Perhaps one could object that such thought experiments are not fair because people are deeply hurt by sins of racism and infidelity whereas gay or transgender, or bisexual, or queer, or pansexual, or + activities are victimless sins.įirstly, Christians are not consequentialists, viewing harm to others as the sole and final metric of sin. It has taken many such men a long time to overcome their nagging sense of shame so let's remind them of their dignity and give them their own special Adulterer Pride flag to wave! To resist their activism risks turning them away from the Gospel." Sure, it is a bit weird that a 58-year-old man needs to march about how he now lives blissfully with a freshly minted college graduate some decades his junior, but how and who he loves is not ours to discern. Perhaps his prior marriage was cold or loveless. Or what if we imagine a 'Celebrate Unfaithful Husbands Parade.' A possible defense might be, "A man loves whom he loves. But that love does not preclude speaking out against a White Pride Parade." "Loving the sinner does not require silence or endorsement of such a vile public spectacle. "No!" we would all surely pound our fists. The job of the Christian is not to judge, but always and only to love." We might think they’re wrong to march, but let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Some have surely been treated unjustly or perhaps felt marginalized seeing other ethnicities celebrate their heritage while they could not celebrate their own. To help clarify what love demands of us with regard to Pride month, we might imagine a similar predicament with different players who are less sympathetic, but no less deserving of love.Įxpanding on a comparison Trueman employs, what is the loving Christian response to the persons marching in a White Pride parade? One might argue, "Some of those marching are deeply wounded in ways we cannot fathom. Good-willed people can get it wrong - sometimes grievously so. However, the reality is that living in a sea of powerful and coercive cultural messaging is deeply disorienting. When looking back at the vast and varied unjust movements of the past from slavery to eugenics to Maoism, we tend to think we would have been on the right side of it all.
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It can be hard to see clearly in an age of ideology. We have no desire to provoke for the sake of provoking, but nor do we desire to perpetuate a profoundly destabilizing ideology that increasingly demands public displays of loyalty.
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It was met with some measure of controversy which was expected, but not sought. This question is on my mind as we recently shared on TOH a piece by our friend and colleague, Carl Trueman calling on Christians to resist Pride Month. Incumbent on the Christian, is to love the person and resist the revolution.ĭoes the radical Christian call to love all God's children regardless of their LGBTQ+ identification demand our silence or even our affirmation of the ever-growing Pride movement that occupies our streets, shops, and inboxes for the month of June? It is a creed that reduces and redefines the human person and names them by their sin. Decades of messaging have all but canonized radical sexual autonomy as identical with courage and liberation.