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A media spokesperson for the library confirmed one of those drag queens, Tatiana Mala Nina, is Alberto Garza, a 32-year-old child sex offender.
A media spokesperson for the library confirmed one of the program’s drag queens, Tatiana Mala Nina, is Alberto Garza, a 32-year-old child sex offender. In 2008, he was convicted of assaulting an 8-year-old boy.
“Most parents would not allow that individual to sit in this library and be held up as a role model to our children. Shame on you, Mayor (Sylvester) Turner!” said Tracy Shannon with Mass Resistance.
In a statement, the Houston Public Library admits they didn’t do a background check on Garza and said Garza will not be involved in any future library programs.
“If they had done their job and due diligence, if they had said wait...maybe it’s not a good idea to have a sex offender who at 200 pounds and 5-foot-11 assaulted an 8-year-old boy!” Shannon said.
Drag Queen Storytime’s creators say it’s part of a national program that aims to promote love and acceptance.
originally posted by: infolurker
a reply to: xuenchen
Is Drag Queen Story Time the Progressive version of Sunday School? Teaching moral foundation and rules to live by?
Sounds quite similar.
Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) is just what it sounds like—drag queens reading stories to children in libraries, schools, and bookstores. DQSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models. In spaces like this, kids are able to see people who defy rigid gender restrictions and imagine a world where people can present as they wish, where dress up is real.
originally posted by: subfab
a reply to: neo96
there have been many religious people who hurt little ones.
they are everywhere in all walks of life.
originally posted by: TheConstruKctionofLight
a reply to: infolurker
Mom of 11-year-old drag queen who danced in gay nightclub: No Wrong Doing Found
www.abovetopsecret.com...
originally posted by: subfab
a reply to: neo96
there have been many religious people who hurt little ones.
they are everywhere in all walks of life.
originally posted by: infolurker
Wow, the crazy is spreading. I do not recognize this circus we call society any longer. Really, these programs promoting "love and acceptance" for anything and everything is getting ridiculous. In this instance, public officials neglected to do their job and perform background checks on the adults interfacing with children and surprise! Look what they found.
www.khou.com/article/news/local/houston-public-library-admits-registered-child-sex-offender-read-to-kids-in-drag-queen-storytime/285-becf3a0d-56c5-4f3 c-96df-add07bbd002a
A media spokesperson for the library confirmed one of those drag queens, Tatiana Mala Nina, is Alberto Garza, a 32-year-old child sex offender.
A media spokesperson for the library confirmed one of the program’s drag queens, Tatiana Mala Nina, is Alberto Garza, a 32-year-old child sex offender. In 2008, he was convicted of assaulting an 8-year-old boy.
“Most parents would not allow that individual to sit in this library and be held up as a role model to our children. Shame on you, Mayor (Sylvester) Turner!” said Tracy Shannon with Mass Resistance.
In a statement, the Houston Public Library admits they didn’t do a background check on Garza and said Garza will not be involved in any future library programs.
“If they had done their job and due diligence, if they had said wait...maybe it’s not a good idea to have a sex offender who at 200 pounds and 5-foot-11 assaulted an 8-year-old boy!” Shannon said.
Drag Queen Storytime’s creators say it’s part of a national program that aims to promote love and acceptance.
It is not fair to demonize an entire community for the actions of one person.
Do you demonize all school teachers for the actions of one or two people who managed to slip through the cracks?
originally posted by: Boadicea
a reply to: InTheLight
It is not fair to demonize an entire community for the actions of one person.
Of course not. Neither is it in any way fair to pretend like any community is without fault, or should not be held to the highest standards. Especially when a significant portion of that community is all about a sexual fetish, it is downright irresponsible NOT to consider and guard against sexual abuses within that community.
Do you demonize all school teachers for the actions of one or two people who managed to slip through the cracks?
Of course not. Neither do we pretend like all teachers are without vice. We do take appropriate and reasonable precautions for reasonable risks. Teachers know and understand this is necessary and proper. We don't hear teachers crying about these appropriate precautions, or crying about not demonizing all teachers because of the bad behavior of a few.
Reasonable and responsible adults are quite happy to comply with reasonable and responsible safeguards for the greater good... unlike Trans Activists...
"No participant is ever alone with children, and we have not received any complaints about any inappropriate behavior by participants at storytimes," the statement, cited by media, read, assuring parents that the library is taking "appropriate action" to ensure all other participants are "verified."
The program launched in 2017 at the Montrose branch, ostensibly to teach children "to embrace gender diversity in themselves and in others" and has met with considerable resistance from locals, including lawsuits, petitions, and protests.
You just confirmed your bias again, implying that all trans activists are not reasonable and responsible adults.
My point, again, is that wherever children congregate it is up to those in charge to do their due diligence in the protection of children. In this specific situation, the library staff did not do their due diligence.
Attacking all trans people whether activists or not skirts over the real problem in this specific situation.
originally posted by: Boadicea
a reply to: InTheLight
You just confirmed your bias again, implying that all trans activists are not reasonable and responsible adults.
No implications whatsoever... no inferences either... neither any hints nor suggestions. I am straight out saying that all Trans Activists are not reasonable and responsible adults.
No bias either. I very clearly distinguish between the rotten-to-the-core apples and the rest specifically by calling them "Trans Activists." No transphobia... no homophobia... just absolute disgust with the misogynists and creepers who hide their sexual fetish and sexual predators behind transsexuals and the gender dysphoric.
My point, again, is that wherever children congregate it is up to those in charge to do their due diligence in the protection of children. In this specific situation, the library staff did not do their due diligence.
Obviously.
Attacking all trans people whether activists or not skirts over the real problem in this specific situation.
No. There is more than one real problem here.
The misdeeds of the library administration do not excuse or erase the misdeeds of the known sexual child predator. Nor the trans community which promoted him to this position. Sometimes -- oftentimes! -- more than one person can be guilty of wrongdoing.