The Bible speaks to the notion of building our lives on a firm, strong foundation. Jesus contrasted the difference between two men in Matthew 7, one who build his house on a rock, the other on the sand. When the storms came, the house built on the rock stood. The presence of pressure can test the viability of ideas. I think of the Jewish teacher Gamaliel who addressed his colleagues who fretted about the movement being led by Jesus; he said that religious movements had come and gone, but if it were of God, then efforts to wipe it away would fall. 1st Corinthians chapter 3 (ESV) says:
11 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— 13 each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.
The pressure is hitting, the “movement” is being exposed, having left confusion and moral decay in its wake. A day of reckoning has come for what has been a successful movement in totally rewiring and transforming our culture. Glenn Stanton of Focus on the Family has pointed it out in an article at the Daily Citizen:
If there is a takeaway from this year’s month-long celebration of sexual experimentation, redefinition and rebellion, it is that LGBTQ has been fully revealed as the incoherent mess it always has been.
The ever-growing rainbow of letters do not represent a unified worldview because each denies the wonder and truth of what it means to be human. In fact, they are set on upending this. Whether you have a Christian (or some other faith-basis) or an evolutionary materialist worldview, you believe that both male and female and their union are essential for sexuality, the family and humanity to function.
Opposition to this fact is the primary flaw of all LGBTQ ideology and it has been demonstrated in colorful ways around this year’s “pride” month. The rainbow coalition is finally imploding.
Stanton cited two leaders of the LGBT movement who have been exposed. One is Andrew Sullivan, to whom “The New York Times gave…4,200 words of its precious print real estate last year for him to amply illustrate how LGBTQ ‘radicalized and lost its way.’” Stanton noted:
But in early June 2026, Sullivan confessed how “distressing” it is to find the Ts and the Qs are “setting us back 20 years” because of their radicalness. This was demonstrated in a June Gallup report indicating support for gay and lesbian relationships among republicans, democrats and independents had turned southward.
Stanton goes on to say:
The younger voice criticizing the devolution of LGTBQ is 36-year-old Matthew Vines who gained notoriety in 2015 for his deeply heretical book, God and the Gay Christian. It sought to rewrite Jesus’ clear sexual ethic, explained in Mark 10 and Matthew 19, which affirmed the truth of Genesis’ creation anthropology.
On the last day of this year’s ‘pride’ month, The New York Times published an editorial from Vines concerned that the movement he helped prop up is losing serious steam because “queer” is overtaking the “gay” that he salutes. In fact, his piece is titled, “I’m Gay, Not Queer. It Matters.”
It matters to Vines because, like Sullivan, “queer” is too radical for his liking. But as so many of Vines’ peers in his own movement reminded him so many times in negative reaction to his piece, the gay movement has always been about challenging convention.
But Vines and his ilk have certainly done damage to the Church. I came across a Christian Post piece from 2013, which announced:
Fifty hand-picked Christians were part of a seminal conference last week planned by Matthew Vines, a 23-year-old Christian who believes Scripture allows for monogamous homosexual activity, in an effort to spread the idea in the American church over the next decade.
Vines says he has had success in convincing lay members of churches over the last year that monogamous homosexual activity is allowed by Scripture, but is encountering resistance from Scriptural scholars. He is likely to encounter much more, say theologians.
Vines, as it’s been noted, is a proponent of the theory that the Bible permits homosexual activity. Compare his viewpoint to another dangerous point of view perpetrated by Sam Allberry, who makes no secret that he is sexually attracted to men, but is OK before God if he doesn’t act on it. Well, apparently, something happened, and he resigned his church position because a relationship with another male became inappropriate. The fruit of a poison tree, indeed.
Glenn Stanton from Focus on the Family says:
The tide is moving against you, Mr. Vines.
This is why the LGBT movement is presently imploding. It is set on overturning the historic and culturally universal reality of what it means to be human as male and female. It is set on overturning a creation anthropology given to us in the truth and wisdom of Genesis, which, as we have seen, is solidly affirmed by Jesus himself.
No wonder it’s imploding. This false ideology is riddled with internal contradictions.
The foundation of this warped view of sexuality is unstable, and cultural adjustments are being made. Witness the tidal wave of opposition to these false promises of surgeries and treatments to change one’s gender. Check out the number of states and athletic organizations that do not believe biological males should compete in female sports; now, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court, states can continue to enforce laws that ban this practice. The high court has also ruled that, yes, people can counsel youth struggling with same-sex attraction, which applies to those who would want to apply Biblical truth. Think about the muted response to Pride Month exhibited by Target or the consumer backlash to the Bud Light controversy.
And, get this, from just last week at The Christian Post:
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have given the green light for an event featuring ex-gay Christians during the Church of England General Synod after coming under pressure to cancel it.
The event scheduled for July 13 will feature Matthew Grech, who was recently acquitted of promoting so-called “conversion practices” in Malta after he shared his testimony of leaving homosexuality behind on a radio show.
In our contention with unbiblical ideas, I would submit we have to take the “W’s” when we can get them. I covered Gallup data recently still showing widespread support for gay marriage, but the Gallup report cited by Glenn Stanton said this:
After two decades of rising support for LGBTQ+ issues, U.S. attitudes have plateaued and begun to slide back modestly. Approval of same-sex marriage, moral acceptance of gay and lesbian relations, and endorsement of gender changes are all down from peaks reached in the early 2020s.
Sinful practices are common throughout our culture. But, the bankruptcy of LGBT ideas and the instability of said ideas are revealing cracks in the foundation, resulting in the “implosion” that Stanton cites.
Our mission is to continue to live our lives in a way that models the power of truth, to celebrate healthy, Christ-centered marriages, and to speak God’s truth in a society searching for answers.