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The Baptist News reports:
In August 2007, Louisiana College (now named Louisiana Christian University) announced plans to open a law school, the first in the state to be located outside the capital, Baton Rouge, or the largest city, New Orleans. The law school was named after Judge Paul Pressler, one of the principal architects of the “conservative resurgence” in the Southern Baptist Convention. Pressler was on hand for the announcement and asserted the need was great for a Christian-based law school.
Mike Johnson served for some time as a senior legal counsel and spokesman for ADF — until, that is, September 2010 when he was named dean of the forthcoming Pressler School of Law. But the Pressler School of Law never opened its doors. In December 2011, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools placed LC on warning status for significant non-compliance with multiple standards of accreditation. Seeing the writing on the wall, Johnson resigned as dean in August 2012.
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New House Speaker Mike Johnson previously led a never-opened law school named after Paul Pressler, the Southern Baptist leader and Texas Appeals Court judge who has now been accused of molesting numerous teen boys and soliciting young men for sex.https://t.co/DI7Ucqd3Kz
— Robert Downen (@RobertDownen_) October 26, 2023
Notorious Texas GOP Anti-LGBTQ Activist Testifies He Knew About Molestation Claims Against Baptist Leader – https://t.co/gmvwsK87P5 pic.twitter.com/wzKsxPr7iz
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) March 27, 2023
🧵🧵For years, Jared Woodfill has led extreme anti-gay campaigns in Texas, comparing LGBTQ people to child molesters.
And for years, he’s known of child sex abuse claims against his longtime law partner and Southern Baptist leader Paul Pressler.https://t.co/YYTvtLASqm
— Robert Downen (@RobertDownen_) March 27, 2023
Under oath last month, Woodfill said he was told in 2004 that Pressler sexually abused a minor – claims that were made during mediation of an assault lawsuit against Pressler that Woodfill quietly settled for $450,000.https://t.co/YYTvtLASqm
— Robert Downen (@RobertDownen_) March 27, 2023
Despite that, Woodfill denied any knowledge of Pressler’s behavior in 2016, when a young attorney told him Pressler told him “lewd stories” about being naked with men before inviting him to skinny-dip.https://t.co/YYTvtLASqm
— Robert Downen (@RobertDownen_) March 27, 2023
Woodfill’s deposition also provides new details on his decades-long relationship with Pressler, a massively important Texas political powerbroker, longtime Southern Baptist leader, one-time White House nominee and high-ranking member of the anti-LGBTQ Council for National Policy. pic.twitter.com/5N7qIo94yD
— Robert Downen (@RobertDownen_) March 27, 2023
Under oath, Woodfill said Pressler did almost no work for their firm but was provided a string of personal assistants, nearly all young men, who worked out of his mansion. Two now allege sex abuse/misconduct.https://t.co/YYTvtLASqm
— Robert Downen (@RobertDownen_) March 27, 2023