Critics School Kirk Cameron After Weird Rant About Atheists, Drag Queens And Strippers
Former “Growing Pains” star and Christian evangelical activist Kirk Cameron found himself trending on X on Tuesday after an attack on public schools that included a bizarre claim about what happens to students there.
“If we outsource our parenting because it’s easier or we believe the lie that we’re not qualified experts to educate our kids so we have to subcontract our parenting and discipleship out to the government, we’re gonna have little kids that come back as little Marxists, little statists, little atheists, drag queens, strippers, drug dealers, and you name it,” Cameron, who advocates Christian homeschooling, told podcaster Elizabeth Johnston.
“Friendly Atheist” Hemant Mehta posted the clip on X:
Actor Kirk Cameron says if you send your kids to public schools, they'll come back as "little Marxists, little statists, little atheists, drag queens, strippers, drug dealers... you name it." pic.twitter.com/7Phq6Epekz
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) August 13, 2024
Cameron was honored with four Razzies in a single year for his 2014 bomb “Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas,” which has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
He has more recently encouraged Christians to homeschool their kids and starred in the 2022 movie “The Homeschool Awakening.” That same year, he accused public schools of “grooming for sexual chaos” and “destroying the church.”
In the new interview, he complained about “woke” libraries and made numerous other references to strippers and drag queens. He urged listeners to pull their kids out of public schools and switch to homeschooling, private schools and church educational coops.
Cameron’s critics on X took him back to school:
Kirk Cameron made an unwatchable movie about how the true spirit of Jesus' birthday is blowing your paycheck at the mall. https://t.co/LJQmcbzlZz
— Ashley Lynch ????? (@ashleylynch) August 14, 2024
Kirk Cameron is a movie star like Jeffrey Dahmer is a chef pic.twitter.com/pZnStozoZA
— Mister Race Bannon (@MrRaceBannon) August 13, 2024
He just moved to Tennessee, recently got a Sumner County librarian fired.
The true sentiment behind @GovBillLee's privatization push, influx of charters/vouchers across TN - shared by new extremist school board members (in Williamson & Wilson counties, etc)... even if many won't… https://t.co/1lCipK9enp— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) August 13, 2024
I hate Kirk Cameron just as much as teenage me loved him and that was an enormously huge amount of love.
pic.twitter.com/3rPV31uvyW— SingleBabyMama (@_SingleBabyMama) August 13, 2024
FWIW, my kids went to public school to learn how not to be Kirk Cameron.
— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) August 13, 2024
We should do the opposite, require public schooling for everyone, fund public schools to the hilt, so every school in America is like the best private school. Small class rooms, great libraries and stop these religious lunatics from abusing their children with made up stories https://t.co/62MtKGKzII
— Anthony Atamanuik (@TonyAtamanuik) August 13, 2024
They HATE public schools and how they teach our kids to think outside of the Bible https://t.co/6CTSQlbGH7
— Pete Dominick (@PeteDominick) August 13, 2024
evangelicals: “if we homeschool our kids and send them to bible college then they won’t become marxists”
half of the people i know who were homeschooled and went to bible college: “I’M A MARXIST!!!!” https://t.co/pl2erGM1LC— Mason Mennenga (@masonmennenga) August 13, 2024
Far right Christians hate public education. They need schools to be brainwashing centers in order to get any votes.
Kids who are properly educated and have good mental health are well-protected from these predators. https://t.co/DkiHALC53Q— Matthew Sheffield (@mattsheffield) August 13, 2024
Every actual Marxist I know grew up in the Christian homeschool movement or private Christian schools lol https://t.co/l8LCCxftl0
— Zach W. Lambert (@ZachWLambert) August 13, 2024
I went to a conservative private Christian school from K through 12. And while I am still not an atheist, a drug dealer, or a stripper… Kirk Cameron wouldn’t approve of my current politics or my current theology.
Children are people and you can’t control them forever. https://t.co/3fK7ffZW5a— Josiah Hawthorne (@JosiahHawthorne) August 13, 2024
A cool thing about conservatives is how much they loathe actual Americans. He's talking about the 90% of people in the United States who attended or currently attend a public school, applying what he sees as contemptuous labels to us. https://t.co/oOM8uXN04X
— ??Dan Credentials?? (@CharlemagnumPI) August 13, 2024
It’s truly sad to see people undermine the public education system. Teachers are everything. They’re woefully underpaid to try and open kid’s minds, find their passions and prepare them for the real world. One thing I know is that I wouldn’t want Kirk Cameron teaching children. https://t.co/MUvXZLesPz
— Phillip Iscove (@pmiscove) August 14, 2024
Kirk is experiencing extreme growing pains https://t.co/rw8iTqm9Xg
— Luke Zaleski (@ZaleskiLuke) August 13, 2024