{"id":112965,"date":"2019-01-06T18:46:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T22:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=112965"},"modified":"2019-01-06T18:46:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T22:46:05","slug":"this-how-the-cultural-marxists-take-over-the-liberal-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=112965","title":{"rendered":"This how the cultural marxists take over the liberal cities."},"content":{"rendered":"

Huntington Woods readies for protests over upcoming Drag Queen Story Time<\/h1>\n

By Mike McConnell
\nRoyal Oak Tribune<\/p>\n

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Protesters from outside groups are expected in Huntington Woods on Jan. 26 when the library hosts its next Drag Queen Story Time.<\/p><\/div>\n

Huntington Woods police are coordinating with nearby police agencies as two out-of-state groups plan to protest the library\u2019s Drag Queen Story Time later this month.<\/p>\n

In a message to residents, Mayor Bob Paul said the groups \u2013 Mass Resistance and Warriors for Christ \u2013 disagree with drag queens reading stories to children.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to assure you that the City Commission is unanimously supportive of the program,\u201d Paul said, \u201cas are a majority of residents and we will not be influenced by outside organizations that do not share our values \u2026 the Public Safety Department is taking these protests very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n

City officials have already gotten what City Manager Amy Sullivan calls homophobic calls from Mass Resistance, a self-described international pro-family group headquartered in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

Warriors for Christ church in Tennessee is headed by its pastor, Rev. Rich Penkoski, and has reportedly protested other drag queen story time events in other states.<\/p>\n

A website,\u00a0ChristianHeadlines.com<\/a>, last year reported that Facebook removed the Warriors for Christ page when it was based in West Virginia for violating community standards on bullying and hate speech. The group has since established another Facebook page.<\/p>\n

The Huntington Woods Library started the Drag Queen Story Time over a year ago and officials said it has been popular with the community and is designed to promote diversity.<\/p>\n

More than 100 tickets for the limited seating at the Jan. 26 story time have already been sold.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe (the protests) have made the program more popular,\u201d said City Commissioner Joe Rozell, adding the event is sold out. \u201cOur public safety department is working on a plan to make sure protesters don\u2019t interfere in any way with folks\u2019 ability to use the library or attend the story time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The theme for the upcoming story time is \u201cI Like Me!\u201d Books that are scheduled to be read to children include \u201cI\u2019m going to Like Me\u201d by Jamie Lee Curtis, \u201cBe Who You Are\u201d by Todd Parr, and \u201cWhat\u2019s the Difference\u201d by Doyin Richards.<\/p>\n

City officials said they have no idea how many protesters my show up to oppose the reading program.<\/p>\n

Protesters will not be allowed into the area where the story time takes place.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re looking at (designating) a place where people can protest and a place where the story time will be held,\u201d Sullivan said.<\/p>\n

Because the number of people registered for the reading event is so high it may be moved to the city\u2019s recreation center, as it was when the story time first started and 100 people showed up.<\/p>\n

Controversy over the program gained momentum early last month.<\/p>\n

Former City Commissioner Allison Iverson, in an email to a library official, first opposed the story time shortly before it started, saying it was better suited to adults than children.<\/p>\n

She has moved to another city and did not attend her last scheduled City Commission meeting Dec. 18 after Mass Resistance members and sympathizers began contacting officials to protest the story time.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of people showed up at the meeting. Rozell said Iverson had email exchanges with Mass Resistance over the story time program and urged that people needed to show up at the commission meeting to oppose it.<\/p>\n

Very few of the roughly 300 people at the commission meeting were against Drag Queen Story Time, Rozell said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHundreds of residents turned out and 99 percent of the feedback we received was in favor of keeping the program,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t think these outside groups are finding a lot of sympathy in the city.\u201d<\/p>\n

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