Texas city stands against Drag Queen Story Time event
The wave of Drag Queen Story hours, in which men dressed as women read stories to children, mainly at local libraries, children who have been brought by their parents, who are seemingly not offended by what has been called a "grooming" exercise for liberalized and dangerous views on sexuality, according to a Christian Post article.
The article reports that counselor Jon Uhler says "he believes Drag Queen Story Hour events constitute 'the greatest grooming program ever devised' and predators 'are laughing all the way to the bank.'"
The Post also says:
But Uhler does not believe marching and picketing Drag Queen Story Hour events is effective because by the time they are scheduled it's almost always too late. Instead, parents should go to the events and tape what goes on with their phones or hidden cameras and then expose it.
"The only way this is going to be stopped is if the public sees that every single time, at every single one of these, really perverse things are going on. So you let their own actions speak for themselves," Uhler said.In Texas, a City Council has taken a bold step to try to put a halt to these events. According to
The Daily Signal:
The City Council of Leander, Texas, 22 miles northwest of Austin, voted 5-2 at its Aug. 15 meeting to stop renting out meeting rooms at the library to the public.Elizabeth Castle, a policy adviser for Texas Values, is quoted in the article. She says: "I’ve done some research and … their day job, without going further into, you know, anything personal, if you just Google them you can find out that they work at adult nightclubs," adding, “And so those people shouldn’t be reading to children.” Castle also stated, “These drag queens are told to read stories, you know, about gender transitioning and about sexual orientation to young kids as young as infant age...," and that, the city "wants to protect their children, and for the most part they seem to be against the ‘Drag Queen Story Hours.’”
“We brought in $1,800 in rental fees and we spent $20,000 in security,” Leander Mayor Troy Hill said, apparently referring to the drag queen event. “That’s not good math to me.”
NFL quarterback encourages students to take Bible to school, receives criticism
A high-profile NFL quarterback, arguably one of the best to play the professional game, endorsing students taking their Bibles to school, has received an unwarranted amount of criticism for this recommendation. Bring Your Bible to School Day is an initiative of Focus on the Family. Its President, Jim Daly, wrote:
A high-profile NFL quarterback, arguably one of the best to play the professional game, endorsing students taking their Bibles to school, has received an unwarranted amount of criticism for this recommendation. Bring Your Bible to School Day is an initiative of Focus on the Family. Its President, Jim Daly, wrote:
New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees was forced to respond to criticism late yesterday for recording a 22-second video promoting our organization’s annual “Bring Your Bible to School Day”, which occurs this coming October 3rd.
Specifically, Brees was put on the defensive for doing the video because Bring Your Bible to School Day is associated with Focus on the Family. Critics were aghast that he would lend his name to the event, citing our ministry’s belief in biblical marriage and support of counseling for those with unwanted same-sex attraction.Daly added:
In reporting on the episode, the Washington Post pejoratively labeled us as an “anti-LGBT religious group.”
Is there no longer any realm where I can disagree with someone on the definition of marriage and human sexuality and still be considered a decent person?
By both the Post’s and other critic’s standards, anybody who holds to the historical teachings of biblical sexuality is now labeled a bully and bigot, someone who holds others in personal contempt.Daly also said that, "Like Scripture teaches and Drew Brees referenced, we believe we’re called to love God with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our mind. We’re also commanded to love our neighbors, whether they identify as heterosexual, homosexual or something else." He related that, "Tolerance is a two-way street."
Daly also said that:
Drew Brees is the latest individual to be caught up in the middle of a growing intolerance toward those of us with a conservative Christian worldview. Whether it’s Second Lady Karen Pence being attacked for teaching art at a Christian school, the New York Times asking for stories about “#exposechristianschools,” public high school students in Pennsylvania battling a “Bible ban” on their campus, or Chick-fil-A being banned from airports due to their biblical beliefs, people of conservative Christian faith are being unfairly targeted.
This latest turn reminds us why it’s vital to empower the next generation with the understanding that they don’t have to hide their faith or compartmentalize it to the “private” sphere.Democratic candidates offer strong support for abortion up until birth
It is obvious that the 2020 crop of Democrat party candidates have traveled quite a distance from the mantra of "safe, legal, and rare" regarding abortion. Now, within the past week, you have had one candidate emphasize abortion as a means of population control and another saying that life does not begin until a baby is outside the womb, and attempted to twist Scripture to do it.
Take for instance, one of the frontrunners in the race, Bernie Sanders. The Susan B. Anthony List, referring to a Daily Wire article, took Sanders to task. The senator said, in response to a question on reducing a growth in population, that women in the U.S.: "...have a right to control their own bodies and make reproductive decisions." He added...
"And the Mexico City agreement — which denies American aid to those organizations around the world that allow women to have abortions or even get involved in birth control — to me is totally absurd," Sanders continued. "So I think, especially in poor countries around the world where women do not necessarily want to have large numbers of babies and where they can have the opportunity through birth control to control the number of kids they have, it's something I very strongly support."SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser stated, "This takes Democratic abortion extremism to a new low. Every Democratic candidate for president should immediately be asked where they stand on eugenic population control, especially frontrunner Joe Biden in light of his past comments condoning the Chinese government’s oppressive One-Child policy..."
Abortion as population control is the position of Bernie Sanders. South Bend, IN, mayor Pete Buttegieg should have no problem with that, and he seems resolute in lecturing Christians about what they should believe. The Susan B. Anthony List highlighted the mayor's recent comments on The Breakfast Club show, referencing a Daily Caller article, which stated:
Buttigieg discussed how the Bible talks about life beginning with breath, and suggested this would be one way to determine when life began in relation to abortion debates.He said, "...there’s a lot of parts of the Bible that talk about how life begins with breath, and so even that is something that we can interpret differently.”
Buttigieg added, "I think, no matter what you think about the kind of cosmic question of how life begins, most Americans can get on board with the idea of, alright, I might draw the line here, you might draw the line there, but the most important thing is the person who should be drawing the line is the woman making the decision..."
Again, from SBA List's Dannenfelser, just a day after strong comments about Sanders: "Just when it seemed that the Democrats’ extremism had hit rock bottom, Pete Buttigieg has taken the party to a new low in justifying abortion on demand and even infanticide through the moment a child takes her first breath. Buttigieg should be ashamed of his inhumane remarks..." About both men, the pro-life leader expressed her view that both are too extreme to be President.
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