Christian musician, who sang the national anthem for Trump at 2022 rally, is facing felony child pornography charges
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.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/jon-paul-sheptock-church-musician-arrested-b2849918.htmlOpen linkView original on sh.itjust.works873
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Release the Epstein files.
Release the -philes you say?
I like the one that says "Guard Our Peodophiles"
Oh you mean Ted Cruz?
Add this to the other pile of Trump posing with fellow pedophile images.
It’s always the ones I most suspect.
Not a drag queen.
I bet he had a trans roommate at some point
/S
His cousin’s hairdresser’s sister’s iguana’s vet is trans. Case closed.
Projection from the conservatives.
What is it with those people?
Is there some kind of competition to be the most terrible person possible?
Yes. That's the entire point of MAGA.
i would guess a lot of them make connections over the networks that trade in that kind of material.
Yep. It’s called “church”.
Won't somebody think of the children? Eew, not like that!
This is the episode of "Where are they now?" That we needed.
I want to see this film
Don't think I could watch through beans being thrown at him
for the original musical score by DALDO, if nothing else!
Beans Aren’t The Worst Thing has helped countless people through having beans thrown at them.
is this obvious plant?
It's gotta be... Right‽
I'm really not sure...
100% legit, and John Paul Sheptock is the executive producer.
Why are all the straight male Christian conservatives trying to fuck children!? WTF is wrong with them.
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.
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.
Well said.
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.
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.
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?
There are many forms of Baptist. The white ones are the worst
Southern Baptist and Reformed/Calvinist Baptist are VERY different things.
Idk if they are still straight when they diddle pastor boys
So which government department will he be given after the pardon?
Secretary of foster care
Say it with me now
Grand. Old. Pedophiles.
Dude is mega POS
And a MAGA POS.
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That’s on brand
I sense a theme with the GOP. Church leaders getting caught raping, youth pastor pedophiles, famous figures and their vast cp collections.
Is the entire gop just a group of pedophiles in a trench coat?
Always has been 🔫👨🚀
"Funny" how the GOP helped spread misinformation about a secret Democrat elite abusing children. It has always been projection.
Yet again, not a drag queen. Color me shocked!
Every time
I'm sure this was Biden's fault.
I'll never forgive Biden for the time he shit in my pants. This guy should be outraged.
This you?
Why would the Party of Protecting Jeffrey Epstein and having Unidentified Masked Armed Men KIDNAPPING Children be full of Pedophiles? It DOESNT make Sense!
G eriatrics
O ligarchs
P edophiles
All religions are a mental illness, and often come with comorbidities.
If you're a White Republican/MAGA/Christian Male, I'm just going to assume you're a pedophile now. The probabilities are just too high.
Release The Epstein Files...oh, and, y'know, actually DO something about it afterwards....
EDIT: spelling
So if everyone who's over 7 feet tall is male, by your logic, everyone who's male is over 7 feet tall.
Hopefully that makes it obvious just how flawed this reasoning is.
Mainstream media is the last place you want to learn probability from. It's the reason that over decades of violent crime rates decreasing, the public is led to believe that it's been increasing that entire time.
It's truly remarkable how about once a week we see a headline like this regarding a conservative. For left leaning people it's more like once every 3-6 months.
Have you considered that the media you are (or allow yourself to be) exposed to, plays a part in that?
As an example, this took literal seconds to find, and it's an article from this month:
I bet you've never heard of this person, or ever saw this article, right?
Before I explicitly looked, I hadn't either. But it's not that it was hidden, really, just that it's not the data the algorithms put in front of my eyes, without me having to go seek it. Don't underestimate the impact these algorithms have on what you're made aware of, and how that controlled exposure can shape, or warp, your sense of reality.
I'll never forget that graph that showed the comparison of how much violent crime had decreased over the years in the US, juxtaposed with public perception of violent crime rates literally rising in inverse proportion over the same period of time, thanks to mainstream media sensationalism. Ever since that day, I've tried to keep myself from making assumptions about how common something is, based on how often it's reported on, especially when it comes to controversial/shocking subjects like these, as those are the ones where there is the most temptation for an outlet to sensationalize.
You raise a good point.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/147-lawmakers-in-44-states-accused-of-sexual-harassment-or-misconduct-since-2017
The writers need to get some new material. They’re starting to repeat themselves.
Big surprise. /s
This is how predators keep their victims silent: exploit their embarrassment. It's easy to say "Well, they shouldn't have sent that in the first place" but that's blaming the victim and not addressing the issue. A minor was taken advantage of and an adult received satisfaction from it. If this happened to you or someone you know, speak out. Take the power away from the predators. The embarrassment is only temporary because, in the end, it's your well-being that matters.
The fact that kids don't make good decisions when placed in adult situations is exactly why we have laws to punish adults who exploit them.
Of course it is. CP is a mandatory line item for a typical MAGA resume.
Is this kind of absurd hyperbole really productive?
Not unless they also mention racism, transphobia and homophobia as the other line items.
Oh look another dangerous transgender woman! No wait, it's always either some Pastor or some Trump-affiliated person.
Guardians
Of
Paedophiles
Groomers On Parade. Group Of Pedophiles
Another Republican pedophile? Color me fuckin shocked, eh?
It might be easier at this point to list the Republicans who aren't pedophiles and sexual predators.
Edit:
There.
I think that's all of them.
What's crazy is I think the only one that isn't a sexual predator is.. and I really hate typing this bitches name.. Marjorie Taylor Greene
So...is that priest listed in the Epstein files? Can we see those? Or is the guy innocent so we can't see that?
Sometimes I feel like making a conspiracy board pf every pedophile Trump has given money to in the past, but I feel it's too big a board to build. It might crush my house.
Would it save time at this point if, rather than reporting on every Republican paedophile, we just reported every time it was revealed that a Republican wasn’t a paedophile?
Do you want to make all the journalists unemployed?
WHY ARE THEY ALWAYS DIDDLERS
Come on, not all singers molest children.
Because diddlers will go after whichever demographics allow the most diddling.
The repedocan party
He has no arms...
Given the charges, that leaves me with some additional questions...
The questions shouldn't be too hard. There was once, in the vaudeville scene, a girl who brought the crowds flocking to see her. They watched her eat, drink, put on makeup and shoes. They didn't do it because she was lewd, standing nude, nor because of her words and witty banter... they did it because she had no arms and was able to do it all with her feet.
I could see a setup to type and use a mouse with feet, if not one of those head devices with a laser pointer.
He will be pardoned like all of trumps other child trafficking friends
Don't worry about him, he's not dangerous. He's unarmed.
More winning for the GOP!!
Same shit, different pedophile
Pedophiles, Republicans, and Texas
When will he be pardoned?
Yea, that checks out.
That seems on brand for MAGA
Thinking about the pedocon theory post again : https://www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-talk-about-pedocon-theory/
Surprise surprise.
I feel like the fact that he was a church minister is much more relevant information for the headline. Who gives a shit that he sang a song at a Trump rally once, seriously? Clickbait slop.
It establishes notability. There's a lot more ministers than Trump performers.
Of course, he's a hypocritical religious person who hides behind the bible BS he learned from mommy and daddy.
Not hypocrisy, the bible supports pedophilia. It's disgusting backwards ass bullshit and half remembered ghost stories written by inbred winos.