Posted on 06/20/2022 7:02:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
According to an article in the Federalist, the popular tourist destination of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia (one of the largest living history museums in the world) has apparently learned nothing from a related disastrous decision by Disney’s woke leadership. The author said, “…it has faithfully depicted the founding culture of America in a meticulously recreated, and often re-enacted, Revolutionary-era capital. This depiction included America’s undeniably traditional, Western, largely Judeo-Christian roots. But now Williamsburg has gone woke. In doing so, its leadership and staff are displaying conspicuous enmity toward the highly reasoned position held by America’s founders -- a position at odds with today’s LGBT dogma.”
Williamsburg was the original state capitol of Virginia, but the Revolutionary War convinced the government to move the capitol to less militarily vulnerable Richmond. Left behind were many of the original colonial-era government buildings creating a ghost town and by the 20th century most required serious repairs. However, thanks to a visionary endowment in 1926 by the John. D. Rockefeller Jr. foundation, a massive preservation effort was started. Since then, it has been operated by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, a not-for-profit, educational institution. I went there as a child, took my daughter and most recently took my grandchildren. I repeated the process at nearby Jamestown.
Although tourism seriously declined during the pandemic, creating a financial strain, the area continues to attract and impress thousands of visitors annually from all over the world. However, guests attending this June may be in for a surprise. Whoever made the programming change had to really contort the truth to allege some historical LGBT contributions. Following is a small sample reported by the Federalist:
“It’s not merely during Pride month, which Williamsburg now celebrates. Colonial Williamsburg has established an ongoing Gender and Sexual Diversity Research Committee
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“If gays are so proud why do they need a pride month? And why are they looking to others for pride? Are we suppose to compliment them?”
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Because it is NOT about pride of any type; gay pride, lesbian pride, “I just cut off my junk” pride.
It’s about indoctrination, acceptance and submission to sexual perversion. And not just homosexuality. It will eventually lead to normalized and legalized pedophilia, necrophilia, and every other form of sexual perversion imaginable.
It is Satanic and pure evil.
I went to Williamsburg in the mid 1960s and it was great. I got a giant gingerbread man made in a colonial bakery right there. I took my Ukrainian wife there in 2009 as a stopover on our way to CPAC in DC. They no longer ran the colonial bakery or had their famous big gingerbread men. A few things were baked off-site and brought in. The historical buildings were still interesting, but it seemed to have lost a lot of its charm.
Those who stand on solid ground can perceive the movement of the river. Those who drift with the current don't notice their movement toward the waterfall.
Sad. My husband and I were talking about going there when I retire. Looks like that’s now off the table. My in laws loved it and went a number of times. They would be saddened and disappointed had they lived to see this.
By current leftist standards, 99% of the people in history were far-right conservatives. Far-left history is 100% misery, poverty, and failure. Leftists have to tell big lies about everything, especially history.
Will they have a display on colonial homos??
Anyone who can do that to you can make you do anything, for example surrender yourself voluntarily to slavery or commit any atrocity.
This was George Orwell's warning (1984):
If you’re in Philly and visit the site of the first President’s house, you’ll see very little there about George Washington or John Adams. Instead, you’ll see a complete dissertation on slavery and the life of slaves…
I know. They weren't females.
At the Founding and until WW2, the vastly overwhelming majority of Americans did not "identify" with homosexual behavior, there was not a positive nickname for the practice such as "gay", and the penalties for homosexual behavior were severe.
Even if a very few in the Williamsburg era did some diddling on the downlow, they most likely also had wives and children, so were technically bisexual at most, and also closeted and conflicted. There simply were no homosexuals in the public life of Christendom at the time except perhaps in theater, the practitioners of which were also frowned upon as people of disrepute.
Even the famed artist Toulouse-Lautrec in the sexy, decadent France of the 1800s, who journalistically portrayed hundreds of prostitutes in bars, brothels and dancehalls, never depicted obvious homosexuality among the male characters in his Parisian nightlife paintings.
"Being" gay or the rest of the alphabet is a distinctly recent public phenomenon. Historically, until the Swinging 60s, more than 92% of American adults were married heterosexually.
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