Leading the Parade into Madness
Political leaders celebrate decadence while treating faith as a threat.
If the Canadian Prime Minister wants to consort with grown men wearing BDSM dog suits at a pride parade, well then that is his right.
This is the West, after all.
People are free to identify as they wish and to celebrate whatever, erm, tickles their fancy.
The question isn’t whether adults can wear dog masks. The question is whether it’s healthy that a nation’s leader eagerly celebrates it.
Because let’s not pretend the gentleman in the leather hood is at a Pride parade to celebrate his love of WeetBix. Everyone knows exactly what the costume represents.
Yet somehow we’re expected to applaud as if it’s an expression of profound human dignity rather than something that, until about five minutes ago in historical terms, would have prompted friends to quietly suggest professional help.
Perhaps I’m just old-fashioned.
Then again, I suppose it could be worse.
Islamists could conquer the West and ban Pride parade marches altogether.
Modernity, Where the Only Sin Is Questioning the New ‘Virtues’
What fascinates me isn’t the leather. It’s the applause.
There is something deeply unsettling about Western leaders enthusiastically celebrating what previous generations — left, right and centre — would have regarded as public indecency.
Merely asking whether this represents cultural decline is now considered more offensive than the spectacle itself.
That’s modern morality in a nutshell.
The only remaining sin is questioning the new virtues.
Take Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
He happily marched in Toronto Pride, posed with half-naked fetish enthusiasts and even encouraged the crowd to spray him with water.
Yet Toronto’s recent Walk for Israel?
Apparently that was a bridge too far.
One event was a photo opportunity.
The other, too controversial.
If that doesn’t tell you something about the hierarchy of modern virtues, nothing will.
This inversion of morality is everywhere. And it’s not talked about anywhere near enough. Probably because even talking about it is so dangerous.
Look at Major League Baseball.
When a handful of players wrote Bible verses on their Pride-themed caps, they were accused by critics of “desecrating” LGBTQ apparel.
Clayton Kershaw wearing a Los Angeles Dodgers. Image credit: Instagram.
I found the accusation of “desecration” fascinating.
To desecrate something, it first has to be sacred.
And there, almost accidentally, the game was given away.
The rainbow has become holy. The Bible has become the blasphemy.
Some think that’s progress. Others differ. Can we at least admit that’s what’s happening and discuss the long term effects?
Our civilisation is rearranging its moral furniture at remarkable speed, and anyone who points out the renovation is treated as though they’ve committed the only unforgivable offence: noticing.
New York Catholic Hospice Under LGBT+ Fire
Nowhere is this inversion clearer than in New York, where a hospice for terminal cancer patients is in danger of being shut down unless the Catholic staff bow to the new religion of Woke.
The sisters provide palliative care free of charge because their Catholic faith teaches them that every human life possesses inherent dignity.
Remarkably, that same faith is now considered the problem.
Unless they comply with New York City’s gender identity regulations, the hospice faces crippling fines — and potentially closure.
Dominican Sisters located in Hawthorne, New York. Image credit: Catholic Benefits Association.
The sisters are required to use preferred pronouns, even when speaking about patients who aren’t present.
They must permit biological males identifying as women into female rooms and bathrooms.
They must undergo LGBTQ training.
They must display notices throughout their Catholic hospice affirming the city’s gender ideology.
Refuse, and the penalties begin. Persist, and fines can climb to thousands of dollars. Eventually, the hospice itself could be shut down.
Pause for a moment and appreciate the extraordinary moral calculus.
Activists would apparently rather a hospice caring for terminally ill cancer patients cease operating than permit the possibility that someone might be addressed by the wrong pronoun.
And they insist they occupy the moral high ground?
The nuns’ faith inspired them to spend their lives caring for the dying. Now that very faith is portrayed as dangerous.
Not because they refuse to care. Because they refuse to lie.
Parades and the Inversion of Morality
That is the defining feature of our age. Not merely changing moral standards. Every civilisation does that. It’s the complete inversion of them that is unique to our time.
Vice is rebranded as virtue. Conviction becomes intolerance. And compassion is measured not by feeding the hungry or comforting the dying, but by affirming the latest ideological orthodoxy.
And increasingly, Western leaders aren’t merely tolerating this inversion. They’re leading the parade.
Quite literally.
We do, indeed, live in interesting times.
The question is whether future generations will remember them as enlightened — or insane.
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Republished with thanks to The James Macpherson Report.
Image via screenshot of YouTube.
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It looks to me this is much like Sodom and Gomorrah, and we know what God did then, so this same ideology is hasten God to intervene again, which for us as Christians means we’re nearing the end with the rest of the prophecies written in God’s word being fulfilled, let’s remember Jesus’ own words:
Luke 21:28 NKJV
Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.”
Yes, come Lord Jesus!
Brilliant once again.
Shaking and sifting continues as we near the pointy end of this age.
We pray for strength to stand as persecution arises.
Thank you for the report James. May God protect the dear nuns and their hospice as they only wish to carry out a sacrifical service to those dying of cancer. It is so contrary to reason and Godly ethics to make them act as ‘woke’ sisters; they only want serve a living God who made them male and female and to minsiter to the dying with love and compassion but not to step back into the pagan values of Sodom and Gomorrah. May there be new laws written to protect them from this political interference.
New York government obviously doesn’t care for the terminally ill patients so beautifully and respectfully cared for by the nuns, in threatening them even to closing the facility down. What bullies! Just like the religous leaders in Jesus’s day when He healed a man on the Sabbath. Truth and biological reality have become so offensive to minds so quick to take offence, no matter the harm it does to others. Yes, like Jesus, this blatant lack of caring for those afflicted by sickness or disability, we should evoke a righteous anger!