Did you know: There's one book that #Groomers have used for 2,000 years to justify incest, rape and child rape—even homosexual child rape.
It's called The Bible.
Let me tell you a story about Billy James Hargis.
It's called The Bible.
Let me tell you a story about Billy James Hargis.
I learned about this story via @Cajsa's list of #RepublicanSexualPredators, which you can find here: docs.google.com/document/u/1/d…
I'm going to tell the story using quotes from this 2013 article by @whitstrub... strublog.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/bil…
I'm going to tell the story using quotes from this 2013 article by @whitstrub... strublog.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/bil…
Some background: Billy James Hargis was a popular radio and TV evangelist in the 1950s and 1960s.
He used the fame of his "Christian Crusade" ministry to start the American Christian College in Tulsa in 1971.
Sounds almost Trumpian, right?
He used the fame of his "Christian Crusade" ministry to start the American Christian College in Tulsa in 1971.
Sounds almost Trumpian, right?
Immediately he began having sex with his students—four of them male, one of them female.
He then performed the wedding ceremony for two of them.
At which point, "The bride and groom realized what was going on because they’d both slept with him."
He then performed the wedding ceremony for two of them.
At which point, "The bride and groom realized what was going on because they’d both slept with him."
Hargis, who was married and the father of three daughters and a son, had sex with the three other male students during tours of the college choir, which was called "The All-American Kids." #RepublicanSexualPredators
Hargis represented, "one of the more vigorously anti-intellectual strains of midcentury conservative Christianity, he hated communism, he hated sex education, and he hated queers (he wasn’t much fond of Black civil rights either, shockingly)...."
"... His organization published a notorious 1968 pamphlet... 'Is the Schoolhouse the Proper Place to Teach Raw Sex?'"
When exposed for having sex with his male students, Hargis “justified his homosexual acts by citing the Old Testament friendship between David and Jonathan.”
When exposed for having sex with his male students, Hargis “justified his homosexual acts by citing the Old Testament friendship between David and Jonathan.”
As @whitstrub wrote in 2013: "This is perhaps the single most radically relativist reading of the Good Book I have ever seen a fundamentalist offer... It deserves to be highlighted as a reminder of the sheer, utter perversity of antigay discourse, then, now, and always."
It's easy to say there are predators on both sides.
But as @cajsa, keeper of the #RepublicanSexualPredators list told me: "I see more pedophiles on the right... the worst predators are drawn to... authoritarian ideology... rules and rigidity."
thedailyedge.substack.com/p/700-and-coun…
But as @cajsa, keeper of the #RepublicanSexualPredators list told me: "I see more pedophiles on the right... the worst predators are drawn to... authoritarian ideology... rules and rigidity."
thedailyedge.substack.com/p/700-and-coun…
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