Greetings and salutations. Welcome back to Life and Books and Everything. This is Kevin DeYoung.

Today I want to read the latest piece that I wrote for World Opinions.

As always, be sure to check out all the good editorials, short articles there at World Opinions.

This one entitled The Indelible Conscience and a Month of Quote-unquote Pride,

the LGBTQ quest to turn a moral argument into an emotive appeal for

affirmation and acceptance.

In case you haven't heard, June 1 no longer marks the end of the school year or the

unofficial beginning of summer.

It's the start of Pride Month.

Initially conceived in 1970 to commemorate the first

anniversary of the Stonewall riots, Pride Month has become a government-promoted, corporate-sponsored

30-day celebration of LGBTQ acceptance and achievements. When rioters threw bricks and tried to burn

down the Stonewall Inn in New York City's

Greenwich Village, with police officers barricaded inside, even the most optimistic gay liberation

proponent could not have dreamed that an illegally operated mafia-owned gay bar would eventually

join the Statue of Liberty and the Grand Canyon on the select list of protected national monuments.

Pride Month is at once a brilliant marketing strategy and a striking reminder that the conscience is a terrible thing to waste.

By linking gay liberation to pride, LGBTQ advocates, 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 culture-wide 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 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

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