CV NEWS FEED // Dozens of citizens organized a peaceful demonstration on Saturday outside West Potomac High School in Fairfax County, VA, while the school hosted an hour-long “drag brunch.”
The group of approximately 35 demonstrators assembled on the street next to the school’s entrance.
Catholics Engaged for Fairfax (CEFF) organized the assembly. CEFF is part of the CatholicVote Action Network (CVAN). Also present were representatives from Tradition, Family, Property (TFP) and members of a local Republican women’s group.
On April 25, TFP Student Action circulated a petition to stop the drag event. The petition amassed over 16,500 signatures in just a week and a half.
Saturday’s demonstrators prayed and held signs with messages such as “Protect the Innocence of Children,” “Drag Queens Mock Women,” and “XX ≠ XY.”
CEFF Director Cathy Ruse told CatholicVote that the signs bore truths contrary to the “falsehoods of the ‘drag’ movement.”
One demonstrator held a sign that called on West Potomac Principal Jessica Statz to resign. Another sign stated that Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) – the district that West Potomac High School is a part of – is in a “race to the bottom.”
Per Ruse, the top priority of the demonstrators was “praying for the conversion of the male ‘drag’ queens and the safety of the children misled by them.”
Ruse said the concerned citizens stood in front of the school as part of their duty under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. She noted that the reactions of people driving by CEFF’s prayerful demonstration were “overwhelmingly positive,” with “lots of honks and waves.”
Ruse pointed out that positive reactions outnumbered negative ones by a margin of more than three-to-one. Fairfax County is deep blue and voted for President Joe Biden by a nearly-42-point margin in 2020.
As CatholicVote reported late last month ahead of the drag event at the taxpayer-funded high school, it took place “before a showing of the vulgar LGBTQ musical ‘Kinky Boots.’”
Ruse described the brunch as “grotesque” as well as “really pathetic and pitiful,” likening it to a “circus sideshow.”
She remarked that the participants were “obviously confused and suffering people.”
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According to the CEFF director, the event attracted an “audience of 70 people, who were mostly middle-aged women egging on the confused men.”
Ruse added that there were “several small children in the audience” as well. She pointed to one mother who brought her two children – a girl who appeared to be around nine or ten years of age and her even younger brother.
As evidenced by a picture of the event that CEFF shared with CatholicVote, the mother at one point applauded a scantily-clad drag queen as he marched down the aisle of West Potomac High School’s Kogelman Theatre where the event was held.
In the photograph, the mother appeared to be looking over at her young son, who was most likely no older than six. The boy appeared to have his eyes fixed on the man in drag.
Ruse went on to describe that one pink-haired drag queen who performed at the event called himself a “mother” and referred to his “drag children and family.” Ruse called his language “such a strange distortion of the truth and what it means to be a family.”
Again from CatholicVote’s April report:
Featured “drag queens” include Dixie Crystal, who the flier [for the ‘drag’ event] describes as an “Atlanta native and 22-year Air Force veteran” who “has been doing drag for over 30 years and is the drag mother to Pirouette, a classically trained dancer born in Los Angeles.”
Pirouette is also slated to appear at the event.
Ruse noted that one drag queen remarked it was his and the other drag performers’ first time “inside a high school since they went to high school themselves.”
The performer went on to “praise FCPS for bringing ‘drag’ into public schools,” Ruse said.
Ruse added that this event was, to her knowledge, the first time a drag event was held at a Northern Virginia public school.
“‘Drag’ was already bad at libraries and community centers,” the Catholic lawyer stated. “They are bringing it into public schools now.”
Ruse said all 12 seats on the FCPS school board are currently held by pro-LGBTQ radical leftists.
She noted that one FCPS school board member in particular, Karl Frisch, was sworn into office while placing his hand not on a Bible but on a stack of several pornographic “pride” books held up by his same-sex partner.
Ruse said she felt “profound sadness” that day.
“I didn’t expect to feel so sad,” she explained. The many middle-aged women in the audience had “misplaced compassion putting these men in the role as cultural leaders of their children.”
Readers can learn more about the CEFF network here.
