Take Down This Rainbow Flag!
As the Confederate Flag Comes Down, There Is Still One More Symbol of Hate and Division Our Nation Must Confront.
With governor Nikki Haley announcing that South Carolina would no longer fly the Confederate Battle Flag at its state house our nation has rounded a tough, but brave corner. “The events of this week call upon us to look at[the Confederate flag] in a different way,” said Haley, acknowledging that this horrible tragedy has given us the occasion to consider that a symbol that is beloved by so many, is unfortunately also revered by others who have no business loving it.
Yet, as this flag comes down, we begin to see a silver lining, one that was previously obscured by the stars and bars majestically flapping from atop its mighty perch on the state flag pole. Indeed, I defy anyone to not be moved to tears by the sight of an Indian-American-Republican-governor, backed by an African-American-Republican-senator, Tim Scott, and a Bachelor-American-Republican-senator Lindsey Graham standing up for what’s right and making a powerful statement about how diverse and unified the America of the twenty-first century can be.
Yet despite this, we now find that we have crossed one river only to realize that there is another river that we now must ford. I speak of course about the Rainbow Flag of LGBT “Pride” that still flaps and flops from poles all over this country.
Successful Hollywood screenwriter, turned Brietbart Editor-at-Large, John Nolte, was first to point out — in a very thoughtful piece — that much like the Confederate flag, the Rainbow flag of gay-states rights is disingenuously held up by some as a symbol of “pride” and even “tolerance”, when in point of fact, it stands for the opposite: anti-Christian bigotry and bullying.
We see this flag flown from the homes and businesses of those who want to signify to each other that they support the homosexual cause, but to everyone else it says: “you do not work out enough to be in this club.”
Though Nolte is right to compare the Rain-boy flag to the Confederate one, in many ways it is much worse than he portrays. While the Confederate flag will always be linked with the tradition of slavery — America’s original mistake — it also represented other more noble Southern traditions like good manners, good food and the right of states to print their own money. Can the same be said of The Colored Bars?
Ever since the Stonewall Jackson riot — where brave New York City police officers were attacked by gays for doing their duty — the Rainbow flag has been a symbol of secession and bondage to other men. There is simply nothing good that can be salvaged from a legacy based on hate. If the antebellum South stood for putting one group of men over another, then the contemporary LGBT movement stands for putting one group of men in another, and it should be treated as such. This Old Glory Hole stands for a divided nation and it must go. I just pray it doesn’t take another Battle of Bull Gun or Manasses to emancipate us.
Just like the Civil War, this war is being fought on the home front, brother on brother, but without the civility. For instance, if my gay neighbors told me to remove my collection of vintage Sambo-lawn jockeys from my yard because they “send the wrong message”, they would likely be applauded. Yet, if I were to tell them not to hold hands, kiss or jog where my boy Cody can see them, I would be considered a bad guy, “on the wrong side of history.” The implicit threat being that those on the wrong side of history are doomed to repeat it.
Just the other week, one Maryland woman did the “civil” and neighborly thing of leaving an anonymous note expressing her concern about gay lawn decorations in a Christian neighborhood and was excoriated by the media for making this simple request.
I fear this is a dark path we’re going down, just like Communist Joseph “Steel” Stalin turned Russia’s churches into ice-skating rinks or the Chinese Emperor Mao the Chairman inaugurated a cultural evolution to purge his country’s old traditions, today’s gay successionists want to succeed in ridding the country of all those who hold a biblical point of view. I don’t think it’s at all hyperbolic to say that many of us confront a danger similar to what anyone who wore glasses faced under the Khmer Rogue.
This is about simple fairness and consistency. If we as a nation can agree that it’s wrong to be proud of Confederate heritage and celebrate its symbols, then it logically follows that it is just as wrong to be proud of gay symbols and false flags. And let there be no doubt: anywhere you see the Rainbow flag flying, you can be assured that totalitarianism and fascism are fucking and sucking somewhere nearby.
As Nolte says, while taking down the Confederate flag is the right thing to do, “equivalence is not the issue here. Hate and intolerance is.” And the hate and intolerance of the Gay Confederacy towards people of faith is equivalent to that of Nazi Germany. Let’s not let freedom become another great lost cause that will arise again. What we need is another Apollomaddox, where the forces who have weaponized gay civil rights in the war against Christians agree to unilaterally disarm, and the first step is taking down this awful flag and opening our hearts.
