#paulpressler — Public Fediverse posts

eBay To GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen: Um, No

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/14/ebay-to-gamestop-ceo-ryan-cohen-um-no/

The best place to hide Pedophiles, after the Republican Party, is in the Church.

He Remade the Southern Baptist Convention in His Image.
Then Came the Abuse Allegations

“He talks way more about nudity, the male body, being naked in spas in Europe [or] being naked in general than [he does] God, or his Baptist background,”

Connections with The Squeaker Of The House, Mike Johnson
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/quiet-collapse-southern-baptist-convention/

#SouthernBaptist #PaulPressler #SouthernBaptistConvention #Republican #GoodOldPedophiles #GOP

Longtime Southern Baptist leader Paul Pressler, who was accused of sexual abuse, dies at 94

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/obituary/2024/06/17/490832/longtime-southern-baptist-leader-paul-pressler-who-was-accused-of-sexual-abuse-dies-at-94/

#News #Obituary #Religion #PaulPressler #PaulPresslerDead #SouthernBaptistConvention

As Mark Wingfield recently reported, Dallas attorney Gene Besen, who represents the Southern Baptist Convention, has stated publicly in a tweet,

"If want [sic] you want to hear is that Pressler was is [sic] dangerous predator who exploited boys based on his power and his false piety — I whole heartedly agree."

There are credible allegatinons, confirmed by an attorney for the SBC, that Pressler "exploited boys."

#PaulPressler #SouthernBaptistConvention #SexualAbuse
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https://baptistnews.com/article/sbc-attorney-calls-pressler-a-monster-a-predator-and-of-the-devil/

A number of folks replied to my thread linked below. As they've noted, though I spoke of Southern Baptist right-wing leader Paul Pressler abusing men, Texas Republican leader Jared Woodfill, an anti-gay activist, has sworn under oath that he knew from 2004 forward of credible allegations that Pressler had abused a child — and Woodfill did not cut his ties with Pressler.

#PaulPressler #SouthernBaptistConvention #SexualAbuse
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https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/111851251045858998

"Shortly after the Pressler settlement was announced, I looked for statements or commentary or articles by the conservative stalwarts who cover left-wing misconduct with such zeal. The silence was deafening. If you mainly receive your information from right-wing sources, the odds are good that you haven’t seen this news at all."

P.S. Pressler helped craft the SBC's heavy investment in politicized homophobia while he was committing indiscretions with MEN.

#PaulPressler
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As David French notes, when an icon of the left falls from grace sexually, right-wing folks and media are all over the story, reporting it in detail.

But when one of their own — e.g., Paige Patterson and Paul Pressler, chief architects of the hard-right turn of the Southern Baptist Convention — falls, it's crickets. Nada.

French writes,

#PaulPressler #SouthernBaptistConvention #RightWing #FoxNews #SexualAbuse
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/opinion/pressler-sex-scandal-sbc.html

"It started two years before Pressler, then a Texas appeals court judge, and Paige Patterson, then an academician, launched the 'conservative resurgence' that allowed fundamentalists to take control of the SBC."

That "conservative resurgence" firmly aligned the SBC with the Republican party and made the SBC a religious arm of the GOP during years in which the GOP and SBC have attacked LGBTQ people and their rights in every way possible.

#PaulPressler #SouthernBaptists #SexualAbuse
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"That’s long enough to expose the Southern Baptist Convention’s most malevolent hypocrite to the shame of his reported double life.

Just before the end of the year, the SBC reached a settlement in a lawsuit that claimed Pressler began raping a teenage boy in Houston in 1977 and continued the sexual abuse across decades."

#PaulPressler #SouthernBaptists #SexualAbuse
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Here's how Marv Knox opens his response to the news that the Southern Baptist Convention has settled a lawsuit re: allegations that SBC kingmaker Paul Pressler sexually abused a teenaged boy (at least seven more men have also alleged abuse by Pressler):

"Thank God, Paul Pressler has lived to the ripe old age of 93."

#PaulPressler #SouthernBaptists #SexualAbuse
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https://baptistnews.com/article/what-the-sbc-should-do-about-its-most-famous-accused-sexual-abuser/

#Qanon following #MAGA cult members have been hyperventilating about authority figures grooming young boys to be victims of #SexualAssault.

Turns out a top groomer was #PaulPressler , the former leader of the #SouthernBaptistConvention. 🤷🏻‍♂️

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/southern-baptist-convention-settles-in-abuse-case-against-paul-pressler-case-dismissed/ar-AA1mdnis

#House #Speaker #MikeJohnson was once the #dean of a #Christian #lawschool. It never #opened its doors.

The establishment of the #Judge #PaulPressler #SchoolofLaw was supposed to be a capstone achievement for #Louisiana #College, which #administrators #boasted would “#unashamedly #embrace” a “#biblical #worldview”

https://apnews.com/article/mike-johnson-house-speaker-2d1a3399e8fe61bf0619d66ba29a1520

Downen writes,

"Pressler is best known for his work in the Southern Baptist Convention, where he was instrumental in pushing its 16 million members and 47,000 churches to adopt literal interpretations of the Bible, strongly denounce homosexuality and align more closely with the Republican Party."

#PaulPressler #Houston #LGBTQ #Republicans #Texas
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Robert Downen reports that "outspoken anti-gay activist Jared Woodfill," a Houston lawyer and once head of the Texas Republican party, has admitted under oath that he knew from 2004 forward that his law partner Paul Pressler had allegedly abused a minor.

When a young attorney told Woodfill in 2016 that Pressler had made sexual advances towards him, Woodfill indignantly said he'd never heard of any lewd behavior by Pressler.

#PaulPressler #Houston #LGBTQ
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https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/27/houston-jared-woodfill-gop-paul-pressler-southern-baptist/

Also central to this hard-right turn of the SBC was the insistence that gay people were a threat to the moral foundations of America and should be denied rights at every turn. SBC churches have become a religious arm of the Republican power, working to elect Republicans who attack LGBTQ human beings.

And now we learn more about Paul Pressler's story.

#SouthernBaptists #PaulPressler #SexualAbuse #homophobia
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Why does this matter? Pressler was a key architect of the hard-right turn the Southern Baptist Convention took in 1979, weeding out seminary professors who did not adhere to hard-right doctrines of biblical literalism and to beliefs that women should be excluded from ministry and were to subordinate themselves to men.

#SouthernBaptists #PaulPressler #Houston #SexualAbuse #homophobia
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"Journalist Robert Downen, writing for the Tribune, also reports Pressler’s law partner — a prominent conservative Republican known for his anti-LGBTQ stances — knew about the serious allegations yet continued to work with Pressler for another decade and provide him young male 'personal assistants, most of them young men who typically worked out of his River Oaks mansion. Two have accused Pressler of sexual assault or misconduct.'”

#SouthernBaptists #PaulPressler #SexualAbuse #homophobia
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Mark Wingfield reports,

"Leaders of First Baptist Church of Houston knew about Paul Pressler’s alleged inappropriate sexual activity with young men in 2004, according to correspondence from the church to Pressler obtained by the Texas Tribune."

#SouthernBaptists #PaulPressler #Houston #SexualAbuse #homophobia
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https://baptistnews.com/article/new-court-documents-show-first-baptist-houston-leaders-knew-of-allegations-against-pressler-in-2004/