The Priests of Pride Accept No Blasphemers

It’s June, which means it’s the holy month of Pride. The priests of America’s new religion attend to their ritualistic parades with a zeal matched only by the intensity of their twerking, endlessly seeking out non-believers to persecute. 

The LGBT acolytes found such victims in Spokane, Washington. A group of teens on scooters “vandalized” a massive pride mural splayed on the road by riding over it and leaving skid marks. Court records claim that when confronted, the teens responded with expletives and rode off. 

Not the nicest thing in the world, but last time I checked it’s not illegal to ride a scooter and be rude to passersby. But the pride flag is a sacred totem in the Left’s new religion and so the teens could not be allowed to escape unpunished. 

For the alleged crime of vandalism, the teens face 10 years each in jail and a felony on their records. The claim from Washington authorities being the skidmarks on the pride mural represented a hate crime and therefore merited a heightened sentence. 

Though Leftists refuse to acknowledge it, this obscene use of the justice system to punish dissenters is nearly identical to blasphemy laws in many of the religious theocracies they purport to hate. Muslim majority states like Afghanistan and Iran have laws that penalize criticism of the faith. Many Christian countries had these as well, but increasing secularization in the West meant those laws disappeared. 

Or did they? One might argue instead of blasphemy laws fading in the West, it simply changed which God it was no longer acceptable to insult. Indeed, while the Supreme Court has affirmed that the destruction of symbolically important items like the American flag, the Bible, or the Pride flag are constitutional, there seems to be a loophole when it comes to prosecuting the latter. 

In the case of the Washington teens the authorities evoked amorphous hate crime laws to skirt around constitutional protections and prosecute the blasphemers, the radical Left’s go-to strategy when it comes to attacking infidels.

Hate speech laws are often used to criminalize behavior based on nothing more than hurt feelings. But whose feelings are being hurt matters more than the actual intent to harm. 

A demonic offspring of the Priesthood of Pride, the Queers for Palestine movement, frequently engages in speech that is wildly hurtful and harmful to Jews. Is calling for the annihilation of the state of the state of Israel and all the Jews within not hateful? Does it not harm those who hear it? 

Depends on who you ask, but I’m sure if the leftists in Washington had their way, it wouldn’t. Wrong God, they’d say, not blasphemy. 

So what is to be done? There are two paths, one can either embrace blasphemy laws or rail to have them destroyed. 

Those who think America has strayed too far from her Chrisitian heritage might use the resurgent strength of rebranded blasphemy laws to codify and persecute attacks on religious tradition. Burning a Bible or mocking Jesus are no longer simply expressions of free speech, they’re examples of virulent anti-Christian hatred and can be punished under hate speech laws. If the left or civil libertarians complain, too bad. What’s good for Adam and Steve is good for Adam and Eve. 

Or America can double down on the essential proposition of free expression and eradicate hate speech as a concept. Speech, outside of directed threats, cannot physically harm and is therefore immune to accusations of violence. People can say uncomfortable, odious, racist, anti-religious things. And that’s fine. 

What one person finds offensive, someone else might find liberating. The only way to ensure that everyone is treated equally under the law is not to favor any particular form of speech. If everyone is held to the same standards, no one is privileged above others. 

It may be that faith is an unassailable aspect of civilization, and blasphemy laws that protect the dominant religion of a country are inevitable. I choose not to believe that. 

But regardless, the dominance of the new LGBT religion cannot be allowed to stand much longer. After all, Pride is one of the seven deadly sins.