Young Activists Are Pushing Back Against Traditional LGBT Voices

LGBT ideology has always been radical. Revolution is the movement’s functional DNA, and as such, radical revolution is never satisfied. Radicals are gonna radical. That is why stories of younger LGBT activists publicly turning on old-school LGBT peers for not being radical enough are starting to appear in the news.

Tracy Hager lives in northeast Portland, Oregon and has flown what she calls “the gay American flag” outside her home for the past 30 years. It is an adulteration of the American flag, replacing the red and blue bars with the gay movement’s gaudy colors. Hager told her local NBC news affiliate, “I fly my flag just to support my gay community, bring awareness,” explaining, “I’m a proud lesbian; I’m a proud gay veteran.”

But being proud of one’s nation is too traditionalist for some LGBT activists.

Hager found her home had been vandalized last week by local trans activists because her flag seemed to support American patriotism. Her porch post holding the flag was vandalized with red paint with the message “F**k UR FLAG” above a curious symbol, also in red.

Hager explained to Portland’s Fox12, “We’ve come to realize that symbol is an LGBTQ transgender anarchy symbol, and it appears that I’ve been targeted by my own community for flying the gay American flag because it has the blue background and the white stars.” Hager confessed, “It just literally was like a gut punch,” adding, “It hurts to know that I may have been targeted by my own community because of the type of gay flag that I’m flying.”

“Targeted by my own community…”

That is how it works in so-called “progressive” politics today. You can faithfully serve the cause of lesbian politics for thirty years and vote for all the “right” people. But show some misplaced allegiance for America by turning the stars and stripes into a gay banner, and you will win the wrath of younger trans activists who are all too happy to send a message of their displeasure by damaging your home.

Being “old-school” radical is not enough. You must be super radical or your own will come for you! Of course, Ms. Hager is not alone here.

There is no one more radical for LGBT causes in California politics than state senator Scott Weiner. He has amassed a long list of troubling anti-family LGBT legislation in the Golden State in his decades as a legislator.

But in June (Pride Month!), CNN reported Sen. Weiner was viciously shouted down by LGBT activists at San Francisco’s annual Trans March, forcing him to leave for his own physical safety. He told CBS News the trans activists “were trying to bully me and intimidate me out of the park and I ended up leaving because it wasn’t safe for me.”

This wholly radical long-time gay activist felt for his physical safety at a major Pride event because, as a Jewish man, he is not as pro-Palestine as younger gay activists believe he should be. So they threatened him in ways that Weiner admitted went beyond free speech.

Christian parents and conservative citizens must realize it’s a fool’s errand to try to appease young activists by moving in their direction ideologically in hopes of building a bridge. We can mistakenly be inclined to do this with our own beloved children or co-workers. Faithful LGBT activists like Tracy Hager and Scott Weiner will affirm that you can never move far enough left for some people.

We must always speak truth in love, being equally full of grace and truth, just like Jesus. Trying to appease radical ideology will always end in frustration and further broken relationships.