During an appearance on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show California Mass Resistance leader Arthur Schaper and Johnathan Merritt, a progressive Christian writer, debated Drag Queen Storytime at local libraries. Merritt was introduced by Ingraham as a defender of the Drag Queen Story programs. Merritt is the son of a former Southern Baptist Convention president James Merritt. James Merritt was on Southern Baptist Convention program’s Racial Reconciliation panel Tuesday at the SBC’s Annual Meeting in Birmingham.
Schaper attacked these Drag Queen Storytimes as “perverse.”
“We are not talking about diversity here,” Schaper said. “We are talking about deviance.