After the horrific attack that occurred at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, the perverse ideology of transgenderism has returned to the forefront of many American minds.
When Donald Trump soared to reelection in 2024, some predicted that, in response, the American left would “put the woke away.” While it can be argued that many Democrats are attempting to mute some of the more extreme elements of their party, albeit with limited success, the fact remains that wokeness, including the cult of Pride, is still very much alive and well, especially in liberal strongholds like Minnesota, most especially in the deepest blue cities like Minneapolis. Because of the decades-long rise of LGBT ideology, many people in our state and nation are baptized members of a pseudo-religion that claims that men and women can morph from one sex into the other, be no sex at all, be some third imaginary sex, or shift between sexual identities from moment to moment.
Madness and Perversity
The visible fruit of this ideology is that of mutilated and disturbed people like the man who committed last Tuesday’s atrocity. The obvious madness and perversity of the Pride cult have motivated many Americans to remove their children from public schools, which act not as the neutral, secular education centers that liberals and moderates pretend, but rather as doctrinal training centers in this sexual religion. There is no public school in America where you can be confident your child will not be exposed to teaching that tells him he can be the opposite sex, or that he should explore and experiment with his sexual desires at his young and vulnerable age. It is good that many American parents, even those who are not particularly religious, have woken up to the danger presented to their children by our public schools.
In the same vein as that recognition, however, there is another fact that needs to be acknowledged, which I have never seen articulated. While more groups of people in the mainstream have at last begun to recognize LGBT Pride for the catastrophic religious doctrine that it is, it has yet to be publicly acknowledged that Pride, like Christianity, is a totalizing and proselytizing religion.
Christianity claims that everyone is a sinner who is doomed to an eternity in Hell if they do not repent of their sin and confess in faith that Jesus Christ is Lord. Because of that claim, Christians are motivated – indeed, commanded by God – to share the good news of Christ’s death and resurrection and the forgiveness of sins that He offers to all who repent and believe.
The cult of transgenderism also makes a claim, namely that a man can be a woman. But it isn’t merely that a man can be a woman. It’s that any man can be a woman. According to the religion of Pride, any man, at any time, for any reason, might just discover that in his innermost being, he is really a woman. He might learn this “truth” when he is two years old or sixty years old. He might discover his “true” identity in the throes of social pain and anguish while being bullied and ostracized as a teenager, while going through a stressful marital conflict in middle age, or by playing with dolls instead of trucks as a toddler. One way or another, any man might just find out one day that he is a woman. And because any man may discover that he is transgender, no man can ever truly know that he is not transgender.
There are other ways that the totalizing nature of the Pride cult can be seen, such as the insistence of using the insulting euphemism “cisgender” to describe anyone who has not (yet) “come out” as transgender, but the subtlest and most horrific way that Pride will fold you into itself, whether you like it or not, is by insisting that you, your children, or somebody else you love might just discover one day that they are transgender.
More Than Exiting Public Education
If you believe that merely pulling your children out of public school will be enough to protect them from the predations of the Pride cult, I beg you to reconsider. Only a few years ago, we were all told that all we had to do was accept the eccentricities of somebody like Bruce Jenner pretending to be a woman. Now, it seems that just about every public school in America flies the Pride flag in one form or another, whether it’s hanging over the main entrance or as a sticker on the guidance counselor’s office door. It’s no longer enough to merely tolerate Bruce Jenner, even if you consent to call him Caitlin. It was never going to be enough. You were always going to be required to submit your children to instruction in the doctrine of Pride.
After all, if it’s true that anybody may be transgender, no child can be allowed to go through his/her education and upbringing without hearing that they themselves might be transgender. Every child must be invited and encouraged to look deep within himself with the bare supply of wisdom he has acquired in his young life and the advice of the school guidance counselor to assist him, and consider his own identity. If every child is not so encouraged, society could end up full of people who truly are transgender but have never discovered it and “come out.”
According to the doctrines of Pride, that is unacceptable.
What Comes Next
The next step of this trajectory, if it is not arrested, is likely to be as follows: all schools, including church schools, private schools, and homeschooling families, will be mandated by law to have their students and children exposed to the idea that they might really be transgender. After all, if that doesn’t happen, then religious families and other “bigoted” or “closed-minded” people will simply be able to exploit a loophole in the system to oppress “trans kids.” If the doctrine of Pride is true, then that would obviously be tragic and evil and must not be allowed. And make no mistake, the victory of Donald Trump in 2024 did not come anywhere close to eradicating the cult of Pride, especially not at the local level. Your state and school district are still full of vipers who want your children to be castrated – or at least to have the option.
Even if they continue to dominate your state’s public education system, adherents to the religion of Pride will never be content to rule that wide domain and leave your homeschooling family or your little private school alone. For the true believers in Pride, as in Christianity, there is submission to the religion’s truth or there is damnation. There can be no middle ground. The crucial difference is that, in Christianity, we recognize that the role of believers is to share the truth with our neighbors, and it is the role of God Himself to convert or condemn the souls of those to whom we witness. Adherents to Pride must serve as their own religious enforcers. They convert by the power of the state and the psychiatrist’s chair. They convert with threats of dead children. And they convert by threatening to take away your children if you try to pull them from the clutches of their cult.
What, then, are we to do?
First, we must be on guard, not only against the threat of violence from the most unstable of the followers of Pride (like we saw last Tuesday) but against the progress of the doctrines of Pride in our own communities, including our state and local governments, educational institutions, businesses, and churches. If your local coffee shop flies the Pride flag, whether in June or year-round, stop going there and let them know that you are taking your business away from them for that reason.
Push back in your church at the first sign of softness on this issue. You can do that with grace and charity, of course, but we must not be afraid of giving offense in this fight if we are speaking the truth in love. Whatever educational institution or curriculum you employ for your children, vet them for any whisper of transgenderism, and if you find it, take appropriate action to eliminate it or alert others to it. You may very well have friends and neighbors who would pull their kids from the local school if they knew about how much Pride ideology had infiltrated it.
Second, we must use every scrap of political power available to us to push back on the Pride cult. Perpetual retreat will not work. Whether you send your kids to private school or you homeschool, whether you’re in a blue state or a red state, they will come for your children or grandchildren eventually. While the 2024 Trump victory did not eradicate wokeness and transgenderism from public life, it has opened up a window of opportunity for sane men to fight back more boldly than we could before.
If you think that sounds all well and good, but that you don’t have any political power to wield, you are mistaken (for more detail, see this piece from last November). You can vote in the primaries for your local elections, and you can interrogate the candidates to learn their positions on this crucial issue. With the power of social media and internet searches, you don’t have to let a political candidate get away with sidestepping controversial issues. And because primary elections get much less voter involvement, if you do step into the fray, you can have an outsized influence on the outcome not only of the primary, but the general election to follow.
Finally, and interwoven with the first two steps, we need to pray and take comfort in the fact that Jesus Christ is Lord, ruling and reigning over heaven and earth at this very moment and for all of eternity. Though the wickedness of men knows no limit, the day is approaching when every last sin will be punished and perfect justice will be complete. On that day, those who have feared the Lord through the trials of this life will know everlasting joy and peace, and the wicked men who attacked the innocence and the very lives of vulnerable children will wail and gnash their teeth if they have not joined us in repentance.
In God’s Perfect Time
The battle against the cult of Pride is necessary and unavoidable, and the side of decency, truth, and goodness may lose and suffer greatly for it on this earth. But in the end, the victory has already been won. Death and sin will be swallowed up forever, including the sins of Pride, and we will be forever free of their predations and persecution. On that day, we will sing for joy, and we can sing for joy until that day, knowing that it will come soon, in God’s perfect time.
