How to respond to this month
In case you failed to notice literally every major corporation changing its logo to a rainbow hue, June is now upon us, and that means 30 days of religious-like devotion to the gods of sexuality and identity politics – what our cultural powerbrokers refer to as “Pride” month. If you’re anything like me, the ironies are too much not to note. A supposedly oppressed minority with every organ of cultural power at its disposal insists on its powerlessness. Meanwhile, just within the last week, a teacher in Virginia was suspended from his job for refusing to use a student’s preferred pronouns. “Inclusion,” we’re coming to see, stands for the very opposite when confronted with even respectful difference. What might the response be to “Pride Month” for those who believe that Scripture is not only true but good when it depicts true sexual freedom as the union of one man and one woman in marriage? First, we should understand that Christianity has always held a distinct sexual ethic, especially i...