The trouble with drag queens

“Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.” (Romans 1:24)

Edmund Burke is frequently attributed for saying, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” While the actual speaker was John Stewart Mill in 1867, this former Rector of the University of St. Andrews spoke volumes in his inaugural address. Today’s pastors and conservatives could learn much from this early scholar. 

Mill’s speech issued the following warning to his time: “Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.” 

Flash forward to today, where evil has become the new norm, and few people dare speak out against it. In just one such example, drag queens have become the new Disney princesses of our era. Much can be said about the damaging effect that such personas have on young children today.  

Drag queen story-hours were shocking to many when they first commenced in 2015, but lately, they’ve become a near-normal occurrence at libraries and elementary schools across our nation. During June’s “Pride Month,” for example, four Colorado elementary schools sponsored these events, allowing men dressed in flamboyant women’s apparel, wigs, and make-up to sit amongst minors while reading stories to them. 

Lest anyone perceive such events as simple entertainment to promote reading, it’s important to note that most books read are chosen to groom young children into accepting transgenderism and LGBTQ principles. Per the Drag Queen Story Hour website, “We generally use a mix of surefire read-alouds and books that explore gender diversity and difference.” Books such as Feminist Baby by Loren Bran or Jacob’s New Dress by Sarah Hoffman are listed as favorites. In their own words, “DQSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models.” 

Is this what parents are genuinely seeking in their children’s education? Do such demonstrations enhance and affirm self-esteem or disturb and confuse impressionable young minds? 

Erika Sanzi from the Parents Defending Education believes these events are purposely created to destroy the innocence of youth. 

“There is a reason to be concerned that there is a faction … of people who are pushing a lot of this stuff … [that] just don’t buy into this idea of childlike innocence,” Sanzi said. “There’s definitely a group of people that is out there really trying to push the boundaries because they do not believe that children need to be protected or shouldn’t be protected from this kind of content.”

A recent “Drag the Kids to Pride” event at a Texas Gay Bar further demonstrates the insanity of exposing children to adult-themed entertainment. Released videos show children giving dancers money while others encouraged the young children – mainly under 10-years-of-age – to walk the runway and pose for event attendees. When protestors confronted adults escorting children to the show, one woman wearing a shirt with the statement, “Love is love,” ironically screamed profanities at the protestors while repeating, “You’re scaring the children!”

While State Rep. Bryan Slaton (R-Texas) is seeking to pass legislation that will ban such events from happening again, the loss of childhood innocence can never be recovered. Even as Slaton works to justify his proposal, it’s hard not to wonder how such a need ever became necessary.

“We have a lot of laws to protect kids in Texas,” Slaton said. We don’t let them get tattoos. They can’t go in sexually oriented businesses. They can’t go in liquor stores. And then, of course, children need to just grow up and be children. They don’t need to be sexualized. They don’t need to be presented with this where they’re putting money into men’s underwear. It’s just not appropriate for children at all.”

But when acceptance of nearly anything and everything begins at the top of our country, it’s easy to see why such protections represent an uphill battle. 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), for example, seems compelled to push the envelope and make the disturbingly abnormal become mainstream. Pelosi’s June appearance on “RuPaul’s Drag Queen All-Stars” featured her thanking the male contestants – garbed in flamboyant, female apparel and make-up – for the “joy and beauty [they] bring to the world.” She then lauded the participants further, saying, “Your freedom of expression of yourselves in drag is what America is all about.”

While I disagree with Pelosi’s statement on multiple levels, what I found most offensive was the show’s questionable usage of religious expressions in a program utterly devoid of Christian values. 

First came the show’s namesake, who told the Speaker, “We have prayers in our hearts to keep you strong.”  

After thanking RuPaul for this sentiment, Pelosi curiously responded by saying, “May God bless America.” The Speaker then waved her hand while asking, “Can I get an Amen?” The contestants and judges laughingly affirmed her request with a resounding “Amen!” 

In stunned disbelief, I pondered what I’d just heard and witnessed. Apparently, as long as someone is mocking God and doesn’t believe in His existence, it’s okay to ask our Creator to bless our nation. Valedictorians are repeatedly told to leave any mention of God out of their speeches, coaches have lost their jobs for praying, and business owners have been threatened and penalized for standing for Christian values. Nevertheless, the third-highest politician in our nation can invoke the name of God and say “Amen” without issue – as long as she’s the special guest on a televised drag competition, of course.  

If a drag queen can say he has “prayers in [his heart]” for a political leader to “stand strong” against conservative values, how much more so should Christians be praying for one another in a society whose values continue to degrade? 

While lawmakers seem intent on mainstreaming such events and perverting children’s minds, parents and pastors shouldn’t be afraid to speak out against such things. To not do so further empowers the left to push the envelope further. In point of fact, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel recently advocated for more of these inappropriate events, saying there should be a “drag queen for every school” and “drag queens make everything better.”

Respectfully speaking, Ms. Nessel, drag queens don’t make everything better. God does. 

There is a reason why pride is considered to be one of the seven deadly sins – along with lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, and envy. Proverbs 16:18 says, “Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” 

A proud and sinful nature leads one away from the only thing that can ever satisfy – God. To teach, condone, demonstrate, and lead children – in particular – down this path beyond our Creator’s plan for virtue, morality, and decency seem to be directing others toward a goal that can never satisfy. 

The trouble with drag queens is not the men who’ve chosen to embrace this lifestyle but their propensity to push it on others – especially young children.

God gave us instructions to guide and protect us from spiritual harm. Man’s desire to pervert and distort our heavenly Father’s guidance can only lead to further deprivation. 

May we all continue to pray that God will bless our nation and prevent any further attempts to lead impressionable children away from our Creator’s desired purity and unadulterated love. 

As Luke 17:2 reminds us, “It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.”