A new political advertisement targeting North Carolina Democrat U.S. congressional candidate Jamie Ager over a family-friendly festival featuring drag performers at his family’s farm has prompted backlash from LGBTQ activists, including a cease-and-desist demand from one performer and a separate demand for its removal from Blue Ridge Pride as Election Day approaches.
\n\nThe National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has begun running an advertisement based on an October 16 Breitbart News report revealing that Ager’s family business, Hickory Nut Gap Farms, hosted a May 2019 festival that promoted activities for children and featured the Beer City Sisters, a group associated with drag performances that described itself as “a group of 21st Century nuns dedicated to the promulgation of universal joy and the expiation of stigmatic guilt.”
\n\nMembers of the group used names including “Sister Anita Felching” and “Sister Helen Bedd.” The advertisement also highlights a $5,000 contribution disclosed in Ager’s campaign finance filing to Blue Ridge Pride, an organization whose stated vision is to create “a vibrant, inclusive community where all LGBTQIA2S+ individuals in WNC [Western North Carolina] experience belonging and live with dignity, equity, hope and joy.”
\n\nThe North Carolina Republican Party (NCGOP) shared the advertisement on social media as…
Original source: https://breitbart.com/
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