Notorious Anti-LGBTQ Activist Loses Texas Primary

The Texas Tribune reports:

Houston Rep. Lacey Hull has prevailed in the Republican primary against Jared Woodfill, a prominent anti-gay activist who was backed by Attorney General Ken Paxton and other Republican leaders despite his role in an ongoing sex abuse scandal. Woodfill’s campaign — and its endorsement by Paxton, Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller and Texas GOP Chair Matt Rinaldi — was perhaps the most controversial in a particularly heated primary season.

Woodfill entered the race while still involved in a high-profile lawsuit that accused his former law partner, Southern Baptist leader Paul Pressler, of decades of rape. Woodfill was also accused of enabling Pressler’s behavior and, in a deposition last year, acknowledged that he continued to pay young men to work out of Pressler’s home for years despite being told in 2004 that Pressler had sexually abused a child.

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Hull, who ticks all the usual cultist boxes, was targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton because she was among the state reps who voted for his impeachment.

As I reported back in October 2023, US House Speaker Mike Johnson was once hired to head a law school that was to be named for Pressler. In March 2023, Woodfill testified that he knew about the allegations against Pressler and said nothing.

Woodfill appeared on JMG in March 2020 when he represented local anti-LGBTQ pastors in their ultimately failed lawsuit to overturn Texas lockdown rules.

Before that we heard from him in February 2019 when he finally lost his years-long legal battle to stop Houston from providing spousal benefits to LGBTQ city employees.

New: Houston Rep. Lacey Hull has prevailed in the Republican primary against Jared Woodfill, a prominent anti-LGBTQ activist who was backed by Attorney General Ken Paxton and other Republican leaders despite his role in an ongoing sex abuse scandal. https://t.co/Ow78YildXC

— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) March 6, 2024

I am honored to be endorsed by @KenPaxtonTX
and Liberal Lacey Hull proudly impeached him. Hull is still taking money from @DadePhelan – $200,000 plus. @realDonaldTrump seems to agree! Eliminate Democrat chairs, secure the border, and make election integrity a priority! https://t.co/fIDDyOGPsv

— Jared Woodfill (@woodfill) March 4, 2024

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