The 1,2,3 of the Special Message Sent To Believers

Have I not written to you

1- excellent things of counsel and knowledge,
2- that I may make you know the certainty of the words of truth,
3- that you may answer words of truth to those who send to you? — Solomon, Proverbs 22:20-21
 

Summarizing the Point of Proverbs

Have I not written to you excellent
things of counsel and knowledge,
that I may make you know the certainty of the words of truth, that
---you may answer words of truth
----------to those who send to you?
Proverbs 22:20-21

The "Really" File - (Prov. 22:6 & Mommy)

Young Desmond, trained up on his mother's lap....

Train up a child in the way he should go:

and when he is old,

he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 22:6

"Viewers of the TODAY show were recently introduced to a young boy who, with the support of his parents, is a self-avowed drag queen, or as he likes to call himself, a “drag kid.”

NBC News Senior National Correspondent Kate Snow was all smiles during her piece about 10-year-old Desmond Napoles, whose social media name is Desmond Is Amazing. During an interview with the fifth-grader, who sports diamond stud earrings, she asks him if he’s transgender (to which he answers no), and whether he identifies as gay (to which he answers yes). “When did you come out,” she asks. “Ever since I was born,” he replies.

During Snow’s interview with Desmond’s parents we learn the backstory. His mother explains that when he was a toddler he would sit in her lap while she watched “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” a runway competition for drag queens.
He was mesmerized, she says, and eventually started dressing up at home. Snow asks Desmond what it was about watching those drag queens that appealed to him. He thinks it was “how beautiful they were and how amazing they looked,” he tells her. And he thought, “I want to look amazing, too.”

We learn that Desmond’s mother and father consulted a therapist about his interest in dressing in drag. They were advised neither to encourage or discourage. So they let him take the lead and offered their support.

Video of Desmond prancing around in drag during a gay pride parade in 2015 went viral, and a social media star was born. He now has more than 40,000 Instagram followers and his own YouTube channel. He’s been profiled 

From the "Really" File

in Vogue and has begun a modeling career. When he’s not in school, he’s busy doing photo shoots and runway shows.

“Sashaying” is the word Vogue uses to describe Desmond’s walks down the runway, with his face covered in garish makeup and his nails brightly polished, but his mother sees nothing sexual in what he’s doing. To her he’s just a child enjoying himself. When Snow asks her if he’s young to be doing all this, she points to the fact that Mozart started playing the piano at age 3. Apparently in her eyes dressing in drag is Desmond’s talent. And, Snow explains, Desmond wants to make dressing in drag his career.

Of course Desmond’s story wouldn’t be complete without Snow adding that he uses his platform to support other kids and inspire them to come out. “I’m fierce and amazing,” Desmond tells her. “Drag kids are going to take over the world.” NCR 

REALLY?

 

The "Really" File - (10 yr. old Smart Mouth)

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 22:6

“Haus of Amazing,” purportedly the “first ever drag house established exclusively for kids who are doing amazing drag,” will be a “positive, encouraging and safe on-line community for drag kids to connect with each other,” according to an on-line flyer for the club.

Desmond Napoles has been showing interest in dressing in drag since he was a toddler, a Daily Mail

report said, and has gained fame on the New York drag circuit as his drag alter ego, Desmond is Amazing.

'Ever since day one... ever since I was able to walk, I used to take my mom's towels and take her heels and clomp around the house,” Napoles said, “put the towel on my head, wrap a towel around my body and walk the runway down my house.”

At age six he began asking his parents for princess costumes and dresses, the report said. His parents consulted a therapist and were told it was best to allow Desmond develop naturally and to explore his tastes on clothing, toys and activities.

His June 2015 appearance in a rainbow tutu and sparkled gold beret at New York’s Gay Pride event went viral, and Napoles is the youngest member of New York’s longtime “Vogue” dance house Iconic House of UltraOmni. He hopes to have his own fashion and cosmetics line some day.

Napoles calls himself a “drag kid” as opposed to a “drag queen,” with the explanation that the term “drag queen” should only refer to adults. 

From the "Really" File

Napoles came out as gay last year, the Daily Mail report said. His parents are emphatic that their son is not yet sexually active, the report said, and although Napoles is an advocate for LGBTQ issues, he has not ”reached the age where sexual relations are appropriate or discussed explicitly.”

He told Out magazine last fall his advice for other kids was, “If your parents say, “Oh, gay is bad” or “it’s a sin,” pay them no mind and say, “If you don’t like me, I’m gonna leave.

Napoles advised the “haters” via his Instagram account this past week that he was secure in who he was and they will not change or shame him.

“You mean nothing to me,” he said. “You are like a fly I shoo away.” Lifesite

 

REALLY?