Unity is not quite the word leftists think it is. When they use it, they mean that the rest of us must acquiesce to their agenda. And if it means getting a Puerto Rican, America-hating, Trump-deranged, pro-illegal-immigration, “gender fluid” activist to rap in Spanish for the American Super Bowl Halftime Show, then the rest of us need to either get on board or sit down and shut up for the humiliation ritual.

Unity!

Of course, I don’t believe unity is a prime virtue in any case. For example, I believe division from evil is far better than unity with it. Besides, we’ve been criticizing this phony “unity” push at the Super Bowl for years.

Full disclosure: I’ve been an NFL fan since the ‘80s, but I haven’t watched a Super Bowl Halftime Show since U2 in 2002. And I have no regrets.

Obviously, then, my commentary is not replete with my thoughts about the particular corporeal gyrations on display last night, but about the spirit of the decisions that led to the divide I wrote about last week between Christian players and those making league decisions.

Heck, Christian or not, even many NFL players didn’t know who Halftime headliner Bad Bunny is. One player said, “I don’t listen to Bad Bunny like that, but she got some good stuff.”

Take that, gender fluidity.

I will concede that at least there was an actual wedding during the Halftime Show. Marriage is the building block of society, and for a man and woman to actually tie the knot during the show is better than a lot of alternative entertainment.

Speaking of alternative entertainment, Turning Point USA hosted a separate show timed to go live at the same time. It featured Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice, Gabby Barrett, and Kid Rock. The main event dwarfed it in viewership, but the TPUSA show had five or six million live viewers and was approaching 20 million as of this morning. That’s nothing to sneeze at, and it speaks volumes about what millions of Americans think of the message sent at the Super Bowl.

During the official show, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, a.k.a. Bad Bunny, was joined by fellow Rainbow Mafia players like Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin. Yes, it was a straight wedding, but the gender pathology message was clear.

Mr. Bunny also sent another message of “unity” — the word “America” means everyone in the Western Hemisphere. In fact, he “led a parade of flags, listing off the countries of Latin America and North America,” noted National Review’s Luther Ray Abel. “His last act was to spike a football with the words 'We Are All America’ written on the pigskin, seemingly a protest against U.S. immigration enforcement and American exceptionalism.”

That plays well with the open-borders messaging, though it pretty well undermines the “God bless America” bromide he threw out there in English. He didn’t mean The United States of America.

There’s a reason why many of us considered his announced performance last fall as a middle finger.

It wasn’t just the Halftime Show, either. It was the pregame entertainment, too. That featured the left-wing loons of Green Day singing “American Idiot.” Lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong made it political, too. “This goes out to all the ICE agents out wherever you are,” he said. “Quit your s**tty a** job. Quit that s**tty job you have.”

(Notably, during the game, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement aired an ad portraying their agents as regular people who “love this country” and want “to make America a safer place to live.”)

Brandi Carlile sang “America the Beautiful.” More than anything, Carlile is interested in letting us all know her LGBT identity, so she had explained earlier in the week that Katharine Lee Bates, who wrote the song in 1893, was “totally gay.” That’s false, but these folks crave validation so desperately that they’ll say and do anything to get it. It’s sad.

But hey, Carlile says, “I have my own moral code, my own moral imperative, that I have to answer to at the end of the day.” No higher authority than herself.

To sum it all up, many of the NFL’s top players are devoted Christians who submit to the Highest Authority, and America is celebrating 250 years of Liberty grounded in Judeo-Christian morals and values. Yet the league’s bigwigs chose to celebrate by elevating people who hate what our country stands for and to erase its borders to a meaningless “Americas” globalism. In fact, the main attraction was a guy who breaks gender norms and sang about Puerto Rican culture in Spanish.

American football has replaced baseball as America’s Pastime, at least in terms of popularity, but this isn’t quite what fans bargained for.

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