A leading purity crusader was exposed for serial sexual abuse of students

Evidence

Hargis’s career would be cut short in 1976, when Time magazine published an exposé of the crusader’s sexual improprieties. The allegations came to light after a student at Hargis’s college revealed to his bride on their honeymoon that he’d had sex with Hargis, only to discover that she had, too. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 207

Categorization

• CANDY: The honeymoon revelation detail is darkly absurd and memorable enough to retell.
• XREF: Foreshadows later evangelical leader sex scandals; doubles as a data point in the hypocrisy-vs-continuity debate (leaders’ private behavior diverging from preached purity). — connects to: An evangelical purity expert molested boys while being promoted as a moral mentor — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 630; University officials collectively shielded a child molester to protect institutional reputation — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 573; Students collude in a professor’s self-destruction to protect his authority — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 316 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: An evangelical purity expert molested boys while being promoted as a moral mentor — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 630; University officials collectively shielded a child molester to protect institutional reputation — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 573; Students collude in a professor’s self-destruction to protect his authority — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 316 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• An evangelical purity expert molested boys while being promoted as a moral mentor #corroborates (0.98) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 630
• Students collude in a professor’s self-destruction to protect his authority #complicates (0.74) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 316