The rainbow flag has become ubiquitous in public life—and more prominently so during the month of June, so-called “Pride Month.” As I have argued, Pride’s vision of love, that “love is love,” is a deeply flawed rejection of the Christian humility and its teaching that God is love. While many of Pride’s celebrants don’t necessarily subjectively intend it, Pride’s use of the rainbow as a symbol of its vision of love is therefore nothing less than attempted robbery, perversion, and mockery of God’s bow.
It is long past due for the true meaning of the rainbow to be recovered. The beginnings of such a recovery can only be limned here—but there are some hints of recovery apparent in popular culture. Still, the proper starting point for sound principles by which the wheat can be sifted from the chaff is Sacred Scripture.
Read Full Article »