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Last updated on: October 9, 2025 at 4:38 pm by Fred Clark

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Men behaving badly 2025-10-09T16:38:08-04:00 Fred Clark

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• Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is fighting to prevent the public from learning more details about his divorce from Republican state Sen. Angela Paxton because his divorce records may reveal more information about the affair everybody already knows about and possibly also information about more affairs that not everybody yet knows about.

• MAGA influencer Jack Posobiec is best known for being a prolific conspiracy theorist, white-supremacist and antisemitic internet troll, but he also seems to be committing voter fraud.

• Republican state Rep. Josh Schriver is pushing for a law that would outlaw all pornography in Michigan. Would it surprise you to learn that he apparently has a history of frequenting a pornographic dating site where he trawled for orgy invites?

• John McKinzie, the senior pastor of a “multi campus non-denominational church based in Frisco, Texas” has resigned due to “sexual sin and moral failure.”

The church is being protectively vague about the nature of its former leader’s “moral failure,” but it seems like this may be a case of garden-variety adultery. That’s bad — especially for a pastor — but it may also be the best-case scenario for the eventual, inevitable scandal coming your way if you choose to attend a “multi campus non-denominational church” based in somewhere like Frisco, Texas.

• I mean, like, Robert Morris was the senior pastor of a multi campus non-denominational church based in Texas (a different, bigger one) when he abruptly resigned due to what was then vaguely described as sexual sin and moral failure. And then it turned out that his “affair” was actually a series of crimes against a child.

Morris pleaded guilty last week to “five felony counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child.”

• I suppose La Luz del Mundo could also be described as a multi campus non-denominational church based in a place not too different from Frisco, Texas.

• Billy Graham created the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability to establish credible, trustworthy bookkeeping in white evangelical ministries so church folks could feel confident their tithes and offerings weren’t being skimmed by charlatans. Billy’s MAGA son, Franklin Hophni Phineas Graham, is now attacking ECFA because its standards include accountability for sexual abuse by ministry leaders.

Starting to wonder if Franklin’s name might be somewhere in those Epstein files.

• Here’s an example of the kind of thing that ECFA’s “integrity standards” aims to prevent, involving a “missionary” named Paul Havsgaard:

A former Riverside megachurch pastor has been accused of sexually abusing and trafficking children for years at a shelter he ran in Bucharest, according to lawsuits filed by two Romanian men in U.S. District Court in California.

The complaints, filed Tuesday by 33-year-old Marian Barbu and 40-year-old Mihai-Constantin Petcu, said former Harvest Christian Fellowship pastor and missionary Paul Havsgaard severely abused them and dozens of other children at the shelter over eight years. The lawsuits also name the church’s founder and senior pastor, Greg Laurie, a well-known evangelist and author, as well as other senior church leaders, saying they failed to prevent abuse.

• In North Carolina, a state trooper beat up a man who was having an epileptic seizure and then, of course, charged the man with assault.

• We already knew that “White House Border Czar” Tom Homan was a disgraceful human being due to his enthusiasm for ethnic cleansing and his desire to turn America into a whites-only “homeland.” But it turns out he’s also just a cut-rate corrupt politico who was recorded accepting $50,000 in cash in a Cava bag from undercover cops he thought were just people trying to bribe him in exchange for White House access.

The Trump DOJ not only refuses to charge Homan for this caught-red-handed crime, but it may even have allowed him to keep the money.

• “Oklahoma state Rep. Ty Burns (R-Obviously), a former law enforcement officer, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor domestic violence and assault charges related to having tried to gouge his wife’s eye out and succeeded in running his daughter’s car off the road.”

• Patrick O’Hanlon’s dreams came true when U.S. Park Police officers like him were invited to participate in and support ICE’s efforts to terrorize non-white residents of Washington, D.C. This has not turned out well for O’Hanlon or for any of the Americans he has encountered in his dream job.

• Wheaton College graduate, Project 2025 architect, and Trump administration OMB Director Russell Vought thinks it would be legal not to pay federal workers for all the hours they’re currently working without pay due to the Republican-led Congress’s inability to do its One Job and pass a federal budget. This is obviously immoral — stealing wages from workers is theft and forcing people to work without pay is something even worse. But it is also explicitly illegal. But Russell Vought is not someone who feels bound by either morality or law.

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