Global Courant 2023-05-29 07:41:09
Speaking at the Seattle Public Library on Saturday, actor-writer Kirk Cameron encountered a small group of protesters objecting to his pro-faith, pro-family and pro-country messages at his children’s book event, with one person hoisting a large sign that said : “You’re going to be a real nuisance – you know that.”
The sign’s message and letters were a play on “Growing Pains,” the TV sitcom in which Cameron first rose to fame as a young actor.
Cameron told Fox News Digital in a message on Sunday, “A nostalgic protester — protesting a book about humility? — dragged along a huge sandwich board that said I was ‘getting a real pain.’ Nicely played, sir!” added Cameron.
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However, the protesters who showed up were largely overwhelmed by the many supportive parents, children and families who came out to see and listen to him.
Coach Joe Kennedy of Bremerton, Washington also joined him.
Cameron said of his latest book-focused event at the public library, “In the city best known for coffee and grunge music, we were awoken to a cheery song of thanksgiving from hundreds of parents and children at the Seattle Public Library.”
Shown on the left is a Seattle protester on Saturday, May 27, 2023, holding up a sign referencing actor-writer Kirk Cameron — who has spoken at numerous public libraries across the country and hosted storytelling programs for families and children who focus on faith, family and country. (Good Books/Kirk Cameron)
He added, “My new children’s book, Pride Comes Before The Fall, was a huge hit and the kids immediately understood the importance of the most important lesson: always be humble and kind.”
He said he was “particularly struck by the parents who said, ‘Thank you for coming to Seattle—where people forget there are good, God-loving, and patriotic families.'”
Cameron’s new book is out June 1 at Brave Books.
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He told Fox News Digital in a phone interview a few days ago, “With a nation so saturated with the idea that pride is a good thing, the Bible warns us that pride is the deadliest of the seven deadly sins. Before greed, gluttony , laziness, wrath, envy and lust – is pride.”
Kirk Cameron wants to teach kids the importance of being humble and kind through his latest children’s book, due out June 1. (Kirk Cameron/Brave books)
It is “the vice of the mother that produces all the other dangerous things on the list,” he said.
And so “I want to teach children the importance of being humble and kind” through this new book.
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It is his second children’s book, after ‘After You Grow’, which became a bestseller.
Other books on the other seven deadly sins are also in preparation, he said.
At the Seattle event, Coach Kennedy told the assembled families that a game plan for life involved “Love God and love this country,” according to Brave Books.
“Humility is the way to blessing.”
Kennedy, a Washington resident, also “shared his humble story of faith,” Cameron said, “and then reminded the kids to always do the right thing and put others before themselves.”
Added Cameron, “Thanks, Seattle!”
Kirk Cameron can be seen reading his first children’s book, “As You Grow,” earlier this year in Scarsdale, New York. (Kerry J. Byrne/Fox News Digital)
Since late last year, Cameron has been traveling to public libraries across the country to meet with families and deliver his messages of patriotism and faith as he reads from his books.
He was accompanied by special guests at many of the events.
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He has more events planned as part of this tour, especially with the new book coming out.
“Humility is the way to blessing,” he also recently told Fox News Digital.
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“With a nation clinging to the idea that it is good to be full of pride – especially this month as we see signs everywhere celebrating pride – we must warn children that it is humility that will lead to the good life.” , no pride,” he remarked.
Maureen Mackey is editor-in-chief of lifestyle for Fox News Digital.
