Justin Trudeau Declares "Pride Season"

... as 1 in 5 young adults identifies as LGBTQ

It began as a Pride march.

Then it became Pride Week, and quickly evolved into Pride Month.

But can a culture have too much Pride? Of course not. To even ask the question is to transgress modern blasphemy laws.

And so it was that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who governs as if he were a spoilt 14-year-old boy, this week announced “Pride Season”.

Yep, the parade, day, week, month … is now a “season”.

Now, if you’re tempted as I was, to think this was just Justin being Justin, stick around. It wasn’t a slip of the tongue.

Trudeau, who has been in Iceland this week, tweeted before catching a flight home:

“I took this photo before heading home yesterday - because I couldn’t leave Reykjivak without visiting the rainbow coloured street.”

Imagine a national leader boasting that he could not leave a foreign land until he had first paid homage to its rainbow flag.

Trudeau would rather keep his plane waiting than miss a pilgrimage to the LBGTQ place of worship.

Like a Catholic visiting Rome must have a photo at Saint Peters, Trudeau had to have a photo at the street painted Pride.

He continued:

“To everyone celebrating Pride in Iceland, Canada and around the world, Happy Pride Season!”

And, right on cue, Trudeau’s Minister for Employment Carla Qualtrough tweeted:

“As Canadians, we believe every single person, no matter who you love or how you identify, has the right to feel safe and secure. Let’s make this country a place where everyone can be who they are & love who they love - freely, openly & proudly. Happy #Pride Season Canada!”

So there you go. It’s a thing.

It’s only a matter of time before Canada, the world’s most progressive nation, announce Permanent Pride.

But the sudden evolution of Pride Month into Pride Season was not confined to Canada.

At the exact same time, in the United States, the transgendered woman Joe Biden appointed to head up his Department of Health and Human Services, Richard, er, Rachel Levine announced the “Summer of Pride”.

“Happy Pride. Happy Pride Month. And, actually, lets declare it a Summer of Pride. Happy Summer of Pride!”

What if we don’t want a Summer of Pride?

What if we are sick of having Pride jammed down our throats?

Too late.

Log onto the Biden Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services social media accounts and you’ll discover Summer of Pride is now an offical thing.

A department Instagram post on June 29 declares:

Summer’s here. Time to celebrate with Pride.

And then, helpfully, adds …

While you’re out, protect yourself and others from mpox

Indeed.

“Summer of Monkey Pox doesn’t have quite the same ring to it!

Can you imagine Justin Trudeau wishing Canadians “Happy Monkey Pox!”?

On June 22 the department posted a message to Instagram saying …

“Today officially marks the First Day of Summer! All summer long we will be celebrating “Summer of Pride” as HHS works to ensure a healthier future for ALL people living in the United States, during #pridemonth and beyond. Let the #SummerOfPride begin!

I’m offering a special prize to whoever correctly nominates the first Australian politician to uses the term “Pride Season” or “Summer of Pride”.

My money is on Adam Bandt.

He’s going to command a three month halt to the Climate Crisis so we can celebrate Pride Season. Then the end will come.

Once Pride Season is fully accepted it is only a small step to Permanent Pride and, ultimately, Compulsory Pride.

If you don’t believe me, believe them.

LGBTQ activists marching in the US last week chanted:

“We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children.”

And they are.

A Gallup poll published last year found that 19.7 per cent of Gen Z (those born 1997-2004) identify as LBGTQ.

That’s 1 in 5 of our young adults who have abandoned heterosexuality. It’s up from 15% in 2020.

Time Magazine published a poll showing that 51 per cent of Gen Z now believe there are more than two genders. That’s up from 39 per cent in 2019.

Turns out we’ve been living in the Summer of Pride for a while now. But you know what invariably follows Summer.

How ironic that in the exact same passage where God puts the rainbow (which the gay community have co-opted as their own) in the sky, He tells Noah …

“While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, winter and summer, And day and night shall not cease.”

There’s a barely perceptible chill in the air, even as North America’s leaders declare a Summer of Pride.

Our cultural winter will be cold, and dark.