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Nineteen drag queen story hours and nine LGBTQ comic books: Why a biblical response to Pride Month is relevant to us all · The Daily Article

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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's Wednesday, June the 3rd, 2026, and this is Dinnison Forum's Daily Article Podcast.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's Daily Article, authored by friend and cultural theologian Dr. Jim Dinnison.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In honor of Pride Month, the Boston Public Library has scheduled 19 drag queen story hours across its branches, most of them designed for children ages 18 months to five years old.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There will also be a Pride themed kids concert with a focus on LGBTQ youth family pride and craft nights at which children can make fidgets, keychain decorations, and wearable art
• 0:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Continuing the focus on children and teenagers, the New York Times is recommending nine comic books and graphic novels with LGBTQ protagonists timed for Pride Month.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The decades long drive to normalize LGBTQ ideology is working.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Glad, an LGBTQ advocacy group surveyed the 10 largest entertainment distributors in the US, reporting that 23.6% of their films included an LGBTQ character, which is two and a half times higher than the percentage of LGBTQ population in the US.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As I have often noted, this movement seeks to normalize LGBTQ activity, legalize it, stigmatize those who disagree, and criminalize such opposition.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The first three stages have already been reached.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If the so-called equality act or similar legislation becomes law, we'll be at stage four.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But here's where my analysis breaks down.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This strategy is continuing on all four levels simultaneously.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Success and its eyes will not be achieved until every person in our society agrees that LGBTQ activity is normal and morally appropriate and that anyone who disagrees is abnormal and immorally dangerous.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is why there is such a continual emphasis on children, the most impressionable segment of our population.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And it is why the LGBTQ movement is active every day of the year, not just in June.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Perhaps you agree with me that God creates us male and female, established in Genesis 127, and that he intends sexual activity, only within the covenant of heterosexual marriage,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For a list of relevant verses, see a list in today's podcast episode notes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So, you probably agree that Pride Month and all it represents is unbiblical and harmful to those who participate.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But perhaps you also wish I would write about something else today.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It seems to me that for many evangelicals, apart from shaking their heads at the state of our broken culture, there isn't much else they plan to do about this issue.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They'll go along to get along with family members and friends who disagree with them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They might have a conversation on the subject, but they'll be nervous and hoping not to cause offence.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Preserving their relationships with LGBTQ people and their advocates is more important to them than waging debates they're not sure they can win.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Accordingly, they can sign this issue to the category of things you don't discuss in polite company.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, silence on this or any issue is harmful to those who need to know what God's word says about their lives and choices.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Sin always harms those who choose it, living outside God's will forphets his best for us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever the subject, people deserve to know biblical truth so they can live biblical lives.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Mark Batterson is right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Quote, we fixate on sense of commission far too much.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We practice holiness by subtraction.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Don't do this, don't do that, and you're okay.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The problem with that is this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can do nothing wrong and still do nothing right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Righteousness is more than doing nothing wrong.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's doing something right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In quote, and speaking the truth in love from Ephesians 4 verse 15,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Here's why today's discussion is vital, not just for others, but for our own souls.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Satan loves to tempt us into sin slowly, turning the lights down gradually, until our eyes adjust to the dark.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He, therefore, once us to normalize LGBTQ sins, we will not commit, so that we normalize sins that we will.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The enemy began his strategy in Eden from Genesis 3 verse 1 by tempting Eve to question God's word.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Once we start down that path on one issue, we're more likely to travel it on others.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And implicit, almost subliminal check creeps into our spirit, an unstated sense that the Bible might be wrong, outdated, or irrelevant on the subject at hand.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: With regard to LGBTQ issues, we find ourselves asking, what right do we have to tell others how to live their lives?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Aren't their personal lives their personal business?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, shift these questions to private sins you're more likely to commit.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Hatred comes to mind, as does lust, and unforgiving spirit, a desire for recognition, and materialistic greed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In his servant on the Mount, Jesus clearly warned us against each of them, referencing Matthew 5 verse 21 through chapter 6 verse 24.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But who will know?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: How will these private sins harm others?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Can we repent later without consequences?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: By the time our private sins inevitably become public, it will be too late to unthink the thoughts that birth them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: we cannot unring the bell, and the normalization of unbiblical immorality that Pride Month encourages will damage our lives and our witness.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And if you think this conversation is irrelevant to your life, that very thought proves you're wrong.