Kirk Cameron counters left’s #EducateTruth Day with crowd at Loudoun County library

Kirk Cameron introduced a really totally different message to the left’s “#TeachTruth Day of Action” along with his kids’s ebook studying Saturday in Loudoun County, Virginia.

The Christian actor drew an overflow crowd on the Gum Spring Library, the most recent cease on his Brave Story Hour tour, which coincided with a #EducateTruth occasion throughout the corridor geared toward countering the backlash towards important race principle in lecture rooms.

Mr. Cameron learn his ebook “Pride Comes Before the Fall,” a story in regards to the significance of humility whose launch coincides with LGBT Pride Month, drawing an estimated 700 attendees to the library in Stone Ridge, in line with Amplifi Agency.

“Kirk Cameron Teaches the Real Truth on TeachTruth Day of Action,” mentioned the press launch. 

Video of the Brave Books occasion confirmed a line of oldsters and kids that snaked across the bookshelves via the entrance door and wrapped across the constructing. Two readings have been held within the library’s public room to accommodate the gang.

Mr. Cameron additionally took a dig at #EducateTruth Day of Action, sponsored by the Zinn Education Project and Black Lives Matter at School, which is geared toward “raising awareness of the need to teach honestly about U.S. history and systemic racism, and also to affirm LGBTQ rights.”

“When dishonest teachers deceive children by exchanging the truth of God and America for a lie, not only does their thinking become futile, their hearts become darkened and they become slaves to their own selfish passions, dragging their little learners [our kids] down with them,” Mr. Cameron mentioned in a press release.

“That’s why God gave children to parents, not governments,” he mentioned. “As dads and moms, it is our sacred responsibility to raise our sons and daughters and teach them true Truth.”

Saturday’s “day of action” was backed by organizations together with the National Education Association; the 1619 Education Project; Color of Change; the Human Rights Campaign; the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network; and the American Federation of Teachers.

“Today, we join together with educators, students, parents & allies to defend their freedom to #TeachTruth so every child— no matter their color, background, or gender identity—receives an honest education that reflects our true history,” mentioned the NEA, the nation’s largest academics’ union.

The Zinn Education Project, named for the late socialist professor and creator Howard Zinn, described #EducateTruth day as a “call to raise awareness of the dangers of lying to students about the existence and persistence of structural and systemic racism, and all forms of oppression.”

We packed the library to CAPACITY this morning at our BRAVE story hour with @KirkCameron in Virginia! What a good way to start out the weekend!!  due to all that got here out! #library #storyhour #kirkcameron #bravebooks pic.twitter.com/QSLB4W4YO6

— BRAVE BOOKS (@BraveBooksUS) June 10, 2023

Mr. Cameron was joined by Gary Hambrick, pastor of the Cornerstone Chapel, a megachurch primarily based in Leesburg.

“At a time when the hearts and minds of children are being assaulted by the culture, Kirk Cameron brings a refreshing reprieve with his children’s books that promote godly principles and values,” Mr. Hambrick mentioned.

Mr. Cameron started the library tour this 12 months after Brave Books mentioned that greater than 50 public libraries rejected or ignored requests to host a studying by the actor, although many had sponsored Drag Queen Story Hour occasions.

Brave Books rents or reserves public assembly rooms at libraries for Mr. Cameron’s readings, which generally draw massive crowds. So far solely the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina, has sponsored one of many readings.