The end of Pride

We’re finally in July! With the end of June comes the end of Pride Month. Alleluia!

For Christians all around the world, June is the month in which some Christian traditions celebrate the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. A time when we recognize God’s boundless and passionate love for mankind. A wholesome time of year.

June has, in recent years, however, been taken over. Christianity has been sidelined, and the message of love has been replaced with one of sin. One of the seven deadly sins, to be precise: Pride.

We’re told Pride is a month of celebrating gay rights, fighting discrimination, and honoring differences. This is a lie. Pride is a bandwagon for companies to jump on board, while the Western world engages in a period of enforced mass psychosis.

Companies pretend to care about “minority groups” by putting up rainbow flags everywhere, which somehow simultaneously represent an oppressed minority. At the same time they are adorned on every important building in the land as if a hostile force had conquered us. Maybe it had.

Pride is manipulation by the enemy, at worst, and a scam at the very least. Large corporations milk it. They cash in on the idea that there is an oppressed minority group in this wonderfully democratic nation of ours, and they warp that idea in order to sell more goods. It has nothing to do with values. If these companies truly cared about the LGBTQ community, they’d be promoting Pride Month in territories where LGBTQ people actually are oppressed. But they do not. Funny that?

We live in a country with equal opportunities, where discrimination is against the law. Most ordinary folks would be behind any genuinely oppressed group. Pride in 2023 does not represent a victimized class, more a conquering ideology.

This debauchery, degeneracy, and indecency is entirely inappropriate, especially in the public square where children are often present. There is no need for this overtly sexualized activity.

This is not a celebration of culture, at least no culture any decent individual should want any part of. It is not about honoring differences—because those who disagree with this behavior are shouted down. The so-called oppressed have become the oppressors.

Perhaps there were those within the LGBTQ communities who did think they were fighting for rights, decades ago. They must feel such shame and embarrassment at what their movement has become.

Well, thank God it is over for another year. It is time we reclaimed the month of June for something, or someone more wholesome.

Life is a series of choices. Here we have a choice between sin and love; between indecency and decency; between the overt sexualization of the public square, and the most sacred heart of Jesus.

The religion of woke seems to have its own secular liturgical calendar. I have no idea what they’re celebrating in July, but someone will surely inform us. For some Christian traditions, July is the month dedicated to The Precious Blood of Jesus, which washes away our sins. Let that be our focus, instead. Let us strive to be better. Let this be a reminder to go to church on Sunday and receive Holy Communion. Receive the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, be close to him, and be thankful for his sacrifice, his passion, death and resurrection to pay the price for our sins, to free us, and to offer us eternal salvation.

Being a religion, woke ideology has a value set of its own. Christians attempt to live by the virtues of chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, patience, kindness, and humility and adhere to the values of faith, hope and love. Woke values are tolerance, diversity, inclusion, and equality. They don’t have virtues, instead they virtue signal and celebrate their vices. If they believed in tolerance, would they not be tolerant of people of other faiths and none? If they believed in diversity, wouldn’t they support diversity of thought and opinion? If they were truly inclusive, why wouldn’t they include Christians in the public square? And if they genuinely wanted to reach equality, they’d have an appreciation for all religions.

Of course, they do not live up to their own standards, but that does not matter, because there is no accountability for them, only for us. It is an ideology of “othering.” They naturally assume they have the moral high ground and the rest of us have to work for their approval. It is the opposite of Christianity, in which we realize we are all sinners and therefore we are the ones who need to repent. Where they talk about hating their enemies, we try to love our enemies. Where the woke fall into cancel culture, we preach mercy and forgiveness.

In summary, avoid Pride, go to church!