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Religion News reports:
The former president of an evangelical get-out-the-vote nonprofit, which seeks to motivate Christian voters to promote family values and “biblical truth” in the public square, was charged Monday (Nov. 4) with eight counts of possessing child pornography.
Jason Yates, former CEO of My Faith Votes, was charged during a video court hearing in the District Court of McLeod County, Minnesota. State officials allege that from February 2023 to July 2024, Yates possessed a hard drive with digital pornographic images of minors under 14 years of age.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension began investigating the 55-year-old Yates at the end of July after a relative, identified in court documents as “Witness #2,” accidentally discovered a hard drive containing over 100 images of child porn in Yates’ office.
Raw Story reports:
Just a few weeks before the hard drive was discovered he published an op-ed in The Washington Times urging Christians to oppose “sexually deviant” messages aimed at children through LGBTQ issues.
“This infernal programming is being downloaded into our children, and it becomes far easier when it finds no resistance in our public square — when it is allowed to fill the void left by the absence of our faith,” Yates wrote.
My Faith Votes, whose honorary national chairman is Mike Huckabee, is part of a loose network of nonprofit organizations rallying support for Donald Trump through get-out-the-vote operations, and Yates asked evangelical Christians over the summer to sign a pledge to vote in every election.
It literally never ends.
Jason Yates warned Christians that secular progressives were promoting sexual deviance. The former CEO of My Faith Votes, a conservative pro-voting group with ties to evangelical leaders, was charged yesterday with 8 child porn felonies https://t.co/PchUzpKqZU
— Bob Smietana (@bobsmietana) November 5, 2024