As all of you should know, we are now in the month of June. And as many of you would know, it is declared to be a “Pride” month in many Western localities. The history of this is easy enough to trace. On June 28, 1969, police raided the homosexualised Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village in New York.
This resulted in the Stonewall riots (or Stonewall uprising). A year later in June 1970, pride marches were held in four American cities. Democratic presidents were quite happy to turn all this into a national celebration and promotion of homosexuality. Thus in 1999 Bill Clinton declared June to be Gay & Lesbian Pride Month. In 2009, Barack Obama declared June to be LGBT Pride Month. And in 2021, Joe Biden declared June to be LGBTQ Pride Month.
The Democrats of course have long championed and celebrated sexual immorality and perversion. While they hate on traditional marriage and family, they are fully in favour of all things pertaining to the radical sexual revolution, including more recently the entire trans agenda.
But there is a new sheriff in town – or at least a new President in the White House. He is a Republican, and he is not a fan of what his predecessors were up to in this regard. So Donald Trump has not gone on to make lengthy speeches praising the sexual militants, nor has he bothered to light up the White House in homosexual and trans colours. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said: “There are no plans for a proclamation for the month of June.”
And with his war on the woke agenda, and all things DEI, others are getting on board as well, with many of the major corporate giants who in the past went full tilt with the activists are now quietly pulling back. Common sense has prevailed – or at least the wallet has been impacted big time. They are catching on to the truth that going woke means going broke.
Yesterday’s Daily Telegraph in the UK had an article on this titled and subtitled: “How Trump killed Pride month. LGBTQ events across America face budget shortfalls as corporate sponsors duck out in fear of provoking Administration.” It begins this way:
Corporate America has fallen out of love with Pride month — and it’s because of Donald Trump. Businesses that used to smother their merchandise in rainbow flags for the month of June have dramatically scaled back this year, many wary of provoking an investigation by the Trump administration. Meanwhile, Pride events across the U.S. are facing budget shortfalls as corporate sponsors duck out.
Robby Starbuck, the anti-woke activist known for his pressure campaigns, believes a “massive” shift has taken place at some of the world’s biggest companies in the past year. Polling of 200 corporate executives by Gravity Research, seen by The Telegraph, showed almost two in five plan to pare back their Pride month celebrations this year.
Of those, the overwhelming majority — 60 per cent — said this was a result of pressure by Mr Trump. “It’s clear that the administration and their supporters are driving the change,” Luke Hartig, president of Gravity Research, said. “Companies are under increasing pressure not to engage and speak out on issues.” On his first days in office, Mr Trump issued a flurry of executive orders taking aim at diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in both the government and private sector.
Jeremy Tedesco, a senior counsel with the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), believes that most companies regard Pride as a “performative act” and are now unwilling to risk incurring the wrath of the administration by showing their support.
“In those orders are promises to use the department of justice and some of the other relevant federal agencies to investigate recalcitrant companies that are continuing illegal practices,” he said. “Companies are viewing this as a legitimate risk at this point.”
The piece concludes this way:
Mr Starbuck, one of America’s most vocal anti-DEI campaigners, said companies had belatedly realised they were going to “divide their customer base” by leaning too heavily into Pride events. The political clash over Pride and DEI causes has created an untenable situation for companies, he told The Telegraph.
“You’re going to elicit this yearly outrage where you’re a ping pong ball in the culture war,” Mr Starbuck said. “I think that when they talk to one side and they talk to the other side, what they find is we’re the rational ones. I’m not demanding that they take on my politics — I’m asking for corporate neutrality. The other side isdemanding total adherence to their ideology.
Hey, that sounds like good news to me. For all the critics of Trump, including the “Christian” ones, this move alone should be supported far and wide. We do NOT need all things sexually perverse being force-fed down our throats. Our children especially do not need this tsunami of immorality flooding over them.
The only good thing about past corporate sponsorship of the month was to alert concerned citizens about where these companies were at. As one person has correctly said, “June is when companies proudly let me know which ones I don’t need to support with my money”.
Quite so. If big business is going to promote things that most folks are not wildly supportive of, then the consumer can vote with his pocketbook and take his business elsewhere. The massive backlash against Bud Light beer and its utterly idiotic ad campaign featuring Dylan Mulvaney pretending to be a woman back in 2023 is a clear case in point. The company behind it, Anheuser-Busch is said to have lost $1.4 billion in sales!
Biblical considerations
Of course this is not just a secular matter but a religious and spiritual one. Anyone who knows anything about the Bible knows that there is NEVER a place for taking pride in that which is evil and that which is sinful. Indeed, what God calls an abomination is nothing to be proud of – ever.
The sin of pride versus the virtue of humility is of course a major theme in Scripture. Just a few – of many – passages:
2 Samuel 22:28 You save a humble people, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
James 4:6 God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
As Augustine is said to have put it: “It was pride that turned angels into devils.” But when folks take pride in that which is clearly wrong and opposed to the righteous and holy will of God, that is even worse. This is about shaking your fist at Almighty God and daring him to act.
Anyone who has seen this pride, debauchery and haughtiness on display at a homosexual or trans pride march knows exactly what a verse like Psalm 12:8 is all about: “The wicked strut about [in pompous self-importance] on every side, As vileness is exalted and baseness is prized among the sons of men” (The Amplified Bible).
And consider Isaiah 3:9:
The look on their faces testifies against them;
they parade their sin like Sodom;
they do not hide it.
Woe to them!
They have brought disaster upon themselves. (NIV)
God did indeed act against Sodom and Gomorrah for this sin, and before that we had the global flood. The rainbow of course was a sign of God’s judgment on sin – it was never meant to be used to celebrate immorality and promote evil.
And the Apostle Paul uses homosexuality as his primary example of those who the wrath of God will come down upon in Romans 1:18-32. Indeed, God has already given them up
-“in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves” (v. 24)
-“to dishonorable passions” (v. 26)
-“to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done” (v. 28)
Those are very strong words indeed. People should not be exalting and taking pride in such things but getting on their faces before God seeking forgiveness and transformation. And that is something God is fully able to do. I know many people who have been set free by Christ, and now they take pride in Christ, not in their former sinful lifestyle.
American pro-family advocate Scott Lively put it this way:
Happy Natural Family Month!
It’s time for the world to reclaim the month of June from the Same Sex Attraction Disorder (SSAD) lobby and America can lead the way by celebrating the natural family, established by God upon the foundation of monogamous heterosexual marriage.
But a big part of that essential transition is ending the public disgrace called “Pride Month” which not only celebrates conduct and lifestyles that God calls an “abomination” but forces all of society to bend the knee to putative LGBT cultural supremacy through the entire month under pain of “social virtue shaming,” “cancellation” and other punishments by “woke” homo-fascists.
I recommend that you watch this 16-minute video put out by Australian/English Rev. Brett Murphy called “Don’t bow down to the pride idol – A Christian response to Pride Month”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlXcyj2i21k
I close with something posted recently by Shane Pruitt: “When the church is silent on issues that the culture is screaming about, then a whole generation only hears one worldview. The church must speak up, disciple up, and train up a generation to navigate through cultural issues with truth and love. Silence is not an option.”
Afterword
Someone just posted online this with the words: “The poor oppressed minority, if only there was a day that would acknowledge their existence”:
-Feb 19-25 – Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week
-March 21-25 – LGBTQIA+ Health Awareness Week
-March 31 – Transgender Day of Visibility
-April 6 – International Asexuality Day
-April 13 – International Day of Pink (Day Opposing Homophobia)
-April 14 – Day of Silence
-April 26 – Lesbian Visibility Day
-May 17 – International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia
-May 19 – Agender Pride Day
-May 22 – Harvey Milk Day
-May 25 – Pansexual & Panromantic Awareness Day
-ENTIRE MONTH OF JUNE – PRIDE MONTH
-June 23 – Stonewall Day
-June 28 – International LGBTQ+ Day
-July 14 – International Non-binary People Day
-July 16 – International Drag Day
-September 16-23 Bisexual Awareness Week
-September 23 – Celebrate Bisexuality Day
-ENTIRE MONTH OF OCTOBER – LGBT HISTORY MONTH
-October 8 – International Lesbian Day
-October 11 – National Coming Out Day
-October 17-24 Genderfluid Visibility Week
-October 19 – International Pronoun Day
-October 19 – Spirit Day (Support for LGBTQ+ Youth)
-October 23-29 Asexual Awareness Week
-October 26 – Intersex Awareness Day
-ENTIRE MONTH OF NOVEMBER – Trans Awareness Month
-November 5 – Trans Parent Day
-November 8 – Intersex Day of Remembrance
-November 13-19 – Transgender Awareness Week
-November 20 – Transgender Day of Remembrance
Yep, what an oppressed and persecuted minority this is.
June is Dairy Month! Even the cows declare the glory of God!
Dairy Month I can handle Jim!
Thanks Bill. I had forgotten it was Pride Month but remember that Roe vs Wade was overthrown in Pride Month by the supreme court of USA back on 24 June 2022 after 50 years. The video by Rev Brett Murphy was also good – Don’t bow down to the Pride Idol.
Thank you for your boldness. Excellent article!
Thanks Stephen.
June is Dairy Month! Even the cows declare the glory of God!
Dairy Month I can handle Jim!
Thanks Bill. I had forgotten it was Pride Month but remember that Roe vs Wade was overthrown in Pride Month by the supreme court of USA back on 24 June 2022 after 50 years. The video by Rev Brett Murphy was also good – Don’t bow down to the Pride Idol.
Thank you Lynette.