Rainbows in the street

Have we passed Peak Gay yet?

Beautiful Downtown Geneseo, NY celebrates Pride Month, whether we want to or not!

Recently we had a minor kerfuffle in our idyllic little Upstate New York town when a small group of gay activists thought it would be a good idea to paint a rainbow right in the middle of Main Street, no doubt to mark what has become known as Pride Month. They went to the Village Board for permission which, of course, was quickly granted, as I live in a college town and our village board is very woke!

In fact, they are so woke that they recently paid for a sign in our Village Park, “Acknowledging” that the park is on land allegedly stolen from Native Americans. I am not sure that’s what the history books say, but no worries, they will eventually get around to re-writing those.

I have nothing against gay people (or Indians), but these activities cross a line in my mind, between private opinions that everybody is entitled to have, and public endorsement of those opinions, which is problematic. Our First Amendment prohibits the “Establishment of Religion,” and the more bizarre fringes of Wokery are starting to look very much like a religious cult to me.

This is ironic, because it appears the first requirement of being Woke is to be anti-religious, or at least anti-Christian, although I guess Islam is OK. To add to the irony, homosexuality is perhaps least tolerated in the Muslim world where in 6 countries (including Iran, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and Uganda) it can be officially punished by death, but don’t expect the Woke to be logical.

It’s all about the Feelz, and the catch phrase of the month is “Love is Love.” That phrase, to be old-fashioned about it, can be used to cover a “multitude of sins.” Is it “Love” when pedophiles (of both genders) molest young children of the same sex? I understand that Christians are supposed to condemn the sin and not the sinner, but do we need to celebrate the sin?

How much are we willing to overlook? Drag Queens in Kindergardens? Men in Women’s bathrooms? Trans-Women in women’s sports? I think the public has weighed in pretty definitively on these questions, with recent polls showing that about 80% are agin’ it!

This is not to say that all gay people engage in such behavior, many don’t, and to be fair, their cause is being damaged by the more extreme members of the so-called LGBTQIA+ movement. That coalition nominally includes Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex and Asexual folk, with the + sign standing for all other identities not encompassed in the “short” acronym, whatever they may be!

Most people have no idea what all those terms even mean, but we are supposed to accept that they are all perfectly normal and worthy of public support and even pride. I had to look a few up myself at the online LGBTQIA Resource Center, helpfully provided by the University of California at Davis. (Thanks to California taxpayers!)

Queer appears to have no clear definition, other than a celebration of “Not fitting in societal norms.” That could take in a lot of territory, but the way you know somebody is Queer is that they are allowed to use the term. If straight people say it, they are homophobic. Kind of like the “N word” for black folks!

Asexual is also a muddy concept. As opposed to the implied meaning of someone with no sexual desire, Asexual people can apparently have sex, as long as they don’t enjoy it too much!

The Intersexed are folks that we should all genuinely support. These are the unfortunate few who, due to a genetic mutation, have physical characteristics of both sexes. These cases are extremely rare, but Mother Nature does make mistakes in about .017% of births.

Of course, LGBTQIA activists, always seeking to broaden their coalition, attempt to extend that definition to include people who may look a little off-type even though they don’t have a genetic basis for it. Sounds like Stolen Valor to me!

The real problem child of the LGBTQIA coalition are those darn “Ts!” These are people who think they know better about what they really are, than the way that God made them. Even though born with perfectly good plumbing, they want what the other sex has. Maybe we should have an Envy Month just for them!

Unfortunately, in today’s immoral medical climate, they can usually find a Doctor somewhere who is willing (for the right price) to prescribe the medications and/or perform the surgeries to make their dreams almost come true. Of course they are seeking the impossible. A born man can never really become a biological woman and give birth, and a born woman can never become a biological man and fertilize another woman. This used to be called following the science!

In most cases they cannot even pass for the other sex, although in some rare cases they do. More often, this hopeless quest creates even more psychological problems, that can lead to depression, suicide and even to violence. In the last few years we have seen too many cases of Trans people taking their frustration out by shooting up a church school, or a church itself. There they go hating on Christians again!

It is also suspected that the Assassination of Charlie Kirk was also motivated by anger at his supposedly anti-Tran views. The accused assassin, Tyler Robinson, was apparently in a relationship with a man who was transitioning. Whether Mr. Robinson will be convicted of that crime remains to be seen, but certainly large swaths of the Trans and Woke community celebrated the murder of a Godly man.

All of which is leading to a condition that we might call “Gay Fatigue” in the general public. In reality, Americans are one of the most tolerant people in the World. Most of us really don’t care what people may do in the privacy of their bedrooms, but the history of the gay movement is that they are unwilling to stop there.

Not only should people tolerate their lifestyle, allow gay folks to marry each other with all the legal rights of straight couples, but we are also supposed to celebrate that lifestyle by acquiescing in public support of Pride Month displays on public property. Sorry, but that is a bridge too far for me.

I am not a religious person. Perhaps if I was more of one I would have more tolerance, however, I am a political person, and I can plainly see that these kind of public celebrations are deliberately provocative. It’s not good enough for LGBTQIA to privately celebrate among themselves and their supporters. They seek validation of their proclivities by making it into a political issue, knowing that it will offend a large part of the unwoke.

This earns them points in the Great Grievance Sweepstakes, that public life in America has become. You earn points by showing how many people are prejudiced against you, and whichever group is the most discriminated against supposedly wins, but what do they win?

In my humble opinion the whole push for an ever-more radical LGBTQIA agenda has become counter-productive. I know they abhor traditional Christian morality, but they might consider that Pride has always been identified as one of the 7 Deadly Sins, and certainly nothing to be celebrated. As the Good Book has it, “Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall!” (Proverbs 16:18, King James version)