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Churches Embrace Pride Month With Drag Queen Story Hour, Queer Proms And Gay Concerts

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Is it any wonder churches are empty? They have lost their religion.

Churches Embrace Pride Month With Drag Queen Story Hour, Queer Proms And Gay Concerts

By: Kate Anderson, Daily Caller, June 11, 2023

Churches are hosting drag story hours, queer proms and events to help liberate themselves “from the Bible as a weapon of exclusion” for this year’s Pride month.
A Maryland church is advertising its upcoming drag queen story hour with “Mama Belle” and encouraging children to “be themselves,” arguing that even Jesus “used tools employed by drag artists!”
“Additionally, by breaking down barriers of traditional gender norms, drag queens help to create an atmosphere that is both open, accepting, and free of anything that could inhibit imagination,” First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, Maryland, said about its Drag Queen Story Hour.

Several churches are celebrating Pride month by hosting events including queer proms, a drag queen story hour and a study to liberate themselves “from the Bible as a weapon of exclusion.”

A 2020 study from the University of California Los Angeles School of Law Williams Institute found that 47% of Americans who identified as LGBTQ also considered themselves moderately or highly religious, according to NBC News. As June goes into full swing, houses of worship in Ohio, New York, California and Maryland are hosting several Pride-themed events.

First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, Maryland, is hosting a drag queen story hour on June 11 with drag queen “Mama Bella” for children of all ages, according to the event page. Another webpage, which has since been taken down and archived, went into a further explanation of the purpose of the event and argued that it creates a space for children to “be themselves.”

“The costumes and imaginative presentation of the Drag Queen enhance the story as the storyteller themselves is conveying a story through their dramatic appearance and performance,” the church explained. “Additionally, by breaking down barriers of traditional gender norms, drag queens help to create an atmosphere that is both open, accepting, and free of anything that could inhibit imagination. If even, drag queens provoke questions, that in of itself is evidence that they are opening the gateway to wonder and engagement.”

The church claimed that drag queen story hours are safe for children because the events were “created by a mother (who is a member of the LGBTQ+ community) for she and her child to enjoy, and experience together.” The church also said that the story hours show that “[o]ne could say that Jesus used tools employed by drag artists!”

Trinity Church Wall Street in New York City is encouraging young people to attend its “Youth Queer Prom” sponsored by Trinity Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA). The prom is only for teens in 9-12th grade that identify as LGBTQ+ and will feature “dancing, fashion, snacks, swag, and great music,” according to the event page.

All Saints Church in Pasadena, California, hosted a “Somewhere Over the Rainbow Queer Prom” on June 2 and a Drag Queen Bingo Hour on June 4 following a regular Sunday service, according to the church’s website. The church has several other LGBTQ events planned throughout the month including a Pride Movie Night screening of “The Wizard of Oz” on June 16 and an event titled “But the Bible Says” on June 11 to help religious members liberate themselves “from the Bible as a weapon of exclusion … [and] to dismantle the misuse of our sacred texts as weapons of mass discrimination.”

Canon Susan Russell, a reverend at the church, told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the “But the Bible Says” program is offered occasionally to church members to unpack the “biblical context” for passages that have been used against the LGBTQ community.

“It includes the historical note that just as a handful of texts out of context were used in the 17th century to brand Galileo a heretic, a handful of texts out of context are being used in our time to stigmatize LGBTQ+ people — and that the Bible is neither a text book on Astronomy nor Human Sexuality but of faith in a God who created us all in love and calls us to love one another,” Russell said. “Recognizing that good people of deep faith read the same Bible and come to different conclusions on a whole variety of issues — sexual orientation and gender identity being among them — our hope is to equip our parish members to be in dialogue with those with whom we differ while affirming the inherent dignity and belovedness of every member of our human family.”

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Source: https://gellerreport.com/2023/06/churches-embrace-pride-month-with-drag-queen-story-hour-queer-proms-and-gay-concerts.html/


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    • angryandsad

      Churches which fly rainbow flags or host events as described above actually serve Satan, not the true God who created everything out of nothing.

    • James Fontana

      These churches will all be destroyed with their pastors, elders, deacons, etc.

    • HTLIII

      WHAT!!?? Still no provision for dedicated heartfelt pain of isolation for professional gerbil stuffers? I thought this was a subsidized free country. By the way. Tell these morons that the devil does NOT reward evil. The devil was put in charge of hell for a reason. Believe it.

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