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THESA is scheduled to participate in the 2026 Homeschool World Series, which will feature 21 of the best Christian-based home-schooled teams all over North America. The week-long tournament begins on Monday, April 27, and is hosted at the Lake Myrtle Sports Complex in Auburndale, Florida.
All the usual suspects. Sex offenders, Christianity, and right-wing states like Texas and Florida.
Tommy now spends his time pouring into young men around him
Excellent choice of words!
It’s really Tobias Fünke-tier wording.
Are we really not doing “phrasing” anymore?
Oh boy
The waiver was a part of THESA’s registration packet, and reads: “Coach Tommy can speak first-hand about the dark shadows of sports, especially professionally. He, himself a talented athlete, spent many years praising himself and feeding his flesh. The Lord so graciously refused to let the world have him and rescued him from his sin in a tremendously dramatic, yet necessary way. Tommy now spends his time pouring into young men around him, helping them navigate this tricky culture with Christ. His heart is to not only share his vast knowledge of baseball skills, but more importantly, the freedom he found in his Redeemer. Before you commit to Coach Tommy’s leadership, check out his testimony here.”
Aren’t these the same people who complain about drag queens reading to students?
The Department of Defense wouldn’t hire me to teach because I’m trans lol. Wonder if the kiddy diddler would pass their background check.
I’m moving states to be even be allowed to teach. I would absolutely lose my current position if it I was outed.
“He, himself a talented athlete, spent many years praising himself and feeding his flesh… Tommy now spends his time pouring into young men around him”
I’ll bet
“say what you will about him but he tried to fuck my kid”
I’m surprised Texas has a sex offender registry.
I mean, Texas created the AMBER Alert system. Many republican voters do seem to genuinely care about protecting kids… They just have a really fucking warped idea of what that entails.
that was before texas become full red/gop takeover, plus with republicans moving to places like texas and florida during covid, makes it more harder to remove an entrenched gop.
they do, but its a HIRING list, and a resume.
Something something telephone book
It’s basically the same as their voter registration.
It makes it easier for them to identify future candidates for public office.
Remember people, in today’s USA, it’s better to be a sex offender than literally anything else. It’s even better if you meddle with kids; that could secure you a position in the government. But girls liking girls? Big no-no.
Let’s not let the UK off the hook - just listened the Jimmy Saville behind the bastards episode, and it seems like certain types of people just get to rape kids.
Ah, the Christian Republic of Texas as usual.
“Tommy now spends his time pouring into young men around him” definitely makes him sound innocent.
Ah go on. I bet he loves him some Jeezus ‘n’ MAGA.
If I got a waiver like that, it wouldn’t end with me refusing to sign that waiver. I’ll be making an appointment to speak with the principal, and you’ll be hearing from me at the next school board meeting.
Yep. Not into the oul’ school board meetings myself but a waiver like that is definitely going to push me across the line into rabbid activism, complete with pitchfork.
Only problem is I’ll have to do a lot of apologizing because until I get to that school board meeting, I’m going to be talking about it a lot, just to keep my righteous anger cranked up. Feel sorry for my family.
Might run into more problems at the school board meeting (this one is from Tennessee)
God, You Are Hot’: US School Board Member To Teen Girl Student During Public Meeting
Ugh, I remember that one. Despicable doesn’t even begin to describe the person or the people that enable the behavior.
Yeah exactly.
I came here thinking ‘maybe he’s on the registry because at 19yo he fucked his 17yo GF and her parents found out’… nope. It’s every bit as bad as you’d think.
“Eventually I found myself in chat rooms late into the night while my wife and innocent infant daughter slept. I was engaging in inappropriate conversations that led to adultery. One of these online conversations ended up being with a minor…but it was never a minor…it was a police officer. The sting went down exactly like you would imagine on T.V. It was no question the worst day AND the best day of my life.”
Here’s the thing with those ‘stings’- they are not entrapment. The agent makes it clear they are a minor. There’s no confusion, no ‘I thought she was 18’. That would kill the prosecution and give the defense ammunition. No, the agent ‘minor’ gives themselves an age that’s below 18.
This is no innocent guy trapped in a big net. This is a guy who made plans with a minor to meet up and have sex, KNOWING they weren’t 18.
If that were my kid I’d be demanding the heads of everyone who signed off on his hiring and that waiver as they are obviously unfit to be in charge of education. Doesn’t matter if it’s the principal of the school, pick someone random off the street and they’d do a better job not hiring would-be child rapists to supervise children.
I don’t know about that. There are cases where “person” said they where older then go oh I’m 14. And then the person keeps talking and they get busted.
Uh huh.
Love to see one?
I’ve heard of vigilante groups doing it for content. There was a case I remember from last year where a man was attacked - the person he was talking to never claimed to be underage, but was a group of people trying to make something for a YouTube channel or something. Didn’t find the article, but the search terms “innocent” “pedobait” and “vigilante” provide enough search results to suggest that it might be a problem.
In Russia, Ghana, and undoubtedly other countries but those are ones I’ve read specific examples of recently - it’s not uncommon for gaybashers to get on apps like Grindr and get entirely away with it. Likely that one of the strats is to claim to be pedobaiting.
As recent as this year with Vitaly, except he’s about to get sued to oblivion since the girl forgot to tell the guy she was not 18 before they surrounded him ON STREAM.
John Oliver just did something on this. “Police stings” is th episode…
It’s not as clear cut as you say. The answer depends on the police or sheriff depts conducting it.
There is also a culture of making these things happen to juice their numbers.
who better to teach about sex offenders, non-consensual sex than a sex offender in TEXAS.
WHY are you STUPID Libtards surprised that the Party of PROTECTING EPSTEIN is OK with Sex Offenders being around Children?
Because a good christian male just made a mistake, he’s sorry, it won’t happen again.
Meanwhile the girl who just wants to pee in peace is a predator and must be dealt with to the fullest extent of new laws that make Iran look progressive by comparison.
Oh and they “deal” with her by paying a bounty to randoms to check people’s genitals. Real upstanding folk out here
I don’t think a lot of these conservative TERFs realize that it’s going to be them having their “credentials” checked…
the leopards will be eating good soon
How are registered child sex offenders not legally barred from working with or around children in every US state? How is this not a law that already exists?!?!?
Just look at the leadership.
Houston Astros prospect
Because he’s good at baseball…
It’s been shown over and over again that parents and administrators will turn a blind eye to shit like this if it means their kid has a chance at the big leagues
The idiots living in these states would rather have this than state run healthcare and public transit. Because some invisible sky wizard said so.
Or something
the blue counties in texas are gerrymandered to hell compared to other states.
Pretty sure they are and that’s a significant part of this idiocy i.e. believing a parental signature on a waiver could overcome those legal restrictions.
Texas is run by the GOP:
Correction: Texas is run by the oil companies.
the energy company, texas is said to closely resemble russia than other states.
Why do the oil companies want sexual predators to work in schools?
I know why the GOP wants it. They protect their own.
They want good sports
the gop is the last refuge of the degenerates, almost always sex offendors or brain damaged conservatives in various forms.
Correction : Texas is run by probable paedophiles
I just saw three comments in a row trying to correct each other while saying the same thing in different words.
It very much is against the law. Read to the end. Here’s the last paragraph of the article:
According to the law offices of Ned Barnett, Texas law prevents registered sex offenders from working in places frequented by children, including schools, daycare centers and playgrounds or attending school events like sports games. Some can interact with children at family gatherings or public events, supervised when interacting with children according to court orders and the nature of the offense.
This isn’t a problem with the law as much as it is a specific group of people trying to wallpaper a sort of compliance with the law while ignoring the substance of it altogether. First paragraph of the article, emphasis mine:
The Texas Home Educators Sports Association (THESA) thought it could get away with allowing a registered sex offender to coach minors by sending parents a waiver to sign, with the coach’s testimony attached, according to Amy Smith at watchkeep.org.
Note also from somewhere in the middle of the article:
The waiver mentioned nothing about his offender status.
And if you’re wondering wtf, you’re not wrong: all this careful arrangement of fact seems like a very creative effort on the part of the author and editor to actively distance point A from point B. It’s possible they’re just trying very hard not to piss anyone off in what is already a lost cause.
Or to put it another way, in a state with a very high year-round accumulation of snowflakes, this article involves three very special groups of special snowflakes all at once: a sex offender and his personal fans, the homeschoolers, and the evangelical Christians, and how they are faking compliance with state law by making sure the parents sign a waiver – one that hides the relevant information about a sex offender with a history of minors – before giving him free access to their children in direct contradiction to the law, a law they knew enough about to deliberately circumvent.
