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.

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!

Agglomeration Time!

Review: The Netflix Mary Movie Is Catholic Cringe. I don’t get Netflix, but I wouldn’t watch this movie if I did because I KNOW it wouldn’t be accurate and would take liberties with the truth. Don’t waste your time with it.  Here’s another review on Youtube; “Mary’s” hairdo is ridiculous.

Pope Francis continues to prove how apostate he is.  Look how the Vatican is featuring the baby Jesus!!!

Meanwhile, “Catholics” use Mary to promote abortion.

Research: Christian Cults.

Are There Any Modern Apostles? Short answer, NO!

CNN Repeats Andy Stanley’s Conference Falsehoods.

Cru, formerly known as Crusade for Christ, are really more and more becoming apostate.

Heidi Baker, Billy Burke, Mike Bickle, et al-FALSE TEACHERS.

The Strategies and Tactics of False Teachers. Learn them and pay attention.

What you should know about Voodoo and the Haitian invasion our government has accommodated to my home town and other small Ohio towns.  Part 1, Part 2. 

Todd White and his supporters—such as Michael Brown.

Knock, Knock! Are You Prepared to Answer? A history of the Mormon Church.

An Agglomeration

Excellent commentary by Marsha West regarding “beloved Christian VIPs” who can lead you down “the primrose path” to a life of sin.

Do you care about doctrine?

Jory Micah is bad news.

Is God Immoral for Killing the Canaanites?

Pride: Celebrating Sin.

The Dangers of False Bible Attribution

Is Satan more afraid of Mary than God?!?

Isn’t The Biblical Account “Good” Enough? Another example of where “The Chosen” deviates from Scripture.

Oh, the blasphemy and twisting of Scripture in The Chosen.  And what about the set celebrating “Pride” month?

David Platt—a teacher to avoid.

Michael Brown’s False Standard for False Prophets.  Many are included among these false prophets.

False teacher/false healer Daniel Adams.

Why Todd White is the Most Dangerous Kind of False Teacher

Presbyterian Church USA is NOT a Christian denomination—it supports and promotes every sexual perversion.

Bethel Church service: Demonic, heretical and fraudulent. What was it that Paul said about men with long hair?  Then there is this abject heresy of Jesus asking for forgiveness from a “pastor”!!!

Necromancy in the Church: Promise Keepers and Steve Berger. God does not send the dead to speak to us.

Some problems for those who are of the KJV Only cult.

Some Things to Think About

(Always click photos on this blog to enlarge them.)

Do Not Denigrate the Original Languages of the Bible.  One of the problems with the KJV Only cult. 

If you haven’t heard the speech by Harrison Butker, watch this video, then read what The Christian Post feminist commentator wrote. I agree with Butker, not what is supposed to be a Christian publication.

A Defining Moment: The REAL definition of marriage.

The Pastor Who Lied To 22 Million People? Daniel Kolenda.

Charismatic False Prophets Face Plant…Again.

Love Doesn’t Trump God’s Moral Commands.

Six reasons why you should avoid Beth Moore.  And she “Denounces Southern Baptists as “Masters of Diversion” For Dealing With Women Preachers

Reasons to avoid Lori Alexander.

Five reasons to avoid Jackie Hill Perry.

Reasons why Joyce Meyer is a false teacher.

The Episcopal Church’s dive to apostasy continues deeper and quicker.

Bill Johnson and Bethel Church lies exposed.

A NEW Level of DECEPTION is here.  While he gives some excellent information as to false teachers to avoid, I find Jordan to be rather juvenile with his ball cap on backwards; very distracting as he is saying, “look at me!”

Conference holders are often non-discerning when it comes to what speakers they invite, and inviting Glenn Beck is an example.

Still think The Chosen has no Mormon connection?

Church of England Apostasy

The following article was in the November 2023 issue of Decision magazine:

According to a survey by The Times, many Church of England clergy no longer hold a Biblical view of sexuality.

More than half (53.4%) of the clergy agreed that priests should be permitted to conduct same-sex weddings. Slightly less than half (49%) said they’d be willing to officiate the ceremony of same-sex couples.

Out of the 1,185 active Anglican priests who responded to the survey, 62.6% believed the church should not oppose premarital sex. Slightly more than 1 in 3 (34.6%) thought the Church of England’s Biblical teaching on pre-marital sex should stay the same.

As for homosexuality, over half (64.5%) of the clergy said the Church should alter its teaching that homosexuality is “incompatible” with Scripture. Most priests (63.3%) also wanted to end the ban on gay priests, enabling them to have civil weddings.

“The Christian Gospel has always offered a radically distinct, challenging, and life-giving vision to society,” said Christian Concern CEO Andrea Williams. “Simply aping the current values of culture around us is the road to extinction for the Church of England.”

Around 6% of England’s total active clergy participated in the survey.

Why is it that sexual anarchy is so important that the Church wants to turn its back on God?

Of course the Anglican Church has dealt with this issue for at least a couple decades and I’ve many times linked to articles of how apostate they have become. When any Christian feels the need to have society’s approval regarding sexual morality, they’ve proven they don’t truly understand the faith.