Pride’s Predatory Origin
Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18
After a long winter and unusually snowy spring, summer is finally upon us. The month of June brings brilliant green lawns, bright blue skies….and rainbows. Lots and lots of rainbows. It seems Pride Month is well on its way to rivaling the month of December by its commercialization of a nationally-recognized religious observance. Stores prominently display their Pride merchandise to customers, corporations make public statements of support, and local calendars of events are filled with activities to celebrate and promote all things LGBTQ. It wasn’t always this way. What changed? Why is our culture so obsessed with sex and gender and pronouns? Why is there a dramatic increase in the number of young people identifying as transgender or non-binary? The reasons are many, but there are two men - Alfred Kinsey and John Money - who deserve much credit for our current fixation on gender. In fact, maybe they should be featured on a t-shirt or two during the month of June. These two men were certainly influential to the LGBTQ movement and incidentally, they had a lot in common. Both of them were deeply disturbed, predatory men who sexually abused children for their fundamentally flawed research, and yet both are revered for intellectually paving the way for the rejection of Judeo-Christian sexual ethics and mores.
The idea of “gender fluidity” was first promulgated by Alfred Kinsey in 1948. Kinsey, an Indiana University zoologist, whose books, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), were heralded as the first scientific studies of human sexuality. Despite significant methodological and statistical inaccuracy based upon the reliance of an atypical population and the sexual abuse of children, Kinsey’s work became the foundation for overhauling American law, public opinion, education, and medicine.
John Money was a psychologist/sexologist who was the first to suggest that human beings have both a sex and a gender and that they are not necessarily intertwined. Rather than accept the obvious - that the human sex binary reflects a wide range of masculine and feminine characteristics - Money asserted that these traits are simply social constructs that are inexplicably malleable and determinative at the same time. He got his chance to prove his theory when a baby boy named Bruce Reimer had his penis severely damaged during a circumcision gone wrong. Money convinced Bruce’s parents to pursue sexual reassignment surgeries and raise Bruce as a girl. Over the next several years, Bruce (Brenda) and his twin brother were subjected to horrific psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of John Money. Each twin eventually suffered tragic deaths: one by drug overdose and the other by suicide.
The pseudoscientific theories and degenerate proclivities of Alfred Kinsey and John Money provide the foundation of Western culture’s views on sex and gender. Behind the gender movement’s facade of kindness, inclusion, and diversity lies the sexual, medical, and psychological experimentation of vulnerable populations, particularly children. As we are inundated with Pride Month propaganda, let’s be clear: every t-shirt, every sign, every tv show, every corporate genuflection is part of a consistent, enduring effort to win the hearts and minds of the public - particularly the younger generations - to accept a worldview that is inextricably intertwined with the sexual abuse of children. It’s not an accident or a coincidence that the abuse and experimentation of young people continue to this day with “gender-affirming care”, Gender Support Plans in schools, Drag Queen Story Hours, and “Family-Friendly” Drag Shows.
Of course, Kinsey and Money were not the first to reject Biblical truths, sexual or otherwise. The fruit of their work is deeply rooted in the very first expression of pride recorded in Scripture. Satan was the first to declare that he knew better than God. That he deserved to be worshipped and followed. And later, in the Garden of Eden, pride bloomed in Eve as Satan encouraged her to believe she could be as wise as God. Ever since that moment, every single worldview that rejects God’s authority and that elevates subjective human opinion over the objective truth of God’s Word follows in the prideful and doomed footsteps that lead to intellectual, moral, and spiritual demise.
As with any clever deception, there is an element of truth in the Pride message: We should treat each other with respect and kindness. However, we must become immune to having our values used against us. We must be able to call out propaganda when we see it and think critically about the origin and intention behind it. Let’s foster a curiosity about where different worldviews originate and encourage critical thinking skills in our family and friends and most importantly, our children. If morality does not come from a deity, from an all-powerful Creator God whose knowledge and wisdom are beyond human capacity, then what informs our sense of right and wrong? Without a standard outside of ourselves, truth and morality become subjective and vary from person to person. Who becomes the ultimate authority on virtue, on justice, on decency? The government? Public consensus? Philosophers? Deeply disturbed sexologists? For the Christian, the Bible is the ultimate and absolute source of truth that provides the blueprint for true liberation and joy and informs human beings of their history, their identity, and their purpose in life. We can thank the Judeo/Christian worldview for introducing the world to the concepts of inherent rights and human dignity, yet Christians are told time and time again to not impose their religion on other people. The reality is that everyone has a religion that informs their opinions on policy and culture, including the atheist. Removing God out of the equation simply paves the way for a God-substitute. Most of the time that substitute is ourselves. Pride.
We know why Christianity is being singled out and removed from the marketplace of ideas and from our culture. Jesus told us that the world would hate us because it hated him first. He also told us that he would never leave us or forsake us and pointed out that if he is for us, who can be against us? So let us not be afraid to speak truth into a culture that so desperately needs it. Our aim is not to be proven right, but to let the truth shine brightly and watch as it sets people free.
Now THAT is truly something worth celebrating.
- Amber Vibeto
