Neal Creecy, the 46-year-old senior pastor of Redemption Church in Las Vegas, Nevada, has resigned after he got busted on the gay hookup app Sniffies trying to have sex with a police officer posing as a 14-year-old boy.The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department arrested Creecy on August 7 after he confessed to sending text messages that were sexual in nature and others agreeing to meet for sexual activity. The age of consent in Nevada is 16. Related Conservatives have been railing against groomers for years. So why do they support Donald Trump? As soon as he got out of jail within an hour or two, he contacted us on a thread message and confessed. He offered his resignation when we met with him later that morning. We had to accept his resignation immediately, W. Don Seaborg, president of pastoral support for Redemption Church, told KLAS-TV. Creecy founded the church in 2018 and has been involved in religious work for three decades.Creecy was one of eight men arrested in the Las Vegas police departments two-week sting operation against potential child predators. He was released from jail on a $10,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in court on September 2. Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Subscribe to our Newsletter today Anti-LGBTQ+ Republicans and Christians often make headlines for hypocritically engaging in various forms of pedophilia, despite accusing drag queens, queer people, and their allies of grooming and sexualizing children.Republicans under the U.S. president have refused to release files on convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, supposedly over worries about Epsteins past friendship with the president. The president has previously been accused of spying on teenage beauty pageant contestants and once called his own daughter a piece of a**, saying that hed want to date her if he wasnt her father. In July, a MAGA supporter from Wisconsin who claimed that he voted Republican in the 2024 election to fight child sex trafficking was arrested for 10 counts of possession of child pornography.In June, South Carolina state Rep. RJ May (R) was arrested on nearly a dozen federal charges for distributing child sex abuse material and arranging sexual meetups with teen girls. The anti-LGBTQ+ parents rights group Moms for Liberty honored him as its 2023 Legislator of the Year.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.