It’s a queer, queer, queer, queer world, becoming systemically queerer every day that “progressives” control big government, big tech, big business, big education, big entertainment, and big medicine. As many have pointed out, the fact that we have a day to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. but a month to celebrate sexual perversion illustrates just how queer America has already become. The aspirational, inspirational goal of judging people by the content of their character has been discarded to make a safe space for the dispiriting goal of judging people by the degree to which their sexual appetites deviate from the normal, healthy, good, and right.

So, let’s take a quick spin around the anti-culture of America.

Today, the new children’s Disney-Pixar movie Lightyear is being released. It includes a lesbian kiss between Buzz Lightyear’s close friend Commander Alisha Hawthorne and her “wife.” The kiss had been deleted, but then a group of petulant “LGBTQIAP+” activists at Disney demanded it be restored. This is the same group that stomped their feet and held their breaths after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a bill to make pro-perversion indoctrination of elementary school children illegal. Even without the kiss, however, the inclusion of a lesbian couple—faux-married or unmarried—in a children’s movie is reprehensible. Positive portrayals of egregious sin in children’s entertainment are deeply sinful.

Actor Chris Evans, who voices Buzz Lightyear, calls parents who don’t want their children exposed to positive portrayals of sin “idiots” who should be ignored until they “die off like dinosaurs.” Filled with the hot-air and pomposity of Hollywood, Evans pontificated,

Every time there’s been social advancement as we wake up, the American story, the human story is one of constant social awakening and growth and that’s what makes us good.

First, widespread cultural acceptance of homoeroticism constitutes neither “advancement” nor “growth.”

Second, widespread cultural acceptance of homoeroticism does not make us “good.”

Third, widespread cultural acceptance of homoeroticism does not constitute a “social awakening.” Rather, it constitutes a descent into cultural darkness that has recurred throughout history, including in Sodom and Gomorrah, ancient Greece, the Tokugawa period in Japan, and now in purportedly civilized societies. The human story is one of sin, sorrow, and suffering born of rebellion against God.

Evans also asserted that “There’s [sic] always going to be people who are afraid and unaware and trying to hold on to what was before.”

Since homoeroticism has gone before, and before, and before, perhaps it’s Evans who is trying to hold on to what was before. Perhaps he’s afraid of what he doesn’t understand. Perhaps he’s afraid of the Hollywood muckety-mucks who dole out big bucks only to ideological toadies, and Evans knows deep down he lacks the courage to stand for truth and risk losing fame and fortune.

Next on our journey to Sex-finity and beyond, we come to Bros, the first homosexual romantic comedy produced by a major Hollywood studio. Homosexual actor Billy Eichner wrote and stars in Bros, which is produced by Universal studios and will be released in theaters on September 10. All cast members are either homosexual or cross-sex impersonators. You can watch the trailer for this rip-snorting comedy about homoeroticism, which includes a family with young children dancing and singing about “bottom” sex:

As all sentient beings know, it’s not just the entertainment industry that seeks to impose disordered socially constructed beliefs about sexuality on the world. Case in point: Postmates, a food delivery service akin to Doordash or UberEats. Postmates decided that what the world needs now from them is information on what to eat prior to having anal sex so that it will less “messy.” What better time to celebrate “bottom” sex than “pride” month, and what better way to celebrate sodomy than have an eggplant in kink gear talk to a “taco,” which is slang for a woman’s vulva. Here’s what “growth” and “advancement” looks like in Sex-finity and beyond:

Sex-finity—like toddler story hours—wouldn’t be nearly as advanced and inclusive if any form of sexual deviance were excluded, so of course cross-sex impersonators are ubiquitous. The New York Post recently exposed that since 2018, New York City has paid an organization called Drag Story Hour NYC $207,000 to provide drag queens to enculturate children with the drag ideology:

Last month alone, Drag Story Hour NYC—a nonprofit whose outrageously cross-dressed performers interact with kids as young as 3—earned $46,000 from city contracts for appearances at public schools, street festivals, and libraries. …

Since January, the group has organized 49 drag programs in 34 public elementary, middle, and high schools, it boasted on its website, with appearances in all five boroughs.

This is why all government bureaucracies need to trimmed to the bone, first with an axe, then with a scalpel. No one who played even a small role in approving such expenditures deserves to be anywhere near public funds—or children.

Colonizing the minds of other people’s children with evil ideas takes a lot of money, parental acquiescence, and institutional control. And that explains why several days ago, eleven de facto Democrats who self-identify as Republicans sent a letter to U.S. House and Senate leaders, urging them to pass legislation like the “Equality Act,” which has nothing to do with equality and everything to do with sexual predilections.

The Equality Act would strip Americans of religious liberty and speech rights, essentially forcing all Americans to treat homoeroticism and cross-sex impersonation as if those conditions are akin to biological sex or race.

This effort is being spearheaded by former Florida Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen mother of a 36-year-old daughter—born Amanda Michelle Ros-Lehtinen—who now masquerades as a man named Roderigo. Ros-Lehtinen—a supporter of all things “LGBTQ+”—is joined by ten other pseudo-Republicans: Barbara Comstock (R-VA), Carlos Curbelo (R-FL), Susan Brooks (R-IN), Charlie Dent (R-PA), Jim Kolbe (R-AZ), Claudine Schneider (R-RI), Bob Dold (R-IL), Jim Greenwood (R-PA), Chris Shays (R-CN) and Steve Gunderson (R-WI).

This foolish group believes that the United States should “pass legislation that protects all Americans from discrimination no matter their gender identity or who they love.” Translated into plain, honest language, they are saying that Americans should be prohibited from disapproving of cross-dressing, homoerotic acts, or homoerotic relationships. According to the Equality Act and its supporters, religious liberty—our first liberty—should be subordinated to disordered, subjective sexual feelings.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen calls this push to limit religious liberty “freedom for all,” saying “That’s a bedrock principle of the Republican Party.”

This effort also constitutes yet another power grab. These wolfish Dems in red clothing want the federal government to usurp more control from states:

The Hill reports that Ros-Lehtinen believes the “‘patchwork’ of state-by-state protections” is unfair to “LGBTQ+” Americans.

In other words, if leftists are not successful at the ballot box in every state, they will use federal power to impose their will on intransigent states. Ros-Lehtinen and her collaborators believe that no state should have the right to prohibit cross-dressing boys from using girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms. No state should be allowed to prohibit cross-dressing boys from participating in girls’ sports. And no state should be allowed to prohibit quack doctors from chemically stopping puberty or lopping off the healthy breasts of confused 14-year-old girls.

We must look at the tangled rotting trees in order to better see the tangled, rotting forest that America is becoming. No gaze-averting when so much is at stake.

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The U.S. House of Representatives just passed the disastrous and dishonestly titled Equality Act that if passed into law will not merely gut First Amendment protections but effectively ban Christianity and any other religions that teach that homoerotic acts and cross-sex impersonation are immoral.

This proposal (H.R. 5) passed Friday afternoon by a vote of 236 to 173 (with 23 not voting). The Illinois Congressional delegation voted along party lines. Congressman Darrin LaHood (R-Peoria) was absent but has told us that he was a “no” vote.

Here are the 8 traitorous U.S. House Republicans who voted with the Democrats in favor of the faux-equality act: Reps. Susan Brooks (Ind.), Mario Diaz-Balart (Fla.), Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.) Will Hurd (Texas), John Katko (N.Y.), Tom Reed (N.Y.), Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) and Greg Walden (Ore.).

They sold their souls and our religious liberty, assembly rights, and speech rights for a mess of pottage in the form of their re-election bids. Either self-serving desire to preserve their position was their motivation, or they have no understanding of either equality or the differences between conditions like race and sex and conditions like homoeroticism and opposite-sex impersonation.

The National Review exposes how radical and dangerous the Equality Act is:

Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia, has been a longtime supporter of same-sex marriage…. Laycock has also been a longtime supporter of enacting a federal gay-rights non-discrimination law, but he doesn’t support the Equality Act, a bill just approved by the House of Representatives that would add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, because it would “crush” conscientious objectors.

“It goes very far to stamp out religious exemptions,” Laycock tells National Review in an email. “It regulates religious non-profits. And then it says that [the Religious Freedom Restoration Act] does not apply to any claim under the Equality Act. This would be the first time Congress has limited the reach of RFRA. This is not a good-faith attempt to reconcile competing interests. It is an attempt by one side to grab all the disputed territory and to crush the other side….” Laycock says that religious schools would probably be viewed as “public accommodations” under the Equality Act even if they refuse all federal funding.”

If passed and signed into law, the Equality Act would require that federal law recognize disordered subjective feelings and deviant behaviors as protected characteristics. Federal law would absurdly recognize homoeroticism and cross-sex masquerading as conditions that must be treated like race and biological sex, which are objective, 100 percent heritable conditions that are in all cases immutable, and carry no behavioral implications.

Once the law is enjoined to protect two groups based on their subjective, internal sexual feelings and volitional sexual behaviors, we open a Pandora’s Box of evils that will inevitably result in conflicts between the spanking new legal rights of those who embrace sexual deviance as “identity” and 1. the First Amendment rights of those who reject sexual deviance, 2. the moral right of businesses to require restrooms, locker rooms, and showers to correspond to biological sex, 3. the right of businesses to fire or refuse to hire a person who chooses to masquerade as the opposite sex, and 4. the right of public schools to fire or to refuse to hire a person who chooses to impersonate the opposite sex.

There is nothing intrinsically unjust about treating people differently based on their volitional choices. There is nothing unjust about treating biological women as different from biological men who impersonate women. And it is manifestly just and proper for an organization or business to fire people like Thomas Donnelly (see photo), a defense and national security Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and BDSM aficionado who now masquerades as a woman named “Giselle.”

Just as the legal prohibition of discrimination based on homoerotic feelings and acts conflicts with the legal prohibition of religious discrimination, so will the legal prohibition of discrimination based on feelings about maleness and femaleness and acts related to those feelings set in motion conflicts with prohibitions of religious and sex discrimination. It is morally and intellectually untenable that subjective feelings and volitional acts supersede both biological sex and religion as a protected class.

Pastor and theologian Doug Wilson makes clear the totalizing and totalitarian impulses and goals of LGB and T activists (a schism among whom is growing):

[T]he sexual revolutionaries are not interested in anything shy of total and complete victory.

And that is what the faux-equality act is about: total and complete victory over theologically orthodox Christians, which necessarily means eradicating their freedom to speak freely, assemble/associate, and exercise their religion.

Dr. Robert A. J. Gagnon, Professor of Theology at Houston Baptist University, provides a troubling list of effects that will ensue from the passage of the pernicious Equality Act—which speaking in the strident voice of cultural regressives, Dr. Gagnon facetiously calls the “Get the Homophobic and Transphobic Bigots Act.” According to Dr. Gagnon, the faux-equality act will mandate:

1.) Nationwide “LGBTQ” indoctrination in school curricula and in workplaces, where you and your children will regularly learn and relearn that anyone who is not a cheerleader for all things “gay” and “transgender” is a hateful, ignorant, and indecent bigot who has no place in society (note that Christian teachers in public schools will be forced not only to listen to such presentations but also to make them for students).

2.) State social services to take your children away from you if you oppose your child’s “right” to transition to a person of the other sex or enter homosexual sexual relationships.

3.) Affirmative-action hiring of people who identify as “transgender” and “gay” throughout industry and academia.

4.) Speech that embraces the faux gender identity of “transgenders” under penalty of fines and imprisonment.

5.) “Transgender female” (i.e., male) access to female restrooms, showers, locker rooms, dressing rooms, shelters, dormitories, and sports.

6.) Use of all commercial talents (photographers, artists, bakers, wedding planners, printers, etc.), including forced speech (lettering, messages) to promote transgenderism and homosexual intercourse, under pain of fines and imprisonment.

7.) The firing of white-collar employees who express any religious or secular views deemed “hateful” by “LGBTQ” radicals, even if that view is expressed outside the workplace, say (for example) in social media.

8.) Loss of federal financial aid, science grants, and ultimately accreditation for Christian colleges and universities that maintain “discriminatory” policies toward LGBTQ behavior and relationships, whatever short-term, bait-and-switch exemption is offered to get the bill passed.

9.) Doctors and Catholic hospitals to perform “sex-change” operations on children and to treat all “trans” patients not as their real biological sex but as the sex that they pretend to be.

10.) Law enforcement agencies, courts, and medical research studies to categorize “trans-persons” by their pretend sex.

11.) Censorship, with punitive penalties imposed if at all possible, on all speech and publications that make homosexual and transgender persons “feel unsafe” (essentially all speech critical of homosexual intercourse and transgenderism).

Just slapping the word “equality” onto legislation does not transform it magically into something good or make it about equality. The Equality Act—like the ERA—is not about equality. The Equality Act—like the ERA–serves the tyrannical interests of the “LGBTQQAP” community. And both will be used to deny the rights of women and Christians.

You have been amply warned. Now, do something.

Take ACTION: Click HERE to send a message to our U.S. Senators to urge him/her to oppose the federal Equality Act (H.R. 5) which seeks to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include protections for an individual’s perceived sex, “sexual orientation,” or “gender identity.” If you know the name of your local official, you can also call the U.S. Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask the operator to connect you with his/her office to leave a message.

Listen to this article read by Laurie:

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