Jon Paul Sheptock, 49, served as the worship minister at the First Montgomery Baptist Church in Texas before these shocking allegations came to light.
The Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Unit eventually caught up with the suspect while he was working at a local women’s prison where he served as a minister.
At a Donald Trump rally in January 2022, Sheptock was recruited to sing the national anthem before later posing with the president and his son for pictures.
Maybe it’s just me, but I once heard that “baptist” is almost code for “black,” in the sense that most baptists churches tend to be occupied primarily by people of color.
This is just what someone else has told me, so it seems a bit odd that stereotypically black churches would be producing white pedophiles.
I grew up southern baptist and it was an all-white church. I think I remember a time when there was 1 black family in attendance because they had just moved here. They didn’t come back for a second time. The southern baptist church split from the northern baptist church over slavery. Guess which side of that issue the southern baptist church was on?
I don’t think of black people when I think Baptist, but I certainly think of the south, and with the black population being higher there it’s more likely that there are black congregations.
But honestly it’s not close enough to being a “black-only thing” that you could use Baptist as slang for black.
There are many forms of Baptist. The white ones are the worst