June is now officially the longest month.
It’s not that it isn’t lovely, or that it isn’t the start in earnest of the summer season of ballgames, barbecues, and trips to the beach. No, all that is wonderful.
The issue, of course, is that an entire month of the calendar is now devoted to promoting a radical vision of gender ideology and sexual orientation, and assuming — demanding, as necessary — public assent.
What’s made this Pride Month different is that assent has been vocally and determinedly withheld from some of the most absurd LGBTQ+ initiatives, usually with the emphasis on the “T.”
Just ask Bud Light.
Progressive cultural advance depends, in large part, on manufacturing consent through intimidation and assuming public passivity will do the rest. This makes “yelling Stop,” as we like to put it around here, absolutely crucial.
And it’s why we are asking for your help to keep saying “no” to the woke cultural revolutionaries, and their cowardly enablers in corporate America and other elite institutions.
We reject their premises. We report on their outrages. We argue against their logic. And we mock them as warranted.
As part of these webathons, we used to catalogue all of our pieces on a given topic to visually demonstrate our commitment with a pages-long list of items. On this one, we probably don’t have enough interns to get the job done. We’ve run literally countless pieces, editorials, and videos.
We have a couple of young women on staff almost exclusively devoted to pushing back against and exposing the trans insanity. In so doing, of course, they open themselves up to revolting abuse — uncomplainingly, I should add, because they are so committed to the cause.
We broke nationally the story of the dude in the University of Wyoming sorority, and kept up a drumbeat afterwards.
We’ve had the back of female weightlifters and triathletes threatened by male interlopers.
We’ve reported on a school counselor who was fired for objecting to her school district’s policy of hiding the gender transitions of students from their parents.
We’ve told the truth about social contagion and the perversity of “gender-affirming” care for minors.
We’ve been hell on the Los Angeles Dodgers, who have offered their fans ridicule of nuns along with the peanuts and Cracker Jacks.
And, if I may, yours truly has tried to show the absurdity of our current moment by extending it just a touch beyond the plausible.
We do all of this out of a sense of obligation to defend the truth and common sense, and to protect our children and our faith — but publishing a website and magazine isn’t free.
And this is why we are asking for your help.
As a serious magazine of opinion that is zealous in defense of its ideas and happy to let the chips fall where they may, we’ve never made money. We have always depended on the support of our readers, who appreciate excellent writing, fierce polemics, and a commitment to this nation and its foundations.
If that describes you, I hope you will consider chipping in any amount — literally every bit counts — toward hitting our webathon goal of $100,000.
There is reason to believe that we are winning the trans debate now or, at the very least, that the other side has overreached.
But we obviously can’t let up. So, please, help keep us at the ramparts by giving whatever you can.
June, no matter how it might seem now, will eventually be over. But the fight never ends.