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Last week, I found and shared an article by Scott Yenor for First Things, a long-running Christian-Conservative journal out of America. Yenor is a Lutheran; he is also a member of a “secretive, men-only Christian Nationalist organization”, yet much of his retelling of gay history and respectability politics was surprisingly agreeable and uncannily accurate. It was almost as if the married father of five had been a fly on the wall, during this entire episode of militant faggotry. Go figure.

There was something, however, that Yenor clearly got wrong, or perhaps even intentionally misled his readers about. And that was the supposed “radicalism” of what he describes as an unique “third wave” of woke queer activists.

As with modern “anarchists”, there is nothing “radical” about today’s queers, other than the costumes they choose to don for live-action-roleplay. Most trans-aligned online media, for example, is breathtakingly dull and pedestrian; populated by secular evangelists who have more in common with the parochial essentialism of the woke-right, than the thinking of Butler or Foucault. More than they would ever be willing to admit.

Yenis' article wrote: The Pride flag represents a new deal for Americans: Government grants what nature denies. We can invent new ways of life in defiance of the most ancient norms. Neither nature nor history can limit us. It’s a stunning view of freedom.

Romanticization of pedophilia is a pipe dream that died two decades ago.