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Pastor who warned of “transgender predators” sexually harasses and assaults women

By Cristan Williams Transadvocate.com

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Source Summary

Houston recently passed a nondiscrimination ordinance protecting the following 15 classes: Sex, Race, Color, Ethnicity, National Origin, Age, Familial Status, Marital Status, Military Status, Religion, Disability, Sexual Orientation, Genetic Information, Gender Identity, and Pregnancy. A leader in the opposition to equality is Pastor Kendall Baker. Here he is speaking before Houston City Council: When speaking against equality, Pastor Kendall Baker mentioned that he had just ended a 20+ year career with the City of Houston due to failures of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). What Baker failed to mention that he was fired after the OIG determined that he had made lewd comments, sexual advances, engaged in inappropriate touching and solicited sexual acts from the females he was supervising. “You’re time is up!” said Baker to Mayor Parker, Houston’s out lesbian mayor. Baker asked the council, “What if I came into the restroom here while you were sitting

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“Pastor who warned of “transgender predators” sexually harasses and assaults women” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging race and intersectionality. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2014 at Transadvocate.com, “Pastor who warned of “transgender predators” sexually harasses and assaults women” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to race and intersectionality. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is public accommodations and facilities and elections and democratic governance. It links that institutional frame to transgender identity and history and race and intersectionality, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

Content analysis

Ranked themes and framings

Rank 1 is the dominant inferred theme or framing. Parent labels identify broader theme families; the relationship key beneath the diagram explains the line styles used for hierarchy, same-family relationships, overlap, and separate-but-related themes.

Themes

  1. 1
    Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    100%
  2. 2
    Race and intersectionalityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
    41%
  3. 3
    Religion and moralityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
    41%
  4. 4
    Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    28%
  5. 5
    Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    10%

Academic framing

  1. 1100%

Policy framing

  1. 1100%
  2. 214%

Editorial function

CounterpointHistorical context

Source topics

activismcivil rightsCristan Williamshatein the mediaNon-DiscriminationTransphobia
Relationship among the ranked article themes The central circle is the primary theme. Line styles are defined in the relationship key below the diagram. Transgender identity and history to Race and intersectionality: Separate but related
Race and intersectionality
 Transgender identity and history to Religion and morality: Separate but related
Religion and morality
 Transgender identity and history to Culture, identity, and representation: Related theme in the same family
Culture, identity, and representation
 Transgender identity and history to Law and civil rights: Separate but related
Law and civil rights
Transgender identity and historyRank 1
Relationship key
  • Separate but related themes
  • Related theme in the same family
The diagram distinguishes hierarchy, same-family relationships, overlap, and separate-but-related themes inferred within this article. It does not assert that all themes are mutually exclusive.

These classifications are inferred from article text and source metadata and remain directly editable. Relationship labels express corpus-analysis judgments, not immutable facts.

This article appeared 1 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

Relative presence by year

Peak year indexed to 100

Presence by member publication

  1. Transadvocate.com880
  2. Cristan’s Research84
  3. The TERFs55

Frequently co-occurring concepts

  1. Community and organizing531
  2. Law and civil rights468
  3. Culture, identity, and representation320
  4. Education and youth308
  5. Media, rhetoric, and discourse260
  6. Healthcare and medicine248
  7. Violence, safety, and dehumanization238
  8. History, archives, and memory216
  9. Public policy and governance206
  10. Feminism and gender politics198

Academic framings in this topic

  1. Interpretive analysis442
  2. Historical analysis290
  3. Clinical and medical analysis210
  4. Psychological analysis168
  5. Qualitative and interview research120
  6. Media and discourse analysis109
  7. Critical theory90
  8. Empirical and quantitative research78

Policy framings in this topic

  1. Public accommodations and facilities177
  2. Civil rights and anti-discrimination173
  3. Criminal justice and public safety131
  4. Elections and democratic governance100
  5. Research ethics and data governance78
  6. Labor and employment policy52
  7. Administrative classification and identity documents39
  8. Housing and social services38

Values measure relative presence in the registered Collective corpus, not public search interest or public opinion.

Inbound-link and citation evidence

Documented circulation and reception

4 source-held references record early links or citations; the documented sources span 2 distinct domains. The dated evidence currently falls in 2014. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.

4distinct source records documented
2distinct referring domains
0best available scholarly cited-by count
0books or volumes documented
4references retained by the source publication
2014observed years in dated evidence

Evidence by channel

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Coverage of the evidence search

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Publisher-held referencesChecked · August 31, 2026
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Scholarly indexesChecked · August 31, 2026
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Book and volume searchNotchecked
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Public-web searchNotconfigured
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Collective corpus linksIndexed · August 31, 2026
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Documented references over time

Dated source evidence currently stored by the Collective
Reference retained by the source publicationSource-publication recordDirectly verified

Houston, know thy bigots | The TransAdvocate

Houston, know thy bigots | The TransAdvocate · transadvocate.com · July 30, 2014

The Houston Area Pastors Council (HPAC), an organization led by men who sexually harassed women (and who tried to misrepresent the sexual abuse to the public), has been working to overturn broad equality in Houston, Texas. The Harris County DA is investigating a HPAC representative…

Reference retained by the source publicationSource-publication recordDirectly verified

Anti-LGBT bigot caught engaging in election fraud in Texas | The TransAdvocate

Anti-LGBT bigot caught engaging in election fraud in Texas | The TransAdvocate · transadvocate.com · June 30, 2014

While railing against the supposed immoral nature of LGBT people, the HTUSPC is currently mired in its own sex scandal. HTUSPC spokesman, Pastor Baker, was recently fired for harassing, assaulting and soliciting sex from his female employees. HTUSPC Director, Pastor Welch, attempted to get keep…

Reference retained by the source publicationSource-publication recordDirectly verified

Declining Southern Baptist Convention continues tradition of bigotry, now targeting trans people | The TransAdvocate

Declining Southern Baptist Convention continues tradition of bigotry, now targeting trans people | The TransAdvocate · transadvocate.com · June 12, 2014

Young, Baker, Welch and the Southern Baptist Convention are no strangers to hypocrisy. Young, a pious cheerleader for the Texas religiopolitical machine, even took the stand to testify that Enron’s CEO – proven huckster Ken Lay – was trustworthy, saying under oath that Lay was…

Reference retained by the source publicationSource-publication recordProvider-confirmed

Sadly, No! » Piss-ing off the Haters

Sadly, No! » Piss-ing off the Haters · sadlyno.com · October 26, 2014

[…] rule on tax-exemption for churches rule in the past among other transgressions (including having a massive sexual harassment problem), leading the pro-bono lawyers working for the city to query into just how many laws these […]

Counts describe documented circulation and reception in the sources currently available to the Collective. They are not a score of quality, merit, popularity, or social value, and provider totals can overlap.

Article authors

Author profiles and related researchers

Related authors in the Collective corpus

Cristan Williams

143 publications · 714 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 2 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Guest

57 publications · 87 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Rani Baker

5 publications · 6 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Kelley Winters

3 publications · 2 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Admin

98 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Marian

7 publications · 12 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Related authors are calculated from co-authorship, shared themes and framings, and citation relationships in the registered corpus. This does not imply a personal or institutional association.

Contextual research path

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Evidence and documentation

Houston, know thy bigots: outing the haters

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Evidence and documentation

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Adds research, documentation, or primary-source context.

Speaking to an evangelical news outlet, Mat Staver, president of the multi-million dollar hate group, the Liberty Counsel, said that transgender people shouldn’t enjoy the “special right” not…

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Counterpoint

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Offers a critical, contrasting, or corrective interpretation of the shared issue.

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