Emails Suggest Notorious Anti-LGBTQ Activist Helped Provide Victims To Accused Southern Baptist Pedophile

January 23, 2024 Republicans, Scandal

The Texas Tribune reports:

In 2017, a Houston college student wrote to the family of Paul Pressler, warning them that the former Texas judge and Southern Baptist leader was a pedophile. “There is a serious issue at hand,” he wrote in an email, adding that Pressler had recently touched him and bragged about being naked with young boys. “I do not think Paul should be around small children or have male assistance of any kind.”

Then, the young man said he was resigning as Pressler’s personal aide, and asked that Pressler’s former law partner, Jared Woodfill, stop paying him to work out of Pressler’s Houston mansion. The email was filed late last year in Harris County district court as part of a lawsuit that accused Woodfill and others of concealing decades of alleged rape by Pressler.

It sheds new light on the role that Woodfill, a prominent anti-LGBTQ+ activist who is running in the Texas House with the backing of Attorney General Ken Paxton, played in providing Pressler with access to potential victims.

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Last month I reported that the Southern Baptist Convention had settled a sexual abuse lawsuit against Pressler and that seven other men have accused Pressler of molesting them as teenagers.

As I reported back in October, House Speaker Mike Johnson was once hired to head a law school that was to be named for Pressler. In March 2023, Woodfill testified that he knew about the allegations against Pressler and said nothing.

Woodfill appeared on JMG in March 2020 when he represented local anti-LGBTQ pastors in their ultimately failed lawsuit to overturn Texas lockdown rules.

Before that we heard from him in February 2019 when he finally lost his years-long legal battle to stop Houston from providing spousal benefits to LGBTQ city employees.



 

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