The Calumet Volunteer Fire Department in Westmoreland County has decided to pull the plug on a big fundraising event it had scheduled later this month…due to religious opposition. The event was billed as a “Sparkling Queens of Drag Bingo” night set for July 20. A similar Calumet drag queen fundraiser earlier this year raised about $10,000. But, fire department officials say they had no choice but to cancel the event because they sold only about 60 tickets. They had hoped to sell 300 by now. A group of seven pastors from churches in the Mount Pleasant Township area sent out a letter in March saying in part: “This event encourages the touching, fondling, and groping of patrons dressed in drag.” But the drag queen bingo game organizers say the volunteer fire department is now the loser. Jeffrey Kaczynski, spokesman for the Sparkling Queens of Drag, says that all of their events are sellouts…raising over $180,000 for local fire departments, and local organizations in the span of just one year.