It’s June, so we’re receiving relentless messaging about the importance of “pride” for the LGBTQ community. One prominent vehicle was the cover of the “Pride Issue” of People magazine dated June 20, featuring, “Robin Roberts In Her Own Words: Love, Faith, & Breaking Barriers.”
Underline the “faith” part. The “Good Morning America” co-host insisted she was slow to come out of the closet because “I was afraid people couldn’t understand I could be Christian and gay.” This was also placed in big, black capital letters as a pull quote.
There will be no rebuttal in People or ABC or anywhere about any conflict between homosexuality and Christianity. Only one viewpoint is acceptable. Is this compatible with journalism? No one asks.
The People magazine cover was celebrated on “GMA” on June 8 with a seven-minute outpouring of love for Roberts under the segment title “Out Loud!” Roberts gushed, “I am honored. I am blessed. I am grateful because this issue is about being true to who you are and the fact that no one walks their path alone. People magazine is highlighting the role allies have in the LGBTQ+ community. For me, my cup runneth over.”
People highlighted the “allyship” of ABC reporter Deborah Roberts (no relation), who underlined “how critical it is not only to be tolerant but to be supportive as well.”
These are crucial words. You cannot simply live and let live. You must advocate an ideology.
On June 9, ABC News aired an hourlong primetime special titled “PRIDE: To Be Seen — A Soul of a Nation Presentation.” Robin Roberts did a story promoting Pastor Michael Walrond of the First Corinthian Baptist Church, who exemplifies the Bible-rejecting creed of LGBTQ “pride.”
Walrond preached: “Today is the Pride parade, and we honor Pride this month on this Pride Sunday. We thank God. We honor God, who honors all of humanity.” He told Roberts, “What is tragic is that we have to ask churches now whether they are affirming or not.” Affirmation is mandatory.
Roberts cajoled: “There’s so many that will go, ‘Pastor Mike, the Bible. But the Bible says it’s wrong.’ How do you respond when people say that?”
Walrond had his leftist answer ready. “Well, you know, many people have used Christianity as a conduit for their hate, right? It has been used to justify oppression in all of its forms,” he said. “But you have a hard time co-opting the teachings of Jesus that are deeply rooted in love. So, for me, to be a follower of those teachings, to be a follower of the Carpenter, means that I take love seriously and I let love be made manifest in how I show up in this world.”
If you think Walrond is co-opting Christianity and ignoring the Scriptures, you don’t count.
No one at ABC or People magazine is going to question whether all this “pride” results in a mangling of the truth. No one mentions Roberts lobbing softballs at Jussie Smollett, who uncorked a hate-crime hoax in the streets of Chicago. The spirit of “pride” and “allyship” crushes any shred of skepticism.
ABC also devoted six minutes in their “PRIDE: To Be Seen” special celebrating President Joe Biden’s lesbian press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. The interviewer was gay ABC reporter Gio Benitez. Jean-Pierre also drew an atta-girl interview from Roberts a few weeks ago. “Allyship” leads naturally to promoting Biden and the Democrats.
The irony of all this is that the LGBTQ crowd loves being “seen,” and their dream is obviously to make any opposition “unseen.” Journalists think they’re synonymous with “democracy” and yet silence debate.
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
It makes it difficult to keep the facts and the story “straight”.
So much for just wanting to be ‘tolerated’
Not satisfied with hijacking the beautiful visible light spectrum, gays have now appropriated the word “pride”. Hey, I’m straight and I like girls, but I don’t feel obligated to shout it in the streets.
“There will be no rebuttal in People or ABC or anywhere among Democrats about any conflict between homosexuality and Christianity.
Only one viewpoint is acceptable.”
The Word of God!
Lev 20:13
13 “‘If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
Rom 1:24-27
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator-who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
Jude 1:7
Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.
The LGBTQ Con is just to want “equality, acceptance and tolerance.”
These LGBTQ’s are the open practitioners of the infamous crime against GOD and nature,
Who sold their souls to the malicious, venomous bullies of Organized LGBTQ mafia.
These Sodomites, will not tolerate and will attack and attempt to destroy anyone and anything not accepting and promoting their degenerate, sexually perverted lifestyle.
WE all said they would NEVER EVER be satisfied with just “Acceptance”.