The Mayc’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has drawn the ire of Austin Ruse, president of The Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute (C-FAM), for its inclusion of a performance from the highly successful Broadway play "Kinky Boots," the winner of the 2013 Tony Award for Best Musical. Guest-hosting Sandy Rios’ American Family Radio program today, Ruse claimed that the performance, which featured performers in drag, was harmful to children.
“We all know that you can’t watch television anymore, you can’t leave the children unattended in front of the television anymore, and this is true of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade,” Ruse lamented. “It was a bunch of transvestites convorting around the main stage, in the street, in front of Macy’s and they were in ladies’ underwear and kinky boots and they were all dancing around and singing these songs and there was absolutely no warning for parents to change the channel.”
“I am profoundly grateful that we didn’t turn it on until 10 a.m. after Kinky Boots had performed, but I know many other people that were not so lucky,” he added.
Ruse, who earlier this year criticized the Food Network for featuring a lesbian chef, said that he is also upset about a New York Times article about custom suits for women transgender men. He said that Leslie Wolfgang, whose husband Peter leads the Family Institute of Connecticut, was scarred by the Kinky Boots performance: “They will not let us alone, I don’t know what to do about it, I mean they have these crazy, crazy ideas that men want to wear ladies’ underwear and dance around in the street and women want to cut off their breasts and they are in the New York Times.”
