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TexasTowelie

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Mon Jan 29, 2024, 08:44 PM Jan 2024

GOP candidate accused of supplying young men for disgraced Baptist leader Paul Pressler to abuse

A recently unearthed email from 2017 is shedding new light on the role a prominent lawyer running for the Texas State House played in the ongoing Southern Baptist sexual abuse scandal.

The explosive email accuses attorney Jared Woodfill (R) – a prominent anti-LGBTQ+ activist running with the close backing of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) – of providing access to young men for former Texas judge and Southern Baptist leader Paul Pressler to sexually abuse.

The email, from one of the young men recruited by Woodfill’s law firm to serve as a personal assistant to the then-octogenarian Pressler, was filed in connection with the massive lawsuit accusing Pressler of years of sexual abuse of young men and boys.

The suit named the Southern Baptist Convention, Pressler’s longtime church First Baptist in Houston, and Woodfill as co-conspirators.

Read more: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/01/gop-candidate-accused-of-supplying-young-men-for-disgraced-baptist-leader-paul-pressler-to-abuse/

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GOP candidate accused of supplying young men for disgraced Baptist leader Paul Pressler to abuse (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2024 OP
What just befuddles me to no end JMCKUSICK Jan 2024 #1
Paxton is surrounded by corruption. BlueWaveNeverEnd Jan 2024 #2

JMCKUSICK

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1. What just befuddles me to no end
Mon Jan 29, 2024, 09:42 PM
Jan 2024

Is how fucking stupid and arrogant someone has to be if and a big if,they had a skeleton like that in their closet.

And a lawyer no less, you know, one of those whose famous line is never put anything in writing/email etc....
OOOOOPS

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