By Jennifer Roback Morse Published on July 5, 2023
This year’s installment of the annual “Pride Month” went completely over the top. The Los Angeles Dodgers invited the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to their “Pride Night” to receive a “community service award.” After a grassroots backlash, the Dodgers disinvited them. After a different sort of backlash, the Dodgers reinvited them, but gave them the award an hour before game-time, in front of a mostly empty stadium.
The Creed of Our New State Religion
This incident gives us the opportunity to reexamine and ultimately reject several Articles of Faith of the Sexual Revolution. These Articles include:
- Being “gay,” or a “sexual minority” is a perfectly normal variation of human sexuality.
- A person’s patterns of sexual desire and sexual proclivities are inborn, immutable traits.
- Any psychological disturbance or distress that “sexual minorities” experience is due to discrimination and what is called “minority stress.”
These Articles of Faith, which occupy a place in modern secular “theology” comparable to the Nicene Creed, lead to these conclusions:
- The conduct of “sexual minorities” is beyond reasoned criticism.
- “Sexual minorities” are entitled to the protection of the body of anti-discrimination law that was developed to protect American blacks whose ancestors were enslaved.
- The rest of us normal people, disparagingly called “normies” are required to change our values and behaviors for the comfort of the “sexual minorities.”
Let’s reconsider this list, while the recent incident of the LA Dodgers honoring the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is still fresh in our minds.
Move Along, People, Nothing to See Here
First, these men, their costumes and their agenda do not look “perfectly normal,” do they? Neither do the drag queens demanding to be allowed to read to toddlers. Normal people don’t make a practice of dressing in a manner that ridicules other people, and demand to be accepted while they do it. Normal people do not wear garish woman-mocking costumes while claiming to promote “inclusion” and “tolerance.”
On the second point, let’s get real. Being a drag queen is not an “inborn immutable trait.” No one is born wearing a full face of white-faced make-up. No one is born wearing outlandish costumes meant to be parodies of religious sisters’ habits. No one is born with an irresistible urge to ridicule other people’s religious beliefs. These men’s conduct casts serious doubt on the blanket claim that people are “born that way,” and therefore in need of the protection of anti-discrimination law.
Not All “Minorities” Are Victims
Which brings us to the final point, the crux of the matter. It is true that drag queens are a numerical minority. It is even true that gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgenders and all the other “non-binary” people combined are a numerical minority. However, the idea that the people in this group are “minorities” in the sense intended by discrimination law is laughable.