A roundup of news and commentary from around the interwebs.
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This, from Pedro Gonzalez, is encouraging: “The Pride Month That Perished.” I’ve noticed this, as well—there’s a lot more pushback lately:
It was the middle of “Pride Month,” also known as June, at Edison High School in Huntington Beach, California, when a math teacher decided to play a video celebrating the extended observance. What happened next, which was caught on camera, might seem surprising.
The classroom instantly erupts in boos and groans. One student makes a vomiting sound. “Why are you showing this to kids?” another shouts. The jeers continue until the teacher interjects: “Hey, I’ll warn you guys now, if you’re going to be inappropriate, I will have supervision down and give all of you Saturday school for [indiscernible]. So knock it off.”
What happened at Edison High School only seems surprising if you haven’t been paying careful attention. June saw the acceleration of a reaction against Pride’s political program that has been stirring across the country for some time now.
Remember those stories about pornographic Planned Parenthood sex-education materials ending up in schools in Manitoba and British Columbia that educators promptly called a “mistake”? Well, those materials were funded by you, the taxpayer: “Taxpayer funded pornography.”
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I’ve been writing columns (and an entire chapter in my 2016 book The Culture War) on how pornography effects everything in our culture. Michael Warren Davis tackles that question from another angle in his recent article “How Porn Explains Everything.” An excerpt:
Last week, my friend Rod Dreher shared a link to NBC’s report on the recent New York City Drag March. As most of you probably know, the marchers flounced around the Big Apple chanting, “We’re here,/ We’re queer,/ We’re coming for your children.” This caused a largeish stink—and rightly so.
Yet I was struck by another detail: a sign being carried by one marcher. It said: “Trans, Your greatest fear, your biggest fantasy.”
According to a PornHub press release, “transgender” is now the site’s third-most popular category. And, according to the National Institute for Health, over 90 percent of men view porn at least once a month. Which means that, statistically, the huge majority of Republican men are watching “transgender” porn.
Basically, that marcher’s sign is spot-on.
Now, folks are asking why there hasn’t been more of a backlash against Drag Queen Story Hours, sex-reassignment surgery for minors, LGBT indoctrination in schools, etc. And why is it almost exclusively moms who are protesting at school board meetings? Well, here’s your answer. Their husbands are watching tranny porn. They’re either basically pro-trans, or else they’re too embarrassed/ashamed to stand up to the LGBT lobby.
