{"id":1864120,"date":"2023-02-28T18:49:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T23:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1864120"},"modified":"2023-02-28T18:52:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T23:52:39","slug":"kirk-cameron-riley-gaines-and-duck-dynasty-alum-missy-robertson-harassed-by-library-staff-at-faith-based-story-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kirk-cameron-riley-gaines-and-duck-dynasty-alum-missy-robertson-harassed-by-library-staff-at-faith-based-story-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirk Cameron, Riley Gaines And \u2018Duck Dynasty\u2019 Alum Missy Robertson Harassed By Library Staff At Faith-Based Story Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkirk-cameron-riley-gaines-and-duck-dynasty-alum-missy-robertson-harassed-by-library-staff-at-faith-based-story-hour%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1864120&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Kirk Cameron,\u00a0swim champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/swim-champ-riley-gaines-drops-shocking-claims-about-lia-thomas-on-crain-co\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Riley Gaines<\/a>  &#8220;Duck Dynasty&#8221; Missy Robertson, a former student, said that they were harassed at Tennessee&#8217;s library where they discussed traditional values such as faith and family.<\/p>\n<p>The week leading to the approved faith-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/kirk-cameron-calls-attendance-at-faith-based-story-hour-overwhelming-after-he-says-nearly-1000-people-pack-library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Story hour<\/a> event, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/kirk-cameron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cameron&#8217;s<\/a> Brave Books, publisher, said that they were starting to receive pushback from Allan Morales at Hendersonville&#8217;s library. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/kirk-cameron-runs-trouble-tennessee-ahead-patriotic-book-event-negative-pushback\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a> reported.\u00a0According to the publisher, Morales &#8220;did not want a movement coming to his library&#8221; After you have learned who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=as+you+grow+book&#038;gclid=Cj0KCQiA6fafBhC1ARIsAIJjL8lzWzAA-VXOAJxZE3swDeSSlJo22BHZy-6TEwUjvUUfU0SFiXMuY9gaAudNEALw_wcB&#038;hvadid=323067330915&#038;hvdev=c&#038;hvlocphy=9031869&#038;hvnetw=g&#038;hvqmt=b&#038;hvrand=205687976781233372&#038;hvtargid=kwd-462106938386&#038;hydadcr=22535_10344669&#038;tag=googhydr-20&#038;ref=pd_sl_1znpx9gz5f_b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cameron<\/a> Robertson and Gaines would also be joining him.\u00a0The publisher stated that the publication would inform the public when the &#8220;library&#8217;s board of directors and the community&#8221; This was the reason they came to the story hour. &#8220;the library staff backed down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Robertson said that she was &#8220;taken off guard&#8221; It was amazing to see what happened the day after she asked me to be a guest reader in her book.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Because-Youre-Family-Missy-Robertson\/dp\/1955550085\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Because You&#8217;re My Family<\/a>.&#8221; Cameron and Robertson started filming at the library in preparation for the event&#8217;s joint promo hours. This was when the first problems began.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We kept hearing all these noises, people laughing and talking,&#8221; Robertson shared. &#8220;And then it just kept getting louder and louder. It sounded like they were slamming books together and kicking cabinets. And Kirk and the head of the library [Morales] kind of had a couple of shouting exchanges. And I thought, okay, something&#8217;s going on here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Robertson claimed that things would become &#8220;almost explosive&#8221; When Riley was ready to do her promos, that&#8217;s when Riley turned on her camera.<\/p>\n<p>Gaines \u2014 who has been open about having to compete against biological male trans swimmer Lia Thomas \u2014 talked to us about what happened. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_4982.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Video obtained<\/a> The Daily Wire, Robertson, supported the accounts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m in front of the camera and I&#8217;m filming my piece and all the sudden the staff started blaring music,&#8221; Gaines said it. &#8220;And so I asked them, \u2018hey guys we have sixty more seconds \u2026 I just need to film this one time and then you guys can play all the music you want.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And so these older women, librarians, came out from behind the desk and they said \u2018well, actually we&#8217;re not turning the music off. We&#8217;re using the music, this is how we cope, with the stress that you&#8217;re putting us under. We don&#8217;t have to turn the music off because it&#8217;s for our mental health,'&#8221; She continued.<\/p>\n<p>Gaines told Allan that she needed the music to be turned down, and the librarians did so. As she began to talk about herself, however, &#8220;personal experience in competing against&#8221; Thomas, sharing it takes &#8220;power to stand in the truth&#8221; The staff began to make noise again, acknowledging that women and men are distinct.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These ladies are slamming books on the counter,&#8221; Gaines said. &#8220;They are stomping their feet, slamming books, and slamming doors. And screeching. I was so baffled by their behavior.\u00a0So I went up to the desk and I was like \u2018Are you guys serious? This is the most blatantly disrespectful thing I&#8217;ve ever seen in my life.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are supposed to live in a country where we have freedom of speech, freedom of religion,&#8221; She continued. &#8220;Which those both were things that myself and Missy and Kirk were exercising. And to have people look at you like you don&#8217;t belong \u2026 is disgusting. And this was in my hometown, I was like, this was supposed to happen in California, not Tennessee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Robertson stated, &#8220;This did not happen in California or New York, this happened in Nashville. People are moving from CA and NY to Nashville to get away from this kind of stuff. I told my husband and my father-in-law today, they are coming for our children \u2026 I saw it with my own eyes on Saturday and it scared me to death.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know we&#8217;ve heard about all the transgender books and the Drag queen [events],&#8221; She continued. &#8220;For some reason they&#8217;re not having problems putting that stuff in libraries, but talking about love and joy and gentleness, that&#8217;s a problem? We&#8217;re pretty messed up if that&#8217;s the standard that we are living by, teaching our children now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zach Bell, Chief of Staff at Brave Books called the encounter with Morales &#038; his staff &#8220;chief of staff&#8221;. &#8220;just terrible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We weren&#8217;t trying to be divisive \u2026 he [Morales] wanted to give us as little access to the library as possible, just the room that we had rented,&#8221; Bell shared. &#8220;The library director starts acting like a three year old \u2026 Him and two older ladies are clanging coins, playing music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s as simple as this.&#8221; He said so. &#8220;Allan did not know Kirk Cameron. He would have denied us access to the library. He doesn&#8217;t want this movement coming to his library \u2026 And when he found out who we were and what we we were doing who Kirk was \u2026 his goal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk Cameron,\u00a0swim champion Riley Gaines and \u201cDuck Dynasty\u201d alum Missy Robertson said they were harassed by staff at a library in Tennessee where they spoke about traditional values about faith and family. In the week leading up to the preapproved faith-based story hour event, Cameron\u2019s publisher Brave Books said they had started to get pushback &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1478785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[10449,7646,6681,20010,10387,17380,10942,7889,10384,5318,17510,9522,20011,8037,4178],"class_list":["post-1864120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-alum","tag-cameron","tag-duck","tag-dynasty","tag-faith-based","tag-gaines","tag-harassed","tag-hour","tag-kirk","tag-library","tag-missy","tag-riley","tag-robertson","tag-staff","tag-story"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1478785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}