The innocent child instinctively and implicitly knows what is good or bad, beautiful or ugly. Like the innocent child denouncing the emperor’s “new clothes,” he recognizes the drag queen as ugly and sinister as a wicked witch in a fairy tale. The child does not bend to the politically- correct opinions and says what he thinks.
Suddenly, a new figure has appeared on the scene, invading public places, libraries and schools. His appearance is shocking and lewd. He is the drag queen who demands the right to read stories and have access to toddlers and children.
There is no explanation why he must read his stories about sexual fluidity to little children. Nothing like this has ever been done. He does it because he can do it—a decadent society lets him do it. The media actively promotes these indoctrination sessions as manifestations of “tolerance” and diversity.
Propaganda Not Entertainment
The drag queen makes no secret of his links to the LGBTQ+ movement, and he serves as its unofficial spokesman to the children. He is not reading fairy tales but telling toddlers that men can be women and that same-sex marriages are good under the label of “family-friendly” entertainment. Schools, libraries, or other public places become platforms for his anti-Christian morality message.
Thus, parents have every right to reject this shameless advocacy that will corrupt their children and present sinful relationships in a favorable light. Indeed, one drag queen in Lafayette, Louisiana, admitted at a town hearing that the purpose of his performance is “be the grooming of the next generation.”
While not every child will attend these events, the children who do will spread their confusing messages to those who don’t. The eventual goal is the mainstreaming of drag queens. Reportedly, Michigan’s lesbian Democratic attorney general, Dana Nessel, mockingly called for “a drag queen in every school.” Taco Bell is holding drag queen events in its restaurants.
The Target is Childhood Innocence
These reasons are enough to demand the closing down of these morally-toxic shows. Children must be protected from exposure to lewd men in dresses with sinful messages. And parents, informed by the Church, not the media, are the ones to judge the moral dangers of these shows.
However, the program’s target is not only to expose children to immoral ideas. Children have something special that terrifies the drag queen. And for this reason, he targets children and seeks to rid them of their special quality.
That quality is childhood innocence.
Innocence Is Seeing Everything With a Spirit of Harmony
Innocence is the child’s ability to see everything in a spirit of harmony that God puts into the soul. It allows the child to be open to all forms of rectitude, marvelousness, purity, and beauty found in the nature of things. For example, the child, a young boy, develops a notion of how things should be. He imagines the ideal models of things.
This perception facilitates a relationship with God as the author of the harmony and marvels that the child sees, imagines and loves. It encourages the practice of virtue and creates a desire for heaven.
Everyone has witnessed this childhood innocence. The child exhibits this marveling spirit with great exuberance toward the good, true and beautiful and a rejection of the contrary. During early childhood, the boy develops his first certainties. He will be full of admiration, trust and hope that comes from the joy of new life. All these things develop inside this wonderworld of childhood innocence.
The Need for Protection
However, this splendid gift must be protected against evil, sin and deception. With an underdeveloped intelligence, the young boy lacks the understanding of these elements that invade his marvelous world. As he grows older, he will develop new criteria and find ways of combatting evil without breaking his internal harmony. Indeed, innocence is not only for children but a harmony that must mature throughout a person’s life.
For this reason, children have always been protected against those things contrary to innocence. Parents are especially vigilant against the extreme intemperance caused by sins of impurity that shatter this internal harmony. Exposing a young boy to such evils breaks his innocence and sends him on the road to cynicism, distrust, and sin. Alas, many problems with youngsters today can be traced to this slaughter of innocence.
Drag Queen Story Hours must be seen in this context. This is not entertainment but a highly sexualized and cowardly assault on childhood innocence. It presents a garish, vulgar, sinister world that idolizes sinful situations that clash with the innocent child’s marvelous and pure world. The result is confusion, contradiction, and chaos in the child’s mind, which he spreads to those around him.
How the Child Terrifies the Drag Queen
However, the innocent child also represents a threat to the drag queen. The drag queen fears the innocent child. This seems hardly possible since the small child is usually not a threat to anyone. They are the most vulnerable members of society.
This same innocent child terrifies the drag queen as he does all who are given to the disordered passions and sin. There are three reasons for this fear.
The first reason is that the innocent child is a constant indictment that contrasts with the drag queen’s iniquitous ways. The child’s presence represents virtue in its most exuberant and pure form—a form that cannot exist in the dark underworld of the drag queen. The child’s desire to imagine an ideal world excludes the drag queen’s fantasies that distort that innocent world. By contrast, he calls the drag queen’s bluff by proclaiming happiness lies in the harmony of innocence, forcing the drag queen to see his internal disharmony.
He then desires to eliminate this rebuke by inviting the innocent child to be part of his warped world.
Seeking Out Acceptance
Secondly, this indictment carries with it a rejection. The innocent child instinctively and implicitly knows what is good or bad, beautiful or ugly. Like the innocent child denouncing the emperor’s “new clothes,” he recognizes the drag queen as ugly and sinister as a wicked witch in a fairy tale. The child does not bend to the politically- correct opinions and says what he thinks.
The innocent child represents the rejection of the drag queen. The latter craves universal and unconditional acceptance. Adults and teens can be intimidated by the overbearing culture to accept the drag queen. However, the young child does not sense this intimidation inside his wonderworld. Thus, the drag queen seeks out the young child to force his acceptance inside the context of a weaponized story hour.
A Constant Problem
Finally, the innocent child represents a constant problem for the drag queen. Because he is naturally turned toward the good, true and beautiful, every innocent child becomes a personal enemy that must be forced to accept the drag queen. It is an eternal fight that reoccurs with each passing generation.
By exposing the innocent child to his message earlier, the drag queen hopes to mitigate the “damage” caused by innocence. It will indeed quicken society’s descent into decadence and facilitate his acceptance. However, as long as there is a threat of a young child crying out that the emperor is naked, the drag queen is vulnerable.
The drag queen works under the illusion that early exposure will groom a generation of acceptance that will, in turn, generate a similar one. However, he implicitly knows that nature works against him. The innocent child will always initially desire purity and God.
An Anti-Gospel
Thus, the drag queen disproportionally insists on the story hours. He is an anti-missionary. His anti-Gospel calls for the abolition of all moral restraint, freedom for every license and sin. He targets the most vulnerable. He will not tolerate opposition.
Those who accept Drag Queen Story Hours see attending these events with their children as a signal to fellow liberals that they are “tolerant” of the most radical trends of the day. Members of the liberal establishment, like Rep. Nancy Pelosi, embrace the drag queen as a revolutionary symbol of free speech. Innocent children are thus double victims.
However, for Christians and parents, this fight involves the eternal salvation of children’s souls. For this reason, Drag Queen Story Hours have generated a firestorm across America with hundreds of protests. So many rightly oppose this attack upon that God-given childhood innocence that prepares the soul to live a virtuous life and to desire heaven.
So much is at stake in this battle. The child that survives abortion must now be subject to such indoctrination. The ghastly shows must stop. They are corrupting innocent children. It is of these that Our Lord Jesus Christ said, “But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea” (Matt. 18:6). Such is the damage to little souls.
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Worse than being “afraid” of childhood innocence, drag queens are excited by it. Their base souls paradoxically love innocence–with a breathless enthrallment–as something to defile. In the drag queen’s degenerate milieu, the lurid faces and grotesque exhibits of their peers in profligacy fill them with the same disgust that in their lucid moments they feel for themselves. But the face of an uncorrupted child is still an exciting trophy. Why any parent would take their child to “pride” parades or drag queen story hours is a puzzlement, a mystery–of iniquity.
You are spot-on with this article…
As a Pediatrician, I could see it in an instant when the first “Story Hours” was announced at a local public library…
Why else would drag queens aim their message at small children?
Because they are vessels of innocence that can relatively easily be filled with corrupt ideology and thus provide an avenue for it’s perpetuation…
Opposing these local story hours is difficult, but worth it. Many community members opposed a recent Drag Queen Story Hour in our town and we were able to have the event moved out of the public library. Once an event is scheduled, you can organize calls and emails to the town mayor and the library staff with the genuine concerns for the safety of the children, as well as the fact that these programs divide the community and create nothing but shock and disunity. Also, they are anything but “family friendly”. The books that they read to the children are ones that indoctrinate the children into a dangerour gender-ideology.
After the event was moved to the local Barnes and Noble store, the news reported that the library staff felt
“threatened” but no evidence of threats were mentioned in the article and the police were never alerted to any threats. I think we may have been called small-minded” too.
Several of us decided to meet and pray a rosary together because this diabolical trend cannot be fought by flesh alone!
Outstanding explanation Mr. Horvat, thank you! This speaks of the intangible reality of the human person which our society has lost all sight of. This evil is particularly invasive in Western Washington. In Bellingham, WA all that is evil in the society is concentrated. Hence our local school board director is owner of an ‘all ages’ sex shop whose business ‘consults’ with local schools in the county (never saying what the consultation is). She will hold sex summer camps for 9-12 year olds that is 4 sessions, each being 3 hours long. That is an intensive. I invite all readers to write to the Bellingham Chief of Police and demand that she be prohibited from having any such classes as well as from having children in her shop until an investigation can be conducted of federal, state, and local laws and codes proving this isn’t illegal. https://www.foxnews.com/us/washington-state-school-board-director-teach-sexual-pleasure-class-9-year-olds-sex-shop
The innocence of children is much more pronounced if the child is baptized. An unbaptized child has only natural innocence, which is weaker and probably easier to corrupt than baptized innocence free from original sin. As more young parents turn from institutional religion and neglect to baptize their children, this leaves the children less protected from assaults on their (natural) innocence like drag queen story hour.
The invasion of drag queens, LGBT activists and various sexual predators into the lives of our young children is the most convincing evidence yet that Western Civilization has collapsed into utter depravity. These predators and ill-intended perverts have appeared in the classrooms at the invitation of depraved school boards and satanic school superintendents. But the ultimate responsibility for this horror and evil being visited upon our innocent children is us. We, the parents, citizens and voters who allowed these evil people to rise up and take control of our schools and children’s lives. And the responsibility for rising up and removing and punishing these evil destroyers of children lies with every parent, citizens and voter. The time courage and action is at hand.
Well-said, Mr. Horvat. These story hours led by drag queens are an abomination; to expose our sweet children to such perversity cries out to heaven. I cannot comprehend any loving parent cooperating with this, regardless of their motivation. If the culture of death cannot kill all the children physically, they will pursue their spiritual death, and Satan dances.
There is much in this essay that I agree with, but as a convinced Reformation Protestant, I keep wondering how the reality of sin, which infects every human heart and which comes from the inside, not outside (sin is rebellion against God; the means by which that rebellion takes shape vary from person to person, and a newborn is ignorant of HOW to sin – but is still a rebel) relates to the reality of childhood innocence, in which a child instinctively is on the side of the good, the true, and the beautiful unless the child is warped away from such innocence by those who plot against it, such as the Drag Queens.
Dear Mr. Horvat: I am reading your book Return to Order: it is so good. I am buying one for all of my children (8 copies) for Christmas. It will help them form their family cultures and realize the great importance of doing so. It will help them realize the great obstacles we face in our time to live as cultural and faithful Catholics, but not to be discouraged by those obstacles because we can meet them with “upright spontaneity”: thank you, Mr. Horvat.
Thank you for this article! I am so grateful to find this information and know how you explain so clearly and simply the truth of how drag queen story hour is an affront to Christian values and Family integrity. I have been searching online for more articles like this only to find that the search system is already biased against us. Most articles come up with how offensive the right-wing conservatives are against the LGBT community. It’s unbelievable how much support the ultra-liberal side of the political fence has influenced in our society. Thank you again for this article!