Now, when we see rainbows they are typically promoting the gay marriage agenda. Sadly, it's been completely commandeered. Rainbows are showing up everywhere, not as a sign of beauty but as an in-your-face expression of "Hey! Pay attention to us! We're discriminated against."
Then there is the ad-nauseam promotion of Gay Pride day/week/month and parades where costumed exhibitionists use rainbows as they jangle their scantily clad junk in people's faces. If you question that activity you are accused of being a homophobe. No, actually, I don't like it when straight people do that either!
I love my gay friends as I love my straight friends. I don't separate them into friend categories like the Democratic party does their electorate. They are all my friends just as we are all Americans (okay, yes, except for you Canadians, whom I love, too). I want my gay friends to have the same legal and financial protections that my husband and I have.
But I am saddened that rainbows ... something that we learn to admire and draw and watercolor as small children ... has now become a symbol of sexuality rather than the innocence of water meeting sunshine. Yes, yes, there is symbolism in using the rainbow, all colors come together, blah-blah-blah .... but I still find it sad that the innocence of a rainbow has now been replaced with a political issue.
Rainbows are still as beautiful and wondrous as they have ever been! To say you "love your Gay friends but..." is just the same as "I'm sorry but...". It totally negates what comes before the "but". When I look up in the sky and see a rainbow, I think of the uniqueness of one of nature's most stunning phenomena and thank God for His marvelous creation. When I see a rainbow drawn by a child, I think of his/her sweetness and creativity. When I see a rainbow that symbolizes the combining of people of all genders, races and sexual orientations, I think of all of my Gay friends, how much I live them and how proud and happy I am to have them in my life. Life is rarely "either-or" but most often "all of the above"
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