Popular children’s host, Ms. Rachel, whose real name is Rachel Griffin Accurso, came under fire recently when she posted a video celebrating Pride Month on June 1, 2024. Because her content is geared toward babies and toddlers, many conservative parents disagree with her message to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and identification by sexual preferences.
She said at the end of her video, posted on TikTok:
“To those who are going to comment they can’t watch this show anymore because of this support, no worries and much love your way. God bless. I am not chasing fame or views, I’m standing strong in love,” - Ms Rachel (June 2024- after posting a Pride Video)
“I am standing strong in love.”
A world untethered from the moral foundation in Christ truly believes they are “standing in love” by embracing whatever society propagates in the name of inclusion. In the name of diversity. In the name of radically embracing the ‘outcast’ under a banner of love. But in a society bereft of a moral compass and comprehension of the word love, this can take on a wide variety of belief and action.
It propels people to celebrate when young girls have mastectomies because they feel they were born in the wrong body. It motivates church clergy to abandon sermons on repentance and embrace those that tickle the ears of their congregations. It encourages inequality in sports by exalting a "victim class" over all others.
No doubt, countless multitudes believe they rest on moral high ground while shaming those awful Christians for their “intolerance” regarding sodomy under the guise of being true to thyself.…of murder in the name of “healthcare”…of misogyny and child predation under the colorful, deviant rainbow flag. It’s not by accident that this evil force has sought an image reflecting a promise of God to invert, to mock, to hold up before mankind seeking obeisance.
Without the solid foundation given by Christ and the Ancient Faith, even well meaning Christians believe they’ve become ascendant by embracing homosexuality, feminism or abortion— truly believing that these “progressive” tenets have opened their minds and hearts to a higher and more intelligent philosophy...of their interpretation of Scripture particularly.
They honestly believe they hold the moral high ground and are justified in labeling and condemning those who disagree with them. It feels good, after all, to receive the endorsement of the crowd, to be praised by the world. Interesting how that works; superiority on the peaks of morality means judgement and punishment now indwell the virtuous mountaineer.
Abandoning the words and commands of Christ, a new world religion is championed—social justice, as defined by the State. It is often for this reason that those who call themselves “Christians” rally to the defense of those who are sexualizing and grooming children at drag shows. "Family friendly" shows that include sexual-tease performances by men mocking women have become popular, even among some professing Christians because they don't see the harm. The warnings of Christ about protecting these little ones are but a faint cry in the recesses of the mind. Matthew 18:6-7
I suspect it’s also why Ms. Rachel feels completely at ease introducing babies and toddlers to “pride month” as she did in her TikTok video, while also underscoring her motivation as “love”. After headlining an event for children, Queer Fam Pride Jam event for toddlers that also brought backlash, she responded:
"Accurso responded to the criticism on Monday, saying her embrace for pride month is rooted in her Christianity. “I am a Christian and in the Bible it says the greatest commandments are to love God and love your neighbor,” Accurso said. “I love all of my neighbors and that excludes no one.” " --Spencer Lindquist, Daily Wire
Spiritual hosts of wickedness are not always cloaked in swastikas and missiles— more often, they hide beneath virtue, piety, and social justice. Devils may be vile, but they aren’t witless or ignorant of the Kingdom of God. They know how to use man's nature against him.
It is a genius of satan to weaponize virtue, moving mankind to subvert the Truth while at the same time making him feel very good about his actions, whispering, see how loving you are! Lies + Pride is the formula that continues to expand the realms of darkness, producing vanity, self-absorption and a temporary “high” in the short term, but misery, hatred, fear, despondency and separation from God in the long term.
Jesus Christ not only loves us, He transforms us. Virtuous mountaineers love to say “Jesus ate with sinners” to justify their meaning of “loving others”, but are quick to nix the reality of Jesus, by His divine nature, calling people to repentance. The prostitute who washed Jesus' feet with her tears did so because of the awareness of her own sins and the beauty of Christ's redemption to make her whole.
Jesus taught us what love truly is.
Love is not an emotion, but volitional. It involves a choice that is sometimes very difficult— such as when someone struggling with addiction realizes the harm he is doing to himself and loved ones. Love demands change.
Love is not equated with “niceness”. When seeing someone about to jump to their destruction from a bridge, love doesn’t say, “I affirm your belief that you can fly”—no, love demands action to save a person because of the value of human life created in the image of God.
Love is a lion, not ‘feel-good vibes’. It is love that moves men to sacrifice themselves on a battlefield for God and country. It is love that produces supererogatory acts that are painful, but heroic, such as the example of Andrea Chancey, a special needs child, who was saved during a horrific Amtrak wreck in 1993. Her parents pushed her up out of the water to rescuers, at the expense of their own lives. That is love.
Love is sacrificial, not self-absorbing, coddling and affirming of anything and everything. Love protects children and does not affirm their hatred of themselves or encourage them to harm their bodies.
Love is enduring and rejoices with Truth. When Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life, no man comes to the Father but through me” in John 14:6, He made an exclusive statement and beckons those who love Him to keep His commandments.
Love is painful. It was for the love of mankind that Christ went willingly to the cross. It was the power of love that defeated death at His resurrection. Contrasting the true meaning of “love” to the naive definition given by the world, is the difference between gold and yellow plastic made in China. One provides the power of transformation, endurance, hope and eternal salvation, the other offers a temporal ‘feel good’ empowerment based on the whims and trends of the age.
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