Why Gay Politics Matters
By Joy Pullmann
(Regnery, 336 pages, $28)
Now that we’ve been relieved from a month of nonstop displays of color and parading from the alphabet soup brigade, we can all breathe a collective sigh of relief. The festivities of the month have restored the proper flag to its proper place.
While the Fourth of July was a much-needed palate cleanser from the appalling displays of sexual gratification in the streets of San Francisco and throughout U.S. cities, heteronormative cisgender patriots should be weary of letting their guards down too soon. Joy Pullmann’s new book False Flag: Why Queer Politics Mean the End of America, reminds us why. (READ MORE: The Trans Reckoning Is Not Yet Here — But It’s Coming Soon)
The short respite will be disturbed by ever-aggressive rainbow displays from the “colorful people,” as one of my relatives calls them, along with demands for “equality.”
It must. Queer dogma is more a religion than a civil rights movement, and the 107 gender icons demand worship. After all, the mission — as Pullman so clearly outlines — is nothing other than a complete upending of Western civilization and the norms and rituals that define it. The number one target is the heteronormative family. The alphabet activists will not rest until they destroy it.
Gay Marriage Is Radically Different From Its Traditional Counterpart
Pullman reminds us that, for many homosexuals, marriage was a “co-option into a straight society.” But leadership in the gay movement preferred to be considered as “outsider(s), anti-bourgeois, radical.” The idea of gay marriage is vastly different than the Judeo-Christian notion of matrimony and as Pullman points out “even when they are in a relationship, many queers have sex with people besides their usual partner.” In other words, non-monogamous relationships are baked into the cake. One cannot separate homosexuality from its culture of promiscuity. According to Pullmann, this inability to control sexual urges displays an immaturity not conducive to the self-governance necessary for a constitutional republic.
Exposing children to queer ideology, as so many are determined to do, tears at the fabric of this country. “It should go without saying that subjecting children to sexual chaos retards their ability to govern themselves,” writes Pullman, “and therefore, from the next functioning generation of a self-governing society.” It’s this lack of self-control and desire that leads children, as well as adults, astray.
Pullmann even outlines the trend of “furries” — people who have an active interest in animal characters with human characteristics — that emanate from homosexual fetishes. The fact that the words “furry porn” exist should horrify people. The idea that there are adults who dress up as animals for sexual gratification and enjoyment is absurd, and, as Pullman astutely ascertains, “indicates a refusal to assume the responsibilities of adulthood.” Those who spend their days in fantasy are not the type of people who can conduct themselves in ways necessary to “sustain republican freedoms in America.”
Queer Politics Threatens Free Society
So-called gender-affirming care is another threat to a free society. Transitioning genders and claiming men can become pregnant undermines the natural order on which family structures are based. It’s also a flat-out lie. Insisting that society lives by this lie is something else altogether. Yet, insist they do, and in doing so, the gender and sex activists destroy the fundamental civil liberties protected by everything from the First to the Fourteenth Amendment. Sex-based politics, along with any other politics based on external characteristics or choices like race or religion, is unlawful.
Ever since Obergefell vs. Hodges, the 2015 decision that codified gay marriage into law, this country has been on a slippery slope of conflating civil rights with individual preference. Pullmann’s account demonstrates how confused our culture and politicians themselves are about the difference. She walks the reader through the cultural shifts and legal decisions that convinced the American public to acquiesce to a fully queer agenda.
This manipulation of public sentiment paved the way for government overreach and Pullman offers an eye-opening evaluation of how every branch of government has been compromised to accommodate an alphabet soup agenda. From our courthouses to our schools, we cannot escape the multicolored indoctrination. Yet, people seem to be mostly unaware of just how dedicated the Biden administration is to progressive sex politics. Pullman exposes it all.
From daycare to foreign policy, the current administration ties funding and aid to their ideological sexual agenda. They’ve gone so far as to propose blocking Christian families who refuse to affirm such ideology from fostering or adopting children. This not only goes against the conscience of most Americans but also freedom of speech and freedom of religion. It is a colossal waste of money. (READ MORE: Voters Support Faith-Based Foster Families)
For example, Pullman describes how the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) which administers federal food programs, “must investigate allegations of discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation.” That means anyone who uses biologically correct pronouns for a colleague who feels differently can be lawfully prosecuted. And prosecutions take time and resources.
The Total Marxist Cultural Revolution
No matter what identity one assumes, all progressive policies have the same motive: To create chaos and destroy the norms and power structures of Western civilization, including the nuclear family, “a key bulwark of limited self-government,” says Pullmann. Nothing does that more effectively than queer ideology. Queer theorists and BLM activists are the same. They want nothing less than a total Marxist cultural revolution.
And despite their claim that “love is love,” the movement is quite violent in its methodology. It declares war on bodies and sacrifices biological reality for internal feelings of discontent and rebellion.
Normally I would consider equating the demands and activities of LGBTQIA+ (did I miss any letters?) activists to communism pretty hyperbolic, but after the rapid decline of moral values in our communities in just the past three years, I’d say Pullman is pretty spot on with her assessment. In a very short amount of time, the Biden administration has allowed and supported men to compete in women’s sports, young ladies to undergo double mastectomies with alarming impunity from medical professionals entrusted with their care, and half-naked young adults to flail about on the White House lawn. Its cabinet is filled with clowns: Men who pretend to be women (at HHS no less), one of whom was caught and dismissed for stealing a suitcase of women’s clothing. These types of shenanigans serve to prove Pullman’s points. We are a deeply unserious nation at a time when sobriety and clarity are desperately needed.
Meanwhile, much of the American public seems to sit idly by, unconcerned with the fraying of the moral fabric. And while “agree to disagree” seems like a nice option, it is no longer a viable one. As Pullman states toward the end of her book:
Politics is war by other means, and negotiating with cultural Marxists is like negotiating with terrorists. They do not prefer a different route to the same goal. They want Mad Max. We want peace, the natural order, and beauty. Only one of us can win. For the sake of us all, it better be the Americans who still show allegiance to the original Constitution in our hearts and deeds.
The rainbows-love-and-light piece of me, who counts some of the gay people in my life among those I love most, cringes at this thought. The realist, the one who loves God and truth more than I love anything, including myself, cannot deny Pullmann’s evaluation and prescription.
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