A detail photo of rainbow pride flags. At the LGBT Center of Greater Reading on Centre Ave in Reading, PA Wednesday evening February 16, 2022 where every third Wednesday of the month they serve a hot meal for anyone in need. (BEN HASTY — READING EAGLE)
Editor:
Recently I’ve seen objections to LGBTQ pride because “pride” is a sin. I bet those same folks would not object to Lee Greenwood singing that he’s “proud to be an American,” or back in the day, to Merle Haggard singing that he’s “proud to be an Okie from Muskogee.”
There’s a term in logic to describe the mistake these folks make: categorical error, egghead talk for comparing apples and oranges. Theological pride is about making oneself superior to the deity; social pride is being comfortable in one’s own skin.
Sometimes social pride makes others uncomfortable, as when billionaires enforce their pride by pushing everyone else out of the way — think President Donald Trump and the Montenegrin prime minister at the NATO meeting in 2017. That’s disgusting behavior but not a sin, though it comes much much closer to sin than a lesbian woman having the self-confidence to be who she is.
Alberto CacicedoReading
