Texas Legislature Passes Bill Banning Minors From Watching ‘Sexualized’ Drag Shows | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Spencer Lindquist.

    The Texas State Legislature passed a bill on Sunday that would ban the performance of "sexually oriented" shows in front of minors.

    The State House approved Senate Bill 12 in an 87-54 vote. If the legislation is signed into law, performers who violate the law could be charged with a Class A misdemeanor and punished with a $4,000 fine or one year in jail. Meanwhile, businesses caught hosting such performances could be fined as much as $10,000.

    The Texas State Senate also passed the bill on Sunday, sending it to Republican Governor Greg Abbott's desk. Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick stated that the legislation "prohibits sexualized performances and drag shows in the presence of a minor."

    "It is shocking to me that any parent would allow their young child to be sexualized by drag shows," Patrick went on to say before also adding "Children, who cannot make decisions on their own, must be protected from this scourge facing our state."

    The sponsor of the bill, Rep. Matt Shaheen (R-Plano) also spoke out against sexual performances in front of children, remarking "We will not tolerate our children being exposed to explicit, hyper sexualized content from any type of performer in any way in the great state of Texas."

    The legislation would specifically apply to performances that feature nudity, or "the exhibition or representation, actual or simulated, of sexual acts," as well as to performances that appeal "to the prurient interest in sex ... regardless of whether compensation for the performance is expected or received."

    Rep. Mary Gonzalez (D-Clint) spoke out against the legislation, claiming, "The broadness could negatively implicate even the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders."

    The bill will take effect on September 1, 2023, if it is signed it into law. Meanwhile, several other Republican states, including Tennessee, Arkansas, Florida, and Montana have passed legislation banning sexual drag performances in front of children.

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It has been far too many years since the Woke theology interlaced its canons within the fabric of the Indoctrination Realm, so it is nigh time to ask: Does this Representative Republic continue, as a functioning society of a self-governed people, by contending with the unusual, self absorbed dictates of the Woke, and their vast array of Victimhood scenarios?

  Yes, the Religion of Woke must continue; there are so many groups of underprivileged, underserved, a direct result of unrelenting Inequity; they deserve everything.

  No; the Woke fools must be toppled from their self-anointed pedestal; a functioning society of a good Constitutional people cannot withstand this level of "existential" favoritism as it exists now.

  I just observe; with this thoughtful observation: What will happen "when the Vikings are breeching our walls;" how do the Woke react?

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