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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

It's Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019, and cities across America are getting ready for this week's July 4th celebrations.

Near my neighborhood, the Dallas suburb of Addison, with 19,000 residents, is expecting 500,000 people for its fireworks show.

Cities from New York to Los Angeles are preparing for

spectacular parades. None are likely to resemble the parades with which June's Pride Month ended.

A Washington Post headline calls last Sunday's pride parade in New York City, one of the largest

in the movement's history. Wikipedia lists 36 such parades across the country.

Of course, LGBTQ activists do not limit their campaign to one month. A self-described young

transgender woman writes in CNN that, if in June, cities, institutions, and individuals can devote

attention and resources to LGBT people.

Maybe one day, they can do so all year round.

The biblical prohibition of homosexual activity has been clearly understood by the Judeo-Christian tradition

for more than 35 centuries.

This moral position was the norm in American culture until recent years.

For example, Pew Research Center reports that in 2004, 60% of Americans opposed same-sex marriage.

In 2019, 61% support it.

What explains the moral trajectory of our day?

In the book Pagans and Christians in the city,

Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac,

Law Professor Stephen D. Smith writes that an ancient form of paganism is becoming orthodox today.

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