Will churches welcome registered sex offenders? In viral videos, many say 'yes'

A self-described lesbian pro-choice Army veteran in Kentucky is going viral for posting videos to TikTok in which she phones churches to ask if a registered child sex offender would be welcome at their Sunday family services. The key part of her request goes like this in one of her more than 60 videos:After inquiring about what times services are held, Nikalie Monroe tells the woman answering the phone at Real Life Ministries in Post Falls, Idaho, that she's a mom and married to a man with a dark past. "It's kind of embarrassing, so please don't judge me," says Monroe, matter-of-factly. "My husband is a registered child sex offender and legally not allowed [near] kids or whatever, so I didn't know if there'd be any issues if we just came to service." The woman on the other end of their recorded conversation, who identified herself as "Deb" in this video, hesitates for just a moment before telling Monroe, "There is not, no." @nikalie.monroe Testing your church Part 49 PDF Files #testingyourchurch #church #pdf #christiantiktok #religion This video is labeled number 49, and Monroe has been conducting what she calls on her GoFundMe "social experiments" like this since at least November 2025. All fall and winter, she asked churches if they would help a family with a starving baby, or would help pay for a fever reducer for an infant. In one video, Monroe reveals she and her partner do in fact have two small nieces they are raising because, as of January, their parents are incarcerated. In another video, she phoned a mosque in Charlotte, N.C. with the same request for help. "No hesitation," she captioned the video, and one commenter wrote, "Notice how he didn't even ask if you were Muslim."On June 17, Monroe followed up those videos with a series of new recorded calls, labeled "Testing Your Church PDF Files;" PDF is internet slang for "pedophile." Her TikTok playlist has 62 of these videos; they can also be viewed on her Instagram account. Related: 20 Christian churches, r