I wrote a VIP column about trying to avoid Pride Month as much as I could. I haven't been very successful. Today's the Drag Queen Story Hour at a park about a mile from my house. Every time I fire up a streaming service I get a list of "LGBTQ voices" to choose from. On my way to Starbucks — which is free of Pride paraphernalia — I pass a bookstore with a featured selection of Pride Month books. A video game site I frequent — because the other one got too political — has articles up about how you can celebrate Pride Month. They've run stories about how the character Gwen Stacey in "Across the Spider-Verse" is transgender.
I'm not a hockey fan, but I was proud of the NHL for staying out of it … until players began taking a knee, Colin Kaepernick-style. There was even talk about turning the blue lines black in honor of Black Lives Matter.
Now the media is upset because the NHL isn't compelling players to wear Pride jerseys on Pride Night.
“Disappointing”
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) June 24, 2023
“Disgusting”
“Disgraceful”
“It’s a small organization run by small people.”
“I’d pull out of Pride nights completely.”
Canadian media are not happy that the NHL won’t compel every player to wear a Pride jersey: pic.twitter.com/jHmRfn3Rpo
Don't watch hockey then you whiney bitches... https://t.co/L0Oejlwa3f
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) June 24, 2023
None these insufferable virtue signaling tools has watched even one second of Hockey in their life
— Bilbo Baggins (@Jbanklestankle1) June 24, 2023
People who think they have the moral high ground but in fact are serving the opposite of morality. There is no tolerance in Pride.
— Remember Truth (@remembertruthjp) June 24, 2023
My parents taught all their children to avoid “the sin of pride”.
— Noel D Collis (@NoelDrnoel) June 24, 2023
It would confuse them to hear that private sexual practices could be associated with “pride”- and would somehow confer elite privileged status upon those who were gay.
"I'd pull out of Pride nights completely."
— Josh McCoy (@JoshOrnot) June 24, 2023
That's a perfect win/win solution, right there.
This makes me want to watch hockey and I don’t ever watch hockey.
— David Guzman (@Goostafah) June 24, 2023
They need to generally stop “compelling” people to do things.
— RW (@Fastandannoyed) June 24, 2023
Every one must wear the patch ! Funniest Seinfeld episode ever! pic.twitter.com/oAJV52cdmt
— Dagger of Truth (Daddy/Grandpa) (@GMoney29323173) June 24, 2023
It's slipping away from them and they can't handle it like adults.
— Faithless 🍪 (@CryptoFaithless) June 24, 2023
Pride really is like a state religion at this point; as so many have pointed out, it's free speech to burn the American flag but hate speech to burn a Pride flag. Why would hockey players have to wear jerseys celebrating a sexual orientation? Why is there a whole month for celebrating a sexual orientation?
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