Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
- Proverbs 16:18
If nothing else, Pride Month goes to show that the judge of all the earth is not lacking a sense of humor. In 1999, Bill Clinton declared June “Pride Month” in commemoration of the Stonewall riots in New York in 1969. The Stonewall riots were a response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York’s Greenwich Village. And yet the Word of God tells us that “Pride goeth before destruction.” This certainly seems to be the case for America in 2023.
To give you a sense of how far America has come, and not in a good way, since 1969 regarding the public acceptance of homosexuality, I’ll refer you to an article in Britannica that notes, “In 1969 the solicitation of homosexual relations was an illegal act in New York City (and indeed virtually all other urban centres). Think about that, In the space of about 50 years, well within living memory, America has gone from a nation where homosexual activity was criminal – even in New York City! – to something like a new Sodom and Gomorrah, where open sodomy not only is tolerated but is even celebrated. And even more than celebrated, its tenants are now imposed from the top down on students and employees. When the rainbow flag is run up the flagpole, we’re all expected to salute, sometimes literally, and woe that that person who refuses.
An old saying from Stalinist Russia was “Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding!” Something like that spirit now exists in America when it comes to Pride Month and the other forced celebrations of sodomy that are the rituals of the new state religion. Perhaps the most surprisingly eager celebrants of sodomy, at least to me, are the corporations. When I was growing up, business was viewed as a bedrock of conservatism. There was no time for radical politics. There were books to be kept and production targets to hit. But that’s not the case today.
John Robbins reported in his 1996 essay “Rebuilding American Freedom in the Twenty-First Century” about how IBM was pushing homosexual ideology on its managers. This was nearly thirty years ago. Today, corporate execs cannot fall over themselves fast enough to show their LGBTQ bona fides. Just last week, a friend sent me a Pride Month message from a company I used to work for. Mind you, this company is headquartered, not in some nutty progressive coastal city, but in the Midwest, the heartland of America. “Celebrating our PRIDE in 2023,” is the title of the message, which drones on with the usual corporate boilerplate about “diversity” and the importance of promoting “inclusion and acceptance” for the “LGBTQ+ community.”
My first thought was that I’m glad I don’t work there anymore. I do not care to be a part of a company that openly promotes gross immorality. Of course, corporate America’s never-be-the-first-one-to-stop-clapping promotion of the immoral homosexual agenda has put many Christians in the position of having to decide where to work and shop. Nearly every business of any size in the U.S. has been absorbed into the sodomite borg. CEOs are scared to death to be seen as unsupportive of sodomy. As a result, whether they personally believe the rubbish themselves, they think it wise to act as if they did and foist the evil LGBTQ agenda on their employees. When I worked for this particular company, I recall having to endure HR videos, one of which featured some guy in a blue dress complaining about how people would make unkind comments to him because he was a guy wearing a blue dress. The message was, you’re supposed to think some guy wearing a blue dress is perfectly normal. And if you don’t think that’s perfectly normal, you’re the problem!
I doubt seriously the corporate big wheels who promote videos of men in blue dresses think they’re doing evil. “Why, it’s just good business,” they probably say to themselves. But that, it seems to me, is evidence of a heart that loves money, and the love of money – not money, but the LOVE of money – is the root of all sorts of evil, as Jesus himself taught. And yet, promoting evil is exactly what they do when they agree to promote the homosexual agenda. These CEOs will have to give an account of themselves to God for this, and I do not want to be in their position.
Then there’s our political class, in particular, the Biden Regime. Just yesterday, Biden held a picnic in celebration of “Pride Month” on the south lawn of the White House. At the gathering, he told the crowd that his administration has their back and would work to counter “callous” and “cynical” bills in Republican-led states. Apparently, this is a reference to a number of states that recently passed laws against the mutilation of children at the hands of the medical establishment. Joe thinks this is terrible and, according to the New York Times, has appointed an official within the Department of Education “who will monitor and address the growing number of local bans on books with references to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people.” Put differently, the Biden Regime wants to force kids in public schools to endure gay pornography as classroom reading material. That’s a long way from “see Spot run.” And I thought it was outrageous that I had to suffer through an HR video getting lectured by some dude in a blue dress! The Biden Regime is truly demonic and is seeking to corrupt the most vulnerable among us with the most vile of sins. May the Lord grant Christian parents the eyes to see that public schools are not the place for their children.
Worth mentioning too is the role of the Roman Catholic Church in promoting sodomy, especially the Jesuits. Prominent Jesuit James Martin asks the question “Can Catholics celebrate Pride Monty” and answers the question “Yes.” That’s not a surprise. In fact, I’d be surprised if a Jesuit were to come to any other conclusion. And although the Roman Church-State officially holds that sodomy is a sin, Rome has historically been one of the greatest promoters of this sin. Here’s what Luther had to say,
More remarkable yet, in the same bull they decided that a cardinal should not keep as many boys in the future. However, Pope Leo commanded that this be deleted; otherwise it would have been spread throughout the whole world how openly and shamelessly the pope and the cardinals in Rome practice sodomy. I do not wish to mention the pope, but since the knaves will not repent, but condemn the gospel, blaspheme and revile God’s word, and excuse their vices, they, in turn, will have to take a whiff of their own terrible filth. This vice is so prevalent among them that recently a pope caused his own death by means of this sin and vice. In fact, he died on the spot. All right now, you popes, cardinals, papists, spiritual lords, keep on persecuting God’s word and defending your doctrine and your churches!
Luther’s Works Volume 47, p.38
Doubtless, the sort of filth Luther describes was going on before he wrote, just as without question industrial scale sodomy has Rome has continued to be a feature – not a bug, but a feature – of Rome right up to the present day as recent headlines continue to attest.
But there is some good news in all this unrelenting homosexual propaganda. Beginning with last year’s slap-down of Disney for its attempt to interfere in Florida’s rather mild law prohibiting schools from spreading homosexual propaganda, several other companies have recently paid the price for promoting sodomy. Bud Light’s parent company and Target are two such examples. Several states have passed laws against transitioning minors, enough so that the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) – HRC is one of the biggest drivers of the corporate sodomite agenda – issued a “State of Emergency.” The sodomites at HRC simply cannot tolerate state governments passing laws that accord with the Word of God and feels threatened by it. The fact that HRC is concerned shows that perhaps American Christians have had enough and are beginning to effectively fight back