Following up on a post from last August, justice is now being served:
“Texas Right to Life is known for our fearless and unflinching commitment to advancing Pro-Life issues and candidates, whether it is popular or not,” Luke Bowen, then the political director of the powerful anti-choice organization Texas Right to Life, told Politico in 2018, adding, “It takes guts to challenge an incumbent, and we are proud to have supported all of our endorsed candidates who chose to go head-to-head with incumbents who failed to fight for Life when it was politically unpopular.”
Another thing Bowen apparently had a "fearless and unflinching commitment to" was trying to have sex with underage girls.
Last August, the 34-year-old forced-birth activist was arrested in a sting conducted by the Montgomery County Internet Crimes Against Children task force after sending pictures of his erect penis to an undercover detective he believed was a 13-year-old girl, asking her to send explicit pictures of herself to him and driving to what he thought was her home in order to have sex with her. Instead, he was arrested.
Bowen pleaded guilty last week to online solicitation of a minor and was sentenced to five years in prison. As far as we know, he did not try to claim that he was only going there because he was worried about her talking to strangers on the Internet.
Considering how the Right has been going on about "grooming" as of late, this should serve as an important reminder that this is what grooming actually is. It's not reading stories to children in libraries. It's not informing them of the existence of LGBTQ people. It's what this guy did or tried to do...
You can generally count on prominent hypocrites and grifters who populate the "Christian" right -- the foundational base of the Trump/ MAGA Republican Party -- to have a secret life that belies their public posture (here's a partial list from 2021). Then, you add the recent Republican pols who've been involved in sex crimes (most notably the serial sex criminal leading their party), and many more involved specifically with child sex crimes, and you see the pattern of deeply repressed perversions eventually being expressed by the very people who often claim the highest moral ground. It's as if a giant sieve has collected all the misfits, charlatans, liars, hypocrites and pedophiles, and helpfully labeled them "right-wing Republicans."
