A roundup of news and interviews from around the interwebs.
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The Guardian is, as everyone with eyeballs knows, an extremely left-wing newspaper. But for trans activists, “progressive” means “publishing our perspective without criticism or nuance.” That’s why two trans activist writers are actually boycotting the paper because, according to Vice:
They say they have a “moral duty to stand in absolute solidarity” with trans women and trans feminine people who are receiving the most negativity from the paper, adding they will “no longer write for The Guardian until it changes its trans-hostile and exclusionary stance.”
In short: anything that doesn’t affirm everything trans activists want is “trans-hostile.” Let the lesson be learned: Nothing will ever be enough for these people short of total and complete submission.
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The European Union continues its push to have abortion recognized as a human right—which many European countries (including Hungary and Poland) still fundamentally disagree with. Globalist institutions are run by sexual revolutionaries and we shouldn’t forget it.
This, a review of How to Think by Alan Jacobs, is very good if you want a better understanding of tribalism, conspiracy theories, and why nobody changes their mind on social media.
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Dr. Jordan Peterson’s trajectory continues:
Pride was once a sin. Remember that? Corporate pandering to the alphabet brigadehttps://t.co/MSX42M6dQP
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) June 13, 2022
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At WORLD Opinions, Kevin DeYoung has a good column on Pride Month:
By linking gay liberation to “pride,” LGBTQ advocates—and it’s worth mentioning, that the five letters only fit together in an uneasy alliance—hit upon an ethical and strategic coup. The rallying cry of “pride” transformed their quest for culturewide moral legitimacy (a daunting task) into a personal plea for therapeutic well-being (a much easier goal). The debate would not be a head-on, rational discussion about whether the sexual revolution was acceptable by the standards of God’s Word, natural law, or Western tradition. The debate would not be about what was good for children, good for the public, or even good for those drawn to LGBTQ behavior. Instead, “pride” made the debate about feelings of personal acceptance. Changing the culture is hard work and takes a long time (about 50 years, it turns out). Convincing people to stop making other people feel bad is a much easier sell.
Even today, “pride” can be difficult to refute on an emotive level. By marching for “pride”—instead of marching for gay sex or sex-change operations for minors—the public isn’t asked to affirm actions and appearances they often instinctively find distasteful. They are asked to affirm that people should not feel ashamed of themselves. Those who hold to Biblical standards of sex and sexuality are forced to play the entire game on their side of the 50-yard line. Do you really want people to feel bad about themselves? Do you want to make people suffer? Aren’t you concerned about suicide and self-loathing? How can anyone be against “pride” if the alternative is violent, morbid, relentless shame? Pride Month turns a moral argument—about which the Bible has clear and unequivocal answers—into a quest for personal self-acceptance, which is why many soft-hearted and muddle-headed Christians line up for the parade just like everyone else.
At Unherd, Hadley Freeman has a thought-provoking piece with the evergreen title “The kids aren’t alright,” which takes a look at how baby-led parenting has led to a baby-led world—and some tragic consequences for both children and the culture.
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In case you’re wondering, the trans movement can always cause our society to beclown itself even further. From the Washington Free Beacon:
A transgender inmate who goes by the name Cristina Iglesias has not spent a day outside of federal prison as an adult. Iglesias was locked up in 1994 for sending death threats to federal judges and then pleaded guilty in 2005 to mailing fake anthrax to U.S. allies in the earliest days of the War on Terror. Now, thanks to a judge’s ruling, Iglesias is set to become the first transgender inmate to undergo sex-reassignment surgery—on the taxpayer dime.
That’s right. The taxpayers are funding a terrorist’s sex change.
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On his Substack, Samuel James grapples with the fact that our culture’s storytellers are how, with very few exceptions, telling anti-Christian stories:
In the new movie Lightyear, Pixar has now given an onscreen protagonist a same-sex partner, referred explicitly to their relationship, and featured an onscreen kiss. This will mean very little to most audiences. For people like me and my family, however, this is a big deal. I’ve had to come to grips with the fact that my kids (5 and 3 right now, with one on the way) are going to grow up in a Western culture where homosexuality and same-sex relationships are tied into mass commercialism in a way they never were when I was growing up. Anger does not achieve the righteousness of God, and it won’t even “protect” the children of millennials from this. This is where society is and where it’s going, and if the future of life in America looks more like Paul’s Corinth than Andy’s Mayberry, we can only confess that the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
