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Pastor Story Hours Not Getting Same Welcome From Public Libraries as Drag Queen Readings

Pastor Story Hours Not Getting Same Welcome From Public Libraries as Drag Queen Readings
Massachusetts Pastor Kendall Lankford reads to a crowd at the Chelmsford Public Library for the first "pastor story hour" held in New England. Courtesy of The Shepherd's Church, Chelmsford, Ma.
Alice Giordano
Alice Giordano
Freelance reporter
1/17/2023|Updated: 1/18/2023
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The first pastor story hour to take place in one of the most liberal regions of the United States drew the expected group of protesters, but it also drew an equally large crowd of supporters.

The Chelmsford Public Library, which has in the past fully embraced and promoted drag queen story hours, played the unwanted host to the event on Jan. 14 with public library officials already vowing to change their policy to bar future pastor story hours.

Alice Giordano
Alice Giordano
Freelance reporter
Alice Giordano is a freelance reporter for The Epoch Times. She is a former news correspondent for The Boston Globe, Associated Press, and the New England bureau of The New York Times.
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