A State of Emergency

By: Chris Johnson

Every year when June comes around, we know we’ll be writing a lot of articles about disgusting things: things people should be ashamed of, but instead insist what they ought to feel is pride.

There’s been plenty of that this year, too, from Target’s chest binders for little girls to the LA Dodgers blasphemous platforming of drag-queen “nuns.”

But this year has been a bit different, because this year Americans – likely spurred on by the realization of how this ideology has leeched into their childrens’ schools and libraries – have begun to let companies know we’ve had enough.

Target adjusted their displays and canceled some egregious products for kids. Budweiser has been kissing the feet of their customers in an attempt to win them back. Even the Dodgers balked at their decision, albeit only for a moment.

Now another notch can be cut in the conservative consumer’s belt: Major League Baseball told the owners’ back in February that, aside from LA and San Francisco, MLB teams would not be allowed to feature “Pride” Jerseys.

This is a radical change from previous seasons when Tampa Bay Rays players, in particular, protested the mandated rainbow themed caps and logos, and endured public shaming and controversy.

Every MLB stadium still, tragically, hosts an annual “Pride” night, but players not being forced to deck themselves in symbols they’re opposed to is a step in the right direction.

Also in this genre of news today, lefty journal The New Republic published a story today reporting that Starbucks had banned their stores from featuring “Pride,” décor. You may see that story going around social media. When TNR first released the story, Starbucks had not commented – TNR said as much – but a few hours later they updated the story to say that Starbucks denied the accusation and still encouraged their stores to support the LGBTQIA agenda with their in-store decor.

So, whatever else you may hear, Starbucks is still burnt, lefty bean juice.

However, conservative – or just normal – sexual ethics have made enough of a stand lately for the gays’ flagship organization, the Human Rights Campaign, to issue a “State of Emergency.”

Albert Moehler explained in his “Daily Briefing” podcast: “We’re in a battle of cultural maneuvers. We’re in a struggle for the supremacy of truth claims. And when you look at one side, being able to get the media to go along in the declaration of an ‘emergency,’ well, you’ve got an awful lot of cultural leverage.

And we understand right now it’s entirely on one side… What makes it more threatening is the fact that the mainstream media picks up on so much of this and, as we have discussed on The Briefing and will have to see over and over again this claim of harm, this claim of threat, it is not so much framed in any kind of physical term or anything that would be related to the use of those terms throughout most of, say, our lifetimes.

It is instead related to any effort to press back on the full normalization, acceptance and celebration of all things LGBTQ+. That’s now described as a ‘harm.’ Any pushback is considered a ‘threat.’”

As government agencies are run, at this point, by the ideological allies of the Human Rights Campaign, we need to recognize that at some time in the not-so distant-future, they’re likely to crack down on this so-called “violence.”

What might that look like? Only God knows, but may we be prepared to stand looking to His Word for the source of Truth and hope.

 

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