Kirk Cameron book event interrupted by activists, drag queens: publisher
By Fox News March 19, 2023
A group of drag queens and activists dressed in black and white showed up on Friday at the Fayetteville Public Library in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to protest actor-writer Kirk Cameron’s story time event for families and children, according to book publisher Brave Books, whose staff were present at the reading.
The drag queens blocked the views of some families and children and distracted others from the book reading and remarks from the stage, said Brave Books.
The publisher shared photos taken by staff on the scene.
Los Angeles-based Cameron, an outspoken Christian who has been traveling across the country to public libraries to share messages of faith, family and country at children’s book readings and the singing of patriotic songs, told Fox News Digital in exclusive comments on Saturday morning that he found the disruptions disturbing.
“The small group of protesters, which included some grown men wearing silly makeup, dressed in skirts and heels, pretending to be women, listened to the reading of a kids’ book about God’s view of gender called, ‘Elephants Are Not Birds,'” he told Fox News Digital in an email sent on Saturday.
“At the close of this sweet and funny story of a singing elephant named Kevin who was tricked by a vulture named ‘Culture’ into thinking he might be a bird, the reader then asked the 300 children, ‘Do you think elephants can be birds, even if they strap on silly wings and a beak?'”
Added Cameron, “In unison, and with great laughter, all 300 children confessed with gusto, No!'”
Kirk Cameron declares a ‘win’ over two public libraries that had denied him story hours
By Maureen Mackey, Fox News December 19, 2022
In comments to Fox News Digital over the weekend, actor and writer Kirk Cameron declared that he has “won” against two public libraries in this country that previously denied him the space and opportunity to hold a children’s book story hour program in their facilities — and that now are offering to work with him on room bookings after he challenged their denials and threatened to “assert” his “rights in court.”
In short, “they caved,” his publisher told Fox News Digital this weekend.
The public libraries — both of which held “drag queen story hours” in their facilities this past June, as well as other programs that promote and celebrate diversity of thought and belief — now are in communication with his publisher about the bookings for his story hour program for kids, he said.
Fox News Digital was shown the email exchanges between him and the two libraries as proof of the forward progress, as well as the details of the room bookings for later this month at the libraries.
Cameron, a well-known actor, writer and producer who first found fame on the TV sitcom “Growing Pains,” is the author of the new book, “As You Grow.”
t’s an illustrated children’s book and part of a series that celebrates the positive qualities of kindness, joy, patience, compassion and other biblical values.
Texas middle school kids asked to role-play as ‘seducing hooker’ in bizarre classroom game: mom
March 18, 2023
Texas mom Laura Maria Gruber always considered herself a “woke” liberal in favor of progressive causes, even sending her young daughter to a charter school that celebrates “diversity, equity and inclusion,” according to the school’s web site.
But she never thought her 13-year-old would be asked to play a “seducing hooker” in a bizarre classroom game.
“I picked my daughter and her best friend up from school and my daughter said ‘We played this game at school, Mom, and you’re going to be upset,'” Gruber told The Post Saturday from her home in San Antonio.
“When she told me about kids getting up in class and posing as hookers, I almost crashed the car.”
The September incident was so disturbing, Gruber said, she pulled her daughter from the school and demanded an apology from administrators.
Gruber, 45, a Latina from Puerto Rico, found out the game was called “Bear-Hooker-Hunter” and went online, discovering it is an adult drinking game version of rock-paper-scissors.
As part of the game, Gruber said her daughter and the other seventh graders in the Social Emotional Learning class at KIPP Poder Academy had to pair up and stand in the front of the room.
The kids were then told to strike poses — either as a hunter, pointing an imaginary gun at each other; as a scary bear with its paws up, or as a “seducing hooker,” with a hand on one hip and another behind their ear, the distraught mom said.
The goal of the game was unclear other than being some sort of “team building” exercise, said Gruber, who felt the game sexualized the children.
Her daughter declined to play the game, Gruber said.
The boys and girls were organized from youngest to oldest, with some allegedly bribed with candy to get them to play along, the daughter told the mom.
Utah school gives kids 'disgusting' insects to eat in class for climate assignment on cows killing the Earth
'There's only one right answer to this essay. And it's that Americans should be eating bugs,' a teacher said
A middle school in Utah's Nebo School District gave sixth-grade students "disgusting" insects to eat last week as part of an English assignment on climate change, claiming it would save the environment from cows which were "killing the world," according to a mom who spoke with Fox News Digital.
"Middle schoolers loved the 'ewww' factor, many of them gave bugs a try (and even a few staff members!). Many thanks to our English teachers for creating fun and engaging lessons," the Spring Canyon Middle school said about the March 7 assignment.
Bugs were purchased from a commercial site that is "safe for consumption," the district said.
The mother of one of the students – Amanda Wright – told Fox News she believed the kids were being subjected to "indoctrination" into a "dark climate change religion." She challenged the school's principal Alison Hansen on the assignment after her daughter found it uncomfortable.
The climate change assignment instructed sixth-graders to write an argumentative essay, but did not permit students to disagree. The only acceptable answer was that humans should eat insects for their protein instead of cows, which are destroying the Ozone layer with methane gas.
Some students were given extra credit as an incentive to eat the insects.
Wright complained to the administration, and set up a meeting which she recorded.
"[My daughter] wasn't given an option to give an argument," Wright said about the argumentative essay in the meeting.
Tennessee bills target gender identity and expression
A string of legislation related to gender identity, transgender people and gender expression is moving through the Tennessee statehouse.
Two bills, which restrict drag performances and gender-affirming health care for young people, have already been signed into law. Proponents say the laws will shield children from sexually explicit content and from making health care decisions at too young an age.
Drag performance restrictions, which ban shows with sexual content in public or where children are present, are set to go into effect April 1.
Local authorities in Chattanooga say they haven't received guidance from the state on how to enforce the law, though Hamilton County District Attorney Coty Wamp issued a statement last week saying drag queens could be prosecuted for performing in front of children.
Under the new restrictions placed on gender-related care, people under the age of 18 will not be able to receive treatments including gender-affirming surgery, hormone therapy or puberty blockers. The bill allows about a year, through March 2024, for minors currently on those treatments to stop using them.
At least 10 bills related to gender, gender expression or gender-affirming medical care have been filed in Tennessee this session.
"This has been building since about 2016 on," said Chris Sanders, executive director of the Tennessee Equality Project, in a phone interview Thursday. "They have certainly widened the scope of how far the legislation is willing to go."
Several other bills that would place restrictions on gender identity and expression, particularly for young Tennesseeans, are still being discussed at the Capitol.
Drag performers may need to obtain permits to be paid for shows if a bill that passed the House last week makes it to the governor's desk.
House Bill 30 would expand restrictions on drag shows that Gov. Bill Lee signed into law earlier this month. It also reiterates the restrictions on minors attending drag shows.
Doggett told House members March 6 the bill would only apply to people performing in a way that is harmful to children.
"Over this last year there was adult-themed entertainment in the county in which I reside, where minors were present," Doggett said during a February hearing on the bill. "They were placing dollar bills into the underwear of performers. And so our district attorney looked at our current statutes that we have on the books ... and said that there was nothing to prevent that type of activity from occurring."
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