On Thursday of this week, “Pride Month” will be upon us once again, and the LGBTQ lobby is harder at work than perhaps ever before. Whether it’s Target pushing trans-oriented “tucking” and “binding” clothes for toddlers or the Los Angeles Dodgers dubbing an anti-Catholic hate group composed of drag performers “community heroes,” the rainbow mafia’s stormtroopers in stilettos are marching on, trampling anyone in their path. Why is the LGBTQ lobby so powerful? Why are its adherents — relatively few in number — such ardent devotees? And why has the alphabet reich’s socio-political blitzkrieg advanced with such devastating alacrity?
The answer is simple: identity. The LGBTQ movement not only invites nor even encourages but demands that its followers identify themselves with their supposed sexual preferences. I’ve yet to see a study conducted on the subject, but I rarely, if ever, see people denoting “straight” or “heterosexual” or “biological male” in their social media profiles; it’s just as rare to find a gay, trans, or non-binary individual who doesn’t have some kind of sex-related label front and center. Pronouns are, of course, the new thing. And because it isn’t enough for the pronoun nonsense to merely be tolerated, the LGBTQ lobby forces it on everyone else, especially in corporate America, where the lobby has a stranglehold.
The rainbow mafia’s footsoldiers are such fanatical devotees because they identify themselves with their sexual deviations. This is why stalwart conservatives like Ron DeSantis are feared and reviled by the LGBTQ lobby and its self-declared “allies.” Telling schoolteachers not to talk to children about anal and oral sex, “fisting,” and mutual masturbation seems common sense, but the rainbow mafia declares this a threat to the existence of gay and trans people. Of course it is — if gay and trans people don’t exist outside of the sexual deviancies they enjoy.
In short, the LGBTQ lobby reduces its followers from humans to mere sexual preferences and pronouns. Misgendering looks like a crime to the stubble-laden man in a skirt because he identifies as his chosen gender: As far as he’s concerned, that is his identity and it’s being questioned, ignored, or denigrated.
The Catholic Church is the chief opponent of LGBTQ ideology. The Church declares that homosexual desires are “disordered” and that homosexual acts and transgenderism are both sins. The Church decries these things for the same reason the rainbow mafia lauds them: They reduce the individual to something sub-human, to mere sexual desire or preferred pronouns.
That ancient institution calls men and women to be more than their sins, to seek their true identity elsewhere, to be fully human instead of less-than-human. More than that, the Church equips its followers — less enamored, perhaps, of brouhaha than the rainbow mafia’s foot soldiers, but far more resilient, having kept the faith for around 2,000 years, while civilizations and regimes have risen and fallen in the periphery — to seek those true identities.
St. Irenaeus of Lyons is credited with saying, “The glory of God is man fully alive.” Through her prayers, her liturgy, her doctrines, her immutable truths, treasured and guarded and handed down from age to age, the Church offers what LGBTQ ideology denies even exists: an identity larger, not smaller, than the self. It is telling that the banner under which the LGBTQ crowd clamors is the chief of all the chief sins: pride, which caused Lucifer to fall from Heaven to Hell.
As the rainbow mafia continues storming the once-noble Western civilization crumbling round our very ears, look to the Catholic Church. That institution alone has the strength, the wisdom, and the venerable lineage to withstand the onslaught.