Posted on 10/23/2022 9:12:56 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
A bill that would ban drag performances in all public venues will be introduced in the first days of the next session of the Idaho Legislature in January, Idaho Family Policy Center President Blaine Conzatti said.
Conzatti and other conservative activists around Idaho and across the country have protested against events in public spaces that feature drag queens, including drag queen story hour events at libraries. In September, Idaho Republican Party Chairwoman Dorothy Moon called for people to pressure corporate sponsors of Boise Pride to pull their names from sponsorship at the event over a scheduled “Drag Kids” performance for ages 11 to 18, which was ultimately postponed over safety concerns.
Conzatti said the draft bill is ready to be introduced as soon as the session gets underway. “No child should ever be exposed to sexual exhibitions like drag shows in public places, whether that’s at a public library or a public park."
The Idaho Family Policy Center circulated a petition leading up to Boise Pride asking state lawmakers to prohibit drag performances from public places, citing a section of the Idaho Constitution that states the first concern of all good government is the virtue and sobriety of the people and the purity of the home. It says the Legislature should “further all wise and well-directed efforts for the promotion of temperance and morality.”
“There were many Supreme Court decisions from the 19th century dealing with public virtue and how sexual practices should not take place in public because it degraded public virtue." In Conzatti’s opinion, drag is inherently a sexualized caricature of gender, which he compared to racist blackface practices.
More than 3,500 people signed the petition and more than 26,000 emails were sent to corporate sponsors of Boise Pride over the course of a day and a half.
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It is so sad that that public virtue is no longer voluntarily enforced and monitored by the community at large. It's a shame that we need to expand our laws to protect the public from indecency. But this is LONG overdue. The slippery slope was always true and this public "drag" crap hiding behind the "performance art" facade is the latest example. I have no doubt that the people pushing this "drag" crap would welcome public fornication on stage and call it "art."
I'm very happy to see that Idaho is going to stand up for decency and lead the way on this. Put these damned "drag queens" back in Finocchios Club in San Francisco where they belong.
Perverts and deviants will always do what they do. The real question is why are public dollars being used to fund these obscenities and what sort of parents allow them th be shown to their children.
Lewdness and public decency laws are commonplace, they’re just not being enforced.
Absolutely right. Somebody invited these perverts to a city park celebration this summer in Coeur d’Alene. There was lots of hubbub about whether the “performer” exposed his privates and supposed editing of a video of him doing that.
But the bigger issue is WHO in government approved this “performance” in a CITY PARK. Even if no city funds were used to pay the creep, a public park was the venue.
“Perverts and deviants will always do what they do.” - Indeed. That’s why laws need to be strengthened and adapted to the times.
Just let a white guy urinate in the alley or a white kid urinate in a field. They will find out that they ARE enforced. The poor kid will be hit with a sex crimes charge and branded for life.
If drag queens want to do what they do, fine, but doesn't it make sense to keep it safely away from impressionable kids?
Don't Dems and lefties have kids and grandkids they they would like to shield from these behaviors until the young ones are old enough to be less vulnerable?
This is a waste of time. It will never survive constitutional challenge.
The public venue might.
But the best way to have done this would be to have banned attendance by minors in any venue.
Wonder why they just didn’t do that?
This would never survive a court challenge.
Here is a thought…parents should be involved with their kids lives. Parents should be the ones deciding who has access to their children.
These folks sound like a bunch of progressives—thinking the government needs to have laws to do the parent’s jobs.
“It shouldn’t even be necessary.”
OF COURSE it shouldn’t be necessary. But public virtue is dead in the USA. People decried “Victorian morals” but look where that got us. The left is so used to shoving this perverted crap in our faces that there are absolutely zero boundaries any more. The only recourse left is the law, but, unfortunately, the left has mastered “lawfare” to destroy even that venue for recourse against perversion.
Should we cede the public square to the perverts and just keep our kids at home forevermore? When and where should we fight back?
We are precisely where we are because we didn’t fight back. The leftists used “tolerance” as their means to defeat us. We taught our kids more and more and more “tolerance” to the point where we are now supposed to tolerate anything and everything.
Honestly, in these no-holds-barred times of ours, I would not be surprised one bit to see public orgies on stage in the next 20 years. It’s “performance art,” after all, and we cannot shut down First Amendment protected art, can we?
OK, let’s just roll over and accept it then. Get ready for public orgies on your community theater stage or on your local high school stage in the next 20 years. Get ready for “Minor Attracted Persons” to make advances on young kids and parents brought up on hate charges if they try to defend their kids.
You’ll reply “That’s just stupid, that won’t happen.” But 30 years ago we said “pride” events were stupid and would never get traction. We said that “PFLAG” would never get traction in our high schools — 20 years ago they got into homecoming parades. We assumed that high school Homecoming King & Queen would always be a boy and girl. There is NO END to the perversions they will force on us. None. If we could roll back the clock 30 years, you would not find one single prediction of where we are today. That is how fast these perverts are moving to destroy our society and all of Western Civilization.
One town had this stuff going on at their library - so they zeroed out the budget for the library. Stuff like that, and this story, is the way.
Maybe not, but by the Idaho constitution, the law certainly appears constitutional.
Of course normal parents would not take their kids to these events. But the perverts are showing up in community settings where 99% of the events and acts are family-friendly.
Do you really want to take your kid to an ostensibly family-friendly outing in the park and then have to answer when he or she asks “Mommy, why is that man with the beard dressed up in women’s clothes and why is he asking my friend to stroke his pants?” That is EXACTLY where we are today. Even here in very conservative North Idaho.
“zeroed out the budget for the library”
How sad that our only recourse against perversion is to shut down all family-friendly events at the library.
Elect Ammon Bundy your Governor for action.
Once this law passes and if RINO Governor Brad Little signs it the law will be tied up in the courts for years and not take effect.
Just like the much touted abortion bill.
Republican gaslighting, RINO GOPe gaslighting.
Probably a way to get rid of the Leftist extremist librarians.
So what if it doesn’t survive a quart challenge? It will cost them time, money, and effort to overturn it. That’s just what they do to us. Make them pay heart cold cash for every advance.
Exactly… make the satanic perverts have to fight this with cash, time, money etc. Don’t just roll over.
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