Last week, Senator Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) sent a letter to the Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany objecting to the Air Force Library’s plan to host a “Drag Queen Story Time” event for young children of service members this Thursday. “I urge you to immediately cancel this politically divisive event, and take appropriate disciplinary action against all involved in allowing this gross abuse of taxpayer funding to place children in a sexualized environment,” Rubio wrote, arguing that it was “completely insane for Ramstein AFB to use on-installation resources” for the initiative. “These inappropriate events are extremely divisive at home for good reason; in all cases, they place young children in close proximity with adults who are intentionally and explicitly sexualized.”…

It wasn’t the first time that the base had hosted the event. As the Post Millennial reported, “the base, on which 54,000 American service members are stationed, accompanied by more than 5,400 US civilian employees, had held a Drag Story Hour in 2021.” Other bases, such as the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, hosted similar events last year. In a statement, the Nellis base defended hosting a drag-queen show on the grounds that “ensuring our ranks reflect and are inclusive of the American people is essential to the morale, cohesion, and readiness of the military”…