Protest at Davenport Library over ‘Teen Summer Brunch: Drag Queens & Kings” — which included a story hour for 11-year-old children through teen-aged at which parents were not admitted. From what protest participants could determine protestors outnumbered supporters and participants. Protestors were split between the main entrance and the street entrance — combined there were about 30 people present to protest.
False story in QC Times debunked
There was an incredible story in the QC Times on Friday. Not incredible as in awesome but as in a story without credibility because the author and publisher are so oblivious at best. That in itself is not unusual at the Quad Cities’ daily newspaper publisher of record. Here is what they wrote, oblivious as they were to what actually transpired. It is factually wrong and inept journalism at best.
The quoted material below is from the story at the QCT. The photographic evidence to the contrary is attached. The lede to the story is about complaints directed at the Bettendorf Library for distribution of “LGBTQ+ materials”. The story goes on to falsely generalize.
Bettendorf fields anonymous complaints about LGBTQ+ materials, most QC libraries dodge backlash
The Moline, Davenport, and East Moline public libraries have received no complaints from patrons about LGBTQ+ materials. Other than one phone call, the Rock Island Public Library hasn’t fielded formal requests for reconsideration of materials. . . .
The Davenport Public Library has so far “dodged a bullet” with complaints against programming and information pertaining to the LGBTQ+ community, Community Outreach Supervisor Brittany Peacock said. The library didn’t receive any backlash for its Pride displays in June. . . .
The truth is complaints were lodged with the mayor of Davenport who appoints the Library Board of Trustees. The personnel working that day at the Davenport Fairmount Library were aware of the demonstration outside which focused on Christian witness particularly from Grace Fellowship Church. Several protestors (including yours truly) were along the street focused on the cultural absurdities of the degenerate event. Someone called the police as one patrolman and squad car was present for the duration (a second also made an appearance).
Perhaps if QC Times assignment editors had a police scanner or had any inclination to take a break from the leftist echo chamber they operate in they might have not written such ignorant bilge. It likely still would have been bilge but not as vulnerable to unassailable facts.
As for the mayor’s involvement, according to one report he returned a missed call to abruptly say he supported the event. Had a QCT reporter been doing journalism at the time rather than serving on the propaganda front for the cause, he or she might have interviewed people present who had objected, on the record, not anonomously. According to Kathleen Kelly, present at the library in protest the mayor in the phone conversation indicated the Library Board of Trustees was fully supportive, or words to that effect. The mayor’s words may or may not be the truth because the mayor cannot be trusted. However we must grant that the Board of Trustees seems to be well populated with the usual suspects for such support — Democrats.
Among the “Trustees” is Tom Engelmann former alderman, Democrat Treasurer candidate and Muti-term head of the Scott County Democrat Party who recently felt personally compelled to turn in his CPA license under cloud from the state accountancy board. Nothing says “trustee” like that sort of background unless you achieved it in prison.
By the way, the Board of Trustees also includes Craig Cooper who is running for the Iowa Legislature. A retired spokes-hole from Genesis Health Systems and a QC Times alum, both places embedded with toxic liberalism, if as the mayor intimates he OK’d this it should be exposed, if not, it is still his responsibility to answer to it and see to it that such assaults on culture and parent rights do not happen in what ought to be a culturally safe and protective environment.
Here is more of what the QC Times missed: All related to the event including pictures of signs we produced that a few of us held up to passing motorists and library patrons as they entered the driveway. The links are to articles at BigLeaguePolitics.com indicating what some of these story hours can be like in other venues.
Gay Drag Queen Admits That Story Hour Events Expose Kids to Lifestyle of ‘Nudity, Sex and Drugs’
Leave The Kids Alone: Protester Harassed And Assaulted At Child Drag Show
Police squad car at center right
