Jon Paul Sheptock, 49, served as the worship minister at the First Montgomery Baptist Church in Texas before these shocking allegations came to light.
The Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Unit eventually caught up with the suspect while he was working at a local women’s prison where he served as a minister.
At a Donald Trump rally in January 2022, Sheptock was recruited to sing the national anthem before later posing with the president and his son for pictures.
As someone who was forced to grow up in this Baptist bullshit: It’s the absolutely insane level of sexual repression. Sex is a bad word. Don’t talk about it. Can’t even go dancing, if you’re Baptist, because it “might lead to sinful contact between dancers” or “impure thoughts”.
Can’t drink either. You might “cause your brother to stumble”. It’s a running joke that Baptists go to bars in the next town over, because nobody knows them there, so they won’t be judged.
Can’t go to anything worse than a PG movie. Can’t learn in school about evolution. Can’t go to sex Ed class in school and have to be opted out. Can’t be friends with non-Christians because “they’re able to be influenced against you by the devil at any time” like they’re a Devil Manchurian Candidate.
Christianity in America fucking sucks, but Baptists are near the top of being the fucking worst.
Maybe it’s just me, but I once heard that “baptist” is almost code for “black,” in the sense that most baptists churches tend to be occupied primarily by people of color.
This is just what someone else has told me, so it seems a bit odd that stereotypically black churches would be producing white pedophiles.