June 2024, Pride Month: Part IV - American Cancer

by Jim Fennell

This is Part IV in the “pride month” series…

The Civil Rights Act was passed by Congress with the approval of President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964.  In 1969 in New York City, the ‘gay movement came out’ demanding that they be given their ‘civil rights’ just as this new law had given other ‘minority’ groups.  After all, they were a minority too.  And they had been suppressed and persecuted. They could not practice in culture what they practiced behind closed doors. But they were not a ‘minority’ based upon race or ethnic origin, rather they were a minority based on their sexual preferences. 

Then in 1978 artist and drag queen Gilbert Baker created the rainbow flag that became the visible sign of their movement.  Originally billed as a harmless symbol of love, tolerance and diversity, it is not. It heralds the rise of an atheistic paganism in which its adherents openly reject God and makeup reality to satiate their desires. At its most extreme, it leads to persecution of non-celebrants--in particular Bible-believing Christians. In reality, their behavior proves they were, and still are, moral- less atheistic pagans. Their god requires nothing but self-gratification and hatred for everything Christian—the Bible, Bible-believing Christian churches, and Bible-believing Christians. 

And so began the growth of this ‘movement’ that like cancer, continues to grow and destroy the moral foundations of America today on June 1, 2024. The Psalmist suitably asked the question some 1,000 years ago that applies more than ever to America now: “If the foundations [of a godly society] are destroyed, What can the righteous do?” (Psalm 11:3 AMP)

W ith so many Christian denominations and even ‘Evangelicals’ now having rejected the fundamental doctrines of Christianity and pushing a social gospel, the question “What can the righteous do?” is even more in need of not only an answer but action.