Certainly you’ve of LGBTQ agenda Drag Queen hours in Public Libraries
across the United States of America by
now? BUT I found out from MassResistance there are at
least five moral City council members out of seven in the Texas city of Leander.
JRH 8/28/19
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Another victory: Texas city stops "Drag Queen Story
Hour" after MassResistance pressure
August 25, 2019
City Council discontinues all library room rentals
Council also votes to require background checks for
people presenting to children in library
Months of phone calls, emails by local citizens made
the difference!
MassResistance notches another victory in the battle against
“Drag Queens” targeting young children in public libraries!
KXAN
bi-line on Drag Queen Hour
- This was the local TV station's report in Leander, Texas, the day after the
City Council vote!
On August 15, The Leander, Texas, City Council voted 5-2 to
stop renting out their public library meeting rooms to outside organizations.
The Council also voted 6-1 to require background checks for guest presenters
for programs in the library involving children 17 and younger. By all accounts,
these policy changes will completely stop the “Drag Queen Story Hour” events in
the public library.
The Leander
City Council votes on the new library policy.
Both of these moves are a direct result of Texas
MassResistance activism targeting the “Drag Queen Story Hour” events at the
Leander Public Library this year - a story which ultimately made national news.
Here’s how it happened:
1. Public library sponsors Drag Queen event – until
MassResistance gets involved!
As we reported earlier local
residents in Leander, a suburb of Austin, contacted MassResistance asking for
help. They were outraged that the Leander Public Library was sponsoring
a Drag Queen Story Hour, to take place on June 15.
Our Houston MassResistance chapter helped the Leander
parents organize and leaflet the community. Soon the Mayor and
City Council were flooded with phone calls and emails from angry citizens.
Then Houston MassResistance released a
revolting 57-page exposé of the “Drag Queen” who was to be
reading to the children at the Public Library event. The social media photos
shown in the report are repulsive and pornographic. One could easily see this
is definitely not a person you would want teaching anything to young children.
This is the
"Drag Queen" that library officials and LGBT activists
invited to read to children in their library - exposed by MassResistance.
The City Council quickly reacted to the outrage and decided
that the public library could not be the sponsors of the Drag Queen
event! Two of the City Council members even contacted
MassResistance to cover for themselves, blaming the previous City
Council members for scheduling the event!
2. Library lets local pro-LGBT church rent the room so
Drag Queen event to go on
But as we subsequently reported, this
was a short-lived victory. Unfortunately. the local library policies had been
changed about a year ago to allow community use of the library building by churches
and political organizations. This allowed a local LGBTQ-affirming church
to step in and rent the library room, so the Drag Queen Story Hour could still
take place on June 15.
Texas MassResistance announced it would protest the event
along with Leander parents and other groups outside the library that day.
Almost immediately, the Antifa chapter in nearby Austin announced they were
also coming – presumably to harass and intimidate the pro-family protesters.
3. The Left begins to cave in
Texas MassResistance made it clear that they weren’t afraid
of the Antifa threats. The Leander police also announced that they intended to
protect the pro-family protesters from any possible violence. As a
result, Antifa basically backed down and had no visible presence at the
protest.
People in town were incensed that this “Drag Queen,” who
clearly had no business being around children, was still being scheduled for
the event. And they continued flood the library with angry calls and emails.
It worked. The day before the June 15 event, the
pro-LGBT church announced that the scheduled “Drag Queen” would not be
coming to read to the children – and it would not be a “Drag
Queen Story Hour.” Instead, they were re-naming it “Leander Family
Pride Festival and Story Time.” But people would still be reading
homosexual-themed books to young children, but there would not be Drag Queens
in attendance.
4. Successful protest outside the library against the
LGBT agenda
MassResistance organized about 100 local Leander pro-family
people to show up on June 15 outside the library – to protest the LGBT agenda
in their library and in their city. About 75 pro-LGBT people were also came to
oppose the pro-family protesters. But they appeared to be just a bunch of
random gay activists from out of town, milling about and mouthing their
predictable slogans and chants about “hate” and “bigotry.”
Due to the threats by Antifa to counter-protest
and likely cause violence, the city went to great expense to secure the rights
of all residents to safely practice their freedom to assemble and protest.
There were police everywhere. In all, the city spent over $20,000 for
protection for the protest – which only added to the outcry against this
program.
At the library protest on
June 15 Texas
MassResistance leader Tracy Shannon shows her winning smile!
Dueling
banners at the protest. Man
in the foreground is reporter for InfoWars.
In addition, Leander residents were fuming that the city
decided to close the library that day except for the exclusive use of the
“pride” event – due to “safety concerns.” This measure seemed a bit
over-the-top and unnecessary, according to many people.
The sign
outside the Leander Public Library that day infuriated parents.
But the pro-family protest was a big success. It
sent a huge message to the politicians in Leander.
5. The City Council is forced to solve the problem!
National far-left organizations such as the ACLU, the NCAC (National Coalition Against Censorship), and Texas Library Association had already sent letters threatening lawsuits if the Leander City Council were to enact policies to make groups renting the library facilities pay for their own security costs – claiming it would be a “First Amendment violation..” But there was huge city-wide outrage against these sexual programs targeting young children. So the Councilors had to make some tough decisions. They ultimately did what was best for the children and the community.
Thus, on August 15 the City Council voted 5-2 to restrict
the use of the library meeting rooms to city departments in their official
capacities. The new policies for approving outside presenters brought into the
library by city departments will involve background checks if they are
presenting to children under 17.
This was a very busy street
corner on June 15!
As of now, the city residents are protected from “Drag Queen
Story Hour” events in their public library -- and other programming from
outside groups that is pushes LGBTQ content and ideology onto children.
Vile, unhinged attack from a left-wing City Council
member
One of the dissenting City Council members, Christine
Sederquist, an ally of the LGBT movement, blamed the expense of the security
for the protests on Tracy Shannon and MassResistance.
Pro-LGBT
Councilwoman Christine Sederquist poses with homosexual-themed children's book "Love Makes a
Family."
When Tracy Shannon responded that it was actually the
expected violence from Antifa that required the need for expensive police
protection – not the peaceful parents from Leander organized by MassResistance
– Councilwoman Sederquist posted a vile, unhinged attack against Tracy on
social media that included a disgusting sexual invective.
Councilwoman Christine
Sederquist Social
Media Screen Capture being vile to Tracy Shannon
This is unfortunately how the Left reacts to any pushback to
their horrible activities – with blatant lies and disgusting verbal abuse. In
fact, Tracy Shannon is a very calm person who has NEVER screamed at anyone,
certainly not children. Tracy’s online activity is simply exposing the depraved
“Drag Queens” that people like Sederquist push on kids.
(How low can the Councilwoman go? She claims to possess
dignity, class, and discretion. Yet only an extremely crude person would use
the repulsive phrase “get bent” in public discourse.)
The city of Leander deserves better from an elected
official. Sederquist’s City Council email address is: place4@leandertx.gov.
The entire City Council can be reached at: citycouncil@leandertx.gov.
Going forward …
The City Council, strengthened by the resolve of many
residents who opposed Drag Queen Story Hour, made the right decision to protect
the children in their community. Most cities have ordinances to keep
sexually-oriented businesses away from libraries, churches, and schools because
they should not be around children. Now Leander has enacted further policy to
ensure that sexually explicit entertainers stay away from children in what
would otherwise be benign, less controversial programs.
But we're not done cleaning house yet. We’ve just
learned that the Leander Library has scheduled a “Pride Storytime” on Oct. 12. There will be no Drag
Queens and any adults participating will require a background check. We have a
strong feeling that local parents getting tired of the LGBT agenda being pushed
to children by their city. We’ll see what happens with that!
Going forward, MassResistance activists will continuing
putting pressure on locally-elected and countywide bodies to adopt strict
policies to ensure that sexually perverse Drag Queen Story Hours targeting
children are kept out of their libraries and other public venues.
We’ve already heard reports that other cities will be
adopting ordinances similar to Leander, Texas to restrict inappropriate use of
public spaces in taxpayer-funded venues like local libraries. We will keep you
apprised of future successes!
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