Pride and the Meaning of Love

The following was posted June 10, 2025 on “American Thinker” and I thought it would be beneficial for my followers to read and be able to use with any “Pride” event.

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Pride and the meaning of love

By John O. Long

One of the major spokes in our current culture’s rationale for the acceptance of the gay lifestyle is the pithy statement that “Love is love.” On the surface, who can argue with that? It’s as obvious as the statement “It is what it is.” From a logic standpoint, it’s the same entity on both sides of an equals sign. However, the Love Rationale (“Love is love”) means that, if someone loves another, then that’s love, and that’s all there is to it. You can’t help who you love. So, it must be okay. 

That’s where they are wrong. My primary objection is that the “love” spoken of in the Love Rationale is not really love. The behavior typically displayed by the LGBT community during Pride Month is not about love. It’s just lust and sex. 

We Christians know what love is because it’s spelled out for us in the Scriptures. The primary definition of love, repeated often in both Christian and non-Christian weddings, comes from 1 Corinthians 13:  

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.  

Let’s unpack this a bit and compare it with what we see in Pride Month.   

Love is patient and kind. Pride participants knowingly flaunt their lewd behavior in the open, knowing there are many in the local community who object to that behavior. They’re not really trying to be kind. Instead, the LGBT community is driven by the desire to be in everyone’s faces.  

[Love] does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. Pride and exhibitionism are the primary way the LGBT community wants to engage with others during the month of June. It’s not gratefulness. It’s not modesty. It’s pride in the many ways they engage in sex, no matter how much debauchery is involved.  

It does not dishonor others. The so-called Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence have become the face of the LGBT community in San Francisco. This is far from honoring the sacrificial nuns of the Catholic Church.  

 

It is not self-seeking. Many aspects of LGBT indulgence involve degrading others and even putting others in risk of their health. Sado-masochism is on full display. Men treating other men as their sex slaves. It is also well-known that the gay lifestyle results in health dangers many times that of the heterosexual lifestyle. And many who have contracted HIV/AIDS knowingly engage in unprotected sex with their partners.  

It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. The LGBT community is terribly angry. A recent example is the LGBT/Antifa attack on a Christian worship service in Seattle.   

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. The whole transgender initiative has been anything but the promotion of truth. We were lied to about the frequency of trans suicides, the rigor of the science and treatment about transitioning services, and the rate of trans regret. Recent scientific studies have made it noticeably clear that transing fails in so many ways, yet the LGBT community continues to promote it. And when you cannot define the meaning of “man” and “woman,” you know you are dealing with pure obfuscation. 

I have to note that Christians are not exemplars of the love spoken of in 1 Corinthians. Because we are fallen humans, just like everyone else, we will often fail to live up to those standards. Nevertheless, we know the kind of love we should aspire to, and it’s quite different from the “love” found in the LGBT community.  

Christian love is something noble and something on which to build families and productive communities, but the type of “love” shown during Pride Month is not.

Jesus Was NOT a “Palestinian”

The following was posted on Facebook and was shared with me. With the current cultural situation, I thought this would be excellent to share with my readers.

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M.A. Rothman

Facebook 7/6/25 

There’s a lot of stupid people out there—we all know that—and while it’s damn near impossible to debunk everything, one thing I keep seeing pop up lately is this ridiculous claim that 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧.

People saying, “Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Palestine. It was Palestine then, and it’s still Palestine now.”

Not sure where these folks are getting that nonsense from—𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘵’𝘴 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯.

It was 𝐍𝐎𝐓 called Palestine at the time of Jesus’ birth. He was born in Roman-occupied 𝐉𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐚. The name “Palestine” didn’t even exist during his lifetime.

That’s what you call 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠—slapping a modern term or identity onto a historical figure who lived long before that identity was even a thing.

The term “Palestine” didn’t come around until the 1900s. The province of Syria-Palestina didn’t show up until 135 AD, after the Bar Kokhba revolt—𝐚 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬. And the Arab national identity of “Palestinian”? That didn’t take shape until the 20th century, especially around 1948—and really took hold in 1964 with Yasser Arafat, who was known as the father of the Palestinian movement.

The irony with that is that Yasser Arafat was Egyptian. Anyway, I digress.

So why are we calling Jesus Palestinian when that 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟐,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬?

It’s pure historical distortion. But hey, pro-Palestinians love rewriting history when it fits their narrative.

And don’t worry, we’ve also got the brainiacs chiming in like, “Being Palestinian doesn’t mean you follow a specific religion!”

𝐖𝐨𝐰, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐄𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐢𝐧. No one thought “Palestinian” was a religion. We get it—it’s a national identity. The point is: 𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬’ 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞, so trying to slap it onto him now is just lazy revisionism.

It’s like calling people in California “Mexican” today because the land used to be part of Mexico. That’s not how this works. We call people what they are based on the time and place they were born.

Jesus was born in 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐡𝐞𝐦, in Roman-occupied 𝐉𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐚—not Palestine.

If you and I die tomorrow, and 2,000 years later someone invents a new nation, they can’t retroactively claim us as part of it. That’s not how time or facts work.

So if you’re dead set on giving Jesus a national identity, here it is: 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐉𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐧.

Why people feel the need to muddy this up with nonsense is beyond me. But I guess when your narrative is paper-thin, rewriting history starts to sound like a good idea.

𝐈 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐮𝐩.

Humanism Is a Cultic Religion

As president of the American Humanist Association, [Isaac] Asimov defined humanism as a non-theistic religion. Not a philosophy, a credo, or a pleasant aphorism, but a religion. This is the religion of evolution that trades under the pseudonym of the science of evolution. Asimov had a right to worship the altar of his choice, just as do evolutionists today; but we must be aware that, when religion masquerades as science, both suffer.

Duane Arthur Schmidt, “And God Created Darwin: The Death of Darwinian Evolution, pg.53

No God If Evolution Is True

Whether it is a committed belief or an uninformed consent, the atheist/secularist viewpoint starts with teaching the theory of evolution as fact. Why? Because, if evolution is true, God cannot be. … If all life accidentally sprang from a soup of chemicals, then evolved into a billion species, what room is left for God? 

Duane Arthur Schmidt, “And God Created Darwin: The Death of Darwinian Evolution,” pg.ix

Good, Bad and Ugly

Dan McClellan's Take on Jesus & Homosexuality EXPOSED by Rob Gagnon: Why It's Historically Laughable. 35 minute video which gives facts about the scripture denouncing homosexuality. Mr. Gagnon gives you excellent facts to use with those who say Jesus never said anything about homosexuality.

Some good teaching about how to approach a discussion about homosexuality.

Excellent overview of Roman Catholicism.

CHRIST is the Head of the Church.

Do Catholics Worship Mary? An excellent examination of the Catholic Mary. The video is just over an hour but well worth watching

Bad

Israel’s Greatest Weakness Is That It Won’t Challenge Arab-Style Historiography. Interesting research into the true history of Israel vs what Muslims claim.

Why did Protestant Churches lower their flags to half staff when the Pope died!?!? I didn’t lower MY flag!  The video also examines some Papist teachings.

Why in the world are Christians selling Church buildings to Muslims for mosques?!?! Just enriching the devil.

Does Christian musician Brandon Lake not understand the point of worship? Apparently not.

UGLY

(In Their Own Words!) The Man-Centered False Teaching of Bethel Royalty

4 Evangelical Leaders Who Accepted Mormonism & Why It Matters (Domino Effect). Even has Dallas Jenkins (of The Chosen) stating that the LDS is a true Christian faith.

Joseph Prince: I’ve linked to articles about him only twice and I just discovered that one of them is no longer available. However, here is a decent article exposing this heretic for who he really is.

Another example of how far the ELCA has left the true Christian faith.

Delman Coates—a false teacher whom I’ve never before heard of! He says sexual immorality is just fine and not a sin!  AND, information from another source.

John Bevere Is a Narcissist and This Video Proves It!  21 minutes of his blaspheming, claiming God talks to him all of the time. He says he wrote a book in which God is the real author because GOD told him what to write.

Always remember that discernment is the ability to hear the hiss of the serpent!

College Often Destroys the Faith

There’s been such a focus in American churches on entertaining young people so they’ll want to come to church and very little emphasis on doctrine, theology, apologetics, and the gospel. So many young people grow up with a shallow faith, no answers to the skeptical questions of our day, and a worldview foundation that says man determines truth (the same foundation our culture has).

Ken Ham, Why Do 70% of Young People Leave the Church in College?

Be Still My Soul!

Be still, my soul! the Lord is on your side;

Bear patiently the cross of grief or pain;

Leave to your God to order and provide;

In ev'ry change he faithful will remain.

Be still, my soul! your best, your heav’nly friend

Thru' thorny ways leads to a joyful end.

Be still, my soul! your God does undertake

To guide the future as he has the past;

Your hope, your confidence, let nothing shake;

all now mysterious shall be bright at last.

Be still, my soul! the waves and winds still know

His voice who ruled them while he lived below.

Be still, my soul! when dearest friends depart

And all is darkened in the vale of tears,

Then shall you better know his love, his heart,

Who comes to soothe your sorrow and your fears.

Be still, my soul! your Jesus can repay

From his own fullness all he takes away.

 Be still, my soul! the hour is hast'ning on

When we shall be forever with the Lord,

When disappointment, grief, and fear are gone,

Sorrow forgot, love's purest joys restored.

Be still my soul! when change and tears are past,

All safe and blessed we shall meet at last.

Lyrics by Kathrina von Schlegel (1752), translated from the German by Jane Borthwick (1855).

Sung to the tune, Finlandia