Over 100 residents gathered in Ohio church a week after the building was damaged from an apparent molotov cocktail attack
They had to pass barricades, metal detectors, bomb-sniffing dogs, a background check by event organizers and a sign still bearing theBut on Saturday 1 April, more than 100 residents of north-eastgathered inside the Chesterland Community church and listened to a group of drag queens read stories to children. “It was amazing,” the church’s pastor, Jess Peacock, said. “I kept seeing the smiles on the kids faces and for me it was like, that’s why we did this.
Peacock said that they expected to receive a certain amount of backlash – “hate mail and hate voicemail and social media hate” – when they began publicizing the event, but the response to the story hour went far beyond the usual.
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