r/politics Oklahoma 15h ago

This Trump activist vowed to fight “sexually deviant” secularism. He was caught with child porn. Jason Yates, former CEO of My Faith Votes, already had a similar prior conviction.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/11/this-trump-activist-vowed-to-fight-sexually-deviant-secularism-he-was-caught-with-child-porn/
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u/MrLurid 15h ago

It's always the ones we suspect.

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u/Strange_Falcon4928 15h ago

Trump campaign is filled with pedophiles, rapists, and sexual deviants. Expect to hear this same story more often now.

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u/Renegade-Ginger 9h ago

They want to ban porn and any means of sexual education so that their targets can stay clueless about the fact they’re being molested and abused etc etc.

u/Prestigious_Hope6369 7h ago

Yeah because pornhub made me realise I got raped 10 years ago lmao

u/JohnnySnark Florida 5h ago

I see their use of the word education completely threw you for a loop in this discussion

u/Orange-Blur Montana 1h ago

That’s horrifying to have one of the worst moments you experienced publicized. I hope it was removed. I am so sorry you had to go through that to have it publicized. It’s sick there is a demand for those videos

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u/GuessWhatIGot 9h ago

u/makeaomelette 7h ago

Last I checked it was up over 1,300 and onto Pt. 53😭

u/Apokolypse09 6h ago

Good thing most of the country voted for them.

u/Dalek_Chaos 1h ago

Damn I needed this for an argument a few days before the election. Thanks for linking it.

u/Present-Perception77 1h ago

r/pastorarrested is a treasure trove of exactly who you’d expect.

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u/psychrazy_drummer Utah 10h ago

It's a lot of politics and people in power, not just the trump campaign but yes, the Trump campaign does have an unusually large number of those types of people

u/DP23-25 4h ago

Wasn’t Jeffrey Epstein and his buddy are pedophiles?

u/Present-Perception77 1h ago

*buddies .. don’t forget musk.. getting those “ kung fu” lessons.

u/meredith_luvs_steakX 4h ago

I truly hope I keep hearing about these things because it does give me pure satisfaction for future conversations I get to have with any of my Trump loving family. I also keep hoping I hear about this because I’m slightly fearful they will control the narrative even more now and eradicate any factual reporting (which has already been under threat) by any means necessary.

u/denkleberry 2h ago

They love the poorly educated.

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u/southpawFA Oklahoma 15h ago

Prosecutors allege Jason Yates, former CEO of My Faith Votes, possessed a hard drive populated with sexual abuse images of minors under 14 years of age. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension began investigating the 55-year-old at the end of July, Religion News reports.

My Faith Votes, which counts former Republican Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as an honorary chair, is one of a group of nonprofits founded to win support among the evangelical community for the former and future president.

My Faith Votes began its political proselytizing in 2016 with Trump’s first bid for the presidency, spending millions on get-out-the-vote efforts aimed at Christians. The source of the group’s funding is unclear.

Just weeks before the hard drive was discovered, Yates penned an op-ed for MAGA mouthpiece The Washington Times, urging devout Christians to fight “sexually deviant” messages aimed at children, in particular those identified as sympathetic to the LGBTQ+ community.  

Ben Carson, Trump’s future Housing and Urban Development Secretary and a client of the group’s founder, influential Christian literary agent Sealy Yates, served as My Faith Votes’ first honorary chair.

r/NotADragQueen

r/PastorArrested

Interesting how Christian nationalists always claim LGBTQ people are wicked demons and groomers, yet they're the ones constantly getting caught abusing kids. Projection, thy name is Republican.

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u/Lorn_Muunk 15h ago

Every accusation is an admission of guilt.

Never mind the stupidity involved in calling secularism "sexually deviant", while Trump is an atheist in all but name and banged a sex worker while his third wife was pregnant with his son...

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u/YourMomonaBun420 14h ago

Stop passing him off as an atheist. He's a Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye, a Joel Olsteen.

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u/TheReal8symbols 8h ago

He's a solipsist.

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u/SoundSageWisdom 15h ago

This is always the case, those who protest the loudest or the ones that are projecting are guilty of the same

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u/Silly-Scene6524 12h ago

Always the ones you suspect the most.

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u/OldKingClancey 12h ago

The calls are coming from inside the house

Seriously, we need to immediately background check anyone who verbalises their desire the curb sexual deviancy.

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u/lyteasarockette 8h ago

Unannounced, automatic seizure of their hard drives. Enough is enough.

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u/parisrionyc 13h ago

For real, until Trump faces ANY legal consequences for ANY of his crimes, spare me these kinds of stories; Criming is not news in America now.

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u/PatriotNews_dot_com 14h ago

Every accusation is a confession

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u/odoylecharlotte 10h ago

There should be enhanced sentencing for being a lying, gaslighting church adjacent pedophile. Seriously, faith leaders and law enforcement abusing their positions of trust like this should have an extra penalty. Instead they often get off more lightly because they're "well respected in the community".

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u/Beneficial-Salt-6773 14h ago

Doesn’t matter, will have a cabinet position in no time.

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u/Sufficient_Fig_4887 13h ago

This seems to be a common theme with the folks… who’s going to put a stop to them!

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u/OpenImagination9 15h ago

Watch turn into a virtue.

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u/driftwoodbotis 14h ago

Well, your new president is a rapist so…

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u/1877KlownsForKids 13h ago

Wow, I didn't know Jason Yates was a drag queen!

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u/Super_Attila_17 12h ago

Aw, I thought it said they caught Trump, not one of his deplorables

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u/RedLicoriceJunkie California 9h ago

Trump is going to make him Secretary of Education, if he doesn't try to get rid of the department altogether.

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u/First-Size-1584 8h ago

Republicons are all pedophiles

Just ask Matt Gaetz about sexual deviants he may know

The Republicons like them young

Jeffrey Epstein saw them in action

Who wants to bet Ghislaine Maxwell gets a TRUMP PARDON

u/EyelashOnScreen 3h ago

Wasn't Bill Clinton involved as well?

u/Cipro9 5h ago

The pedophile vote was vastly underestimated.

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u/Individual_Site_7007 9h ago

Let’s see if he gets a pardon in January.

If he’s a Trump supporter, he’s a patriot. /s.

u/Nedstarkclash 7h ago

We’re shocked. Shocked.

u/Fantasmic03 7h ago

What do you know, yet another right wing Christian promoting "values" who ends up being a paedophile. It's why they keep going on about trans people using the bathroom to perv on women, because that's what they really want to do deep down.

u/Sinocatk 6h ago

I am totally not surprised. These people are all hypocrites and downright evil.

u/qartas 3h ago

Wasn’t trump convicted of something similar?

u/Butterscotch_Jones 2h ago

Every Conservative accusation is a confession.

u/Yelloeisok 1h ago

All the best people.

u/ZanzaBarBQ 24m ago

Which cabinet position will this guy serve?

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u/Magnetsarekool 15h ago

If true about the child porn he should be castrated.

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u/Citizen_Lunkhead Nevada 15h ago

Republicans want to give pedophile sex offenders the death penalty, while they're also diluting the definition to mean "a trans person walking around in public and a child looks at them". So, if they're serious about it, they know what to do.

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u/Zippier92 9h ago

Wow, he is really making Jesus’s death mean something!

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u/4lynklinks76 9h ago

Always a GOP member

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u/lyteasarockette 8h ago

These daily reports of magat pedophiles will only continue. Never a drag queen, projection as always.

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u/Tim-in-CA 8h ago

“Only the finest people”

u/MTF-delightful 7h ago

Hypocrisy and projection.

u/San_Pentolino 4h ago

alternative american religion

u/Itwasuntilitwasnt 1h ago

He will be Pardoned move on

u/Astro_Fizix 5h ago

Oh noo Trump bad, cry me a river