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In Celebration of Pride Month, Virginia Library Invites Babies and Toddlers to 'Drag StoryBook Hour'
Red State ^ | 06/25/2021 | Mike Miller

Posted on 06/25/2021 7:13:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind


It wasn’t all that long ago when a story like this was off-the-charts shocking. That is no longer the case. Similar stories now make the news on a regular basis with nary a jaw dropped. The question is, what does the lack of widespread outrage say and about whom?

In celebration of Pride Month, the Fairfax Public Library in Virginia invited “school-age children,” “preschoolers,” and “babies and toddlers” to the library’s “Drag StoryBook Hour” scheduled for Saturday, June 26. Babies and toddlers.

The Fairfax Republican Party made its feelings known in a Friday morning tweet.

OUTRAGEOUS: @FairfaxLibrary has targeted their “all ages” “Drag StoryBook Hour” to “school age children,” “preschoolers,” “babies and toddlers.”

pic.twitter.com/Bxapuw1b4v

— Fairfax GOP (@FairfaxGOP) June 25, 2021

In addition, as the library tweeted on Thursday, the Pride Month celebration wraps up on Monday evening with virtual “Rainbow Families Storytime.”

As #PRIDE2021 wraps up, join us virtually Monday evening for our Rainbow Families Storytime. Designed for ages 2-7 with an adult, these inclusive, affirming stories and songs celebrate rainbow families, self-expression, and Pride Month.

Apparently, the family that “self-expresses” [sic] together stays woke, together.

As #PRIDE2021 wraps up, join us virtually Monday evening for our Rainbow Families Storytime. Designed for ages 2-7 with an adult, these inclusive, affirming stories and songs celebrate rainbow families, self-expression, and Pride Month. https://t.co/udMtfqUWMu pic.twitter.com/FTpNtGP4Kq

— Fairfax Library (@fairfaxlibrary) June 24, 2021

Also this week, as reported by The Daily Wire, the Plymouth Public Library hosted “Drag Queen Story Hour” on Tuesday — “Intended for children 3-8. No registration necessary.”

Plymouth Public Library is hosting a Drag Queen Story Hour next Tuesday, June 22, on their front lawn! Check it out 🙂

pic.twitter.com/zR4kuFLrNT

— SharonPublicLibrary (@SharonLibraryMA) June 20, 2021

Protesters gathered at the library as a Drag Queen Story Hour was held, as noted by Daily Wire, with one representative protester saying:

“The idea to bring drag queens down, that are adult entertainers, to talk to children about transgender is completely inappropriate. I wouldn’t be able to take my kids to a drag show.”

Drag queen story hour in Plymouth draws ire from some https://t.co/8cy3uV1SrR

#7News

— 7News Boston WHDH (@7News) June 22, 2021

Incidentally “Drag Queen JP” was chosen to read stories to those 3-8-year-old children.

That is some role model you have chosen there...

@SharonLibraryMA https://t.co/0chmtnTzNd

— MassResistanceTEXAS – Exposed DQSH SEX OFFENDERS (@mass_tx) June 22, 2021

According to The Wall Street Journal in October 2019, the “drag story hour” originated in San Francisco in 2015. In an op-ed titled What I Saw at Drag Queen Story Hour, journalist Charlotte Allen, wrote, in part:

You can be forgiven if you haven’t heard of “Drag Queen Story Hour,” in which men dressed as women read to children at public libraries and lead them in song. […] Do these events really “corrupt children” at taxpayer expense, as critics charge? I decided to find out by joining about 20 parents and their preschool-age offspring one Saturday morning. […]

Mr. Havranek, who performs in character as Venus Valhalla, was dressed to the nines: a flirty red party frock (think early Katy Perry ), sparkly stilettos, a Niagara Falls of a blond wig, and enough stage makeup to supply all 14,000 extras in “The Ten Commandments.”

Venus’s reading … was comparatively unobjectionable. There was nothing off-color about either her dress or her performance. [But] the critics have a point. The organization’s website declares its aim is to help “kids to celebrate gender diversity” via “glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models.”

The adults present loved Drag Queen Story Hour. They laughed at Venus’s jokes, and they sang the children’s songs along with her. […] It was the children who didn’t react at all. They either stared transfixed at Venus, squirmed restlessly, or crawled and toddled off to find their own entertainments. […]

How many kids really want to hear one more tiresome lesson about “individuality,” much less same-sex marriage? I have [a] suggestion: Leave the little ones with the babysitter and have a Drag Queen Story Hour for parents.

As I’ve written on numerous occasions, I don’t give a damn what consenting adults do to or with themselves and their bodies in the privacy of their own homes, or wherever. That is their business, not mine. Needless to say, I’m not the Lone Ranger in this respect.

I’ve also said I do care — a lot — when whatever those activities might be are shoved in our faces. When we are told by the woke, progressive left that we must accept — or even condone — such behavior. And if we don’t, we are to be labeled “bigot,” “homophobic,” or worse. I don’t give a damn about their labels, either.

Toss in young school kids, preschoolers, and babies and toddlers, and oh hell, no.



TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: children; dragqueenstorytime; dragstorybookhour; grooming; homosexualagenda; lgbtq; library; perverts; pridemonth; toddlers; virginia
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1 posted on 06/25/2021 7:13:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

So this library will invite children to celebrate America and it’s founding in July...right?


2 posted on 06/25/2021 7:17:23 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: SeekAndFind
What are you supposed to do when if you speak out you get fired from your job and death threats?

The Republican Party doesn’t even oppose it, they just quibble about what age is appropriate for children to be exposed to this.

3 posted on 06/25/2021 7:19:10 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: SeekAndFind

Man, I am so tired of having this shoved in my face. Prime time TV on network channels and I have to explain to my grandkids why two men are kissing in bed. So, I change the channel and find two women kissing in bed. Is there a prime time TV show that doesn’t have a gay couple in it?


4 posted on 06/25/2021 7:20:24 PM PDT by econjack
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To: SeekAndFind

Here’s the way it works. Some mentally ill liberal comes up with a crazy and inappropriate idea. Other liberals know that the idea is crazy and inappropriate. But they dare not challenge that idea! After all, no one wants to be labeled a hater or a bigot.

So that crazy and inappropriate idea is carried out.


5 posted on 06/25/2021 7:22:15 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Matthew 18:6 - But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.


6 posted on 06/25/2021 7:22:27 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: econjack

Yes, but they were all on the air 30 years ago.


7 posted on 06/25/2021 7:26:50 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: SeekAndFind
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8 posted on 06/25/2021 7:27:14 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (I LOVE Biden! He won fair and Square! Merrick Garland is a Genius! )
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To: simpson96

There is a bunch of sick mothers living in Va. starting with the Governor.


9 posted on 06/25/2021 7:28:22 PM PDT by chopperk
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To: SeekAndFind

Only sicko liberals would go to these weirdo events and take their kids to warp their minds.


10 posted on 06/25/2021 7:29:04 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bring the little ones for their first “bad touch”.


11 posted on 06/25/2021 7:29:27 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: SeekAndFind

I take it normal, straight women don’t want to read stories to children anymore?


12 posted on 06/25/2021 7:31:51 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it is better for him that a heavy millstone be hung around his neck, and that he be drowned in the depths of the sea.” Matthew 18:6


13 posted on 06/25/2021 7:34:28 PM PDT by agatheringstorm
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To: SeekAndFind

Romans 1:18-32


14 posted on 06/25/2021 7:35:06 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sick
Sick
Sick


15 posted on 06/25/2021 7:38:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

As bad as Russia and China are, at least they don’t tolerate crap like this.


16 posted on 06/25/2021 7:43:58 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Berosus; SeekAndFind
I take it normal, straight women don’t want to read stories to children anymore?

I propose a "Regular Human Female Real Woman Story Hour." A lady (real female) in attractive and modest attire will sit in a simple wooden chair and read a story (appropriate for innocent children) to children.

17 posted on 06/25/2021 7:47:51 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: Wilhelm Tell

This is blatant pedophilia grooming. Where the Hell is the GOP at denouncing this?


18 posted on 06/25/2021 7:48:24 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Free Republic: The Internet's 1st social media platform. Since 1996.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Parents who take their children to that should be horsewhipped.


19 posted on 06/25/2021 7:58:37 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Just another case of classic liberal insanity on full public display. Any parent that would let their little ones be exposed to this BS should be charged with reckless child abuse.


20 posted on 06/25/2021 7:59:00 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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