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This week's Youth Pastor Watch is dedicated to Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, an officially designated anti-gay hate group. Perkins, in an attempt to broaden the reach of FRC's hate, has branched out into attacking trans men and women. He recently called for the impeachment of the president for his efforts to protect trans students. JoeMyGod:

KKK-affiliated hate group leader Tony Perkins today told infamous liar Todd Starnes that President Obama must be impeached in retaliation for today’s pro-trans guidelines to public schools. “If the president chooses to go forward with this outrageous order — then congress should begin impeachment proceedings,” Perkins told Starnes.

Find out more about Perkins' ties to the KKK here. Okay! On to the real threat to our children: America's rapey youth pastors...

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TENNESSEE: "A man will serve 11-and-a-half years in prison after pleading guilty to rape and aggravated sexual battery. Luke Cooke, 34, said he is guilty of sexually molesting an 8-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy between 2003 and 2006. He was the youth minister at the local church where the complaints were made. Cooke was indicted for the crimes in 2007, but before officers could arrest him, he disappeared. He was extradited from Albania in September 2015 after nine years on the run."

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TENNESSEE: "Two local ministers face felony charges for seeking sex with underage girls during an undercover sting targeting human trafficking and prostitution this week, authorities said Friday. Jason Evan Kennedy, 46, head of the children's ministry at Grace Baptist Church of Knoxville, was one of two men charged with felony human trafficking and patronizing prostitution after they answered online advertisements specifically offering sex with an underage girl. Also charged with felony trafficking is Zubin Percy Parakh, 32, of Oak Ridge, who serves as creative pastor with Lifehouse Church in Oak Ridge."

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TEXAS: "A Taylor County grand jury indicted Callan Rice, 26, after he allegedly had an inappropriate relationship with a member of his youth group. According to court documents, on Dec. 20, Rice was found with an underage girl behind the old Genghis Grill in Abilene on South Clack Street. The girl denied intimate involvement with Rice at the time. On Dec. 28, the girl and her parents told police investigators the two had been having sexual contact over the course of several months." (Before getting arrested for having sex with a minor, Callan Rice shared his thoughts on Fifty Shades of Grey with his followers.)

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MISSISSIPPI: "A high school principal found himself behind bars, accused of sexual battery against students. Michael Shane Casabella, 37, was indicted last week on three charges of fondling, two counts of sexual battery, one count of computer luring, and three counts of exploitation of a child. Casabella was the principal of a small Corinth private school, North Corinth Christian Academy.... "It's sad. It's real sad," Keith Haynes said. "I think Mr. Casabella was probably at the wrong place at the wrong time." Haynes said Casabella used to attend church with him at North Corinth Baptist Church where Casabella was a youth pastor."

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WASHINGTON: "Six new lawsuits against the Seattle Archdiocese detail three decades of alleged abuse by six priests and a youth minister.... Jim Funnell was a youth minister at St. John Vianney in Kirkland. According to the lawsuit, 'Funnell groomed and sexually abused' a boy. It goes on to say that the parents of 'another boy who was molested by Funnell' talked with parish priest, Ted Marmo, but Marmo never confronted Funnell and didn't restrict his access to children. Father Marmo is among those previously named by the archdiocese as a pedophile priest."

And not rapey, just hatey: Florida youth pastor flies Nazi flag to protest new boating regulations.

Pastor Watch is back because pious shitstains like Ted Cruz and Tony Perkins want you to think trans men and women are exploiting civil rights protections to prey on children in public restrooms. Bigoted religious conservatives don't want you to think about the people who are really preying on children (pious shitstains) and where children are actually being preyed on (churches).