Phillip Fisher Jr., a pastor and Republican ward leader who coordinates faith-based outreach for Philadelphia’s Moms For Liberty chapter, pleaded guilty in 2012 to a charge of aggravated sexual abuse.
Phillip Fisher Jr. is a pastor and Republican ward leader who coordinates faith-based outreach for Philadelphia’s Moms for Liberty chapter.
He’s also a registered sex offender, due to a 2012 felony conviction for aggravated sexual abuse of a 14-year-old boy when Fisher was 25.
i like how moms for liberty's whole thing is that trans women are taking away opportunities from cis women and yet the leader of moms for liberty is a cis man.
Fisher is listed on Pennsylvania’s “Megan’s Law” website for registered sex offenders, maintained by the Pennsylvania State Police, in a file last updated in July.
So it doesn't seem like it would have been too difficult to find. A controversial political group claiming to "think of the children" should try really hard to make sure they aren't employing convicted sex offenders, especially in any kind of leadership role.
There's an obligatory reminder that he is not a drag queen that should go here. Since conservatives keep insisting that drag queens are all (or mostly) pedophiles.
If you have this kind of skeleton in your closet why the hell would you go into politics? Even local politics. You WILL piss someone off and they WILL dig up your past. Idiot.
Just put an "R" next to your name; problem solved!
Eh I agree with your first few points but his attire looks as 2023 as 2013 or 2003.
If dude just wants to be his dude self, I don't think that's a knock y'know. Then again, I was laughing when I read about Fetterman in his hoodie and ball shorts in the Senate, where I think your Sundays best is appropriate. So take my opinion for what may. I'm 42 and I still own ripped up jeans and flannels that I've worn since the mid 90s. I don't wear them all the time but that's still just me being me. More often than not you'd find me in a plain color or white T, prob with the sleeves rolled up over my shoulder and shorts on. Doesn't matter what time of year. In the winter id prob be in mud boots and in the summer I wear water socks almost exclusively.
You dress how you feel. My body still feels like I'm 25, just with numb hands in the morning and more scars, well, and in better shape. I haven't slowed down at all. If anything I've sped up.
The national Moms for Liberty organization held a summit in Philadelphia this past summer, where denying transgender identity for children and removing books from school libraries were major themes.
Meanwhile, back at his church:
Fisher has supported Trump’s campaigns; a 2020 report by WHYY included a mural in support of Trump that Fisher said was painted on an exterior wall of his church by children he worked with in his congregation.
The charging documents allege that Fisher had oral and anal sex with the 14-year-old boy in January 2011
Fisher said he took the plea bargain to get out of the county jail, where he said he experienced violence from other prisoners.
Yeah, those pesky lefties and their time machines going back in time to frame good people years before they joined MFL. When will they learn that neo-cons are smarter than them and will quickly figure out their conspiracy while failing to provide any evidence every single time.
Definitely seems like a pattern with these things. So many of these people who are into some stuff, but rather than accept it as a personal battle, they channel everything into finding some external "evil" to help them rationalize the existence they're struggling with. It's too bad they can't see how many others they're hurting.
Any time another dude is more interested in someone's kids than their parents are? Alarm bells.
I get it, there are lots of well meaning men who care about kids. Unfortunately they present the same way as predators, and I err on the side of caution.
Fisher said he took the plea bargain to get out of the county jail, where he said he experienced violence from other prisoners.
So he used his position as a pastor in the African American community to advocate for prison reform, right? That seems like it'd be a pretty popular position in that community.
You say he instead decided to demonize trans kids? Well, ok, then.
He repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and called his conviction “one blip” in his background. He blamed it all on a dispute about his trying to break away from the LaRouche organization, and said the 14-year-old boy and his parents were part of that group.
“It was a political situation that happened between me and Lyndon LaRouche,” Fisher said. “It was a member of his camp, his party, that made the accusation. They pushed it through. It was really a railroad job.”
In his "defense", one picture from his time working for LaRouche included holding a poster of Obama with a Hitler mustache for some protest. By all means, I could see a group like that being crazy conspiracy theorists concocting some crazy plot to hurt him. But he was a part of that group. He's now a part of a different crazy conspiracy group. He could maybe try a group that isn't full of crazy conspiracy theorists. But then he might not feel at home.