Kirk Cameron, Riley Gaines And ‘Duck Dynasty’ Alum Missy Robertson Harassed By Library Staff At Faith-Based Story Hour

Kirk Cameron, swim champion Riley Gaines “Duck Dynasty” Missy Robertson, a former student, said that they were harassed at Tennessee’s library where they discussed traditional values such as faith and family.

The week leading to the approved faith-based Story hour event, Cameron’s Brave Books, publisher, said that they were starting to receive pushback from Allan Morales at Hendersonville’s library. Fox News reported. According to the publisher, Morales “did not want a movement coming to his library” After you have learned who Cameron Robertson and Gaines would also be joining him. The publisher stated that the publication would inform the public when the “library’s board of directors and the community” This was the reason they came to the story hour. “the library staff backed down.”

Robertson said that she was “taken off guard” It was amazing to see what happened the day after she asked me to be a guest reader in her book.Because You’re My Family.” Cameron and Robertson started filming at the library in preparation for the event’s joint promo hours. This was when the first problems began.

“We kept hearing all these noises, people laughing and talking,” Robertson shared. “And then it just kept getting louder and louder. It sounded like they were slamming books together and kicking cabinets. And Kirk and the head of the library [Morales] kind of had a couple of shouting exchanges. And I thought, okay, something’s going on here.”

Robertson claimed that things would become “almost explosive” When Riley was ready to do her promos, that’s when Riley turned on her camera.

Gaines — who has been open about having to compete against biological male trans swimmer Lia Thomas — talked to us about what happened. Video obtained The Daily Wire, Robertson, supported the accounts.

“I’m in front of the camera and I’m filming my piece and all the sudden the staff started blaring music,” Gaines said it. “And so I asked them, ‘hey guys we have sixty more seconds … I just need to film this one time and then you guys can play all the music you want.'”

“And so these older women, librarians, came out from behind the desk and they said ‘well, actually we’re not turning the music off. We’re using the music, this is how we cope, with the stress that you’re putting us under. We don’t have to turn the music off because it’s for our mental health,'” She continued.

Gaines told Allan that she needed the music to be turned down, and the librarians did so. As she began to talk about herself, however, “personal experience in competing against” Thomas, sharing it takes “power to stand in the truth” The staff began to make noise again, acknowledging that women and men are distinct.

“These ladies are slamming books on the counter,” Gaines said. “They are stomping their feet, slamming books, and slamming doors. And screeching. I was so baffled by their behavior. So I went up to the desk and I was like ‘Are you guys serious? This is the most blatantly disrespectful thing I’ve ever seen in my life.'”

“We are supposed to live in a country where we have freedom of speech, freedom of religion,” She continued. “Which those both were things that myself and Missy and Kirk were exercising. And to have people look at you like you don’t belong … is disgusting. And this was in my hometown, I was like, this was supposed to happen in California, not Tennessee.”

Robertson stated, “This did not happen in California or New York, this happened in Nashville. People are moving from CA and NY to Nashville to get away from this kind of stuff. I told my husband and my father-in-law today, they are coming for our children … I saw it with my own eyes on Saturday and it scared me to death.”

“You know we’ve heard about all the transgender books and the Drag queen [events],” She continued. “For some reason they’re not having problems putting that stuff in libraries, but talking about love and joy and gentleness, that’s a problem? We’re pretty messed up if that’s the standard that we are living by, teaching our children now.”

Zach Bell, Chief of Staff at Brave Books called the encounter with Morales & his staff “chief of staff”. “just terrible.”

“We weren’t trying to be divisive … he [Morales] wanted to give us as little access to the library as possible, just the room that we had rented,” Bell shared. “The library director starts acting like a three year old … Him and two older ladies are clanging coins, playing music.”

“It’s as simple as this.” He said so. “Allan did not know Kirk Cameron. He would have denied us access to the library. He doesn’t want this movement coming to his library … And when he found out who we were and what we we were doing who Kirk was … his goal

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