For years Kirk Cameron
has made public libraries a focal point in his effort to make wholesome content
available to kids. The actor and
producer is now entering a new arena by competing against Scholastic Book Fairs
which is the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books. He is partnering with Sky Tree Book Fairs, a
nonprofit group that aims to equip children with books that promote positive
values and lifestyles all while respecting parents and guardians as the
ultimate authority to determine what their child reads.
“We see that there is
such an avalanche of filth and material that’s twisting the minds of children
about the most basic things of reality and families, gender, faith, what is
America,” Cameron said in an interview with CBN News. Scholastic Books have been a long-time staple
in America’s public schools – but Cameron says the publisher has taken a turn
by now pushing sexually explicit and other harmful content to kids.
Cameron recently
highlighted one example of a book called Welcome to St. Hell, which glamorizes
gender transitioning to a vulnerable audience: middle schoolers. “We all grew up with Scholastic, everyone, as
the publisher of these great books, and Clifford the Big Red Dog and Stuart
Little and James and The Giant Peach and all the fun little crossword puzzles. Well, their book fairs are now filled with the
kind of progressive, socialist Marxist material that is undermining God,
family, and the country,” Cameron said.
Across the country the
fight over such content in schools is growing. The Virginia Beach, VA school board recently
voted to put a committee in place to keep such content from elementary
libraries. “I think we should fill our
limited space in our libraries with books that are uplifting, that help to
develop children and that achieve our primary task which is to teach them to
read, write, understand science, appreciate great literature, understand history,”
said Virginia Beach School Board Member David Culpepper. “Those books should not be harmful.”
As a counter to that
move, Cameron wants to provide students with better options and schools with
empowering alternatives. “You can
replace these harmful Scholastic book fairs with helpful, wholesome book fairs
with 500 books that have all been vetted and screened to take out all of the
nasty pornography and the critical race theory and the race stuff and they’re
about wholesome good values,” Cameron said in a video posted on X. Cameron says support from parents, teachers,
and schools has been huge. “We already
have over a thousand schools, public and private that are replacing Scholastic
book fairs,” he explained. “When we
first showed up at a library to read one of these books with pro-God,
pro-America values, the leadership at the library said, ‘Our people wouldn’t be
interested. We’re more of a progressive
community and we don’t align with your values.’” “Well, when we showed up, we were greeted by
thousands, literally two, three-thousand parents and grandparents and children
coming to downtown libraries that families deserted because of all of the
violence and the crime and the rioting that was going on the last few years. Why? Because
they want a resurgence of first principles and the values that lead to their
children’s blessing and protection.”
As concerned parents
seek morally safe family entertainment, Cameron is also launching a new
television series for kids. “Our kids
are having an identity crisis in our country,” he shared. “They don’t know who they are. They don’t know where they are. They don’t understand right from wrong or even
if they’re a boy or a girl. So, we want
to tell stories that are going to give kids their identity in Christ. They’re going to teach them values. Think of Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood only
modernized with hilarious dialogue, beautiful animation, and it's called
Adventures with Iggy and Mr. Kirk. I’m
Mr. Kirk and my little sidekick is an iguana named Iggy and he is being
puppeteered by a world-renowned creator of puppets who worked with Jim Henson
and the Muppets on Sesame Street.”
Rev. Dr. Kenneth L.
Beale, Jr.
Pastor, Ft.
Snelling Memorial Chapel
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
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