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#RobertMorris, former #Texas #megachurch pastor and Trump adviser, indicted for child sex crimes

Morris is a former spiritual adviser to President #DonaldTrump, and #Gateway — one of the nation’s largest megachurches — has been particularly active in Dallas-area GOP politics.

By Robert Downen
March 12, 2025

"Robert Morris, the Dallas-area megachurch pastor who resigned last year amid sexual abuse allegations, has been indicted in Oklahoma for child sex crimes that date back to the 1980s.

"Morris is a former spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump, and Gateway — one of the nation’s largest megachurches — has been particularly active in politics. In 2020, Trump held a 'Roundtable on Transition to Greatness' there that was attended by then-U.S. Attorney General William Barr and other prominent Republicans.

"Morris faces five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office said in a Wednesday evening press release."

Read more:
texastribune.org/2025/03/12/ro

U.S. President Donald Trump is greeted by Pastor Robert Morris as he arrives for a roundtable discussion with members of the faith community, law enforcement and small business at Gateway Church Dallas Campus in Dallas, Texas, on June 11, 2020.
The Texas Tribune · Robert Morris, former Texas megachurch pastor and Trump adviser, indicted for child sex crimesMorris is a former spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump, and Gateway — one of the nation’s largest megachurches — has been particularly active in Dallas-area GOP politics.

From here on out, y'all...let's just assume that anytime someone makes a big deal about how deviant the rest of us are, what with our loving our gay, trans, queer, neurodivergent selves, friends and family...that person will always, always, always be a sex predator.

#JasonYates, CEO of #MyFaithVotes just plead guilty after being busted with a whole hard drive of kiddie pron. Worked with the #Trump campaign.

#RobertMorris was the lead pastor of the #Gateway megachurch, close personal friend of #47, as been indicted in Oklahoma on child sex charges which stretch back four decades.

In 2022, Slate published an article about the #GOP and #sexcrimes, and it just keeps getting worse.

Don't trust your #children around Republicans, I guess.
slate.com/news-and-politics/20

Slate · So, Let’s Talk About Republicans and Sex CrimesBy Jordan Weissmann
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"You are going to have not only a way station for astronauts, you are going to have an ability to do science around the year, even when astronauts are not on the Gateway. And if you want a more detailed answer than that, we'll get you the scientists and talk about the science."

That's the administrator of #NASA, with advance notice, explaining the rationale for the #Gateway arstechnica.com/space/2024/10/

Ars Technica · The politically incorrect guide to saving NASA’s floundering Artemis ProgramTo get somewhere, Artemis must avoid going nowhere.

> Today we are releasing a V0 of the gateway, which is a highly performant, regionally #distributed, traditional public #IPFS #gateway (built using #RainbowIPFS gateway). The reason for releasing this V0 now is because several customers were looking for a quick #Cloudflare replacement. However in subsequent releases over the coming months we will be transitioning the IPFS gateway to #fleekNetwork

fleek.xyz/blog/announcements/f

fleek.xyzIntroducing Fleek's decentralized IPFS gatewaya decentralized IPFS gateway that will leverage Fleek Network to achieve superior performance, reliability,censorship resistance, and long term sustainability compared to traditional IPFS gateways.

When migrating your #Unifi #Gateway and #controller don't forget to take a backup and store it on a machine you will be able to access the new #UCG when you setup... for me things didn't talk with each other and the old backup I accessed from a remote server was too old and messed things up, so instead of ~30min migration it ended up to be a few hours and made my head to spin.

"The defamation cases are being closely watched because they are testing whether US libel law can be an effective tool to combat misinformation. The collateral bankruptcy cases are seen as an effort to try to avoid accountability for lying. A judge earlier this month also dismissed a bankruptcy case filed by Rudy Giuliani, who was ordered to pay the two Georgia election workers $148.1m for defaming them last year."
theguardian.com/us-news/articl
#MAGA #Fascism #Trump #Project2025 #Gateway

The Guardian · Judge says far-right US news outlet filed bankruptcy in bad faith By Sam Levine