Is the Tide Beginning to Turn? Reclaiming of our sanity around sex and gender.

Jayd Henricks: Authentic happiness is hampered by confusion about human nature. Reclaiming of our sanity around sex and gender is a necessary first step to the happiness we all desire.

We are all designed to seek meaning – which has historically been informed by faith. But in recent decades, religion has been rapidly disappearing from the public square. As faith has been pushed out of culture, politics, and education, it has left a void in countless hearts and minds. Nature never permits a vacuum to linger long, however, and the need for meaning now often finds an outlet in the fight for social justice. The cause inevitably changes, but this decade has been marked above all by the fight for the social approval – even outright affirmation – of one’s chosen sexual identity.

Any controversial movement, especially a replacement for something as deep-seated as religion, begins by seeking tolerance for itself, moving over time to implicit acceptance and virtue signaling, and ultimately requiring explicit celebration. LGBTQ+ has become a virtual state religion now, requiring the affirmation of everyone’s sexual identity – whatever form it may take, and regardless of how opposed it may be to anyone else’s individual beliefs.

To recognize this is not to obsess about all things sexual, but simply to recognize what is now at the heart of American society. All Americans are expected to offer incense at the altar of not just sex, but disordered sex. We are told not to impose our faith, but the religion of LGBTQ+ is imposed on all.

From its places of power, this ideology demands full obeisance at all times, but particularly – and forcefully – every June. Every time Pride Month rolls around, schools, businesses, and government organizations preach the goodness of any and all sexual choices. LGBTQ+ clothes, flags, and library books come out front and center. To fail to bow low at this altar is to risk being accused of “rainbow washing” or being outright canceled.

This is how we’ve arrived at Bud Light and Target promoting LGBTQ+ in some absurd ways, and why the Dodgers/MLB turned the country’s national pastime into a sacramental for the new order. Why else would Bud Light hire a marketing executive that labeled the brand [read: its traditional customer base] as “fratty” and “out of touch”? Why else would Target put out a line of LGBTQ+ kids clothing? Why else would the Dodgers give a Community Hero Award to an organization that openly mocks the Catholic Church when half of the fans who attend their games are Latino, a historically Catholic group?

We have arrived at a strange place, where holding what has historically been understood as commonsense now feels like a last stand for sanity. Beliefs such as that men should use men’s bathrooms and only women should be allowed to play in women’s sports leagues are now berated as bigoted and discriminatory.

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