News Briefs and Altar-Cations September 17th, 2023
What do gay porn and musical theater have in common? Wow, that’ll get your imagination working, won’t it?!! Well, tonight they’re both a part of this week’s News Briefs.
The anti-drag queen story hour folks insist that the appearance of drag queens in public places, such as libraries, is a bad influence on their children. And many of the books that the queens are reading have been banned.
What if a supposedly straight cis-male read aloud a story describing homosexual anal intercourse… not only in a public setting, but on C-SPAN… and the supposedly strait cis-male was a United States Senator?
Let’s watch…(22) WATCH: 'Gender Queer' And 'All Boys Aren't Blue' Excerpts QUOTED During Senate Hearing On BOOK BANS - YouTube (12:29-12:12)
This was read during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled “Book Bans: Examining How Censorship Limits Liberty and Literature.”
I’m not sure if Senator Kennedy’s testimony was in the pro or con column… but if you, noticed we never did see what his left hand was doing while he was reading. Just sayin’.
No one loves musical theater more than I do. Whether it be on Broadway, a touring company, or the local community group, I’m there. The only thing I don’t like about seeing a show in person is other people in the audience.
This week a touring company’s performance of the musical Beetlejuice was interrupted by someone not only taking flash pictures, but singing along, talking, and, believe it or not, vaping.
What do you do? Check this out.
(22) Watch: Rep. Boebert escorted out of ‘Beetlejuice’ show in Denver - YouTube (0:00-0:39)
Yes, that was Colorado’s Congress Critter, Lauren Boebert.
Sitting behind her was a pregnant woman, who asked Boebert to please stop vaping. Her was response was, “No.” And then told the mom-to-be that she was “a sad and miserable person.” Not very pro-life of her, is it?
Of course, Boebert used the, “Don’t you know who I am” cliché. They didn’t care.
She also denied vaping until pictures showed up proving otherwise.
Since then, she issued this statement:
“The past few days have been difficult and humbling, and I'm truly sorry. While none of my actions or words as a private citizen that night were intended to be malicious or meant to cause harm, the reality is they did and I regret that.”
You can’t say, “Don’t you know who I am” and claim your actions were of a private citizen.
Yes, you did cause harm to others. Those tickets easily went for well over two hundred dollars and you ruined 28 hundred people’s perhaps once-in-a-lifetime experience.
What a sad excuse for not only an elected official, but a human being as well.
And that’s this week’s News Briefs.
Altarcations is our way of changing the narrative in the conversation on who is grooming and molesting children. The far right would like you to believe it’s the drag queens and members of the trans communities committing these offences. But the facts point that the high percentage of offenders are ministers, priests, and others associated with religious education.
Why do some many people of religion like child pornography?
Florida man Shawn Fitzgerald was, I repeat was, director of youth services at a First United Methodist Church and a high school teacher, was arrested after investigators found more than 700 pictures and videos of child porn on his phone. The images on his phone were of children as young as infants being sexually abused.
He's been sentenced to 35 years in prison. Good luck surviving six months, pastor.
Tyler Selby a worship leader at a Baptist church in Mississippi, was arrested on federal charges of producing child pornography.
He is accused of producing a video that shows him in a tub with a young boy committing sexual acts.
Online, Selby, a married family man, posed as a 17-year-old girl named “Emma Long.” To obtain child sexual abuse material, he shared a video of “Emma’s” 5-year-old sister engaging in sexual activity to entice others to sexually abuse children and share thei videos. Worship leader indeed.
Rodolfo Martinez-Guevara, a priest with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles
has been charged with possession of child pornography. Allegedly he possessed more than 600 images of child sexual abuse material, including pictures and videos of minors under 12 – unsurprisingly, mostly of boys.
The District Attorney said “As a priest, the defendant is in a position of tremendous power, authority, and trust. The alleged crimes deeply violate that trust and involve a disturbing number of sexual images of young boys. These are not simply images and videos … they constitute horrific exploitation of our most vulnerable.”
And while it may look like they’re wearing dresses, please don’t confuse them with Drag Queens.
And that’s this week’s Altar-Cations.