June is nearly over and, with it, Pride Month.
On June 1, a church in nearby Concord, Massachusetts added a Pride flag of equal size to their permanent Black Lives Matter flag (parishioners are so interested in black lives that they elected to live in one of the whitest towns in the U.S.!).
Can they take the flag down this evening? If so, why? Is the LGBTQIA lifestyle something to be proud of only 1/12th of the time? If the point of Pride Month is to demand additional rights and privileges for Americans who identify as LGBTQIA, why is it okay to shelve those demands until June 2020? “The Struggle for Gay Rights Is Over” (Atlantic):
Identifying as gay, bisexual, trans, or “queer”—anything but straight—is, in some milieus, a new marker of cool. In one recent survey, less than 50 percent of 13-to-20-year-olds (all part of Generation Z) identified as “exclusively heterosexual.”
But if the goal is to drive this number down to 0 percent, why is it okay to put the campaign on hold for 11 months?
More importantly, is it okay to go to Chick-fil-A tomorrow? (Maybe they should have said that they were closing on Sundays during June in observation of Pride Month?)
[Finally, why is it okay to have equal size flags for Pride and Black Lives Matter? Have the legal wrongs suffered by LGBTQIA Americans been equal to the wrongs suffered by African Americans? If so, shouldn’t there be reparations for Americans who identify as LGBTQIA or descendants of deceased Americans who identified as LGBTQIA (NYT, below, says “maybe”)? If not, shouldn’t the Black Lives Matter flag be larger or flown in a higher position?]
Related:
- “Trump admin says pride flags can’t fly above U.S. embassies, sending a clear message to the world” (NBC) (but if they had flown the pride flag, why would it be okay for them to take it down? They can say “It is July so now we don’t care about imposing our views on LGBTQIA on other societies”?
- “The Case for Gay Reparation” (nytimes): “if history is any guide, gay reparation faces an uphill struggle in the United States.”
I never got a chance to try Chick-fil-A because here, in suburban Seattle, there is always a line to get there.
Since you hate this cause and people trying to reduce hate, yes its ok to take down your imaginary flag.
I love Pride Month, especially now that transgenderism is part of the umbrella. It generates more blog fodder than almost anything else!
>less than 50 percent of 13-to-20-year-olds (all part of >Generation Z) identified as “exclusively >heterosexual.”
So we are headed back to being Bonobos?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo#Sociosexual_behaviour
I usually get the spicy chicken sand-which with chick fil-a sauce. Usually some chips and a lemonade. I always thought the best part of chik fil-a were the sauces. What are other readers favorite sauces? Has anyone tried the Polynesian Sauce?