An event where a cross-dressing man
was scheduled to read pro-LGBT stories to little children at a public library
isn’t going to happen because a Christian group intervened.
The public library in Lafayette,
Louisiana, had scheduled “Drag Queen Story Hour,” but the Christian ministry Warriors
for Christ – in conjunction with Citizens for a New Louisiana – filed a federal
lawsuit to stop it. “We have been going
back and forth with the judge asking for a restraining order to stop this event,
saying that it’s pandering sexuality and obscene material to children,” Pastor
Rich Penkoski explains to OneNewsNow.
Last week, organizers moved the event
from the library to South Louisiana Community College, but soon thereafter the college
gave up on the event before the court even ruled on the matter. The organizers denied it, but Penkoski says it
was all about influencing youngsters.
“We did a Freedom of Information Act
request from the library and we have found out that they were doing this on
purpose, [that] they were manipulating what was being shown to parents to bring
these kids there so that the children would be hearing messages of stories
about how to get your parents to cross-dress and stories of a prince falling in
love with another boy,” Penkoski shares.
“So they were actually targeting three-to-five-year olds – and the event
introducing them to the LGBT lifestyle.”
Dylan Pontiff, the drag queen
scheduled to read, admitted as much to a local newspaper: “I just think that
this all comes from a population of people that don’t truly understand change,
that don’t truly understand open-mindedness and empathy. And that is the exact thing that Drag Queen
Story Time is trying to create in our children.”
The books reported to have been read
were “Strictly No Elephants” by Lisa Mantchev, “From the Stars in the Sky to
the Fish in the Sea” by Kai Cheng Thom, and “The Rainbow Fish” by Marcus
Pfister.
Penkoski concludes: “I believe that if
Christians stood together and we prayed, because the power of God is with us in
this, that these events would be shut down.”
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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