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.
It’s almost like they recruit them.
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.
That’s one conflicted man I cannot appreciate but his excuse doesn’t sound too far fetched TBH
Not the person you replied to but
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.
Good Lord. Yeah I mean, that doesn’t sound super believable. 14 year old going through with what their parents want? Nah. He fuckin diddled that kid.
Could also try a group that doesn’t have as a core uniting value the hatred and distrust of black people, you know, if you are one.
Fenerty said he was unaware of Fisher’s conviction until asked about it by The Inquirer last week.
Are they not doing background checks on these idiots before hiring them?
Only a few sentences later it’s specified that they obtained a child abuse certificate for them which came back with ‘no records exist’.
Happy to dis silly conservative groups, but it honestly looks like they did their due diligence with background checks.
I saw that, but then the next paragraph says:
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.
Maybe it’s a certificate like mine for database administration. He’s a certified child abuser. He took some classes, and he knows how to abuse children. Like looking for the union label.
You’re talking about a group that doesn’t even read the books they want to ban.
This person doesnt look like a drag queen.
The dude running my local M4L has strong pedo vibes.
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.
It’s a numbers game. I have to deal with the same thing in my field- men are not allowed to provide one-on-one hygiene care (bathing, toileting, cleaning waste) for female adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities.
Since we’re talking about children instead of my field, 96% of people who sexually abuse children are male. Even factoring in that female perpetrators might be underreported, that is a stark number, so when people say they err on the side of caution, I’m sure you can see why only using female staff for this job would seem safer.
Are there perfectly healthy, nurturing men who pay the price? Of course. But not as many of them as potential sexual predators it seems.
