“They had the group sing the national anthem AND say the pledge and the loudest applause throughout the event was for nationalist/patriotic stuff even more than the Christian crap,” said Mr. Clint Schneckloth, pastor of the progressive Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, called the event “overwhelming and far weirder and scarier than I had even imagined it would be.” That didn’t sit well with at least one of the protesters. Cameron, the former teen star of ABC-TV’s “Growing Pains,” led the crowd in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and singing the national anthem. May their example shame and silence your enemies.’” As it is written, ‘You have taught the little children to praise you perfectly. “In unison, and with great laughter, all 300 children confessed with gusto, ‘No!’” said Mr. She asked the children in the audience, “Do you think elephants can be birds, even if they strap on silly wings and a beak?” I think this book has an excellent message for children.” Perry Smalts said the book shows “that even though the elephant, Kevin, wanted to be like the birds, the town needed him to be an elephant and he became a hero. Clair and published by Brave Books, which “teaches children that boys are not girls and elephants are not birds.” She read “Elephants Are Not Birds,” written by Ashley St. Cameron was Laura Perry Smalts, author of the 2019 book “Transgender to Transformed,” an account of how she turned to Christianity after spending nine years living as a transgender man. “What we did not expect was for a group of drag queens and activists to attend and walk up and down the event giving the children in attendance the creeps.”Īppearing with Mr. “In coming to Fayetteville, Arkansas we expected to get a ton of supportive Christian and conservative families to show up,” said Brave Books chief of staff Zac Bell in a statement. ActivistBowen: #PFIZER X 4 March 17, 2023 Outside the library, about a dozen protesters waved signs and did chalk art on the sidewalk. Cameron said afterward the event drew a “small group of protesters, which included some grown men wearing silly makeup, dressed in skirts and heels, pretending to be women.”īrave Books estimated that about 500 people attended the children’s reading.
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