Reclaiming June

Pushing Pride Aside In Favor of Families

The news came as a welcome relief. All of it.

1/ After canceling its Pride Month events, the Kennedy Center announced that its showing of King of Kings has sold out. Gone from the stage are a week’s worth of LGBTQ+ events, leading up to a World Pride Festival in Washington, D.C. In its place: a father relaying to his son the story of Jesus Christ. His miracles, His trials, His sacrifice. A story of faith and redemption told through the eyes of a child.

As President Trump said when he replaced the KenCen board, “Just last year, the Kennedy Center featured Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth — THIS WILL STOP.” Trump named Ric Grennell to head the institution. And Grenell said he lobbied Angels Studio to allow a free screening of its film. “This is family-friendly programming that we will be doing more of in the future,” he said in a press release.

2/ Across the Potomac at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that officials will re-name the US Navy Ship Harvey Milk blessed by President Obama. Milk, who served in the Navy, became one of the nation’s first openly gay officials when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. He and Mayor George Moscone were later assassinated by a disgruntled city supervisor.

After his death, the LGBTQ+ community used his biography, and his martyrdom, to promote transgenderism. Also after his death, close friend Randy Shilts documented that Milk had several predatory relationships with underage boys, including one who committed suicide afterwards. Hegseth said several other ship names are now under review, all in an effort to restore the military’s “warrior ethos.”

3/ Finally, on Capitol Hill, a coalition of GOP lawmakers led by Mary Miller of Illinois introduced a resolution to designate June as “Family Month,” replacing the federally endorsed “Pride Month” that has filled our streets, libraries and classrooms with what I would describe as sexual depravity. Miller was more polite.

“The American family is under relentless attack from a radical leftist agenda that seeks to erase truth, re-define marriage and confuse our chidren,” she said. In its resolution, the lawmakers also warned that the decline of marriage and family “has corresponded to a rise in crime, drug abuse and other social ills.”

And at the Education Department, Secretary Linda McMahon suggested celebrating June as the month of Title X, enacted in June 1972, to empower women in sports.

None of this suggests the transgender movement is dead. Intrusion of gender ideology into our culture is far too embedded in academic and leftist circles to erase quickly.

Several cities in Florida, including my own of Delray Beach, are holding Pride Parades not just on any day but on June 14, which happens to be not only Flag Day but President Trump’s birthday. I doubt any of the paraders will carry the American flag with pride, though they may well disrespect it.

In Miami-Dade high school schools, teenagers were asked to fill out a survey with such questions as “Is it possible that being straight is just a phase you may grow out of?” and “Why do you insist in showing off your heterosexuality?” “Have you considered changing?” Furious parents protested. “It’s perversion,” one mother told the Daily Wire. “why are you talking about their sexuality to 15-year-old boys or girls?”

A group called Gays Against Groomers has long hinted at separating the LGB — lesbians, gays and bisexuals — from the T, transdenger men posing as women. “The LGB and T community is being used as a shield to normalize pedophilia. We are saying NO. We refuse to be used to advance this evil woke agenda.”

But in fact the focus on transgenderism — painting pride flags on city streets, wall-to-wall media coverage of pride parades, lighting up the Biden White House in the rainbow colors appropriated by the transgender movement — may have actually turned public opinion against not only transgenders but gays as well.

A Gallup poll published on May 29 reveals that Republican support for same-sex marriage has hit a historic 30-year low. In the years after the 2015 Supreme Court decision in Obergefell that same-sex marriages are constitutional, 55% of Republicans polled supported gay marriage. Now, support has fallen to 41% among Republicans and remains at 88% among Dems. Asked about moral acceptability, 86% of Dems versus 38% of Republicans view same-sex relations as morally acceptable.

As baptisms increase, especially among the young, a newly invigorated church under Pope Leo XIV offers moral clarity, On June 1, at the start of Pride Month, Pope Leo reminded all married couples that “marriage is not an ideal but the measure of true love between a man and a woman: a love that is total, faithful and fruitful.” He urged parents to be examples of integrity to their children, and children to “say thank you each day for the gift of life…the first way to honor your father and your mother.”

Can’t wait to see what plays next at the Kennedy Center.