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deminks

(11,368 posts)
Wed Mar 12, 2025, 08:45 PM Wednesday

Gateway Church founder indicted on child sex charges in Oklahoma

Last edited Wed Mar 12, 2025, 09:24 PM - Edit history (1)

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/faith/2025/03/12/robert-morris-indicted-on-child-sex-charges-oklahoma-attorney-general-says/

Robert Preston Morris, the founder of Gateway Church, has been indicted on five counts of lewd or indecent acts to a child, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s office said Wednesday.

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9th largest Evangelical church in US at one time.

Alleged abuse took place in the 1980's. 40+ years for charges to be filed.

Edited to add: a Trump spiritual advisor in 2020.

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/12/robert-morris-texas-megachurch-indicted-sexual-abuse/


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Gateway Church founder indicted on child sex charges in Oklahoma (Original Post) deminks Wednesday OP
Still, not a drag queen! Enter stage left Wednesday #1
One of trumps cohorts. Beachnutt Wednesday #2
Unofficial stats: GOP politicians and Conservative Pastors caught molesting children 347 surfered Wednesday #3
Real photo, not a stitched one. usonian Wednesday #4
The story's even more disgusting with those details. highplainsdem Thursday #10
How typical, cliche, and expected... RockRaven Wednesday #5
I'm shocked I tell you, I'm shocked! Abolishinist Wednesday #6
Not a drag queen. republianmushroom Wednesday #7
Child molesters start early, and they never stop until they are put away Hekate Thursday #8
Not a surprise.... walkingman Thursday #9

Beachnutt

(8,549 posts)
2. One of trumps cohorts.
Wed Mar 12, 2025, 09:06 PM
Wednesday

He was a "spiritual advisor" to trump and trump attended gateway church on June 11th 2020.

surfered

(5,529 posts)
3. Unofficial stats: GOP politicians and Conservative Pastors caught molesting children 347
Wed Mar 12, 2025, 09:15 PM
Wednesday

Drag Queens -0-

Pro tip : they are always projecting.

usonian

(16,515 posts)
4. Real photo, not a stitched one.
Wed Mar 12, 2025, 09:31 PM
Wednesday


https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-spiritual-adviser-robert-morris-resigns-amid-allegations-he-molested-12-year-old/

Trump’s Spiritual Adviser Resigns Amid Allegations He Molested 12-Year-Old
VERY FINE PEOPLE
Josh Fiallo
Published Jun. 18 2024

Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris, who Donald Trump once named as a spiritual adviser to his administration, announced he was stepping down from Gateway Church amid allegations he molested a 12-year-old girl in the 1980s.

The resignation comes days after Morris, 62, seemingly admitted to molesting the girl in a statement to The Christian Post. In that statement, he conceded that he engaged in “inappropriate sexual behavior” with a “young lady” when he was already married with a child in his early 20s.

Morris didn’t mention the girl’s age—but his alleged victim, (redacted by me), told the religious watchdog blog The Wartburg Watch on Friday that she was only 12 when she was first sexually abused by Morris on Christmas Day in 1982. She claimed that he invited her into the room he was staying in at her family home during a visit, and touched her inappropriately on her breasts and “under her panties.”

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Morris ordered her to keep quiet about the molestation “because it will ruin everything,” Clemishire told the publication. The abuse allegedly continued for four years before the teenager confided in a close friend, which prompted Morris’ wife to learn of what took place.


Live with that for 40 years, will you. He was certainly qualified to advise the Rspist in Chief.

highplainsdem

(54,816 posts)
10. The story's even more disgusting with those details.
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 10:20 AM
Thursday

And yes, he does sound like someone who fits into Trump's circle.

walkingman

(8,951 posts)
9. Not a surprise....
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 09:30 AM
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The general consensus in the United States is that if it is religious, it must be good. Criticism of religion is discouraged and stifled. It remains socially unacceptable to point out its hypocrisy.

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