Tue Jun 7, 2022 – 3:42 pm EDT
GREENVILLE, Texas (LifeSiteNews) – A Texas lawmaker pledged Monday to introduce legislation that would ban children from attending “drag shows and other inappropriate displays” after footage of minors at a homosexual bar in Dallas went viral Saturday.
In a Monday press release, Republican State Rep. Bryan Slaton lamented that children in Texas “were subjected to inappropriate sexual content by adults” and vowed to introduce legislation banning drag shows and similar events from hosting children in the state.
Reacting to images of children at the “Drag the kids to pride” event on Saturday – billed as a “family friendly drag show” but which saw children presented with adult performers dancing in a sexually suggestive manner while accepting dollar bills from them – Slaton described the event as “horrifying” and indicative of “a disturbing trend in which perverted adults are obsessed with sexualizing young children.”
“As a father of two young children, I would never take my children to a drag show,” Slaton said, adding that lawmakers have a responsibility to curb “the sexualization” of
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