Today in #NotADragQueen, Robert Morris, a megachurch pastor who used his reputation to help Donald Trump get elected, has just pleaded guilty to five counts of “lewd or indecent acts to a child.” As part of a plea deal, he’ll serve a relatively short prison sentence, have to register as a sex offender, and pay his victim $270,000 in damages.
It’s the culmination of a saga that began after Morris admitted that he sexually abused a child for a “few years” beginning when she was only 12. He was in his twenties at the time of the attacks. Morris later downplayed the severity of what he did by referring to it merely as “inappropriate sexual behavior with a young lady.”
Before going into the details of the plea deal, it’s important to understand Morris’ standing in the evangelical world.
When Trump was trying to convince conservative Christians to support his presidential campaign in the summer of 2016, he released a list of his “evangelical executive advisory board,” a collection of mostly white, mostly male Christians who would be guiding him in the months ahead.
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