Livin’ in the Age of Impunity The proposition that the intensity of a politician’s homophobia rises in direct proportion to the darkness of his desires received a boost soon after Election Day when a mega-MAGA spokesman was arrested on eight counts of possessing child pornography. Jason Yates was the CEO of My Faith Votes, and he left a record of speeches and op-ed pieces urging people to “think biblically about the issues … to help Christians navigate every political issue through the lens of the Word.” In a Washington Times op-ed, he rallied Christians to fight “sexually deviant” messages and those sympathetic to the LGBT cause. The shocker came when a relative of Yates accidentally came across a hard drive in his office that contained images of child porn. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension stepped in and found over 100 still photos and videos featuring the sexual abuse of minors under fourteen. So,Yates will probably disappear for a while, but it’s worth noting that he had close ties to Ben Carson, Trump’s former HUD Secretary, who served as the honorary chair of My Faith Votes going back to 2016. So, Yates may not be gone for good, who knows? Indeed it turns out he had a prior conviction for possession of child porn, but somehow it had disappeared from the record in our age of impunity.
