Charlotte Pride, one of the leading LGBT pride organizations located in Charlotte, North Carolina, has once again provided evidence that the so-called “advocates” for the LGBT community want to normalize pedophilia, as they listed a known child sex offender as the recipient of the 2023 Harvey Milk Award for exceptional “LGBT+” advocacy.
“Chad Sevearance-Turner, a former music minister who served years in prison for sexually abusing a minor boy, will receive the award this year, with the group praising him as an ‘influential advocate for LGBT+ issues,’ Reduxx reported,” the Daily Wire reported.
The report went on to state that Sevearance-Turner, along with several other honorees, who were then referred to as the “Champions of Pride” on the official website for the Charlotte Pride group, will be honored at the annual festival hosted by the group, which is scheduled to take place on August 19 and 20. Sevearance-Turner, who is 45, currently serves as the president and chief executive officer at the Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce, which is a nonprofit organization that says its mission is to “support LGBT+ and allied businesses” in the states of North and South Carolina.
“He was accused by three minor boys of sexual abuse in 1998 when he was 20, all three of whom he met through his position as music director for New Harvest Church of God in Gaffney, South Carolina, according to a 2000 report from GoUpstate.com,” the Daily Wire continued. “The three boys’ accusations were tried in three separate cases.”
The first of the three cases involves a 14-year-old boy who testified in court that he spent the night with Sevearance-Turner at the home of another victim, where he woke up to find the older man fondling his genitals. He then stated that Sevearance-Turner invited him to stay the night at his house, which he did. In his testimony, the boy said that Sevearance-Turner then asked him how he would feel if a man performed oral sex on him.
And this is the guy Charlotte Pride is giving an award to. Still think they aren’t trying to normalize sexual activity between minors and adults?
The boy then told the court that he at first thought Sevearance-Turner was joking. The young man said the questions were unnerving due to the position that Sevearance-Turner had at the church.
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“The second boy, who was 15 at the time of the alleged incident, testified that Sevearance-Turner invited him to his house and showed him a pornographic video of sex between a man and woman. The boy went to sleep in the same bed as Sevearance-Turner and awoke to Sevearance-Turner fondling him, the child said,” the report added.
“He told me if I ever told the pastor, he’d make me look like a fool and a liar,” the boy revealed.
“The third boy, who was also 15 when he said the incident happened, said Sevearance-Turner made the same advances to him when he stayed at the boy’s home for three weeks and fondled him multiple times,” the Daily Wire explained.
Thomas Shealy, the defense attorney representing Sevearance-Turner, accused the three victims of carrying out a “Salem witch hunt” against the man. Notice how believing the victim is something the left only supports when it benefits them politically? If it’s a woman coming after a man, it’s never acceptable to call her claims into question. A child says they were victimized by a gay man, he’s not to be believed. See how that works? One class is protected, the other is not.
“Sevearance-Turner was eventually convicted in 2000 of performing a lewd act on a minor under 16 and sentenced to ten years in prison. He served just two years before being released on parole,” the report further revealed. “He is currently listed on the North Carolina sex offender registry.”
Charlotte Pride has referred to this convicted child molester as a “highly accomplished leader in human resources” who has forged a career “driven by a deep commitment to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).”
Not surprisingly, when the Daily Wire reached out to Charlotte Pride for a comment concerning whether or not Sevearance-Turner’s award would be rescinded, they did not respond.