In a string of Twitter posts, Fatherly posted the following statements and link to their piece on the issue:
Pride Parades and the Pride festivals that follow are noisy and crowded. They’re filled with sights that may be new to kids, like public nudity and kink. So is it appropriate to take your young kids to Pride?
Considering the benefits for all families — including seeing other LGBTQ+ families like yours, or showing up as an ally if your family members are straight and cisgender — the answer is ABSOLUTELY!
But it is necessary to talk to kids about new things they may see at Pride before diving in. Here are a few tips for getting the most out of Pride with your family.
If you’re taking your family to Pride for the first time, make sure you have a conversation about it ahead of time.
Kids have a tendency to point and ask questions when they’re exposed to new things, and you don’t want people celebrating Pride to become a convenient life lesson for your children.
“Talk to your children about Pride as if it’s not just this big party, but it’s a celebration of being — that it’s a recognition of historical oppression and uprising,” Jessica Fish, Ph.D says.
“[Understanding] the roots of that celebration of Pride is just as important as your child understanding that LGBTQ people exist and thrive within their communities.” –Jessica Fish added
You should also sit your kids down with a few more children’s books about LGBTQ+ people and families. ‘Rainbow: A First Book of Pride’ is a great option for kids younger than 10.
Pride parades themselves are really fun for kids. Freebies like necklaces and bags of Cheerios abound. Once the marching is finished, head over to the Pride festival, where you’ll typically find food, drinks, & kid-friendly play areas.
Fatherly’s article further cites comments from Dr. Jennifer McGuire, an associate professor of family social science at the University of Minnesota.
McGuire, a lesbian parent, always preps her kids for possible adult content beforehand. After a few events, the kids knew to expect nudity and other surprises. “They just had to learn to laugh and enjoy things. Like there were these Beanie Babies with giant penises on them,” McGuire says. “For a fourth- and fifth-grade kid, that’s super funny.”
The benefits to her family always outweighed any potential downside, McGuire says, because they could see how many other queer families were in their community and around the world. “They don’t necessarily get that from their swimming teams and drama clubs and school,” she says.
The article writes
Reduxx notes that this article was met with heavy criticism on social media when it was first published.
Moreover, the outlet notes that in 2021The Washington Post published an article titled “Yes, kink belongs at Pride. And I want my kids to see it.” This article follows Lauren Rowello, who identifies as a non-binary author, who takes her children to a pride parade in Philadelphia with her ‘trans-identified male spouse.’
Rowello recounted that ‘her children witnessed two men, one of whom was scantily clad in nothing but a leather thong, engaging in BDSM in public. Rowello also notes that the children witnessed several more men wearing leashes and sporting whips and batons, and that she explained to the kids that the men’s behavior was “members of our community celebrating who they are and what they like to do,”’ Reduxx wrote.
Reduxx added, ‘Rowello went on to state that children should be exposed to sexual fetishism in order to be “reassured that alternative experiences of sexuality and expression are valid.”’
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[8] And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem? [9] Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not. [10] And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head. Ezekiel 9:8-10
These parenting and children’s outlets and magazines have been pushing immense levels of perverseness and abominations for a long time; but now it is getting incomprehensible, as these deranged prophets continue to encourage so-called parents to allow their children to be desensitized to the worst mankind can currently conceive.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Absolutely repulsive. the abominations continue.. The LORD is going to bring a nasty famine upon this land.. And as much as I am a bit fearful of that coming, it is well deserved and the wicked shall perish in their own perverseness.
I’m in the same boat as you are, Daniel.
These famines are coming and America, they’ve had fullness of bread for too long, stuffing their faces, making gluttony a sport with eating contests (I don’t know but I don’t recall any other country having eating contests except America) wasting food and not giving one flip about still good food being tossed like old newspapers!
America has had enough being over-indulged with their sports, America has more sports than most of us have pairs of shoes, watching their idiot box-fake reality TV, goofy funny animal shows and videos, watching greedy buffoons worship mammon on game shows, guys driving cars or motorcycles in a circle, overpaid pampered athletes in spandex and helmets throwing balls and knocking each other over and patting themselves on their rear ends, tall skinny athletes bouncing a ball back and forth and tossing it in a hoop, watching a bunch of clowns who can’t carry a tune in a bucket singing some song by Kelly Clarkson on American Idol, or video games!
Those distractions by design such as Will Smith slapping Chris Rock or that circus trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, the elitists and the jesuits are trying their hardest to deviate our attention from their evil works and they see that the general public eats it all up and couldn’t care less about what’s actually going on, they’ll say “destroying these peasants will be a breeze, we could do it in our sleep!”
God who is Jesus is going to allow it to happen!
Yes their damnation is just Andrew
Psalm 68:1 (KJV) To the chief Musician, A Psalm or Song of David. Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.
Genesis 19:12-16, 24-25
12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:
13 for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.
14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the Lord being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
24 Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;
25 and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
HEY…that’s a foul: you can’t say ‘fatherly’!!!!!! It has to be parental unit A or B, them or some such any-meaning term, doesn’t it? I’d say that’s hypocrite writ large, wouldn’t you?
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And this stuff is the RESULT of A FAMINE….of public preaching and the word of God, not just precipitating one in judgment.
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Am 8:11 ¶ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
Am 8:12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
Am 8:13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
Am 8:14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
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This happened when Jeroboam & the following kings established the tradition of corrupt pagan-Mosaic worship in the Northern Kingdom of Israel. There was a famine of the words of God, but they could still go south to Judah if they really wanted it, or give heed to prophets God sent to them like Amos.
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The famine got worse when the Assyrians defeated Assyria and deported the people to pagan foreign lands of Assyria: 1 Chronicles 5:26 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.
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Some few made it back to Israel, but couldn’t prove their geneaology, & were mingled with the foreigners the Assyrians settled in Samaria. People like the woman Jesus spoke to in John 4.
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This history is interesting because these mingled peoples worshipped & feared both the Lord God and other gods. I noticed in Romans 1 today that the new versions change ‘more than’ to ‘rather than’ in Romans 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
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I believe a lot of these changes serve to fuzzy up peoples’ understandings of the religion of the latter days& antichrist religion. And if you compare the changes the versions make against the King James Bible, a clear pattern of this becomes apparent.
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So here’s more of the conditions & visible causes & realities causing the famine foreshadowed in what Amos prophesied …and which very likely is what we are going to see happen in Western nations who abandon the King James & find it absolutely outlawed & destroyed wherever they can find it, leaving them with nothing but antichrist confusion: again & on a level even beyond what Rome was able to accomplish during the Dark and Inquisitional Ages …due to the greater surveillance & control of digital.
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2Ki 17:23 Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
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2Ki 17:24 ¶ And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
2Ki 17:25 And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them.
2Ki 17:26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.
2Ki 17:27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.
2Ki 17:28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.
2Ki 17:29 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
2Ki 17:30 And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
2Ki 17:31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
2Ki 17:32 So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
2Ki 17:33 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
2Ki 17:34 Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
2Ki 17:35 With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:
2Ki 17:36 But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.
2Ki 17:37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.
2Ki 17:38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.
2Ki 17:39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
2Ki 17:40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
2Ki 17:41 So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children’s children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
oops, Assyrians defeated SAMARIA….not themselves. Duh.
It is very repulsive. And it seems every time we go out into public grocery store, gas station, bank etc we see more and more of this. Just this past weekend we were driving home from the store and there was a man strutting d
a long the side of the road cross dressing in some sort of bikini, sunglasses and big hoop earrings in daylight holding up a phone as if he was filming himself. Mind you we live in a small city/town and this was on a road that has industrial buildings on the way to the local Walmart and gas stations. Thankfully our son did not see. The pride that exudes these wicked devil filled people is beyond comprehension. We are trying very hard to get out of the town we are currently in and Lord willing we will find some land out in a more rural area. It boggles my mind and also frustrates me when I hear professing Christians try to defend living in these areas. Saying things like we are to be salt and light. But these are also bible perversion pushers. I say the King James Bible says to not let any wicked thing before thine eye and this is utter wickedness. We aren’t supposed to look like the world or partake in any of its corrupt satanic wickedness. We are supposed to be a set apart people, walk in obedience to Gods perfect word and share the gospel which means sin has to be rejected and spoke against. But we do not have to stay living near or in it to tell the truth to the lost.
BRING JUDGMENT GOD. PLEASE. MAKE THEM PAY.