In an exclusive interview over the weekend, actor-writer Kirk Cameron announced that he’ll be traveling to a string of public libraries to take his messages of faith, freedom, family and love of country to millions of Americans in major cities — people who are “crying out,” he said, “for someone to push back” against today’s woke culture.
“I’m going out” to speak to Americans in major cities, he said, particularly at some of the public libraries that either denied his earlier requests to hold story hours at their facilities or never responded to his book publisher’s requests to hold book-based events there.
Cameron’s new book, “As You Grow,” is an illustrated children’s book that shares the story of an oak tree throughout its seasons of life.
The story encourages children to develop and share the virtues of patience, joy, kindness, compassion, self-control and other biblical values.
He stressed that at his recent appearances at the Indianapolis Public Library in Indianapolis, Indiana, and at the Scarsdale Public Library in Scarsdale, New York, scores of people came up to him and thanked him for sharing his Christian values and beliefs.
“So now I’m going to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Denver, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta” and other cities, Cameron said, “where people are crying out for someone to push back and stand up and bring the kinds of values that made this country free and led to its blessings.”
Added Cameron, “When those 50 woke libraries initially denied us the ability to come and do a story hour and said that their communities weren’t interested in this kind of messaging, I didn’t believe them.”
Then, “when we pushed back on two of them, they opened up,” he said. “And we turned out and were greeted by thousands of people in Indianapolis and Scarsdale.”
He went on, “The message I kept hearing was, ‘Thank you for coming to our city. People have passed us by and written us off thinking that we want this woke mafia to teach these values to our children — and it’s not true. We love what you’re bringing, and we’re so thankful that you’re here.'”
In addition to that, said Cameron, “we’ve been flooded with emails and comments on social media with people pleading with us to come to their libraries.”
And so, he said, “I’m hitting the road — and I’m going.”
Cameron said that his tour of public libraries will likely take several months — and that his family, including his parents and his sister, Candace Cameron Bure, stand behind him in his efforts to share a belief in traditional values across the country.
