Today is Friday, March the 10th, 2023.

Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast.

I'm Chris Elkins narrating today's article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.

You are undoubtedly familiar with Pride Month, described in Wikipedia as a month typically in June dedicated to

celebration and commemoration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, LGBT, Pride.

Now, school officials in Austin, Texas are preparing for Pride Week to be held later this month.

Quote unquote, pronoun buttons, rainbow flags, LGBTQ stickers,

and other items will be distributed to students and staff. The event is time to coincide with

National LGBTQ Health Awareness Week. I was unaware of either week, so I wondered what other

LGBTQ pride events are held these days.

It turns out the International LGBTQ Travel Association, the IGLTA, website lists more than 150 different such events.

Why so many? IGLTA explains.

The LGBTQ rights movement has made tremendous strides over the past few decades, and much

of the progress in visibility is thanks in part to gay pride parades and marches that

have taken place in cities around the world.

Pride events began with the Stonewall

riots in 1969. Since that time, there has been a concerted, focused effort for more than 50 years

to normalize LGBTQ behavior. But this strategy exposes its inherent weakness. Something that

must continually be normalized is, by definition, not normal.

Otherwise, it would not need to be continually normalized.

For example, no one seeks to normalize sexual relations within heterosexual marriages.

This is because such relations are already normal and express God's design

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