Robert Morris, senior pastor at Gateway Church in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and former religious advisor to former President Donald Trump, resigned after admitting to molesting a 12-year-old girl in the 1980s over a period of 4 years.
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It's worth thinking about what type of people have the strongest interest in lying to people concerned about child abuse and telling them that it's mostly a matter of elaborate white slavery rings and not family members, pastors, youth sports coaches etc bsky.app/profile/spor...
One of the really depressing things about learning about q-anon as a phenomenon is how many of the people who are really into it were themselves victims of child abuse, almost always by a known authority figure from their community. bsky.app/profile/null...
Stranger Danger has such a siren call because it externalizes the threat as something external that's comin' to get ya as opposed to the depressing reality of a strong majority of perpetrators being known and trusted with the associated judgement of those in guardian roles
The message pedocons *really* do not want kids to hear is "you are in full control of your own body and your consent is required for anyone else to put their hands on it" bsky.app/profile/amat...
and and AND what interests are served by "protecting" children from accessing information about bodily autonomy, consent, safe sex, and reproductive health
Qanon was a reaction to real revelations of systematic sexual abuse, turned into bizarre mythology because acknowledging that abuse flows directly from unaccountable men having power over women and children was ideologically indigestible.
