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Drag Queen Story Time Ruined by Religious Zealots

By December 23, 2018Children's Literature, News

Drag Queen Story Time is a fun and educational scheme in libraries in the USA and UK where children enjoy stories read by local drag queens. The drag queens come to read to children aged 3+, to celebrate “diversity, helping kids look beyond gender stereotypes, accepting differences, and preventing bullying.”

The scheme encourages open-mindedness, tolerance, and respect for all- something Warriors for Christ and Special Forces of Liberty could not abide. Their attorney, Chris Sevier, has a history of concocting ridiculous, bigoted schemes masquerading as equality. In 2013 he attempted to sue Apple for making computers that could access pornography, and once tried to marry his computer as an apparent show of his complete misunderstanding of marriage equality. In 2017 Sevier sued four Democratic congress people for flying a rainbow flag- one he believed established an LGBT religion

Sevier explained: “By bringing this lawsuit, we are unapologetically and firmly defending the civil rights movement led by pastor Martin Luther King.”

Anyone who knows what MLK stood for would quite rightly laugh at this preposterous statement.

The confused bigot also believes the Drag Queen Story Time violates the First Amendment Establishment Clause by failing the Lemon Test– one established through Lemon V Kurtzman 1971.

To pass the test all three requirements must be satisfied:

1. Serve a valid secular purpose

2. No endorsing of a religion

3. It can’t entangle government with religion.

Sevier said the event violates two of the requirements and that by holding the event at a library they are ‘endorsing secular humanism’.

“The evidence would suggest that the self identified transgendered. They are using a government facility to show that the governments backs their worldview to then target children, to indoctrinate them under a faith based ideology.” Sevier wrongly explained.

As with Servier’s previous bigoted attempts at suing innocent parties- this one should also fall through- however, it is unfortunate that the library have decided to pull their event due to pressure from the hateful. We hope that once the lawsuit is over with that the library can get back to its pre-planned programming, including the very worthy event of Drag Queen Story Time. 

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