Why Can't Religious Conservatives Leave the Drag Queen Story Hour Alone

In the past few years, religious conservatives have had a cow over public libraries inviting drag queens to read stories to children. These events were selected by library staff. No doubt they had discussions about it and heard views from the public. Parents who brought their children chose to do so. If no children/parents showed up the problem would quickly end.

Having those involved, libraries and parents, has not been good enough for these religious people. They feel it their duty to decide what is good and bad for other people. In Iran, religious zealots harass men and women for how the dress. A version of this goes on in this country.

There were three prominent stories about the decline of Christianity in the U.S. All the stories repeated what we have discussed here many times. What is note able is that the link story about wringing hands over drag queens reading stories in library appeared today also. It illustrates how out of sync conservative Christianity is with the majority of society. It seems to me the faith would be better off by turning its head and looking away from the sins it abhors and going about its own business. Judging and calling out the sins of others merely plays into its most unfortunate stereotype. 

While its been challenged here many times, I'm always drawn back to the one sentence summary of Christianity by author Steven Prothero. He says that is you set aside denominational documents and scholarly writing within the faith and, instead, record what ordinary people think Christianity is about, it is about one thing, sin.  Men in drag is sin.

Better would be a faith that lived what it believed and left others to do the same. Why would this hurt anyone in Christianity? I doesn't seem to hurt anyone outside of Christianity. 

The Bible did not like it when men dressed up as women. That it was so common in those times tells me it is a universal human novelty for some and self-expression for others.