It's Tuesday, June 17, 2025.

I'm Albert Mueller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

As you know, June is often declared to be Pride Month, meaning LGBTQ plus Pride Month in the United States. But to understand how this major

development came about, which was actually a repudiation, a millennia of human moral wisdom,

we need to go back to the year 1969, and an arrest that took place, a raid by the police,

on a gay bar, notice the Stonewall Inn, there in New York City.

Famously or infamously, those who were in the bar fought back.

We're going to look closer at that event in just a moment.

But the important fact is that that particular hallmark event is considered to be the origins

of the organized LGBTQ plus movement in the United

States. But it does raise a host of questions. For one thing, why Pride Month? The specific answer

of that question goes back to President Bill Clinton, who near the end of his two terms in office,

declared that June would be Pride Month in the United

States. Now, Bill Clinton was himself an interesting transitional figure. Bill Clinton was elected

with the promise that he was going to normalize homosexual troops in the U.S. military. Turns out he

couldn't pull that off. And so he backed off of that particular pledge.

But nonetheless, when it came to the entire array of LGBTQ plus issues, Bill Clinton and his

wife Hillary Clinton were pretty much on the front lines. Now, as we will see, there's some

debate about whether or not pride has lost a bit of its traction in the year 2025. The fast answer

is probably not. But it is really important that Christians, thinking in worldview terms,

ask ourselves the question of how this moral change could have taken place and how it could

have advanced so quickly. Because when you look at the normalization of homosexuality and other aberrant lifestyles and

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