America has our first “drag laureate”
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🗓️ 23 May 2023
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San Francisco has designated D’Arcy Drollinger as the city’s first “drag laureate,” and Pride Month begins next week. Consequently, LGBTQ-themed advertising will proliferate and often focus on children. Why is that? And for those who believe in biblical morality, what can be done to protect children from such secular, postmodern ideology?
Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article Podcast for Tuesday, May the 23rd, 2023. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:13.0 | You may know that the United States has a poet laureate named Ada Lemone. |
| 0:18.0 | She was actually featured in last night's Jeopardy Masters TV show. |
| 0:23.0 | But did you know that we also have our first, quote unquote, drag laureate? |
| 0:29.0 | San Francisco mayor London Breed has designated for this position Darcy Drollinger, |
| 0:35.0 | described by the Associated Press as a well-known drag performer and nightclub owner. |
| 0:41.1 | This person is a man who uses feminine pronouns win in drag and will receive a $55,000 stipend for the 18-month role just conferred. |
| 0:51.2 | Lest you think this is a story that could only happen in San Francisco, the Central Public |
| 0:56.0 | Library in Des Moines, Iowa, hosted a drag queen last Sunday afternoon for a drag story hour. |
| 1:04.1 | When a group gathered outside to pray for God to protect the innocence of our youth, |
| 1:09.4 | a transgender protester disrupted their gathering and had to be |
| 1:13.5 | directed away by police. Here's another sign of the times. When I left the Church of the Holy |
| 1:18.6 | Sepulchre in Jerusalem last week, I had to weave my way through a group of tourists who specified |
| 1:24.1 | their preferred pronouns on their name tags. I had not seen this before in the Holy Land. |
| 1:30.3 | Pride Month begins next week. |
| 1:32.3 | We will especially see advertising that focuses on our children, |
| 1:36.3 | from Disney's paraphernalia to Lego's toys, to cartoon characters, |
| 1:41.3 | to drag queen's story hours. |
| 1:45.1 | Why is this? |
| 1:51.0 | Andrew Sullivan, a cultural commentator who is himself gay, explains the, quote, |
| 1:56.5 | core belief of critical queer theorists, there is no such thing as human nature. |
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