“It doesn’t make any sense to me. It is absolutely ridiculous. Why would you have transgender people talking to kids?” -Mayor Ron Smith
Calvin Freiburger : Jul 29, 2019 LifeSiteNews.com
(Sparks, NV) — [LifeSiteNews.com] The mayor of a town in Nevada is speaking out against a local library’s decision to host a Drag Queen Story Hour event, detailing his unsuccessful efforts to block the event. (Image: John Paul Kane (left) is a kindergarten teacher and drag queen/ via LifeSiteNews)
When Sparks Mayor Ron Smith caught wind that Washoe County Public Library would be hosting one of the events—in which adult crossdressers read to children between the ages of three and eight, hold question-and-answer sessions, and pose for photos—he was outraged, the Reno Gazette Journal reports.
“It doesn’t make any sense to me,” he said. “It is absolutely ridiculous. Why would you have transgender people talking to kids?” Smith said he was concerned about reports of how drag queens have conducted themselves in similar events across the country, and insufficient background checks leading to children being placed near convicted sex offenders. Recently, an Oregon library deleted pictures of children lying on top of a drag queen.
So Smith contacted Washoe County Library Director Jeff Scott and County Commissioner Vaughn Hartung in hopes of canceling the event, but “they told me there is nothing they can do,” he said…
…The San Francisco-based Drag Queen Story Hour program describes its express purpose as capturing the “imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood” and giving children “unabashedly queer role models”; while Louisiana drag queen Dylan Pontiff admits the events are about “the grooming of the next generation”…
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