in-Vatican-trial-over-diverted-donations]<br /> * Shattered faith: Nearly 100 sex abuse suits against Catholic priests rock island of Guam.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/04/guam-priest-child-sex-abuse-scandal/503680001/]<br /> * Vatican blames women for pedophile priest scandals. [http://www.neonnettle.com/news/2359-catholic-church-women-are-to-blame-for-pedophile-priests]<br /> * Vatican rocked: Police raid drug-fuelled gay orgy at cardinal's apartment.[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=11886097]<br /> * Christian fundamentalist pastor to stand trial over death of two-year-old granddaughter from pneumonia.[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/christian-faith-healer-pastor-trial-pneumonia-medicine-rowland-foster-ella-fundamentaliism-a7814261.html]<br /> * Faith-healing parents charged with murder in death of premature twin baby[http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-city/index.ssf/2017/06/followers_of_christ_parents_of.html#incart_river_index]<br /> * North Carolina televangelist Todd Coontz – author of numerous books on faith and finances – has been indicted on charges of tax fraud spanning more than a decade.[http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/23/534128363/north-carolina-televangelist-indicted-on-charges-of-tax-crimes]<br /> * Ferndale Mother Arrested For Attempted Homicide After ‘Trying to Remove the Demons’ from Her 11-Year-Old Child.[https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2017/jun/16/ferndale-mother-arrested-attempted-homicide-after/]<br /> * Juror jailed for contempt in mistrial of minister, Brooke Covington, who is accused of kidnapping and beating a parishioner to expel his 'homosexual demons'[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4576384/Gay-beating-case-hands-jury-4-years-incident.html]<br /> * Monsignor William A. Dombrow was able to steal $500,000 from a church-owned retirement home, and used the money to pay for gambling, expensive dinners and concerts. He pleaded guilty to four federal wire fraud counts on Thursday. The maligned priest previously ran Villa St. Joseph in Darby for the Philadelphia Archdiocese, which housed aging priests and treated those accused of sexual abuse. Much of the stolen money came from insurance payments for priests who died and from the estates of parishioners.[http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/05/priest_admits_to_stealing_500k.html#incart_river_home_pop]<br /> * Conservative Christian and Oklahoma lawmaker Ralph Shortey is charged with engaging in child prostitution and other felonies after being caught in a hotel room with an underage boy.[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ralph-shortey-oklahoma-lawmaker-hit-child-prostitution-charges-n734376]<br /> * Oklahoma missionary sentenced to 40 years for sexually assaulting children in Upendo Children's Home in Nairobi, Kenya. Matthew Lane Durham, 21, was sentenced to four decades in prison by Judge David L. Russell on four counts of &quot;engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places,&quot; according to court documents. &quot;In a span of just 33 days,&quot; prosecutors wrote to the court, Durham &quot;raped three girls -- ages 5, 9 and 15 -- at least eight times. During that same time period, he sexually molested a 12-year-old boy twice.&quot;[http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/07/us/missionary-sexual-assault-kenya-children/index.html]. Christian publications claim missionary was possessed by a Demon named &quot;Luke&quot;. [http://www.christianpost.com/news/teen-missionary-indicted-for-raping-children-at-orphanage-says-he-was-possessed-by-demon-named-luke-124428/]<br /> * Religious Parents Who Refused to Take Son to Hospital and Thought God Would Resurrect Him Found Guilty of First Degree Murder.[http://edmontonjournal.com/storyline/they-knew-he-was-dying-parents-guilty-of-1st-degree-murder-in-sons-death]<br /> * Word of Life Christian Church Pastor Tiffanie Irwin, her brother Joseph Irwin and mother and son church members Linda Morey and David Morey have entered guilty pleas in the church orchestrated beating of two teen boys, leaving one dead and the other severely injured. Reports indicate the teens were beaten because they discussed leaving the congregation. Lucas Leonard, 19, was severely beaten by members of the church last October, suffering injuries to the abdomen, genitals, back and thighs that ultimately proved to be fatal. At the time of the suspects arrest, police said the “spiritual counseling session” at the church was in reality an hours-long attack in which the teen boys were repeatedly whipped with cords, pummeled with fists, and kicked. They suffered severe injuries to the abdomen, genitals, back and thighs. A church member testified that the “counseling session” lasted for 14 hours and only stopped because Lucas “was dead at that point.”[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2016/10/pastor-3-others-guilty-in-fatal-beating-of-teen-trying-to-escape-church/]<br /> * Man Admits to Killing Cancer-Surviving Daughter, But Not Before Asking God to Intervene. 25-year-old Ryan Lawrence pleaded guilty to murdering his 21-month-old daughter, a survivor of eye cancer, in part because he may have been jealous of all the attention she was getting.[https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1804932/dad-battered-brave-toddler-to-death-with-a-baseball-bat-in-jealous-rage/]<br /> * Christian who &quot;dedicated his life to Jesus&quot;, Richard Keenan, who served as mayor of Hubbard in 2010 and 2011, was indicted last month eight counts of rape and 12 counts of attempted rape and gross sexual imposition of a 4 year old girl.[http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/ohio-ex-mayor-who-dedicated-life-to-christ-admits-to-raping-4-year-old-and-blames-her-as-willing/]<br /> * Brian Mitchell, a youth pastor at a North Olmsted church, a husband and father of three children under the age of 8, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday for raping an unnamed teenager.[http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/09/extremely_delusional_north_olm.html]<br /> * 24-year-old “Christian Warrior” named Bryce Cuellar was arrested after posting a YouTube video detailing how he was going to kill “gays, faggots, lesbians and satanists.”[http://www.ktnv.com/news/las-vegas-man-facing-charges-after-posting-threatening-youtube-video]<br /> * Pastor Who Said Pulse Victims Weren't Victims, Got 'What They Deserve' Arrested for Child Molestation. Controversial pastor Ken Adkins has been charged with two counts of child molestation in Georgia and is in the Glynn County jail, officials said.[http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2016-08-26/story/controversial-pastor-and-activist-ken-adkins-charged-child-molestation]<br /> * Gunman fatally shoots Pennsylvania churchgoer after fight over seat at Sunday service.[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/churchgoer-killed-fight-seat-sunday-service-article-1.2618098]<br /> * Jerry Childress, a 75-year-old church organist from Florida, was arrested for indecent exposure after a glory hole attempt went wrong.[http://americannewsx.com/religion/church-organist-arrested/]<br /> * An Acadiana priest has been arrested for allegedly possessing over 500 images of child pornography, according to the Louisiana State Police. Father Felix David Broussard, a priest at St. Bernard Roman Catholic Church in Breaux Bridge, was arrested today and booked into St. Martin Parish jail on 500 counts of pornography involving juveniles.[http://klfy.com/2016/07/27/breaux-bridge-priest-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges/]<br /> * A 3-year-old boy died on Sunday after he was accidentally left in a hot car parked outside a church, according to police. The child’s family was attending an afternoon Bible study at Rehoboth Praise Assembly in Dallas.[http://kdvr.com/2016/07/25/child-dies-in-hot-car-while-family-worships-in-church/]<br /> * London priest charged after allegedly gambling away more than $500,000 meant for Syrian refugees. [http://m.en.canoe.com/CNEWS/Crime/2016/07/14/22651721.html]<br /> * Man following &quot;god's orders&quot; tried to crush toddler daughter's skull with a bat to help her get to heaven.[http://www.wbir.com/news/deputies-toddler-attacked-at-motel-critically-injured/260712415]<br /> * Sam Sutter, A 26-year-old youth minister is facing sexual battery charges following his arrest. According to a Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office report, Sutter was involved in a sexual relationship with a teenage girl he met through his job at the Openwater Church. [http://wfla.com/2016/06/19/youth-pastor-with-odessa-church-arrested-on-sexual-battery-charges/]<br /> * Anti-gay pastor, Dave Reynolds, the recently fired pastor of the Cornerstone Bible Fellowship in Sherwood, Arkansas is currently facing 70 counts of distributing, possessing, or viewing child pornography.[http://www.arkansasmatters.com/news/local-news/new-details-in-child-porn-charges-against-former-sherwood-pastor]<br /> * The Catholic church in Pennsylvania has been accused of employing “mafia-like” tactics in a campaign to put pressure on individual Catholic lawmakers who support state legislation that would give victims of sexual abuse more time to sue their abusers.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/17/pennsylvania-catholic-church-sexual-abuse-bill-mafia-tactics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other]<br /> * David James Brown, head pastor at First Christian Church of Jeffersonville, Indiana. was arrested after allegedly seeking sex with a minor.[http://www.wdrb.com/story/32232744/jeffersonville-pastor-arrested-after-allegedly-seeking-sex-with-a-minor]<br /> * A former Vatican archbishop, Jozef Wesolowski, accused of paedophilia stored tens of thousands of child porn videos and photos on a computer in his office at the Holy See diplomatic compound in the Dominican Republic, it has emerged.[http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/vatican-paedophilia-scandal-archbishop-jozef-wesolowski-stored-over-100000-child-porn-videos-1467410]<br /> * John David Brock, 60, died after a snake bit him in the left arm and he refused medical treatment, according to the Bell County Sheriff's Office. Brock was handling a snake during a church service at Mossy Simpson Pentecostal Church in Jenson, Kentucky.[http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Man-dies-in-Bell-County-after-he-was-bitten-by-snake-during-church-service-318868451.html]<br /> * The president of a Christian charity in Iowa, Jon S. Petersen, of Cedar Rapids admitted that he embezzled nearly a half-million dollars in donations and used the money to pay for a sex addiction, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. [http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article78129452.html]<br /> * Virginia pastor, Christopher Alan Hogge, 48, has been charged eight counts of possession and distribution of child pornography, according to the Isle of Wight County Sheriff's Office.[http://wtvr.com/2016/05/23/virginia-pastor-arrested-on-child-porn-charges/]<br /> * A private Christian school in Kansas is reserving the right to expel students who have gay family members. [http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/05/20/christian-school-threatens-to-expel-pupils-if-they-have-a-gay-family-member/?utm_source=ET&amp;utm_medium=ETFB&amp;utm_campaign=portal&amp;utm_content=inf_11_60_2&amp;tse_id=INF_c1d0cb4ff39e4a1b90bc30417379d323]<br /> * Grace Baptist Church children’s pastor arrested in sex trafficking operation.[http://wate.com/2016/05/20/tbi-conduct-knoxville-human-trafficking-investigation/]<br /> * Vehemently Anti-LGBT Pastor Arrested On Child Pornography Charges.[http://theintellectualist.co/infamous-anti-lgbt-pastor-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges/]<br /> * Ohio seminary student arrested for alleged plan to have sex with adopted baby in Mexico [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/seminary-student-allegedly-planned-sex-baby-mexico-article-1.2515560]<br /> * Woman beats disabled man with his own cane for saying he doesn’t believe in God[http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/woman-beats-disabled-man-with-his-own-cane-because-he-said-he-doesnt-believe-in-god-police/]<br /> * Phoenix Woman Accused of Killing Atheist Victim, Then Keeping the Body as a “Shrine From God”[http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/64863225-story]<br /> * Lisa Biron, Anti-Gay Christian Lawyer, Arrested On Child Pornography Charges[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/20/lisa-biron-anti-gay-christian-lawyer-child-porn-charges_n_2166055.html]<br /> * Pastor Slept with Young Girls During Prayer Sessions as Part of their “Healing Process”[http://allchristiannews.com/pastor-slept-with-young-girls-during-prayer-sessions-as-part-of-their-healing-process/]<br /> * Sheriff's Office: Harvey catechism teacher promises students a photo of Santa, then shows them naked picture instead[http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/news/crime/13876211-148/catechism-teacher-in-harvey-showed]<br /> * Almost 800 babies and children were buried in a mass grave in Ireland near a home for unmarried mothers run by nuns.[http://churchandstate.org.uk/2014/06/almost-800-babies-buried-in-septic-tank-at-catholic-run-irish-home-for-unmarried-mothers/]<br /> * Alabama Pastor Made Daughter Watch While He Sexually Abused Minors.[http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/10/prosecutors_plan_to_introduce.html]<br /> * The pastor and two members of a Corona, CA church pleaded guilty on Monday to torturing a thirteen-year-old boy, including driving him into the desert and forcing him to dig his own grave. Lonny Lee Remmers, James Craig, and Darryll Duana Jeter Jr. abused the child at a group home run by Heart of Worship Community Church.[http://aattp.org/pastor-church-members-viciously-tortured-young-boy-forced-him-to-dig-own-grave-in-the-desert/]<br /> * Minneapolis church struck by lightning, destroying cross[http://www.fox9.com/weather/15331725-story]<br /> * Six Brothers Raped Their Sister For Years While ‘Christian’ Homeschool Parents Did Nothing.[http://reverbpress.com/justice/jackson-brothers-sexual-assault-sister-christian/]<br /> * A Tennessee pastor who was recently admonished by police for having sex with another man in a church van parked in a parking lot, was arrested this week for embezzling an estimated $60,000 from his church’s coffers.[http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/pastor-caught-having-gay-sex-in-van-spent-stolen-church-money-on-farmer-dating-website-police/]<br /> * Four of six homeschooled brothers, including a pastor, admit to molesting their sister.[http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/four-of-six-homeschooled-brothers-plead-guilty-to-molesting-their-sister-while-anti-school-parents-did-nothing/#.VV88faFKoyU.facebook]<br /> * Antigay Michigan Pastor Outed by Grindr Messages[http://www.mediaite.com/online/antigay-michigan-pastor-outed-by-grindr-messages/]<br /> * A Baptist preacher in Eureka Springs who features prominently in a new video urging repeal of the city's Ordinance 2223, which protects LGBT people from discrimination, pleaded guilty to a series of violent rapes in Oklahoma in 1977.[http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2015/04/20/eureka-spring-pastor-in-repeal-2223-ad-is-a-convicted-serial-rapist]<br /> * Texas church members accused of starving ‘demon-possessed’ toddler and then trying to resurrect him[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/texas-church-members-accused-of-starving-demon-possessed-toddler-and-then-trying-resurrect-him/]<br /> * Louisianal youth pastor is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old girl. Jonathan Bailey has been charged with one count of indecent relationship with a juvenile.[http://www.wdsu.com/news/local-news/new-orleans/youth-pastor-accused-of-inappropriate-relationship-with-juvenile/31530534?utm_source=Social&amp;utm_medium=FBPAGE&amp;utm_campaign=wdsutv&amp;Content%20Type=Story&amp;linkId=12612108]<br /> * Ax-wielding hair designer burns down Michigan adult store to please God[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/ax-wielding-hair-designer-burns-down-michigan-shop-to-please-god/]<br /> * An 11-year-old Canadian Aboriginal girl with leukaemia, who stopped chemotherapy after &quot;seeing a vision of Jesus,&quot; has died.[http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/makayla-sault-girl-who-refused-chemo-for-leukemia-dies-1.2829885]<br /> * Anti-LGBT Pastor Arrested for Grabbing Man’s Genitals at Indiana Park[http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/anti-lgbt-pastor-arrested-grabbing-mans-genitals-indiana-park]<br /> * Baptist church leader in Missouri arrested for soliciting &quot;dog sex&quot; on Craigslist.[http://gawker.com/baptist-church-leader-arrested-for-soliciting-dog-sex-o-1617858449?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&amp;utm_source=gawker_facebook&amp;utm_medium=socialflow]<br /> * Woman told police “she was driving and out of no where God told her that he would take it from here and she let go of the wheel and let him take it.” Shortly after letting go of the wheel she ran over a motorcyclist and drove off.[http://wane.com/2014/07/18/motorcyclist-i-said-to-myself-today-is-the-day-i-die/]<br /> <br /> * Florida woman accused of killing 2-year-old while re-enacting Bible story[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/28/florida-woman-accused-of-killing-2-year-old-while-re-enacting-bible-story/]<br /> <br /> {{ytv2|qmwEOuMGxu4|right}}<br /> * Evangelical Christians want access to more corpses … to hone their ‘raising the dead’ skills[http://freethinker.co.uk/2014/03/10/evangelical-christians-want-access-to-more-corpses-in-order-to-practice-raising-them-from-the-dead/]<br /> * Tennessee woman accused of drowning her baby says ‘Jesus came down’ and did it.[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/10/tennessee-woman-accused-of-drowning-her-baby-says-jesus-came-down-and-did-it/]<br /> * Files released by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee reveal that in 2007, Cardinal Timothy F. Dolan, then the archbishop there, requested permission from the Vatican to move nearly $57 million into a cemetery trust fund to protect the assets from victims of clergy sexual abuse who were demanding compensation. [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/us/dolan-sought-vatican-permission-to-shield-assets.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0]<br /> * Belief in god associated with poor mental health.[http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2013/04/belief-in-punitive-god-associated-with-poor-mental-health.html]<br /> * The chaplain of Milan’s San Vittore prison, 51-year-old Fr Alberto Barin, has been arrested for sustained sexual assault with multiple aggravations and for abuse of authority. Six non-Italian prisoners have accused him of demanding sexual acts in exchange for favours ranging from items of food to living conditions in the prison. Officers investigating the allegations were able to document the incidents by placing a videocamera in the chaplain’s office in the prison.[http://www.corriere.it/english/12_novembre_21/san-vittore-prison_463940e4-33da-11e2-a480-b74fe153b15c.shtml]<br /> *Rev. Ryan J. Muelhauser, Ex-Gay Counsellor, Arrested For Molestation Of Two Young Men[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/08/rev-ryan-j-muelhauser-molestation-_n_2094609.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&amp;ir=Gay%20Voices]<br /> <br /> * Priest embroiled in ivory smuggling controversy.[http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/27/world/asia/priest-ivory-controversy/index.html]<br /> * New Orleans pastor who was appointed in April to a local economic development board charged with seven counts of molestation of a juvenile[http://wap.wdsu.com/wap/news/text.jsp?sid=48&amp;nid=1491143881&amp;cid=4640&amp;scid=-1&amp;ith=3&amp;title=Local%20News&amp;headtitle=Local%20News]<br /> * Pregnant Teenager in Dominican Republic dies after doctors withold cancer treatment because the chemotherapy would harm her unborn child.[http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/17/world/americas/dominican-republic-abortion/index.html?hpt=hp_bn2]<br /> * Christian musician Randy Travis, who claimed in 2009 his faith in god allowed him to quit drinking in his 20s, was found naked and drunk in Texas, and arrested after he threatened to kill a law enforcement officer[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/08/drunk-and-naked-christian-music-star-randy-travis-threatens-cops-life/]<br /> * A Northern California jury has awarded $28 million in damages to a woman who said the Jehovah’s Witnesses allowed an adult member of a Fremont, Calif., church to molest her when she was a child. [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/us/28-million-awarded-in-jehovahs-witnesses-abuse-case.html?_r=3]<br /> * Christian school rejects admission of Mormon pupil[http://m.arkansasonline.com/news/2012/may/31/lr-christian-academy-rejects-mormon-pupil-20120531/]<br /> * Family Battle Offers Look Inside Lavish TV Ministry[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/05/us/tbn-fight-offers-glimpse-inside-lavish-tv-ministry.html?_r=1]<br /> * Court ruling: Jesus doesn't cure cancer.[http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6835139/Ruling-Jesus-doesn-t-heal-cancer]<br /> * Heralded &quot;Miracle&quot; toddler found in the wreckage of tornado, dies in hospital[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=10789913]<br /> * Christian fringe group intimidates Lowes into pulling advertisement from a reality show portrary Muslims as decent people[http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/12/my-take-is-all-american-muslim-begetting-all-american-bigotry/?hpt=hp_c2]<br /> * 6 HIV sufferers die after their pastor told them to stop taking their medication, because god would heal them.[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066106/Scandal-churches-claiming-cure-HIV-God-die-abandoning-medication.html]<br /> * Brazil rocked by abortion for 9-year-old rape victim: Church excommunicates mother and doctors – but not accused rapist[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brazil-rocked-by-abortion-for-9yearold-rape-victim-1640165.html]<br /> * Pentecostal Bishop Charles E. Brown indicted on rape, sexual battery charges[http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/11/no_bishop_indicted_on_rape_sex.html]<br /> * Killings in Norway spotlight anti-Muslim thought.[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/us/25debate.html?_r=4&amp;ref=global-home]<br /> * Austrian's religious headgear gives authorities a headache.{{rl|http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14135523}}<br /> * Pray For Newark claims amazing results as its Christian volunteers &quot;prayer walk&quot; the Newark city streets, seeking to pray down crime. Then murders rose 71%{{rl|http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/5/3/91235/90609/}}<br /> * Preacher sells debt removal through prayer[http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/consumer&amp;id=7984766]<br /> * Authorities have arrested a 52-year-old man they say committed a hate crime against a man he learned was a Muslim. They were having a conversation when the victim admitted he was a Muslim, which prompted the other man to stab him in the neck with a pocket knife.{{rl|http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/st-pete-man-accused-of-hate-crime-against-muslim/1149809}}<br /> * Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley told a church crowd just moments into his new administration that those who have not accepted Jesus as their savior are not his brothers and sisters, shocking some critics who questioned Tuesday whether he can be fair to non-Christians.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_alabama_governor_christians}}<br /> * The Salvation Army says it refuses to distribute Harry Potter and Twilight toys collected for needy children because they're incompatible with the charity's Christian beliefs.{{rl|http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/canada/2010/12/08/16478111.html}}<br /> * A couple who prayed for their sick toddler rather than take him to a doctor before his pneumonia death are on trial in Philadelphia, charged with involuntary manslaughter.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101207/ap_on_re_us/us_prayer_death_toddler}}<br /> * Archdiocese wants to recoup legal fees after a suit alleging abuse by priest in Burnsville was dismissed.[http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/faith/110501539.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU]<br /> * Minister, elders guilty of not reporting sexual abuse of a child - sought to have immunity from criminal liability in failing to report the case of suspected child abuse, &quot;arguing that they acted in good faith in persuading the parents and the perpetrator to make report of abuse.&quot;[http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Minister%2C+elders+guilty+of+not+reporting+abuse&amp;articleId=5584e3e1-cc52-4715-820c-be1eb16a82f9]<br /> * A Catholic Priest Charged with Sexually Assaulting Boy in ’08 Was Rearrested Last Week and Charged with Hiring Someone to Kill His Alleged Victim.{{rl|http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7307344.html}}<br /> * Baby dies as family jumps out of window to get away from the devil.{{rl|http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2010/10/24/15810081.html}}<br /> * Lamar advertising company will sell billboards to hookers but not atheists.{{rl|http://www.bnet.com/blog/advertising-business/lamar-sells-billboards-to-hookers-but-not-to-atheists/2412}}<br /> * Religious teen shoots and murders an atheist teen over an argument; judge does not consider it a hate crime and reduces the murder charge; parents outrages.{{rl|http://www.whotv.com/news/who-story-doyle-family-shooting-100810,0,3732283.story}}<br /> * Study shows atheists and agnostics are more knowledgeable about religion than religious people themselves.{{rl|http://pewforum.org/Other-Beliefs-and-Practices/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey.aspx}}<br /> * Bishop Eddie Long, a powerful anti-gay pastor becomes ensnared in his own sordid same-sex scandal{{rl|http://www.salon.com/life/this_week_in_crazy/index.html?story=/mwt/feature/2010/09/25/this_week_crazy_eddie_long}}<br /> * Deaf victim of sex abuse is suing pope{{rl|http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/23/deaf-victim-of-sex-abuse-is-suing-pope-and-going-public-with-his-story-for-the-first-time/}}<br /> * A fourth young male member of Bishop Eddie Long's megachurch is suing the prominent pastor, claiming Long coerced him into a sexual relationship. The lawsuit was filed by Spencer LeGrande, a member of New Birth Charlotte. New Birth Charlotte is a satellite church run by Long in Charlotte, N.C. The lawsuit said Long told LeGrande &quot;I will be your dad&quot; and invited the 17-year-old to journey to Kenya with him in July 2005. LeGrande said that Long gave him a sleeping pill on that trip and that the two engaged in sexual acts.{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100924/ap_on_re_us/us_pastor_abuse_allegations_lawsuit}}<br /> <br /> * According to a recent study, religious belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to research published today. {{rl|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article571206.ece}}<br /> * Pastor George Randall &quot;Randy&quot; Scott, of the Bethel Temple Assembly Of God Church in Bryan, Texas, was arrested after returning from a trip to Sweden with his wife on for allegedly pretending to be a teenager online to meet other minor boys and then blackmailing them into having sex. {{rl|http://www.kbtx.com/local/headlines/100500214.html}}<br /> * Giant Jesus statue struck by lightning and destroyed. {{rl|http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/15/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning/}}<br /> * Thinking he was possessed by the devil, American cage fighter rips out still-beating heart of his training partner.{{rl|http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1282647/American-cage-fighter-rips-beating-heart-training-partner-fearing-possessed-devil.html}}<br /> * Christian singer leaves his wife and family and admits hes gay, while continuing his Christian musical career.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/15/us/15religion.html}}<br /> * Nun Excommunicated For Allowing life-saving Abortion[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126985072]<br /> * Janine Denomme, Woman Ordained As Catholic Priest, Denied Catholic Burial By Church{{rl|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/19/janine-denomme-woman-orda_n_582423.html}}<br /> * Guns, high-powered ammunition and explosives equipment have been seized in raids on 12 properties in and near Adelaide linked with the Agape Ministries of God.{{rl|http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/20/2904812.htm}}<br /> * City of Miami uses prayer group to ward off bad weather.{{rl|http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&amp;articleid=20100511_11_0_MIAMIO602438}}<br /> * Jehovah's Witness Couple Disown Son For Receiving Blood Transfusion.{{rl|http://news.peacefmonline.com/religion/201005/42722.php}}<br /> * Noah's ark found, says evangelical filmmaker.{{rl|http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/pc-certainty-of-noahs-ark-discovery-on-mount-ararat/story-e6frfku0-1225858591328}}<br /> * British court punishes atheist for leaving flyers in the prayer room of the John Lennon airport.{{rl|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7624578/Atheist-given-Asbo-for-leaflets-mocking-Jesus.html}}<br /> * Islamists have warned the creators of TV show South Park they could face violent retribution for depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit.{{rl|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8636455.stm}}<br /> * An episode of “South Park” that continued a story line involving the Prophet Muhammad was shown Wednesday night on Comedy Central with audio bleeps and image blocks reading “CENSORED” after a Muslim group warned the show’s creators that they could face violence for depicting that holy Islamic prophet. {{rl|http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/south-park-episode-is-altered-after-muslim-groups-warning/}}<br /> * Catholic church admits Norwegian Bishop resigned last year after admitting he was involved in child molestation.[http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=10305913]<br /> * Pope coordinated assignment of pedophile priest back into circulation.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/world/europe/26church.html}}<br /> {{ga}}<br /> * The Roman Catholic Church’s account of Pope Benedict XVI’s handing of a serial paedophile was called into question today when new documents emerged suggesting that his office was kept informed of the offender’s rapid return to working with children. {{rl|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7077196.ece}}<br /> * Pope Sexual Abuse Scandal: Benedict Implicated In Cover-Up Of Wisconsin Abuse Case{{rl|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/24/pope-sexual-abuse-lawrence-murphy_n_512483.html}}<br /> * Atheist group throws party for teens who had their prom canceled rather than allow a same-sex couple to attend the dance sponsored by religious school{{rl|http://www.examiner.com/x-8928-Philadelphia-Atheism-Examiner~y2010m3d12-Atheist-group-offers-to-hold-gay-friendly-prom}}<br /> * Religious massacres continue in Nigeria{{rl|http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704869304575109962258328770.html}}<br /> * Vatican chorister sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for papal gentleman-in-waiting{{rl|http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/04/vatican-gay-sex-scandal}}<br /> * Baby starved to death because he didn't say &quot;amen.&quot;{{rl|http://www.smh.com.au/world/baby-starved-to-death-because-he-did-not-say-amen-20100225-p4el.html}}<br /> * Pakistan's president sacrifices a goat each day to keep evil away{{rl|http://www.palibandaily.com/2010/02/23/a-goat-a-day-keeps-the-evil-away-pakistans-president-and-his-addiction-to-sacrifices/}}<br /> * Haiti's prime minister said Monday it's clear to him that the 10 U.S. Baptists who tried to take 33 children out of his quake-ravaged country without permission &quot;knew what they were doing was wrong.&quot;{{rl|http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100201/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_americans_detained}}<br /> * A jury has found Scott Philip Roeder, 51, of Merriam, Kansas, guilty of premeditated first-degree murder in the slaying of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller.{{rl|http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/27216}}<br /> * Jeff and Marci Beagley have been charged with criminally negligent homicide for not providing medical treatment to their 16-year-old son, who died of an untreated urinary tract blockage. The family belongs to Followers of Christ Church, whose members shun medical care in favor of prayer.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wirestory?id=9550298&amp;page=2]<br /> * A Republican member of the Iowa Legislature is proposing lawmakers should be required to say &quot;so help me God&quot; when being sworn into office.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wirestory?id=9550298&amp;page=2]<br /> * Members of a Roanoke church have voted to leave the country's largest Lutheran denomination over its policy to allow gay clergy.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9550298]<br /> * Matt Baker, 38, a former Baptist minister, has been indicted for allegedly drugging and suffocating his wife Kari, whose 2006 death was initially ruled a suicide.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9551269]<br /> * A government witness said Wednesday that the five young woman who testified last year that evangelist Tony Alamo took them as a &quot;wife&quot; and sexually abused them as minors should receive $2.7 million each for physical and mental pain suffered.[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9551976]<br /> * Three American Evangelical Christians go to Uganda and teach thousands (including police, national politicians, etc.) how gays and their agenda are trying to destroy Ugandan families and sodomize their children. Result: a bill to impose a death sentence for homosexual behavior.{{rl|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/world/africa/04uganda.html}}<br /> * School board opts to fire public school teacher who refused to teach evolution, taught creationism and burned crosses into the arms of students{{rl|http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/06/21/Freshwater_decision.ART_ART_06-21-08_A1_ABAI539.html}}<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Theological_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Science_vs_Industry Science vs Industry 2019-05-24T15:51:14Z <p>Pile: /* Other articles */</p> <hr /> <div>This page documents examples of where industry and science conflicted or colluded with each other in ways that were not of interest to the people or the truth.<br /> <br /> ==Industry Collusion and Manipulation==<br /> <br /> * Court documents reveal Monsanto's efforts to fight glyphosate's 'severe stigma'. Social Sharing. Canadian firm hired to recruit scientists to publish studies that ultimately defended Roundup's key ingredient.The documents also reveal communications between Monsanto and a Canadian firm hired to recruit scientists to publish studies that ultimately defended glyphosate — some of which were secretly reviewed by Monsanto prior to publication. All those papers, as previously reported by CBC/Radio-Canada, were also used as part of Health Canada's re-approval process of glyphosate in 2017.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/glyphosate-monsanto-intertek-studies-1.4902229]<br /> <br /> * Fired Quebec scientist blew the whistle on pesticide lobby influence.[https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/03/21/news/fired-quebec-scientist-blew-whistle-pesticide-lobby-influence]<br /> <br /> * Rush To Produce, Sell Vaccine Put Kids In Philippines At Risk. &quot;What bothers me most about this story is risk communication,&quot; says Rodriguez, who studies dengue in South America. &quot;There was a lot of uncertainty from the beginning [about the vaccine's safety]. That needed to be communicated explicitly. You need to be honest about what evidence is out there.&quot; In April, the Philippine government indicted 14 government officials over the deaths of 10 children who received the Dengvaxia vaccine. The government said the officials acted with &quot;undue haste&quot; in procuring the vaccine and launching the mass immunization campaign. The Philippine Department of Justice said the campaign started before the clinical trials were finished. In some instances children were given the vaccine by untrained health workers and allegedly without a proper physical beforehand. Some children allegedly had preexisting medical conditions that made the immunization dangerous. But these children were still inoculated, the government found. Six Sanofi officials were also indicted for not properly helping children who had serious reactions to the shot.[https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/05/03/719037789/botched-vaccine-launch-has-deadly-repercussions]<br /> * Radium Girls - information on industry using women to handle toxic materials and covering it up.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls]<br /> * Monsanto secretly ran “Let Nothing Go” campaign that paid internet trolls to post pro-Monsanto comments all across the internet[https://www.monsanto.news/2018-06-28-monsanto-secretly-ran-let-nothing-go-campaign-paid-internet-trolls.html]<br /> * EU regulators based a decision to relicense the controversial weedkiller glyphosate on an assessment plagiarised from industry reports, according to a report for the European parliament.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/eu-glyphosate-approval-was-based-on-plagiarised-monsanto-text-report-finds]<br /> * Judge in Roundup maker’s first federal trial had banned discussion of the company’s alleged manipulation of science. Monsanto is facing its first federal trial over allegations that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, but a US judge has blocked attorneys from discussing the corporation’s alleged manipulation of science. In an extraordinary move in a packed San Francisco courtroom on Monday, US judge Vince Chhabria threatened to sanction and “shut down” a cancer patient’s attorney for violating his ban on talking about Monsanto’s influence on government regulators and cancer research.[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/25/monsanto-federal-trial-roundup-cancer]<br /> * A broad new scientific analysis of the cancer-causing potential of glyphosate herbicides, the most widely used weedkilling products in the world, has found that people with high exposures to the popular pesticides have a 41% increased risk of developing a type of cancer called non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/14/weed-killing-products-increase-cancer-risk-of-cancer]<br /> * IARC responds to the claims its study claiming Glyphosate was probably carcinogenic, was incorrect and says media distorting actual reports. From reading, the IARC claims are based on the review of more than 1000 independent scientific studies. The idea that one particular study contradicts their overall findings and should be used to dismiss the IARC study is absurd. IARC also calls attention to concern over industry badgering scientists to reveal their findings prior to publication and peer review.[https://www.iarc.fr/featured-news/media-centre-iarc-news-glyphosate/]<br /> * The world’s most used weedkiller damages the beneficial bacteria in the guts of honeybees and makes them more prone to deadly infections, new research has found. Previous studies have shown that pesticides such as neonicotinoids cause harm to bees, whose pollination is vital to about three-quarters of all food crops. Glyphosate, manufactured by Monsanto, targets an enzyme only found in plants and bacteria. However, the new study shows that glyphosate damages the microbiota that honeybees need to grow and to fight off pathogens. The findings show glyphosate, the most used agricultural chemical ever, may be contributing to the global decline in bees, along with the loss of habitat.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/24/monsanto-weedkiller-harms-bees-research-finds]<br /> * Court Orders EPA To Ban Chlorpyrifos, A Pesticide Linked To Brain Damage In Kids.[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-ban-pesticide-chlorpyrifos_us_5b6c6d0ce4b0ae32af96318e]<br /> * A federal jury today convicted a Birmingham lawyer and an Alabama coal company executive in a scheme to bribe a state legislator to use his office to oppose Environmental Protection Agency actions in north Birmingham, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr. and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Holloman.[https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndal/pr/federal-jury-convicts-lawyer-and-coal-company-executive-bribing-state-legislator]<br /> * When Trump administration officials opposed a WHO breast-feeding resolution, they followed a long history of policymakers listening to baby-formula manufacturers.[https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/07/the-epic-battle-between-breast-milk-and-infant-formula-companies/564782/]<br /> * Monsanto 'bullied scientists' and hid weedkiller cancer risk, lawyer tells court[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jul/09/monsanto-trial-roundup-weedkiller-cancer-dewayne-johnson]<br /> * Why Trump's new CDC director is an abysmal choice: Redfield worked closely with the Christian organization, Americans for a Sound AIDS/HIV Policy. The group maintained AIDS was &quot;God's judgment&quot; against homosexuals, spread in an America weakened by single-parent households and loss of family values.[https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/13/opinions/trumps-terrible-choice-for-cdc-redfield-garrett/index.html]<br /> * After more than 40 years of widespread use, new scientific tests show formulated weedkillers have higher rates of toxicity to human cells.The tests are part of the US National Toxicology Program’s (NTP) first-ever examination of herbicide formulations made with the active ingredient glyphosate, but that also include other chemicals. While regulators have previously required extensive testing of glyphosate in isolation, government scientists have not fully examined the toxicity of the more complex products sold to consumers, farmers and others. Monsanto introduced its glyphosate-based Roundup brand in 1974. But it is only now, after more than 40 years of widespread use, that the government is investigating the toxicity of “glyphosate-based herbicides” on human cells.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/08/weedkiller-tests-monsanto-health-dangers-active-ingredient]<br /> * Popular article (that made the front page of a high-ranked subReddit) entitled, &quot;Millennials 'have no qualms about GM crops' unlike older generation&quot; was in actuality, a &quot;study&quot; commissioned by the Agricultural BiotechnologyCouncil, which is an industry lobbying group. The Agricultural Biotechnology Council (ABC) is a UK corporate lobby group funded by major biottechnology companies and run from the offices of a PR company, Lexington Communications. On its website, ABC lists members as comprising: BASF, Bayer CropScience, Dow AgroSciences, Pioneer (which is part of DuPont), Monsanto, Syngenta. &quot;In typical astroturf fashion they try to draw some kind of connection with &quot;Millennials&quot; to give themselves credibility.&quot;[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/07/millennials-have-no-qualms-gm-crops-unlike-older-generation/][https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/8hnt5r/millennials_have_no_qualms_about_gm_crops_unlike/dylh1u0/]<br /> * Under Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has dramatically shifted away from its stated mission to “protect human and environmental health.” Instead, the agency is clearly favoring the interests of the polluting industries that it is mandated to regulate, according to a study.[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304360]<br /> * Weedkiller found in granola and crackers, internal FDA emails show. The FDA has been testing food samples for traces of glyphosate for two years, but the agency has not yet released any official result. Other findings detailed in the FDA documents show that in 2016 Chamkasem found glyphosate in numerous samples of honey. Chamkasem also found glyphosate in oatmeal products. The FDA temporarily suspended testing after those findings, and Chamkasem’s lab was “reassigned to other programs”, the FDA documents show. The FDA has said those tests were not part of its official glyphosate residue assignment.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/30/fda-weedkiller-glyphosate-in-food-internal-emails]<br /> * &quot;Eating Pasta Linked to Weight Loss in New Study,&quot; Newsweek reported this month, racking up more than 22,500 Facebook likes, shares, and comments. The happy news also went viral on the Independent, the New York Daily News, and Business Insider. What those and many other stories failed to note, however, was that three of the scientists behind the study in question had financial conflicts as tangled as a bowl of spaghetti, including ties to the world’s largest pasta company, the Barilla Group. At least 10 peer-reviewed studies about pasta published since 2008 were either funded directly by Barilla or, like the one published this month, were carried out by scientists who have had financial ties to the company.[https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemlee/pasta-barilla-science-funding]<br /> * Senate Confirms Climate Change Denier To Lead NASA, Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) will take over control of the space agency after seven-month standoff. Bridenstine will become the first elected official to hold the NASA administrator job. He joins a Cabinet already loaded with people who question the near-universal scientific consensus that climate change is real and that human activity is the primary cause. The final vote ― which was 50-49 along party lines ― came one day after the Senate narrowly advanced Bridenstine’s nomination, thanks to an about-face from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and a key vote from Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.). Rubio[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jim-bridenstine-nasa-confirmation_us_5ad8aab7e4b03c426dac081c]<br /> * Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine sued agricultural giant Monsanto on Monday, alleging the company concealed dangers posed by a toxic chemical compound it manufactured for nearly a half century. In the suit, filed in the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court in Cincinnati, prosecutors argued that the company should pay for the clean-up of what it says are dozens of rivers, lakes and other water bodies contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/monsanto-concealed-effects-toxic-chemical-decades-ohio-ag-alleges-n853866]<br /> * The world’s most widely used insecticides pose a serious danger to both honeybees and wild bees, according to a major new assessment from the European Union’s scientific risk assessors. The conclusion, based on analysis of more than 1,500 studies, makes it highly likely that the neonicotinoid pesticides will be banned from all fields across the EU when nations vote on the issue next month.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/28/total-ban-on-bee-harming-pesticides-likely-after-major-new-eu-analysis]<br /> * DuPont vs. the World: Chemical Giant Covered Up Health Risks of Teflon Contamination Across Globe[https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/23/dupont_vs_the_world_chemical_giant]<br /> * GOP senators who pushed Trump to ditch Paris deal took over $10 million from fossil fuel industry.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/01/republican-senators-paris-climate-deal-energy-donations]<br /> * With backing from a sugar lobby, scientists promoted dietary fat as the cause of coronary heart disease instead of sugar, according to a historical document review published in JAMA Internal Medicine.[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/12/sugar-industry-paid-research-heart-disease-jama-report]<br /> * Oregon sues Monsanto, alleges company knowingly sold toxic PCBs for decades.[http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2018/01/oregon_sues_monsanto_alleges_c.html]<br /> * Government scientists blocked from the biggest meeting in their field[https://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/22/us-geological-survey-scientists-blocked-from-conference-interior-department/]<br /> * Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Net Neutrality Narrative Is False[https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/vbympa/net-neutrality-fcc-inspector-general-report]<br /> * The Slow Demise of Asbestos, the Carcinogen that Gave ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Snow[https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-slow-demise-of-asbestos-the-carcinogen-that-gave-the-wizard-of-oz-snow]<br /> * Trump reverses ban on Nazi created pesticide after receiving huge donation from chemical company[https://www.snopes.com/trump-reverses-insecticide-ban-dow-chemicals/]<br /> * Sugar industry withheld research effects of sucrose 50 years ago, study claims Researchers say negative health impacts of sucrose could have been combated sooner had research been released – but industry bodies dispute the findings.In 1967, when scientists were arguing over the link between sugar consumption and increased risk of heart disease, researchers now claim that the International Sugar Research Foundation (ISRF) withheld findings that rats that were fed a high-sugar diet had higher levels of triglycerides (a fat found in the blood) than those fed starch. In a move researchers from the University of California at San Francisco have compared to the tobacco industry’s self-preservation tactics, the foundation stopped funding the project.[https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2017/nov/21/sugar-industry-withheld-research-effects-of-sucrose-50-years-ago-study-claims]<br /> * As cigarette sales decline worldwide, the tobacco giant Phillip Morris Inc. is scrambling to restructure and embrace potentially more profitable “smoke-free” products. The revamp involves setting up an $80 million foundation called the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. The World Health Organization rebuked Phillip Morris and accused it of being disingenuous about consumer health, citing decades of research meddling and deceptive marketing. It declared it would have nothing to do with the foundation and warned governments the world over to do the same.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/philip-morris-sets-up-80m-research-foundation-who-flips-them-the-bird/]<br /> * Monsanto banned from European parliament: MEPs withdraw parliamentary access after the firm shunned a hearing into allegations that it unduly influenced studies into the safety of glyphosate used in its RoundUp weedkiller.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/28/monsanto-banned-from-european-parliament]<br /> * Coca-Cola secretly spent $1.5 million to fund an entire network of academic researchers whose goal was to shift the national health conversation away from the harms of sugary beverages. Instead, their research focused on the benefits of exercise—i.e., the health risks of sedentary and inactive lifestyles.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/the-new-study-suggesting-sitting-will-kill-you-is-kind-of-a-raging-dumpster-fire/]<br /> * Union of Concerned Scientists complains that the Trump administration's &quot;Chief Scientist&quot; at the USDA is not a scientist: Sam Clovis—a conservative talk radio host, Trump campaign co-chair, and climate denier with no training in science—for the role of chief scientist at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). [http://blog.ucsusa.org/mike-lavender/the-case-against-clovis-why-trumps-usda-chief-scientist-nominee-is-the-wrong-choice]<br /> * Almost All of FCC’s New Advisory Panel Works for Telecoms, most of which are against Net Neutrality.[http://www.thedailybeast.com/almost-all-of-fccs-new-advisory-panel-works-for-telecoms]<br /> * Court evidence reveals Monsanto involved with published Scientific Studies Without Disclosing Conflicts of Interest to publishers.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/monsanto-secret-documents/]<br /> * Internal Emails Show Monsanto Made Substantial Contributions to Published Expert Panel Manuscript.[http://baumhedlundlaw.com/pdf/monsanto-documents/3-Internal-Emails-Show-Monsanto-Made-Substantial-Contributions-to-Published-Expert-Panel-Manuscript.pdf]<br /> * Monsanto secret documents revealed, contianing correspondence between Dr. William Heydens and Ashely Roberts regarding the Expert Panel Manuscript. Dr. Heydens went “through the entire document and “indicated what I think should stay, what can go, and in a couple spots I did a little editing. I took a crack at adding a little text: on page 10 to address John’s comments about toxicologists’ use of Hill’s criteria … see what you think; it made sense to me, but I’m not sure if it will to others – please feel free to further modify and/or run by Cary.” at *1. The edited draft is also attached and challenged for confidentiality.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/monsanto-secret-documents/]<br /> * Court documents reveal Monsanto was ghost-writing academic papers defending its products and attacking critics.The documents underscore the lengths to which the agrochemical company goes to protect its image. Documents show that Henry I. Miller, an academic and a vocal proponent of genetically modified crops, asked Monsanto to draft an article for him that largely mirrored one that appeared under his name on Forbes's website in 2015. Mr. Miller could not be reached for comment. A similar issue appeared in academic research. An academic involved in writing research funded by Monsanto, John Acquavella, a former Monsanto employee, appeared to express discomfort with the process, writing in a 2015 email to a Monsanto executive, &quot;I can't be part of deceptive authorship on a presentation or publication.&quot; He also said of the way the company was trying to present the authorship: &quot;We call that ghost writing and it is unethical.&quot; Mr. Miller's 2015 article on Forbes's website was an attack on the findings of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization that had labeled glyphosate a probable carcinogen, a finding disputed by other regulatory bodies.[https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/08/03/227249/monsanto-leaks-suggest-it-tried-to-kill-cancer-research-on-roundup-weed-killer?utm_source=feedburnerFaceBook&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29]<br /> * The FCC Insists It Can't Stop Impostors From Lying About My Views On Net Neutrality.[https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20170710/10071737756/fcc-insists-it-cant-stop-impostors-lying-about-my-views-net-neutrality.shtml]<br /> * DOW CHEMICAL DONATES $1 MILLION TO TRUMP, ASKS ADMINISTRATION TO IGNORE PESTICIDE STUDY.[http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/04/dow-chemical-endangered-species]<br /> * E.P.A. Official Pressured Scientist on Congressional Testimony, Emails Show: The Environmental Protection Agency’s chief of staff pressured the top scientist on the agency’s scientific review board to alter her congressional testimony and play down the dismissal of expert advisers.[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/us/politics/epa-official-pressured-scientist-on-congressional-testimony-emails-show.html]<br /> * Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science]<br /> * Monsanto's GMO-friendly pesticide, Dicamba is causing widespread devastation in Missouri.[http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/dicamba-damage-is-back-and-possibly-worse-than-before/article_2e33ec05-ae98-5468-92f8-bccf6bcd7698.html]<br /> * Arkansas's pesticide regulators have stepped into the middle of an epic battle between weeds and chemicals, which has now morphed into a battle between farmers. Hundreds of farmers say their crops have been damaged by a weedkiller that was sprayed on neighboring fields. Today, the Arkansas Plant Board voted to impose an unprecedented ban on that chemical. The tension — which even led to a farmer's murder — is over a weedkiller called dicamba. The chemical moved into the weed-control spotlight a few years ago, when Monsanto created soybean and cotton plants that were genetically modified to survive it.[http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/06/23/534117683/arkansas-tries-to-stop-an-epidemic-of-herbicide-damage]<br /> * Glyphosate, an herbicide and the active ingredient in Monsanto Co's (MON.N) popular Roundup weed killer, will be added to California's list of chemicals known to cause cancer effective July 7, the state's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) said on Monday. Monsanto vowed to continue its legal fight against the designation, required under a state law known as Proposition 65, and called the decision &quot;unwarranted on the basis of science and the law.&quot;[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-glyphosate-california-idUSKBN19H2K1]<br /> * The EPA's Inspector General Is Probing Whether An Agency Staffer Colluded With Monsanto.[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-inspector-general-probing-collusion-with-monsanto_us_59372108e4b0aba888b99dca]<br /> * Monsanto Hires Internet Trolls to Cover Up Roundup’s Cancer Risk.[https://www.ecowatch.com/monsanto-hires-internet-trolls-2401703407.html]<br /> * President Donald Trump's nominee for Deputy Secretary of the Interior said today that Trump's economic policy could take priority over climate science. In his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Energy &amp; Natural Resources Committee, David Bernhardt said that he will consider science on climate change but that Trump's policy opinions that prioritize jobs could outweigh scientific conclusions.[http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/interior-dept-nominee-trumps-views-outweigh-climate-science/story?id=47492689]<br /> <br /> * White House Moves to Block Ethics Inquiry Into Ex-Lobbyists on Payroll. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/us/politics/trump-white-house-government-ethics-lobbyists.html]<br /> <br /> * U.S. judge finds that Aetna deceived the public about its reasons for quitting participation in the government's healthcare exchange under the Affordable Care Act.[http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-aetna-obamacare-20170123-story.html]<br /> <br /> * E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board - replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html?_r=0&amp;referer=]<br /> <br /> * The original &quot;food pyramid,&quot; a diagram instructing the public on the proper healthy allocation of different food types, given to the US government by nutritionists was altered for the benefit of the food industry and grain growers.[https://proteinpower.com/drmike/2014/02/19/death-food-pyramid/]<br /> <br /> * &quot;Cosmos&quot; episode explains How Corporations Fund Science Denial. An entire episode was devoted to the Clair Patterson, who discovered that lead was entering the atmosphere through the burning of leaded gasoline. Yet, it took twenty years for unleaded gas to become the norm.[http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/04/cosmos-neil-tyson-lead-industry-science-denial][http://www.space.com/25579-cosmos-recap-earth-age-lead-poisoning.html]<br /> <br /> * In the 1960s, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the risks of sugar and highlighted the hazards of fat, according to a newly published article in JAMA Internal Medicine. The article draws on internal documents to show that an industry group called the Sugar Research Foundation wanted to &quot;refute&quot; concerns about sugar's possible role in heart disease. The SRF then sponsored research by Harvard scientists that did just that. The result was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1967, with no disclosure of the sugar industry funding. [http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat]<br /> <br /> * Editor quits journal over pay-for-expedited peer-review offer. With a tweet yesterday, an editor of Scientific Reports, one of Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG’s) open-access journals, has resigned in a very public protest of NPG’s recent decision to allow authors to pay money to expedite peer review of their submitted papers. “My objections are that it sets up a two-tiered system and instead of the best science being published in a timely fashion it will further shift the balance to well-funded labs and groups,” Mark Maslin, a biogeographer at University College London, tells ScienceInsider.[http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/03/updated-editor-quits-journal-over-pay-expedited-peer-review-offer]<br /> <br /> * House of Commons committee to open hearings on neonic pesticide with industry-biased panel.[http://menafn.com/1095300543/House-of-Commons-committee-to-open-hearings-on-neonic-pesticide-with-industry-biased-panel]<br /> * The EPA Finally Admitted That the World’s Most Popular Pesticide Kills Bees—20 Years Too Late.[http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2016/01/epa-finds-major-pesticide-toxic-bees]<br /> <br /> * NASA executives waste $80M renewing an industry contract to produce a spacesuit inferior to what the government's own engineers were designing. NASA leaders claimed the contract was necessary to, &quot;keep industry engaged in spacesuit design&quot;, but the report dismisses this idea, noting the agency's in-house Advanced Space Suit Project shared several contractors and primary subcontractors.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/nasas-spacesuit-program-is-something-of-a-hot-mess/]<br /> <br /> == Monsanto/Bayer Controversies ==<br /> <br /> * Pesticide Created By Bayer Accidentally Kills Off Twelve-Mile Stretch of Trees in Oregon.[https://althealthworks.com/16015/pesticide-created-by-bayer-accidentally-kills-off-twelve-miles-worth-of-trees-in-oregon/]<br /> <br /> * The law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei &amp; Goldman made public today hundreds of pages of newly de-classified internal Monsanto documents, including company email exchanges, reports, studies and other memoranda.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/4-19-new-monsanto-papers-docs/]<br /> <br /> * A new study by the non-profit claims to have found 19 major beer and wine brands whose products contain the pesticide glyphosate, a.k.a. one of the ingredients present in the weed killer Roundup..[http://www.grubstreet.com/2019/02/pesticides-major-beer-wine-brands.html]<br /> <br /> * Five things to know about Bayer and Monsanto, including its connection to Nazi gas chambers.[https://phys.org/news/2018-08-bayer-monsanto.html]<br /> <br /> * Shareholders of the German chemical giant Bayer staged a full-blown revolt at a heated 13-hour meeting in Bonn on Friday, arguing that the management failed to see the company was inheriting a raft of nightmarish litigation associated with glyphosate when it bought U.S. agrichemical giant Monsanto for $66 billion last year. The investors are furious that a blue-riband European company is now potentially exposed to billions of dollars of claims over the glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup, created by Monsanto. Two U.S. court verdicts over the past year found that the world's most popular herbicide caused cancer, hauling shares in Bayer down about 40 percent since August. Bayer has appealed those decisions but is now facing an avalanche of some 13,400 claims. &quot;It is about time Bayer came to grips with the fact that they purchased Monsanto’s misconduct and, now, need to do right by the victims. It’s time to resolve these lawsuits and give Bayer shareholders confidence again in corporate leadership,&quot; said Brent Wisner, an attorney at Baum, Hedlund, Aristei &amp; Goldman, which is representing plaintiffs in the lawsuits against Monsanto.[https://www.politico.eu/article/glyphosate-revolt-rocks-germany-inc-bayer-shareholders-vote/]<br /> <br /> * Concerns over glyphosate pass from human health to the soil.Experts say the weedkiller’s impact on soil health represents a serious threat to Europe’s long-term food security. [https://www.politico.eu/article/glyphosate-concerns-pass-from-human-health-to-soil/]<br /> <br /> * Washington State University researchers have found a variety of diseases and other health problems in the second- and third-generation offspring of rats exposed to glyphosate, the world's most popular weed killer. In the first study of its kind, the researchers saw descendants of exposed rats developing prostate, kidney and ovarian diseases, obesity and birth abnormalities. Michael Skinner, a WSU professor of biological sciences, and his colleagues exposed pregnant rats to the herbicide between their eighth and 14th days of gestation. The dose—half the amount expected to show no adverse effect—produced no apparent ill effects on either the parents or the first generation of offspring. But writing in the journal Scientific Reports, the researchers say they saw &quot;dramatic increases&quot; in several pathologies affecting the second and third generations. The second generation had &quot;significant increases&quot; in testis, ovary and mammary gland diseases, as well as obesity. In third-generation males, the researchers saw a 30 percent increase in prostate disease—three times that of a control population. The third generation of females had a 40 percent increase in kidney disease, or four times that of the controls.[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-42860-0][https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-04-health-effects-popular-weed-killer.html]<br /> <br /> * Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees, Erick V. S. Motta, Kasie Raymann, and Nancy A. Moran<br /> PNAS published ahead of print September 24, 2018. &quot;Increased mortality of honey bee colonies has been attributed to several factors but is not fully understood. The herbicide glyphosate is expected to be innocuous to animals, including bees, because it targets an enzyme only found in plants and microorganisms. However, bees rely on a specialized gut microbiota that benefits growth and provides defense against pathogens. Most bee gut bacteria contain the enzyme targeted by glyphosate, but vary in whether they possess susceptible versions and, correspondingly, in tolerance to glyphosate. Exposing bees to glyphosate alters the bee gut community and increases susceptibility to infection by opportunistic pathogens. Understanding how glyphosate impacts bee gut symbionts and bee health will help elucidate a possible role of this chemical in colony decline.&quot; [https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1803880115]<br /> <br /> * Consuming a mixture of sugar syrup and glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, alters honey bees’ microbiomes, and these changes increased mortality among insects exposed to pathogenic bacteria, according to a study.[https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/herbicide-may-harm-microbiome-of-bees-64860]<br /> <br /> * Attorneys for a couple who claim Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer gave them both cancer tried to convince a California jury Thursday that the agrochemical company engaged in decades of fraud to hide the fact that the herbicide is carcinogenic. Wisner on Thursday ran through a list of Monsanto’s newly revealed alleged sins, starting with the so-called IBT scandal. The company seemingly planted one of its employees at a contract lab called Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories (IBT) in the 1970s to fake negative mouse carcinogenicity data for Roundup’s active ingredient glyphosate that were to be used to win regulatory approval for the weed killer in 1975; planned an attack to discredit the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cancer research agency, anticipating the agency would classify glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen in 2015; and exploited “deep connections” within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to classify glyphosate as non-carcinogenic.[https://www.courthousenews.com/roundup-trial-monsanto-used-fake-data-to-win-over-regulators/]<br /> <br /> * Glyphosate Worse than We Could Imagine. “It’s Everywhere” Glyphosate residues have been found in tap water, orange juice, children’s urine, breast milk, chips, snacks, beer, wine, cereals, eggs, oatmeal, wheat products, and most conventional foods tested. It’s everywhere, in brief.[https://www.globalresearch.ca/glyphosate-worse/5674472]<br /> <br /> * The overlooked impact of rising glyphosate use on phosphorus loading in agricultural watersheds. The herbicide glyphosate dominates the global pesticide market, with applied tonnage increasing steadily worldwide. Glyphosate's capacity to degrade rapidly is often used to argue against potential toxicological effects, but the phosphorus (P) it contains persists in the environment and can influence soil P accumulation and losses to surrounding freshwater systems, which are prone to nutrient pollution.[https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/fee.1985]<br /> <br /> * Louisiana sugar cane farmers are using Glyphosate as a &quot;chemical ripener&quot; on crops.[https://www.lsuagcenter.com/portals/communications/publications/agmag/archive/2008/spring/use-of-glyphosate-to-enhance-sugar-production-in-louisiana]<br /> <br /> == Trump administration's questionable respect for science ==<br /> <br /> * Trump to nominate former Monsanto executive to top interior department position. Aurelia Skipwith, who worked as a lawyer and in research at Monsanto, will be nominated to run the Fish and Wildlife Service.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/23/aurelia-skipwith-monsanto-fish-wildlife-service-interior-department]<br /> <br /> <br /> * Trump Quietly Nominates Mass Surveillance Advocate To “Protect” Your Privacy Rights[http://theantimedia.org/trump-mass-surveillance-privacy/]<br /> <br /> * Trump officially nominates Sam Clovis, climate-denying conservative talk radio host as USDA’s top scientist.[https://thinkprogress.org/sam-clovis-officially-nominated-still-not-a-scientist-d47be4ffb1a8]<br /> <br /> * Trump's 5 Most “Anti-Science” Moves, Scientific American [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-5-most-ldquo-anti-science-rdquo-moves/]<br /> <br /> * Donald Trump's War On Science, New Yorker [http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/donald-trumps-war-on-science]<br /> <br /> * Trump has launched a blitzkrieg in the wars on science and Earth’s climate, The Guardian, [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/mar/28/trump-has-launched-a-blitzkrieg-in-the-wars-on-science-and-earths-climate]<br /> <br /> ===Anti-science head of the EPA under the Trump administration===<br /> <br /> * Scott Pruitt’s Attack on Science Would Paralyze the E.P.A.[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/opinion/pruitt-attack-science-epa.html]<br /> <br /> * Trump’s embattled EPA head Scott Pruitt has come down on the side of polluters on just about every issue that faces the US, so it is with little surprise that in a recent interview he signaled that he may try to fight back against California’s fuel economy requirements.[https://electrek.co/2018/03/14/epa-chief-scott-pruitt-signals-war-with-california-over-cafe-mileage-standards/]<br /> <br /> * Trump Re-Nominates Anti-Wildlife Climate Denier to Top Environment Post[https://www.ecowatch.com/ceq-nominee-white-2524022932.html]<br /> <br /> * Pruitt drives out EPA staff, hires unqualified former banker pal[http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pruitt-drives-out-epa-staff-hires-unqualified-former-banker-pal-1122919491794]<br /> <br /> * EPA seeks to scrap rule protecting drinking water for third of Americans[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/27/epa-clean-water-rule-drinking]<br /> <br /> * E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board - replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html?_r=0&amp;referer=]<br /> <br /> * EPA Scientists Worry Their New Boss Doesn't Want Science. [https://www.wired.com/2017/02/epa-scientists-worry-new-boss-doesnt-want-science/]<br /> <br /> * President Trump's pick to run the Environmental Protection Agaency is a self-described “leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda,” Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma’s attorney general since 2011, has repeatedly sued the agency and other government entities over environmental rules and regulations, at times in direct cooperation with fossil fuel companies.[http://www.factcheck.org/2016/12/facts-trumps-epa-nominee/] <br /> <br /> :From Factcheck.org on Trumps head of the EPA:<br /> <br /> ** Pruitt’s questionable claims include:<br /> ** He falsely said in May that scientists “disagree about the degree” and “connection” of global warming “to the actions of mankind.” As we have written time and time again, the vast majority of climate scientists believe global warming is real and human-caused.<br /> **He also said the Clean Power Plan will “significantly” increase electricity prices. Whether the price change is “significant” is a matter of opinion, but the Energy Information Administration estimates that prices under the plan would range from a 7 percent decrease to a 7 percent increase between 2025 and 2040, depending on the region.<br /> **He implied in April 2014 that’s there’s no evidence to support a link between fracking and water contamination. There is some evidence to support a link in certain instances, but not enough to definitively conclude that contamination is widespread, as we wrote in early December.<br /> <br /> * Climate change cynic Scott Pruitt takes over as Donald Trump's head of Environmental Protection Agency[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/17/climate-change-cynic-scott-pruitt-takes-donald-trumps-head-environmental/]<br /> <br /> ===Anti-science appointees to the USDA===<br /> <br /> * Incompetence Looms: Trump To Appoint Non-Scientist As USDA's Chief Scientist[https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2017/05/14/trump-will-appoint-incompetent-non-scientist-as-usdas-chief-scientist/2/#1276211e1276]<br /> * The Trump administration is planning to nominate Sam Clovis — the Department of Agriculture’s senior White House adviser — as head of USDA’s Research, Education and Economics division, according to individuals briefed on the decision. The move would mark a break with recent Republican and Democratic administrations alike, which have previously reserved the high-level position for scientists with expertise in agricultural research. Clovis — a former economics professor and talk radio host in Iowa who served as one of the Trump campaign’s first policy advisers — has bachelor’s degrees in political science and government, a master’s in business administration and a doctoral degree in public administration[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/13/trumps-expected-choice-for-the-leading-usda-science-job-isnt-a-trained-scientist/]<br /> * Trump’s Expected Pick for Top USDA Scientist Is Not a Scientist[https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-expected-pick-for-top-usda-scientist-is-not-a-scientist]<br /> <br /> ==Industry/Government Attacks On Scientists==<br /> <br /> * State-funded scientists could be prevented from lobbying for change in their field under Cabinet Office proposals. Senior scientists have denounced a potential move to “muzzle” colleagues whose findings are disliked by the government. The proposal – announced by the Cabinet Office earlier this month – would block researchers who receive government grants from using their results to lobby for changes to laws or regulations. For example, an academic whose government-funded research showed that new regulations were proving particularly harmful to the homeless would not be able to call for policy change. Similarly, ecologists who found out that new planning laws were harming wildlife would not be able to raise the issue in public, while climate scientists whose findings undermined government energy policy could have work suppressed.[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/20/scientists-attack-muzzling-government-state-funded-cabinet-office]<br /> <br /> * Renown Canadian scientist personally attacked by industry after expressing concern over GMOs. [https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/glp-facts/david-suzuki-canadas-science-guy-turned-eccentric-anti-gmo-chemical-scaremonger/]<br /> <br /> ==Other articles==<br /> <br /> * Los Angeles County Bans Use of Roundup Weed Killer.[https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2019-03-22/los-angeles-county-bans-use-of-roundup-weed-killer]<br /> * The Monsanto Papers - information on current court cases regarding Monsanto/Bayer.[https://usrtk.org/monsanto-papers/]<br /> * The secret tactics Monsanto used to protect Roundup, its star product[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JszHrMZ7dx4]<br /> * In the latest stage of a decade-long legal tussle, the appeals court in Lyon, France on Thursday found in favor of farmer Paul Francois’ claim that Monsanto’s Lasso weedkiller had made him sick and that the product’s labeling had been inadequate. Francois, 55, says he suffered neurological problems, including memory loss, fainting and headaches, after accidentally inhaling Lasso in 2004 while working on his farm. “Mr Francois justifiably concludes that the product, due to its inadequate labeling that did not respect applicable regulations, did not offer the level of safety he could legitimately expect,” the court said in its ruling. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-monsanto-lawsuit/french-court-finds-bayers-monsanto-liable-for-farmers-sickness-idUSKCN1RN1JA?il=0]<br /> * A new report found glyphosate, a weed-killing chemical that some health authorities link to cancer, in a number of popular breakfast foods and cereals marketed to children. The study by the non-profit Environmental Working Group (EWG) discovered trace amounts of the most widely used herbicide in the country in oats, granolas and snack bars. Thirty-one out of 45 tested products had levels higher than what some scientists consider safe for children. Recently, some scientists, doctors and activists around the world have worked to keep glyphosate out of crops due to concerns that it is a dangerous carcinogen.[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/glyphosate-roundup-chemical-found-in-childrens-breakfast-foods/]<br /> * Judge Upholds Verdict That Found Monsanto’s Roundup Caused a Man’s Cancer. [https://theantimedia.com/judge-monsanto-roundup-cancer/]<br /> * A collaborative study by three US universities reported that individuals with particularly high exposures to glyphosate-based herbicides (Roundup), for instance those spraying it, could have a 41% increased relative risk of developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1383574218300887]<br /> * Is RoundUp carcinogenic? The trouble is, for every research paper that purports to show a link between glyphosate-based herbicides and cancer, there is another which finds the exact opposite. This hasn’t been helped by the fact that many of the studies may not have been entirely objective. “A lot of the studies backing glyphosate have been funded by entities in a position to profit from the continuing sales. But one of the factors that have left commentators suspicious of the potential toxicity of these herbicides has been incidents of combative corporate behaviour. In the latest trial, Monsanto has caused eyebrows to raise by obtaining a ban preventing attorneys for the plaintiffs from presenting information regarding its alleged influence on research.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/09/spray-pray-is-roundup-carcinogenic-monsanto-farmers-suing]<br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * Science-Mart, Privatizing American Science, Philip Mirowski [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674046467]<br /> <br /> * [[Theists in the news]]<br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Industry]]<br /> [[Category:Science]]<br /> [[Category:Scientific_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Religious_Scandals Religious Scandals 2019-05-22T16:18:53Z <p>Pile: /* Mormons */</p> <hr /> <div>This page outlines major religious scandals propagated or covered up by major church institutions. For stories on issues involving individual adherents or churches see [[Theists in the news]], [[Priest Abuse]] and [[It's a miracle]].<br /> [[Image:Oh christ.jpg|right]]<br /> ==Baptists==<br /> <br /> ===Baptist founder abandoned his own church===<br /> <br /> The founder of the Baptist Church, John Smyth, eventually broke away from the church he founded and joined the Mennonites! That’s right--the founder of the Baptist Church, John Smyth, had so little faith in his own creation that he abandoned it. In addition, he tried to convince as many of his congregation as possible to abandon the Baptist Church--and a majority of them did.&lt;ref&gt;J.K. Lee (2003). The Theology of John Smyth: Puritan, Separatist, Baptist, Mennonite. Mercer University Press&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Jehovah's Witnesses==<br /> <br /> ===The End of the World===<br /> <br /> 1914 was one of the more important estimates of the start of the war of Armageddon by the Jehovah’s Witnesses (Watchtower Bible and Tract Society). They computed 1914 from prophecy in the book of Daniel, Chapter 4. The writings referred to “seven times”. The WTS interpreted each “time” as equal to 360 days, giving a total of 2520 days. This was further interpreted as representing 2520 years, measured from the starting date of 607 BCE. This gave 1914 as the target date. When 1914 passed, they changed their prediction; 1914 became the year that Jesus invisibly began his rule.<br /> <br /> Since late in the 19th century, they had taught that the “battle of the Great Day of God Almighty” (Armageddon) would happen in 1914 CE. It didn’t. The next major estimate was 1925. Watchtower magazine predicted: “The year 1925 is a date definitely and clearly marked in the Scriptures, even more clearly than that of 1914; but it would be presumptuous on the part of any faithful follower of the Lord to assume just what the Lord is going to do during that year.”<br /> <br /> The Watchtower Society selected 1975 as its next main prediction. This was based on the estimate “according to reliable Bible chronology Adam was created in the year 4026 BCE, likely in the autumn of the year, at the end of the sixth day of creation.” They believed that the year 1975 a promising date for the end of the world, as it was the 6,000th anniversary of Adam’s creation. Exactly 1,000 years was to pass for each day of the creation week. This prophecy also failed.<br /> <br /> Realizing how stupid they were looking every time they made a new failed prediction, they announced that the end of the world would occur 6000 years after the creation of Eve - a date that can not be calculated.<br /> <br /> ===Miracle Wheat===<br /> <br /> After a variety of newspaper reports claiming that a man had discovered a variety of wheat that was far more productive than normal wheat, the Jehovah’s Witnesses believed it to be a sign of a covenant from God relating to the end times. As a result, they bought up a lot of the wheat and offered it for sale at exorbitant prices. The official statement from the organization was:<br /> <br /> {{bluebox|<br /> Brother Bohnet writes us that he has gradually accumulated a crop of miracle wheat from the few grains he obtained as a start. He prefers that the first opportunity for obtaining this wheat shall go to THE WATCH TOWER readers. He will sell it for $1 per pound, including postage, and give the entire proceeds to our Society. All orders for this wheat should be addressed, Miracle Wheat Bohnet, 17 Hicks street, Brooklyn, N. Y. This will keep mail on this subject separate from his personal mail and from ours.}}<br /> <br /> At trial, Mr. Russell admitted the seed packets had been mailed from the Watch Tower offices: “For the accommodation of our readers, we allowed this seed-wheat to be put up in pound packages and mailed from THE WATCH TOWER Office, just as the U.S. Government handles such seeds at Washington.” (ZWT 02/15/1913).<br /> <br /> Needless to say, the wheat was not miraculous and behaved exactly like normal wheat.<br /> <br /> ==Other Christian Sects==<br /> <br /> ===The Jonestown Massacre===<br /> <br /> Jonestown was the communal settlement made in northwestern Guyana by the Peoples Temple, a Christian cult from California, founded in the mid-1970s by Jim Jones, for whom it was named. It stood amidst jungle, about seven miles southwest from Port Kaituma. It had a population of about one thousand once it was fully established and the bulk of Jones' followers had moved there, but they occupied it only for a few years.<br /> <br /> Jonestown gained lasting international notoriety in 1978, when nearly its whole population died in a mass murder-and-suicide ordered by Jones. Somewhat over nine hundred men, women and children were slain, Jones among them. Jones ordered the mass suicide when a Congressman from California flew to the settlement to investigate claims made by people who had family in the cult. Poisoned flavored drinks were handed out to men women and children, who laid down and died. This act has morphed into the euphemism for blind loyalty: ''drinking the Kool-aid''.<br /> <br /> ===Branch Davidians===<br /> <br /> Need content here on David Koresh's cult.<br /> <br /> ==Hindus==<br /> <br /> ===Thuggee, The Hindu Cult of Kali===<br /> [[Image:Hindu-thuggee.jpg|right]]<br /> Accounts of a secret cult of murderers roaming India go back at least as far as the 13th century, but to modern history their story usually begins with the entrance of the British Empire in the early 1800s. For some years, India’s British administrators had been hearing reports of large numbers of travelers disappearing on the country’s roads; but, while disturbing, such incidents were not entirely unusual for the time. It was not until the discovery of a series of eerily similar mass graves across India that the truth began to dawn. Each site was piled with the bodies of individuals ritually murdered and buried in the same meticulous fashion, leading to an inescapable conclusion: these killings were the work of a single, nation-spanning organization. It was known as Thuggee.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=873#more-873&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> More than 40,000 deaths in modern times and perhaps more than 2,000,000 historically, are attributed to this cult that practices ritualistic sacrifice of non-members of its group. They befriend travelers and tourists, often spending days and traveling hundreds of miles with their victims, gaining their trust, at which point when they least expect it, the group attacks and murders as a homage to the god [[Kali]].<br /> <br /> ==Lutherans==<br /> <br /> ===On the Jews and their Lies===<br /> <br /> Unfortunately the founder of protestantism Martin Luther was also a religous bigot. In his most famous book about Judiasm (written in 1543) we find the following gem:<br /> <br /> {{bluebox |<br /> &quot;base, whoring people, that is, no people of God, and their boast of lineage, circumcision, and law must be accounted as filth. They are full of the devil’s feces … which they wallow in like swine, and the synagogue is an incorrigible whore and an evil slut...&quot;}}<br /> <br /> If you want to read the entire booklet, it is available here. Two other books by Luther, Against the Papacy at Rome Founded by the Devil, and Against Hanswurst, are described as “rivaling his anti-Jewish treatises for vulgarity and violence of expression”, and “[are] so inexpressibly vile that a common impulse of decency demanded their summary suppression by his friends.”<br /> <br /> ==Mormons==<br /> <br /> ===[[Book of Abraham]]===<br /> <br /> The [[Book of Abraham]] is believed by Mormons to be the handwritten account of the prophet Abraham. In 1835 Smith was able to use his “Angel-given” tools to translate some Egyptian scrolls that he was given access to (at that time no one could read hieroglyphics). Upon inspection, Smith declared that they contained the Book of Abraham. He promptly translated the lot and it was accepted as scripture by the church (it is included as part of the Pearl of Great Price). The scrolls vanished and everyone thought the story would end there. But it didn’t - in 1966 the original scrolls were found in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. The scrolls turned out to be a standard Egyptian text that was often buried with the dead. This fraud caused a number of Mormons to leave the church and is still a hotly debated topic amongst mormons and their critics.<br /> <br /> ===Mountain Meadows Massacre===<br /> <br /> The Mountain Meadows massacre was a mass killing of the Fancher-Baker wagon train at Mountain Meadows in Utah Territory on September 11, 1857, by a group of Mormons and Paiute Indians. The Arkansas emigrants were traveling to California shortly before Utah War started. Mormons throughout the Utah Territory had been mustered to fight the invading United States Army, which they believed was intended to destroy them as a people. Initially intending to orchestrate an Indian massacre,{{Fact}} two men with leadership roles in local military, church and government organizations, Isaac C. Haight and John D. Lee, conspired for Lee to lead militiamen disguised as Native Americans along with a contingent of Paiute tribesmen in an attack.<br /> <br /> The emigrants fought back and a siege ensued. Intending to leave no witnesses of Mormon complicity in the siege and avoid reprisals complicating the Utah War, militiamen induced the emigrants to surrender and give up their weapons. After escorting the emigrants out of their fortification, the militiamen and their tribesmen auxiliaries executed approximately 120 men, women and children.&lt;ref&gt;Facing the Truth of Mountain Meadows, Salt Lake Tribune, 09/08/07 [http://www.sltrib.com/faith/ci_6830404]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Joseph Smith's 33 Wives===<br /> <br /> While the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints officially condemns polygamy, its founder was quite the ladies man.<br /> <br /> Historians widely agree that Joseph Smith Jr. taught and practiced polygamy. This position is supported by &quot;sealing&quot; records, public marriage licenses (in many cases notarized), affidavits, letters, journals and diaries. The church even publishes [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/AF/individual_record.asp?recid=7762167&amp;lds=0%AEion=-1%AEionfriendly=&amp;frompage=99 Joseph Smith's geneaology] to back it up.<br /> <br /> ===Established Brothels to Catch Gentile Public Officials===<br /> While the federal government was investigating Mormon leaders practice of polygamy, the church hatched a plot to catch these officials using brothels. Brothels were established in 1885 and invitations were sent to government officials. When the plot was discovered the brothels were closed and the women sent out of the territory. &lt;ref&gt;http://www.exmormon.org/mormon/mormon363.htm&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Posthumous baptism of Holocaust victims===<br /> <br /> In 1995 it came to light that the Mormon church had been posthumously baptizing Jews killed during the holocaust. This outraged the Jewish community. It was agreed the LDS church would cease such activities, but again in 2002, evidence came to light indicating the church was still practicing these baptisms of deceased people of other faiths.<br /> <br /> Even as of 2008, this is still a controversial issue:<br /> :* (11/2008) CNN reports holocaust survivors said they are through trying to negotiate with the Mormon church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps, saying the church has repeatedly violated a 13-year-old agreement barring the practice.&lt;ref&gt;http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/11/11/baptizing.dead.jews.ap/index.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Origin of American Indians===<br /> <br /> For 175 years the leaders and general membership of the Mormon Church have believed American Indians and Polynesians are descended from Israelites based on their understanding of the Book of Mormon. We now know from DNA studies that the ancestors of these native peoples were essentially all derived from Asia. Latter-day Saint apologists have claimed the DNA research has “little or no bearing on the question of Book of Mormon historicity” and that it is all a “contrived controversy,” blown out of all proportion by critics with another agenda.<br /> <br /> ===Joseph Fielding Smith (presiding patriarch's homosexual affair covered up by the church)===<br /> <br /> Joseph Fielding Smith (30 January 1899 – 29 August 1964) was presiding patriarch and a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1942 until 1946. <br /> <br /> At the age of 43, Smith was ordained a high priest and Patriarch to the Church on 8 October 1942 by Church President Heber J. Grant. He served but four years before it was reported by the church that he had requested to be released from his position. His request was granted by Church President George Albert Smith on 6 October 1946, with the church announcing that Smith was released for reasons of &quot;ill health.&quot;&lt;ref&gt;&quot;Patriarch to the Church: Released from Duties&quot;, Improvement Era 49 (Nov. 1946), 685, 708.&lt;/ref&gt; After Smith's death it was discovered that the patriarch had been involved in a homosexual affair with a 21-year-old U.S. Navy sailor, who was also a Latter-day Saint.&lt;ref&gt;Quinn, D. Michael (2001). Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. p. 370. ISBN 978-0-252-06958-1.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Use of &quot;Lucifer&quot; Term Shows Joseph Smith Copied From the KJV And Not Earlier/Divine Origins===<br /> <br /> Mormons claim that an ancient record (the Book of Mormon) was written beginning in about 600 BC, and the author in 600 BC supposedly copied Isaiah in Isaiah's original words. When Joseph Smith pretended to translate the supposed 'ancient record', he included the [[Lucifer]] verse in the Book of Mormon. Obviously he wasn't copying what Isaiah actually wrote. He was copying the King James Version of the Bible. Another book of LDS scripture, the Doctrine &amp; Covenants, furthers this problem in 76:26 when it affirms the false Christian doctrine that &quot;Lucifer&quot; means Satan. This incorrect doctrine also spread into a third set of Mormon scriptures, the Pearl of Great Price, which describes a war in heaven based, in part, on Joseph Smith's incorrect interpretation of the word &quot;Lucifer&quot; which only appears in Isaiah.<br /> <br /> The problem with the Mormon scripture's use of &quot;Lucifer&quot; is that it never existed in any early versions of scripture. The name &quot;Lucifer&quot; was added later by scribes and was a commonly-used period era metaphor for kings, the planet Venus and other &quot;lightbringers&quot;. Like the Book of Abraham, historical documents contradict claims regarding the true origins of LDS scripture.<br /> <br /> ===Mormon church used church discipline records and criminal history of a rape victim to smear her, as well as releasing her name to the media.===<br /> <br /> On March 20, as a sexual assault scandal was exploding&lt;ref&gt;http://kutv.com/news/local/lds-church-responds-to-allegations-of-sexual-assault-by-former-mission-president&lt;/ref&gt; around former Missionary Training Center President Joseph Bishop, his son, and attorney Greg Bishop sent an email to 2News unsolicited.&lt;ref&gt;http://kutv.com/news/local/woman-who-accused-mtc-president-of-sexual-assault-has-been-telling-her-story-for-3-decades&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> In the email, he unspools a five-page dossier about the past of the woman who had accused his father of rape.&lt;ref&gt;http://kutv.com/news/local/exclusive-the-woman-at-the-center-of-the-mtc-abuse-scandal-shares-her-story&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> The email included the woman’s criminal record, alleged false allegations she’d made in the past, and jobs she’d lost.<br /> <br /> It even included details about an incident that occurred when she was 17 years old. Bishop encouraged reporters to examine the woman’s past adding, “consider the source.”<br /> <br /> In the last two days, 2News has obtained a letter that was written by David Jordan, a lawyer at the firm, Stoel Rives, acting on behalf of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.<br /> <br /> The document is a response to a letter from the woman’s attorney, Craig Vernon, requesting a settlement from the LDS Church.<br /> <br /> The document includes everything we saw in Bishop’s email, plus a review of her ecclesiastical church record. <br /> <br /> At the bottom, the Jordan indicates that he sent the letter to Greg Bishop.<br /> <br /> It appears Bishop took portions of the letter, and at times, repeated allegations word for word and sent it to the media. <br /> <br /> At least three media outlets did stories based on the letter.<br /> <br /> Jordan acknowledged that he wrote the letter and only sent it to Bishop because he had been included in an email chain by the accuser’s attorney. Jordan says he did not release the letter to the media.<br /> <br /> Salt Lake City attorney Greg Skordas said the document was meant to be used for negotiating a possible settlement, releasing it was improper.<br /> <br /> “It’s a little bit problematic to me that this kind of information is now released,” Skordas said.<br /> <br /> Turner Bitton with the Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault said even if the church didn’t put out the letter, the methods used in it are intended to silence accusers.<br /> <br /> “It sends a message to that individual person, but to everyone else, that if you come forward we are going to dig through your past we're going to dig through your experiences who you are your very identity,” Bitton said.<br /> <br /> Bitton also said the church has every right to collect the information it did on Bishop’s accuser, but said, the way they did it and what they collected, may not sit well with church members.<br /> <br /> &quot;The vast majority of people that I know that are people of faith who are don't want to see this kind of behavior,” he said. “What they don't want to see is the church engaging in a way that looks like a ruthless corporation at times.&quot;&lt;ref&gt;http://kutv.com/news/local/exclusive-documents-reveal-how-the-lds-church-responded-to-mtc-sex-scandal&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ===The Mormon church reached financial settlements with four native Americans who were raped while in a church foster care program.===<br /> <br /> Four Native Americans who claimed they were sexually abused while enrolled in a now-defunct Mormon church foster program decades ago filed paperwork to dismiss their cases after reaching financial settlements, a lawyer said.<br /> <br /> Allegations have been made against the church by more than a dozen tribal members from the Navajo Nation and Crow Tribe of Montana.<br /> <br /> Four cases recently were settled, three were settled last year and others reached agreements out of court. One case remains in Washington state.<br /> <br /> The terms of the latest agreements are confidential and include no admission of wrongdoing, said Craig Vernon, an attorney who represented the tribal members.<br /> <br /> The cases were filed in Window Rock District Court on the Navajo Nation.<br /> Vernon said he believed his clients would have prevailed in tribal courts, but federal courts were risky. He said his clients had mixed feelings about settling.[https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/2018/09/22/native-american-tribal-members-sexual-abuse-mormon-church/1399154002/]<br /> <br /> ==Muslims==<br /> <br /> ===Aisha, 9-year-old child bride===<br /> <br /> Aisha was the six year old girl that was betrothed to Muhammad. At the age of nine she married him - becoming one of his 11 (or 13 depending on the source) wives. While most Muslims do not object to this marriage, it is a source of great scandal to many non-Islamic people. In Islamic tradition, she is attributed as the source of many stories about the life of Muhammad. It is believed that she was his favorite wife.<br /> <br /> ==Scientology==<br /> <br /> ===Lisa McPherson===<br /> <br /> Lisa McPherson (February 10, 1959–December 5, 1995) was a Scientologist who died of a pulmonary embolism while under the care of the Flag Service Organization (FSO), a branch of the Church of Scientology. Following her death the Church of Scientology was indicted on two felony charges “abuse and/or neglect of a disabled adult and practicing medicine without a license”, putting under trial the nature of Scientology beliefs and practices. The charges against the Church of Scientology were dropped after the state’s medical examiner changed the cause of death from “undetermined” to an “accident” on June 13, 2000.<br /> <br /> A civil suit brought by her family against the Church was settled on May 28, 2004.<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> &lt;references/&gt;<br /> <br /> [[Category:Theists]]<br /> [[Category:Historical arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Humor]]<br /> [[Category:Theological arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance &amp; Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Republicans_in_the_news Republicans in the news 2019-05-22T16:01:35Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>* A Republican politician reportedly punched his wife in the face after she didn’t undress quickly enough when he wanted to have sex, according to a police report. Doug McLeod, a state legislator from Mississippi, was arrested on Saturday and charged with domestic violence.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/doug-mcleod-mississippi-domestic-violence-wife-arrest-punch-sex-a8924671.html]<br /> * Washington GOP state legislator Matt Shea taped at rally urging supporters to arm themselves with AR-15s for civil war.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/01/republican-matt-shea-rightwing-rally-guns?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other]<br /> * A white man in South Carolina has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to trying to hire a hit man to kill his black neighbor, hang him from a tree and leave a burning cross in his yard, prosecutors said.[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/us/hit-man-lynching.html]<br /> * Every extremist murder in the U.S. in 2018 was linked to right-wing extremism, according to an alarming new report from the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. The annual report found that at least 50 people were killed by extremists in 2018, marking a 35 percent increase from 2017. This makes 2018 the fourth-deadliest year on record for domestic extremist-related killings since 1970.[https://shareblue.com/extremist-murders-2018-right-wing-terrorism/][https://www.adl.org/murder-and-extremism-2018]<br /> * Despite calls for refunds, new campaign filings show Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith kept $50,000 in donations from major companies like Walmart and Facebook in the wake of her controversial special election victory in November. The latest Federal Election Commission filing -- released amid the government shutdown at the end of last week -- showed that Republican Hyde-Smith did not issue refunds to most of the corporate donors who asked for their campaign contributions to be returned in November in the wake of her “public hanging” comment.[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republican-cindy-hyde-smith-return-50000-donations-scandal/story?id=60086837]<br /> * In the first eight months of his presidency, President Trump made 1,137 false or misleading claims, an average of five a day. In October, as he barnstormed the country holding rallies in advance of the midterm elections, the president made 1,205 claims — an average of 39 a day.Combined with the rest of his presidency, that adds up to a total of 7,546 claims through Dec. 20, the 700th day of his term in office, according to The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/21/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/?noredirect=on]<br /> * A new terrorism database analysis shows almost two-thirds of the terror attacks in the United States last year were carried out by right-wing extremists.[https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/12/study-shows-two-thirds-us-terrorism-tied-right-wing-extremists]<br /> [[File:Right wing terrorists.jpg|right]]<br /> * A military veteran who had railed online against women and blacks opened fire in a Tallahassee yoga studio, killing two women and wounding five.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/03/man-with-groping-history-opens-fire-tallahassee-yoga-class-killing-two-police-say/?utm_term=.9c5fde0444f2]<br /> * Justice Dept. brings hate-crime charges against man accused of shooting black customers at Kentucky Kroger[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-dept-brings-hate-crime-charges-against-man-accused-of-shooting-black-customers-at-kentucky-kroger/2018/11/15/ce01bf66-e91d-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html?utm_term=.3128e815e4c4]<br /> * Gun-related tragedy struck once again this week, this time at a Catholic Supply store in Ballwin, Missouri, a suburb of St. Lous. USA Today reports that a former pastor has been arrested after allegedly attempting to coerce three women into having sex with him at gunpoint. When one of them resisted, he shot 53-year-old Jamie Schmidt in the head and forced the other two to submit to his “deviant” demands. The shooter, 53-year-old Thomas Bruce, has a reputation for right-wing tirades on social media and has ranted against gun-free zones in the past. He was a huge fan of President Trump, attended his rallies, and regularly tweeted about Republican politics. His last tweet read “I’ve already forgotten you. #promisesmade #promiseskept #trump2020 #BuildTheWall” and his feed was full of retweets from white nationalist FOX anchor Laura Ingraham.[https://washingtonpress.com/2018/11/23/a-trump-obsessed-pastor-just-shot-a-woman-dead-and-sodomized-two-others-in-horrific-sex-assault/]<br /> * School officials said a Republican candidate Melissa Howard, running for the GOP nomination in a Florida legislative seat lied about graduating from Miami University and faked her diploma, according to a new report.[http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/401383-university-says-gop-florida-house-candidate-faked-her-diploma-report]<br /> * Man Wearing MAGA Hat Arrested for Shoving Immigrant Onto Subway Tracks; Staten Island's Willie Ames, 47, is ​suspected by the NYPD to have shoved 24-year-old ​Mexican immigrant Luis Lopez onto the tracks on April 21. That while wearing, of course, a bright red &quot;Make American Great Again&quot; hat. According to the police, Ames had hurled slurs at Lopez and called him a &quot;f—ing Mexican.&quot;[https://www.pluralist.com/posts/599-man-wearing-maga-hat-arrested-for-shoving-immigrant-onto-subway-tracks/partners/43955]<br /> * Waffle House suspect Travis Reinking deemed himself a 'sovereign citizen,' part of anti-government group.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/04/22/waffle-house-suspect-travis-reinking-sovereign-citizen/540543002/]<br /> * As they back Trump, evangelical leaders face their own sex scandals.[https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/03/31/they-back-trump-evangelical-leaders-face-their-own-sex-scandals/9JwpnbdWzHOzQ7tEAmxUPN/story.html]<br /> * An Ohio lawmaker who routinely touted his Christian faith and anti-LGBT views has resigned after being caught having sex with a man in his office. Wes Goodman, who is the Republican state legislator for Ohio, is married to a woman who is assistant director of an annual anti-abortion rally known as March for Life.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/lawmaker-wes-goodman-anti-lgbt-resigns-sex-man-office-caught-ohio-republican-christian-family-values-a8060631.html]<br /> * A southern Utah Republican party official has been arrested in a prostitution sting a week after a politician from a neighboring city stepped down amid allegations that he met a prostitute in a taxpayer-funded hotel room. The Spectrum newspaper reports Iron County Republican Party treasurer Blake Cozzens was arrested Tuesday after paying $100 for sex acts he discussed in text messages with a confidential informant.[http://kutv.com/news/local/southern-utah-gop-official-arrested-in-prostitution-sting]<br /> * When GOP congressman Scott DesJarlais (TN) was a doctor, he had sexual relationships with his patients. Despite being a “pro-life” advocate, he pressured women in his life to have abortions, including his ex-wife, who had two abortions while they were together.[https://www.nova-magazine.net/republican-pro-life-congressman-slept-patients-paid-abortions/]<br /> * Trump campaign coordinator and &quot;family values&quot; republican pleads tuilty to child sex trafficking, faces live in prison.[http://www.newsweek.com/republican-sex-trafficking-child-trump-coordinator-716348]<br /> * Days after a former state senator pleaded guilty to federal child sex trafficking, Moore Police released body cam footage of the call that led the then-seated senator to be charged with state child prostitution charges. Ralph Shortey, 35, pleaded guilty to child sex trafficking in federal court last week; in exchange, child pornography charges were dropped.[http://kfor.com/2017/12/04/moore-police-release-body-cam-footage-from-night-state-senator-found-in-hotel-room-with-teen-boy/]<br /> * Republican congressperson Mia Love, from Utah, caught using campaign funds on trip to Disneyworld.[https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/over-seven-days-at-disney-world-rep-mia-love-used-a-lot-of-campaign-funds-wcz/]<br /> * Lane Maurice Davis, Donald Trump supporter and regular poster on T_D Reddit forum, stabs his father to death believing he was &quot;leftist&quot;.[https://www.goskagit.com/news/man-pleads-not-guilty-in-father-s-stabbing-death/article_479b3b6f-88d4-502d-ae77-ff5f098fb511.html][https://www.reddit.com/r/Fuckthealtright/comments/76y0os/t_d_poster_useattle4truth_murders_his_father/]<br /> * Pro-Life Congressman Won't Seek Re-Election After Reports He Urged Mistress to Get Abortion[http://time.com/4970013/tim-murphy-pennsylvania-congressman-abortion/]<br /> * Rep. Tim Murphy, popular with pro-life movement, urged abortion in affair, texts suggest. Another — a six-page memo to Mr. Murphy purportedly written by his chief of staff, Susan Mosychuk — described a hostile workplace in which Mr. Murphy repeatedly denigrated employees, threatened them and created a state of “terror.”[http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2017/10/03/rep-tim-Murphy-pro-life-sought-abortion-affair-shannon-edwards-susan-mosychuk-pennsylvania-chief-of-staff-congress-emails-texts/stories/201710030018?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_campaign=Echobox&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1507061392]<br /> * Former congressman &amp; mayor, Anthony Weiner Sentenced to 21 Months in Prison for sending obsene messages to an underage girl.[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-25/weiner-gets-prison-for-sexting-teen-in-case-that-jolted-election?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&amp;utm_content=business&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social]<br /> * &quot;Family Values&quot; Republican, Dr. Joey Hensley, Accused Of Breaking Up Marriage To Have Affair With His Cousin.[https://theintellectualist.co/family-values-republican-accused-of-breaking-up-marriage-to-have-affair-with-his-cousin/]<br /> * A former student of Kentucky's Transylvania University, Mitchell W. Adkins, was arrested Friday after he allegedly stormed a campus café with a machete and a bag of knives, quizzed students on their political affiliations, and injured two women. &quot;He asked somebody what their political affiliation was, they said ‘Republican,’ and the guy said, 'You are safe,'&quot; campus newspaper editor-in-chief Tristan Reynolds told the Lexington Herald-Leader. &quot;And then I realized what was going on and started getting people out.”[https://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/a-trump-supporter-allegedly-attacked-students-at-a-school?utm_term=.bpA5N1mzr#.yq5Yqx69b]<br /> * Conservative Christian and Oklahoma lawmaker Ralph Shortey is charged with engaging in child prostitution and other felonies after being caught in a hotel room with an underage boy.[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ralph-shortey-oklahoma-lawmaker-hit-child-prostitution-charges-n734376]<br /> * Republican lawmaker, Bill Cassidy, who promoted legislation to teach “abstinence-only” sex education in schools announced that his own unmarried high school-aged daughter has gotten pregnant.[http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/07/10/republican-abstinence-only-crusaders-17-year-old-daughter-is-pregnant/][http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/07/bill_cassidy_senate_campaign_r.html]<br /> * Republican congressman John Fleming of Louisiana tells his constituents that because he’s rich, he doesn’t work for them. [http://www.salon.com/2017/04/13/watch-republican-congressman-tells-his-constituents-that-because-hes-rich-he-doesnt-work-for-them/]<br /> * Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has surrendered to authorities on campaign finance violations and he's expected to resign soon rather than face impeachment. Bible-toting Bentley got smitten with a female staffer and got caught by his wife (now divorced) exchanging texted love notes and, on tape, talking to his sweetie about fondling her breasts. The woman's husband has a well-paid position as an adviser on faith matters. The crime wasn't the sex. The problem was the governor's effort to cover it up and using campaign and official resources on protecting himself and going after enemies. [http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2017/04/10/star-falls-in-alabama-governor-booked-on-ethics-charges]<br /> [[File:Crazy republicans.jpg|right]]<br /> * Oklahoma Republican State Senator Ralph Shortey, married with kids, was caught in a hotel with a teenage boy. Shortey has resigned from his Senate seat after being charged with three counts, including engaging in child prostitution, engaging in prostitution within 1,000 feet of a church and transporting minor for prostitution/lewdness.[http://www.koco.com/article/court-date-set-for-former-oklahoma-sen-ralph-shortey/9178322]<br /> * Alabama Republican, Rep. Jack Williams filed HB 428, a bill that would criminalize the sale of a smartphone or other internet access device without a pornography filter. Adults wanting to turn off the filters would pay a $20 fee and request the deactivation in writing.[http://abc3340.com/news/local/house-bill-would-put-porn-filters-on-cellphones]<br /> * Married-with-children Oklahoma state senator and Trump campaign chair Republican Ralph Shortey is under investigation after he was found in a motel room with an underage male.[http://www.towleroad.com/2017/03/ralph-shortey/?utm_content=buffer64f5d&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer]<br /> * Anti-gay republican outed as former drag queen. [http://issuehawk.com/igor/2014/05/05/anti-gay-republican-outed-as-former-drag-queen.html]<br /> <br /> * Sponsor Of Anti-LGBT “Bathroom Bill” Caught Sexually Harassing 34 Women, Exiled From Capitol Building[http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/04/12/sponsor-anti-lgbt-bathroom-bill-caught-sexually-harassing-34-women-exiled-capitol-building/]<br /> <br /> * Steve Wiles, a Republican state Senate candidate who supports North Carolina’s constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage, once worked as a female impersonator at a gay nightclub in Winston-Salem and was gay at the time, according to a co-owner of the nightclub and a former employee.[http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/gop-candidate-was-once-a-female-impersonator/article_a1029862-5a82-5752-90e4-eac7155bce1e.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.<br /> <br /> * Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania pled no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo of Floyd County, Kentucky was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins of Asbury Park, New Jersey pled guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker of Nashua, New Hampshire is a convicted child molester.<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor Philip Giordano of Waterbury, Connecticut is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8 and 10-year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor John Gosek of Oswego, New York was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner David Swartz of Richland County, Ohio pled guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.<br /> <br /> * Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain of Monroe County, Pennsylvania was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth of Kannapolis, N.C., is a convicted child rapist in Florida.<br /> <br /> * Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader of Witchita, Kansas pled guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency of Camden, New Jersey pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge of Soputhbay, California was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.<br /> <br /> * Republican pastor Mike Hintz of Des Moines, Iowa, who George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Peter Dibble of New London, Connecticut pled no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer of Arizona was charged with molesting his 9-year old step daughter after including her in an anti-Gore television commercial.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. and Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence both of Washington, D.C. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens of Columbus, Ohio was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.<br /> <br /> * Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio of Burke, Virginia was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Mark A. Grethen of Colorado Springs. Colorado was convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Randal David Ankeney of El Paso County, Arizona pled guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Dan Crane of Illinois had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist and Christian Coalition and South Carolina Republican leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.<br /> <br /> * Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline of Orange County, California was placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography.<br /> <br /> * Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman of Maryland was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.<br /> <br /> * Republican Committee Chairman and attorney Jeffrey Patti of Sparta, New Jersey was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Marty Glickman of Florida (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD. It was Glickman, interestingly enough, that claimed Bill Clinton came from a low rent state and had torn down all of the standards for the highest office in the land.<br /> <br /> * Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks of Quartz Hill, California was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.<br /> <br /> * Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway who had relocated to Maine from Huntsville, Alabama after having been accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.<br /> <br /> * Republican preacher Stephen White of West Chester, Pennsylvania, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.<br /> <br /> * Republican talk show host Jon Matthews of Houston, Texas pled guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling of Anderson, Indiana was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Paul Ingram of Thurston County, Washington pled guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican election board official Kevin Coan of St. Louis, Missouri was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Andrew Buhr, also of St. Louis, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Keith Westmoreland of Kingsport, Tennessee was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt of Pensacola, Florida was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Councilman Keola Childs of Hawaii County, Hawaii pled guilty to molesting a male child.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist John Butler of Cass County, Illinois was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican candidate Richard Gardner of Clark County, Nevada admitted to molesting his two daughters.<br /> <br /> * Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner of Lancaster, Pennsylvania was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter of Boothbay, Maine pled guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. of Wrightsville Borough, Delaware pled no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.<br /> <br /> * Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.<br /> <br /> * Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall of Virginia was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.<br /> <br /> * Republican city councilman Mark Harris of West Bend, Wisconsin, who has been described as a “good military man” and “church goer,” was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.<br /> <br /> * Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo of Bakersfield, California molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp, Russell Harding, pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.<br /> <br /> * Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen, Sr. of Kalispell, Montana, was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.<br /> <br /> ==List Of Convicted Republican Pedophiles:==<br /> <br /> Feel free to research these people independently.<br /> <br /> Compiled from: https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/awxa6e/jim_jordans_sex_abuse_scandal_comes_back_after/ehq2lsc/<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.[https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2005/3/29/103019/-]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fredericksburg.com/news/crime_courts/air-force-investigator-goes-to-prison-for-molesting-stafford-girl/article_ef749960-7ae3-548c-88de-cde2bec21f79.amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.[https://www.google.com/amp/www.poconorecord.com/article/20120426/NEWS90/204260334%3ftemplate=ampart]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.deseretnews.com/article/830211/NJ-man-pleads-guilty-to-Internet-porn-charges.amp]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.[http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2002/vol6n33/MislaRape-en.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.[https://www.google.com/amp/www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-philip-giordano-appeal-sex-charges-20151204-story,amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.[http://articles.latimes.com/2001/apr/06/local/me-47737]<br /> <br /> * Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.[https://www-m.cnn.com/2013/02/05/us/south-carolina-thurmond-daughter-obit/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&amp;rm=1]<br /> <br /> * Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.[http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Omaha-Church-Adds-Pastor-With-A-Past-303831061.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/nyregion/embroiled-first-selectman-takes-leave.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Donald &quot;Buz&quot; Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/25/us/teen-ager-in-ohio-testifies-to-sex-with-a-congressman.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/04/24/gop-activist-admits-to-child-porn/5af2adf0-bec8-4a10-b061-014de679422a/?utm_term=.217884e2f945]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1066630/mark-anthony-grethen-v-sandra-lynn-grethen/]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.[https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/gop-activist-accused-of-assaulting-another-girl]<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/photos/political-sex-scandals-43202982/image-dan-crane-43203720]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/02/opinion/journal-beverly-russell-s-prayers.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman* was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.[https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/2005034]<br /> <br /> * Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.[http://www.njherald.com/article/20060510/ARTICLE/305109971]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks* was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.[http://articles.latimes.com/2002/aug/20/local/me-brooks20]<br /> <br /> * Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/06/us/politics-the-senate-maine-candidate-again-faces-1990-child-sex-accusation.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican preacher Stephen White*, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.[http://www.thedp.com/article/2004/01/brother_stephen_convicted_of_soliciting_sex]<br /> <br /> * Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.[http://www.houstonpress.com/news/jon-matthews-conservative-talk-show-host-and-sex-offender-pulled-from-kpfts-prison-show-6740755]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-gay activist Earl &quot;Butch&quot; Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-02-10/news/0002100308_1_adoption-fight-molesting-woody-burton]<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/29/books/books-of-the-times-a-family-is-destroyed-by-a-sexual-chimera.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wnd.com/2001/03/8428/amp/]<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Andrew Buhr* was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1908&amp;dat=20040108&amp;id=SNwfAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=ZNkEAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=2505,474893&amp;hl=en]<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children].[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-06-20/news/0206200332_1_indecent-exposure-lawmaker-westmoreland]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.[http://www.sptimes.com/2003/06/11/State/Troopers_nab_antiabor.shtml]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Councilman Keola Childs* pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.[http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Oct/08/ln/hawaii710080338.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.[https://caselaw.findlaw.com/il-court-of-appeals/1113050.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.[https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2002/oct/14/assembly-candidate-gardner-ruled-ineligible-due-to/]<br /> <br /> * Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.[https://www.google.com/amp/amp.wgal.com/article/council-accepts-resignation-of-member-imprisoned-for-rape/6189408]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.[http://www.columbiatribune.com/5bd8f6fc-ba88-11e3-86e1-10604b9f6eda.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall* was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/15/AR2005101501539_3.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/29/us/republican-quits-governor-s-race-in-minnesota.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican director of the &quot;Young Republican Federation&quot; Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.[https://bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/registered-sex-offender-keeps-custody-of-daughter]<br /> <br /> * Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/missoulian.com/news/kalispell-businessman-richard-dasen-charged-with-prostitution-related-crimes/article_f04ce8a9-fa02-54fa-addd-267d2357a4a9.amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican state senator Ralph Shortey from Oklahoma admitted to being involved in sodomy with a 17 year old male prostitute and transporting child pornography.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/kfor.com/2018/06/04/prosecutors-say-former-oklahoma-senator-enticed-teen-with-sex-with-wife-groomed-victim-for-more-than-a-year/amp/]<br /> <br /> * Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert in jail for the payments he made to cover up raping his wrestlers when he was a high school coach.[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/us/dennis-hastert-released.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Judge and campaign official Tim Nolan for President Donald Trump indicted for human trafficking and forcing a minors (9] to engage in sexual activity and giving alcohol to minors (results from the court pending].[https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cincinnati.com/amp/463805002]<br /> <br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * [[Theists in the news]]<br /> * [[Christian terrorists in the news]]<br /> * [[Democrats in the news]] <br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Political_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Republicans_in_the_news Republicans in the news 2019-05-22T16:01:08Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>* A Republican politician reportedly punched his wife in the face after she didn’t undress quickly enough when he wanted to have sex, according to a police report. Doug McLeod, a state legislator from Mississippi, was arrested on Saturday and charged with domestic violence.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/doug-mcleod-mississippi-domestic-violence-wife-arrest-punch-sex-a8924671.html]<br /> * Washington GOP state legislator Matt Shea taped at rally urging supporters to arm themselves with AR-15s for civil war.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/01/republican-matt-shea-rightwing-rally-guns?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other]<br /> * A white man in South Carolina has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to trying to hire a hit man to kill his black neighbor, hang him from a tree and leave a burning cross in his yard, prosecutors said.[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/us/hit-man-lynching.html]<br /> * Every extremist murder in the U.S. in 2018 was linked to right-wing extremism, according to an alarming new report from the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. The annual report found that at least 50 people were killed by extremists in 2018, marking a 35 percent increase from 2017. This makes 2018 the fourth-deadliest year on record for domestic extremist-related killings since 1970.[https://shareblue.com/extremist-murders-2018-right-wing-terrorism/][https://www.adl.org/murder-and-extremism-2018]<br /> * Despite calls for refunds, new campaign filings show Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith kept $50,000 in donations from major companies like Walmart and Facebook in the wake of her controversial special election victory in November. The latest Federal Election Commission filing -- released amid the government shutdown at the end of last week -- showed that Republican Hyde-Smith did not issue refunds to most of the corporate donors who asked for their campaign contributions to be returned in November in the wake of her “public hanging” comment.[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republican-cindy-hyde-smith-return-50000-donations-scandal/story?id=60086837]<br /> * In the first eight months of his presidency, President Trump made 1,137 false or misleading claims, an average of five a day. In October, as he barnstormed the country holding rallies in advance of the midterm elections, the president made 1,205 claims — an average of 39 a day.Combined with the rest of his presidency, that adds up to a total of 7,546 claims through Dec. 20, the 700th day of his term in office, according to The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/21/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/?noredirect=on]<br /> * A new terrorism database analysis shows almost two-thirds of the terror attacks in the United States last year were carried out by right-wing extremists.[https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/12/study-shows-two-thirds-us-terrorism-tied-right-wing-extremists]<br /> [[File:Right wing terrorists.jpg|right]]<br /> * A military veteran who had railed online against women and blacks opened fire in a Tallahassee yoga studio, killing two women and wounding five.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/03/man-with-groping-history-opens-fire-tallahassee-yoga-class-killing-two-police-say/?utm_term=.9c5fde0444f2]<br /> * Justice Dept. brings hate-crime charges against man accused of shooting black customers at Kentucky Kroger[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-dept-brings-hate-crime-charges-against-man-accused-of-shooting-black-customers-at-kentucky-kroger/2018/11/15/ce01bf66-e91d-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html?utm_term=.3128e815e4c4]<br /> * Gun-related tragedy struck once again this week, this time at a Catholic Supply store in Ballwin, Missouri, a suburb of St. Lous. USA Today reports that a former pastor has been arrested after allegedly attempting to coerce three women into having sex with him at gunpoint. When one of them resisted, he shot 53-year-old Jamie Schmidt in the head and forced the other two to submit to his “deviant” demands. The shooter, 53-year-old Thomas Bruce, has a reputation for right-wing tirades on social media and has ranted against gun-free zones in the past. He was a huge fan of President Trump, attended his rallies, and regularly tweeted about Republican politics. His last tweet read “I’ve already forgotten you. #promisesmade #promiseskept #trump2020 #BuildTheWall” and his feed was full of retweets from white nationalist FOX anchor Laura Ingraham.[https://washingtonpress.com/2018/11/23/a-trump-obsessed-pastor-just-shot-a-woman-dead-and-sodomized-two-others-in-horrific-sex-assault/]<br /> * School officials said a Republican candidate Melissa Howard, running for the GOP nomination in a Florida legislative seat lied about graduating from Miami University and faked her diploma, according to a new report.[http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/401383-university-says-gop-florida-house-candidate-faked-her-diploma-report]<br /> * Man Wearing MAGA Hat Arrested for Shoving Immigrant Onto Subway Tracks; Staten Island's Willie Ames, 47, is ​suspected by the NYPD to have shoved 24-year-old ​Mexican immigrant Luis Lopez onto the tracks on April 21. That while wearing, of course, a bright red &quot;Make American Great Again&quot; hat. According to the police, Ames had hurled slurs at Lopez and called him a &quot;f—ing Mexican.&quot;[https://www.pluralist.com/posts/599-man-wearing-maga-hat-arrested-for-shoving-immigrant-onto-subway-tracks/partners/43955]<br /> * Waffle House suspect Travis Reinking deemed himself a 'sovereign citizen,' part of anti-government group.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/04/22/waffle-house-suspect-travis-reinking-sovereign-citizen/540543002/]<br /> * As they back Trump, evangelical leaders face their own sex scandals.[https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/03/31/they-back-trump-evangelical-leaders-face-their-own-sex-scandals/9JwpnbdWzHOzQ7tEAmxUPN/story.html]<br /> * An Ohio lawmaker who routinely touted his Christian faith and anti-LGBT views has resigned after being caught having sex with a man in his office. Wes Goodman, who is the Republican state legislator for Ohio, is married to a woman who is assistant director of an annual anti-abortion rally known as March for Life.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/lawmaker-wes-goodman-anti-lgbt-resigns-sex-man-office-caught-ohio-republican-christian-family-values-a8060631.html]<br /> * A southern Utah Republican party official has been arrested in a prostitution sting a week after a politician from a neighboring city stepped down amid allegations that he met a prostitute in a taxpayer-funded hotel room. The Spectrum newspaper reports Iron County Republican Party treasurer Blake Cozzens was arrested Tuesday after paying $100 for sex acts he discussed in text messages with a confidential informant.[http://kutv.com/news/local/southern-utah-gop-official-arrested-in-prostitution-sting]<br /> * When GOP congressman Scott DesJarlais (TN) was a doctor, he had sexual relationships with his patients. Despite being a “pro-life” advocate, he pressured women in his life to have abortions, including his ex-wife, who had two abortions while they were together.[https://www.nova-magazine.net/republican-pro-life-congressman-slept-patients-paid-abortions/]<br /> * Trump campaign coordinator and &quot;family values&quot; republican pleads tuilty to child sex trafficking, faces live in prison.[http://www.newsweek.com/republican-sex-trafficking-child-trump-coordinator-716348]<br /> * Days after a former state senator pleaded guilty to federal child sex trafficking, Moore Police released body cam footage of the call that led the then-seated senator to be charged with state child prostitution charges. Ralph Shortey, 35, pleaded guilty to child sex trafficking in federal court last week; in exchange, child pornography charges were dropped.[http://kfor.com/2017/12/04/moore-police-release-body-cam-footage-from-night-state-senator-found-in-hotel-room-with-teen-boy/]<br /> * Republican congressperson Mia Love, from Utah, caught using campaign funds on trip to Disneyworld.[https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/over-seven-days-at-disney-world-rep-mia-love-used-a-lot-of-campaign-funds-wcz/]<br /> * Lane Maurice Davis, Donald Trump supporter and regular poster on T_D Reddit forum, stabs his father to death believing he was &quot;leftist&quot;.[https://www.goskagit.com/news/man-pleads-not-guilty-in-father-s-stabbing-death/article_479b3b6f-88d4-502d-ae77-ff5f098fb511.html][https://www.reddit.com/r/Fuckthealtright/comments/76y0os/t_d_poster_useattle4truth_murders_his_father/]<br /> * Pro-Life Congressman Won't Seek Re-Election After Reports He Urged Mistress to Get Abortion[http://time.com/4970013/tim-murphy-pennsylvania-congressman-abortion/]<br /> * Rep. Tim Murphy, popular with pro-life movement, urged abortion in affair, texts suggest. Another — a six-page memo to Mr. Murphy purportedly written by his chief of staff, Susan Mosychuk — described a hostile workplace in which Mr. Murphy repeatedly denigrated employees, threatened them and created a state of “terror.”[http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2017/10/03/rep-tim-Murphy-pro-life-sought-abortion-affair-shannon-edwards-susan-mosychuk-pennsylvania-chief-of-staff-congress-emails-texts/stories/201710030018?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_campaign=Echobox&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1507061392]<br /> * Former congressman &amp; mayor, Anthony Weiner Sentenced to 21 Months in Prison for sending obsene messages to an underage girl.[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-25/weiner-gets-prison-for-sexting-teen-in-case-that-jolted-election?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&amp;utm_content=business&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social]<br /> * &quot;Family Values&quot; Republican, Dr. Joey Hensley, Accused Of Breaking Up Marriage To Have Affair With His Cousin.[https://theintellectualist.co/family-values-republican-accused-of-breaking-up-marriage-to-have-affair-with-his-cousin/]<br /> * A former student of Kentucky's Transylvania University, Mitchell W. Adkins, was arrested Friday after he allegedly stormed a campus café with a machete and a bag of knives, quizzed students on their political affiliations, and injured two women. &quot;He asked somebody what their political affiliation was, they said ‘Republican,’ and the guy said, 'You are safe,'&quot; campus newspaper editor-in-chief Tristan Reynolds told the Lexington Herald-Leader. &quot;And then I realized what was going on and started getting people out.”[https://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/a-trump-supporter-allegedly-attacked-students-at-a-school?utm_term=.bpA5N1mzr#.yq5Yqx69b]<br /> * Conservative Christian and Oklahoma lawmaker Ralph Shortey is charged with engaging in child prostitution and other felonies after being caught in a hotel room with an underage boy.[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ralph-shortey-oklahoma-lawmaker-hit-child-prostitution-charges-n734376]<br /> * Republican lawmaker, Bill Cassidy, who promoted legislation to teach “abstinence-only” sex education in schools announced that his own unmarried high school-aged daughter has gotten pregnant.[http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/07/10/republican-abstinence-only-crusaders-17-year-old-daughter-is-pregnant/][http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/07/bill_cassidy_senate_campaign_r.html]<br /> * Republican congressman John Fleming of Louisiana tells his constituents that because he’s rich, he doesn’t work for them. [http://www.salon.com/2017/04/13/watch-republican-congressman-tells-his-constituents-that-because-hes-rich-he-doesnt-work-for-them/]<br /> * Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has surrendered to authorities on campaign finance violations and he's expected to resign soon rather than face impeachment. Bible-toting Bentley got smitten with a female staffer and got caught by his wife (now divorced) exchanging texted love notes and, on tape, talking to his sweetie about fondling her breasts. The woman's husband has a well-paid position as an adviser on faith matters. The crime wasn't the sex. The problem was the governor's effort to cover it up and using campaign and official resources on protecting himself and going after enemies. [http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2017/04/10/star-falls-in-alabama-governor-booked-on-ethics-charges]<br /> [[File:Crazy republicans.jpg|right]]* Oklahoma Republican State Senator Ralph Shortey, married with kids, was caught in a hotel with a teenage boy. Shortey has resigned from his Senate seat after being charged with three counts, including engaging in child prostitution, engaging in prostitution within 1,000 feet of a church and transporting minor for prostitution/lewdness.[http://www.koco.com/article/court-date-set-for-former-oklahoma-sen-ralph-shortey/9178322]<br /> * Alabama Republican, Rep. Jack Williams filed HB 428, a bill that would criminalize the sale of a smartphone or other internet access device without a pornography filter. Adults wanting to turn off the filters would pay a $20 fee and request the deactivation in writing.[http://abc3340.com/news/local/house-bill-would-put-porn-filters-on-cellphones]<br /> * Married-with-children Oklahoma state senator and Trump campaign chair Republican Ralph Shortey is under investigation after he was found in a motel room with an underage male.[http://www.towleroad.com/2017/03/ralph-shortey/?utm_content=buffer64f5d&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer]<br /> * Anti-gay republican outed as former drag queen. [http://issuehawk.com/igor/2014/05/05/anti-gay-republican-outed-as-former-drag-queen.html]<br /> <br /> * Sponsor Of Anti-LGBT “Bathroom Bill” Caught Sexually Harassing 34 Women, Exiled From Capitol Building[http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/04/12/sponsor-anti-lgbt-bathroom-bill-caught-sexually-harassing-34-women-exiled-capitol-building/]<br /> <br /> * Steve Wiles, a Republican state Senate candidate who supports North Carolina’s constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage, once worked as a female impersonator at a gay nightclub in Winston-Salem and was gay at the time, according to a co-owner of the nightclub and a former employee.[http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/gop-candidate-was-once-a-female-impersonator/article_a1029862-5a82-5752-90e4-eac7155bce1e.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.<br /> <br /> * Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania pled no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo of Floyd County, Kentucky was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins of Asbury Park, New Jersey pled guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker of Nashua, New Hampshire is a convicted child molester.<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor Philip Giordano of Waterbury, Connecticut is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8 and 10-year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor John Gosek of Oswego, New York was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner David Swartz of Richland County, Ohio pled guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.<br /> <br /> * Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain of Monroe County, Pennsylvania was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth of Kannapolis, N.C., is a convicted child rapist in Florida.<br /> <br /> * Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader of Witchita, Kansas pled guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency of Camden, New Jersey pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge of Soputhbay, California was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.<br /> <br /> * Republican pastor Mike Hintz of Des Moines, Iowa, who George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Peter Dibble of New London, Connecticut pled no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer of Arizona was charged with molesting his 9-year old step daughter after including her in an anti-Gore television commercial.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. and Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence both of Washington, D.C. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens of Columbus, Ohio was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.<br /> <br /> * Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio of Burke, Virginia was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Mark A. Grethen of Colorado Springs. Colorado was convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Randal David Ankeney of El Paso County, Arizona pled guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Dan Crane of Illinois had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist and Christian Coalition and South Carolina Republican leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.<br /> <br /> * Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline of Orange County, California was placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography.<br /> <br /> * Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman of Maryland was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.<br /> <br /> * Republican Committee Chairman and attorney Jeffrey Patti of Sparta, New Jersey was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Marty Glickman of Florida (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD. It was Glickman, interestingly enough, that claimed Bill Clinton came from a low rent state and had torn down all of the standards for the highest office in the land.<br /> <br /> * Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks of Quartz Hill, California was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.<br /> <br /> * Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway who had relocated to Maine from Huntsville, Alabama after having been accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.<br /> <br /> * Republican preacher Stephen White of West Chester, Pennsylvania, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.<br /> <br /> * Republican talk show host Jon Matthews of Houston, Texas pled guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling of Anderson, Indiana was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Paul Ingram of Thurston County, Washington pled guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican election board official Kevin Coan of St. Louis, Missouri was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Andrew Buhr, also of St. Louis, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Keith Westmoreland of Kingsport, Tennessee was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt of Pensacola, Florida was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Councilman Keola Childs of Hawaii County, Hawaii pled guilty to molesting a male child.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist John Butler of Cass County, Illinois was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican candidate Richard Gardner of Clark County, Nevada admitted to molesting his two daughters.<br /> <br /> * Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner of Lancaster, Pennsylvania was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter of Boothbay, Maine pled guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. of Wrightsville Borough, Delaware pled no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.<br /> <br /> * Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.<br /> <br /> * Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall of Virginia was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.<br /> <br /> * Republican city councilman Mark Harris of West Bend, Wisconsin, who has been described as a “good military man” and “church goer,” was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.<br /> <br /> * Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo of Bakersfield, California molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp, Russell Harding, pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.<br /> <br /> * Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen, Sr. of Kalispell, Montana, was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.<br /> <br /> ==List Of Convicted Republican Pedophiles:==<br /> <br /> Feel free to research these people independently.<br /> <br /> Compiled from: https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/awxa6e/jim_jordans_sex_abuse_scandal_comes_back_after/ehq2lsc/<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.[https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2005/3/29/103019/-]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fredericksburg.com/news/crime_courts/air-force-investigator-goes-to-prison-for-molesting-stafford-girl/article_ef749960-7ae3-548c-88de-cde2bec21f79.amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.[https://www.google.com/amp/www.poconorecord.com/article/20120426/NEWS90/204260334%3ftemplate=ampart]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.deseretnews.com/article/830211/NJ-man-pleads-guilty-to-Internet-porn-charges.amp]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.[http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2002/vol6n33/MislaRape-en.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.[https://www.google.com/amp/www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-philip-giordano-appeal-sex-charges-20151204-story,amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.[http://articles.latimes.com/2001/apr/06/local/me-47737]<br /> <br /> * Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.[https://www-m.cnn.com/2013/02/05/us/south-carolina-thurmond-daughter-obit/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&amp;rm=1]<br /> <br /> * Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.[http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Omaha-Church-Adds-Pastor-With-A-Past-303831061.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/nyregion/embroiled-first-selectman-takes-leave.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Donald &quot;Buz&quot; Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/25/us/teen-ager-in-ohio-testifies-to-sex-with-a-congressman.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/04/24/gop-activist-admits-to-child-porn/5af2adf0-bec8-4a10-b061-014de679422a/?utm_term=.217884e2f945]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1066630/mark-anthony-grethen-v-sandra-lynn-grethen/]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.[https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/gop-activist-accused-of-assaulting-another-girl]<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/photos/political-sex-scandals-43202982/image-dan-crane-43203720]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/02/opinion/journal-beverly-russell-s-prayers.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman* was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.[https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/2005034]<br /> <br /> * Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.[http://www.njherald.com/article/20060510/ARTICLE/305109971]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks* was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.[http://articles.latimes.com/2002/aug/20/local/me-brooks20]<br /> <br /> * Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/06/us/politics-the-senate-maine-candidate-again-faces-1990-child-sex-accusation.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican preacher Stephen White*, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.[http://www.thedp.com/article/2004/01/brother_stephen_convicted_of_soliciting_sex]<br /> <br /> * Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.[http://www.houstonpress.com/news/jon-matthews-conservative-talk-show-host-and-sex-offender-pulled-from-kpfts-prison-show-6740755]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-gay activist Earl &quot;Butch&quot; Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-02-10/news/0002100308_1_adoption-fight-molesting-woody-burton]<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/29/books/books-of-the-times-a-family-is-destroyed-by-a-sexual-chimera.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wnd.com/2001/03/8428/amp/]<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Andrew Buhr* was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1908&amp;dat=20040108&amp;id=SNwfAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=ZNkEAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=2505,474893&amp;hl=en]<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children].[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-06-20/news/0206200332_1_indecent-exposure-lawmaker-westmoreland]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.[http://www.sptimes.com/2003/06/11/State/Troopers_nab_antiabor.shtml]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Councilman Keola Childs* pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.[http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Oct/08/ln/hawaii710080338.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.[https://caselaw.findlaw.com/il-court-of-appeals/1113050.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.[https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2002/oct/14/assembly-candidate-gardner-ruled-ineligible-due-to/]<br /> <br /> * Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.[https://www.google.com/amp/amp.wgal.com/article/council-accepts-resignation-of-member-imprisoned-for-rape/6189408]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.[http://www.columbiatribune.com/5bd8f6fc-ba88-11e3-86e1-10604b9f6eda.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall* was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/15/AR2005101501539_3.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/29/us/republican-quits-governor-s-race-in-minnesota.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican director of the &quot;Young Republican Federation&quot; Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.[https://bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/registered-sex-offender-keeps-custody-of-daughter]<br /> <br /> * Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/missoulian.com/news/kalispell-businessman-richard-dasen-charged-with-prostitution-related-crimes/article_f04ce8a9-fa02-54fa-addd-267d2357a4a9.amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican state senator Ralph Shortey from Oklahoma admitted to being involved in sodomy with a 17 year old male prostitute and transporting child pornography.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/kfor.com/2018/06/04/prosecutors-say-former-oklahoma-senator-enticed-teen-with-sex-with-wife-groomed-victim-for-more-than-a-year/amp/]<br /> <br /> * Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert in jail for the payments he made to cover up raping his wrestlers when he was a high school coach.[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/us/dennis-hastert-released.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Judge and campaign official Tim Nolan for President Donald Trump indicted for human trafficking and forcing a minors (9] to engage in sexual activity and giving alcohol to minors (results from the court pending].[https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cincinnati.com/amp/463805002]<br /> <br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * [[Theists in the news]]<br /> * [[Christian terrorists in the news]]<br /> * [[Democrats in the news]] <br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Political_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Republicans_in_the_news Republicans in the news 2019-05-22T15:59:53Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>* A Republican politician reportedly punched his wife in the face after she didn’t undress quickly enough when he wanted to have sex, according to a police report. Doug McLeod, a state legislator from Mississippi, was arrested on Saturday and charged with domestic violence.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/doug-mcleod-mississippi-domestic-violence-wife-arrest-punch-sex-a8924671.html]<br /> * Washington GOP state legislator Matt Shea taped at rally urging supporters to arm themselves with AR-15s for civil war.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/01/republican-matt-shea-rightwing-rally-guns?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other]<br /> * A white man in South Carolina has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to trying to hire a hit man to kill his black neighbor, hang him from a tree and leave a burning cross in his yard, prosecutors said.[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/us/hit-man-lynching.html]<br /> * Every extremist murder in the U.S. in 2018 was linked to right-wing extremism, according to an alarming new report from the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. The annual report found that at least 50 people were killed by extremists in 2018, marking a 35 percent increase from 2017. This makes 2018 the fourth-deadliest year on record for domestic extremist-related killings since 1970.[https://shareblue.com/extremist-murders-2018-right-wing-terrorism/][https://www.adl.org/murder-and-extremism-2018]<br /> * Despite calls for refunds, new campaign filings show Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith kept $50,000 in donations from major companies like Walmart and Facebook in the wake of her controversial special election victory in November. The latest Federal Election Commission filing -- released amid the government shutdown at the end of last week -- showed that Republican Hyde-Smith did not issue refunds to most of the corporate donors who asked for their campaign contributions to be returned in November in the wake of her “public hanging” comment.[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republican-cindy-hyde-smith-return-50000-donations-scandal/story?id=60086837]<br /> * In the first eight months of his presidency, President Trump made 1,137 false or misleading claims, an average of five a day. In October, as he barnstormed the country holding rallies in advance of the midterm elections, the president made 1,205 claims — an average of 39 a day.Combined with the rest of his presidency, that adds up to a total of 7,546 claims through Dec. 20, the 700th day of his term in office, according to The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/21/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/?noredirect=on]<br /> * A new terrorism database analysis shows almost two-thirds of the terror attacks in the United States last year were carried out by right-wing extremists.[https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/12/study-shows-two-thirds-us-terrorism-tied-right-wing-extremists]<br /> [[File:Right wing terrorists.jpg|right]]* A military veteran who had railed online against women and blacks opened fire in a Tallahassee yoga studio, killing two women and wounding five.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/03/man-with-groping-history-opens-fire-tallahassee-yoga-class-killing-two-police-say/?utm_term=.9c5fde0444f2]<br /> * Justice Dept. brings hate-crime charges against man accused of shooting black customers at Kentucky Kroger[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-dept-brings-hate-crime-charges-against-man-accused-of-shooting-black-customers-at-kentucky-kroger/2018/11/15/ce01bf66-e91d-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html?utm_term=.3128e815e4c4]<br /> * Gun-related tragedy struck once again this week, this time at a Catholic Supply store in Ballwin, Missouri, a suburb of St. Lous. USA Today reports that a former pastor has been arrested after allegedly attempting to coerce three women into having sex with him at gunpoint. When one of them resisted, he shot 53-year-old Jamie Schmidt in the head and forced the other two to submit to his “deviant” demands. The shooter, 53-year-old Thomas Bruce, has a reputation for right-wing tirades on social media and has ranted against gun-free zones in the past. He was a huge fan of President Trump, attended his rallies, and regularly tweeted about Republican politics. His last tweet read “I’ve already forgotten you. #promisesmade #promiseskept #trump2020 #BuildTheWall” and his feed was full of retweets from white nationalist FOX anchor Laura Ingraham.[https://washingtonpress.com/2018/11/23/a-trump-obsessed-pastor-just-shot-a-woman-dead-and-sodomized-two-others-in-horrific-sex-assault/]<br /> * School officials said a Republican candidate Melissa Howard, running for the GOP nomination in a Florida legislative seat lied about graduating from Miami University and faked her diploma, according to a new report.[http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/401383-university-says-gop-florida-house-candidate-faked-her-diploma-report]<br /> * Man Wearing MAGA Hat Arrested for Shoving Immigrant Onto Subway Tracks; Staten Island's Willie Ames, 47, is ​suspected by the NYPD to have shoved 24-year-old ​Mexican immigrant Luis Lopez onto the tracks on April 21. That while wearing, of course, a bright red &quot;Make American Great Again&quot; hat. According to the police, Ames had hurled slurs at Lopez and called him a &quot;f—ing Mexican.&quot;[https://www.pluralist.com/posts/599-man-wearing-maga-hat-arrested-for-shoving-immigrant-onto-subway-tracks/partners/43955]<br /> * Waffle House suspect Travis Reinking deemed himself a 'sovereign citizen,' part of anti-government group.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/04/22/waffle-house-suspect-travis-reinking-sovereign-citizen/540543002/]<br /> * As they back Trump, evangelical leaders face their own sex scandals.[https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/03/31/they-back-trump-evangelical-leaders-face-their-own-sex-scandals/9JwpnbdWzHOzQ7tEAmxUPN/story.html]<br /> * An Ohio lawmaker who routinely touted his Christian faith and anti-LGBT views has resigned after being caught having sex with a man in his office. Wes Goodman, who is the Republican state legislator for Ohio, is married to a woman who is assistant director of an annual anti-abortion rally known as March for Life.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/lawmaker-wes-goodman-anti-lgbt-resigns-sex-man-office-caught-ohio-republican-christian-family-values-a8060631.html]<br /> * A southern Utah Republican party official has been arrested in a prostitution sting a week after a politician from a neighboring city stepped down amid allegations that he met a prostitute in a taxpayer-funded hotel room. The Spectrum newspaper reports Iron County Republican Party treasurer Blake Cozzens was arrested Tuesday after paying $100 for sex acts he discussed in text messages with a confidential informant.[http://kutv.com/news/local/southern-utah-gop-official-arrested-in-prostitution-sting]<br /> * When GOP congressman Scott DesJarlais (TN) was a doctor, he had sexual relationships with his patients. Despite being a “pro-life” advocate, he pressured women in his life to have abortions, including his ex-wife, who had two abortions while they were together.[https://www.nova-magazine.net/republican-pro-life-congressman-slept-patients-paid-abortions/]<br /> * Trump campaign coordinator and &quot;family values&quot; republican pleads tuilty to child sex trafficking, faces live in prison.[http://www.newsweek.com/republican-sex-trafficking-child-trump-coordinator-716348]<br /> * Days after a former state senator pleaded guilty to federal child sex trafficking, Moore Police released body cam footage of the call that led the then-seated senator to be charged with state child prostitution charges. Ralph Shortey, 35, pleaded guilty to child sex trafficking in federal court last week; in exchange, child pornography charges were dropped.[http://kfor.com/2017/12/04/moore-police-release-body-cam-footage-from-night-state-senator-found-in-hotel-room-with-teen-boy/]<br /> * Republican congressperson Mia Love, from Utah, caught using campaign funds on trip to Disneyworld.[https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/over-seven-days-at-disney-world-rep-mia-love-used-a-lot-of-campaign-funds-wcz/]<br /> * Lane Maurice Davis, Donald Trump supporter and regular poster on T_D Reddit forum, stabs his father to death believing he was &quot;leftist&quot;.[https://www.goskagit.com/news/man-pleads-not-guilty-in-father-s-stabbing-death/article_479b3b6f-88d4-502d-ae77-ff5f098fb511.html][https://www.reddit.com/r/Fuckthealtright/comments/76y0os/t_d_poster_useattle4truth_murders_his_father/]<br /> * Pro-Life Congressman Won't Seek Re-Election After Reports He Urged Mistress to Get Abortion[http://time.com/4970013/tim-murphy-pennsylvania-congressman-abortion/]<br /> * Rep. Tim Murphy, popular with pro-life movement, urged abortion in affair, texts suggest. Another — a six-page memo to Mr. Murphy purportedly written by his chief of staff, Susan Mosychuk — described a hostile workplace in which Mr. Murphy repeatedly denigrated employees, threatened them and created a state of “terror.”[http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2017/10/03/rep-tim-Murphy-pro-life-sought-abortion-affair-shannon-edwards-susan-mosychuk-pennsylvania-chief-of-staff-congress-emails-texts/stories/201710030018?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_campaign=Echobox&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1507061392]<br /> * Former congressman &amp; mayor, Anthony Weiner Sentenced to 21 Months in Prison for sending obsene messages to an underage girl.[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-25/weiner-gets-prison-for-sexting-teen-in-case-that-jolted-election?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&amp;utm_content=business&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social]<br /> * &quot;Family Values&quot; Republican, Dr. Joey Hensley, Accused Of Breaking Up Marriage To Have Affair With His Cousin.[https://theintellectualist.co/family-values-republican-accused-of-breaking-up-marriage-to-have-affair-with-his-cousin/]<br /> * A former student of Kentucky's Transylvania University, Mitchell W. Adkins, was arrested Friday after he allegedly stormed a campus café with a machete and a bag of knives, quizzed students on their political affiliations, and injured two women. &quot;He asked somebody what their political affiliation was, they said ‘Republican,’ and the guy said, 'You are safe,'&quot; campus newspaper editor-in-chief Tristan Reynolds told the Lexington Herald-Leader. &quot;And then I realized what was going on and started getting people out.”[https://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/a-trump-supporter-allegedly-attacked-students-at-a-school?utm_term=.bpA5N1mzr#.yq5Yqx69b]<br /> * Conservative Christian and Oklahoma lawmaker Ralph Shortey is charged with engaging in child prostitution and other felonies after being caught in a hotel room with an underage boy.[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ralph-shortey-oklahoma-lawmaker-hit-child-prostitution-charges-n734376]<br /> * Republican lawmaker, Bill Cassidy, who promoted legislation to teach “abstinence-only” sex education in schools announced that his own unmarried high school-aged daughter has gotten pregnant.[http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/07/10/republican-abstinence-only-crusaders-17-year-old-daughter-is-pregnant/][http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/07/bill_cassidy_senate_campaign_r.html]<br /> * Republican congressman John Fleming of Louisiana tells his constituents that because he’s rich, he doesn’t work for them. [http://www.salon.com/2017/04/13/watch-republican-congressman-tells-his-constituents-that-because-hes-rich-he-doesnt-work-for-them/]<br /> * Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has surrendered to authorities on campaign finance violations and he's expected to resign soon rather than face impeachment. Bible-toting Bentley got smitten with a female staffer and got caught by his wife (now divorced) exchanging texted love notes and, on tape, talking to his sweetie about fondling her breasts. The woman's husband has a well-paid position as an adviser on faith matters. The crime wasn't the sex. The problem was the governor's effort to cover it up and using campaign and official resources on protecting himself and going after enemies. [http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2017/04/10/star-falls-in-alabama-governor-booked-on-ethics-charges]<br /> [[File:Crazy republicans.jpg|right]]* Oklahoma Republican State Senator Ralph Shortey, married with kids, was caught in a hotel with a teenage boy. Shortey has resigned from his Senate seat after being charged with three counts, including engaging in child prostitution, engaging in prostitution within 1,000 feet of a church and transporting minor for prostitution/lewdness.[http://www.koco.com/article/court-date-set-for-former-oklahoma-sen-ralph-shortey/9178322]<br /> * Alabama Republican, Rep. Jack Williams filed HB 428, a bill that would criminalize the sale of a smartphone or other internet access device without a pornography filter. Adults wanting to turn off the filters would pay a $20 fee and request the deactivation in writing.[http://abc3340.com/news/local/house-bill-would-put-porn-filters-on-cellphones]<br /> * Married-with-children Oklahoma state senator and Trump campaign chair Republican Ralph Shortey is under investigation after he was found in a motel room with an underage male.[http://www.towleroad.com/2017/03/ralph-shortey/?utm_content=buffer64f5d&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer]<br /> * Anti-gay republican outed as former drag queen. [http://issuehawk.com/igor/2014/05/05/anti-gay-republican-outed-as-former-drag-queen.html]<br /> * Sponsor Of Anti-LGBT “Bathroom Bill” Caught Sexually Harassing 34 Women, Exiled From Capitol Building[http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/04/12/sponsor-anti-lgbt-bathroom-bill-caught-sexually-harassing-34-women-exiled-capitol-building/]<br /> * Steve Wiles, a Republican state Senate candidate who supports North Carolina’s constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage, once worked as a female impersonator at a gay nightclub in Winston-Salem and was gay at the time, according to a co-owner of the nightclub and a former employee.[http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/gop-candidate-was-once-a-female-impersonator/article_a1029862-5a82-5752-90e4-eac7155bce1e.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.<br /> <br /> * Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania pled no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo of Floyd County, Kentucky was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins of Asbury Park, New Jersey pled guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker of Nashua, New Hampshire is a convicted child molester.<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor Philip Giordano of Waterbury, Connecticut is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8 and 10-year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor John Gosek of Oswego, New York was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner David Swartz of Richland County, Ohio pled guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.<br /> <br /> * Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain of Monroe County, Pennsylvania was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth of Kannapolis, N.C., is a convicted child rapist in Florida.<br /> <br /> * Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader of Witchita, Kansas pled guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency of Camden, New Jersey pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge of Soputhbay, California was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.<br /> <br /> * Republican pastor Mike Hintz of Des Moines, Iowa, who George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Peter Dibble of New London, Connecticut pled no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer of Arizona was charged with molesting his 9-year old step daughter after including her in an anti-Gore television commercial.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. and Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence both of Washington, D.C. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens of Columbus, Ohio was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.<br /> <br /> * Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio of Burke, Virginia was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Mark A. Grethen of Colorado Springs. Colorado was convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Randal David Ankeney of El Paso County, Arizona pled guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Dan Crane of Illinois had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist and Christian Coalition and South Carolina Republican leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.<br /> <br /> * Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline of Orange County, California was placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography.<br /> <br /> * Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman of Maryland was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.<br /> <br /> * Republican Committee Chairman and attorney Jeffrey Patti of Sparta, New Jersey was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Marty Glickman of Florida (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD. It was Glickman, interestingly enough, that claimed Bill Clinton came from a low rent state and had torn down all of the standards for the highest office in the land.<br /> <br /> * Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks of Quartz Hill, California was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.<br /> <br /> * Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway who had relocated to Maine from Huntsville, Alabama after having been accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.<br /> <br /> * Republican preacher Stephen White of West Chester, Pennsylvania, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.<br /> <br /> * Republican talk show host Jon Matthews of Houston, Texas pled guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling of Anderson, Indiana was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Paul Ingram of Thurston County, Washington pled guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican election board official Kevin Coan of St. Louis, Missouri was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Andrew Buhr, also of St. Louis, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Keith Westmoreland of Kingsport, Tennessee was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt of Pensacola, Florida was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Councilman Keola Childs of Hawaii County, Hawaii pled guilty to molesting a male child.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist John Butler of Cass County, Illinois was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican candidate Richard Gardner of Clark County, Nevada admitted to molesting his two daughters.<br /> <br /> * Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner of Lancaster, Pennsylvania was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter of Boothbay, Maine pled guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. of Wrightsville Borough, Delaware pled no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.<br /> <br /> * Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.<br /> <br /> * Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall of Virginia was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.<br /> <br /> * Republican city councilman Mark Harris of West Bend, Wisconsin, who has been described as a “good military man” and “church goer,” was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.<br /> <br /> * Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo of Bakersfield, California molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp, Russell Harding, pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.<br /> <br /> * Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen, Sr. of Kalispell, Montana, was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.<br /> <br /> ==List Of Convicted Republican Pedophiles:==<br /> <br /> Feel free to research these people independently.<br /> <br /> Compiled from: https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/awxa6e/jim_jordans_sex_abuse_scandal_comes_back_after/ehq2lsc/<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.[https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2005/3/29/103019/-]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fredericksburg.com/news/crime_courts/air-force-investigator-goes-to-prison-for-molesting-stafford-girl/article_ef749960-7ae3-548c-88de-cde2bec21f79.amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.[https://www.google.com/amp/www.poconorecord.com/article/20120426/NEWS90/204260334%3ftemplate=ampart]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.deseretnews.com/article/830211/NJ-man-pleads-guilty-to-Internet-porn-charges.amp]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.[http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2002/vol6n33/MislaRape-en.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.[https://www.google.com/amp/www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-philip-giordano-appeal-sex-charges-20151204-story,amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.[http://articles.latimes.com/2001/apr/06/local/me-47737]<br /> <br /> * Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.[https://www-m.cnn.com/2013/02/05/us/south-carolina-thurmond-daughter-obit/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&amp;rm=1]<br /> <br /> * Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.[http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Omaha-Church-Adds-Pastor-With-A-Past-303831061.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/nyregion/embroiled-first-selectman-takes-leave.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Donald &quot;Buz&quot; Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/25/us/teen-ager-in-ohio-testifies-to-sex-with-a-congressman.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/04/24/gop-activist-admits-to-child-porn/5af2adf0-bec8-4a10-b061-014de679422a/?utm_term=.217884e2f945]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1066630/mark-anthony-grethen-v-sandra-lynn-grethen/]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.[https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/gop-activist-accused-of-assaulting-another-girl]<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/photos/political-sex-scandals-43202982/image-dan-crane-43203720]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/02/opinion/journal-beverly-russell-s-prayers.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman* was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.[https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/2005034]<br /> <br /> * Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.[http://www.njherald.com/article/20060510/ARTICLE/305109971]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks* was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.[http://articles.latimes.com/2002/aug/20/local/me-brooks20]<br /> <br /> * Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/06/us/politics-the-senate-maine-candidate-again-faces-1990-child-sex-accusation.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican preacher Stephen White*, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.[http://www.thedp.com/article/2004/01/brother_stephen_convicted_of_soliciting_sex]<br /> <br /> * Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.[http://www.houstonpress.com/news/jon-matthews-conservative-talk-show-host-and-sex-offender-pulled-from-kpfts-prison-show-6740755]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-gay activist Earl &quot;Butch&quot; Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-02-10/news/0002100308_1_adoption-fight-molesting-woody-burton]<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/29/books/books-of-the-times-a-family-is-destroyed-by-a-sexual-chimera.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wnd.com/2001/03/8428/amp/]<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Andrew Buhr* was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1908&amp;dat=20040108&amp;id=SNwfAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=ZNkEAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=2505,474893&amp;hl=en]<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children].[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-06-20/news/0206200332_1_indecent-exposure-lawmaker-westmoreland]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.[http://www.sptimes.com/2003/06/11/State/Troopers_nab_antiabor.shtml]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Councilman Keola Childs* pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.[http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Oct/08/ln/hawaii710080338.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.[https://caselaw.findlaw.com/il-court-of-appeals/1113050.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.[https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2002/oct/14/assembly-candidate-gardner-ruled-ineligible-due-to/]<br /> <br /> * Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.[https://www.google.com/amp/amp.wgal.com/article/council-accepts-resignation-of-member-imprisoned-for-rape/6189408]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.[http://www.columbiatribune.com/5bd8f6fc-ba88-11e3-86e1-10604b9f6eda.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall* was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/15/AR2005101501539_3.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/29/us/republican-quits-governor-s-race-in-minnesota.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican director of the &quot;Young Republican Federation&quot; Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.[https://bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/registered-sex-offender-keeps-custody-of-daughter]<br /> <br /> * Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/missoulian.com/news/kalispell-businessman-richard-dasen-charged-with-prostitution-related-crimes/article_f04ce8a9-fa02-54fa-addd-267d2357a4a9.amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican state senator Ralph Shortey from Oklahoma admitted to being involved in sodomy with a 17 year old male prostitute and transporting child pornography.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/kfor.com/2018/06/04/prosecutors-say-former-oklahoma-senator-enticed-teen-with-sex-with-wife-groomed-victim-for-more-than-a-year/amp/]<br /> <br /> * Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert in jail for the payments he made to cover up raping his wrestlers when he was a high school coach.[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/us/dennis-hastert-released.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Judge and campaign official Tim Nolan for President Donald Trump indicted for human trafficking and forcing a minors (9] to engage in sexual activity and giving alcohol to minors (results from the court pending].[https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cincinnati.com/amp/463805002]<br /> <br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * [[Theists in the news]]<br /> * [[Christian terrorists in the news]]<br /> * [[Democrats in the news]] <br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Political_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Republicans_in_the_news Republicans in the news 2019-05-22T15:58:27Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>* A Republican politician reportedly punched his wife in the face after she didn’t undress quickly enough when he wanted to have sex, according to a police report. Doug McLeod, a state legislator from Mississippi, was arrested on Saturday and charged with domestic violence.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/doug-mcleod-mississippi-domestic-violence-wife-arrest-punch-sex-a8924671.html]<br /> * Washington GOP state legislator Matt Shea taped at rally urging supporters to arm themselves with AR-15s for civil war.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/01/republican-matt-shea-rightwing-rally-guns?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other]<br /> * A white man in South Carolina has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to trying to hire a hit man to kill his black neighbor, hang him from a tree and leave a burning cross in his yard, prosecutors said.[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/us/hit-man-lynching.html]<br /> * Every extremist murder in the U.S. in 2018 was linked to right-wing extremism, according to an alarming new report from the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. The annual report found that at least 50 people were killed by extremists in 2018, marking a 35 percent increase from 2017. This makes 2018 the fourth-deadliest year on record for domestic extremist-related killings since 1970.[https://shareblue.com/extremist-murders-2018-right-wing-terrorism/][https://www.adl.org/murder-and-extremism-2018]<br /> * Despite calls for refunds, new campaign filings show Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith kept $50,000 in donations from major companies like Walmart and Facebook in the wake of her controversial special election victory in November. The latest Federal Election Commission filing -- released amid the government shutdown at the end of last week -- showed that Republican Hyde-Smith did not issue refunds to most of the corporate donors who asked for their campaign contributions to be returned in November in the wake of her “public hanging” comment.[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republican-cindy-hyde-smith-return-50000-donations-scandal/story?id=60086837]<br /> * In the first eight months of his presidency, President Trump made 1,137 false or misleading claims, an average of five a day. In October, as he barnstormed the country holding rallies in advance of the midterm elections, the president made 1,205 claims — an average of 39 a day.Combined with the rest of his presidency, that adds up to a total of 7,546 claims through Dec. 20, the 700th day of his term in office, according to The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/21/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/?noredirect=on]<br /> * A new terrorism database analysis shows almost two-thirds of the terror attacks in the United States last year were carried out by right-wing extremists.[https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/12/study-shows-two-thirds-us-terrorism-tied-right-wing-extremists]<br /> [[File:Right wing terrorists.jpg|right]]* A military veteran who had railed online against women and blacks opened fire in a Tallahassee yoga studio, killing two women and wounding five.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/03/man-with-groping-history-opens-fire-tallahassee-yoga-class-killing-two-police-say/?utm_term=.9c5fde0444f2]<br /> * Justice Dept. brings hate-crime charges against man accused of shooting black customers at Kentucky Kroger[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-dept-brings-hate-crime-charges-against-man-accused-of-shooting-black-customers-at-kentucky-kroger/2018/11/15/ce01bf66-e91d-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html?utm_term=.3128e815e4c4]<br /> * Gun-related tragedy struck once again this week, this time at a Catholic Supply store in Ballwin, Missouri, a suburb of St. Lous. USA Today reports that a former pastor has been arrested after allegedly attempting to coerce three women into having sex with him at gunpoint. When one of them resisted, he shot 53-year-old Jamie Schmidt in the head and forced the other two to submit to his “deviant” demands. The shooter, 53-year-old Thomas Bruce, has a reputation for right-wing tirades on social media and has ranted against gun-free zones in the past. He was a huge fan of President Trump, attended his rallies, and regularly tweeted about Republican politics. His last tweet read “I’ve already forgotten you. #promisesmade #promiseskept #trump2020 #BuildTheWall” and his feed was full of retweets from white nationalist FOX anchor Laura Ingraham.[https://washingtonpress.com/2018/11/23/a-trump-obsessed-pastor-just-shot-a-woman-dead-and-sodomized-two-others-in-horrific-sex-assault/]<br /> * School officials said a Republican candidate Melissa Howard, running for the GOP nomination in a Florida legislative seat lied about graduating from Miami University and faked her diploma, according to a new report.[http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/401383-university-says-gop-florida-house-candidate-faked-her-diploma-report]<br /> * Man Wearing MAGA Hat Arrested for Shoving Immigrant Onto Subway Tracks; Staten Island's Willie Ames, 47, is ​suspected by the NYPD to have shoved 24-year-old ​Mexican immigrant Luis Lopez onto the tracks on April 21. That while wearing, of course, a bright red &quot;Make American Great Again&quot; hat. According to the police, Ames had hurled slurs at Lopez and called him a &quot;f—ing Mexican.&quot;[https://www.pluralist.com/posts/599-man-wearing-maga-hat-arrested-for-shoving-immigrant-onto-subway-tracks/partners/43955]<br /> * Waffle House suspect Travis Reinking deemed himself a 'sovereign citizen,' part of anti-government group.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/04/22/waffle-house-suspect-travis-reinking-sovereign-citizen/540543002/]<br /> * As they back Trump, evangelical leaders face their own sex scandals.[https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/03/31/they-back-trump-evangelical-leaders-face-their-own-sex-scandals/9JwpnbdWzHOzQ7tEAmxUPN/story.html]<br /> * An Ohio lawmaker who routinely touted his Christian faith and anti-LGBT views has resigned after being caught having sex with a man in his office. Wes Goodman, who is the Republican state legislator for Ohio, is married to a woman who is assistant director of an annual anti-abortion rally known as March for Life.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/lawmaker-wes-goodman-anti-lgbt-resigns-sex-man-office-caught-ohio-republican-christian-family-values-a8060631.html]<br /> * A southern Utah Republican party official has been arrested in a prostitution sting a week after a politician from a neighboring city stepped down amid allegations that he met a prostitute in a taxpayer-funded hotel room. The Spectrum newspaper reports Iron County Republican Party treasurer Blake Cozzens was arrested Tuesday after paying $100 for sex acts he discussed in text messages with a confidential informant.[http://kutv.com/news/local/southern-utah-gop-official-arrested-in-prostitution-sting]<br /> * When GOP congressman Scott DesJarlais (TN) was a doctor, he had sexual relationships with his patients. Despite being a “pro-life” advocate, he pressured women in his life to have abortions, including his ex-wife, who had two abortions while they were together.[https://www.nova-magazine.net/republican-pro-life-congressman-slept-patients-paid-abortions/]<br /> * Trump campaign coordinator and &quot;family values&quot; republican pleads tuilty to child sex trafficking, faces live in prison.[http://www.newsweek.com/republican-sex-trafficking-child-trump-coordinator-716348]<br /> * Days after a former state senator pleaded guilty to federal child sex trafficking, Moore Police released body cam footage of the call that led the then-seated senator to be charged with state child prostitution charges. Ralph Shortey, 35, pleaded guilty to child sex trafficking in federal court last week; in exchange, child pornography charges were dropped.[http://kfor.com/2017/12/04/moore-police-release-body-cam-footage-from-night-state-senator-found-in-hotel-room-with-teen-boy/]<br /> * Recently convicted republican pedophiles: List Of Convicted Republican Pedophiles: Feel free to research these people independently.[https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/7ffyje/saturday_morning_political_cartoon_thread/dqc43ng/]<br /> **Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.<br /> **Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.<br /> **Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.<br /> **Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody **who murders an abortion doctor.<br /> **Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.<br /> **Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.<br /> **Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.<br /> **Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.<br /> **Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.<br /> **Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.<br /> **Republican Congressman Donald &quot;Buz&quot; Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.<br /> **Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.<br /> **Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.<br /> **Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.<br /> **Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.<br /> **Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.<br /> **Republican congressman and anti-gay activist *Robert Bauman** was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.<br /> **Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.<br /> **Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. &quot;Republican Marty&quot;), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.<br /> **Republican legislative aide *Howard L. Brooks** was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.<br /> **Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.<br /> **Republican preacher *Stephen White**, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.<br /> **Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.<br /> **Republican anti-gay activist Earl &quot;Butch&quot; Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.<br /> **Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.<br /> **Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.<br /> **Republican politician *Andrew Buhr** was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.<br /> **Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).<br /> **Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.<br /> **Republican County Councilman *Keola Childs** pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.<br /> **Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.<br /> **Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.<br /> **Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.<br /> **Republican County Commissioner *Merrill Robert Barter** pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.<br /> **Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.<br /> **Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.<br /> **Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.<br /> **Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate *Robin Vanderwall** was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.<br /> **Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a &quot;good military man&quot; and &quot;church goer,&quot; was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.<br /> **Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.<br /> **Republican director of the &quot;Young Republican Federation&quot; Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.<br /> **Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young.<br /> **Republican state senator Ralph Shortey from Oklahoma admitted to being involved in sodomy with a 17 year old male prostitute and transporting child pornography.<br /> **Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert in jail for the payments he made to cover up raping his wrestlers when he was a high school coach.<br /> **Republican Judge and campaign official Tim Nolan for President Donald Trump indicted for human trafficking and forcing a minors (9) to engage in sexual activity and giving alcohol to minors (results from the court pending).<br /> * Republican congressperson Mia Love, from Utah, caught using campaign funds on trip to Disneyworld.[https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/over-seven-days-at-disney-world-rep-mia-love-used-a-lot-of-campaign-funds-wcz/]<br /> * Lane Maurice Davis, Donald Trump supporter and regular poster on T_D Reddit forum, stabs his father to death believing he was &quot;leftist&quot;.[https://www.goskagit.com/news/man-pleads-not-guilty-in-father-s-stabbing-death/article_479b3b6f-88d4-502d-ae77-ff5f098fb511.html][https://www.reddit.com/r/Fuckthealtright/comments/76y0os/t_d_poster_useattle4truth_murders_his_father/]<br /> * Pro-Life Congressman Won't Seek Re-Election After Reports He Urged Mistress to Get Abortion[http://time.com/4970013/tim-murphy-pennsylvania-congressman-abortion/]<br /> * Rep. Tim Murphy, popular with pro-life movement, urged abortion in affair, texts suggest. Another — a six-page memo to Mr. Murphy purportedly written by his chief of staff, Susan Mosychuk — described a hostile workplace in which Mr. Murphy repeatedly denigrated employees, threatened them and created a state of “terror.”[http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2017/10/03/rep-tim-Murphy-pro-life-sought-abortion-affair-shannon-edwards-susan-mosychuk-pennsylvania-chief-of-staff-congress-emails-texts/stories/201710030018?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_campaign=Echobox&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1507061392]<br /> * Former congressman &amp; mayor, Anthony Weiner Sentenced to 21 Months in Prison for sending obsene messages to an underage girl.[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-25/weiner-gets-prison-for-sexting-teen-in-case-that-jolted-election?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&amp;utm_content=business&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social]<br /> * &quot;Family Values&quot; Republican, Dr. Joey Hensley, Accused Of Breaking Up Marriage To Have Affair With His Cousin.[https://theintellectualist.co/family-values-republican-accused-of-breaking-up-marriage-to-have-affair-with-his-cousin/]<br /> * A former student of Kentucky's Transylvania University, Mitchell W. Adkins, was arrested Friday after he allegedly stormed a campus café with a machete and a bag of knives, quizzed students on their political affiliations, and injured two women. &quot;He asked somebody what their political affiliation was, they said ‘Republican,’ and the guy said, 'You are safe,'&quot; campus newspaper editor-in-chief Tristan Reynolds told the Lexington Herald-Leader. &quot;And then I realized what was going on and started getting people out.”[https://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/a-trump-supporter-allegedly-attacked-students-at-a-school?utm_term=.bpA5N1mzr#.yq5Yqx69b]<br /> * Conservative Christian and Oklahoma lawmaker Ralph Shortey is charged with engaging in child prostitution and other felonies after being caught in a hotel room with an underage boy.[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ralph-shortey-oklahoma-lawmaker-hit-child-prostitution-charges-n734376]<br /> * Republican lawmaker, Bill Cassidy, who promoted legislation to teach “abstinence-only” sex education in schools announced that his own unmarried high school-aged daughter has gotten pregnant.[http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/07/10/republican-abstinence-only-crusaders-17-year-old-daughter-is-pregnant/][http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/07/bill_cassidy_senate_campaign_r.html]<br /> * Republican congressman John Fleming of Louisiana tells his constituents that because he’s rich, he doesn’t work for them. [http://www.salon.com/2017/04/13/watch-republican-congressman-tells-his-constituents-that-because-hes-rich-he-doesnt-work-for-them/]<br /> * Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has surrendered to authorities on campaign finance violations and he's expected to resign soon rather than face impeachment. Bible-toting Bentley got smitten with a female staffer and got caught by his wife (now divorced) exchanging texted love notes and, on tape, talking to his sweetie about fondling her breasts. The woman's husband has a well-paid position as an adviser on faith matters. The crime wasn't the sex. The problem was the governor's effort to cover it up and using campaign and official resources on protecting himself and going after enemies. [http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2017/04/10/star-falls-in-alabama-governor-booked-on-ethics-charges]<br /> [[File:Crazy republicans.jpg|right]]* Oklahoma Republican State Senator Ralph Shortey, married with kids, was caught in a hotel with a teenage boy. Shortey has resigned from his Senate seat after being charged with three counts, including engaging in child prostitution, engaging in prostitution within 1,000 feet of a church and transporting minor for prostitution/lewdness.[http://www.koco.com/article/court-date-set-for-former-oklahoma-sen-ralph-shortey/9178322]<br /> * Alabama Republican, Rep. Jack Williams filed HB 428, a bill that would criminalize the sale of a smartphone or other internet access device without a pornography filter. Adults wanting to turn off the filters would pay a $20 fee and request the deactivation in writing.[http://abc3340.com/news/local/house-bill-would-put-porn-filters-on-cellphones]<br /> * Married-with-children Oklahoma state senator and Trump campaign chair Republican Ralph Shortey is under investigation after he was found in a motel room with an underage male.[http://www.towleroad.com/2017/03/ralph-shortey/?utm_content=buffer64f5d&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer]<br /> * Anti-gay republican outed as former drag queen. [http://issuehawk.com/igor/2014/05/05/anti-gay-republican-outed-as-former-drag-queen.html]<br /> * Sponsor Of Anti-LGBT “Bathroom Bill” Caught Sexually Harassing 34 Women, Exiled From Capitol Building[http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/04/12/sponsor-anti-lgbt-bathroom-bill-caught-sexually-harassing-34-women-exiled-capitol-building/]<br /> * Steve Wiles, a Republican state Senate candidate who supports North Carolina’s constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage, once worked as a female impersonator at a gay nightclub in Winston-Salem and was gay at the time, according to a co-owner of the nightclub and a former employee.[http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/gop-candidate-was-once-a-female-impersonator/article_a1029862-5a82-5752-90e4-eac7155bce1e.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.<br /> <br /> * Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania pled no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo of Floyd County, Kentucky was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins of Asbury Park, New Jersey pled guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker of Nashua, New Hampshire is a convicted child molester.<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor Philip Giordano of Waterbury, Connecticut is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8 and 10-year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor John Gosek of Oswego, New York was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner David Swartz of Richland County, Ohio pled guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.<br /> <br /> * Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain of Monroe County, Pennsylvania was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth of Kannapolis, N.C., is a convicted child rapist in Florida.<br /> <br /> * Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader of Witchita, Kansas pled guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency of Camden, New Jersey pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge of Soputhbay, California was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.<br /> <br /> * Republican pastor Mike Hintz of Des Moines, Iowa, who George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Peter Dibble of New London, Connecticut pled no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer of Arizona was charged with molesting his 9-year old step daughter after including her in an anti-Gore television commercial.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. and Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence both of Washington, D.C. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens of Columbus, Ohio was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.<br /> <br /> * Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio of Burke, Virginia was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Mark A. Grethen of Colorado Springs. Colorado was convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Randal David Ankeney of El Paso County, Arizona pled guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Dan Crane of Illinois had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist and Christian Coalition and South Carolina Republican leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.<br /> <br /> * Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline of Orange County, California was placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography.<br /> <br /> * Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman of Maryland was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.<br /> <br /> * Republican Committee Chairman and attorney Jeffrey Patti of Sparta, New Jersey was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Marty Glickman of Florida (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD. It was Glickman, interestingly enough, that claimed Bill Clinton came from a low rent state and had torn down all of the standards for the highest office in the land.<br /> <br /> * Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks of Quartz Hill, California was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.<br /> <br /> * Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway who had relocated to Maine from Huntsville, Alabama after having been accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.<br /> <br /> * Republican preacher Stephen White of West Chester, Pennsylvania, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.<br /> <br /> * Republican talk show host Jon Matthews of Houston, Texas pled guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling of Anderson, Indiana was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Paul Ingram of Thurston County, Washington pled guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican election board official Kevin Coan of St. Louis, Missouri was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Andrew Buhr, also of St. Louis, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Keith Westmoreland of Kingsport, Tennessee was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt of Pensacola, Florida was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Councilman Keola Childs of Hawaii County, Hawaii pled guilty to molesting a male child.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist John Butler of Cass County, Illinois was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican candidate Richard Gardner of Clark County, Nevada admitted to molesting his two daughters.<br /> <br /> * Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner of Lancaster, Pennsylvania was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter of Boothbay, Maine pled guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. of Wrightsville Borough, Delaware pled no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.<br /> <br /> * Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.<br /> <br /> * Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall of Virginia was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.<br /> <br /> * Republican city councilman Mark Harris of West Bend, Wisconsin, who has been described as a “good military man” and “church goer,” was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.<br /> <br /> * Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo of Bakersfield, California molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp, Russell Harding, pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.<br /> <br /> * Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen, Sr. of Kalispell, Montana, was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.<br /> <br /> ==List Of Convicted Republican Pedophiles:==<br /> <br /> Feel free to research these people independently.<br /> <br /> Compiled from: https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/awxa6e/jim_jordans_sex_abuse_scandal_comes_back_after/ehq2lsc/<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.[https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2005/3/29/103019/-]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fredericksburg.com/news/crime_courts/air-force-investigator-goes-to-prison-for-molesting-stafford-girl/article_ef749960-7ae3-548c-88de-cde2bec21f79.amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.[https://www.google.com/amp/www.poconorecord.com/article/20120426/NEWS90/204260334%3ftemplate=ampart]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.deseretnews.com/article/830211/NJ-man-pleads-guilty-to-Internet-porn-charges.amp]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.[http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2002/vol6n33/MislaRape-en.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.[https://www.google.com/amp/www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-philip-giordano-appeal-sex-charges-20151204-story,amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.[http://articles.latimes.com/2001/apr/06/local/me-47737]<br /> <br /> * Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.[https://www-m.cnn.com/2013/02/05/us/south-carolina-thurmond-daughter-obit/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&amp;rm=1]<br /> <br /> * Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.[http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Omaha-Church-Adds-Pastor-With-A-Past-303831061.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/nyregion/embroiled-first-selectman-takes-leave.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Donald &quot;Buz&quot; Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/25/us/teen-ager-in-ohio-testifies-to-sex-with-a-congressman.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/04/24/gop-activist-admits-to-child-porn/5af2adf0-bec8-4a10-b061-014de679422a/?utm_term=.217884e2f945]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1066630/mark-anthony-grethen-v-sandra-lynn-grethen/]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.[https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/gop-activist-accused-of-assaulting-another-girl]<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/photos/political-sex-scandals-43202982/image-dan-crane-43203720]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/02/opinion/journal-beverly-russell-s-prayers.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman* was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.[https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/2005034]<br /> <br /> * Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.[http://www.njherald.com/article/20060510/ARTICLE/305109971]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks* was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.[http://articles.latimes.com/2002/aug/20/local/me-brooks20]<br /> <br /> * Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/06/us/politics-the-senate-maine-candidate-again-faces-1990-child-sex-accusation.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican preacher Stephen White*, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.[http://www.thedp.com/article/2004/01/brother_stephen_convicted_of_soliciting_sex]<br /> <br /> * Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.[http://www.houstonpress.com/news/jon-matthews-conservative-talk-show-host-and-sex-offender-pulled-from-kpfts-prison-show-6740755]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-gay activist Earl &quot;Butch&quot; Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-02-10/news/0002100308_1_adoption-fight-molesting-woody-burton]<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/29/books/books-of-the-times-a-family-is-destroyed-by-a-sexual-chimera.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wnd.com/2001/03/8428/amp/]<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Andrew Buhr* was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1908&amp;dat=20040108&amp;id=SNwfAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=ZNkEAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=2505,474893&amp;hl=en]<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children].[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-06-20/news/0206200332_1_indecent-exposure-lawmaker-westmoreland]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.[http://www.sptimes.com/2003/06/11/State/Troopers_nab_antiabor.shtml]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Councilman Keola Childs* pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.[http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Oct/08/ln/hawaii710080338.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.[https://caselaw.findlaw.com/il-court-of-appeals/1113050.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.[https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2002/oct/14/assembly-candidate-gardner-ruled-ineligible-due-to/]<br /> <br /> * Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.[https://www.google.com/amp/amp.wgal.com/article/council-accepts-resignation-of-member-imprisoned-for-rape/6189408]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.[http://www.columbiatribune.com/5bd8f6fc-ba88-11e3-86e1-10604b9f6eda.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall* was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/15/AR2005101501539_3.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/29/us/republican-quits-governor-s-race-in-minnesota.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican director of the &quot;Young Republican Federation&quot; Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.[https://bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/registered-sex-offender-keeps-custody-of-daughter]<br /> <br /> * Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/missoulian.com/news/kalispell-businessman-richard-dasen-charged-with-prostitution-related-crimes/article_f04ce8a9-fa02-54fa-addd-267d2357a4a9.amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican state senator Ralph Shortey from Oklahoma admitted to being involved in sodomy with a 17 year old male prostitute and transporting child pornography.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/kfor.com/2018/06/04/prosecutors-say-former-oklahoma-senator-enticed-teen-with-sex-with-wife-groomed-victim-for-more-than-a-year/amp/]<br /> <br /> * Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert in jail for the payments he made to cover up raping his wrestlers when he was a high school coach.[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/us/dennis-hastert-released.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Judge and campaign official Tim Nolan for President Donald Trump indicted for human trafficking and forcing a minors (9] to engage in sexual activity and giving alcohol to minors (results from the court pending].[https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cincinnati.com/amp/463805002]<br /> <br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * [[Theists in the news]]<br /> * [[Christian terrorists in the news]]<br /> * [[Democrats in the news]] <br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Political_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Republicans_in_the_news Republicans in the news 2019-05-22T15:56:16Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>* A Republican politician reportedly punched his wife in the face after she didn’t undress quickly enough when he wanted to have sex, according to a police report. Doug McLeod, a state legislator from Mississippi, was arrested on Saturday and charged with domestic violence.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/doug-mcleod-mississippi-domestic-violence-wife-arrest-punch-sex-a8924671.html]<br /> * Washington GOP state legislator Matt Shea taped at rally urging supporters to arm themselves with AR-15s for civil war.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/01/republican-matt-shea-rightwing-rally-guns?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other]<br /> * A white man in South Carolina has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to trying to hire a hit man to kill his black neighbor, hang him from a tree and leave a burning cross in his yard, prosecutors said.[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/us/hit-man-lynching.html]<br /> * Every extremist murder in the U.S. in 2018 was linked to right-wing extremism, according to an alarming new report from the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. The annual report found that at least 50 people were killed by extremists in 2018, marking a 35 percent increase from 2017. This makes 2018 the fourth-deadliest year on record for domestic extremist-related killings since 1970.[https://shareblue.com/extremist-murders-2018-right-wing-terrorism/][https://www.adl.org/murder-and-extremism-2018]<br /> * Despite calls for refunds, new campaign filings show Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith kept $50,000 in donations from major companies like Walmart and Facebook in the wake of her controversial special election victory in November. The latest Federal Election Commission filing -- released amid the government shutdown at the end of last week -- showed that Republican Hyde-Smith did not issue refunds to most of the corporate donors who asked for their campaign contributions to be returned in November in the wake of her “public hanging” comment.[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republican-cindy-hyde-smith-return-50000-donations-scandal/story?id=60086837]<br /> * In the first eight months of his presidency, President Trump made 1,137 false or misleading claims, an average of five a day. In October, as he barnstormed the country holding rallies in advance of the midterm elections, the president made 1,205 claims — an average of 39 a day.Combined with the rest of his presidency, that adds up to a total of 7,546 claims through Dec. 20, the 700th day of his term in office, according to The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/21/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/?noredirect=on]<br /> * A new terrorism database analysis shows almost two-thirds of the terror attacks in the United States last year were carried out by right-wing extremists.[https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/12/study-shows-two-thirds-us-terrorism-tied-right-wing-extremists]<br /> [[File:Right wing terrorists.jpg|right]]* A military veteran who had railed online against women and blacks opened fire in a Tallahassee yoga studio, killing two women and wounding five.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/03/man-with-groping-history-opens-fire-tallahassee-yoga-class-killing-two-police-say/?utm_term=.9c5fde0444f2]<br /> * Justice Dept. brings hate-crime charges against man accused of shooting black customers at Kentucky Kroger[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-dept-brings-hate-crime-charges-against-man-accused-of-shooting-black-customers-at-kentucky-kroger/2018/11/15/ce01bf66-e91d-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html?utm_term=.3128e815e4c4]<br /> * Gun-related tragedy struck once again this week, this time at a Catholic Supply store in Ballwin, Missouri, a suburb of St. Lous. USA Today reports that a former pastor has been arrested after allegedly attempting to coerce three women into having sex with him at gunpoint. When one of them resisted, he shot 53-year-old Jamie Schmidt in the head and forced the other two to submit to his “deviant” demands. The shooter, 53-year-old Thomas Bruce, has a reputation for right-wing tirades on social media and has ranted against gun-free zones in the past. He was a huge fan of President Trump, attended his rallies, and regularly tweeted about Republican politics. His last tweet read “I’ve already forgotten you. #promisesmade #promiseskept #trump2020 #BuildTheWall” and his feed was full of retweets from white nationalist FOX anchor Laura Ingraham.[https://washingtonpress.com/2018/11/23/a-trump-obsessed-pastor-just-shot-a-woman-dead-and-sodomized-two-others-in-horrific-sex-assault/]<br /> * School officials said a Republican candidate Melissa Howard, running for the GOP nomination in a Florida legislative seat lied about graduating from Miami University and faked her diploma, according to a new report.[http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/401383-university-says-gop-florida-house-candidate-faked-her-diploma-report]<br /> * Man Wearing MAGA Hat Arrested for Shoving Immigrant Onto Subway Tracks; Staten Island's Willie Ames, 47, is ​suspected by the NYPD to have shoved 24-year-old ​Mexican immigrant Luis Lopez onto the tracks on April 21. That while wearing, of course, a bright red &quot;Make American Great Again&quot; hat. According to the police, Ames had hurled slurs at Lopez and called him a &quot;f—ing Mexican.&quot;[https://www.pluralist.com/posts/599-man-wearing-maga-hat-arrested-for-shoving-immigrant-onto-subway-tracks/partners/43955]<br /> * Waffle House suspect Travis Reinking deemed himself a 'sovereign citizen,' part of anti-government group.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/04/22/waffle-house-suspect-travis-reinking-sovereign-citizen/540543002/]<br /> * As they back Trump, evangelical leaders face their own sex scandals.[https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/03/31/they-back-trump-evangelical-leaders-face-their-own-sex-scandals/9JwpnbdWzHOzQ7tEAmxUPN/story.html]<br /> * An Ohio lawmaker who routinely touted his Christian faith and anti-LGBT views has resigned after being caught having sex with a man in his office. Wes Goodman, who is the Republican state legislator for Ohio, is married to a woman who is assistant director of an annual anti-abortion rally known as March for Life.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/lawmaker-wes-goodman-anti-lgbt-resigns-sex-man-office-caught-ohio-republican-christian-family-values-a8060631.html]<br /> * A southern Utah Republican party official has been arrested in a prostitution sting a week after a politician from a neighboring city stepped down amid allegations that he met a prostitute in a taxpayer-funded hotel room. The Spectrum newspaper reports Iron County Republican Party treasurer Blake Cozzens was arrested Tuesday after paying $100 for sex acts he discussed in text messages with a confidential informant.[http://kutv.com/news/local/southern-utah-gop-official-arrested-in-prostitution-sting]<br /> * When GOP congressman Scott DesJarlais (TN) was a doctor, he had sexual relationships with his patients. Despite being a “pro-life” advocate, he pressured women in his life to have abortions, including his ex-wife, who had two abortions while they were together.[https://www.nova-magazine.net/republican-pro-life-congressman-slept-patients-paid-abortions/]<br /> * Trump campaign coordinator and &quot;family values&quot; republican pleads tuilty to child sex trafficking, faces live in prison.[http://www.newsweek.com/republican-sex-trafficking-child-trump-coordinator-716348]<br /> * Days after a former state senator pleaded guilty to federal child sex trafficking, Moore Police released body cam footage of the call that led the then-seated senator to be charged with state child prostitution charges. Ralph Shortey, 35, pleaded guilty to child sex trafficking in federal court last week; in exchange, child pornography charges were dropped.[http://kfor.com/2017/12/04/moore-police-release-body-cam-footage-from-night-state-senator-found-in-hotel-room-with-teen-boy/]<br /> * Recently convicted republican pedophiles: List Of Convicted Republican Pedophiles: Feel free to research these people independently.[https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/7ffyje/saturday_morning_political_cartoon_thread/dqc43ng/]<br /> **Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.<br /> **Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.<br /> **Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.<br /> **Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody **who murders an abortion doctor.<br /> **Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.<br /> **Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.<br /> **Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.<br /> **Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.<br /> **Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.<br /> **Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.<br /> **Republican Congressman Donald &quot;Buz&quot; Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.<br /> **Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.<br /> **Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.<br /> **Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.<br /> **Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.<br /> **Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.<br /> **Republican congressman and anti-gay activist *Robert Bauman** was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.<br /> **Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.<br /> **Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. &quot;Republican Marty&quot;), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.<br /> **Republican legislative aide *Howard L. Brooks** was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.<br /> **Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.<br /> **Republican preacher *Stephen White**, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.<br /> **Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.<br /> **Republican anti-gay activist Earl &quot;Butch&quot; Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.<br /> **Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.<br /> **Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.<br /> **Republican politician *Andrew Buhr** was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.<br /> **Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).<br /> **Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.<br /> **Republican County Councilman *Keola Childs** pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.<br /> **Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.<br /> **Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.<br /> **Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.<br /> **Republican County Commissioner *Merrill Robert Barter** pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.<br /> **Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.<br /> **Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.<br /> **Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.<br /> **Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate *Robin Vanderwall** was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.<br /> **Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a &quot;good military man&quot; and &quot;church goer,&quot; was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.<br /> **Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.<br /> **Republican director of the &quot;Young Republican Federation&quot; Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.<br /> **Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young.<br /> **Republican state senator Ralph Shortey from Oklahoma admitted to being involved in sodomy with a 17 year old male prostitute and transporting child pornography.<br /> **Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert in jail for the payments he made to cover up raping his wrestlers when he was a high school coach.<br /> **Republican Judge and campaign official Tim Nolan for President Donald Trump indicted for human trafficking and forcing a minors (9) to engage in sexual activity and giving alcohol to minors (results from the court pending).<br /> * Republican congressperson Mia Love, from Utah, caught using campaign funds on trip to Disneyworld.[https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/over-seven-days-at-disney-world-rep-mia-love-used-a-lot-of-campaign-funds-wcz/]<br /> * Lane Maurice Davis, Donald Trump supporter and regular poster on T_D Reddit forum, stabs his father to death believing he was &quot;leftist&quot;.[https://www.goskagit.com/news/man-pleads-not-guilty-in-father-s-stabbing-death/article_479b3b6f-88d4-502d-ae77-ff5f098fb511.html][https://www.reddit.com/r/Fuckthealtright/comments/76y0os/t_d_poster_useattle4truth_murders_his_father/]<br /> * Pro-Life Congressman Won't Seek Re-Election After Reports He Urged Mistress to Get Abortion[http://time.com/4970013/tim-murphy-pennsylvania-congressman-abortion/]<br /> * Rep. Tim Murphy, popular with pro-life movement, urged abortion in affair, texts suggest. Another — a six-page memo to Mr. Murphy purportedly written by his chief of staff, Susan Mosychuk — described a hostile workplace in which Mr. Murphy repeatedly denigrated employees, threatened them and created a state of “terror.”[http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2017/10/03/rep-tim-Murphy-pro-life-sought-abortion-affair-shannon-edwards-susan-mosychuk-pennsylvania-chief-of-staff-congress-emails-texts/stories/201710030018?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_campaign=Echobox&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1507061392]<br /> * Former congressman &amp; mayor, Anthony Weiner Sentenced to 21 Months in Prison for sending obsene messages to an underage girl.[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-25/weiner-gets-prison-for-sexting-teen-in-case-that-jolted-election?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&amp;utm_content=business&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social]<br /> * &quot;Family Values&quot; Republican, Dr. Joey Hensley, Accused Of Breaking Up Marriage To Have Affair With His Cousin.[https://theintellectualist.co/family-values-republican-accused-of-breaking-up-marriage-to-have-affair-with-his-cousin/]<br /> * A former student of Kentucky's Transylvania University, Mitchell W. Adkins, was arrested Friday after he allegedly stormed a campus café with a machete and a bag of knives, quizzed students on their political affiliations, and injured two women. &quot;He asked somebody what their political affiliation was, they said ‘Republican,’ and the guy said, 'You are safe,'&quot; campus newspaper editor-in-chief Tristan Reynolds told the Lexington Herald-Leader. &quot;And then I realized what was going on and started getting people out.”[https://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/a-trump-supporter-allegedly-attacked-students-at-a-school?utm_term=.bpA5N1mzr#.yq5Yqx69b]<br /> * Conservative Christian and Oklahoma lawmaker Ralph Shortey is charged with engaging in child prostitution and other felonies after being caught in a hotel room with an underage boy.[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ralph-shortey-oklahoma-lawmaker-hit-child-prostitution-charges-n734376]<br /> * Republican lawmaker, Bill Cassidy, who promoted legislation to teach “abstinence-only” sex education in schools announced that his own unmarried high school-aged daughter has gotten pregnant.[http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/07/10/republican-abstinence-only-crusaders-17-year-old-daughter-is-pregnant/][http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/07/bill_cassidy_senate_campaign_r.html]<br /> * Republican congressman John Fleming of Louisiana tells his constituents that because he’s rich, he doesn’t work for them. [http://www.salon.com/2017/04/13/watch-republican-congressman-tells-his-constituents-that-because-hes-rich-he-doesnt-work-for-them/]<br /> * Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has surrendered to authorities on campaign finance violations and he's expected to resign soon rather than face impeachment. Bible-toting Bentley got smitten with a female staffer and got caught by his wife (now divorced) exchanging texted love notes and, on tape, talking to his sweetie about fondling her breasts. The woman's husband has a well-paid position as an adviser on faith matters. The crime wasn't the sex. The problem was the governor's effort to cover it up and using campaign and official resources on protecting himself and going after enemies. [http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2017/04/10/star-falls-in-alabama-governor-booked-on-ethics-charges]<br /> [[File:Crazy republicans.jpg|right]]* Oklahoma Republican State Senator Ralph Shortey, married with kids, was caught in a hotel with a teenage boy. Shortey has resigned from his Senate seat after being charged with three counts, including engaging in child prostitution, engaging in prostitution within 1,000 feet of a church and transporting minor for prostitution/lewdness.[http://www.koco.com/article/court-date-set-for-former-oklahoma-sen-ralph-shortey/9178322]<br /> * Alabama Republican, Rep. Jack Williams filed HB 428, a bill that would criminalize the sale of a smartphone or other internet access device without a pornography filter. Adults wanting to turn off the filters would pay a $20 fee and request the deactivation in writing.[http://abc3340.com/news/local/house-bill-would-put-porn-filters-on-cellphones]<br /> * Married-with-children Oklahoma state senator and Trump campaign chair Republican Ralph Shortey is under investigation after he was found in a motel room with an underage male.[http://www.towleroad.com/2017/03/ralph-shortey/?utm_content=buffer64f5d&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer]<br /> * Anti-gay republican outed as former drag queen. [http://issuehawk.com/igor/2014/05/05/anti-gay-republican-outed-as-former-drag-queen.html]<br /> * Sponsor Of Anti-LGBT “Bathroom Bill” Caught Sexually Harassing 34 Women, Exiled From Capitol Building[http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/04/12/sponsor-anti-lgbt-bathroom-bill-caught-sexually-harassing-34-women-exiled-capitol-building/]<br /> * Steve Wiles, a Republican state Senate candidate who supports North Carolina’s constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage, once worked as a female impersonator at a gay nightclub in Winston-Salem and was gay at the time, according to a co-owner of the nightclub and a former employee.[http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/gop-candidate-was-once-a-female-impersonator/article_a1029862-5a82-5752-90e4-eac7155bce1e.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.<br /> <br /> * Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania pled no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo of Floyd County, Kentucky was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins of Asbury Park, New Jersey pled guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker of Nashua, New Hampshire is a convicted child molester.<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor Philip Giordano of Waterbury, Connecticut is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8 and 10-year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor John Gosek of Oswego, New York was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner David Swartz of Richland County, Ohio pled guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.<br /> <br /> * Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain of Monroe County, Pennsylvania was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth of Kannapolis, N.C., is a convicted child rapist in Florida.<br /> <br /> * Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader of Witchita, Kansas pled guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency of Camden, New Jersey pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge of Soputhbay, California was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.<br /> <br /> * Republican pastor Mike Hintz of Des Moines, Iowa, who George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Peter Dibble of New London, Connecticut pled no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer of Arizona was charged with molesting his 9-year old step daughter after including her in an anti-Gore television commercial.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. and Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence both of Washington, D.C. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens of Columbus, Ohio was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.<br /> <br /> * Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio of Burke, Virginia was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Mark A. Grethen of Colorado Springs. Colorado was convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Randal David Ankeney of El Paso County, Arizona pled guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Dan Crane of Illinois had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist and Christian Coalition and South Carolina Republican leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.<br /> <br /> * Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline of Orange County, California was placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography.<br /> <br /> * Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman of Maryland was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.<br /> <br /> * Republican Committee Chairman and attorney Jeffrey Patti of Sparta, New Jersey was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Marty Glickman of Florida (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD. It was Glickman, interestingly enough, that claimed Bill Clinton came from a low rent state and had torn down all of the standards for the highest office in the land.<br /> <br /> * Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks of Quartz Hill, California was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.<br /> <br /> * Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway who had relocated to Maine from Huntsville, Alabama after having been accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.<br /> <br /> * Republican preacher Stephen White of West Chester, Pennsylvania, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.<br /> <br /> * Republican talk show host Jon Matthews of Houston, Texas pled guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling of Anderson, Indiana was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Paul Ingram of Thurston County, Washington pled guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican election board official Kevin Coan of St. Louis, Missouri was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Andrew Buhr, also of St. Louis, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Keith Westmoreland of Kingsport, Tennessee was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt of Pensacola, Florida was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Councilman Keola Childs of Hawaii County, Hawaii pled guilty to molesting a male child.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist John Butler of Cass County, Illinois was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican candidate Richard Gardner of Clark County, Nevada admitted to molesting his two daughters.<br /> <br /> * Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner of Lancaster, Pennsylvania was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter of Boothbay, Maine pled guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. of Wrightsville Borough, Delaware pled no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.<br /> <br /> * Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.<br /> <br /> * Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall of Virginia was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.<br /> <br /> * Republican city councilman Mark Harris of West Bend, Wisconsin, who has been described as a “good military man” and “church goer,” was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.<br /> <br /> * Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo of Bakersfield, California molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp, Russell Harding, pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.<br /> <br /> * Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen, Sr. of Kalispell, Montana, was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.<br /> <br /> ==List Of Convicted Republican Pedophiles:==<br /> <br /> Feel free to research these people independently.<br /> <br /> Compiled from: https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/awxa6e/jim_jordans_sex_abuse_scandal_comes_back_after/ehq2lsc/<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.[https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2005/3/29/103019/-]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fredericksburg.com/news/crime_courts/air-force-investigator-goes-to-prison-for-molesting-stafford-girl/article_ef749960-7ae3-548c-88de-cde2bec21f79.amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.[https://www.google.com/amp/www.poconorecord.com/article/20120426/NEWS90/204260334%3ftemplate=ampart]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.deseretnews.com/article/830211/NJ-man-pleads-guilty-to-Internet-porn-charges.amp]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.[http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2002/vol6n33/MislaRape-en.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.[https://www.google.com/amp/www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-philip-giordano-appeal-sex-charges-20151204-story,amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.[http://articles.latimes.com/2001/apr/06/local/me-47737]<br /> <br /> * Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.[https://www-m.cnn.com/2013/02/05/us/south-carolina-thurmond-daughter-obit/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&amp;rm=1]<br /> <br /> * Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.[http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Omaha-Church-Adds-Pastor-With-A-Past-303831061.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/nyregion/embroiled-first-selectman-takes-leave.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Donald &quot;Buz&quot; Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/25/us/teen-ager-in-ohio-testifies-to-sex-with-a-congressman.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/04/24/gop-activist-admits-to-child-porn/5af2adf0-bec8-4a10-b061-014de679422a/?utm_term=.217884e2f945]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1066630/mark-anthony-grethen-v-sandra-lynn-grethen/]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.[https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/gop-activist-accused-of-assaulting-another-girl]<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/photos/political-sex-scandals-43202982/image-dan-crane-43203720]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/02/opinion/journal-beverly-russell-s-prayers.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman* was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.[https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/2005034]<br /> <br /> * Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.[http://www.njherald.com/article/20060510/ARTICLE/305109971]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks* was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.[http://articles.latimes.com/2002/aug/20/local/me-brooks20]<br /> <br /> * Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/06/us/politics-the-senate-maine-candidate-again-faces-1990-child-sex-accusation.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican preacher Stephen White*, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.[http://www.thedp.com/article/2004/01/brother_stephen_convicted_of_soliciting_sex]<br /> <br /> * Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.[http://www.houstonpress.com/news/jon-matthews-conservative-talk-show-host-and-sex-offender-pulled-from-kpfts-prison-show-6740755]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-gay activist Earl &quot;Butch&quot; Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-02-10/news/0002100308_1_adoption-fight-molesting-woody-burton]<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/29/books/books-of-the-times-a-family-is-destroyed-by-a-sexual-chimera.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wnd.com/2001/03/8428/amp/]<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Andrew Buhr* was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1908&amp;dat=20040108&amp;id=SNwfAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=ZNkEAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=2505,474893&amp;hl=en]<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children].[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-06-20/news/0206200332_1_indecent-exposure-lawmaker-westmoreland]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.[http://www.sptimes.com/2003/06/11/State/Troopers_nab_antiabor.shtml]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Councilman Keola Childs* pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.[http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Oct/08/ln/hawaii710080338.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.[https://caselaw.findlaw.com/il-court-of-appeals/1113050.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.[https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2002/oct/14/assembly-candidate-gardner-ruled-ineligible-due-to/]<br /> <br /> * Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.[https://www.google.com/amp/amp.wgal.com/article/council-accepts-resignation-of-member-imprisoned-for-rape/6189408]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.[http://www.columbiatribune.com/5bd8f6fc-ba88-11e3-86e1-10604b9f6eda.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall* was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/15/AR2005101501539_3.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/29/us/republican-quits-governor-s-race-in-minnesota.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican director of the &quot;Young Republican Federation&quot; Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.[https://bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/registered-sex-offender-keeps-custody-of-daughter]<br /> <br /> * Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/missoulian.com/news/kalispell-businessman-richard-dasen-charged-with-prostitution-related-crimes/article_f04ce8a9-fa02-54fa-addd-267d2357a4a9.amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican state senator Ralph Shortey from Oklahoma admitted to being involved in sodomy with a 17 year old male prostitute and transporting child pornography.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/kfor.com/2018/06/04/prosecutors-say-former-oklahoma-senator-enticed-teen-with-sex-with-wife-groomed-victim-for-more-than-a-year/amp/]<br /> <br /> * Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert in jail for the payments he made to cover up raping his wrestlers when he was a high school coach.[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/us/dennis-hastert-released.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Judge and campaign official Tim Nolan for President Donald Trump indicted for human trafficking and forcing a minors (9] to engage in sexual activity and giving alcohol to minors (results from the court pending].[https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cincinnati.com/amp/463805002]<br /> <br /> Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.<br /> <br /> Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.<br /> <br /> Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.<br /> <br /> Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.<br /> <br /> Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.<br /> <br /> Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.<br /> <br /> Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.<br /> <br /> Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.<br /> <br /> Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.<br /> <br /> Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.<br /> <br /> Republican Congressman Donald &quot;Buz&quot; Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.<br /> <br /> Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.<br /> <br /> Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.<br /> <br /> Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.<br /> <br /> Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.<br /> <br /> Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.<br /> <br /> Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman* was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.<br /> <br /> Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. &quot;Republican Marty&quot;), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.<br /> <br /> * Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks* was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.<br /> <br /> * Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.<br /> <br /> * Republican preacher Stephen White*, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.<br /> <br /> * Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-gay activist Earl &quot;Butch&quot; Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Andrew Buhr* was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Councilman Keola Childs* pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.<br /> <br /> * Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter* pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.<br /> <br /> * Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.<br /> <br /> * Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall* was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.<br /> <br /> * Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a &quot;good military man&quot; and &quot;church goer,&quot; was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.<br /> <br /> * Republican director of the &quot;Young Republican Federation&quot; Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young.<br /> <br /> * Republican state senator Ralph Shortey from Oklahoma admitted to being involved in sodomy with a 17 year old male prostitute and transporting child pornography.<br /> <br /> * Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert in jail for the payments he made to cover up raping his wrestlers when he was a high school coach.<br /> <br /> * Republican Judge and campaign official Tim Nolan for President Donald Trump indicted for human trafficking and forcing a minors (9) to engage in sexual activity and giving alcohol to minors (results from the court pending).<br /> <br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * [[Theists in the news]]<br /> * [[Christian terrorists in the news]]<br /> * [[Democrats in the news]] <br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Political_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Republicans_in_the_news Republicans in the news 2019-05-22T14:12:19Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div><br /> * A Republican politician reportedly punched his wife in the face after she didn’t undress quickly enough when he wanted to have sex, according to a police report. Doug McLeod, a state legislator from Mississippi, was arrested on Saturday and charged with domestic violence.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/doug-mcleod-mississippi-domestic-violence-wife-arrest-punch-sex-a8924671.html]<br /> * Washington GOP state legislator Matt Shea taped at rally urging supporters to arm themselves with AR-15s for civil war.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/01/republican-matt-shea-rightwing-rally-guns?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other]<br /> * A white man in South Carolina has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to trying to hire a hit man to kill his black neighbor, hang him from a tree and leave a burning cross in his yard, prosecutors said.[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/us/hit-man-lynching.html]<br /> * Every extremist murder in the U.S. in 2018 was linked to right-wing extremism, according to an alarming new report from the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. The annual report found that at least 50 people were killed by extremists in 2018, marking a 35 percent increase from 2017. This makes 2018 the fourth-deadliest year on record for domestic extremist-related killings since 1970.[https://shareblue.com/extremist-murders-2018-right-wing-terrorism/][https://www.adl.org/murder-and-extremism-2018]<br /> * Despite calls for refunds, new campaign filings show Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith kept $50,000 in donations from major companies like Walmart and Facebook in the wake of her controversial special election victory in November. The latest Federal Election Commission filing -- released amid the government shutdown at the end of last week -- showed that Republican Hyde-Smith did not issue refunds to most of the corporate donors who asked for their campaign contributions to be returned in November in the wake of her “public hanging” comment.[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republican-cindy-hyde-smith-return-50000-donations-scandal/story?id=60086837]<br /> * In the first eight months of his presidency, President Trump made 1,137 false or misleading claims, an average of five a day. In October, as he barnstormed the country holding rallies in advance of the midterm elections, the president made 1,205 claims — an average of 39 a day.Combined with the rest of his presidency, that adds up to a total of 7,546 claims through Dec. 20, the 700th day of his term in office, according to The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/21/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/?noredirect=on]<br /> * A new terrorism database analysis shows almost two-thirds of the terror attacks in the United States last year were carried out by right-wing extremists.[https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/12/study-shows-two-thirds-us-terrorism-tied-right-wing-extremists]<br /> [[File:Right wing terrorists.jpg|right]]* A military veteran who had railed online against women and blacks opened fire in a Tallahassee yoga studio, killing two women and wounding five.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/03/man-with-groping-history-opens-fire-tallahassee-yoga-class-killing-two-police-say/?utm_term=.9c5fde0444f2]<br /> * Justice Dept. brings hate-crime charges against man accused of shooting black customers at Kentucky Kroger[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-dept-brings-hate-crime-charges-against-man-accused-of-shooting-black-customers-at-kentucky-kroger/2018/11/15/ce01bf66-e91d-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html?utm_term=.3128e815e4c4]<br /> * Gun-related tragedy struck once again this week, this time at a Catholic Supply store in Ballwin, Missouri, a suburb of St. Lous. USA Today reports that a former pastor has been arrested after allegedly attempting to coerce three women into having sex with him at gunpoint. When one of them resisted, he shot 53-year-old Jamie Schmidt in the head and forced the other two to submit to his “deviant” demands. The shooter, 53-year-old Thomas Bruce, has a reputation for right-wing tirades on social media and has ranted against gun-free zones in the past. He was a huge fan of President Trump, attended his rallies, and regularly tweeted about Republican politics. His last tweet read “I’ve already forgotten you. #promisesmade #promiseskept #trump2020 #BuildTheWall” and his feed was full of retweets from white nationalist FOX anchor Laura Ingraham.[https://washingtonpress.com/2018/11/23/a-trump-obsessed-pastor-just-shot-a-woman-dead-and-sodomized-two-others-in-horrific-sex-assault/]<br /> * School officials said a Republican candidate Melissa Howard, running for the GOP nomination in a Florida legislative seat lied about graduating from Miami University and faked her diploma, according to a new report.[http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/401383-university-says-gop-florida-house-candidate-faked-her-diploma-report]<br /> * Man Wearing MAGA Hat Arrested for Shoving Immigrant Onto Subway Tracks; Staten Island's Willie Ames, 47, is ​suspected by the NYPD to have shoved 24-year-old ​Mexican immigrant Luis Lopez onto the tracks on April 21. That while wearing, of course, a bright red &quot;Make American Great Again&quot; hat. According to the police, Ames had hurled slurs at Lopez and called him a &quot;f—ing Mexican.&quot;[https://www.pluralist.com/posts/599-man-wearing-maga-hat-arrested-for-shoving-immigrant-onto-subway-tracks/partners/43955]<br /> * Waffle House suspect Travis Reinking deemed himself a 'sovereign citizen,' part of anti-government group.[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/04/22/waffle-house-suspect-travis-reinking-sovereign-citizen/540543002/]<br /> * As they back Trump, evangelical leaders face their own sex scandals.[https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/03/31/they-back-trump-evangelical-leaders-face-their-own-sex-scandals/9JwpnbdWzHOzQ7tEAmxUPN/story.html]<br /> * An Ohio lawmaker who routinely touted his Christian faith and anti-LGBT views has resigned after being caught having sex with a man in his office. Wes Goodman, who is the Republican state legislator for Ohio, is married to a woman who is assistant director of an annual anti-abortion rally known as March for Life.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/lawmaker-wes-goodman-anti-lgbt-resigns-sex-man-office-caught-ohio-republican-christian-family-values-a8060631.html]<br /> * A southern Utah Republican party official has been arrested in a prostitution sting a week after a politician from a neighboring city stepped down amid allegations that he met a prostitute in a taxpayer-funded hotel room. The Spectrum newspaper reports Iron County Republican Party treasurer Blake Cozzens was arrested Tuesday after paying $100 for sex acts he discussed in text messages with a confidential informant.[http://kutv.com/news/local/southern-utah-gop-official-arrested-in-prostitution-sting]<br /> * When GOP congressman Scott DesJarlais (TN) was a doctor, he had sexual relationships with his patients. Despite being a “pro-life” advocate, he pressured women in his life to have abortions, including his ex-wife, who had two abortions while they were together.[https://www.nova-magazine.net/republican-pro-life-congressman-slept-patients-paid-abortions/]<br /> * Trump campaign coordinator and &quot;family values&quot; republican pleads tuilty to child sex trafficking, faces live in prison.[http://www.newsweek.com/republican-sex-trafficking-child-trump-coordinator-716348]<br /> * Days after a former state senator pleaded guilty to federal child sex trafficking, Moore Police released body cam footage of the call that led the then-seated senator to be charged with state child prostitution charges. Ralph Shortey, 35, pleaded guilty to child sex trafficking in federal court last week; in exchange, child pornography charges were dropped.[http://kfor.com/2017/12/04/moore-police-release-body-cam-footage-from-night-state-senator-found-in-hotel-room-with-teen-boy/]<br /> * Recently convicted republican pedophiles: List Of Convicted Republican Pedophiles: Feel free to research these people independently.[https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/7ffyje/saturday_morning_political_cartoon_thread/dqc43ng/]<br /> **Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.<br /> **Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.<br /> **Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.<br /> **Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody **who murders an abortion doctor.<br /> **Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.<br /> **Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.<br /> **Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.<br /> **Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.<br /> **Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.<br /> **Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.<br /> **Republican Congressman Donald &quot;Buz&quot; Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.<br /> **Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.<br /> **Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.<br /> **Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.<br /> **Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.<br /> **Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.<br /> **Republican congressman and anti-gay activist *Robert Bauman** was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.<br /> **Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.<br /> **Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. &quot;Republican Marty&quot;), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.<br /> **Republican legislative aide *Howard L. Brooks** was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.<br /> **Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.<br /> **Republican preacher *Stephen White**, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.<br /> **Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.<br /> **Republican anti-gay activist Earl &quot;Butch&quot; Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.<br /> **Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.<br /> **Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.<br /> **Republican politician *Andrew Buhr** was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.<br /> **Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).<br /> **Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.<br /> **Republican County Councilman *Keola Childs** pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.<br /> **Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.<br /> **Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.<br /> **Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.<br /> **Republican County Commissioner *Merrill Robert Barter** pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.<br /> **Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.<br /> **Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.<br /> **Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.<br /> **Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate *Robin Vanderwall** was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.<br /> **Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a &quot;good military man&quot; and &quot;church goer,&quot; was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.<br /> **Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.<br /> **Republican director of the &quot;Young Republican Federation&quot; Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.<br /> **Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young.<br /> **Republican state senator Ralph Shortey from Oklahoma admitted to being involved in sodomy with a 17 year old male prostitute and transporting child pornography.<br /> **Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert in jail for the payments he made to cover up raping his wrestlers when he was a high school coach.<br /> **Republican Judge and campaign official Tim Nolan for President Donald Trump indicted for human trafficking and forcing a minors (9) to engage in sexual activity and giving alcohol to minors (results from the court pending).<br /> * Republican congressperson Mia Love, from Utah, caught using campaign funds on trip to Disneyworld.[https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/over-seven-days-at-disney-world-rep-mia-love-used-a-lot-of-campaign-funds-wcz/]<br /> * Lane Maurice Davis, Donald Trump supporter and regular poster on T_D Reddit forum, stabs his father to death believing he was &quot;leftist&quot;.[https://www.goskagit.com/news/man-pleads-not-guilty-in-father-s-stabbing-death/article_479b3b6f-88d4-502d-ae77-ff5f098fb511.html][https://www.reddit.com/r/Fuckthealtright/comments/76y0os/t_d_poster_useattle4truth_murders_his_father/]<br /> * Pro-Life Congressman Won't Seek Re-Election After Reports He Urged Mistress to Get Abortion[http://time.com/4970013/tim-murphy-pennsylvania-congressman-abortion/]<br /> * Rep. Tim Murphy, popular with pro-life movement, urged abortion in affair, texts suggest. Another — a six-page memo to Mr. Murphy purportedly written by his chief of staff, Susan Mosychuk — described a hostile workplace in which Mr. Murphy repeatedly denigrated employees, threatened them and created a state of “terror.”[http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2017/10/03/rep-tim-Murphy-pro-life-sought-abortion-affair-shannon-edwards-susan-mosychuk-pennsylvania-chief-of-staff-congress-emails-texts/stories/201710030018?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_campaign=Echobox&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1507061392]<br /> * Former congressman &amp; mayor, Anthony Weiner Sentenced to 21 Months in Prison for sending obsene messages to an underage girl.[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-25/weiner-gets-prison-for-sexting-teen-in-case-that-jolted-election?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&amp;utm_content=business&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social]<br /> * &quot;Family Values&quot; Republican, Dr. Joey Hensley, Accused Of Breaking Up Marriage To Have Affair With His Cousin.[https://theintellectualist.co/family-values-republican-accused-of-breaking-up-marriage-to-have-affair-with-his-cousin/]<br /> * A former student of Kentucky's Transylvania University, Mitchell W. Adkins, was arrested Friday after he allegedly stormed a campus café with a machete and a bag of knives, quizzed students on their political affiliations, and injured two women. &quot;He asked somebody what their political affiliation was, they said ‘Republican,’ and the guy said, 'You are safe,'&quot; campus newspaper editor-in-chief Tristan Reynolds told the Lexington Herald-Leader. &quot;And then I realized what was going on and started getting people out.”[https://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/a-trump-supporter-allegedly-attacked-students-at-a-school?utm_term=.bpA5N1mzr#.yq5Yqx69b]<br /> * Conservative Christian and Oklahoma lawmaker Ralph Shortey is charged with engaging in child prostitution and other felonies after being caught in a hotel room with an underage boy.[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ralph-shortey-oklahoma-lawmaker-hit-child-prostitution-charges-n734376]<br /> * Republican lawmaker, Bill Cassidy, who promoted legislation to teach “abstinence-only” sex education in schools announced that his own unmarried high school-aged daughter has gotten pregnant.[http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/07/10/republican-abstinence-only-crusaders-17-year-old-daughter-is-pregnant/][http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/07/bill_cassidy_senate_campaign_r.html]<br /> * Republican congressman John Fleming of Louisiana tells his constituents that because he’s rich, he doesn’t work for them. [http://www.salon.com/2017/04/13/watch-republican-congressman-tells-his-constituents-that-because-hes-rich-he-doesnt-work-for-them/]<br /> * Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has surrendered to authorities on campaign finance violations and he's expected to resign soon rather than face impeachment. Bible-toting Bentley got smitten with a female staffer and got caught by his wife (now divorced) exchanging texted love notes and, on tape, talking to his sweetie about fondling her breasts. The woman's husband has a well-paid position as an adviser on faith matters. The crime wasn't the sex. The problem was the governor's effort to cover it up and using campaign and official resources on protecting himself and going after enemies. [http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2017/04/10/star-falls-in-alabama-governor-booked-on-ethics-charges]<br /> [[File:Crazy republicans.jpg|right]]* Oklahoma Republican State Senator Ralph Shortey, married with kids, was caught in a hotel with a teenage boy. Shortey has resigned from his Senate seat after being charged with three counts, including engaging in child prostitution, engaging in prostitution within 1,000 feet of a church and transporting minor for prostitution/lewdness.[http://www.koco.com/article/court-date-set-for-former-oklahoma-sen-ralph-shortey/9178322]<br /> * Alabama Republican, Rep. Jack Williams filed HB 428, a bill that would criminalize the sale of a smartphone or other internet access device without a pornography filter. Adults wanting to turn off the filters would pay a $20 fee and request the deactivation in writing.[http://abc3340.com/news/local/house-bill-would-put-porn-filters-on-cellphones]<br /> * Married-with-children Oklahoma state senator and Trump campaign chair Republican Ralph Shortey is under investigation after he was found in a motel room with an underage male.[http://www.towleroad.com/2017/03/ralph-shortey/?utm_content=buffer64f5d&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer]<br /> * Anti-gay republican outed as former drag queen. [http://issuehawk.com/igor/2014/05/05/anti-gay-republican-outed-as-former-drag-queen.html]<br /> * Sponsor Of Anti-LGBT “Bathroom Bill” Caught Sexually Harassing 34 Women, Exiled From Capitol Building[http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/04/12/sponsor-anti-lgbt-bathroom-bill-caught-sexually-harassing-34-women-exiled-capitol-building/]<br /> * Steve Wiles, a Republican state Senate candidate who supports North Carolina’s constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage, once worked as a female impersonator at a gay nightclub in Winston-Salem and was gay at the time, according to a co-owner of the nightclub and a former employee.[http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/gop-candidate-was-once-a-female-impersonator/article_a1029862-5a82-5752-90e4-eac7155bce1e.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.<br /> <br /> * Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania pled no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo of Floyd County, Kentucky was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins of Asbury Park, New Jersey pled guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker of Nashua, New Hampshire is a convicted child molester.<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor Philip Giordano of Waterbury, Connecticut is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8 and 10-year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor John Gosek of Oswego, New York was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner David Swartz of Richland County, Ohio pled guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.<br /> <br /> * Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain of Monroe County, Pennsylvania was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth of Kannapolis, N.C., is a convicted child rapist in Florida.<br /> <br /> * Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader of Witchita, Kansas pled guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency of Camden, New Jersey pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge of Soputhbay, California was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.<br /> <br /> * Republican pastor Mike Hintz of Des Moines, Iowa, who George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Peter Dibble of New London, Connecticut pled no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer of Arizona was charged with molesting his 9-year old step daughter after including her in an anti-Gore television commercial.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. and Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence both of Washington, D.C. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens of Columbus, Ohio was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.<br /> <br /> * Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio of Burke, Virginia was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Mark A. Grethen of Colorado Springs. Colorado was convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Randal David Ankeney of El Paso County, Arizona pled guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Dan Crane of Illinois had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist and Christian Coalition and South Carolina Republican leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.<br /> <br /> * Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline of Orange County, California was placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography.<br /> <br /> * Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman of Maryland was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.<br /> <br /> * Republican Committee Chairman and attorney Jeffrey Patti of Sparta, New Jersey was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Marty Glickman of Florida (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD. It was Glickman, interestingly enough, that claimed Bill Clinton came from a low rent state and had torn down all of the standards for the highest office in the land.<br /> <br /> * Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks of Quartz Hill, California was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.<br /> <br /> * Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway who had relocated to Maine from Huntsville, Alabama after having been accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.<br /> <br /> * Republican preacher Stephen White of West Chester, Pennsylvania, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.<br /> <br /> * Republican talk show host Jon Matthews of Houston, Texas pled guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling of Anderson, Indiana was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Paul Ingram of Thurston County, Washington pled guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican election board official Kevin Coan of St. Louis, Missouri was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Andrew Buhr, also of St. Louis, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Keith Westmoreland of Kingsport, Tennessee was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt of Pensacola, Florida was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Councilman Keola Childs of Hawaii County, Hawaii pled guilty to molesting a male child.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist John Butler of Cass County, Illinois was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican candidate Richard Gardner of Clark County, Nevada admitted to molesting his two daughters.<br /> <br /> * Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner of Lancaster, Pennsylvania was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter of Boothbay, Maine pled guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.<br /> <br /> * Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. of Wrightsville Borough, Delaware pled no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.<br /> <br /> * Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.<br /> <br /> * Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall of Virginia was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.<br /> <br /> * Republican city councilman Mark Harris of West Bend, Wisconsin, who has been described as a “good military man” and “church goer,” was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.<br /> <br /> * Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo of Bakersfield, California molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.<br /> <br /> * Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp, Russell Harding, pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.<br /> <br /> * Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen, Sr. of Kalispell, Montana, was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.<br /> <br /> ==List Of Convicted Republican Pedophiles:==<br /> <br /> Feel free to research these people independently.<br /> <br /> Compiled from: https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/awxa6e/jim_jordans_sex_abuse_scandal_comes_back_after/ehq2lsc/<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.[https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2005/3/29/103019/-]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fredericksburg.com/news/crime_courts/air-force-investigator-goes-to-prison-for-molesting-stafford-girl/article_ef749960-7ae3-548c-88de-cde2bec21f79.amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.[https://www.google.com/amp/www.poconorecord.com/article/20120426/NEWS90/204260334%3ftemplate=ampart]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.deseretnews.com/article/830211/NJ-man-pleads-guilty-to-Internet-porn-charges.amp]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.[http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2002/vol6n33/MislaRape-en.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.[https://www.google.com/amp/www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-philip-giordano-appeal-sex-charges-20151204-story,amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.[http://articles.latimes.com/2001/apr/06/local/me-47737]<br /> <br /> * Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.[https://www-m.cnn.com/2013/02/05/us/south-carolina-thurmond-daughter-obit/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&amp;rm=1]<br /> <br /> * Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.[http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Omaha-Church-Adds-Pastor-With-A-Past-303831061.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/nyregion/embroiled-first-selectman-takes-leave.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Donald &quot;Buz&quot; Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/25/us/teen-ager-in-ohio-testifies-to-sex-with-a-congressman.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/04/24/gop-activist-admits-to-child-porn/5af2adf0-bec8-4a10-b061-014de679422a/?utm_term=.217884e2f945]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1066630/mark-anthony-grethen-v-sandra-lynn-grethen/]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.[https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/gop-activist-accused-of-assaulting-another-girl]<br /> <br /> * Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/photos/political-sex-scandals-43202982/image-dan-crane-43203720]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/02/opinion/journal-beverly-russell-s-prayers.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman* was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.[https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/2005034]<br /> <br /> * Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.[http://www.njherald.com/article/20060510/ARTICLE/305109971]<br /> <br /> * Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks* was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.[http://articles.latimes.com/2002/aug/20/local/me-brooks20]<br /> <br /> * Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/06/us/politics-the-senate-maine-candidate-again-faces-1990-child-sex-accusation.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican preacher Stephen White*, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.[http://www.thedp.com/article/2004/01/brother_stephen_convicted_of_soliciting_sex]<br /> <br /> * Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.[http://www.houstonpress.com/news/jon-matthews-conservative-talk-show-host-and-sex-offender-pulled-from-kpfts-prison-show-6740755]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-gay activist Earl &quot;Butch&quot; Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-02-10/news/0002100308_1_adoption-fight-molesting-woody-burton]<br /> <br /> * Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/29/books/books-of-the-times-a-family-is-destroyed-by-a-sexual-chimera.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wnd.com/2001/03/8428/amp/]<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Andrew Buhr* was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1908&amp;dat=20040108&amp;id=SNwfAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=ZNkEAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=2505,474893&amp;hl=en]<br /> <br /> * Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children].[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-06-20/news/0206200332_1_indecent-exposure-lawmaker-westmoreland]<br /> <br /> * Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.[http://www.sptimes.com/2003/06/11/State/Troopers_nab_antiabor.shtml]<br /> <br /> * Republican County Councilman Keola Childs* pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.[http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Oct/08/ln/hawaii710080338.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.[https://caselaw.findlaw.com/il-court-of-appeals/1113050.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.[https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2002/oct/14/assembly-candidate-gardner-ruled-ineligible-due-to/]<br /> <br /> * Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.[https://www.google.com/amp/amp.wgal.com/article/council-accepts-resignation-of-member-imprisoned-for-rape/6189408]<br /> <br /> * Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.[http://www.columbiatribune.com/5bd8f6fc-ba88-11e3-86e1-10604b9f6eda.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall* was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/15/AR2005101501539_3.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/29/us/republican-quits-governor-s-race-in-minnesota.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican director of the &quot;Young Republican Federation&quot; Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.[https://bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/registered-sex-offender-keeps-custody-of-daughter]<br /> <br /> * Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/missoulian.com/news/kalispell-businessman-richard-dasen-charged-with-prostitution-related-crimes/article_f04ce8a9-fa02-54fa-addd-267d2357a4a9.amp.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican state senator Ralph Shortey from Oklahoma admitted to being involved in sodomy with a 17 year old male prostitute and transporting child pornography.[https://www.google.com/amp/s/kfor.com/2018/06/04/prosecutors-say-former-oklahoma-senator-enticed-teen-with-sex-with-wife-groomed-victim-for-more-than-a-year/amp/]<br /> <br /> * Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert in jail for the payments he made to cover up raping his wrestlers when he was a high school coach.[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/us/dennis-hastert-released.html]<br /> <br /> * Republican Judge and campaign official Tim Nolan for President Donald Trump indicted for human trafficking and forcing a minors (9] to engage in sexual activity and giving alcohol to minors (results from the court pending].[https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cincinnati.com/amp/463805002]<br /> <br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * [[Theists in the news]]<br /> * [[Christian terrorists in the news]]<br /> * [[Democrats in the news]] <br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Political_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Gallery_of_Gullibility Gallery of Gullibility 2019-05-16T12:36:07Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>Religion and new age gobbly-gook are not the only things people can be hoodwinked into believing. This gallery serves to document many examples of products successfully marketed to a gullible community, and also serves to remind us that some things that are claimed to be healthy or safe are nothing of the sort. This is why science and the scientific method are so important.<br /> {{ga}}<br /> &lt;gallery&gt;<br /> File:Lysol no poison.jpg<br /> File:Radithor.jpg<br /> File:Radium dials.png<br /> <br /> File:Piece of shit.jpg<br /> <br /> File:Distaval is safe.gif<br /> File:Distaval-thalidomide.gif<br /> File:Karo syrup.jpg<br /> File:Corn syrup.jpg<br /> <br /> File:Afford not to smoke.jpg<br /> File:Tv helps.png<br /> File:Facial flaws.jpg<br /> File:Coke tooth drops.jpg<br /> <br /> File:Mans world.jpg<br /> File:Oxfords.jpg<br /> File:Camels agree with your throat.jpg<br /> File:Follow him anywhere.jpg<br /> File:Wives cook.jpg<br /> File:Girl rug.jpg<br /> File:Wife bad driver.jpg<br /> File:Xmas vacuum.jpg<br /> File:Lysol douche.jpg<br /> File:Lets go native.png<br /> File:Get it yourself.jpg<br /> File:Values of cleanliness.jpg<br /> <br /> File:Horse spread.jpg<br /> <br /> File:Indians reclaimed.jpg<br /> File:Chlorinol.jpg<br /> <br /> File:Sufferagette1.jpg<br /> 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Image:AncientPrejudiceLuckyStrike.jpg<br /> image:Marbaby.jpg<br /> image:Solomon_monkey-circus_poster.jpg<br /> image:Ddt.jpg<br /> image:Meat47b.jpg<br /> image:Miracle.jpg<br /> image:Syphilis.jpg<br /> image:Tapeworms.jpg<br /> Image:Smokin santa.jpg<br /> Image:Atomic energy lab.jpg<br /> Image:Revigator.jpg<br /> Image:Fashion.jpg<br /> Image:Unquestioning christian.jpg<br /> Image:Fundies.jpg<br /> Image:Uv device.jpg<br /> Image:Thorazine.jpg<br /> Image:Radium ad.jpg<br /> Image:Baby shaving.jpg<br /> Image:Auto urine therapy.jpg<br /> Image:Breathe freely2.jpg<br /> <br /> Image:Moredoctorssmokecamels1L.jpg<br /> Image:DentistreccomendedL.jpg<br /> Image:YourwindgerhigL.jpg<br /> Image:BestforyouedsullivanL.jpg<br /> Image:SomethingwonderfulL.jpg<br /> Image:FrankstatementL.jpg<br /> Image:DroppingthenewyorktimesL.jpg<br /> &lt;/gallery&gt;<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> * [[Freethought Imagery]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/File:Lysol_no_poison.jpg File:Lysol no poison.jpg 2019-05-16T12:35:48Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div></div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Science_vs_Industry Science vs Industry 2019-05-06T16:03:23Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>This page documents examples of where industry and science conflicted or colluded with each other in ways that were not of interest to the people or the truth.<br /> <br /> ==Industry Collusion and Manipulation==<br /> <br /> * Court documents reveal Monsanto's efforts to fight glyphosate's 'severe stigma'. Social Sharing. Canadian firm hired to recruit scientists to publish studies that ultimately defended Roundup's key ingredient.The documents also reveal communications between Monsanto and a Canadian firm hired to recruit scientists to publish studies that ultimately defended glyphosate — some of which were secretly reviewed by Monsanto prior to publication. All those papers, as previously reported by CBC/Radio-Canada, were also used as part of Health Canada's re-approval process of glyphosate in 2017.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/glyphosate-monsanto-intertek-studies-1.4902229]<br /> <br /> * Fired Quebec scientist blew the whistle on pesticide lobby influence.[https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/03/21/news/fired-quebec-scientist-blew-whistle-pesticide-lobby-influence]<br /> <br /> * Rush To Produce, Sell Vaccine Put Kids In Philippines At Risk. &quot;What bothers me most about this story is risk communication,&quot; says Rodriguez, who studies dengue in South America. &quot;There was a lot of uncertainty from the beginning [about the vaccine's safety]. That needed to be communicated explicitly. You need to be honest about what evidence is out there.&quot; In April, the Philippine government indicted 14 government officials over the deaths of 10 children who received the Dengvaxia vaccine. The government said the officials acted with &quot;undue haste&quot; in procuring the vaccine and launching the mass immunization campaign. The Philippine Department of Justice said the campaign started before the clinical trials were finished. In some instances children were given the vaccine by untrained health workers and allegedly without a proper physical beforehand. Some children allegedly had preexisting medical conditions that made the immunization dangerous. But these children were still inoculated, the government found. Six Sanofi officials were also indicted for not properly helping children who had serious reactions to the shot.[https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/05/03/719037789/botched-vaccine-launch-has-deadly-repercussions]<br /> * Radium Girls - information on industry using women to handle toxic materials and covering it up.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls]<br /> * Monsanto secretly ran “Let Nothing Go” campaign that paid internet trolls to post pro-Monsanto comments all across the internet[https://www.monsanto.news/2018-06-28-monsanto-secretly-ran-let-nothing-go-campaign-paid-internet-trolls.html]<br /> * EU regulators based a decision to relicense the controversial weedkiller glyphosate on an assessment plagiarised from industry reports, according to a report for the European parliament.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/eu-glyphosate-approval-was-based-on-plagiarised-monsanto-text-report-finds]<br /> * Judge in Roundup maker’s first federal trial had banned discussion of the company’s alleged manipulation of science. Monsanto is facing its first federal trial over allegations that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, but a US judge has blocked attorneys from discussing the corporation’s alleged manipulation of science. In an extraordinary move in a packed San Francisco courtroom on Monday, US judge Vince Chhabria threatened to sanction and “shut down” a cancer patient’s attorney for violating his ban on talking about Monsanto’s influence on government regulators and cancer research.[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/25/monsanto-federal-trial-roundup-cancer]<br /> * A broad new scientific analysis of the cancer-causing potential of glyphosate herbicides, the most widely used weedkilling products in the world, has found that people with high exposures to the popular pesticides have a 41% increased risk of developing a type of cancer called non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/14/weed-killing-products-increase-cancer-risk-of-cancer]<br /> * IARC responds to the claims its study claiming Glyphosate was probably carcinogenic, was incorrect and says media distorting actual reports. From reading, the IARC claims are based on the review of more than 1000 independent scientific studies. The idea that one particular study contradicts their overall findings and should be used to dismiss the IARC study is absurd. IARC also calls attention to concern over industry badgering scientists to reveal their findings prior to publication and peer review.[https://www.iarc.fr/featured-news/media-centre-iarc-news-glyphosate/]<br /> * The world’s most used weedkiller damages the beneficial bacteria in the guts of honeybees and makes them more prone to deadly infections, new research has found. Previous studies have shown that pesticides such as neonicotinoids cause harm to bees, whose pollination is vital to about three-quarters of all food crops. Glyphosate, manufactured by Monsanto, targets an enzyme only found in plants and bacteria. However, the new study shows that glyphosate damages the microbiota that honeybees need to grow and to fight off pathogens. The findings show glyphosate, the most used agricultural chemical ever, may be contributing to the global decline in bees, along with the loss of habitat.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/24/monsanto-weedkiller-harms-bees-research-finds]<br /> * Court Orders EPA To Ban Chlorpyrifos, A Pesticide Linked To Brain Damage In Kids.[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-ban-pesticide-chlorpyrifos_us_5b6c6d0ce4b0ae32af96318e]<br /> * A federal jury today convicted a Birmingham lawyer and an Alabama coal company executive in a scheme to bribe a state legislator to use his office to oppose Environmental Protection Agency actions in north Birmingham, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr. and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Holloman.[https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndal/pr/federal-jury-convicts-lawyer-and-coal-company-executive-bribing-state-legislator]<br /> * When Trump administration officials opposed a WHO breast-feeding resolution, they followed a long history of policymakers listening to baby-formula manufacturers.[https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/07/the-epic-battle-between-breast-milk-and-infant-formula-companies/564782/]<br /> * Monsanto 'bullied scientists' and hid weedkiller cancer risk, lawyer tells court[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jul/09/monsanto-trial-roundup-weedkiller-cancer-dewayne-johnson]<br /> * Why Trump's new CDC director is an abysmal choice: Redfield worked closely with the Christian organization, Americans for a Sound AIDS/HIV Policy. The group maintained AIDS was &quot;God's judgment&quot; against homosexuals, spread in an America weakened by single-parent households and loss of family values.[https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/13/opinions/trumps-terrible-choice-for-cdc-redfield-garrett/index.html]<br /> * After more than 40 years of widespread use, new scientific tests show formulated weedkillers have higher rates of toxicity to human cells.The tests are part of the US National Toxicology Program’s (NTP) first-ever examination of herbicide formulations made with the active ingredient glyphosate, but that also include other chemicals. While regulators have previously required extensive testing of glyphosate in isolation, government scientists have not fully examined the toxicity of the more complex products sold to consumers, farmers and others. Monsanto introduced its glyphosate-based Roundup brand in 1974. But it is only now, after more than 40 years of widespread use, that the government is investigating the toxicity of “glyphosate-based herbicides” on human cells.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/08/weedkiller-tests-monsanto-health-dangers-active-ingredient]<br /> * Popular article (that made the front page of a high-ranked subReddit) entitled, &quot;Millennials 'have no qualms about GM crops' unlike older generation&quot; was in actuality, a &quot;study&quot; commissioned by the Agricultural BiotechnologyCouncil, which is an industry lobbying group. The Agricultural Biotechnology Council (ABC) is a UK corporate lobby group funded by major biottechnology companies and run from the offices of a PR company, Lexington Communications. On its website, ABC lists members as comprising: BASF, Bayer CropScience, Dow AgroSciences, Pioneer (which is part of DuPont), Monsanto, Syngenta. &quot;In typical astroturf fashion they try to draw some kind of connection with &quot;Millennials&quot; to give themselves credibility.&quot;[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/07/millennials-have-no-qualms-gm-crops-unlike-older-generation/][https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/8hnt5r/millennials_have_no_qualms_about_gm_crops_unlike/dylh1u0/]<br /> * Under Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has dramatically shifted away from its stated mission to “protect human and environmental health.” Instead, the agency is clearly favoring the interests of the polluting industries that it is mandated to regulate, according to a study.[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304360]<br /> * Weedkiller found in granola and crackers, internal FDA emails show. The FDA has been testing food samples for traces of glyphosate for two years, but the agency has not yet released any official result. Other findings detailed in the FDA documents show that in 2016 Chamkasem found glyphosate in numerous samples of honey. Chamkasem also found glyphosate in oatmeal products. The FDA temporarily suspended testing after those findings, and Chamkasem’s lab was “reassigned to other programs”, the FDA documents show. The FDA has said those tests were not part of its official glyphosate residue assignment.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/30/fda-weedkiller-glyphosate-in-food-internal-emails]<br /> * &quot;Eating Pasta Linked to Weight Loss in New Study,&quot; Newsweek reported this month, racking up more than 22,500 Facebook likes, shares, and comments. The happy news also went viral on the Independent, the New York Daily News, and Business Insider. What those and many other stories failed to note, however, was that three of the scientists behind the study in question had financial conflicts as tangled as a bowl of spaghetti, including ties to the world’s largest pasta company, the Barilla Group. At least 10 peer-reviewed studies about pasta published since 2008 were either funded directly by Barilla or, like the one published this month, were carried out by scientists who have had financial ties to the company.[https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemlee/pasta-barilla-science-funding]<br /> * Senate Confirms Climate Change Denier To Lead NASA, Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) will take over control of the space agency after seven-month standoff. Bridenstine will become the first elected official to hold the NASA administrator job. He joins a Cabinet already loaded with people who question the near-universal scientific consensus that climate change is real and that human activity is the primary cause. The final vote ― which was 50-49 along party lines ― came one day after the Senate narrowly advanced Bridenstine’s nomination, thanks to an about-face from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and a key vote from Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.). Rubio[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jim-bridenstine-nasa-confirmation_us_5ad8aab7e4b03c426dac081c]<br /> * Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine sued agricultural giant Monsanto on Monday, alleging the company concealed dangers posed by a toxic chemical compound it manufactured for nearly a half century. In the suit, filed in the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court in Cincinnati, prosecutors argued that the company should pay for the clean-up of what it says are dozens of rivers, lakes and other water bodies contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/monsanto-concealed-effects-toxic-chemical-decades-ohio-ag-alleges-n853866]<br /> * The world’s most widely used insecticides pose a serious danger to both honeybees and wild bees, according to a major new assessment from the European Union’s scientific risk assessors. The conclusion, based on analysis of more than 1,500 studies, makes it highly likely that the neonicotinoid pesticides will be banned from all fields across the EU when nations vote on the issue next month.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/28/total-ban-on-bee-harming-pesticides-likely-after-major-new-eu-analysis]<br /> * DuPont vs. the World: Chemical Giant Covered Up Health Risks of Teflon Contamination Across Globe[https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/23/dupont_vs_the_world_chemical_giant]<br /> * GOP senators who pushed Trump to ditch Paris deal took over $10 million from fossil fuel industry.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/01/republican-senators-paris-climate-deal-energy-donations]<br /> * With backing from a sugar lobby, scientists promoted dietary fat as the cause of coronary heart disease instead of sugar, according to a historical document review published in JAMA Internal Medicine.[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/12/sugar-industry-paid-research-heart-disease-jama-report]<br /> * Oregon sues Monsanto, alleges company knowingly sold toxic PCBs for decades.[http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2018/01/oregon_sues_monsanto_alleges_c.html]<br /> * Government scientists blocked from the biggest meeting in their field[https://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/22/us-geological-survey-scientists-blocked-from-conference-interior-department/]<br /> * Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Net Neutrality Narrative Is False[https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/vbympa/net-neutrality-fcc-inspector-general-report]<br /> * The Slow Demise of Asbestos, the Carcinogen that Gave ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Snow[https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-slow-demise-of-asbestos-the-carcinogen-that-gave-the-wizard-of-oz-snow]<br /> * Trump reverses ban on Nazi created pesticide after receiving huge donation from chemical company[https://www.snopes.com/trump-reverses-insecticide-ban-dow-chemicals/]<br /> * Sugar industry withheld research effects of sucrose 50 years ago, study claims Researchers say negative health impacts of sucrose could have been combated sooner had research been released – but industry bodies dispute the findings.In 1967, when scientists were arguing over the link between sugar consumption and increased risk of heart disease, researchers now claim that the International Sugar Research Foundation (ISRF) withheld findings that rats that were fed a high-sugar diet had higher levels of triglycerides (a fat found in the blood) than those fed starch. In a move researchers from the University of California at San Francisco have compared to the tobacco industry’s self-preservation tactics, the foundation stopped funding the project.[https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2017/nov/21/sugar-industry-withheld-research-effects-of-sucrose-50-years-ago-study-claims]<br /> * As cigarette sales decline worldwide, the tobacco giant Phillip Morris Inc. is scrambling to restructure and embrace potentially more profitable “smoke-free” products. The revamp involves setting up an $80 million foundation called the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. The World Health Organization rebuked Phillip Morris and accused it of being disingenuous about consumer health, citing decades of research meddling and deceptive marketing. It declared it would have nothing to do with the foundation and warned governments the world over to do the same.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/philip-morris-sets-up-80m-research-foundation-who-flips-them-the-bird/]<br /> * Monsanto banned from European parliament: MEPs withdraw parliamentary access after the firm shunned a hearing into allegations that it unduly influenced studies into the safety of glyphosate used in its RoundUp weedkiller.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/28/monsanto-banned-from-european-parliament]<br /> * Coca-Cola secretly spent $1.5 million to fund an entire network of academic researchers whose goal was to shift the national health conversation away from the harms of sugary beverages. Instead, their research focused on the benefits of exercise—i.e., the health risks of sedentary and inactive lifestyles.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/the-new-study-suggesting-sitting-will-kill-you-is-kind-of-a-raging-dumpster-fire/]<br /> * Union of Concerned Scientists complains that the Trump administration's &quot;Chief Scientist&quot; at the USDA is not a scientist: Sam Clovis—a conservative talk radio host, Trump campaign co-chair, and climate denier with no training in science—for the role of chief scientist at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). [http://blog.ucsusa.org/mike-lavender/the-case-against-clovis-why-trumps-usda-chief-scientist-nominee-is-the-wrong-choice]<br /> * Almost All of FCC’s New Advisory Panel Works for Telecoms, most of which are against Net Neutrality.[http://www.thedailybeast.com/almost-all-of-fccs-new-advisory-panel-works-for-telecoms]<br /> * Court evidence reveals Monsanto involved with published Scientific Studies Without Disclosing Conflicts of Interest to publishers.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/monsanto-secret-documents/]<br /> * Internal Emails Show Monsanto Made Substantial Contributions to Published Expert Panel Manuscript.[http://baumhedlundlaw.com/pdf/monsanto-documents/3-Internal-Emails-Show-Monsanto-Made-Substantial-Contributions-to-Published-Expert-Panel-Manuscript.pdf]<br /> * Monsanto secret documents revealed, contianing correspondence between Dr. William Heydens and Ashely Roberts regarding the Expert Panel Manuscript. Dr. Heydens went “through the entire document and “indicated what I think should stay, what can go, and in a couple spots I did a little editing. I took a crack at adding a little text: on page 10 to address John’s comments about toxicologists’ use of Hill’s criteria … see what you think; it made sense to me, but I’m not sure if it will to others – please feel free to further modify and/or run by Cary.” at *1. The edited draft is also attached and challenged for confidentiality.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/monsanto-secret-documents/]<br /> * Court documents reveal Monsanto was ghost-writing academic papers defending its products and attacking critics.The documents underscore the lengths to which the agrochemical company goes to protect its image. Documents show that Henry I. Miller, an academic and a vocal proponent of genetically modified crops, asked Monsanto to draft an article for him that largely mirrored one that appeared under his name on Forbes's website in 2015. Mr. Miller could not be reached for comment. A similar issue appeared in academic research. An academic involved in writing research funded by Monsanto, John Acquavella, a former Monsanto employee, appeared to express discomfort with the process, writing in a 2015 email to a Monsanto executive, &quot;I can't be part of deceptive authorship on a presentation or publication.&quot; He also said of the way the company was trying to present the authorship: &quot;We call that ghost writing and it is unethical.&quot; Mr. Miller's 2015 article on Forbes's website was an attack on the findings of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization that had labeled glyphosate a probable carcinogen, a finding disputed by other regulatory bodies.[https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/08/03/227249/monsanto-leaks-suggest-it-tried-to-kill-cancer-research-on-roundup-weed-killer?utm_source=feedburnerFaceBook&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29]<br /> * The FCC Insists It Can't Stop Impostors From Lying About My Views On Net Neutrality.[https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20170710/10071737756/fcc-insists-it-cant-stop-impostors-lying-about-my-views-net-neutrality.shtml]<br /> * DOW CHEMICAL DONATES $1 MILLION TO TRUMP, ASKS ADMINISTRATION TO IGNORE PESTICIDE STUDY.[http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/04/dow-chemical-endangered-species]<br /> * E.P.A. Official Pressured Scientist on Congressional Testimony, Emails Show: The Environmental Protection Agency’s chief of staff pressured the top scientist on the agency’s scientific review board to alter her congressional testimony and play down the dismissal of expert advisers.[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/us/politics/epa-official-pressured-scientist-on-congressional-testimony-emails-show.html]<br /> * Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science]<br /> * Monsanto's GMO-friendly pesticide, Dicamba is causing widespread devastation in Missouri.[http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/dicamba-damage-is-back-and-possibly-worse-than-before/article_2e33ec05-ae98-5468-92f8-bccf6bcd7698.html]<br /> * Arkansas's pesticide regulators have stepped into the middle of an epic battle between weeds and chemicals, which has now morphed into a battle between farmers. Hundreds of farmers say their crops have been damaged by a weedkiller that was sprayed on neighboring fields. Today, the Arkansas Plant Board voted to impose an unprecedented ban on that chemical. The tension — which even led to a farmer's murder — is over a weedkiller called dicamba. The chemical moved into the weed-control spotlight a few years ago, when Monsanto created soybean and cotton plants that were genetically modified to survive it.[http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/06/23/534117683/arkansas-tries-to-stop-an-epidemic-of-herbicide-damage]<br /> * Glyphosate, an herbicide and the active ingredient in Monsanto Co's (MON.N) popular Roundup weed killer, will be added to California's list of chemicals known to cause cancer effective July 7, the state's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) said on Monday. Monsanto vowed to continue its legal fight against the designation, required under a state law known as Proposition 65, and called the decision &quot;unwarranted on the basis of science and the law.&quot;[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-glyphosate-california-idUSKBN19H2K1]<br /> * The EPA's Inspector General Is Probing Whether An Agency Staffer Colluded With Monsanto.[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-inspector-general-probing-collusion-with-monsanto_us_59372108e4b0aba888b99dca]<br /> * Monsanto Hires Internet Trolls to Cover Up Roundup’s Cancer Risk.[https://www.ecowatch.com/monsanto-hires-internet-trolls-2401703407.html]<br /> * President Donald Trump's nominee for Deputy Secretary of the Interior said today that Trump's economic policy could take priority over climate science. In his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Energy &amp; Natural Resources Committee, David Bernhardt said that he will consider science on climate change but that Trump's policy opinions that prioritize jobs could outweigh scientific conclusions.[http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/interior-dept-nominee-trumps-views-outweigh-climate-science/story?id=47492689]<br /> <br /> * White House Moves to Block Ethics Inquiry Into Ex-Lobbyists on Payroll. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/us/politics/trump-white-house-government-ethics-lobbyists.html]<br /> <br /> * U.S. judge finds that Aetna deceived the public about its reasons for quitting participation in the government's healthcare exchange under the Affordable Care Act.[http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-aetna-obamacare-20170123-story.html]<br /> <br /> * E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board - replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html?_r=0&amp;referer=]<br /> <br /> * The original &quot;food pyramid,&quot; a diagram instructing the public on the proper healthy allocation of different food types, given to the US government by nutritionists was altered for the benefit of the food industry and grain growers.[https://proteinpower.com/drmike/2014/02/19/death-food-pyramid/]<br /> <br /> * &quot;Cosmos&quot; episode explains How Corporations Fund Science Denial. An entire episode was devoted to the Clair Patterson, who discovered that lead was entering the atmosphere through the burning of leaded gasoline. Yet, it took twenty years for unleaded gas to become the norm.[http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/04/cosmos-neil-tyson-lead-industry-science-denial][http://www.space.com/25579-cosmos-recap-earth-age-lead-poisoning.html]<br /> <br /> * In the 1960s, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the risks of sugar and highlighted the hazards of fat, according to a newly published article in JAMA Internal Medicine. The article draws on internal documents to show that an industry group called the Sugar Research Foundation wanted to &quot;refute&quot; concerns about sugar's possible role in heart disease. The SRF then sponsored research by Harvard scientists that did just that. The result was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1967, with no disclosure of the sugar industry funding. [http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat]<br /> <br /> * Editor quits journal over pay-for-expedited peer-review offer. With a tweet yesterday, an editor of Scientific Reports, one of Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG’s) open-access journals, has resigned in a very public protest of NPG’s recent decision to allow authors to pay money to expedite peer review of their submitted papers. “My objections are that it sets up a two-tiered system and instead of the best science being published in a timely fashion it will further shift the balance to well-funded labs and groups,” Mark Maslin, a biogeographer at University College London, tells ScienceInsider.[http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/03/updated-editor-quits-journal-over-pay-expedited-peer-review-offer]<br /> <br /> * House of Commons committee to open hearings on neonic pesticide with industry-biased panel.[http://menafn.com/1095300543/House-of-Commons-committee-to-open-hearings-on-neonic-pesticide-with-industry-biased-panel]<br /> * The EPA Finally Admitted That the World’s Most Popular Pesticide Kills Bees—20 Years Too Late.[http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2016/01/epa-finds-major-pesticide-toxic-bees]<br /> <br /> * NASA executives waste $80M renewing an industry contract to produce a spacesuit inferior to what the government's own engineers were designing. NASA leaders claimed the contract was necessary to, &quot;keep industry engaged in spacesuit design&quot;, but the report dismisses this idea, noting the agency's in-house Advanced Space Suit Project shared several contractors and primary subcontractors.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/nasas-spacesuit-program-is-something-of-a-hot-mess/]<br /> <br /> == Monsanto/Bayer Controversies ==<br /> <br /> * Pesticide Created By Bayer Accidentally Kills Off Twelve-Mile Stretch of Trees in Oregon.[https://althealthworks.com/16015/pesticide-created-by-bayer-accidentally-kills-off-twelve-miles-worth-of-trees-in-oregon/]<br /> <br /> * The law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei &amp; Goldman made public today hundreds of pages of newly de-classified internal Monsanto documents, including company email exchanges, reports, studies and other memoranda.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/4-19-new-monsanto-papers-docs/]<br /> <br /> * A new study by the non-profit claims to have found 19 major beer and wine brands whose products contain the pesticide glyphosate, a.k.a. one of the ingredients present in the weed killer Roundup..[http://www.grubstreet.com/2019/02/pesticides-major-beer-wine-brands.html]<br /> <br /> * Five things to know about Bayer and Monsanto, including its connection to Nazi gas chambers.[https://phys.org/news/2018-08-bayer-monsanto.html]<br /> <br /> * Shareholders of the German chemical giant Bayer staged a full-blown revolt at a heated 13-hour meeting in Bonn on Friday, arguing that the management failed to see the company was inheriting a raft of nightmarish litigation associated with glyphosate when it bought U.S. agrichemical giant Monsanto for $66 billion last year. The investors are furious that a blue-riband European company is now potentially exposed to billions of dollars of claims over the glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup, created by Monsanto. Two U.S. court verdicts over the past year found that the world's most popular herbicide caused cancer, hauling shares in Bayer down about 40 percent since August. Bayer has appealed those decisions but is now facing an avalanche of some 13,400 claims. &quot;It is about time Bayer came to grips with the fact that they purchased Monsanto’s misconduct and, now, need to do right by the victims. It’s time to resolve these lawsuits and give Bayer shareholders confidence again in corporate leadership,&quot; said Brent Wisner, an attorney at Baum, Hedlund, Aristei &amp; Goldman, which is representing plaintiffs in the lawsuits against Monsanto.[https://www.politico.eu/article/glyphosate-revolt-rocks-germany-inc-bayer-shareholders-vote/]<br /> <br /> * Concerns over glyphosate pass from human health to the soil.Experts say the weedkiller’s impact on soil health represents a serious threat to Europe’s long-term food security. [https://www.politico.eu/article/glyphosate-concerns-pass-from-human-health-to-soil/]<br /> <br /> * Washington State University researchers have found a variety of diseases and other health problems in the second- and third-generation offspring of rats exposed to glyphosate, the world's most popular weed killer. In the first study of its kind, the researchers saw descendants of exposed rats developing prostate, kidney and ovarian diseases, obesity and birth abnormalities. Michael Skinner, a WSU professor of biological sciences, and his colleagues exposed pregnant rats to the herbicide between their eighth and 14th days of gestation. The dose—half the amount expected to show no adverse effect—produced no apparent ill effects on either the parents or the first generation of offspring. But writing in the journal Scientific Reports, the researchers say they saw &quot;dramatic increases&quot; in several pathologies affecting the second and third generations. The second generation had &quot;significant increases&quot; in testis, ovary and mammary gland diseases, as well as obesity. In third-generation males, the researchers saw a 30 percent increase in prostate disease—three times that of a control population. The third generation of females had a 40 percent increase in kidney disease, or four times that of the controls.[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-42860-0][https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-04-health-effects-popular-weed-killer.html]<br /> <br /> * Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees, Erick V. S. Motta, Kasie Raymann, and Nancy A. Moran<br /> PNAS published ahead of print September 24, 2018. &quot;Increased mortality of honey bee colonies has been attributed to several factors but is not fully understood. The herbicide glyphosate is expected to be innocuous to animals, including bees, because it targets an enzyme only found in plants and microorganisms. However, bees rely on a specialized gut microbiota that benefits growth and provides defense against pathogens. Most bee gut bacteria contain the enzyme targeted by glyphosate, but vary in whether they possess susceptible versions and, correspondingly, in tolerance to glyphosate. Exposing bees to glyphosate alters the bee gut community and increases susceptibility to infection by opportunistic pathogens. Understanding how glyphosate impacts bee gut symbionts and bee health will help elucidate a possible role of this chemical in colony decline.&quot; [https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1803880115]<br /> <br /> * Consuming a mixture of sugar syrup and glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, alters honey bees’ microbiomes, and these changes increased mortality among insects exposed to pathogenic bacteria, according to a study.[https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/herbicide-may-harm-microbiome-of-bees-64860]<br /> <br /> * Attorneys for a couple who claim Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer gave them both cancer tried to convince a California jury Thursday that the agrochemical company engaged in decades of fraud to hide the fact that the herbicide is carcinogenic. Wisner on Thursday ran through a list of Monsanto’s newly revealed alleged sins, starting with the so-called IBT scandal. The company seemingly planted one of its employees at a contract lab called Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories (IBT) in the 1970s to fake negative mouse carcinogenicity data for Roundup’s active ingredient glyphosate that were to be used to win regulatory approval for the weed killer in 1975; planned an attack to discredit the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cancer research agency, anticipating the agency would classify glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen in 2015; and exploited “deep connections” within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to classify glyphosate as non-carcinogenic.[https://www.courthousenews.com/roundup-trial-monsanto-used-fake-data-to-win-over-regulators/]<br /> <br /> * Glyphosate Worse than We Could Imagine. “It’s Everywhere” Glyphosate residues have been found in tap water, orange juice, children’s urine, breast milk, chips, snacks, beer, wine, cereals, eggs, oatmeal, wheat products, and most conventional foods tested. It’s everywhere, in brief.[https://www.globalresearch.ca/glyphosate-worse/5674472]<br /> <br /> * The overlooked impact of rising glyphosate use on phosphorus loading in agricultural watersheds. The herbicide glyphosate dominates the global pesticide market, with applied tonnage increasing steadily worldwide. Glyphosate's capacity to degrade rapidly is often used to argue against potential toxicological effects, but the phosphorus (P) it contains persists in the environment and can influence soil P accumulation and losses to surrounding freshwater systems, which are prone to nutrient pollution.[https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/fee.1985]<br /> <br /> * Louisiana sugar cane farmers are using Glyphosate as a &quot;chemical ripener&quot; on crops.[https://www.lsuagcenter.com/portals/communications/publications/agmag/archive/2008/spring/use-of-glyphosate-to-enhance-sugar-production-in-louisiana]<br /> <br /> == Trump administration's questionable respect for science ==<br /> <br /> * Trump to nominate former Monsanto executive to top interior department position. Aurelia Skipwith, who worked as a lawyer and in research at Monsanto, will be nominated to run the Fish and Wildlife Service.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/23/aurelia-skipwith-monsanto-fish-wildlife-service-interior-department]<br /> <br /> <br /> * Trump Quietly Nominates Mass Surveillance Advocate To “Protect” Your Privacy Rights[http://theantimedia.org/trump-mass-surveillance-privacy/]<br /> <br /> * Trump officially nominates Sam Clovis, climate-denying conservative talk radio host as USDA’s top scientist.[https://thinkprogress.org/sam-clovis-officially-nominated-still-not-a-scientist-d47be4ffb1a8]<br /> <br /> * Trump's 5 Most “Anti-Science” Moves, Scientific American [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-5-most-ldquo-anti-science-rdquo-moves/]<br /> <br /> * Donald Trump's War On Science, New Yorker [http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/donald-trumps-war-on-science]<br /> <br /> * Trump has launched a blitzkrieg in the wars on science and Earth’s climate, The Guardian, [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/mar/28/trump-has-launched-a-blitzkrieg-in-the-wars-on-science-and-earths-climate]<br /> <br /> ===Anti-science head of the EPA under the Trump administration===<br /> <br /> * Scott Pruitt’s Attack on Science Would Paralyze the E.P.A.[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/opinion/pruitt-attack-science-epa.html]<br /> <br /> * Trump’s embattled EPA head Scott Pruitt has come down on the side of polluters on just about every issue that faces the US, so it is with little surprise that in a recent interview he signaled that he may try to fight back against California’s fuel economy requirements.[https://electrek.co/2018/03/14/epa-chief-scott-pruitt-signals-war-with-california-over-cafe-mileage-standards/]<br /> <br /> * Trump Re-Nominates Anti-Wildlife Climate Denier to Top Environment Post[https://www.ecowatch.com/ceq-nominee-white-2524022932.html]<br /> <br /> * Pruitt drives out EPA staff, hires unqualified former banker pal[http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pruitt-drives-out-epa-staff-hires-unqualified-former-banker-pal-1122919491794]<br /> <br /> * EPA seeks to scrap rule protecting drinking water for third of Americans[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/27/epa-clean-water-rule-drinking]<br /> <br /> * E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board - replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html?_r=0&amp;referer=]<br /> <br /> * EPA Scientists Worry Their New Boss Doesn't Want Science. [https://www.wired.com/2017/02/epa-scientists-worry-new-boss-doesnt-want-science/]<br /> <br /> * President Trump's pick to run the Environmental Protection Agaency is a self-described “leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda,” Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma’s attorney general since 2011, has repeatedly sued the agency and other government entities over environmental rules and regulations, at times in direct cooperation with fossil fuel companies.[http://www.factcheck.org/2016/12/facts-trumps-epa-nominee/] <br /> <br /> :From Factcheck.org on Trumps head of the EPA:<br /> <br /> ** Pruitt’s questionable claims include:<br /> ** He falsely said in May that scientists “disagree about the degree” and “connection” of global warming “to the actions of mankind.” As we have written time and time again, the vast majority of climate scientists believe global warming is real and human-caused.<br /> **He also said the Clean Power Plan will “significantly” increase electricity prices. Whether the price change is “significant” is a matter of opinion, but the Energy Information Administration estimates that prices under the plan would range from a 7 percent decrease to a 7 percent increase between 2025 and 2040, depending on the region.<br /> **He implied in April 2014 that’s there’s no evidence to support a link between fracking and water contamination. There is some evidence to support a link in certain instances, but not enough to definitively conclude that contamination is widespread, as we wrote in early December.<br /> <br /> * Climate change cynic Scott Pruitt takes over as Donald Trump's head of Environmental Protection Agency[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/17/climate-change-cynic-scott-pruitt-takes-donald-trumps-head-environmental/]<br /> <br /> ===Anti-science appointees to the USDA===<br /> <br /> * Incompetence Looms: Trump To Appoint Non-Scientist As USDA's Chief Scientist[https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2017/05/14/trump-will-appoint-incompetent-non-scientist-as-usdas-chief-scientist/2/#1276211e1276]<br /> * The Trump administration is planning to nominate Sam Clovis — the Department of Agriculture’s senior White House adviser — as head of USDA’s Research, Education and Economics division, according to individuals briefed on the decision. The move would mark a break with recent Republican and Democratic administrations alike, which have previously reserved the high-level position for scientists with expertise in agricultural research. Clovis — a former economics professor and talk radio host in Iowa who served as one of the Trump campaign’s first policy advisers — has bachelor’s degrees in political science and government, a master’s in business administration and a doctoral degree in public administration[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/13/trumps-expected-choice-for-the-leading-usda-science-job-isnt-a-trained-scientist/]<br /> * Trump’s Expected Pick for Top USDA Scientist Is Not a Scientist[https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-expected-pick-for-top-usda-scientist-is-not-a-scientist]<br /> <br /> ==Industry/Government Attacks On Scientists==<br /> <br /> * State-funded scientists could be prevented from lobbying for change in their field under Cabinet Office proposals. Senior scientists have denounced a potential move to “muzzle” colleagues whose findings are disliked by the government. The proposal – announced by the Cabinet Office earlier this month – would block researchers who receive government grants from using their results to lobby for changes to laws or regulations. For example, an academic whose government-funded research showed that new regulations were proving particularly harmful to the homeless would not be able to call for policy change. Similarly, ecologists who found out that new planning laws were harming wildlife would not be able to raise the issue in public, while climate scientists whose findings undermined government energy policy could have work suppressed.[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/20/scientists-attack-muzzling-government-state-funded-cabinet-office]<br /> <br /> * Renown Canadian scientist personally attacked by industry after expressing concern over GMOs. [https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/glp-facts/david-suzuki-canadas-science-guy-turned-eccentric-anti-gmo-chemical-scaremonger/]<br /> <br /> ==Other articles==<br /> <br /> * The Monsanto Papers - information on current court cases regarding Monsanto/Bayer.[https://usrtk.org/monsanto-papers/]<br /> * The secret tactics Monsanto used to protect Roundup, its star product[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JszHrMZ7dx4]<br /> * In the latest stage of a decade-long legal tussle, the appeals court in Lyon, France on Thursday found in favor of farmer Paul Francois’ claim that Monsanto’s Lasso weedkiller had made him sick and that the product’s labeling had been inadequate. Francois, 55, says he suffered neurological problems, including memory loss, fainting and headaches, after accidentally inhaling Lasso in 2004 while working on his farm. “Mr Francois justifiably concludes that the product, due to its inadequate labeling that did not respect applicable regulations, did not offer the level of safety he could legitimately expect,” the court said in its ruling. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-monsanto-lawsuit/french-court-finds-bayers-monsanto-liable-for-farmers-sickness-idUSKCN1RN1JA?il=0]<br /> * A new report found glyphosate, a weed-killing chemical that some health authorities link to cancer, in a number of popular breakfast foods and cereals marketed to children. The study by the non-profit Environmental Working Group (EWG) discovered trace amounts of the most widely used herbicide in the country in oats, granolas and snack bars. Thirty-one out of 45 tested products had levels higher than what some scientists consider safe for children. Recently, some scientists, doctors and activists around the world have worked to keep glyphosate out of crops due to concerns that it is a dangerous carcinogen.[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/glyphosate-roundup-chemical-found-in-childrens-breakfast-foods/]<br /> * Judge Upholds Verdict That Found Monsanto’s Roundup Caused a Man’s Cancer. [https://theantimedia.com/judge-monsanto-roundup-cancer/]<br /> * A collaborative study by three US universities reported that individuals with particularly high exposures to glyphosate-based herbicides (Roundup), for instance those spraying it, could have a 41% increased relative risk of developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1383574218300887]<br /> * Is RoundUp carcinogenic? The trouble is, for every research paper that purports to show a link between glyphosate-based herbicides and cancer, there is another which finds the exact opposite. This hasn’t been helped by the fact that many of the studies may not have been entirely objective. “A lot of the studies backing glyphosate have been funded by entities in a position to profit from the continuing sales. But one of the factors that have left commentators suspicious of the potential toxicity of these herbicides has been incidents of combative corporate behaviour. In the latest trial, Monsanto has caused eyebrows to raise by obtaining a ban preventing attorneys for the plaintiffs from presenting information regarding its alleged influence on research.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/09/spray-pray-is-roundup-carcinogenic-monsanto-farmers-suing]<br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * Science-Mart, Privatizing American Science, Philip Mirowski [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674046467]<br /> <br /> * [[Theists in the news]]<br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Industry]]<br /> [[Category:Science]]<br /> [[Category:Scientific_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Science_vs_Industry Science vs Industry 2019-05-06T16:00:18Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>This page documents examples of where industry and science conflicted or colluded with each other in ways that were not of interest to the people or the truth.<br /> <br /> ==Industry Collusion and Manipulation==<br /> <br /> * Court documents reveal Monsanto's efforts to fight glyphosate's 'severe stigma'. Social Sharing. Canadian firm hired to recruit scientists to publish studies that ultimately defended Roundup's key ingredient.The documents also reveal communications between Monsanto and a Canadian firm hired to recruit scientists to publish studies that ultimately defended glyphosate — some of which were secretly reviewed by Monsanto prior to publication. All those papers, as previously reported by CBC/Radio-Canada, were also used as part of Health Canada's re-approval process of glyphosate in 2017.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/glyphosate-monsanto-intertek-studies-1.4902229]<br /> <br /> * Fired Quebec scientist blew the whistle on pesticide lobby influence.[https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/03/21/news/fired-quebec-scientist-blew-whistle-pesticide-lobby-influence]<br /> <br /> * Rush To Produce, Sell Vaccine Put Kids In Philippines At Risk. &quot;What bothers me most about this story is risk communication,&quot; says Rodriguez, who studies dengue in South America. &quot;There was a lot of uncertainty from the beginning [about the vaccine's safety]. That needed to be communicated explicitly. You need to be honest about what evidence is out there.&quot; In April, the Philippine government indicted 14 government officials over the deaths of 10 children who received the Dengvaxia vaccine. The government said the officials acted with &quot;undue haste&quot; in procuring the vaccine and launching the mass immunization campaign. The Philippine Department of Justice said the campaign started before the clinical trials were finished. In some instances children were given the vaccine by untrained health workers and allegedly without a proper physical beforehand. Some children allegedly had preexisting medical conditions that made the immunization dangerous. But these children were still inoculated, the government found. Six Sanofi officials were also indicted for not properly helping children who had serious reactions to the shot.[https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/05/03/719037789/botched-vaccine-launch-has-deadly-repercussions]<br /> * Radium Girls - information on industry using women to handle toxic materials and covering it up.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls]<br /> * Monsanto secretly ran “Let Nothing Go” campaign that paid internet trolls to post pro-Monsanto comments all across the internet[https://www.monsanto.news/2018-06-28-monsanto-secretly-ran-let-nothing-go-campaign-paid-internet-trolls.html]<br /> * EU regulators based a decision to relicense the controversial weedkiller glyphosate on an assessment plagiarised from industry reports, according to a report for the European parliament.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/eu-glyphosate-approval-was-based-on-plagiarised-monsanto-text-report-finds]<br /> * Judge in Roundup maker’s first federal trial had banned discussion of the company’s alleged manipulation of science. Monsanto is facing its first federal trial over allegations that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, but a US judge has blocked attorneys from discussing the corporation’s alleged manipulation of science. In an extraordinary move in a packed San Francisco courtroom on Monday, US judge Vince Chhabria threatened to sanction and “shut down” a cancer patient’s attorney for violating his ban on talking about Monsanto’s influence on government regulators and cancer research.[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/25/monsanto-federal-trial-roundup-cancer]<br /> * A broad new scientific analysis of the cancer-causing potential of glyphosate herbicides, the most widely used weedkilling products in the world, has found that people with high exposures to the popular pesticides have a 41% increased risk of developing a type of cancer called non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/14/weed-killing-products-increase-cancer-risk-of-cancer]<br /> * IARC responds to the claims its study claiming Glyphosate was probably carcinogenic, was incorrect and says media distorting actual reports. From reading, the IARC claims are based on the review of more than 1000 independent scientific studies. The idea that one particular study contradicts their overall findings and should be used to dismiss the IARC study is absurd. IARC also calls attention to concern over industry badgering scientists to reveal their findings prior to publication and peer review.[https://www.iarc.fr/featured-news/media-centre-iarc-news-glyphosate/]<br /> * The world’s most used weedkiller damages the beneficial bacteria in the guts of honeybees and makes them more prone to deadly infections, new research has found. Previous studies have shown that pesticides such as neonicotinoids cause harm to bees, whose pollination is vital to about three-quarters of all food crops. Glyphosate, manufactured by Monsanto, targets an enzyme only found in plants and bacteria. However, the new study shows that glyphosate damages the microbiota that honeybees need to grow and to fight off pathogens. The findings show glyphosate, the most used agricultural chemical ever, may be contributing to the global decline in bees, along with the loss of habitat.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/24/monsanto-weedkiller-harms-bees-research-finds]<br /> * Court Orders EPA To Ban Chlorpyrifos, A Pesticide Linked To Brain Damage In Kids.[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-ban-pesticide-chlorpyrifos_us_5b6c6d0ce4b0ae32af96318e]<br /> * A federal jury today convicted a Birmingham lawyer and an Alabama coal company executive in a scheme to bribe a state legislator to use his office to oppose Environmental Protection Agency actions in north Birmingham, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr. and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Holloman.[https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndal/pr/federal-jury-convicts-lawyer-and-coal-company-executive-bribing-state-legislator]<br /> * When Trump administration officials opposed a WHO breast-feeding resolution, they followed a long history of policymakers listening to baby-formula manufacturers.[https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/07/the-epic-battle-between-breast-milk-and-infant-formula-companies/564782/]<br /> * Monsanto 'bullied scientists' and hid weedkiller cancer risk, lawyer tells court[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jul/09/monsanto-trial-roundup-weedkiller-cancer-dewayne-johnson]<br /> * Why Trump's new CDC director is an abysmal choice: Redfield worked closely with the Christian organization, Americans for a Sound AIDS/HIV Policy. The group maintained AIDS was &quot;God's judgment&quot; against homosexuals, spread in an America weakened by single-parent households and loss of family values.[https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/13/opinions/trumps-terrible-choice-for-cdc-redfield-garrett/index.html]<br /> * After more than 40 years of widespread use, new scientific tests show formulated weedkillers have higher rates of toxicity to human cells.The tests are part of the US National Toxicology Program’s (NTP) first-ever examination of herbicide formulations made with the active ingredient glyphosate, but that also include other chemicals. While regulators have previously required extensive testing of glyphosate in isolation, government scientists have not fully examined the toxicity of the more complex products sold to consumers, farmers and others. Monsanto introduced its glyphosate-based Roundup brand in 1974. But it is only now, after more than 40 years of widespread use, that the government is investigating the toxicity of “glyphosate-based herbicides” on human cells.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/08/weedkiller-tests-monsanto-health-dangers-active-ingredient]<br /> * Popular article (that made the front page of a high-ranked subReddit) entitled, &quot;Millennials 'have no qualms about GM crops' unlike older generation&quot; was in actuality, a &quot;study&quot; commissioned by the Agricultural BiotechnologyCouncil, which is an industry lobbying group. The Agricultural Biotechnology Council (ABC) is a UK corporate lobby group funded by major biottechnology companies and run from the offices of a PR company, Lexington Communications. On its website, ABC lists members as comprising: BASF, Bayer CropScience, Dow AgroSciences, Pioneer (which is part of DuPont), Monsanto, Syngenta. &quot;In typical astroturf fashion they try to draw some kind of connection with &quot;Millennials&quot; to give themselves credibility.&quot;[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/07/millennials-have-no-qualms-gm-crops-unlike-older-generation/][https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/8hnt5r/millennials_have_no_qualms_about_gm_crops_unlike/dylh1u0/]<br /> * Under Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has dramatically shifted away from its stated mission to “protect human and environmental health.” Instead, the agency is clearly favoring the interests of the polluting industries that it is mandated to regulate, according to a study.[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304360]<br /> * Weedkiller found in granola and crackers, internal FDA emails show. The FDA has been testing food samples for traces of glyphosate for two years, but the agency has not yet released any official result. Other findings detailed in the FDA documents show that in 2016 Chamkasem found glyphosate in numerous samples of honey. Chamkasem also found glyphosate in oatmeal products. The FDA temporarily suspended testing after those findings, and Chamkasem’s lab was “reassigned to other programs”, the FDA documents show. The FDA has said those tests were not part of its official glyphosate residue assignment.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/30/fda-weedkiller-glyphosate-in-food-internal-emails]<br /> * &quot;Eating Pasta Linked to Weight Loss in New Study,&quot; Newsweek reported this month, racking up more than 22,500 Facebook likes, shares, and comments. The happy news also went viral on the Independent, the New York Daily News, and Business Insider. What those and many other stories failed to note, however, was that three of the scientists behind the study in question had financial conflicts as tangled as a bowl of spaghetti, including ties to the world’s largest pasta company, the Barilla Group. At least 10 peer-reviewed studies about pasta published since 2008 were either funded directly by Barilla or, like the one published this month, were carried out by scientists who have had financial ties to the company.[https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemlee/pasta-barilla-science-funding]<br /> * Senate Confirms Climate Change Denier To Lead NASA, Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) will take over control of the space agency after seven-month standoff. Bridenstine will become the first elected official to hold the NASA administrator job. He joins a Cabinet already loaded with people who question the near-universal scientific consensus that climate change is real and that human activity is the primary cause. The final vote ― which was 50-49 along party lines ― came one day after the Senate narrowly advanced Bridenstine’s nomination, thanks to an about-face from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and a key vote from Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.). Rubio[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jim-bridenstine-nasa-confirmation_us_5ad8aab7e4b03c426dac081c]<br /> * Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine sued agricultural giant Monsanto on Monday, alleging the company concealed dangers posed by a toxic chemical compound it manufactured for nearly a half century. In the suit, filed in the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court in Cincinnati, prosecutors argued that the company should pay for the clean-up of what it says are dozens of rivers, lakes and other water bodies contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/monsanto-concealed-effects-toxic-chemical-decades-ohio-ag-alleges-n853866]<br /> * The world’s most widely used insecticides pose a serious danger to both honeybees and wild bees, according to a major new assessment from the European Union’s scientific risk assessors. The conclusion, based on analysis of more than 1,500 studies, makes it highly likely that the neonicotinoid pesticides will be banned from all fields across the EU when nations vote on the issue next month.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/28/total-ban-on-bee-harming-pesticides-likely-after-major-new-eu-analysis]<br /> * DuPont vs. the World: Chemical Giant Covered Up Health Risks of Teflon Contamination Across Globe[https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/23/dupont_vs_the_world_chemical_giant]<br /> * GOP senators who pushed Trump to ditch Paris deal took over $10 million from fossil fuel industry.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/01/republican-senators-paris-climate-deal-energy-donations]<br /> * With backing from a sugar lobby, scientists promoted dietary fat as the cause of coronary heart disease instead of sugar, according to a historical document review published in JAMA Internal Medicine.[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/12/sugar-industry-paid-research-heart-disease-jama-report]<br /> * Oregon sues Monsanto, alleges company knowingly sold toxic PCBs for decades.[http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2018/01/oregon_sues_monsanto_alleges_c.html]<br /> * Government scientists blocked from the biggest meeting in their field[https://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/22/us-geological-survey-scientists-blocked-from-conference-interior-department/]<br /> * Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Net Neutrality Narrative Is False[https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/vbympa/net-neutrality-fcc-inspector-general-report]<br /> * The Slow Demise of Asbestos, the Carcinogen that Gave ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Snow[https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-slow-demise-of-asbestos-the-carcinogen-that-gave-the-wizard-of-oz-snow]<br /> * Trump reverses ban on Nazi created pesticide after receiving huge donation from chemical company[https://www.snopes.com/trump-reverses-insecticide-ban-dow-chemicals/]<br /> * Sugar industry withheld research effects of sucrose 50 years ago, study claims Researchers say negative health impacts of sucrose could have been combated sooner had research been released – but industry bodies dispute the findings.In 1967, when scientists were arguing over the link between sugar consumption and increased risk of heart disease, researchers now claim that the International Sugar Research Foundation (ISRF) withheld findings that rats that were fed a high-sugar diet had higher levels of triglycerides (a fat found in the blood) than those fed starch. In a move researchers from the University of California at San Francisco have compared to the tobacco industry’s self-preservation tactics, the foundation stopped funding the project.[https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2017/nov/21/sugar-industry-withheld-research-effects-of-sucrose-50-years-ago-study-claims]<br /> * As cigarette sales decline worldwide, the tobacco giant Phillip Morris Inc. is scrambling to restructure and embrace potentially more profitable “smoke-free” products. The revamp involves setting up an $80 million foundation called the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. The World Health Organization rebuked Phillip Morris and accused it of being disingenuous about consumer health, citing decades of research meddling and deceptive marketing. It declared it would have nothing to do with the foundation and warned governments the world over to do the same.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/philip-morris-sets-up-80m-research-foundation-who-flips-them-the-bird/]<br /> * Monsanto banned from European parliament: MEPs withdraw parliamentary access after the firm shunned a hearing into allegations that it unduly influenced studies into the safety of glyphosate used in its RoundUp weedkiller.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/28/monsanto-banned-from-european-parliament]<br /> * Coca-Cola secretly spent $1.5 million to fund an entire network of academic researchers whose goal was to shift the national health conversation away from the harms of sugary beverages. Instead, their research focused on the benefits of exercise—i.e., the health risks of sedentary and inactive lifestyles.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/the-new-study-suggesting-sitting-will-kill-you-is-kind-of-a-raging-dumpster-fire/]<br /> * Union of Concerned Scientists complains that the Trump administration's &quot;Chief Scientist&quot; at the USDA is not a scientist: Sam Clovis—a conservative talk radio host, Trump campaign co-chair, and climate denier with no training in science—for the role of chief scientist at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). [http://blog.ucsusa.org/mike-lavender/the-case-against-clovis-why-trumps-usda-chief-scientist-nominee-is-the-wrong-choice]<br /> * Almost All of FCC’s New Advisory Panel Works for Telecoms, most of which are against Net Neutrality.[http://www.thedailybeast.com/almost-all-of-fccs-new-advisory-panel-works-for-telecoms]<br /> * Court evidence reveals Monsanto involved with published Scientific Studies Without Disclosing Conflicts of Interest to publishers.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/monsanto-secret-documents/]<br /> * Internal Emails Show Monsanto Made Substantial Contributions to Published Expert Panel Manuscript.[http://baumhedlundlaw.com/pdf/monsanto-documents/3-Internal-Emails-Show-Monsanto-Made-Substantial-Contributions-to-Published-Expert-Panel-Manuscript.pdf]<br /> * Monsanto secret documents revealed, contianing correspondence between Dr. William Heydens and Ashely Roberts regarding the Expert Panel Manuscript. Dr. Heydens went “through the entire document and “indicated what I think should stay, what can go, and in a couple spots I did a little editing. I took a crack at adding a little text: on page 10 to address John’s comments about toxicologists’ use of Hill’s criteria … see what you think; it made sense to me, but I’m not sure if it will to others – please feel free to further modify and/or run by Cary.” at *1. The edited draft is also attached and challenged for confidentiality.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/monsanto-secret-documents/]<br /> * Court documents reveal Monsanto was ghost-writing academic papers defending its products and attacking critics.The documents underscore the lengths to which the agrochemical company goes to protect its image. Documents show that Henry I. Miller, an academic and a vocal proponent of genetically modified crops, asked Monsanto to draft an article for him that largely mirrored one that appeared under his name on Forbes's website in 2015. Mr. Miller could not be reached for comment. A similar issue appeared in academic research. An academic involved in writing research funded by Monsanto, John Acquavella, a former Monsanto employee, appeared to express discomfort with the process, writing in a 2015 email to a Monsanto executive, &quot;I can't be part of deceptive authorship on a presentation or publication.&quot; He also said of the way the company was trying to present the authorship: &quot;We call that ghost writing and it is unethical.&quot; Mr. Miller's 2015 article on Forbes's website was an attack on the findings of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization that had labeled glyphosate a probable carcinogen, a finding disputed by other regulatory bodies.[https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/08/03/227249/monsanto-leaks-suggest-it-tried-to-kill-cancer-research-on-roundup-weed-killer?utm_source=feedburnerFaceBook&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29]<br /> * The FCC Insists It Can't Stop Impostors From Lying About My Views On Net Neutrality.[https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20170710/10071737756/fcc-insists-it-cant-stop-impostors-lying-about-my-views-net-neutrality.shtml]<br /> * DOW CHEMICAL DONATES $1 MILLION TO TRUMP, ASKS ADMINISTRATION TO IGNORE PESTICIDE STUDY.[http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/04/dow-chemical-endangered-species]<br /> * E.P.A. Official Pressured Scientist on Congressional Testimony, Emails Show: The Environmental Protection Agency’s chief of staff pressured the top scientist on the agency’s scientific review board to alter her congressional testimony and play down the dismissal of expert advisers.[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/us/politics/epa-official-pressured-scientist-on-congressional-testimony-emails-show.html]<br /> * Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science]<br /> * Monsanto's GMO-friendly pesticide, Dicamba is causing widespread devastation in Missouri.[http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/dicamba-damage-is-back-and-possibly-worse-than-before/article_2e33ec05-ae98-5468-92f8-bccf6bcd7698.html]<br /> * Arkansas's pesticide regulators have stepped into the middle of an epic battle between weeds and chemicals, which has now morphed into a battle between farmers. Hundreds of farmers say their crops have been damaged by a weedkiller that was sprayed on neighboring fields. Today, the Arkansas Plant Board voted to impose an unprecedented ban on that chemical. The tension — which even led to a farmer's murder — is over a weedkiller called dicamba. The chemical moved into the weed-control spotlight a few years ago, when Monsanto created soybean and cotton plants that were genetically modified to survive it.[http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/06/23/534117683/arkansas-tries-to-stop-an-epidemic-of-herbicide-damage]<br /> * Glyphosate, an herbicide and the active ingredient in Monsanto Co's (MON.N) popular Roundup weed killer, will be added to California's list of chemicals known to cause cancer effective July 7, the state's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) said on Monday. Monsanto vowed to continue its legal fight against the designation, required under a state law known as Proposition 65, and called the decision &quot;unwarranted on the basis of science and the law.&quot;[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-glyphosate-california-idUSKBN19H2K1]<br /> * The EPA's Inspector General Is Probing Whether An Agency Staffer Colluded With Monsanto.[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-inspector-general-probing-collusion-with-monsanto_us_59372108e4b0aba888b99dca]<br /> * Monsanto Hires Internet Trolls to Cover Up Roundup’s Cancer Risk.[https://www.ecowatch.com/monsanto-hires-internet-trolls-2401703407.html]<br /> * President Donald Trump's nominee for Deputy Secretary of the Interior said today that Trump's economic policy could take priority over climate science. In his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Energy &amp; Natural Resources Committee, David Bernhardt said that he will consider science on climate change but that Trump's policy opinions that prioritize jobs could outweigh scientific conclusions.[http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/interior-dept-nominee-trumps-views-outweigh-climate-science/story?id=47492689]<br /> <br /> * White House Moves to Block Ethics Inquiry Into Ex-Lobbyists on Payroll. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/us/politics/trump-white-house-government-ethics-lobbyists.html]<br /> <br /> * U.S. judge finds that Aetna deceived the public about its reasons for quitting participation in the government's healthcare exchange under the Affordable Care Act.[http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-aetna-obamacare-20170123-story.html]<br /> <br /> * E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board - replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html?_r=0&amp;referer=]<br /> <br /> * The original &quot;food pyramid,&quot; a diagram instructing the public on the proper healthy allocation of different food types, given to the US government by nutritionists was altered for the benefit of the food industry and grain growers.[https://proteinpower.com/drmike/2014/02/19/death-food-pyramid/]<br /> <br /> * &quot;Cosmos&quot; episode explains How Corporations Fund Science Denial. An entire episode was devoted to the Clair Patterson, who discovered that lead was entering the atmosphere through the burning of leaded gasoline. Yet, it took twenty years for unleaded gas to become the norm.[http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/04/cosmos-neil-tyson-lead-industry-science-denial][http://www.space.com/25579-cosmos-recap-earth-age-lead-poisoning.html]<br /> <br /> * In the 1960s, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the risks of sugar and highlighted the hazards of fat, according to a newly published article in JAMA Internal Medicine. The article draws on internal documents to show that an industry group called the Sugar Research Foundation wanted to &quot;refute&quot; concerns about sugar's possible role in heart disease. The SRF then sponsored research by Harvard scientists that did just that. The result was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1967, with no disclosure of the sugar industry funding. [http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat]<br /> <br /> * Editor quits journal over pay-for-expedited peer-review offer. With a tweet yesterday, an editor of Scientific Reports, one of Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG’s) open-access journals, has resigned in a very public protest of NPG’s recent decision to allow authors to pay money to expedite peer review of their submitted papers. “My objections are that it sets up a two-tiered system and instead of the best science being published in a timely fashion it will further shift the balance to well-funded labs and groups,” Mark Maslin, a biogeographer at University College London, tells ScienceInsider.[http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/03/updated-editor-quits-journal-over-pay-expedited-peer-review-offer]<br /> <br /> * House of Commons committee to open hearings on neonic pesticide with industry-biased panel.[http://menafn.com/1095300543/House-of-Commons-committee-to-open-hearings-on-neonic-pesticide-with-industry-biased-panel]<br /> * The EPA Finally Admitted That the World’s Most Popular Pesticide Kills Bees—20 Years Too Late.[http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2016/01/epa-finds-major-pesticide-toxic-bees]<br /> <br /> * NASA executives waste $80M renewing an industry contract to produce a spacesuit inferior to what the government's own engineers were designing. NASA leaders claimed the contract was necessary to, &quot;keep industry engaged in spacesuit design&quot;, but the report dismisses this idea, noting the agency's in-house Advanced Space Suit Project shared several contractors and primary subcontractors.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/nasas-spacesuit-program-is-something-of-a-hot-mess/]<br /> <br /> == Monsanto/Bayer Controversies ==<br /> <br /> * Pesticide Created By Bayer Accidentally Kills Off Twelve-Mile Stretch of Trees in Oregon.[https://althealthworks.com/16015/pesticide-created-by-bayer-accidentally-kills-off-twelve-miles-worth-of-trees-in-oregon/]<br /> <br /> * The law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei &amp; Goldman made public today hundreds of pages of newly de-classified internal Monsanto documents, including company email exchanges, reports, studies and other memoranda.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/4-19-new-monsanto-papers-docs/]<br /> <br /> * Five things to know about Bayer and Monsanto, including its connection to Nazi gas chambers.[https://phys.org/news/2018-08-bayer-monsanto.html]<br /> <br /> * Shareholders of the German chemical giant Bayer staged a full-blown revolt at a heated 13-hour meeting in Bonn on Friday, arguing that the management failed to see the company was inheriting a raft of nightmarish litigation associated with glyphosate when it bought U.S. agrichemical giant Monsanto for $66 billion last year. The investors are furious that a blue-riband European company is now potentially exposed to billions of dollars of claims over the glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup, created by Monsanto. Two U.S. court verdicts over the past year found that the world's most popular herbicide caused cancer, hauling shares in Bayer down about 40 percent since August. Bayer has appealed those decisions but is now facing an avalanche of some 13,400 claims. &quot;It is about time Bayer came to grips with the fact that they purchased Monsanto’s misconduct and, now, need to do right by the victims. It’s time to resolve these lawsuits and give Bayer shareholders confidence again in corporate leadership,&quot; said Brent Wisner, an attorney at Baum, Hedlund, Aristei &amp; Goldman, which is representing plaintiffs in the lawsuits against Monsanto.[https://www.politico.eu/article/glyphosate-revolt-rocks-germany-inc-bayer-shareholders-vote/]<br /> <br /> * Concerns over glyphosate pass from human health to the soil.Experts say the weedkiller’s impact on soil health represents a serious threat to Europe’s long-term food security. [https://www.politico.eu/article/glyphosate-concerns-pass-from-human-health-to-soil/]<br /> <br /> * Washington State University researchers have found a variety of diseases and other health problems in the second- and third-generation offspring of rats exposed to glyphosate, the world's most popular weed killer. In the first study of its kind, the researchers saw descendants of exposed rats developing prostate, kidney and ovarian diseases, obesity and birth abnormalities. Michael Skinner, a WSU professor of biological sciences, and his colleagues exposed pregnant rats to the herbicide between their eighth and 14th days of gestation. The dose—half the amount expected to show no adverse effect—produced no apparent ill effects on either the parents or the first generation of offspring. But writing in the journal Scientific Reports, the researchers say they saw &quot;dramatic increases&quot; in several pathologies affecting the second and third generations. The second generation had &quot;significant increases&quot; in testis, ovary and mammary gland diseases, as well as obesity. In third-generation males, the researchers saw a 30 percent increase in prostate disease—three times that of a control population. The third generation of females had a 40 percent increase in kidney disease, or four times that of the controls.[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-42860-0][https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-04-health-effects-popular-weed-killer.html]<br /> <br /> * Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees, Erick V. S. Motta, Kasie Raymann, and Nancy A. Moran<br /> PNAS published ahead of print September 24, 2018. &quot;Increased mortality of honey bee colonies has been attributed to several factors but is not fully understood. The herbicide glyphosate is expected to be innocuous to animals, including bees, because it targets an enzyme only found in plants and microorganisms. However, bees rely on a specialized gut microbiota that benefits growth and provides defense against pathogens. Most bee gut bacteria contain the enzyme targeted by glyphosate, but vary in whether they possess susceptible versions and, correspondingly, in tolerance to glyphosate. Exposing bees to glyphosate alters the bee gut community and increases susceptibility to infection by opportunistic pathogens. Understanding how glyphosate impacts bee gut symbionts and bee health will help elucidate a possible role of this chemical in colony decline.&quot; [https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1803880115]<br /> <br /> * Consuming a mixture of sugar syrup and glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, alters honey bees’ microbiomes, and these changes increased mortality among insects exposed to pathogenic bacteria, according to a study.[https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/herbicide-may-harm-microbiome-of-bees-64860]<br /> <br /> * Attorneys for a couple who claim Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer gave them both cancer tried to convince a California jury Thursday that the agrochemical company engaged in decades of fraud to hide the fact that the herbicide is carcinogenic. Wisner on Thursday ran through a list of Monsanto’s newly revealed alleged sins, starting with the so-called IBT scandal. The company seemingly planted one of its employees at a contract lab called Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories (IBT) in the 1970s to fake negative mouse carcinogenicity data for Roundup’s active ingredient glyphosate that were to be used to win regulatory approval for the weed killer in 1975; planned an attack to discredit the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cancer research agency, anticipating the agency would classify glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen in 2015; and exploited “deep connections” within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to classify glyphosate as non-carcinogenic.[https://www.courthousenews.com/roundup-trial-monsanto-used-fake-data-to-win-over-regulators/]<br /> <br /> * Glyphosate Worse than We Could Imagine. “It’s Everywhere” Glyphosate residues have been found in tap water, orange juice, children’s urine, breast milk, chips, snacks, beer, wine, cereals, eggs, oatmeal, wheat products, and most conventional foods tested. It’s everywhere, in brief.[https://www.globalresearch.ca/glyphosate-worse/5674472]<br /> <br /> * The overlooked impact of rising glyphosate use on phosphorus loading in agricultural watersheds. The herbicide glyphosate dominates the global pesticide market, with applied tonnage increasing steadily worldwide. Glyphosate's capacity to degrade rapidly is often used to argue against potential toxicological effects, but the phosphorus (P) it contains persists in the environment and can influence soil P accumulation and losses to surrounding freshwater systems, which are prone to nutrient pollution.[https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/fee.1985]<br /> <br /> * Louisiana sugar cane farmers are using Glyphosate as a &quot;chemical ripener&quot; on crops.[https://www.lsuagcenter.com/portals/communications/publications/agmag/archive/2008/spring/use-of-glyphosate-to-enhance-sugar-production-in-louisiana]<br /> <br /> == Trump administration's questionable respect for science ==<br /> <br /> * Trump to nominate former Monsanto executive to top interior department position. Aurelia Skipwith, who worked as a lawyer and in research at Monsanto, will be nominated to run the Fish and Wildlife Service.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/23/aurelia-skipwith-monsanto-fish-wildlife-service-interior-department]<br /> <br /> <br /> * Trump Quietly Nominates Mass Surveillance Advocate To “Protect” Your Privacy Rights[http://theantimedia.org/trump-mass-surveillance-privacy/]<br /> <br /> * Trump officially nominates Sam Clovis, climate-denying conservative talk radio host as USDA’s top scientist.[https://thinkprogress.org/sam-clovis-officially-nominated-still-not-a-scientist-d47be4ffb1a8]<br /> <br /> * Trump's 5 Most “Anti-Science” Moves, Scientific American [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-5-most-ldquo-anti-science-rdquo-moves/]<br /> <br /> * Donald Trump's War On Science, New Yorker [http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/donald-trumps-war-on-science]<br /> <br /> * Trump has launched a blitzkrieg in the wars on science and Earth’s climate, The Guardian, [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/mar/28/trump-has-launched-a-blitzkrieg-in-the-wars-on-science-and-earths-climate]<br /> <br /> ===Anti-science head of the EPA under the Trump administration===<br /> <br /> * Scott Pruitt’s Attack on Science Would Paralyze the E.P.A.[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/opinion/pruitt-attack-science-epa.html]<br /> <br /> * Trump’s embattled EPA head Scott Pruitt has come down on the side of polluters on just about every issue that faces the US, so it is with little surprise that in a recent interview he signaled that he may try to fight back against California’s fuel economy requirements.[https://electrek.co/2018/03/14/epa-chief-scott-pruitt-signals-war-with-california-over-cafe-mileage-standards/]<br /> <br /> * Trump Re-Nominates Anti-Wildlife Climate Denier to Top Environment Post[https://www.ecowatch.com/ceq-nominee-white-2524022932.html]<br /> <br /> * Pruitt drives out EPA staff, hires unqualified former banker pal[http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pruitt-drives-out-epa-staff-hires-unqualified-former-banker-pal-1122919491794]<br /> <br /> * EPA seeks to scrap rule protecting drinking water for third of Americans[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/27/epa-clean-water-rule-drinking]<br /> <br /> * E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board - replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html?_r=0&amp;referer=]<br /> <br /> * EPA Scientists Worry Their New Boss Doesn't Want Science. [https://www.wired.com/2017/02/epa-scientists-worry-new-boss-doesnt-want-science/]<br /> <br /> * President Trump's pick to run the Environmental Protection Agaency is a self-described “leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda,” Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma’s attorney general since 2011, has repeatedly sued the agency and other government entities over environmental rules and regulations, at times in direct cooperation with fossil fuel companies.[http://www.factcheck.org/2016/12/facts-trumps-epa-nominee/] <br /> <br /> :From Factcheck.org on Trumps head of the EPA:<br /> <br /> ** Pruitt’s questionable claims include:<br /> ** He falsely said in May that scientists “disagree about the degree” and “connection” of global warming “to the actions of mankind.” As we have written time and time again, the vast majority of climate scientists believe global warming is real and human-caused.<br /> **He also said the Clean Power Plan will “significantly” increase electricity prices. Whether the price change is “significant” is a matter of opinion, but the Energy Information Administration estimates that prices under the plan would range from a 7 percent decrease to a 7 percent increase between 2025 and 2040, depending on the region.<br /> **He implied in April 2014 that’s there’s no evidence to support a link between fracking and water contamination. There is some evidence to support a link in certain instances, but not enough to definitively conclude that contamination is widespread, as we wrote in early December.<br /> <br /> * Climate change cynic Scott Pruitt takes over as Donald Trump's head of Environmental Protection Agency[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/17/climate-change-cynic-scott-pruitt-takes-donald-trumps-head-environmental/]<br /> <br /> ===Anti-science appointees to the USDA===<br /> <br /> * Incompetence Looms: Trump To Appoint Non-Scientist As USDA's Chief Scientist[https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2017/05/14/trump-will-appoint-incompetent-non-scientist-as-usdas-chief-scientist/2/#1276211e1276]<br /> * The Trump administration is planning to nominate Sam Clovis — the Department of Agriculture’s senior White House adviser — as head of USDA’s Research, Education and Economics division, according to individuals briefed on the decision. The move would mark a break with recent Republican and Democratic administrations alike, which have previously reserved the high-level position for scientists with expertise in agricultural research. Clovis — a former economics professor and talk radio host in Iowa who served as one of the Trump campaign’s first policy advisers — has bachelor’s degrees in political science and government, a master’s in business administration and a doctoral degree in public administration[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/13/trumps-expected-choice-for-the-leading-usda-science-job-isnt-a-trained-scientist/]<br /> * Trump’s Expected Pick for Top USDA Scientist Is Not a Scientist[https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-expected-pick-for-top-usda-scientist-is-not-a-scientist]<br /> <br /> ==Industry/Government Attacks On Scientists==<br /> <br /> * State-funded scientists could be prevented from lobbying for change in their field under Cabinet Office proposals. Senior scientists have denounced a potential move to “muzzle” colleagues whose findings are disliked by the government. The proposal – announced by the Cabinet Office earlier this month – would block researchers who receive government grants from using their results to lobby for changes to laws or regulations. For example, an academic whose government-funded research showed that new regulations were proving particularly harmful to the homeless would not be able to call for policy change. Similarly, ecologists who found out that new planning laws were harming wildlife would not be able to raise the issue in public, while climate scientists whose findings undermined government energy policy could have work suppressed.[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/20/scientists-attack-muzzling-government-state-funded-cabinet-office]<br /> <br /> * Renown Canadian scientist personally attacked by industry after expressing concern over GMOs. [https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/glp-facts/david-suzuki-canadas-science-guy-turned-eccentric-anti-gmo-chemical-scaremonger/]<br /> <br /> ==Other articles==<br /> <br /> * The Monsanto Papers - information on current court cases regarding Monsanto/Bayer.[https://usrtk.org/monsanto-papers/]<br /> * The secret tactics Monsanto used to protect Roundup, its star product[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JszHrMZ7dx4]<br /> * In the latest stage of a decade-long legal tussle, the appeals court in Lyon, France on Thursday found in favor of farmer Paul Francois’ claim that Monsanto’s Lasso weedkiller had made him sick and that the product’s labeling had been inadequate. Francois, 55, says he suffered neurological problems, including memory loss, fainting and headaches, after accidentally inhaling Lasso in 2004 while working on his farm. “Mr Francois justifiably concludes that the product, due to its inadequate labeling that did not respect applicable regulations, did not offer the level of safety he could legitimately expect,” the court said in its ruling. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-monsanto-lawsuit/french-court-finds-bayers-monsanto-liable-for-farmers-sickness-idUSKCN1RN1JA?il=0]<br /> * A new report found glyphosate, a weed-killing chemical that some health authorities link to cancer, in a number of popular breakfast foods and cereals marketed to children. The study by the non-profit Environmental Working Group (EWG) discovered trace amounts of the most widely used herbicide in the country in oats, granolas and snack bars. Thirty-one out of 45 tested products had levels higher than what some scientists consider safe for children. Recently, some scientists, doctors and activists around the world have worked to keep glyphosate out of crops due to concerns that it is a dangerous carcinogen.[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/glyphosate-roundup-chemical-found-in-childrens-breakfast-foods/]<br /> * Judge Upholds Verdict That Found Monsanto’s Roundup Caused a Man’s Cancer. [https://theantimedia.com/judge-monsanto-roundup-cancer/]<br /> * A collaborative study by three US universities reported that individuals with particularly high exposures to glyphosate-based herbicides (Roundup), for instance those spraying it, could have a 41% increased relative risk of developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1383574218300887]<br /> * Is RoundUp carcinogenic? The trouble is, for every research paper that purports to show a link between glyphosate-based herbicides and cancer, there is another which finds the exact opposite. This hasn’t been helped by the fact that many of the studies may not have been entirely objective. “A lot of the studies backing glyphosate have been funded by entities in a position to profit from the continuing sales. But one of the factors that have left commentators suspicious of the potential toxicity of these herbicides has been incidents of combative corporate behaviour. In the latest trial, Monsanto has caused eyebrows to raise by obtaining a ban preventing attorneys for the plaintiffs from presenting information regarding its alleged influence on research.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/09/spray-pray-is-roundup-carcinogenic-monsanto-farmers-suing]<br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * Science-Mart, Privatizing American Science, Philip Mirowski [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674046467]<br /> <br /> * [[Theists in the news]]<br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Industry]]<br /> [[Category:Science]]<br /> [[Category:Scientific_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Science_vs_Industry Science vs Industry 2019-05-06T15:56:16Z <p>Pile: </p> <hr /> <div>This page documents examples of where industry and science conflicted or colluded with each other in ways that were not of interest to the people or the truth.<br /> <br /> ==Industry Collusion and Manipulation==<br /> <br /> * Court documents reveal Monsanto's efforts to fight glyphosate's 'severe stigma'<br /> Social Sharing. Canadian firm hired to recruit scientists to publish studies that ultimately defended Roundup's key ingredient.The documents also reveal communications between Monsanto and a Canadian firm hired to recruit scientists to publish studies that ultimately defended glyphosate — some of which were secretly reviewed by Monsanto prior to publication. All those papers, as previously reported by CBC/Radio-Canada, were also used as part of Health Canada's re-approval process of glyphosate in 2017.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/glyphosate-monsanto-intertek-studies-1.4902229]<br /> <br /> * Fired Quebec scientist blew the whistle on pesticide lobby influence.[https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/03/21/news/fired-quebec-scientist-blew-whistle-pesticide-lobby-influence]<br /> <br /> * Rush To Produce, Sell Vaccine Put Kids In Philippines At Risk. &quot;What bothers me most about this story is risk communication,&quot; says Rodriguez, who studies dengue in South America. &quot;There was a lot of uncertainty from the beginning [about the vaccine's safety]. That needed to be communicated explicitly. You need to be honest about what evidence is out there.&quot; In April, the Philippine government indicted 14 government officials over the deaths of 10 children who received the Dengvaxia vaccine. The government said the officials acted with &quot;undue haste&quot; in procuring the vaccine and launching the mass immunization campaign. The Philippine Department of Justice said the campaign started before the clinical trials were finished. In some instances children were given the vaccine by untrained health workers and allegedly without a proper physical beforehand. Some children allegedly had preexisting medical conditions that made the immunization dangerous. But these children were still inoculated, the government found. Six Sanofi officials were also indicted for not properly helping children who had serious reactions to the shot.[https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/05/03/719037789/botched-vaccine-launch-has-deadly-repercussions]<br /> * Radium Girls - information on industry using women to handle toxic materials and covering it up.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls]<br /> * Monsanto secretly ran “Let Nothing Go” campaign that paid internet trolls to post pro-Monsanto comments all across the internet[https://www.monsanto.news/2018-06-28-monsanto-secretly-ran-let-nothing-go-campaign-paid-internet-trolls.html]<br /> * EU regulators based a decision to relicense the controversial weedkiller glyphosate on an assessment plagiarised from industry reports, according to a report for the European parliament.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/eu-glyphosate-approval-was-based-on-plagiarised-monsanto-text-report-finds]<br /> * Judge in Roundup maker’s first federal trial had banned discussion of the company’s alleged manipulation of science. Monsanto is facing its first federal trial over allegations that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, but a US judge has blocked attorneys from discussing the corporation’s alleged manipulation of science. In an extraordinary move in a packed San Francisco courtroom on Monday, US judge Vince Chhabria threatened to sanction and “shut down” a cancer patient’s attorney for violating his ban on talking about Monsanto’s influence on government regulators and cancer research.[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/25/monsanto-federal-trial-roundup-cancer]<br /> * A broad new scientific analysis of the cancer-causing potential of glyphosate herbicides, the most widely used weedkilling products in the world, has found that people with high exposures to the popular pesticides have a 41% increased risk of developing a type of cancer called non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/14/weed-killing-products-increase-cancer-risk-of-cancer]<br /> * IARC responds to the claims its study claiming Glyphosate was probably carcinogenic, was incorrect and says media distorting actual reports. From reading, the IARC claims are based on the review of more than 1000 independent scientific studies. The idea that one particular study contradicts their overall findings and should be used to dismiss the IARC study is absurd. IARC also calls attention to concern over industry badgering scientists to reveal their findings prior to publication and peer review.[https://www.iarc.fr/featured-news/media-centre-iarc-news-glyphosate/]<br /> * The world’s most used weedkiller damages the beneficial bacteria in the guts of honeybees and makes them more prone to deadly infections, new research has found. Previous studies have shown that pesticides such as neonicotinoids cause harm to bees, whose pollination is vital to about three-quarters of all food crops. Glyphosate, manufactured by Monsanto, targets an enzyme only found in plants and bacteria. However, the new study shows that glyphosate damages the microbiota that honeybees need to grow and to fight off pathogens. The findings show glyphosate, the most used agricultural chemical ever, may be contributing to the global decline in bees, along with the loss of habitat.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/24/monsanto-weedkiller-harms-bees-research-finds]<br /> * Court Orders EPA To Ban Chlorpyrifos, A Pesticide Linked To Brain Damage In Kids.[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-ban-pesticide-chlorpyrifos_us_5b6c6d0ce4b0ae32af96318e]<br /> * A federal jury today convicted a Birmingham lawyer and an Alabama coal company executive in a scheme to bribe a state legislator to use his office to oppose Environmental Protection Agency actions in north Birmingham, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr. and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Holloman.[https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndal/pr/federal-jury-convicts-lawyer-and-coal-company-executive-bribing-state-legislator]<br /> * When Trump administration officials opposed a WHO breast-feeding resolution, they followed a long history of policymakers listening to baby-formula manufacturers.[https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/07/the-epic-battle-between-breast-milk-and-infant-formula-companies/564782/]<br /> * Monsanto 'bullied scientists' and hid weedkiller cancer risk, lawyer tells court[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jul/09/monsanto-trial-roundup-weedkiller-cancer-dewayne-johnson]<br /> * Why Trump's new CDC director is an abysmal choice: Redfield worked closely with the Christian organization, Americans for a Sound AIDS/HIV Policy. The group maintained AIDS was &quot;God's judgment&quot; against homosexuals, spread in an America weakened by single-parent households and loss of family values.[https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/13/opinions/trumps-terrible-choice-for-cdc-redfield-garrett/index.html]<br /> * After more than 40 years of widespread use, new scientific tests show formulated weedkillers have higher rates of toxicity to human cells.The tests are part of the US National Toxicology Program’s (NTP) first-ever examination of herbicide formulations made with the active ingredient glyphosate, but that also include other chemicals. While regulators have previously required extensive testing of glyphosate in isolation, government scientists have not fully examined the toxicity of the more complex products sold to consumers, farmers and others. Monsanto introduced its glyphosate-based Roundup brand in 1974. But it is only now, after more than 40 years of widespread use, that the government is investigating the toxicity of “glyphosate-based herbicides” on human cells.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/08/weedkiller-tests-monsanto-health-dangers-active-ingredient]<br /> * Popular article (that made the front page of a high-ranked subReddit) entitled, &quot;Millennials 'have no qualms about GM crops' unlike older generation&quot; was in actuality, a &quot;study&quot; commissioned by the Agricultural BiotechnologyCouncil, which is an industry lobbying group. The Agricultural Biotechnology Council (ABC) is a UK corporate lobby group funded by major biottechnology companies and run from the offices of a PR company, Lexington Communications. On its website, ABC lists members as comprising: BASF, Bayer CropScience, Dow AgroSciences, Pioneer (which is part of DuPont), Monsanto, Syngenta. &quot;In typical astroturf fashion they try to draw some kind of connection with &quot;Millennials&quot; to give themselves credibility.&quot;[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/07/millennials-have-no-qualms-gm-crops-unlike-older-generation/][https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/8hnt5r/millennials_have_no_qualms_about_gm_crops_unlike/dylh1u0/]<br /> * Under Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has dramatically shifted away from its stated mission to “protect human and environmental health.” Instead, the agency is clearly favoring the interests of the polluting industries that it is mandated to regulate, according to a study.[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304360]<br /> * Weedkiller found in granola and crackers, internal FDA emails show. The FDA has been testing food samples for traces of glyphosate for two years, but the agency has not yet released any official result. Other findings detailed in the FDA documents show that in 2016 Chamkasem found glyphosate in numerous samples of honey. Chamkasem also found glyphosate in oatmeal products. The FDA temporarily suspended testing after those findings, and Chamkasem’s lab was “reassigned to other programs”, the FDA documents show. The FDA has said those tests were not part of its official glyphosate residue assignment.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/30/fda-weedkiller-glyphosate-in-food-internal-emails]<br /> * &quot;Eating Pasta Linked to Weight Loss in New Study,&quot; Newsweek reported this month, racking up more than 22,500 Facebook likes, shares, and comments. The happy news also went viral on the Independent, the New York Daily News, and Business Insider. What those and many other stories failed to note, however, was that three of the scientists behind the study in question had financial conflicts as tangled as a bowl of spaghetti, including ties to the world’s largest pasta company, the Barilla Group. At least 10 peer-reviewed studies about pasta published since 2008 were either funded directly by Barilla or, like the one published this month, were carried out by scientists who have had financial ties to the company.[https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemlee/pasta-barilla-science-funding]<br /> * Senate Confirms Climate Change Denier To Lead NASA, Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) will take over control of the space agency after seven-month standoff. Bridenstine will become the first elected official to hold the NASA administrator job. He joins a Cabinet already loaded with people who question the near-universal scientific consensus that climate change is real and that human activity is the primary cause. The final vote ― which was 50-49 along party lines ― came one day after the Senate narrowly advanced Bridenstine’s nomination, thanks to an about-face from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and a key vote from Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.). Rubio[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jim-bridenstine-nasa-confirmation_us_5ad8aab7e4b03c426dac081c]<br /> * Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine sued agricultural giant Monsanto on Monday, alleging the company concealed dangers posed by a toxic chemical compound it manufactured for nearly a half century. In the suit, filed in the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court in Cincinnati, prosecutors argued that the company should pay for the clean-up of what it says are dozens of rivers, lakes and other water bodies contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/monsanto-concealed-effects-toxic-chemical-decades-ohio-ag-alleges-n853866]<br /> * The world’s most widely used insecticides pose a serious danger to both honeybees and wild bees, according to a major new assessment from the European Union’s scientific risk assessors. The conclusion, based on analysis of more than 1,500 studies, makes it highly likely that the neonicotinoid pesticides will be banned from all fields across the EU when nations vote on the issue next month.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/28/total-ban-on-bee-harming-pesticides-likely-after-major-new-eu-analysis]<br /> * DuPont vs. the World: Chemical Giant Covered Up Health Risks of Teflon Contamination Across Globe[https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/23/dupont_vs_the_world_chemical_giant]<br /> * GOP senators who pushed Trump to ditch Paris deal took over $10 million from fossil fuel industry.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/01/republican-senators-paris-climate-deal-energy-donations]<br /> * With backing from a sugar lobby, scientists promoted dietary fat as the cause of coronary heart disease instead of sugar, according to a historical document review published in JAMA Internal Medicine.[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/12/sugar-industry-paid-research-heart-disease-jama-report]<br /> * Oregon sues Monsanto, alleges company knowingly sold toxic PCBs for decades.[http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2018/01/oregon_sues_monsanto_alleges_c.html]<br /> * Government scientists blocked from the biggest meeting in their field[https://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/22/us-geological-survey-scientists-blocked-from-conference-interior-department/]<br /> * Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Net Neutrality Narrative Is False[https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/vbympa/net-neutrality-fcc-inspector-general-report]<br /> * The Slow Demise of Asbestos, the Carcinogen that Gave ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Snow[https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-slow-demise-of-asbestos-the-carcinogen-that-gave-the-wizard-of-oz-snow]<br /> * Trump reverses ban on Nazi created pesticide after receiving huge donation from chemical company[https://www.snopes.com/trump-reverses-insecticide-ban-dow-chemicals/]<br /> * Sugar industry withheld research effects of sucrose 50 years ago, study claims Researchers say negative health impacts of sucrose could have been combated sooner had research been released – but industry bodies dispute the findings.In 1967, when scientists were arguing over the link between sugar consumption and increased risk of heart disease, researchers now claim that the International Sugar Research Foundation (ISRF) withheld findings that rats that were fed a high-sugar diet had higher levels of triglycerides (a fat found in the blood) than those fed starch. In a move researchers from the University of California at San Francisco have compared to the tobacco industry’s self-preservation tactics, the foundation stopped funding the project.[https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2017/nov/21/sugar-industry-withheld-research-effects-of-sucrose-50-years-ago-study-claims]<br /> * As cigarette sales decline worldwide, the tobacco giant Phillip Morris Inc. is scrambling to restructure and embrace potentially more profitable “smoke-free” products. The revamp involves setting up an $80 million foundation called the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. The World Health Organization rebuked Phillip Morris and accused it of being disingenuous about consumer health, citing decades of research meddling and deceptive marketing. It declared it would have nothing to do with the foundation and warned governments the world over to do the same.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/philip-morris-sets-up-80m-research-foundation-who-flips-them-the-bird/]<br /> * Monsanto banned from European parliament: MEPs withdraw parliamentary access after the firm shunned a hearing into allegations that it unduly influenced studies into the safety of glyphosate used in its RoundUp weedkiller.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/28/monsanto-banned-from-european-parliament]<br /> * Coca-Cola secretly spent $1.5 million to fund an entire network of academic researchers whose goal was to shift the national health conversation away from the harms of sugary beverages. Instead, their research focused on the benefits of exercise—i.e., the health risks of sedentary and inactive lifestyles.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/the-new-study-suggesting-sitting-will-kill-you-is-kind-of-a-raging-dumpster-fire/]<br /> * Union of Concerned Scientists complains that the Trump administration's &quot;Chief Scientist&quot; at the USDA is not a scientist: Sam Clovis—a conservative talk radio host, Trump campaign co-chair, and climate denier with no training in science—for the role of chief scientist at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). [http://blog.ucsusa.org/mike-lavender/the-case-against-clovis-why-trumps-usda-chief-scientist-nominee-is-the-wrong-choice]<br /> * Almost All of FCC’s New Advisory Panel Works for Telecoms, most of which are against Net Neutrality.[http://www.thedailybeast.com/almost-all-of-fccs-new-advisory-panel-works-for-telecoms]<br /> * Court evidence reveals Monsanto involved with published Scientific Studies Without Disclosing Conflicts of Interest to publishers.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/monsanto-secret-documents/]<br /> * Internal Emails Show Monsanto Made Substantial Contributions to Published Expert Panel Manuscript.[http://baumhedlundlaw.com/pdf/monsanto-documents/3-Internal-Emails-Show-Monsanto-Made-Substantial-Contributions-to-Published-Expert-Panel-Manuscript.pdf]<br /> * Monsanto secret documents revealed, contianing correspondence between Dr. William Heydens and Ashely Roberts regarding the Expert Panel Manuscript. Dr. Heydens went “through the entire document and “indicated what I think should stay, what can go, and in a couple spots I did a little editing. I took a crack at adding a little text: on page 10 to address John’s comments about toxicologists’ use of Hill’s criteria … see what you think; it made sense to me, but I’m not sure if it will to others – please feel free to further modify and/or run by Cary.” at *1. The edited draft is also attached and challenged for confidentiality.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/monsanto-secret-documents/]<br /> * Court documents reveal Monsanto was ghost-writing academic papers defending its products and attacking critics.The documents underscore the lengths to which the agrochemical company goes to protect its image. Documents show that Henry I. Miller, an academic and a vocal proponent of genetically modified crops, asked Monsanto to draft an article for him that largely mirrored one that appeared under his name on Forbes's website in 2015. Mr. Miller could not be reached for comment. A similar issue appeared in academic research. An academic involved in writing research funded by Monsanto, John Acquavella, a former Monsanto employee, appeared to express discomfort with the process, writing in a 2015 email to a Monsanto executive, &quot;I can't be part of deceptive authorship on a presentation or publication.&quot; He also said of the way the company was trying to present the authorship: &quot;We call that ghost writing and it is unethical.&quot; Mr. Miller's 2015 article on Forbes's website was an attack on the findings of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization that had labeled glyphosate a probable carcinogen, a finding disputed by other regulatory bodies.[https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/08/03/227249/monsanto-leaks-suggest-it-tried-to-kill-cancer-research-on-roundup-weed-killer?utm_source=feedburnerFaceBook&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29]<br /> * The FCC Insists It Can't Stop Impostors From Lying About My Views On Net Neutrality.[https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20170710/10071737756/fcc-insists-it-cant-stop-impostors-lying-about-my-views-net-neutrality.shtml]<br /> * DOW CHEMICAL DONATES $1 MILLION TO TRUMP, ASKS ADMINISTRATION TO IGNORE PESTICIDE STUDY.[http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/04/dow-chemical-endangered-species]<br /> * E.P.A. Official Pressured Scientist on Congressional Testimony, Emails Show: The Environmental Protection Agency’s chief of staff pressured the top scientist on the agency’s scientific review board to alter her congressional testimony and play down the dismissal of expert advisers.[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/us/politics/epa-official-pressured-scientist-on-congressional-testimony-emails-show.html]<br /> * Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science]<br /> * Monsanto's GMO-friendly pesticide, Dicamba is causing widespread devastation in Missouri.[http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/dicamba-damage-is-back-and-possibly-worse-than-before/article_2e33ec05-ae98-5468-92f8-bccf6bcd7698.html]<br /> * Arkansas's pesticide regulators have stepped into the middle of an epic battle between weeds and chemicals, which has now morphed into a battle between farmers. Hundreds of farmers say their crops have been damaged by a weedkiller that was sprayed on neighboring fields. Today, the Arkansas Plant Board voted to impose an unprecedented ban on that chemical. The tension — which even led to a farmer's murder — is over a weedkiller called dicamba. The chemical moved into the weed-control spotlight a few years ago, when Monsanto created soybean and cotton plants that were genetically modified to survive it.[http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/06/23/534117683/arkansas-tries-to-stop-an-epidemic-of-herbicide-damage]<br /> * Glyphosate, an herbicide and the active ingredient in Monsanto Co's (MON.N) popular Roundup weed killer, will be added to California's list of chemicals known to cause cancer effective July 7, the state's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) said on Monday. Monsanto vowed to continue its legal fight against the designation, required under a state law known as Proposition 65, and called the decision &quot;unwarranted on the basis of science and the law.&quot;[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-glyphosate-california-idUSKBN19H2K1]<br /> * The EPA's Inspector General Is Probing Whether An Agency Staffer Colluded With Monsanto.[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-inspector-general-probing-collusion-with-monsanto_us_59372108e4b0aba888b99dca]<br /> * Monsanto Hires Internet Trolls to Cover Up Roundup’s Cancer Risk.[https://www.ecowatch.com/monsanto-hires-internet-trolls-2401703407.html]<br /> * President Donald Trump's nominee for Deputy Secretary of the Interior said today that Trump's economic policy could take priority over climate science. In his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Energy &amp; Natural Resources Committee, David Bernhardt said that he will consider science on climate change but that Trump's policy opinions that prioritize jobs could outweigh scientific conclusions.[http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/interior-dept-nominee-trumps-views-outweigh-climate-science/story?id=47492689]<br /> <br /> * White House Moves to Block Ethics Inquiry Into Ex-Lobbyists on Payroll. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/us/politics/trump-white-house-government-ethics-lobbyists.html]<br /> <br /> * U.S. judge finds that Aetna deceived the public about its reasons for quitting participation in the government's healthcare exchange under the Affordable Care Act.[http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-aetna-obamacare-20170123-story.html]<br /> <br /> * E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board - replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html?_r=0&amp;referer=]<br /> <br /> * The original &quot;food pyramid,&quot; a diagram instructing the public on the proper healthy allocation of different food types, given to the US government by nutritionists was altered for the benefit of the food industry and grain growers.[https://proteinpower.com/drmike/2014/02/19/death-food-pyramid/]<br /> <br /> * &quot;Cosmos&quot; episode explains How Corporations Fund Science Denial. An entire episode was devoted to the Clair Patterson, who discovered that lead was entering the atmosphere through the burning of leaded gasoline. Yet, it took twenty years for unleaded gas to become the norm.[http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/04/cosmos-neil-tyson-lead-industry-science-denial][http://www.space.com/25579-cosmos-recap-earth-age-lead-poisoning.html]<br /> <br /> * In the 1960s, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the risks of sugar and highlighted the hazards of fat, according to a newly published article in JAMA Internal Medicine. The article draws on internal documents to show that an industry group called the Sugar Research Foundation wanted to &quot;refute&quot; concerns about sugar's possible role in heart disease. The SRF then sponsored research by Harvard scientists that did just that. The result was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1967, with no disclosure of the sugar industry funding. [http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat]<br /> <br /> * Editor quits journal over pay-for-expedited peer-review offer. With a tweet yesterday, an editor of Scientific Reports, one of Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG’s) open-access journals, has resigned in a very public protest of NPG’s recent decision to allow authors to pay money to expedite peer review of their submitted papers. “My objections are that it sets up a two-tiered system and instead of the best science being published in a timely fashion it will further shift the balance to well-funded labs and groups,” Mark Maslin, a biogeographer at University College London, tells ScienceInsider.[http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/03/updated-editor-quits-journal-over-pay-expedited-peer-review-offer]<br /> <br /> * House of Commons committee to open hearings on neonic pesticide with industry-biased panel.[http://menafn.com/1095300543/House-of-Commons-committee-to-open-hearings-on-neonic-pesticide-with-industry-biased-panel]<br /> * The EPA Finally Admitted That the World’s Most Popular Pesticide Kills Bees—20 Years Too Late.[http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2016/01/epa-finds-major-pesticide-toxic-bees]<br /> <br /> * NASA executives waste $80M renewing an industry contract to produce a spacesuit inferior to what the government's own engineers were designing. NASA leaders claimed the contract was necessary to, &quot;keep industry engaged in spacesuit design&quot;, but the report dismisses this idea, noting the agency's in-house Advanced Space Suit Project shared several contractors and primary subcontractors.[https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/nasas-spacesuit-program-is-something-of-a-hot-mess/]<br /> <br /> == Monsanto/Bayer Controversies ==<br /> <br /> * The law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei &amp; Goldman made public today hundreds of pages of newly de-classified internal Monsanto documents, including company email exchanges, reports, studies and other memoranda.[https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/4-19-new-monsanto-papers-docs/]<br /> <br /> * Five things to know about Bayer and Monsanto, including its connection to Nazi gas chambers.[https://phys.org/news/2018-08-bayer-monsanto.html]<br /> <br /> * Shareholders of the German chemical giant Bayer staged a full-blown revolt at a heated 13-hour meeting in Bonn on Friday, arguing that the management failed to see the company was inheriting a raft of nightmarish litigation associated with glyphosate when it bought U.S. agrichemical giant Monsanto for $66 billion last year. The investors are furious that a blue-riband European company is now potentially exposed to billions of dollars of claims over the glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup, created by Monsanto. Two U.S. court verdicts over the past year found that the world's most popular herbicide caused cancer, hauling shares in Bayer down about 40 percent since August. Bayer has appealed those decisions but is now facing an avalanche of some 13,400 claims. &quot;It is about time Bayer came to grips with the fact that they purchased Monsanto’s misconduct and, now, need to do right by the victims. It’s time to resolve these lawsuits and give Bayer shareholders confidence again in corporate leadership,&quot; said Brent Wisner, an attorney at Baum, Hedlund, Aristei &amp; Goldman, which is representing plaintiffs in the lawsuits against Monsanto.[https://www.politico.eu/article/glyphosate-revolt-rocks-germany-inc-bayer-shareholders-vote/]<br /> <br /> * Concerns over glyphosate pass from human health to the soil.Experts say the weedkiller’s impact on soil health represents a serious threat to Europe’s long-term food security. [https://www.politico.eu/article/glyphosate-concerns-pass-from-human-health-to-soil/]<br /> <br /> * Washington State University researchers have found a variety of diseases and other health problems in the second- and third-generation offspring of rats exposed to glyphosate, the world's most popular weed killer. In the first study of its kind, the researchers saw descendants of exposed rats developing prostate, kidney and ovarian diseases, obesity and birth abnormalities. Michael Skinner, a WSU professor of biological sciences, and his colleagues exposed pregnant rats to the herbicide between their eighth and 14th days of gestation. The dose—half the amount expected to show no adverse effect—produced no apparent ill effects on either the parents or the first generation of offspring. But writing in the journal Scientific Reports, the researchers say they saw &quot;dramatic increases&quot; in several pathologies affecting the second and third generations. The second generation had &quot;significant increases&quot; in testis, ovary and mammary gland diseases, as well as obesity. In third-generation males, the researchers saw a 30 percent increase in prostate disease—three times that of a control population. The third generation of females had a 40 percent increase in kidney disease, or four times that of the controls.[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-42860-0][https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-04-health-effects-popular-weed-killer.html]<br /> <br /> * Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees, Erick V. S. Motta, Kasie Raymann, and Nancy A. Moran<br /> PNAS published ahead of print September 24, 2018. &quot;Increased mortality of honey bee colonies has been attributed to several factors but is not fully understood. The herbicide glyphosate is expected to be innocuous to animals, including bees, because it targets an enzyme only found in plants and microorganisms. However, bees rely on a specialized gut microbiota that benefits growth and provides defense against pathogens. Most bee gut bacteria contain the enzyme targeted by glyphosate, but vary in whether they possess susceptible versions and, correspondingly, in tolerance to glyphosate. Exposing bees to glyphosate alters the bee gut community and increases susceptibility to infection by opportunistic pathogens. Understanding how glyphosate impacts bee gut symbionts and bee health will help elucidate a possible role of this chemical in colony decline.&quot; [https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1803880115]<br /> <br /> * Consuming a mixture of sugar syrup and glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, alters honey bees’ microbiomes, and these changes increased mortality among insects exposed to pathogenic bacteria, according to a study.[https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/herbicide-may-harm-microbiome-of-bees-64860]<br /> <br /> * Attorneys for a couple who claim Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer gave them both cancer tried to convince a California jury Thursday that the agrochemical company engaged in decades of fraud to hide the fact that the herbicide is carcinogenic. Wisner on Thursday ran through a list of Monsanto’s newly revealed alleged sins, starting with the so-called IBT scandal. The company seemingly planted one of its employees at a contract lab called Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories (IBT) in the 1970s to fake negative mouse carcinogenicity data for Roundup’s active ingredient glyphosate that were to be used to win regulatory approval for the weed killer in 1975; planned an attack to discredit the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cancer research agency, anticipating the agency would classify glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen in 2015; and exploited “deep connections” within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to classify glyphosate as non-carcinogenic.[https://www.courthousenews.com/roundup-trial-monsanto-used-fake-data-to-win-over-regulators/]<br /> <br /> * Glyphosate Worse than We Could Imagine. “It’s Everywhere” Glyphosate residues have been found in tap water, orange juice, children’s urine, breast milk, chips, snacks, beer, wine, cereals, eggs, oatmeal, wheat products, and most conventional foods tested. It’s everywhere, in brief.[https://www.globalresearch.ca/glyphosate-worse/5674472]<br /> <br /> * The overlooked impact of rising glyphosate use on phosphorus loading in agricultural watersheds. The herbicide glyphosate dominates the global pesticide market, with applied tonnage increasing steadily worldwide. Glyphosate's capacity to degrade rapidly is often used to argue against potential toxicological effects, but the phosphorus (P) it contains persists in the environment and can influence soil P accumulation and losses to surrounding freshwater systems, which are prone to nutrient pollution.[https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/fee.1985]<br /> <br /> * Louisiana sugar cane farmers are using Glyphosate as a &quot;chemical ripener&quot; on crops.[https://www.lsuagcenter.com/portals/communications/publications/agmag/archive/2008/spring/use-of-glyphosate-to-enhance-sugar-production-in-louisiana]<br /> <br /> == Trump administration's questionable respect for science ==<br /> <br /> * Trump to nominate former Monsanto executive to top interior department position. Aurelia Skipwith, who worked as a lawyer and in research at Monsanto, will be nominated to run the Fish and Wildlife Service.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/23/aurelia-skipwith-monsanto-fish-wildlife-service-interior-department]<br /> <br /> <br /> * Trump Quietly Nominates Mass Surveillance Advocate To “Protect” Your Privacy Rights[http://theantimedia.org/trump-mass-surveillance-privacy/]<br /> <br /> * Trump officially nominates Sam Clovis, climate-denying conservative talk radio host as USDA’s top scientist.[https://thinkprogress.org/sam-clovis-officially-nominated-still-not-a-scientist-d47be4ffb1a8]<br /> <br /> * Trump's 5 Most “Anti-Science” Moves, Scientific American [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-5-most-ldquo-anti-science-rdquo-moves/]<br /> <br /> * Donald Trump's War On Science, New Yorker [http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/donald-trumps-war-on-science]<br /> <br /> * Trump has launched a blitzkrieg in the wars on science and Earth’s climate, The Guardian, [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/mar/28/trump-has-launched-a-blitzkrieg-in-the-wars-on-science-and-earths-climate]<br /> <br /> ===Anti-science head of the EPA under the Trump administration===<br /> <br /> * Scott Pruitt’s Attack on Science Would Paralyze the E.P.A.[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/opinion/pruitt-attack-science-epa.html]<br /> <br /> * Trump’s embattled EPA head Scott Pruitt has come down on the side of polluters on just about every issue that faces the US, so it is with little surprise that in a recent interview he signaled that he may try to fight back against California’s fuel economy requirements.[https://electrek.co/2018/03/14/epa-chief-scott-pruitt-signals-war-with-california-over-cafe-mileage-standards/]<br /> <br /> * Trump Re-Nominates Anti-Wildlife Climate Denier to Top Environment Post[https://www.ecowatch.com/ceq-nominee-white-2524022932.html]<br /> <br /> * Pruitt drives out EPA staff, hires unqualified former banker pal[http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pruitt-drives-out-epa-staff-hires-unqualified-former-banker-pal-1122919491794]<br /> <br /> * EPA seeks to scrap rule protecting drinking water for third of Americans[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/27/epa-clean-water-rule-drinking]<br /> <br /> * E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board - replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html?_r=0&amp;referer=]<br /> <br /> * EPA Scientists Worry Their New Boss Doesn't Want Science. [https://www.wired.com/2017/02/epa-scientists-worry-new-boss-doesnt-want-science/]<br /> <br /> * President Trump's pick to run the Environmental Protection Agaency is a self-described “leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda,” Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma’s attorney general since 2011, has repeatedly sued the agency and other government entities over environmental rules and regulations, at times in direct cooperation with fossil fuel companies.[http://www.factcheck.org/2016/12/facts-trumps-epa-nominee/] <br /> <br /> :From Factcheck.org on Trumps head of the EPA:<br /> <br /> ** Pruitt’s questionable claims include:<br /> ** He falsely said in May that scientists “disagree about the degree” and “connection” of global warming “to the actions of mankind.” As we have written time and time again, the vast majority of climate scientists believe global warming is real and human-caused.<br /> **He also said the Clean Power Plan will “significantly” increase electricity prices. Whether the price change is “significant” is a matter of opinion, but the Energy Information Administration estimates that prices under the plan would range from a 7 percent decrease to a 7 percent increase between 2025 and 2040, depending on the region.<br /> **He implied in April 2014 that’s there’s no evidence to support a link between fracking and water contamination. There is some evidence to support a link in certain instances, but not enough to definitively conclude that contamination is widespread, as we wrote in early December.<br /> <br /> * Climate change cynic Scott Pruitt takes over as Donald Trump's head of Environmental Protection Agency[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/17/climate-change-cynic-scott-pruitt-takes-donald-trumps-head-environmental/]<br /> <br /> ===Anti-science appointees to the USDA===<br /> <br /> * Incompetence Looms: Trump To Appoint Non-Scientist As USDA's Chief Scientist[https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2017/05/14/trump-will-appoint-incompetent-non-scientist-as-usdas-chief-scientist/2/#1276211e1276]<br /> * The Trump administration is planning to nominate Sam Clovis — the Department of Agriculture’s senior White House adviser — as head of USDA’s Research, Education and Economics division, according to individuals briefed on the decision. The move would mark a break with recent Republican and Democratic administrations alike, which have previously reserved the high-level position for scientists with expertise in agricultural research. Clovis — a former economics professor and talk radio host in Iowa who served as one of the Trump campaign’s first policy advisers — has bachelor’s degrees in political science and government, a master’s in business administration and a doctoral degree in public administration[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/13/trumps-expected-choice-for-the-leading-usda-science-job-isnt-a-trained-scientist/]<br /> * Trump’s Expected Pick for Top USDA Scientist Is Not a Scientist[https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-expected-pick-for-top-usda-scientist-is-not-a-scientist]<br /> <br /> ==Industry/Government Attacks On Scientists==<br /> <br /> * State-funded scientists could be prevented from lobbying for change in their field under Cabinet Office proposals. Senior scientists have denounced a potential move to “muzzle” colleagues whose findings are disliked by the government. The proposal – announced by the Cabinet Office earlier this month – would block researchers who receive government grants from using their results to lobby for changes to laws or regulations. For example, an academic whose government-funded research showed that new regulations were proving particularly harmful to the homeless would not be able to call for policy change. Similarly, ecologists who found out that new planning laws were harming wildlife would not be able to raise the issue in public, while climate scientists whose findings undermined government energy policy could have work suppressed.[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/20/scientists-attack-muzzling-government-state-funded-cabinet-office]<br /> <br /> * Renown Canadian scientist personally attacked by industry after expressing concern over GMOs. [https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/glp-facts/david-suzuki-canadas-science-guy-turned-eccentric-anti-gmo-chemical-scaremonger/]<br /> <br /> ==Other articles==<br /> <br /> * The Monsanto Papers - information on current court cases regarding Monsanto/Bayer.[https://usrtk.org/monsanto-papers/]<br /> * The secret tactics Monsanto used to protect Roundup, its star product[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JszHrMZ7dx4]<br /> * In the latest stage of a decade-long legal tussle, the appeals court in Lyon, France on Thursday found in favor of farmer Paul Francois’ claim that Monsanto’s Lasso weedkiller had made him sick and that the product’s labeling had been inadequate. Francois, 55, says he suffered neurological problems, including memory loss, fainting and headaches, after accidentally inhaling Lasso in 2004 while working on his farm. “Mr Francois justifiably concludes that the product, due to its inadequate labeling that did not respect applicable regulations, did not offer the level of safety he could legitimately expect,” the court said in its ruling. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-monsanto-lawsuit/french-court-finds-bayers-monsanto-liable-for-farmers-sickness-idUSKCN1RN1JA?il=0]<br /> * A new report found glyphosate, a weed-killing chemical that some health authorities link to cancer, in a number of popular breakfast foods and cereals marketed to children. The study by the non-profit Environmental Working Group (EWG) discovered trace amounts of the most widely used herbicide in the country in oats, granolas and snack bars. Thirty-one out of 45 tested products had levels higher than what some scientists consider safe for children. Recently, some scientists, doctors and activists around the world have worked to keep glyphosate out of crops due to concerns that it is a dangerous carcinogen.[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/glyphosate-roundup-chemical-found-in-childrens-breakfast-foods/]<br /> * Judge Upholds Verdict That Found Monsanto’s Roundup Caused a Man’s Cancer. [https://theantimedia.com/judge-monsanto-roundup-cancer/]<br /> * A collaborative study by three US universities reported that individuals with particularly high exposures to glyphosate-based herbicides (Roundup), for instance those spraying it, could have a 41% increased relative risk of developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1383574218300887]<br /> * Is RoundUp carcinogenic? The trouble is, for every research paper that purports to show a link between glyphosate-based herbicides and cancer, there is another which finds the exact opposite. This hasn’t been helped by the fact that many of the studies may not have been entirely objective. “A lot of the studies backing glyphosate have been funded by entities in a position to profit from the continuing sales. But one of the factors that have left commentators suspicious of the potential toxicity of these herbicides has been incidents of combative corporate behaviour. In the latest trial, Monsanto has caused eyebrows to raise by obtaining a ban preventing attorneys for the plaintiffs from presenting information regarding its alleged influence on research.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/09/spray-pray-is-roundup-carcinogenic-monsanto-farmers-suing]<br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> * Science-Mart, Privatizing American Science, Philip Mirowski [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674046467]<br /> <br /> * [[Theists in the news]]<br /> * [[Priest Abuse]]<br /> * [[It's a miracle]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Main_sections]]<br /> [[Category:News]]<br /> [[Category:Industry]]<br /> [[Category:Science]]<br /> [[Category:Scientific_arguments]]<br /> [[Category:Debate_resources]]<br /> [[Category:Ignorance_&amp;_Misinformation]]</div> Pile