{"id":48654,"date":"2022-12-31T10:06:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T15:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=48654"},"modified":"2022-12-31T10:06:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T15:06:13","slug":"a-victory-for-equal-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=48654","title":{"rendered":"A Victory For Equal Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a few years, libraries across America have featured Drag Queen Story Hours for children. However, when actor Kirk Cameron asked to read his new children&#8217;s book at the Indianapolis Public Library\u2019s main branch, he was turned down.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/12\/29\/huge-crowd-attends-reading-faith-based-childrens-book-despite-library-attempt-stop-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart<\/a> reported what happened next:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cThis was the largest event held at the library in its 137 years of existence,\u201d Zac Bell with BRAVE Books, who is with the book\u2019s publisher, commented. \u201cThe turnout was phenomenal! We were blown away.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>According to Bell, the Indianapolis Public Library \u201coriginally denied us the ability to book the reading. We sent them a letter that threatened legal action and they backed down.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Meanwhile, Cameron and his publisher recently criticized libraries that will not allow a public reading of his book but offer \u201cdrag queen story hours\u201d for children.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>However, \u201cNo more will the family of faith be shut out from the public square!\u201d Cameron <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CmsNKo0tgUI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">wrote<\/a> in a social media post Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kirk Cameron will be reading his book at New York\u2019s Scarsdale Library on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>This is what the event in Indianapolis looked like:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/BraveBooks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-48655 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/BraveBooks.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"631\" height=\"766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/BraveBooks.png 631w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/BraveBooks-247x300.png 247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\" \/><\/a>Thank you, Kirk Cameron and Brave Books for standing up for the rights of parents to have access to events that build up their children.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"aswift_2_host\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Advertisement\" aria-label=\"Advertisement\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a few years, libraries across America have featured Drag Queen Story Hours for children. However, when actor Kirk Cameron asked to read his new children&#8217;s book at the Indianapolis Public Library\u2019s main branch, he was turned down. On Thursday, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=48654\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10348,11793,4840,16127],"class_list":["post-48654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breitbart","tag-drag-queen-story-hour","tag-indianapolis","tag-kirk-cameron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48660,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48654\/revisions\/48660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}