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Posted on 07/12/2019 8:31:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
If you ask my detractors, they would tell you that the reason I do not celebrate gay pride is that I’m a bigot. A hater. A homophobe. A transphobe.
And I understand their perspective.
After all, no matter how Christian I claim to be, if I tell a gay couple I do not believe they are truly married in God’s sight, that feels like hatred to them
If I tell a woman who identifies as a man that I still believe she is a woman, that feels like hatred to her.
From their perspective, I can understand how unchristian my position seems, how bigoted, how biased, how primitive.
After all, they would be quick to point out, there are gay parents who are more devoted to their kids than some straight parents.
There are transgender men and women who are kind, gentle, caring souls.
There are people all across the LGBT spectrum who help the poor, who care for the oppressed, who love the loveless, who are outstanding bosses or employees or friends or neighbors.
Why shouldn’t all of us celebrate gay (or, LGBT) pride?
For me, there are three major reasons, and none of them have anything to do with hatred or fear.
First, I do not accept the categories of LGBT as fixed and definite categories, worthy of special recognition.
Put another way, why should there be a special month to celebrate people based on their sexual desires and romantic attractions? Or based on their gender identity perceptions?
The very fact that we’ve gone from G (as in gay) to LG, to LGB, to LGBT, to LGBTQ, to LGBTQI to LGBTQIP (and beyond) indicates that these are hardly fixed categories.
Or, to zero in on the letter B, why should I celebrate someone who is attracted to both males and females? Why should I put them in a special category (like Hispanic or Asian or Black)?
If the person happens to a courageous firefighter, I’ll celebrate them for that. If the person happens to be a cancer survivor with an amazing story, I’ll celebrate them for that.
They are fellow human beings, and if they deserve honor or commendation, I’ll gladly give that to them. But I won’t celebrate their bisexuality. Why should I?
And that leads to my second point.
If I’m convinced that homosexual practice is contrary to God’s design, why should I celebrate it?
If I personally know people whose same-sex attractions were the result of childhood sexual abuse and rape, why should I celebrate those attractions?
If I’m convinced that, ideally, a child should have a mommy and a daddy (rather than two mommies or two daddies), why should I celebrate a family setting that willfully deprives that child of either their mother or father?
Do we celebrate single parent pride? No, we say to those single parents, “It must be hard to raise your child on your own, but we’re standing with you to help.”
There’s quite a difference.
And why should I celebrate transgender identity? What is there to celebrate?
Why should I celebrate putting a child on hormone blockers? Why should I celebrate a 17-year-old girl having her breasts removed? Why should I celebrate a lifelong regimen of hormones? Why should I celebrate something that causes so many people so much pain, even after “transitioning?”
If you asked me to stand with those who identify as transgender and offer them support and compassion and hope, I would say, “Count me in.”
If you asked me to stand against their harassment and mistreatment, again I would say, “Count me in.”
But if you ask me to celebrate their transgender identity (and all the challenges that come with it), I would have to politely decline.
Third, and finally, I do not celebrate LGBT pride because there is an agenda attached to it.
In other words, this is not just a matter of me appreciating LGBT people as people, or recognizing their accomplishments for the sake of their accomplishments.
Instead, to celebrate LGBT pride is to recognize and embrace a larger cultural agenda.
As I explained in 2011, “the legitimizing of homosexuality as a perfectly normal alternative to heterosexuality also requires that all opposition to homosexual behavior must be delegitimized. At the very least, the gay agenda requires these three platforms (and let recognized gay leaders renounce this if it is not so).
“Whereas homosexuality was once considered a pathological disorder, from here on those who do not affirm homosexuality will be deemed homophobic, perhaps themselves suffering from a pathological disorder.
“Whereas gay sexual behavior was once considered morally wrong, from here on public condemnation – or even public criticism – of that behavior will be considered morally wrong.
“Whereas identifying as transgender was once considered abnormal by society, causing one to be marginalized, from here on those who do not accept transgenderism will be considered abnormal and will be marginalized.”
And remember, I wrote this in 2011. (In fact, I wrote this several years earlier, but these comments were not published until 2011.)
Again, from the LGBT viewpoint, LGBT pride is all about coming out of the closet. It’s about saying, “We’re just as good and as gifted and as normal as anyone else, and rather than being ashamed of our LGBT identity, we are proud of it. The days of being mistreated are over. That’s what LGBT pride is all about!”
Again, I understand these sentiments, and if it was a matter of caring for people as people, I’d march side by side with them.
But it’s not just that. It’s about creating new categories and foisting them on the society. It’s about celebrating something that should not be celebrated. It’s about a larger agenda.
For those reasons, I do not celebrate gay pride, even though it makes be a hateful bigot in the eyes of many LGBT people and their allies.
That saddens me, but that doesn’t change my convictions.
June remains just another month on my calendar. It is not marked off for LGBT pride.
There’s no pride or feeling “gay” in being a sexual deviant dead ender.
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P4L
I’m a proud member of the “I think gayness is a deviant perverse mental illness” club
Stop there, because no it doesn't, and they don't really perceive it as hatred. They just say that to make you feel guilty. Just like a child whose parents make them help clean house moans, "You only had me so you'd have a slave to do work for you!" or if the parent doesn't buy them a toy, "You don't love me!! You don't care about me!!" It's a guilt trip, pure and simple, and a very childish one at that.
I don’t celebrate gay pride because it’s like, so gay!
Most sodomites are not happy and carefree. They are miserable and think society should be reshaped to conform to their deviancy and the misery it brings.
No thanks.
How about another reason: pride is a sin.
This is a gentle way to express what I have failed to say when I needed to say it.
I keep thinking how the three platforms he calls attention to, and the shadows they cast from the time of Lott, are both testimony to Satan’s power, while also helping us find our times’ place in the biblical story.
And to also be aware of what eventually is coming next? “As in the days of Noah ...”
Telling a child it is ok to play in the street is hatred and so is telling a homosexual that he/she is not sinning against God.
In the near future you will be forced to attend lgbqt-lsmft events or lose your job.
There are two sexes, male and female. Marriage is for one of each, not two of the same. This is a fact. It’s scientific. It’s indisputable. It’s not just a Christian article of faith.
[[There are transgender men and women who are kind, gentle, caring souls.]]
Well golly- I’m sure there are pedos who are as well, people who rob banks, people who commit bestiality- All folks, who when not committing abominations and crimes are perfectly ‘nice’ acting- What’s the point here?
[[LGBT pride is all about coming out of the closet. It’s about saying, “We’re just as good and as gifted and as normal as anyone else,]]
What next? Society has already forced approval of several abominations it once didn’t tolerate- will the next ones be along the lines of the following?
Bestiality pride is all about coming out of the closet. It’s about saying, “We’re just as good and as gifted and as normal as anyone else,
Pedo/NAMBLA pride is all about coming out of the closet. It’s about saying, “We’re just as good and as gifted and as normal as anyone else,
Rapist’s pride is all about coming out of the closet. It’s about saying, “We’re just as good and as gifted and as normal as anyone else,
Polygamy pride is all about coming out of the closet. It’s about saying, “We’re just as good and as gifted and as normal as anyone else,
“Oh” but you say, “those are crimes, or morally reprehensible acts”- Those aren’t the same as homosexual relations- “Homosexuality is now accepted in society as perfectly fine” Yeah? Well homosexuality also was a morally reprehensible, AND a crime- but now, because of a growing Satanic agenda, it’s no longer considered a crime or morally reprehensible- but the fact is- legalizing gay marriage has just emboldened these morally reprehensible indulgents to go after the moral values of the rest of America- and indeed the world- They aren’t happy with their ‘right to marry’ granted them by a liberal SC- no- they want to destroy everything that is decent and moral in this country-
Why i do not celebrate gay anything- is because their agenda is Satanic in nature- God created man and woman- to procreate- for the purpose of creating many people to enjoy eternity in heaven with Him-
Satan is bound and determine to bastardize that plan, to keep people from being created, to try to deprive God of multitudes of people to serve Him- and He is using the gay and trannie agenda to accomplish this- whether those who are engaged in it realize it or not- they are pawns of the Evil One- some knowingly, others unbeknownst to them, but ALL fully aware that they are violating the natural order of things that God created- and disobeying Him- ALL have been warned over and over and over again by the Holy Spirit that what they are doing is wrong- Some have just hardened their hearts and have learned to just ignore the HS- but nearly ALL have had the universal moral code stinging their conscience about the issue
That is why we should not approve of any gay pride agenda- because it destroys the people caught up in it, and it destroys society- why in the world should we celebrate the demise of society and people? Most of the gay population is going to hell- While some are saved, and caught up in confusion, and self desire- most are not saved- and it’s a lifestyle that just feeds the sinful nature- and keeps them further and further from God’s salvation-
No- there is nothing to celebrate concerning gay anything-
I don’t.
bkmk
If you are proud of your abnormal psychology, why hide it with euphemisms like “gay”?
Same reason we don’t celebrate polygamy, adultery, pedophilia, etc.
For me it is for the same reason I do not celebrate the jap sneak attack on Pearl Harbor... An event that, as an 8-year-old when it happened, I remember quite clearly...
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