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Right-wing activists for children craft affair lie about reporter who exposed allegedly abusive Christian camp

  
Via:  Ender  •  last year  •  16 comments

By:   Sarah K. Burris

Right-wing activists for children craft affair lie about reporter who exposed allegedly abusive Christian camp
 

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One of the biggest conspiracy theories around the far-right Republican Party is that Democrats are secretly trying to kidnap children to  drink their blood , or  make every child gay . But conservatives lashed out when one reporter and his wife uncovered abuse accounts at a Christian camp.

David and Nancy French wrote for   The Dispatch   this week that one of America's most prominent Christian camps, Kanakuk, tried to cover up the abuse of children.

Pete Newman was a camp director at Kanakuk Kamps, which claims to have   served more than 450,000 campers , The Dispatch reported. They're located outside of Branson, Missouri, and welcome the "Evangelical elite." Newman was promoted as one of the most popular with girls who wanted to date him and guys who wanted to be him.

Kanakuk chief executive officer Joe White once claimed he wasn't sure which would be more popular at the "kamp" Jesus or Newman. He ultimately became a camp director and was sent on the road to recruit campers and raise money for the church camp. Parents were desperate to host him.

"He was also a superpredator. He groomed and abused boys in their own homes. He groomed and abused boys at camp. In fact, he abused boys across the world," The Dispatch reported. " On June 9, 2010 , he pleaded guilty to seven counts of sexually abusing boys. He received a sentence of two life terms, plus 30 years. His guilty plea was but the tip of a terrible iceberg. A civil complaint alleges that there were at least 57 victims, but the prosecutor in his case estimates that the real number could be in the 'hundreds.'"

The story continues, walking through the survivors left in his wake and the trial that unfolded.

Since then, those involved in trying to protect children think that White and the camp still have a lot they're hiding about what they knew and when they knew it.

“Kanakuk Kamp and Joe White have much to answer for,” the report cited Dawn Hawkins, senior vice president and executive director of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation.

David French also wrote a column   about Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) , who is on his   own personal crusade   to make men   more "manly."   Hawley has   written a book about the topic , lectured on the topic, and focused intensely on " masculinity ."

Meanwhile, Hawley accepted political donations from Joe White, despite allegations that he covered up hundreds of children being molested by someone in the leadership of his church camp,   Heartland Signal reported .

Hawley responded to the column by French and his report with his spouse.

" David French takes a break from promoting drag queens to talk about masculinity," Hawley posted with a laughing and crying emoji.

French's wife responded  to the tweet from Hawley, saying, " Josh Hawley takes a break from counting his money from  @Kanakuk   CEO Joe White to complain about   @DavidAFrench," she then linked to the Heartland Signal reporting.

Enter Sara Gonzales, BlazeTV host of "The News and Why It Matters," who also says she's the executive director of  Defend Our Kids Texas . It's one of the fringe groups that  claims drag queens  are  perverting children  by reading children's books at public libraries.

In response to allegations that Hawley was taking money from someone who covered up for a man convicted of abusing children, Gonzales alleged that Nancy French was having an affair.

"What does your boyfriend think about your husband's column?"  Gonzales said .

" Sara portrays herself as a defender of children against sexual deviance,"  Nancy French responded . "Though my @Kanakuk investigation exposed a cover up of what a prosecutor called 'hundreds' of child rapes, she shrugs it off. Instead, she tweets a gross lie about me and my marriage."

"This is actually evil,"  David French responded to Gonzales . "A right-wing personality is mad at me over a column. And what's her response? To publicly level false accusations of adultery against my wife. And people wonder why I sound the alarm over the moral rot on the right. I ignore 99.99 percent of the personal attacks on this hellish website, but when you lie about Nancy, I'm going to show people who you are."


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Ender
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1  seeder  Ender    last year

While they are obsessed with drag queens they take money from an organization that held an extreme child predator.

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
1.1  Trout Giggles  replied to  Ender @1    last year

What's more sexually deviant....a drag queen reading a story to kids at the public library or a man who abuses boys in their own homes?

 
 
 
Kavika
Professor Principal
1.1.1  Kavika   replied to  Trout Giggles @1.1    last year

My kids would be safer with a Drag Queen than the church (s) or the Boy Scouts.

 
 
 
Jack_TX
Professor Quiet
1.1.2  Jack_TX  replied to  Trout Giggles @1.1    last year
What's more sexually deviant....a drag queen reading a story to kids at the public library or a man who abuses boys in their own homes?

Actual abuse is worse than grooming.  But the existence of the one does not justify the other.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
1.2  devangelical  replied to  Ender @1    last year

thumpers believe the rwnj grooming bullshit and don't want any competition...

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
2  Trout Giggles    last year

Who the hell are the "evangelical elite"? Will they have special accommodations in Heaven?

 
 
 
Hallux
Professor Principal
2.1  Hallux  replied to  Trout Giggles @2    last year
Who the hell are the "evangelical elite"?

Puritans with unpleasant birth certificates.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
2.2  devangelical  replied to  Trout Giggles @2    last year
Who the hell are the "evangelical elite"?

those that haven't been busted in a sex scandal, yet...

 
 
 
Thomas
PhD Guide
2.3  Thomas  replied to  Trout Giggles @2    last year
Who the hell are the "evangelical elite"?

Rich and evangelical means you can grab more money from them. The elite is just a polite way to say that. 

 
 
 
Veronica
Professor Guide
3  Veronica    last year
 But conservatives lashed out when one reporter and his wife uncovered abuse accounts at a Christian camp.

But but but - hey look a squirrel....

 
 
 
Hallux
Professor Principal
3.1  Hallux  replied to  Veronica @3    last year

Being born again is a 'Get Outta Hell Free' card.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
3.1.1  devangelical  replied to  Hallux @3.1    last year

rinse and repeat xtianity...

 
 
 
Ender
Professor Principal
4  seeder  Ender    last year

Isn't the blaze a Glen Beck thing. I haven't heard from him in a while.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
4.1  devangelical  replied to  Ender @4    last year

he stepped out of bounds with the trumpster trash and was exiled...

 
 
 
Gsquared
Professor Principal
5  Gsquared    last year

The allegations by that Gonzales creep against Nancy French might constitute libel.

 
 
 
Kavika
Professor Principal
6  Kavika     last year

9: You shall not bear false witness.

Seems a refresher course is in order for Gonzales

 
 

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