Although it’s Pride month, June hasn’t seen much LGBT hoopla here in Texas. The Washington Stand reports that throughout the country, such celebrating “has been dialed back to a stunning degree.” The news publication’s Suzanne Bowdey writes that, ”In Tennessee, Arkansas, Indiana, and Oklahoma, leaders are replacing Pride Month with declarations of “Nuclear Family Month.”

Pride celebrations are part of what theologian Carl Trueman describes as “the liturgical calendar of this present age.” Gay Pride is destructive because it elevates LGBT desires over the needs of children.

Eleven years ago, during Pride month, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges extending same sex marriage to every state. In the five years following the decision, public support for gay marriage rose from 60 to 70 percent. Then it plateaued. Democrats still back gay marriage at 87 percent. But Gallup polling shows that, among Republicans, approval of same sex marriage stands at 37 percent — down from 55 percent four years ago.

The opinion in Obergefell, written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, emphasized the good of marriage to a society, describing it as a “keystone of our social order” and “essential to our most profound hopes and aspirations.” Advocates argued that allowing same sex marriage would strengthen marriage 

But the hoped-for revival of marriage has not materialized. The pre-Obergefell decline in marriage continues.  

In redefining marriage to meet the “needs” of homosexuals, society seemed to ignore that children really need to be in homes with their biological moms and dads.

More Americans are connecting those dots. But, wokeness persists, especially in blue states.

In New York state legislators are considering new child custody and parental laws in which term “mother” is replaced with “gestating parent” and “father” with “non-gestating parent.”

Suzanne Bowdey points out that, in at least 11 states, legislators have introduced bills to roll back same sex marriage.

Marriage was God’s creation for human flourishing. To redefine it is prideful.