As the geopolitical situation heats up, with Chinese jets probing Taiwan’s defenses and Russian tanks rumbling in Eastern Europe, is the US Air Force busy preparing for war and focusing on deterring our nation’s enemies?
Sure, if you count sending drag queens to read to kids as “deterrence”. Perhaps the traditionalist Russkies will be so horrified by our depravity that they’ll go to Putin’s new cathedral and pray rather than bombing us.
Regardless of how much of a deterrent the USAF Drag Queen Story hour is, it is what the Air Force was planning on doing, at least until Marco Rubio called attention to the ridiculous idea.
He, when he found out about the sick program, wrote a scathing letter to the Air Force about it saying:
Recently, the Air Force Library at Ramstein Air Force Base (AFB) in Germany announced that it would be hosting a “Drag Queen Story Time” event planned for June 2, 2022 to celebrate Pride Month on base. I urge you to immediately cancel this politically divisive event, and take appropriate disciplinary action against all involved in allowing this gross abuse of taxpayer funding to place children in a sexualized environment.
Continuing the letter, Rubio ripped the idea as “completely insane” and “inappropriate”, saying:
In light of this, it is completely insane for Ramstein AFB to use on-installation resources for rituals like “Drag Queen Story Time.” These inappropriate events are extremely divisive at home for good reason; in all cases, they place young children in close proximity with adults who are intentionally and explicitly sexualized. A flyer for the similar event last year highlighted the apparent inclusion of a controversial book, The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish. The author of the book said they wrote it so that children could “experience the magic of drag and to get a little practice shaking their hips or shimmying their shoulders to know how [they] can feel fabulous inside of [their] own bodies.”[1] As I hope you can agree, decisions over children and their bodies should be left to moms and dads serving our nation, not mediated through publicly funded propaganda on U.S. Air Force bases.
The last thing parents serving their nation overseas should be worried about, particularly in a theater with heightened geopolitical tensions, is whether their children are being exposed to sexually charged content simply because they visited their local library. I urge you to cancel this event…
The Air Force, chastened by Rubio’s letter, decided to cancel the event, saying in a statement that:
“The advertisement has been removed and the event will not take place. Ramstein leaders strive to foster a culture based on inclusion where all people are treated with dignity and respect, regardless of their political views, color of their skin, or sexual orientation.”
Perhaps next the Air Force can deter the Chinese by hosting an event on the dangers of “cultural appropriation in food” or a seminar on “anti-racism in anti-ballistic missile training”. No wonder we haven’t won a war since 1991…
By: Gen Z Conservative, editor of GenZConservative.com. Follow me on Parler and Gettr.
This story syndicated with permission from Will, Author at Trending Politics
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