An Entire Month of Pride Is Required

D-Day should be given a full month of commemoration.

Happy Pride Month!

Surely, you are as sick of hearing and seeing Pride flags as I am. Libs of TikTok summed my feelings up nicely, “One week down, three weeks to go.”

The utter madness of having a month to celebrate LGBTQ+ can only be viewed through the lens of the more important commemoration of D-Day that occurred on June 6th. We allow only one day annually for Americans who sacrificed life and limb to storm the beaches of Normandy, which turned the tide of the European front and led to the defeat of the Germans. Whereas, rainbows are given a month.

This year marked the 80th anniversary of D-Day, and the remaining soldiers of the Greatest Generation were heralded in France. Most are centenarians today and may not live to see another D-Day anniversary. It’s truly a blessing that these elderly former soldiers were able to make the journey, and just thinking of the events they have witnessed since WWII gives me chills. The ensuing years in the United States and Western Europe were safer and more prosperous. As the saying goes, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” And during the war, necessity advanced warfare with new innovations that we have taken advantage of over time.

The technology we take for granted began in the 1930s and 1940s. A computer that could break codes during the war led to the smartphones, tablets, laptops, and PCs of today. Germany’s use of ballistic missiles fueled the launch of satellites and the space race. Meanwhile, medical advancements due to penicillin, skin grafting, and plastic surgery are routine today. Conveniences like superglue and ball point pens are afterthoughts. Post war, the 1950s became the era of endless dreams and possibilities.

Society was changing, too. Beyond progress toward female equality, was a push to understand homosexuality as something entirely different from a psychological disorder. According to the AMA Journal of Ethics, “in 1955 the American Law Institute voted to decriminalize consensual sodomy,” which led to the use of the 14th Amendment to underscore privacy in the bedroom. True, homosexuality remained stigmatized as unnatural until well after the AIDS epidemic, regardless of Alfred Kinsey and Evelyn Hooker who wrote treatises stating otherwise.

We have come a long way. The average American today has the live and let live attitude toward homosexuality. Most have other things on their mind than what is done in the privacy of another’s home. What has become beyond the pale is the forward movement to normalize every sexual outlier and deviation under the banner of LGBTQ+.

Marriage has become less about a man and woman joining together to create a family as the religious aspect has been tossed aside. Furthermore, the unintended consequences of upholding the rights of same-sex love has become a promotion of a transgender movement that verges on psychosis.

When society no longer recognizes the biological differences between men and women, all women’s advancements toward equality have been trampled upon.

For whatever reason, Americans enjoy naming months to bring awareness to causes. Yet, Women’s History Month should be scrapped. We can’t go back in time to question Amelia Earhart, for example, to make sure she fits under the heading of women’s history. Perhaps she was bi-sexual and needs to be celebrated under Pride Month. Furthermore, no one really knows what her pronouns would be today.

Currently, mediocre male athletes can now dominate women’s sports because they identify as women, thereby rendering women’s sports meaningless. Caitlin Clark, a phenomenal basketball star, will quickly be forgotten once the NCAA and WNBA allow transgenders to play. We’re seeing it in swimming and track and field events already.

And, if sports aren’t your thing, the sights are set on beauty pageants. Bailey Anne Kennedy just won the title of Miss Maryland and will be the state’s representative at the Miss USA pageant.

It is a wonderment how Bailey—married to an active duty Marine—gets the title of “miss.” Bailey is above the age of 30 and won a contest traditionally meant for single women. Confusion abounds when an organization like Miss USA rids itself of its restrictions. Add to that a transgender winning the competition in the state of Maryland, and the whole idea of being called Miss USA is null and void.

We can most certainly see the advancements of plastic surgery and medicine when looking at Bailey. But is this the advancement fought for 80 years ago?

We haven’t heard much from feminists. Most don’t care about pageants because the whole idea is based on the old definition of paternalism wherein women were viewed as nothing but inferior arm candy for men who felt women needed protection. Nevertheless, that’s a bygone definition. The modern Oxford definition for paternalism undermines the antiquated feminist view and is now defined as “the policy or practice on the part of people in positions of authority of restricting the freedom and responsibilities of those subordinate to them in the subordinates' supposed best interest.” Interesting. This definition has no correlation to men at all, which is really strange.

Consider that words and their definitions are based on roots. Patr- is Latin for father and matr- is Latin for mother. But when father and mother, men and women, and boys and girls are no longer recognized, there is no place for feminism. Biological sexes are irrelevant—especially for females. This will have far reaching effects beyond sports.

For example, women have fought for equal monies to be spent on women’s healthcare and medical research. What’s the point today? This week, The Toronto Sun ran a story about the backlash the Canadian Cancer Society received when they tried to be more inclusive on a “page dedicated to cervical cancer screenings for members of the LGBTQ+ community.” The word cervix was replaced by the term “front hole.” Medical charities and medical associations going out of their way to accommodate what is biologically false will place research for women’s illnesses on the back burner.

At the same time a University of Denver social work adjunct quit because of its supposed position on the Israeli-Hamas genocide. Sigh. See below what former adjunct professor Z Williams looks like, courtesy of the site Unicorn Riot. The University of Denver students will be forever impacted by the loss of X, I’m sure.

Clearly, this is a human. But that’s about all you can gather from this photo. Does X Williams have a front hole? Only X’s doctor would know.

In eighty years, our country has gone from the Greatest Generation to the Disoriented Generation. Instead of celebrating substance, we are celebrating frivolity. Furthermore, I question if there will come a time when the Marine Corps War Memorial will be razed because Pride flags are more in keeping with American values. Imagine if the marines at Iwo Jima raised a Pride flag instead of the American flag.

For those thinking that I’m being hyperbolic, Chicago has once again decided not to have their annual Fourth of July fireworks display. No explanation was provided, but Chicagoans are to be consoled by the idea that Navy Pier has their twice weekly fireworks anyway.

As the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of D-Day fades from memory, so too, will be the reasons so many died to save the West from tyranny. Our country is becoming unrecognizable. All the progress in technology, innovation, and society that happened post-WWII has become eclipsed by a world with even less humanity and even greater ignorance.

So, this month, I refuse to celebrate Pride and instead will celebrate the pride I have in our forebears, the pride I have in an allegiance to God, and the pride I have in our country’s history and those who fought to keep us the greatest nation ever known in civilization.