A pastor kicked off a recent campaign stop for Michael Whatley, the Republican nominee for Senate, with a prayer that asked God to bestow “integrity and honesty” upon the event and to right wrongs “hammered down on the conservative movement.”

The prayer was hardly unusual by North Carolina political standards. What was surprising was the man who delivered it. Pastor Daimon L. King is a registered sex offender, twice sentenced to prison for convictions involving children, according to state and court records.

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    22 hours ago

    From the title I thought it was Trump giving a speach and was wondering why this is news.

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      18 hours ago

      That’s an absolutely valid take. Mine was such a headline was so vague that could literally be anyone at a GOP event. Most of them are serial offenders and a few are sofa offenders.

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      24 hours ago

      If we lived in a world with headlines that accurate I’d be wondering what alternative dimension I’d fallen into first.