Presumably everyone’s children are OK as the week comes to an end.
As a culture we may not have taken action to make sure not another student — be it a kindergartner or a graduating senior — be killed on campus because of a mass shooting, or created a healthier and more pleasant environment for kids by not rolling back pollution and environmental protection laws, but we did survive the great drag queens scare of 2019.
Last week and this, a group of indignant people — some who even live in Chula Vista — gathered outside the Civic Center Library on F Street to protest a story hour hosted by drag queens.
Some expressed religious opposition to having members of the LGBTQ community interact with children in a public building. Others apparently saw it as an attack on America and its principles. They all were angry.
On the other side of a divide created and manned by Chula Vista police was an equally loud, though larger, group of people voicing their support for the drag queens and their ode to literacy.
Inside the library’s auditorium Barbie Q and Raqueltia, dressed in bright clothes and makeup, read two books to children, lip-synced a few Disney songs and called it an afternoon.
If agents with the county’s Child Welfare Services had planned on swooping in to protect the children, as Otay Water District board member Hector Gastelum had on social media urged them to do, they would have been too late.
The Drag Queen Story Time lasted roughly 30 minutes. And thus came to an end the latest threat to child welfare and safety in the county.
Or has it?
Never mind that no significant gun legislation has been passed and we remain a society obsessed with protecting our right to own bullet-spraying weapons of destruction, we have yet another threat to the safety and well being of sons and daughters.
Halloween looms.
Already we’re seeing the quasi-holiday decorations erected in stores and soon adults and children will decide which costumes and personas they want to adopt for one night of the year.
If the group of Drag Queen Story Time protestors cares to remain consistent I anticipate finding them outside every Halloween costume shop, party and home that advocates for children dressing up and expressing themselves via clothing and makeup.
My thoughts and prayers are with the angry mob as they plan to spread their message in the coming weeks. We all know that Halloween is run by the Big Candy syndicate and that is a formidable foe to take on.
In the meantime, my hope is that all the parents whose children were swept up and forcibly taken away and subjected to attend the Drag Queen Story Time are soon reunited with their loved ones and the healing can begin.
Of course, if that didn’t happen then I can’t help but wonder what all the fuss was about.
