Pride Day Celebrated in Grand Haven High School
Sexuality on Display for the Children
June 1st is “Pride Day.” This year “Pride Day” will be celebrated in Grand Haven High School. What’s so wrong with that? I’m not against “Pride Day,” and I accept people who identify as LGBTQ. I believe in treating people according to The Golden Rule.
Remember the phrase “don’t ask, don’t tell”? Or, what two people do in the privacy of their bedroom is between them? We have traveled a long way down the slippery slope. Pride parades and celebrations that include kink and all sorts of different “lifestyles” are now put out on display. In fact, “credentialed experts” such as Lauren Rowello, wrote in the Washington Post, that not only does kink belong in the pride parades, but she wants her children to see it. Our very own school libraries have books that involve these subjects. They are put in front of our children (without parental consent, of course).
Why is anyone; straight, gay, trans, or whatever else you can identify as, putting sexuality on display to the world? Why do we need to know what takes place in the privacy of their bedrooms? Why is that now the most important thing we must know about each other? Why is that the identifier for so many, rather than “parent/christian/liberal/architect/coach/seamstress/writer/etc”? You could say it’s the most logical conclusion if you hyper sexualize everything for decades, but what good does it do?
We have devolved ourselves into self-identities that revolve around our carnal desires. The more we increase our time-per-day spent online or on social media, the less time we are spending actually participating in activities and hobbies. Instead, we watch others do them, and our hobby becomes social media. That leaves nothing for one to identify as, as far as interests. Fewer and fewer people are having children. And now, society and courts have conditioned people to believe that all that is necessary for being a responsible father is sending a check once a month. (If a father falls behind on child support, court will act on them. If he sends a check each month but never visits his child, he will remain in good standing with the court). Couple that with two years of staying home, even from work due to Covid, and the idea of a post-work society, along with increasing isolation, and you can see a recipe for this devolution. If your identity no longer includes your hobbies, career, parenthood, or anything else, what fills that void? For many, it’s sexuality.
“I pledge allegiance, to the flag, of the United States of America…” We have all recited this hundreds of times in our lives. Every school board meeting begins with this pledge. If you put up a flag and seek pledges of allegiance or loyalty to it, and it’s based around sexual desires, you are pledging your allegiance, loyalty, fealty, to a carnal desire. Or a loyalty to defend and fight for those desires. There are multiple examples of adults in positions of authority over children, having children recite a pledge of allegiance to a pride flag (here, and here, are two). Again, this flag represents the many sexual identities of people.
Are we conditioning those pledging allegiance to the pride flag to be willing to fight for and defend those sexual desires like we do our country? Are we creating an “army” of defenders of sexual desires and lifting its importance to the same level as the country we live in? In current times, which would cause more controversy: burning the American flag, or burning a pride flag? One could argue, “we don’t choose where we live, it’s just land, I’m a citizen of the world”, etc. But every single country flies a flag, and fights underneath it in wars to defend that land and its flag to their death. Is that what we’re supposed to do for the pride flag now? I have to assume that some feel that way, and do fight and protest and riot for it already. But to do so for sexual proclivities seems odd.
Schools are institutions of learning. They should be accepting of all people and teaching all children academics. This Tuesday is Pride Day at Grand Haven High School. Is putting sexuality on display to 14-18 year old children and encouraging those same children to fight for sexual proclivities really an important academic subject appropriate for schools?
Today is Memorial Day. Why didn’t GHAPS encourage children to wear red, white, and blue tomorrow and remember the fallen?