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We\u2019re now well into \u201cPride Month,\u201d so it\u2019s perhaps appropriate to register a trio of recent dissents from the now-dominant orthodoxy.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s one that comes from the great Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the\u00a0James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions\u00a0at\u00a0Princeton University and, incidentally, a good friend to Brigham Young University and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:\u00a0 \u201cA Return to Fidelity: Princeton Professor\u2019s Brilliant Move to Flip \u2018Pride Month\u2019 on Its Head\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n And I recommend this, from the indispensable and fearless Cassandra Hedelius, who currently chairs the Interpreter Foundation\u2019s sister organization, FAIR:\u00a0 \u201cProclamation Month:\u00a0Be proactive in shaping your children\u2019s minds and hearts\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Incidentally, the text of \u201cThe Family: A Proclamation to the World\u201d \u2014 which seemed, to me at least, so little needed when it was issued by the First Presidency and the Council of the Twelve back on 23 September 1995 but which now strikes me as both boldly prophetic and urgently necessary \u2014 can be easily accessed here:\u00a0 The Family Proclamation<\/a><\/p>\n The third of the three recent dissents that I want to mention here is an extraordinarily powerful monologue from Megyn Kelly.\u00a0 It\u2019s not quite eighteen minutes long, but if you can access it, I strongly recommend that you watch it.\u00a0 This is where I came across it, though it may also be available elsewhere:\u00a0 \u201cA Great Day on\u00a0The Megyn Kelly Show\u201d<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n Now, I feel that I need to explain \u2014 although, even as I do so, I do it without any hope that my explanation will be credited in certain predictable quarters \u2014 that I am not calling for the mistreatment of transsexuals or of people suffering from gender dysphoria.\u00a0 In all such cases, as everywhere else, civility, kindness, and charity are and should be the rule.\u00a0 So, too, though, should be the truth.\u00a0 And it is far from evident that recent orthodoxy on this matter is actually kind to those that it purports to want to help and support.<\/p>\n As regards \u201cPride Month,\u201d specifically, I see no reason either to be proud of what \u2014 as the gay man quoted by Megyn Kendall observes \u2014 is, after all, \u201can attribute\u201d and not \u201can achievement\u201d or to be ashamed of it.\u00a0 I\u2019m not proud of being male or heterosexual or blue-eyed or fairly tall, let alone of being near-sighted.\u00a0 Nor am I ashamed of such traits.\u00a0 They just are, and I\u2019m obliged to cope with them.\u00a0 Moreover, there is no reason to persecute anybody for being male, heterosexual, blue-eyed, tall, near-sighted, or the sheer fact of being gay.\u00a0 In any case, though, \u201cpride\u201d is always a two-edged sword.\u00a0 In some senses, it can be a very good thing.\u00a0 In others, it can be a danger to oneself and to others:<\/p>\n