It’s June, and for most Americans that means there are few places to hide from LGBTQ propaganda. Pride parades have begun marching, social media feeds are churning out a daily barrage of articles promoting them, and Big Entertainment is hard at work touting the monumental accomplishments of gays, lesbians, bis, trans, and every other sexual “minority” group whose contribution to society is being brave enough to act on its abnormal sexual inclination.
The LGBTQ lobby has made great inroads at normalizing behavior that was classified a mental disorder up until the 1970s. In 1996, 27 percent of Americans supported gay “marriage.” Today, that number is flipped. An astonishing 76 percent of the general population supports gay unions, according to a recent Gallup poll.
The Growth of Perversion
The homosexual mob made its big push into the culture in the 1990s. After two full decades, it has become a sacred cow that shan’t be ridiculed, examined, or — especially — disapproved of.
Today, it is patently clear the goal was never what they said it was. The homosexual activists weren’t just trying to convince the rest of the country to leave them alone to live in peaceful deviancy. First, they sought tolerance. Then they insisted on approval. And today, they demand celebration. The New American saw this coming. In the June 8, 1998 print edition, titled “The Politics of Perversion,” William F. Jasper wrote:
And those “tolerant” citizens who think that, “Hey, I’m not gay, but they’re not harming me,” have a rude awakening coming. The militant sodomites have made it clear that tolerance is not sufficient; they demand positive “approval” from society, manifested in the enactment of laws granting them special rights, and the abolition of the residual laws that impede their full homoerotic expression and deny their full access to children.
As if he didn’t hit the nail on the head hard enough there, Jasper put together a list of predictions of what the perversion lobby aimed to accomplish in the coming years. That list included legalizing marriage among homosexuals (check), obtaining adoption rights (check), inserting homosexual education at all levels (check), disseminating homosexual literature in public schools (check), abolishing all state and local laws restricting homosexual behavior (check), creating an atmosphere that persecutes “homophobes” (check), expanding perverted programming on television (check), and admitting homosexuals into the Boy Scouts (check).
Moreover, Jasper accurately noted that homosexuality was part of a larger perversion agenda. “The homosexual revolution is but the latest and most viscerally repellent installment in an ongoing, much larger revolution that has been in the process of upending our entire civilization for many years,” he wrote.
Perversion Fatigue Setting In
Twenty-seven years almost to the day TNA published that article, signs that Americans are developing “perversion fatigue” are beginning to emerge. According to a recent Gallup poll finding released last Thursday, just within the last few years Republicans have significantly soured on homosexuality. A separate survey indicates that the corporate world is right behind them.
Corporate support for Pride month has dropped off significantly this year. A Gravity Research survey of more than 200 corporate executives shows that 39 percent of companies planned to pull back on Pride support in 2025, while zero planned to increase support. CNN reported on the survey:
Companies are treading lightly, avoiding prominent campaigns and visible public support. …That includes sponsoring Pride events, posting supportive messages of LGBTQ rights on social media and selling Pride-themed merchandise.
According to the survey, the Trump administration is to blame:
61% of executives cite the Trump administration as the top reason for rethinking Pride strategies, with conservative activists and GOP policymakers close behind. Employee pressure, once a key influence, has waned.
The Trump Effect
The Trump effect seems to have rippled across the pond. Gareth Roberts observed in The Spectator the strange coincidence that Trump’s shuttering of USAID, which had funded Pride events in Britain, coincides with Pride events being canceled due to budget shortfalls. “Across the UK in Lincoln, Plymouth, Southampton and Hereford, Pride events have all either been abandoned, cut back, or had to rely on emergency bailouts from wealthy private backers,” Roberts tells us.
Gallup’s survey doesn’t delve into whether the militant hostility of the LGBTQ crowd, especially of those in the transgender department, played a role in Donald Trump’s reelection. It did. The Trump reelection crew obviously knew its target audience, which is why it ran ads showing Kamala Harris’ pro-trans comments.
But while corporations blame this year’s lack of Pride support on the Big Bad Orange Man, they are likely hiding their true motivations. The massive reduction in support is probably a response to a change in the cultural winds and the effect it will have on their balance sheets.
According to Gallup, Republicans’ support for gay “marriage” peaked in 2021 and 2022, with a majority of 55 percent. In the past three years, that support has fallen by 14 points, to 41 percent. That number drops further when the question becomes whether homosexuality is moral. Gallup says 38 percent of Republicans think homosexual relationships are morally acceptable, an 18-point drop from 2022, when 56 percent think otherwise. Support among Republicans is likely even lower, as many still don’t admit their disapproval for fear of being a bigot.
And support for homosexuality really narrows when you ask people who attend church. Only 24 percent of churchgoers consider homosexual relationships moral.
Christianity No Longer in Decline
Gallup’s report includes a graph with several data points. Among the most glaring is the one illustrating the very strong correlation between church attendance and disapproval toward homosexuality. While this is to be expected, what wasn’t anticipated is Christianity’s comeback.
In February, Pew Research published a survey indicating that Christianity was no longer in decline. According to the study, “for the last five years, between 2019 and 2024, the Christian share of the adult population has been relatively stable, hovering between 60% and 64%.” One interpretation suggests that the Christian population has even grown, albeit by a small margin.
The survey mentions that in 2007, 78 percent of Americans identified as Christians. Those who pay attention to religious cultural trends are familiar with the deluge of reports over the last 10 years predicting the impending death of Christianity. For example, in 2019, Pew rolled out a study announcing, “Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace.” “The U.S. is steadily becoming less Christian and less religiously observant as the share of adults who are not religious grows,” Pew bellowed. Interestingly, 2019 is when this downward trend began reversing.
Mounting a Comeback
Some believe Christianity isn’t just holding steady — it’s mounting a comeback. Faith commentator and author of Why I’m Still a Christian Justin Brierley is among them. “I predicted a rebirth. Now the evidence is coming in,” he gloated in the subtitle to an article he published back in February.
Brierley cites an Orthodox Studies Institute study that shows a “62 per cent increase in baptisms and chrismations … between 2021-2023 compared to the previous three years.” Also, Bible sales in the U.S. rose by 22 percent in 2024, “while the general book market remained flat.” A strange shift is also taking place among Gen Z, Brierley points out. “For the first time, more Gen Z men are now attending church than their female counterparts in the USA,” he said.
There are signs that Gen Z is the generation that’s rebelling by turning to faith. The City Journal recently reported:
After decades of steady decline, the share of Americans identifying as Christian has stabilized. One reason is the unexpected religiosity of Generation Z — young adults born after 2000 — who are not abandoning religion at the rate their parents did. For some, faith has become a form of rebellion against a culture that rejects traditional values.
Revival
Another positive sign for Christianity is the emergence of revival-style events. In February 2023, the small Kentucky town of Wilmore was inundated with anywhere between 20,000 and 50,000 people after a revival broke out at Asbury University. The Asbury Revival then inspired a number of other revivals over the following year. Those included one at the University of Arkansas in September 2024, when 10,000 students from more than 60 universities converged on Bud Walton Arena. Around the same time, hundreds of students got baptized during a revival event at the University of South Carolina. Revivals also sprung up at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and Ohio State University. And just last month, the most historic baptism in U.S. history happened. The Christian Post reported:
More than 7,750 people were baptized in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Huntington Beach, California, on Saturday [May 3], an event organizers say marked the largest single-day baptism in American history.
Among the most interesting elements of America’s resurging faith is why it’s happening. In January 2021, the madness of Covid lockdowns and other disruptions were still lingering. On January 27, 2021, Pew announced that “More Americans than people in other advanced economies say Covid-19 has strengthened religious faith.” Nearly one-third of Americans said the Covid era strengthened their faith. In March of this year, The New York Times, in an article titled “How Covid Remade America,” reiterated this point. “The histories of pandemics suggested this one might produce a spiritual revival, too,” said the Times.
It turns out that what the globalists meant for evil, the Almighty is using for good.
