Evangelical Christian And CEO Of MAGA Voting Group Arrested For Child Porn
Jason Yates, an evangelical Christian and CEO of a Trump get-out-the-vote nonprofit called “My Faith Votes,” has been charged in Minnesota with eight felony counts for possession of child pornography. A relative of Yates went to police after finding one of Yates’ hard drives full of sexually explicit images of children between the ages of 5 and 14, and he was subsequently arrested. Via Religion News:
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.
As Religion News points out, a few weeks before the hard drive was turned over to police, Yates wrote an op-ed for right-wing rag The Washington Times in which he urged Christians to fight “sexually deviant” LGBT messages aimed at children. “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.
As I was reading the op-ed on the Times site just moments ago, the page automatically refreshed and this message appeared, telling readers that their contributor was arrested on eight counts of child porn possession:
LOL.
