Antigay pastor Jesse Lee Peterson revealed to have had sex with the mens

Can you post the article text or a free link? This is paywalled for me.

That man, with THAT beat-up face, had MULTIPLE affairs?

Honestly, how many sad, desperate gay men must be out there?

The whole right wing is a seething mass of sexual neurosis.

It’s become boring at this point. So shocking he’s gay?! 😴😴😴

"Honestly, how many sad, desperate gay men must be out there?"

Are you new here?

Oh my, he's a real life Uncle Ruckus. Jesus take the wheel.

In the hyper-masculine right-wing internet community known as the “manosphere,” few figures loom larger than Jesse Lee Peterson.

The Los Angeles-based pastor and online radio host has become a star in conservative media in part for his demands that men and women return to his unorthodox version of traditional gender norms. Peterson’s ideas about gender can be eccentric even by the standards of his compatriots, with Peterson claiming that a woman who orgasms during sex is somehow “becoming a man,” a practice he frowns upon.

Peterson has also emerged as one of the right’s most vocal anti-gay figures. He’s claimed that people who march in gay pride parades are the children of Satan, and that “radical homosexuals are evil.” He’s become a regular sparring partner for progressive YouTube personalities, telling online commentator “Destiny” in 2020 that he didn’t understand why his debating partner was openly bisexual.

“I don’t understand the purpose of putting that out there,” Peterson said. “People are going to judge you, they’re going to look down on you.”

Now several of Peterson’s one-time friends allege that the pastor’s own personal life is rife with gay sexual relationships.

Two of Peter’s former male associates came out in June with on-the-record interviews saying they engaged in sexual activities with him, while other men say he propositioned them. These allegations about the pastor—who in public is staunchly heterosexual—have ripped like an earthquake through the manosphere, prompting some of Peterson’s allies to abandon him and prompting one manosphere conference to ban him.

“I’m very sorry to have Jesse’s situation damage the conservative movement,” Patrick Rooney, one of the men who claims to have had a sexual relationship with Peterson, told The Daily Beast.

The Daily Beast was not able to substantiate the sexual allegations. Peterson’s ministry, a California “brotherhood organization” known as BOND, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

This isn’t the first time the manosphere has been roiled by controversy in the past year. In December 2021, a manosphere influencer who goes by the alias Jack Murphy was outed for filming himself in an outlandish series of online porn videos, prompting his onetime allies to turn on him. That same month, a manosphere influencer murdered five people in a Denver rampage before being fatally shot by police. In April, Romanian law enforcement raided the home of a prominent British manosphere figure as part of a human-trafficking investigation.

The allegations against Peterson broke into the public view in June, when Church Militant, a radical right-wing Catholic website that once hosted hate figure Milo Yiannopoulos, released a nearly 30-minute investigation into Peterson called “Amazing Disgrace.”

In the video, a Church Militant reporter interviewed two men who alleged having sexual contact with Peterson, as well another man who said Peterson had propositioned them.

The video prominently features Rooney, who frequently appeared on TV and online shows with Peterson for decades. Peterson, who is Black, once praised Rooney on his show as “one of the smartest white men this side of heaven.” But in the Church Militant video, Rooney alleges their relationship went further than friendship after Peterson sexually approached him in 2005.

“Next thing you know, he’s ripping his clothes off,” Rooney said.

Rooney claims the two men had a roughly 10-year sexual relationship after that first incident, until Rooney, who is married to a woman, broke off the relationship and confessed the affair to his wife.

Rooney told The Daily Beast he doesn’t have emails, text messages, or recordings that could prove his allegations.

“Jesse Lee Peterson is a very smart person, he’s a sly person,” Rooney said. “He’s not going to leave a lot of extraneous evidence out about what he does”

Another man, Samuel Arambula, alleged in the Church Militant video that he had started to hang out with Peterson at the “BOND house,” a Los Angeles home where Peterson purportedly lives with other male members of his religious “brotherhood,” in May 2020. Soon after that, Arambula claimed in the video, Peterson approached Arambula and began rubbing Arambula’s thighs and genitals. (While the video compares Peterson to a pedophile priest, the youngest man he allegedly had sexual contact with was 30 years old).

Robert Santner, who described himself as the BOND house’s former manager, claimed he witnessed Peterson acting physically affectionate towards men in ways that he deemed suspicious—including one bizarre incident with Peterson and another man. In Santner’s telling, he walked in on the pair as the unnamed man was wrapped up in a blanket “like a burrito,” while Peterson hugged him and kissed his forehead. Santner also alleges that Peterson once confronted him while massaging his own genitals, before smiling at him and walking away.

Church Militant’s founder, Anthony Michael Voris, has a history of intra-right provocations, and was once described by the National Catholic Reporter as “one of the U.S. Catholic Church’s most infamous agitators.” Church Militant is currently being sued by a Catholic priest for defamation in an unrelated case.

In an email to The Daily Beast, an unnamed person operating Church Militant’s “editor” email said the video was a response to the outlet’s fear that Peterson’s “large following of young Catholic men” would be misled by the pastor. Shortly before the video’s release, Voris and Peterson had sparred over Christian doctrine in an online video show.

Peterson, who is not married, has mostly avoided responding to the allegations. But in late June, a caller to his online show managed to break through.

“I’m just kind of confused,” the female caller said. “Why haven’t you addressed the issue of the gay documentary?”

“Uh, it’s not concerning to me,” Peterson told his audience as he hung up on her. “What a wicked woman!”

The Church Militant video has roiled Peterson’s hyper-masculine conservative community. Anthony Dream Johnson, the organizer of a series of manosphere conventions where Peterson has appeared and the self-proclaimed “First President of the Manosphere,” wrote in a June 22 newsletter that many manosphere members were “outraged” and “going through the beginning stages of grief.”

“I’ve never witnessed this level of extreme hypocrisy and fraud before in my professional career,” Johnson wrote, before closing the newsletter with the message “May Jesse burn in hell.”

Johnson claims that he’s banned Peterson from his future manosphere conferences.

Some of Peterson’s accusers and their supporters have started picketing outside of BOND’s office, prompting at least one police visit to the site over harassment concerns, according to a video viewed by The Daily Beast. In the video, police warned the apparently peaceful protesters not to get aggressive with anyone entering the building.

Rooney initially refused to talk to The Daily Beast, claiming he was afraid that his alleged relationship with Peterson would hurt the broader American conservative movement. But he changed his mind after considering what he describes as Peterson’s hypocrisy towards gay people.

“You certainly want to go after Jesse as a hypocrite, which he is—a hypocrite,” Rooney said.

As most anti-gay men have. Most normal heterosexual men don't care who anyone has sex with.

I came of age in the 60’s and 70’s, when all the rules about behavior and sex were different. That was the culture then.

I have since learned it’s not an excuse, in the pulpit – or out of it. To anyone.

I realized some time ago that I needed to be a better person and my interactions with the people I work with have changed.

I appreciate the way I’ve behaved with parishioners in the past has caused a lot of pain, and I sincerely apologize for it.

Though I’m trying to do better, I know I have a long way to go. That is my commitment. My journey now will be to learn about myself and conquer my demons. Over the last year I’ve asked Lisa Bloom to tutor me and she’s put together a team of people. I’ve brought on therapists and I plan to take a leave of absence from my company and to deal with this issue head on. I so respect all masculinity and regret what happened. I hope that my actions will speak louder than words and that one day we will all be able to earn their trust and sit down together with Lisa to learn more. Jay Z wrote in 4:44 “I’m not the man I thought I was and I better be that man for my children.” The same is true for me. I want a second chance in the community but I know I’ve got work to do to earn it. I have goals that are now priorities. Trust me, this isn’t an overnight process. I’ve been trying to do this for 10 years and this is a wake-up call. I cannot be more remorseful about the people I hurt and I plan to do right by all of them.

I am going to need a place to channel that anger so I’ve decided that I’m going to give the non-binariness my full attention. I hope Alok Vaid-Menon will enjoy her retirement party. I’m going to do it at the same place I had my ordination. I’m making a movie about our President, perhaps we can make it a joint retirement party. One year ago, I began organizing a $5 foundation to give scholarships to masculine men at The Abbey. While this might seem coincidental, it has been in the works for a year. It will be named after my mom and I won’t disappoint her.

This freak definitely has bizarre views on sex and sexuality

When will people learn that the reactionaries who rail the loudest against gay stuff etc. are the ones most certain to be partaking? It's like a rule of thumb.

He could seed me. I'd say he throws a mean fuck.

WEHT George Rekers and Larry Craig

Antigay pastor usually means....gay pastor

I saw an interview that this ludicrous crank did with Exulansic (trans-critical lesbian, former YouTuber) a few months ago and was convinced at first that he was a prankster. I didn't even get gay vibes off him, per se; he just seemed floridly insane.

Not hawt.

Upson Pratt (E.G. Marshall) from 'Creepshow' (1982) needs to run up on him and stomp his ass.

I thought 'Manosphere' was a Chi Chi LaRue porn video from the '90s.

I wonder when people are going to come for Jack Donovan. I get pedo/groomer vibes from him.

Overly groomed facial hair. Virulently anti-gay. Never been married conservative that preaches hyper-masculinity.

I mean, really…who are the people that are actually shocked by this? It’s the same blueprint from Bishop Eddie Long (Dong).

All I see is leather daddy when I look at Peterson’s pictures.

I remember when this Christ-o-holic cunt was accusing David Pakman of being gay, and suggesting he wasn't "alpha" enough to be a straight man. He's been a guest on Pakman's show several times, and each time made gay innuendos, and has conflated gayness with paedophilia in the past as well. 100% Huckster Poufter Pastor, and he was probably hot to trot for Pakman. (who could blame him for that last bit?)

Is she an alpha hung top by chance?

R24 Pastor Peterson strikes me as tiny-dick energy. Too catty, too Christian, and too maladjusted to probably really enjoy the sex; I can picture him crying and instantly on the road to repent after ejaculation. Surely you cannot be so desperate!

That Daily Beast article read like something out of Mad TV.

At least I’ve laughed for a few minutes before going to sleep.

In that case, I don't give a fuck and hope he loses everything. Take it all!

(I can handle a closeted Bible thumping queen. If I have to. But not one with tiny meat. I have my damn boundaries.)

The "Jack Murphy" archive. See r8.

R27 Hilarious. I wouldn't bet on the Pastor being a top either. If he is, you'd probably have to do most of the work, and be a really take charge aggressive bottom.

R23, wow, this guy sounds terrible

He ugly

r5 Seriously. Lots of gay men lack standards and self respect. Sex for the sake of sex. Hence the populairity of cumdumps.

Of course he’s had sex with men, it would be weird if someone that anti gay hadn’t!

cock pics?

OMG We're all children of Satan! Finally a family I can feel comfortable being in.

The gayest jobs in America:

1. "Ex-gay" counselor

2.Anti-gay pastor

3.Anti-gay senator or congressman

Why, R36, I do believe you may be on to something there! I'll have a little look around the Capitol and check out your hunch.

A homophobe turns out to be gay?

Stop the presses, dude!

R28, are they worth downloading?

R23 LOL

R40 Wow, as I had suspected.

#JesseGate Exclusive Interview with Joe Enders & Pat Rooney of "Amazing Disgrace" |

Jessie Lee Peterson still hasn't officially addressed these career ending allegations and the fact that he hasn't taken anyone to court for defamation is proof of guilt. The accusation of him being a homosexual predator has been published on the internet for half a year.

It's still all a bit sketchy. . . the above is a far right group.

and exploring their back channels, a forum, they're linked up with several supremacy groups. from red ice to groypers. though this group on the surface is attached the the anti-church catholic american circlejerks but can't find any connection of those groups to this group. They're hard establishment right, so they're not likely to openly be connected to this shit. The org itself openly represents as a mgtow and through various links, you can find it in far right circles. Where it seems it's open season ont he alt right hcrowd again from the far right. A lot of groypers and they're well known racist trolls. But the people in the interviews you can link to Jesse. So, it's all kind of cringetopia.

Insert: "Pretends to be shocked" meme.

social media and podcasts are mixed, the crime fraus believe it's legit and been discussing it for weeks, I'm going through ms analytical's now on spreaker - a few hours worth of episodes. Maybe she'll reveal greaer details but it seems she's just done reviews of the vids. incidentally, I found this rabbit hole by finding her first.

mainstream: many claiming it's hoax - few point to these videos even then they think it's leftwing parody. Still, you can find clips casual pics of jesse and peeps. - can't verify if legit or the context of appearance. It's odd there's more people discussing it though in obscure forums than mainstream. Even reddit and the chans are dearth.

R18 Not hot AT ALL.

Another one to add to the long long list, this one is a bit out of date though

^ That gay homophobes site is a trip. I had forgotten about Ken Mehlman and some of those other freaks

This cancellation attempt didn't work. Jesse is still successful. It also shows that #metoo is sexist by nature.

These rabid homophobic seem to be the biggest cocksuckers. Catholic priests, black rappers, Arabic machos who put their women under tents.

Like this Hungarian homophobic right wing politician who liked gay orgies.

It’s the same old story. The most anti-gay people are self-loathing closet cases.