Published June 2, 2025
As June arrives once more, so does Pride month. Veterans have a day. Martin Luther King Jr. has a day. The Pilgrim Fathers have a long weekend. The LGBTQ community has an entire month.
How a society marks time reflects what it thinks is important. And the 30-day allowance given to Pride is no exception. It is clearly considered very important indeed—30 times more so than MLK, although this does make somewhat implausible the claim that the LGBTQ community is somehow marginalized. English ex-pats like myself don’t even have a lunch hour dedicated to our contribution to the USA, though we did give America the ideas contained in the Magna Carta, the accent for myriad Hollywood villains, and Davy Jones of The Monkees. We are the marginalized ones, it seems.
But seriously, Pride month has become over the years a reminder to many Christians that we are strangers in an increasingly strange land. Values such as sexual continence, public modesty, and the need to protect children from garish displays of promiscuity have been in short supply for many years, and Pride month exemplifies that.
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Carl R. Trueman is a fellow in EPPC’s Evangelicals in Civic Life Program, where his work focuses on helping civic leaders and policy makers better understand the deep roots of our current cultural malaise. In addition to his scholarship on the intellectual foundations of expressive individualism and the sexual revolution, Trueman is also interested in the origins, rise, and current use of critical theory by progressives. He serves as a professor at Grove City College.
