Activists Make Your Yule Time Gay

Shopping Centres across Western Australia have announced queer-themed Christmas photo opportunities, because nothing celebrates the birth of Jesus like Santa draped in rainbow colours being attended to by drag queens.

The West Australian Newspaper reported yesterday …

In a WA-first, Westfield shopping centres across the State are breaking the mould and bringing families together in the spirit of inclusivity and Christmas.

It’s kinda cute the way the journalist described the LBGTQ Christmas takeover as “breaking the mould”, rather than as trashing one of Christianity’s most sacred days.

The promotion, called “Living Proud This Christmas”, is a dedicated LGBTQ day of celebration, including Santa photography sessions with Pride props and drag queens.

When Frank Sinatra sang “make the yule-tide gay” i’m pretty sure he had something else in mind. But I digress.

I can’t wait to hear that Westfield shopping centres are going to “break the mould” and do a queer-themed Ramadan using drag queens to celebrate Muhammad receiving the Koran. We’ll wait.

Meanwhile, the Living Proud this Christmas organiser told journalists …

“This is all about creating acceptance and a safe space. For LGBTI+ families to feel comfortable to come into shopping centres, or get involved and have a great time with the photography experience.

“For a lot of people growing up, it’s really important to see yourself represented...so to see transgender, bisexual, lesbian, gay representation makes a really big difference.”

The idea that lesbians, gays, bisexuals, queers and transgendered people don’t feel comfortable to come into shopping centres is difficult to believe. LGBTQ Pride is practically celebrated everywhere you go these days.

And the idea that alphabet people need to see themselves represented everywhere, all the time, or else they will feel excluded, is infantile, not to mention manipulative.

But the LBGTQ lobby groups play on the good nature of people who do not want anyone to feel uncomfortable, or to feel excluded. And so we all sit politely, not wanting to put anyone out, while every part of our culture is turned into a gay Mardi Gras, including Christmas.

The LGBTQ lobby organising the event told The West Australian that the gay Christmas was …

“ … a memorable occasion and a chance for us to shine.”

He added that it would …

“Send a message that who you are, is perfect just the way you are. And so that’s our goal is to increase that awareness, so people can embrace and be truly who they are.”

What are the odds that the LGBTQ activist’s message is actually quite different to the Christmas message?

Well as it so happens …

Christmas isn’t “a chance for us to shine”.

Seriously? What sort of jerk goes to someone else’s birthday party and rearranges everything to make it all about themselves?

And as for the idea that Christmas is to “send a message that who you are is perfect just the way you are” … well … he’s kind of missing the entire point.

I know. Shocking right? That a gay activist attempting to appropriate Christmas would have no idea at all about that which he is attempting to colonise?

Christianity does not teach that God became flesh because we were fantabulous. It teaches that God became flesh because we were hopelessly incapable of living the life we should have lived, and so He lived it for us.

Moreover, Christianity teaches that God became flesh so that He could die the death we deserved to die.

Jesus didn’t come because we were glitter and sparkles. He came because we were godless and sinful. All of us.

Of course, the encouraging part is that God thought us worth saving, not because we were without faults, flaws and failings, but in spite of them.

The West Australian Newspaper interviewed a mum who said being able to have a gay themed Santa photo with her 14-year-old gay son meant a lot.

“This opportunity just means so much because Christmas is for everybody,” she was quoted as saying.

She’s right, of course. Christmas is for everybody.

Christmas reminds us that everybody is so deeply flawed that the only possible way we could be reconciled to God was if God Himself died for us. And Christmas reminds us that everybody is so deeply loved that God was willing to do just that.

When you understand that, you understand that Christmas is not a time for pride. It’s a time for deep humility, and for great appreciation.

The real shame is not that the LGBTQ lobby is trashing Christmas. The real shame is that, in trashing Christmas, the LGBTQ lobby group completely misses the message about just how loved and accepted they really are.