An eight year old drag queen

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Indeed.

Jesus so values the innocence of children that His words were astonishingly severe with those who injure their innocence:
“If anyone causes one of these little ones–those who believe in me–to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea”. (Matthew 18:6)

And yet so much harm and scandal is perpetrated against children, as a legal requirement.
 
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Is dressing in drag a sin? As far as I am aware, no.

Do a lot of children dress up on a regular basis, even with make up? Yes.

Do they do it for theatre, drama, and dance classes? Yes.

Do they sometimes put on a show? Yes.

Have any of you been to a drag show or watch it? It’s basically theatre, they sing, dance, in make up and outfits.

If you wouldn’t mind a man dressing up as a woman for Shakespeare, why is this any different?

The young child is not dressing up as a woman per se, but as a complete caricature of one.
 
Cross-dressing is a mortal sin.

Kids dress up like that because they don’t know any better. It is up to their parents to teach them better and forbid cross-dressing.

If you want your kid to be a weirdo and messed up in the head, sure, dress him up in drag and parade him around.
 
LittleFlower said:
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The child is dressing up as a caricature.
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That does not change the simple fact that it unhealthy and not in the best interest of the child to allow such caricature to be performed.

Just because it’s a performance, does not make the overall situation right.
 
FrDavid96 said:
That does not change the simple fact that it unhealthy and not in the best interest of the child to allow such caricature to be performed.
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How is this harmful? How is this any more harmful that getting any child involved in the arts? The arts are sometimes a little bit thought provoking.

I mean, I find it hilarious and a great commentary of how women are forced to abide feminine beauty, getting all dolled up—it’s a wonderful caricature.

Just like I find ballet or theatre productions great.
 
I don’t see a list anywhere in that Wikipedia article.

What kind of sicko gets entertainment out of watching an 8-year old boy dress up as a girl?
 
The Church does not have an exhaustive list of all mortal sins.

So because some nasty school did it that means it’s good? Funny, I missed the memo when the Church declared the school as the Moral Authority of the Universe.

Theatre has long been considered a den of vice and sin.
 
My impression from this article is that the kid’s main problem was not that he played dress-up at a young age, but that his father essentially bailed on his duties of being a father, caretaker and role model for a son.

Having said that, it’s wrong for adults to glorify the stuff kids do such as making an act called “Lactitia” out of it. No young child would come up with that name on his own. It would be equally wrong to make a child into a soldier as someone else said (child soldiers do exist), or a doctor or anything else. I was just watching an old documentary on Marjoe Gortner whose parents made him be a preacher at a very young age because people responded to it and gave big donations. Equally bad even though the child was dressed as a boy and talking about God.
 
LittleFlower said:
How is this harmful? How is this any more harmful that getting any child involved in the arts? The arts are sometimes a little bit thought provoking.

I mean, I find it hilarious and a great commentary of how women are forced to abide feminine beauty, getting all dolled up—it’s a wonderful caricature.

Just like I find ballet or theatre productions great.
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First, we might be following 2 different links. What you wrote about doesn’t seem to match what I read in the link. There was nothing humorous about what I read. And I do mean nothing. I’m not saying it was meant to be funny but I wasn’t amused. I’m saying it was clearly not intended to be amusing in any way.

Are you writing about the link in the OP of this thread???
 
ChunkMonk said:
So because some nasty school did it that means it’s good?
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Most well-resourced schools have theatre productions that involve dressing up, and sometimes dressing up as the opposite sex.
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Having said that, it’s wrong for adults to glorify the stuff kids do such as making an act called “Lactitia” out of it.
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I know plenty of children who would have come up with similar names.
FrDavid96 said:
Are you writing about the link in the OP of this thread???
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I am writing about the original video, which is referenced in the article, as well as the article.

How is dressing up now a mortal sin? Far out, we wouldn’t want children to have imagination or be creative, as they could sin.
 
Note that the 8 year old drag queen of the article (and thread) title is not the main subject. Lactatia is only the subject of the first paragraph, but it is this Lactatia mentioned in an Elle magazine article which serves as the jumping off point forthe author of the Public Discourse article, because it reminds him of his own story and his own gender dysphoria. His story begins under the heading of “My Grandma and Me.”
 
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LittleFlower said:
I know plenty of children who would have come up with similar names.
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We know different children then. I know several people who have boys under age 10 who like dress up, and a few adult males who said they liked it when they were a kid. None of them took it to the extreme of coming up with an elaborate name or a “drag queen act”. They just dressed up and had fun painting their nails and stuff.
 
The parents being in the creative fields suggests to me more that they encouraged their kid to act like an older adult before he was ready. I knew a few like that in the distant past. I wasn’t thrilled about associating with them because they all had family dysfunction, and I’m not talking about someone merely having gay sexual orientation.
 
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