Pride Month 2025: Using Guilt to Make Gay Great Again

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The sparkle is wearing off for LGBTQ+ issues, and the blanket support once given to them. And by wearing off, I mean mere flecks of glitter have been dislodged but it certainly is not yet midnight at Cinderella’s Ball. The LGBTQ+ party is still raging and raving on. It’s just having to get creative with the invitations as more and more chooose to stay home.

Among the new tools being hauled out ahead of 2025’s Pride Month is…the envelope, please…Ladies and gentlemen, the belle of the ball this pride year is …GUILT! Woohoo! Everyone’s favorite. You wouldn’t, and shouldn’t, think of GUILT as a tool that healthy, holy causes use to win over converts. But it’s used all the time, nonetheless.

The pendulum is swinging back to the middle on LGBTQ+ PRIDE after a decade of the most dangerous and destructive reaches towards the far left. Because people are growing weary–weary of the saturation and permeation into every facet of life, weary of the coercive efforts to make everyone comply, weary of the insistence on celebration rather than the toleration that was asked prior, weary of the insidious ways it has been directed at children and the family.

According to  Public Religion Research Institute, for the first time in decades, public support for LGBTQ issues is declining, dropping to 75% in 2024 — down from a peak of 80% two years before.

Like I said…mere flecks of glitter have fallen. 75% is still a significant majority of support.

But why is support declining? Well, according to the apparent marching orders and uniform messaging of the movement, it is because people have “forgotten their first love.” I kid you not. And the first love is no longer Christ, it is a commitment to compassion, loyalty, and advocacy for the LGBTQ+ community. That should be the “first love” of the public. That was always the goal, to supplant Christ on the throne of our hearts and put people, not even all people, but people groups, there instead. That is what the idolatry of identity politics does.

And it worked so well, that as that “love” or loyalty anyway, grows cold–guilt must be used to win it back.

“We lament every form of backsliding on public support for the full dignity and equality of LGTBQ people,” PRRI stated.

Backsliding. Nothing says, “Love like Jesus,” like using the language of the Body to accuse the brethren. And that is exactly what you will see come Sunday. The new feature of PRIDE 2025 comes from masterful marketing but also the heart of the Accuser and it is directed towards the Church.

The Interfaith Alliance has launched an initiative to woo back the weary with the “Recommit to PRIDE” campaign, urging the welcoming and affirming of the Body to insist on their church’s participation in PRIDE celebrations and shows of solidarity in June. Return PRIDE to the pews. That is the stated objective.

Come on, y’all. You don’t have to be a seasoned, or even conservative, theologian to see that this is not any priority God would have for His people.

Who really thinks that according to Scripture, our jealous God–whose first commandment is to worship Him and Him alone–wants anything but the worship of Himself happening in His house, amongst His people?? What verse does one point to to justify making room for anything but the glory of the Lord in our hearts and churches, much less pride?

A slim, scant percentage of the population has not suddenly decided to hate other people because they have different lifestyles.

But it is entirely possible that they realized it was never about “equality” or “inclusion.” We left “the right to exist” in the dust years ago. Now, it is the right to dominate, to control…in fact, to erase others out of existence. Like women. Like female athletes. If “for me to exist, you must not” is your maxim–you are wrong.

Recommit to Pride will never acknowledge that the lack of support is growing backlash over an ideology that has proven itself to be wicked in its core, or a response to a grossly over-played hand that has left countless young people deceived and deformed in both mind and body.

“It’s not us, it’s you.”

Wanna know how to spot the idols of idolatry?? They are always blameless and never to be blamed. When loved and adored, it is because they are so worthy. When unloved? Why, it’s certainly not because of poor behavior or manipulation. It’s because their lovers have grown distracted, weary, and cold. Backslidden.

Watch as PRIDE month plays the victim, the first-love scorned.

Not because it normalized a mental health crisis, perpetuated a gender-dysphoric explosion in an entire generation, sexualized children through school, insisted children participate in drag, celebrates same-sex parenting through surrogacy and adoption, defied God’s creative authority and order, defiled countless holy and sacred things and places…a la nuns in drag, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Oh no, those things clearly cannot be the cause. It must be you. And it cannot be wisdom, conviction, clarity, or righteous anger.  That’s just not possible. It is your callousness, your wandering eye and fickle affections.

Recommit to Pride? I think not.