This past Sunday I had the queer experience of finding myself driving through Long Beach, California, in the wake of the annual “Gay and Lesbian Pride” festival. The streets were strewn with people out of their heads on booze and/or drugs: Narcissus on narcotics! The city of Long Beach evidently welcomes this annual debauch, festooning Ocean Avenue with resplendent rainbow-coloured banners with the words “Long Beach Pride” emblazoned on each. I mused with wry amusement about the aptness of the word “pride” with regard to the bacchanal I was witnessing. The whole festival was an ostentatious display of pride, the father and the worst of sins. Pride is at the hardened heart of homosexuality and is a perfect description and prescription of the problem. The sin of Sodom is ultimately the sin of pride and it was for the sin of pride, of which lust is but the bitter fruit, that Sodom was destroyed.
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“I had the QUEER experience of finding…”, nice word choice, lol, very fitting indeed!
If pride was not at the heart of homosexuality before, then it certainly is now. This article reminds me that, thanks to President Obama, next month is Gay pride month. Im still waiting for when Straight pride month will be declared, 😉 preferably April, when Spring begins, you know, it being mating season and all. It would be fitting to remind people that the main, and really only natural reason for sex in general, is procreation (something that the modern world seems willingly to forget). Had mankind been asexual, for example, we would not be having sex at all.
I said it once and I’ll say it again, what ‘pride’ is there in being ‘gay’?
Of all the lame ways to sell homosexual agitprop to homosexuals themselves is to get them to be ‘proud’ of their homosexuality, that way, the possibility of it being seen as what it is, a problem, never comes up.