June 9, 2022

In Brief: Forget Tolerate, You Will Be Made to Celebrate

“Pride Month” isn’t about diversity and tolerance, but about acquiescence to the Left’s agenda.

We’re all tired of the rainbows being crammed down our throats by every corporation throughout June. Commentator Peter Heck has some thoughts on why, and he starts with memories of an interview years ago:

My mind still goes back to it. It’s been almost a decade and yet every time I see another account of the disproportionately powerful LGBT political lobby bullying another corporation, intimidating another small business, or destroying the rights of conscience of another private individual, I’m reminded of it.

It was around the time that she had been named the 2014 Senior Soros Fellow that I hosted “black, lesbian, immigrant, and police misconduct attorney and organizer” Andrea J. Ritchie on my old radio program for a discussion about the increasingly hostile relationship between her movement and the conscience rights of Christian citizens. To be fair, I thought Ritchie did an admirable job of articulating why she felt the LGBT lobby was justified in its overt hostility, having been – in her estimation – on the receiving end of such antagonism for years.

To her, Christians had used political power to silence, delegitimize, and dehumanize LGBT citizens for the first two centuries of the country’s existence. Turnabout, she argued, was fair play.

But it was towards the end of the conversation that Ritchie said something that at the time seemed chilling, but now appears downright prophetic. I asked her, “Moving forward, do you believe there can be a peaceful coexistence between the conscience rights of Christians and the political demands of the LGBT movement?”

She responded, “Sure, if Christians will give up resistance to our cause.”

That isn’t peaceful coexistence she’s talking about. It’s unconditional surrender.

Fast-forward to today, and it certainly seems this woman and her fellow travelers have won. As Heck puts it, “The sexual revolution has total control of every major facet and institution in America.” That includes corporations, public universities, media boardrooms, Hollywood, sports teams, and even government.

Thomas Jefferson noted, “No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.” Yet, as Andrea Ritchie foretold, if you refuse to participate in a gay wedding ceremony, don’t think you’ll be allowed to maintain your photography or cake business.

And even though the father of the nation, George Washington himself, stated his “wish and desire” that “the laws may always be extensively accommodated” to “the conscientious scruples of all men,” today a well-organized, shockingly well-funded movement of sexual revolutionaries wants to make sure there are dire social, cultural, emotional, and financial consequences for baseball players whose scruples compel them to demur from donning the mark of the spirit of the age.

He concludes, “It’s remarkable how quickly that primacy becomes bigotry depending on the political issue in question.”

Read the whole thing here.

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