At least 188 Christian & Republican leaders have been accused of child abuse this yearhttps://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/11/at-least-188-christian-republican-leaders-have-been-accused-of-child-this-year/ 🔗Daniel Villarreal (4 Nov 2025)
Anti-LGBTQ+ conservatives have long crowed about how queer adults, drag queens, and their allies have been "grooming" and "sexualizing" children for abuse. Notably, these concern-trolls ignore all the child abuse scandals regularly coming out of the Republican party and the Christian church.
But journalist Evan Hurst — managing editor of the catty and left-leaning political website, Wonkette — has been keeping an ongoing list of Christian and Republican leaders who have been caught, accused, sued, or convicted for abusing and/or exploiting kids. Hurst has identified 188 Christian and Republican leaders this year, so far, stating, "If MAGA is so upset about Epstein, they should hear about Baptists!"
Hurst's lists... all link to local reports of church and GOP leaders being accused of abusing kids. His most recent update, published on Halloween, featured 49 new names of accused child abusers and pedophiles.
"Conservative Christian leaders are such prolific groomers and abusers of kids, the news is so full of these stories, they are published in such a rapid-fire manner, that if you let it go ANY MORE THAN A MONTH, then it will take you hours and hours and hours and days and weeks to compile an update," Hurst wrote in his most recent update.
"If you are tracking drag queens or trans people or just LGBTQ+ people abusing children, you can take sabbaticals to Europe as often as you f**kin' want," Hurst added, "because those stories just don't happen much, despite the lies vile MAGA Christians tell."
