LGBTQ ‘pride’ destroys another family

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I’d be dropping the ball if I allowed another “Pride Month” to pass into history, without discussing the losses my family has suffered this year.

It’s a large, extended military family that used to spend a lot of time together. It included a cousin I’ll call “Denise.” (All these names are changed, because everyone still living deserves their privacy.)

During our childhood, Denise became like the other half of me. All of our siblings were either years older, or years younger than us. But the two of us were just months apart.

We were together constantly. Everyone outside the family thought Denise was my twin sister. When there were exams, we were “study buddies.” And we spent a lot of time walking to the nearest playgrounds, libraries and used bookstores. We corresponded whenever we were apart.

When Denise’s dad left the service and got a civilian job in Chicago, we kept in touch via letters and Hallmark cards. She eventually married a guy I’ll call “Mike,” from a typical Chicago liberal family, and I went to college. They had two children, “Danny” and “Sarah.”

Mike prospered in his new career. Eventually, we learned that he’d “discovered” he was bisexual, then transgender. Denise stayed in the marriage: not just for the sake of the children, but because Mike had become her best friend, and constant companion.

When Danny was in high school, he also “discovered” that he was gay. Nobody thought this was a coincidence. Mike was his role model.

When working from home via the Internet became popular, they migrated to a magnificent home in a very LGBTQ community, and became thoroughly immersed in that lifestyle. First Danny, then Mike became infected with incurable, fatal diseases.

In January, both of them passed away, just two weeks apart. By the end of the month, overwhelmed by her grief, and learning that she’d become infected with the same disease that had slowly, painfully killed her husband, Denise took her own life.

Nobody saw that coming.

Thankfully, Sarah has grown into a strong-willed young woman. Denise did a great job raising her. She’s a survivor. She takes solace in her faith, her promising real estate career, and her extended family. The church helped her relocate out of that community, and she’s put the house up for sale.

The rainbow used to represent God’s promise to us all, and it still does. But she gave away all of their rainbow-colored clothing and decorations. And she’s turning into a reclusive “cat lady,” at the age of 27. I can’t blame her.

This is just one more family, among the many, many families that have been destroyed or damaged by LGBTQ ideology. There’s a huge crater in this family, where three brilliant, wonderful people used to be.

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins, for a very good reason. Whenever they celebrate Pride Month, what happened to this family, and so many others, is one of the things they don’t celebrate. And I ask, “What have they got to be proud of?”

Jim Davis is an IT specialist and paralegal, with degrees in political science and statistical analysis: the underpinning of all science. His work has appeared in Daily Caller, Newsmax and American Thinker. You can find him as RealProfessor219 on Rumble.

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