Moses told Pharoah, “let my people go!” His demand, prior to the Exodus itself, was simple: let the children of Israel worship (and, by extension, serve and live for) their God in peace. This demand did not necessitate losing the Hebrews as a work force or expelling them from Egypt.
In the realpolitik and reality of power of ancient Egypt, the children of Israel were slaves under the bondage of what was then one of the great superpowers of its day. Not only were the children of Israel exploited for their labor, but not even their basic religious sentiments and values were respected.
In the realpolitik and reality of power in America nothing looms larger as a cudgel aimed in hateful violence toward the heart of historic Christian moral and religious orthodoxy than the rainbow authoritarianism that demands silence of opponents and even willful participation as a sign of wokeness. Fascism has a new banner, a rainbow banner that must be worshipped on pain of banishment!
(Special note: we separate the rainbow fascists from the actual LGBTQ community who are, overwhelmingly, tolerant and decent people. Of course, the rainbow fascists will equate push-back against their blatant totalitarian intolerance to hatred of LGBTQ individuals, which is a patently absurd libel.)
Hatred against the faithful for their adherence to historic Christian orthodoxy out of a sincere desire to worship, serve, and live for their God in peace is pretty much the heart of the rainbow authoritarian agenda. The aim has never been to elevate some downtrodden class, it has always been to downgrade others and force the majority view into the closet.
We will always say, come what may, “an advanced culture is based on a man and women married for life raising their own biological or adopted children within the maternal enclosure of a nurturing extended family and larger community of trust. ” The gender-bent rainbow authoritarian culture (which is NOT representative of the LGBTQ individual) is a dystopian, savage, and barbaric throwback to primitivism and debauchery, in the eyes of advanced culture.
It remains true, that though we accept, not just tolerate, all people as spiritually sovereign individuals made in the image of their Creator, and though we ourselves would never countenance censoring or inerfering with the basic right of freewill participation by others, based on whatever their sociocultural values are, it will never be enough.
The rainbow authoritarians hate the faithful and yet do not love the people and communities they claim to represent. In fact many of the people in whose name these totalitarians act are among the first to disavow such anti-freedom bigotry. Rainbow fascism, as it is emerging, is more about hatred for those who adhere to historic Judeo-Christian orthodoxy than anything else.
People who are secure in their convictions and whose rights are respected have no need to impose on or punish anyone for merely disagreeing and for choosing their own way of life through their acts of individual conviction and freewill participation.
The punishment of speech that the rainbow fascists don’t like, because it is based on embracing advanced culture rather than what we may see as primitive self-indulgence (knowing of course not everyone agrees), is intolerance itself which we cannot abide and will never submit to.
It doesn’t matter that we have a live and let live attitude or that we don’t feel our concept and practice of what we see as advanced culture needs the coercive power of thr state to force compliance. It does not matter if we genuinely respect others who beliefs, values, and convictions differ. Unless we both applaud the rainbow culture and even participate happily, we are bigots and targets for cancelation.
The average person who may identify with some form of LGBTQ or etc (letters keep getting added), probably wants nothing to do with the rainbow woke cancel culture and its gross and intolerable authoritarianism. They literally do not care if someone disagrees with them as long as their rights are respected and they certainly don’t think a refusal to participate in their way of life is a sign of bigotry.
We who hold that advanced culture rests on marriage between one man and one woman who, unless they are not fertile*, raise their own biological or adopted children within an extended family and larger community of trust do not think people who disagree are bad or inferior or don’t have the same rights as we do. But, as noted, that’s not good enough for the rainbow fascists.
(*Marriage is not solely about children, it is a union between a man and woman that depicts the union between Christ and the Church and is, therefore, Holy in and of itself. Couples do not simply get married to raise children. The focus here is that children have a right and deserve to experience a loving home wherein a marriage mother and father, whether biological or adopted, raise them.)
You don’t agree with our view on the basis of advanced culture? So be it. We embrace the concept of a free and pluralistic society of equals, therefore you and whatever you deem a marriage or a family are free to proceed as you wish. You are not free to censor our beliefs on what constitutes advanced culture and your friendship with us should not be based on our agreement in this vital, but private, aspect of your life.
We do not agree with intolerance or bigotry. But the loose definitions of those terms, which are now crimes in the eyes of some, has become weaponized against mostly the Judeo-Christian who holds to historic orthodoxy. It is beyond the pale, it is a gross injustice, and is the very picture of what bigotry and intolerance look like.
If your views and beliefs are so weak that they cannot sustain refutation or refusal to participate, then you are the problem. This is true whether one is demanding adherence to the historical orthodoxy of the Judeo-Christian tradition or the new unorthodoxy of the rainbow culture.
But today, at this hour, it is not the Judeo-Christian faithful who have any power to impose their sociocultural norms and it is not this community that is seeking cultural hegemony by brute force. The rainbow fascists hate the faithful, that is why they continue to devise new ways to force people between bowing to the new rainbow culture or refusing to compromise their convictions and being canceled out of society, as if banished.
The rainbow fascists are not the LGBTQ folks, who mostly just don’t care about who agrees with them or not. The rainbow fascists are ideological extremists for whom the LGBTQ community is a perfect excuse for their totalitarianism.
