There was a time last year when the biggest issue on the culture war front was the matter of drag performers reading children’s books to kids at local public libraries. There were intense protests against these events in numerous cities — so intense, in fact, that Calgary crafted a bylaw specifically to keep these protests at a greater distance from the libraries.

Whatever moral or religious objections these protesters had, calling on such events to be prohibited is very much a case of “government knows best.” If the concept of “parental rights” had entered the debate, it clearly would have applied not to the protesters but to those parents who chose to attend with their own children. No one else was forced to attend.

There is an interesting and noteworthy overlap between those who saw fit to oppose the choices of other parents and those who have now positioned themselves as champions and enthusiastic supporters of parental rights. Maybe this really isn’t about parental rights at all.

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