The pornification of western society continues to advance at breakneck speed. Over the weekend news outlets reported fully naked men at Pride parades in multiple major cities in America and Canada (HERE, HERE, HERE). It’s getting so that you can’t even take your children to a Pride Parade on a Sunday afternoon without being subjected to male nudity. Ordinarily when women or men walk around in their birthday suit in front of other people, they do so for money, either on the screen, on the stage, or on the clock. A glance at these perverts will quickly reveal the naked truth about why they chose to display their natural endowments for free. Had there been a cover charge, we can be sure no one would be buying. In one of the pictures, a naked ghoul stands grinning in front of a sign inviting passersby to “Check Your Moles Here.” I had no idea people took moles to Pride parades, but at least the little fuzzy mammals would not be offended by what they saw… being blind.
We might say a word or three about the rapid normalization of pedophilia. Drag queens and the LGBTQ+ religion have opened the door for the legal protection and public celebration of sexually grooming minors. We were assured by our winsomely irenic and irenically winsome evangelatinous thought leaders that the freedom to host events like Drag Queen Story Hour at public libraries is “one of the blessings of liberty.” One hopes we can be forgiven for imagining a direct relationship between drag queens reading storybooks to children, then giving them lap dances at “family-friendly gay bars” (there is an incoherent collection of words if I’ve ever seen one), and the recent, coordinated, multi-city lewdness of naked men parading their saggy shame in front of small children. If you still think men who like to molest small children are perverts and criminals deserving of death, you will soon be branded as a bigot for hate thought crime against Minor Attracted Persons.
Now many Christians who rightly wince at such wickedness still think their Reformed and Presbyterian pastors should not say a damn-ing thing about it in the pulpit. Spirituality of the church and all. Just rest in your justification, brothers. We’re not taking our children to these Pride parades. They’re on the Lord’s Day after all. Our children will be safely in church on Sundays… before going back to the local government indoctrination center on Monday. Some of the saints in the room, who genuinely love Jesus, don’t have the sense to come in out of the rain. It’s coming down pretty good right now, but we don’t want to become a culture warrior like that Noah guy down the street, the one who built a dock in his backyard. He’s an embarrassment to the entire Presbytery.
Our theologians may still be looking for a natural law argument against public nudity, but the pervert in the public square already knows where he stands.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them…. God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves…. God gave them up to vile passions…. men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness… who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them. –Romans 1:18-32 (emp. added)
The rebel is suppressing the truth in unrighteousness. He already knows there is a holy and just God by whom he lives and to whom he will answer. He may never have read Leviticus 18 or had the benefit of scholarly explanations for why its penalties for defilement and abominable customs no longer apply under the New Covenant. The crude, lewd nudist knows that he deserves death for what he is doing. That is why he revels. It is not enough to practice his perversity in private. He must do so in public, and you must approve and help him celebrate. A man whose conscience is clear does not need public approbation, and he certainly does not need to publicly display his not-so-private parts. The pervert who undresses in public is dancing on his way to Hell. He is trying to convince everyone his behavior is normal and admirable, but he knows better, just like the demons who animate his madness (Matt. 8:29). He is a general revelation theonomist who knows he stands condemned under God’s Law. That law has been written on his heart, along with its ultimate penalty. It is the teachers of the law who have become confused and ignorant. They regret that the emperor has no clothes, but he is, after all, naked in the common kingdom, so the prophets in Israel ought not to say much about it. –JME
