I’ve spent the last few days walking the streets and alleys of one of my favorite small rural villages in the Northwest. The coffee, the flowers, the food, the views, everything is made so beautiful by the hearts and hands of these local artists.
Perhaps the only things more ubiquitous than the thoughtful touches of creativity are the LGBTQ+ pride flags and signs proclaiming things like “everyone is loved here” and “this is a safe place.”
Really? Is everyone loved? Is everyone made more safe?
Amid all of this beauty, I find these messages strangely dissonant. Why? Because these signs aren’t loving to everyone, and they make some safe and others less safe. But the other side of these well-meaning messages is hidden. So we need to spotlight those being excluded and often injured by the ideology these messages are promoting. Pointing this out is important because the reason for the boldness with which shop owners and churches fly these flags betrays the fact they either don’t know or don’t care about the cruelty their “kindness” perpetrates on other parties.
Here are the five parties you choose to injure by flying your Pride flags. […]
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