Well, it’s June, so we must determine how we will respond to people proclaiming their sexual choices, “Loud and Proud,” for all the world to know.
Hi, I’m Rex Rogers and this is episode #210 of Discerning What Is Best, a podcast applying unchanging biblical principles in a rapidly changing world, and a Christian worldview to current issues and everyday life.
It’s June, so Pride month is upon us. It’s that time when those who choose to pursue Gay and Lesbian, Trans, and a list of 72 other gender identities and lifestyles seem bent upon demanding everyone else not only allows them to make this choice in a free society but must accept and affirm and endorse and promote and proclaim and celebrate their immorality with them.
If 72 choices don’t do it for you, there’s now something called “seasonal gender” or “genderseason.” Yes, you heard that right. Humans can now change their gender with the earth's tilt and its orbit around the sun. According to one authority, “'genderseason' comes as part of a growing expansion of gender identities and sexual orientations, including 'ecosexuality,' which is centered around the seductiveness of nature. The term ‘ecosexual’ is the state of finding nature sexually appealing, whether that means feeling at one with nature’s ‘energy’ or physically caressing nature.” So here we are at Pride Month.
Why? You may ask. Who proclaimed June Pride Month? There is no law passed by Congress establishing Pride Month as a federal observance. Pride Month in the United States was originally authorized primarily through presidential proclamations.
- 1999 & 2000: President Bill Clinton was the first to officially recognize Pride Month by proclaiming June as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month.
- 2009 onward: President Barack Obama expanded the recognition to include the broader LGBTQ+ community and began issuing annual proclamations declaring June as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.
- President Joe Biden and President Obama continued the tradition with annual presidential proclamations.
- President Donald Trump did not issue official proclamations for Pride Month during his first administration.
“President Donald Trump's second administration has officially declared that June will now be recognized as Title IX Month — not Pride Month…Fox News reported, "Dept of Education labels June as 'Title IX Month' in wake of trans athletes winning girls' competitions. Title IX is a federal civil rights law enacted as one of the Education Amendments of 1972. The main function of Title IX is to prohibit discrimination based on sex.”
“For the last several years, Pride Month was a splashy marketing event for big brands. Stores adorned windows with rainbow flags, displayed LGBTQ-themed t-shirts and coffee mugs at their entrances, changed their logos on social media accounts, and spotlighted donations to LGBTQ rights groups. But in June 2025, many retail chains and brands are going quiet. Companies are treading lightly, avoiding prominent campaigns and visible public support. Thirty-nine percent say they plan to scale back public Pride Month engagements this year, according to a survey of more than 200 corporate executives by Gravity Research, a risk management advisory. That includes sponsoring Pride events, posting supportive messages of LGBTQ rights on social media and selling Pride-themed merchandise.”
This is not the case in Major League Baseball where a Pride night is scheduled this month for 31 of 32 teams. Only the Texas Rangers have opted out, saying they provide baseball entertainment for everyone. Individual states, cities, and institutions have issued their own declarations or recognize the month independently, some to sidestep their states or now possibly this federal proclamation. For example, Salt Lake City – the home of Mormonism – and Boise passed city resolutions making Pride flags official city emblems, thus skirting state flag ban laws.
I mentioned earlier the 72 and counting gender identities. I say “counting” because once the divinely created binary door is opened, there is no end to experimentation and a pursuit of happiness that morphs into a pursuit of sinful invention, along with the desire of so many to become an online sensation or influencer, to maintain one’s relevance by signaling you are stepping into a brave new world. Think Kourtney Kardashian recently declaring herself “autosexual,” defined by a therapist as “a trait wherein one is turned on by engaging in their own eroticism.” Or think singer Ariana Grande saying she did not feel the need to label her sexuality but she likes men and women, thus sparking bisexuality rumors. Or think singer, rapper Janelle Monáe, confirmed she is nonbinary and identifies as "beyond the binary," not seeing herself solely as a woman.
The inbred drive to be “other” can be seen in the evolution of the original Pride flag that coopted the biblical rainbow to feature 8 colors declaring sexual independence. Then the flag was expanded to represent people of color, those lost to HIV/AIDS or facing stigma or marginalization, the transgender community, and now intersex individuals. The latest Intersex-Inclusive Progress flag features 13 colors.
In his book, Our Civilizational Moment, Os Guinness quoted Fyodor Dostoevsky, who “wrote in The Brothers Karamazov, If God is dead, everything is permitted.’ You can be as free as you desire to be. The only limits are the limits of your own thinking.”
But demeaning the biblical rainbow, which God created and set in the sky after the Great Flood as a promise to Noah’s family that God would remain committed to his creation, is the center of audacity of the Pride movement. As Guinness noted, “Whatever humanity does, the rainbow is the reminder that God will keep faith with humanity. God's faithfulness will overshadow the worst that humanity can ever do. For the sexual revolution, on the other hand, the rainbow stands quite literally as the symbol of Pride. It stands for the revolution and its stated objective of repudiating the Jewish and Christian understanding of the created order. Which understanding of the symbol is to prevail? The rainbow as a reminder of God's promise? Or the rainbow as the assertion of human pride?”
I’ve addressed the Pride Month issue no less than three times before: Speaking to June Pride Issues, June Pride—What Really Is Being Celebrated?, and What About Pride Month? Frankly, I did not want to talk about this again. I am tired of the topic, weary of seeing same-sex couples in commercials, sickened by the debauchery and vulgarity I read about or see in Pride parade videos, and do not want people, including LGBTQ+ individuals to think this is the only behavior I think God addresses in the Scripture.
But how can we avoid this topic when it is literally everywhere? There are nearly 150 days in the calendar year with LGBTQ “observances.” This includes not one but three full moths: Pride Month, LGBT History Month, and Trans Awareness Month, plus 60 other days. Meanwhile, we celebrate those who gave the last full measure of sacrifice to secure our freedoms on one day, Memorial Day, and those who served on one day, Veterans Day. So, no, we cannot just keep our head down and ignore the unignorable.
In his 2015 book, We Cannot Be Silent, R. Albert Mohler, Jr., says, “This is a revolution of ideas—one that is transforming the entire moral structure of meaning and life that human beings have recognized for millennia.”
“We are facing nothing less than a comprehensive redefinition of life, love, liberty, and the very meaning of right and wrong.” “Yet explicit Christian truth-telling is the church’s reason for being.” “People seem to have lost their identity. They’ve lost their sense of belonging.
They’ve lost their awareness of their Creator.” How else can we explain this irrational, inane and insane promotion of mangled language, erasing women, denying biology, redefining family, butchering young bodies in and out of the womb, forcing speech, yet all the while demonstrating an insatiable desire to be “seen,” accepted, affirmed or validated, included, allied, and more. Those who pursue these lifestyle choices reject traditional and biblical values re sexuality and family but want all the blessings biblical reality and God’s best affords. The movement rejects the moral will of the Sovereign God yet yearns for what he provides those who follow and obey him.
“We are told that to be kind, we must affirm. But Jesus never affirmed sin to make sinners feel safe. He loved sinners enough to die for them and call them to repentance. That is the model.”
“To those in the LGBTQ+ community: we do not hate you. We are not better than you. We are beggars pointing to bread. You are not beyond hope. But there is only one Name under Heaven given to men by which we must be saved. It is not tolerance. It is not affirmation. It is Jesus.”
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