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So digging a little more I can see why the ALA might be ambivalent about Kirk after the stunt he pulled in Hendersonville, Tennessee back in February.
Kirk had set up what was going to be a nice story time with some kids at the Hendersonville Library
>> Emails obtained by the Tennessean indicates concern by Morales about how big the event was becoming.
Hendersonville library director ousted; accused of 'unkind pushback' to Kirk Cameron event
After Kirk Cameron described "unkind pushback" at an event at the Hendersonville library, its director was fired after in a Sumner County Library Board vote.www.tennessean.com
“Our invitation was sincere to read a book during our story time,” Morales wrote in an email dated Feb. 22, to a Brave Books representative. “We guard that time because it is for small children and not adults. We work hard at not promoting any agendas left or right.” <<
That story time with the little kids evolved into Kirk bringing Duck Dynasty character Missy Robinson and anti-trans activist Riley Gaines. The activities were expanded from not just Kirk reading story time to the kids, but filming of promotional commercials including one where Gaines giving her anti-trans talking points (see the article above for a clip of the filming).
There was also a series of a bomb threats from a guy in Connecticut.
The crowd apparently would have overwhelmed the building resulting in children sitting in bookshelf aisles. The library has suggested moving the event to a larger venue like a church, but apparently the mayor wanted it held at the library (the library falls under the jurisdiction of the mayor).
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found it but that's great so what's your
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new book about why read it at libraries
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what's the response been let's talk
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about them so I I wrote this new
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children's book and it's it's all about
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teaching kids biblical wisdom and the
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fruit of the spirit you know love joy
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peace patience kindness goodness
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gentleness and I wanted to read it at
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public libraries because story hours are
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all their age now
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and I was denied by over 50 woke
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libraries that previously held drag
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queen story hours so crazy so if you
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want to read about wokeness as a man
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with a beard in fishnet stockings and
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heels to little toddlers about gender
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and sexuality and other topics uh that
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come on but if it's about love joy
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kindness and loving God it's a hard no
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and what we did was push back on this
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because we figured that would be the
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response from these libraries and we
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wrote a letter I gave him a free copy of
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the book and said uh I think you'll
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agree these are the values we want for
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all of our kids but if you persist in
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the Discrimination because of my
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sincerely held Viewpoint about loving
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God and others I'm prepared to exercise
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my constitutional rights we immediately
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got emails with links to sign up for
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story hours at these libraries and when
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we went to Indianapolis which was the
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first one who said that our community is
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not interested in your messaging we had
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over 2500 wow parents and children show
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up and overwhelm that library on all six
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floors out the front door and down the
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street and it was a similar response in
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Scarsdale New York and then also in
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Nashville and Fayetteville and Los
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Angeles and other places where they said
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their messaging at that library and my
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messaging were not aligned not true
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according to the citizen of those cities
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yeah well and I I kind of understand if
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I mean not that it would be a good thing
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but if they just didn't allow people to
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come in with outside beliefs or whatever
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to come into these libraries it'd be one
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thing like we well we just don't have
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people do that like we have our own
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people do the library thing with the
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fact that they allowed drag queens to do
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it and then they were like oh you're you
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know you get this guy that's coming in
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and you're a Christian or whatever you
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know it's it's so bizarre that that
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point of hook well one of the
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interesting things that happened during
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this this tour and we're going to about
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15 20 cities uh to those public
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libraries uh before uh July because
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we've got a big deal coming up in July
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um we were in Fayetteville Tennessee and
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we went there and had about 800 moms and
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dads and kids standing out in the rain
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in the cold with umbrellas waiting to
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get in we were gathered around the flag
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outside the library singing the National
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Anthem and God bless America we were
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praying in Jesus name and we were
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talking about solutions to the nation's
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problems and the librarian inside was so
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against us being there that when we
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finally got in to do our work he was
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kicking cabinets and having his staff
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play loud music and dropping books so
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that we couldn't continue and this so
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upset the opposite of what a librarian
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you're supposed to be quiet and and he
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said
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and you know the community got together
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to get together with the board of
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directors at the library and fired him
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