Michael Voris, head of conservative religious media outlet Church Militant resigns for breaching the morality clause

[essentialsaltes]

In an email Tuesday afternoon, Church Militant said "Voris has been asked to resign for breaching the Church Militant morality clause. The board has accepted his resignation."

In a 14-minute video posted on X Tuesday evening, Voris did not explain why exactly he resigned, but alluded to some personal problems he's facing, referring to them as a "spiritual terror."

Voris said "sometimes it takes very horrible events, even at your own hand, in your life to surface certain things that need to be faced. There are some very, very ugly truths from my past that I for essentially 62 years have avoided facing."

Voris and the media outlet has drawn controversy for right-wing views that often criticized groups whom they believe deviated from Catholic teachings, such as LGBTQ+ people. Voris, who has said he used to sleep with both men and women, often blamed the problem of abusive Catholic priests on public acceptance of gay people and liberals in Catholic Church leadership.

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

Well, imho, he was probably molested as a child.

 

[Tinker Grey]

Well, imho, he was probably molested as a child.

That may be true, but I doubt that that's "breaching the Church Militant morality clause".

ETA: I'm guessing, after reading several articles that basically all give the same vague language, that he resumed sleeping with various adult men and women.

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

That may be true, but I doubt that that's "breaching the Church Militant morality clause".

ETA: I'm guessing, after reading several articles that basically all give the same vague language, that he resumed sleeping with various adult men and women.

From what I have noticed, people who are the most vehement against homosexuals have been found to be closeted homosexuals. A lot of them were sexually molested as children. For them, the urge to engage in homosexual activity is very strong and some of them are bisexual adults.

 

[essentialsaltes]

At the far-right Church Militant, Michael Voris accused liberal Catholics and others he opposed of being gay until he resigned over unspecified ‘morality’ concerns. Staffers now say he had shared shirtless gym photos.​

Voris’s trouble began April, when strange images appeared on Church Militant’s cloud-storage account, according to several staff members: shirtless selfies of Voris, some of them cut off just above his pelvis, along with a screenshot of a text-message exchange screenshot from someone expressing that they found the images sexually arousing.

On a Dropbox account typically reserved for matters such as the syllabus for an online class about the book of Ephesians, these new images stood out. Employees speculated that they had been uploaded unintentionally from Voris’s phone along with business documents meant for staff viewing.

Former employees told The Post that the dozens of shirtless images that showed up in the office Dropbox account appeared to have been uploaded accidentally, and that someone at the organization took quick steps to shut down access.

In early November, fellow Church Militant webcast host Christine Niles warned the board that Voris had also sent pictures directly and apparently intentionally to other men, including some of his employees. (In April, a rival personality on far-right Catholic Twitter had already called out Voris for his alleged selfie-sharing habit, posting an image he had obtained of Voris photographing himself shirtless at a gym and asking why the Church Militant leader was sending “half-nude selfies to his young, single male employees.”)

A group of Church Militant employees sent their own unsigned letter to the board that same month, complaining that Voris had sent a selfie to a prominent potential donor that they believed had cost them a sizable contribution, according to a copy reviewed by The Post.

 

[RileyG]

I personally wouldn’t be surprised if he was abused. He lived a double life. I hope he finds the healing he needs.