Drag Performances at the RiverPark Center
The GhostLight Lounge, inside our Beautiful RiverPark Center, has been shut down. The RPC Executive Director has moved on and there are no longer drag shows being produced there.
We are still working with the Kentucky State Legislature to craft legislation that will regulate drag performances as the adult entertainment it is.
Porn in Our Library
In August of 2023, Daviess County Citizens for Decency asked the Daviess County Public Library to move all pornographic books out of the teen section and into the adult section. We also asked that all other books in our audit be labelled with content warnings.
The DCPL Board refused. Since the DCPL Board refuses to work with us, we will continue to work with coalition partners across the state to craft legislation to protect our children and their parent’s rights.
For a list of pornography in the Teen Section of the DCPL click below.
UPDATE: With the very real possibility that a conservative majority will control the board beginning in September, outgoing Chairperson, Susan Montalvo-Gesser and Director Erin Walls are now changing policy with respect to book appeals. They have proposed a new rule forbidding any review of a book that has been reviewed in the previous 18 months to 3 years. Additionally, they have moved to make the process much more difficult by requiring citation of “evidence” that the subject book is harmful.
* As of this update the period of time has yet to be determined. 18 months and 3 years were both discussed and will be voted on at the July board meeting.
Porn in Our Schools
In late July of 2023, still embroiled in the fight with DCPL, Citizens for Decency undertook an audit of all local School libraries. An open records request was sent to Daviess County Public Schools (DCPL) and Owensboro Public Schools (OPS) in care of their respective superintendents. Upon receipt of the requested information, we began combing through it. The volume of pornographic literature was staggering. We submitted our written reports to Anita Burnette (OPS) and Matt Robbins (DCPS) in early October. That report and links to the literature can be found below.
OPS and DCPS are both very fortunate to have had leaders like Mrs. Burnette and Mr. Robbins at the helm during what could have been a very difficult time. Both Superintendents recognized the literature for what it is and promptly had it removed. When asked by a staff member, why he would allow a group like Citizens for Decency to tell them what to do, Mr. Robbins answered, “We’re not, we’re doing it because it’s the right thing to do.” All 79 books were removed from Apollo and Daviess County High Schools libraries. OPS never had as many as DCPS but there were some there. To their credit, of the 11 books cited, 10 were removed.
Commonwealth Decency Coalition
The Commonwealth Decency Coalition is a group of like-minded individuals and organizations from across Kentucky. We advocate for issues like School Choice, Removal of Gender ideology, DEI and CRT from our schools, removal of obscene materials from our children’s libraries, creation of adult entertainment statutes to regulate drag performances, enforcement of age restrictions on internet porn, and other issues critical to the preservation of childhood innocence, the nuclear family and our way of life.
Why it matters
Tom Licata - July 2, 2021
On the founding of our nation’s 245th birthday, it would be nice to set our eyes on the window displaying blue skies. But out on another window displays storm clouds. Montpelier’s decision to cancel any meaningful Fourth-of-July recognition along with our schools and our very own government promoting Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Black Lives Matter (BLM) tells us all we need to know about these ominous clouds. Both these movements are Marxist in origin. With CRT being a derivative of the German Marxist Frankfurt School and member Max Horkheimer’s 1937 essay titled ‘Traditional and Critical Theory’ and one BLM founder on record stating that they are trained Marxists.
Communism’s 45 goals were read into the Congressional Record by Congressman Albert S. Herlong Jr., (D-Florida), in 1963. These goals were gleaned from the testimony given to Congress by scholars and from the writings of current or former Communists.
Socialism is seen as the bridge between Capitalism and Communism. The major difference between Socialism and Communism is in the method of takeover. Socialism (and Progressivism) believes that it can centralize all control of the individual, land and industry by peaceful, but gradual, legislation; whereas Communism seeks a violent and final confrontation to eliminate all dissension to achieve its Utopian goal of a Stateless and Classless society.
But make no mistake; what is the same in all three ideologies is the desire to seize monolithic control of society. Mussolini termed this the Totalitarian Society: “Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.”
In order to get a better understanding of our storm clouds, let’s exam a few of the 45 Communist, and by extension Socialist and Progressive, goals that have been read into our Congressional Record:
Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
Get control of the schools and teachers’ associations. Soften the curriculum.
Gain control of all student newspapers.
Infiltrate the press.
Gain control of key positions in radio, TV and pictures.
Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and press.
Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in the media.
Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, and healthy.” 9. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion.
Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principal of “separation of church and state.”
Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate and old-fashioned.
Discredit the American founding fathers as selfish aristocrats [and racists].
Belittle American culture and discourage the teaching of American history.
Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
Infiltrate and gain control of big business and unions.
Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as mental health or social problems.
Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents.
Repeal the Connally Reservation, allowing the World Court jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
The Ethan Allen Institute’s John McClaughry and Rob Roper recently wrote of the means employed by the State of Vermont to achieve these socialist ends.
Woodrow Wilson, the only President ever to possess a PhD, wrote of “separating politics from administration.” Wilson saw politics as dirty and corrupting and saw administration as pure and scientific. “Administration” and more specifically, centralized bureaucratic boards and agencies operating outside the purview of the legislative body, is clearly Vermont’s means to its socialist ends.
To wit, Mr. McClaughry writes of the Vermont Council on Rural Development’s recently released “The Vermont Proposition” as follows: “Finally, the vision exhibits a glaring disparity between its enthusiasm for “democracy”, and it’s even greater enthusiasm for creating utterly undemocratic regional administrative bodies directed by an all-powerful State Planning Office that “would be responsible for the statewide community and economic development and land use plans on a five year cycle.” Presumably you could still vote for governor, but that scheme looks to me more like replacing local democracy with a hugely expanded and unaccountable administrative state.”
Mr. Roper writes of the recently passed Vermont legislation calling for a major expansion of state-subsidized childcare from birth to five-year-olds titled ‘Let’s Grow Kids’. In a nutshell, it seeks to replace parenting with unionized daycare directed by an enlarged centralized state bureaucracy.
Finally, the recently passed Global Warming Solutions Act sets up an unelected and unaccountable Vermont Climate Council to produce edicts which do not have to be voted on by Vermont’s legislators.
Think of a construction scaffold covering a large building, that building representing our democracy or specifically our Constitutional Republic. What they are doing behind that covered scaffold is constructing a “new” regime. That regime allied far more closely with the 45 Communist goals than with the goals outlined in our Declaration of Independence some 245 years ago. God Bless the United States of America… as founded.
