Christian music star born without arms arrested on child porn charges
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Sheptock was arrested while he was ministering at a nearby women’s prison

Jon Paul Sheptock, 49, served as the worship minister at the First Montgomery Baptist Church in Texas before these shocking allegations came to light.

The Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Unit eventually caught up with the suspect while he was working at a local women’s prison where he served as a minister.

At a Donald Trump rally in January 2022, Sheptock was recruited to sing the national anthem before later posing with the president and his son for pictures.

  • tired_n_bored@lemmy.world
    10·
    7 days ago

    Oh look another dangerous transgender woman! No wait, it’s always either some Pastor or some Trump-affiliated person.

  • canajac@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    7 days ago

    Of course, he’s a hypocritical religious person who hides behind the bible BS he learned from mommy and daddy.

    • reddifuge@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 days ago

      Not hypocrisy, the bible supports pedophilia. It’s disgusting backwards ass bullshit and half remembered ghost stories written by inbred winos.

  • mavu@discuss.tchncs.de
    38·
    8 days ago

    What is it with those people?

    Is there some kind of competition to be the most terrible person possible?

  • Doomsider@lemmy.world
    29·
    8 days ago

    Why are all the straight male Christian conservatives trying to fuck children!? WTF is wrong with them.

    • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
      27·
      8 days ago

      As someone who was forced to grow up in this Baptist bullshit: It’s the absolutely insane level of sexual repression. Sex is a bad word. Don’t talk about it. Can’t even go dancing, if you’re Baptist, because it “might lead to sinful contact between dancers” or “impure thoughts”.

      Can’t drink either. You might “cause your brother to stumble”. It’s a running joke that Baptists go to bars in the next town over, because nobody knows them there, so they won’t be judged.

      Can’t go to anything worse than a PG movie. Can’t learn in school about evolution. Can’t go to sex Ed class in school and have to be opted out. Can’t be friends with non-Christians because “they’re able to be influenced against you by the devil at any time” like they’re a Devil Manchurian Candidate.

      Christianity in America fucking sucks, but Baptists are near the top of being the fucking worst.

      • Doomsider@lemmy.world
        20·
        7 days ago

        I have studied religions my whole life trying to understand what is really going on. I have always been open minded, but my conclusion is simply it is about control.

        My father was a black sheep Mormon so I am very familiar with the pitfalls of their beliefs. On my grandfather’s death bed his sons gathered round him to pray. He pointed at my father and said he was not worthy to pray over him. Othering is always an integral part of Christianity.

        The worst thing about religion is it steals the work of man to use for its goals. How many people thank God for surviving cancer when it was their fellow man that cured them. Religion is also insidious because it takes credit for morality when it clearly exists without it.

        It reminds me of any loser ideology that tries to claim it does things when it has no real power and claims credit when it is not due. Everyone arguing over what Skydaddy is the best imaginary companion is beyond ridiculous.

      • fxleak@lemmings.world
        1·
        7 days ago

        Maybe it’s just me, but I once heard that “baptist” is almost code for “black,” in the sense that most baptists churches tend to be occupied primarily by people of color.

        This is just what someone else has told me, so it seems a bit odd that stereotypically black churches would be producing white pedophiles.

        • Schmoo@slrpnk.net
          4·
          7 days ago

          I grew up southern baptist and it was an all-white church. I think I remember a time when there was 1 black family in attendance because they had just moved here. They didn’t come back for a second time. The southern baptist church split from the northern baptist church over slavery. Guess which side of that issue the southern baptist church was on?

        • 4am@lemmy.zip
          4·
          7 days ago

          I don’t think of black people when I think Baptist, but I certainly think of the south, and with the black population being higher there it’s more likely that there are black congregations.

          But honestly it’s not close enough to being a “black-only thing” that you could use Baptist as slang for black.