Burning the Rainbow Flag
By Reed R. Heustis, Jr. The Covenant News ~ June 28, 2006
Why should the rainbow flag be any different?
People burn Old Glory all the time. They exercise their freedom of speech by igniting the Stars and Stripes aflame and swirling the embers to and fro. You see it everywhere. You see it often.
If there is any banner that has ever been defaced, demolished, disfigured and desecrated, no banner has ever been more so than the Star Spangled Banner.
Why not the rainbow flag? Why is it any different?
According to Wikipedia, "The rainbow flag, sometimes called 'the freedom flag', has been used as a symbol of gay and lesbian pride since the 1970s."
Last weekend at the 36th Annual San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Pride Parade and Celebration, hundreds of thousands of people packed the sidewalks to see the annual parade of debauchery.
According to Simone Sebastian and Demian Bulwa, staff writers for the San Francisco Chronicle, in their article, "Huge Celebration of Pride", "People poured out of BART and Muni stations and climbed onto streetlight poles and newspaper stands for better views. Others peered from hotel and apartment windows, waving rainbow flags or dancing -- one man in his underwear -- to the marching bands' music.
"Bare breasts and pierced chests spotted the parade, which spanned more than a mile from Beale to Eighth streets."
The scene in San Francisco resembled more of a depraved orgy than anything that freedom might have to offer.
Contrary to the peddlers of Gay Pride, the rainbow flag is anything but a freedom flag. It is a bondage flag, no pun intended. Advocates for Gay Pride promote the antithesis of liberty. They advocate and promote immorality, debauchery, wickedness, degeneracy and perversion. They advocate rebellion against the Holy Word of God, and therefore God Himself.
By promoting Gay Pride, they advocate sin, the wages of which is death. (Romans 6:23) Advocates of Gay Pride therefore promote death, and they blindly label it "living life to its fullest".
It is ironic that those flaunting the rainbow flag view it as a "freedom flag" that somehow promotes liberty. According to the Word of God, there can only be liberty where the Spirit of the Lord is (2 Cor 3:17), and the Spirit of the Lord will never be found in partnership with sin.
Contrary to a truly free people, unrepentant homosexuals live in a state of bondage and slavery. They act upon the deluded notion that their licentiousness is liberty and they foolishly wave their flag to communicate their folly. By promoting Gay Pride, homosexuals promote the antithesis of freedom.
Many people reading this commentary will flood my email in-box with accusations of "gay bashing." They will demand, "How can you be so intolerant?" Some will spew, "You're a homophobic hate-monger." Still others will play the "religious bigotry" card.
However, the fact of the matter is that homosexuals are no different than any other unrepentant sinner. This writer wishes to see them saved. The good news is that homosexuals indeed can be saved and can receive eternal freedom if they simply repent of their sins and rely upon the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ, and Him alone.
If they truly believed in genuine liberty and freedom, then they would proclaim the Name that is above all other names, the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. There is salvation in none other. "[F]or there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." (Acts 4: 10-12)
Only Christ's own people will enjoy eternal salvation and ultimate liberty, but those who reject Him will be cast into the lake of fire. (Revelation 20:15) Thus, unrepentant sinners, homosexual or otherwise, will inevitably burn forever. Christians who preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to these lost neighbors therefore exercise acts of loving kindness. They preach truth in love, and seek freedom and liberty for the lost.
Most activists of the Gay Pride movement will not like this. In fact they will hate it, and they will hate the followers of Jesus Christ because they first hated Christ.
But one way or the other, whether in this life or the next, they will soon realize that it is better to burn their rainbow flag and let those embers fly.