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The Tennessee Conservative Staff –
Clarksville Mayor Joe Pitts is welcoming the celebration of Gay Pride back to the city. Pitts, a former Democrat Tennessee State Representative, will be issuing a proclamation officially declaring June 29th as Pride Day in Clarksville at the festival.
C-Pride, a nonprofit formed less than a year ago, is hosting the festival at the Wilma Rudolph Event Center on Champion’s Way. Tickets are available for purchase for the event, with children 10 and under free.
Anita Hart, president of C-Pride says the impetus for forming the group came from attending Nashville’s pride festival last year. This year’s festival will be the first in Clarksville since 2006.
Clarksville is home to Fort Campbell which houses the 101st Airborne Division and the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment.
The festival will feature art exhibits, live music, and non-stop drag performances on the True Colors Stage.
While the Tennessee General Assembly passed a law in 2023 to prohibit certain types of entertainment, such as drag shows in the presence of minors, a lawsuit filed by drag performers in Shelby County is currently waiting on a decision by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals as to the law’s constitutionality.
George Carneal, author of From Queer to Christ, says that drag shows are not the “family friendly” events that pride organizers would have you believe.
“As someone who lived the homesexual lifestyle for 25 years, and lived with a drag queen, let me share the reality of drag shows and why they are not “family friendly” events,” states Carneal. “When your child turns 18, and desires to attend drag shows in gay nightclubs, they will be exposed to sexually explicit and risqué material, half-naked bodies, adult-oriented humor, foul language,and free-flowing alcohol and drugs. Sexual activity has often occurred behind the stage.”
Carneal goes on to report that numerous drag queens performing at Drag Queen Story Hour events around the country have been exposed as convicted child sex offenders and that these same predators are in the gay nightclubs.
“The LGBTQ lifestyle is not something to be celebrated,” says Carneal. “The individuals trapped in that bondage need our prayers, deliverance, and the hope that can be found in Jesus, not a lifestyle that God’s Word clearly defines as an ‘abomination.’ We must fight for our children.”
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There are far worse things than LGBT lifestyles such as Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and both Biden’s and Trump’s racism against Haitians and border migrants fleeing Central American and Caribbean countries that the U.S. ruined with its racist foreign policies going back over a century.
Then leave!!!
That’s scarier than a clown.
I agree with Mary. Go to Palestine and fight for your”cause” troll.
He needed that talk! It’s probably Trump’s fault and MAGA . I’m so sick of these lunatics crying!
None of them know what they are. I’ve never seen or heard of so many freak’s with idiot ideas. I’m not calling them anything but gay, not she, he,they, them or anything else. I have gays in my family but they don’t try to push it onto everyone, they act normal! I
Says the nazi pedophile.
So-called “lifestyles” apply to adults. All-ages drag = grooming and the sexual predation of minors.
There is no genocide taking place against “Palestinians.” Rather, Hamas intends genocide against Israel, which legitimately defends itself.
Throw some cold water on your baseless woke zealotry and get some facts. Here, for example: https://x.com/IDF.
that has nothing to do with the subject at hand.
The destruction of God’s design for the family, by pushing LGBTQ indoctrination on innocent children, is just as dangerous as Hamas’ ongoing genocide and destruction of Israel and her people. BOTH go against God and His people and to accept both, is to stand against God and His plans for His creation.
As a resident of Clarksville, I’m ashamed that our mayor is using his office to celebrate a damaging and destructive lifestyle, while showing special privilege to a small % of the population.
I wish I lived closer enough to go and protest!
Hey William!
Romans 1:24-32 NIV
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
In God we trust not government or man.
Have a blessed day
Amen. They sound like Demo RAT’S! It is a sickening time right now. Anything that’s evil is good to them.
These are children if your that ignorant, then your the problem! Go find you a state that doesn’t care, but we care what our children are exposed to!
For Heaven’s sake, CALM DOWN. Drag is a very old artform in which people in costume lip-sync to popular songs. The kind of drag show that might take place in a Gay bar is not the sort of show put on in a public space. And no one is forcing you to take your kids to Clarksville Pride. But many parents WILL be there in support of the LGBTQ community.
Clarksville elected a pedophile for a mayor.
Well, you’re just wrong. In todays drag shows, there’s much more sexuality expressed, and they seem to go out of their way to influence children. Pretty perverted.
Chuck, the show last year in Maryville proves how wrong you are. If you think crotch grabbing, tongue tangling and acting out the sex motion is suitable for a ten year old, I have to assume you have no kids or their all grown. That’s why we have so many stupid laws, people as a herd are stupid. I say either enforce the law as written or take it off the books, it’s just so much paper.
Going to a transvestite show has nothing to do with gay pride, and the parents and others are indulging in “prurient interest.”
Hey Chuck!
Romans 1:24-32 NIV
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
In God we trust not government or man.
Have a blessed day
Yea, parents that worship the Devil!! They twerk,show their genitals as much as they can, and most are pedo’s. The mayor is an evil old man to do this. Maybe he likes little children!
I know LGBQ people and none are Drag Queens.
Some real questions >
# 1 – Why do the LGBTQ people want to be represented by Drag Queens? Can anyone answer that?
# 2 – Are Drag Queens gay or are they Transvestites?
# 3 – Is it always men dressed as women or do women also dress as men and perform at Pride events?
When is it EVER appropriate to “celebrate” certain mentally ill people’s sexual predilections? Particularly with minors present?
Amen to that Daniel! The answer is NEVER!
Exactly Daniel!
Anyone who thinks this is fine entertainment for children needs to get their head examined and ask yourself why you think it’s OK. Ask yourself….when you were a kid, if any adult displaying anything sexual to a kid was CREEPY and they typically got arrested if caught. Why suddenly is it “normal”? Could it be……you wish to indoctrinate kids into your sick world of depravity……you wish to have weird relationships with children because you can’t seem to have them with adults? There isn’t ONE good reason that in any way helps kids but only confuses them further! Next….this is an AGENDA and many of us see it, you want to legalize pedophilia so you can continue ruining innocent kids lives for your own selfish, twisted pleasure and not get called a PEDO. You wish to be normalized but LOOK AT YOU…..you look like deranged, over exaggerated versions of comic women which is completely insulting to normal women, you act like buffoons pretending to know what a real woman is when you are just being ridiculous! Honestly, I don’t care what you do in your own personal fantasy land you wish to live in but leave the kids and the rest of us alone with your disgusting agenda. I am not a homophobe either, but the gay friends I have would never condone this and do not wish to be associated with this new LGBTQRSTUV brainwash.
Exactly Rainey!
Exactly, they are embarrassed..
Isaiah 55:11
“My word which goes from My mouth will not return to Me empty. It will do what I want it to do, and will carry out My plan well.”
This is written in stone!!
Our Almighty God is the only one that has the say in this perverted lifestyle ! No one else has the authority!! Your opinion doesn’t matter!!
We are in a very dangerous situation when we accept this Sodom and Gomorrah mindset!!
It’s molesting your conscience. Keep a biblical viewpoint!!
All that participate in these abomination activities, will burn in hell fire, if you die in sin. Turn to Jesus before it’s late.
Lucifer’s dimmercraps in lucifer’s cities and “churches” just let evil go unaddressed.
See we’ve acquired some dimmercrap trolls here.
Here is someone who doesn’t need to be re-elected in Tennessee. Drag has no business performing in front of children.
Are the people awake in Clarksville? You are going to set there and allow this in your town? Stand up and say something you pay the Mayor’s salary. This is the every reason this country is the way it is the people just don’t want to make waves, and satan sure hope you don’t.
Exactly Debbie! Men need to grow a pair and throw these evil satanists out! These ppl ARE SICK AND PERVERTED and should be dealt with ACCORDINGLY.!
You reap what you sow. This is a deliberate effort to groom our children into the cult of sexual perversion. It’s that simple.
Exactly David!
This is not gay pride, these are pedo transvestites that get off by exposing themselves in sexual manners to minors. Sick. Anyone who does not see that is sadly blind, and/or a participant. The TN G.A. made a law against this, HB0009 in 2023. WHY doesn’t the police chief or Sheriff arrest someone?
Anne – What you wrote makes sense. What other explanation can there be?
Why do the LGBTQ people want to be represented by Drag Queens?
Aren’t the Drag Queens men who dress as woman and try to look and act sexy?
Doesn’t that send a confusing message to kids?
Wouldn’t it be like having strippers at an event? No one would suggest that was good for kids.
If you genuinely want to stop pedophilia, then go after Gabrielle Hanson, the unsuccessful Mayorial candidate for Williamson who, it was revealed, had groomed young girls for prostitution. Now, that’s REAL pedophilia for you! Many of the Republicans in Tennessee who attack LGBT folks are the REAL sex predators who even harass their fellow Republican colleagues. It has been my experience that when a politician like Kay Ivey, Bill Lee, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Ron De Santis, Gregg Abbott, et al. make a career of attacking marginalized and simple people like LGBT, racial minorities, etc., that they are the real predators instead of the LBGT, drag people, etc. against whom they attack. These Republicans scapegoat others to hide their own sordid past. There is a special place in Hell for these Republicans.
Are you listening William?
Romans 1:24-32 NIV
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
In God we trust not government or man.
Have a blessed day
There’s a special place in Hell for your evil goon’s and they will go, no doubt. You will be with them condoning the molestation and killing of children. How dare you talk about Sarah Sanders being involved in this evil! Look in the mirror, you are in denial and your fake news ppl laugh at your ignorance, but wait, they are ignorant too!! You better wake up to the Devil.
And they Wonder WHY their Liberal Cities are going to H*** in a Hand Basket!!!! The Good people of these cities had better Wake up and take a Strong stance against these Liberals’ and pure Trash.
Le 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
2Jo 1:10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
There’s going to be “Billions” of people who don’t support the “Sexual Perversion” lifestyle personally, but nevertheless “VOTE/SUPPORT” candidates who does,
According to God, they are as guilty of the sexual perversion sins as if they had actually participated in the sins.
“Tormented”, without rest from the torment, and without any hope whatsoever of it ending,
“FOR ETERNITY”.
Will a lifetime of 50-100 years be worth “Doing it your way”????