In its own way, the tale of actor Kirk Cameron’s being shut down by various libraries across the country as he sought to read his Christian conservative children’s books at various library reading hours tells an eye-opening tale.
The tale is getting attention again — it has been in the spotlight before — as this story from The Washington Times reports. The book is “The Fox, the Fair, and the Invention Scare” and can be found at Amazon.
The Times headline: “Kirk Cameron has last laugh in book battle, landing Library of Congress story hour.”
The story reports:
Three years ago, Kirk Cameron was stiff-armed by the nation’s public libraries, but on Saturday, the Christian actor plans to read his children’s books at the most famous library in the world.
For the first time, Mr. Cameron is scheduled to lead a children’s story hour at the Library of Congress, partnering with the Education Department’s Center for Faith for Brave Books’ third annual “See You at the Library” celebration.
It’s a far cry from 2022, when Brave Books, a faith-based publisher of books for children, reported that about 50 public libraries rejected requests to sponsor Mr. Cameron for a children’s book reading after many of them hosted drag queen story hours for kids.
All of which is to say the proverbial: The more things change, the more they stay the same.
What’s really going on in this latest version of the story about censoring Kirk Cameron is the latest episode in which some institution out there in America goes “woke.” Which, in turn, is all about censoring and silencing whatever conservative thought has surfaced in an environment run by some soldiers of the American Left that will not tolerate dissent from any aspect of their authoritarian woke world. (RELATED: The Global Censorship Cancer)
This intolerance can surface in any number of places. It may be public libraries in this instance, but it could easily be a college campus, a media company, a business, a political party, or even a church, and beyond that. (RELATED: Supreme Court Saves Religious Parents From Radical LGBTQ Indoctrination of Their Children)
Yet the fact that there are Americans aplenty who will stand up for their right to hear varying political or cultural conversations will not go away.
Fox News reported on the attempts to silence Cameron, saying this:
More than 50 public libraries around the country either outright rejected Cameron’s requests to conduct readings or did not respond to requests on his behalf.
Yet an estimated 2,500 people attended his reading in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Thursday. It was the biggest crowd the library had seen in 137 years, according to the library’s comments.
A crowd of close to 1,000 attended the Scarsdale reading, according to an estimate by Cameron’s publisher, Brave Books.
The hard, very good fact here is that Americans are decidedly not going to sit quietly and be silenced when it comes to listening to or expressing a conservative point of view. This time around, the target for silencing is Kirk Cameron, and the Library of Congress, bless it, has stood up for Cameron.
The role of the Library of Congress in American life is self-described as follows: “The Library of Congress is the storehouse of the nation’s collective memory.”
Indeed, it is. And the fact that Kirk Cameron’s Christian children’s book is now safely in “the storehouse of the nation’s collective memory” is a very good thing for sure.
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