Can the Pride Flag Celebrate Other Deadly Sins, or Only Lust?

The first sign of spring is said to be the appearance of a robin. That is followed by the first sign that June has arrived: an “official” gay flag, festooned with what seems to be an ever-increasing number of colors and symbols, foisted up the flagpole right under (or alongside) Old Glory.

For as long as most folks living in a civil society can remember, pride and lust were part of that shameful list known as the Seven Deadly Sins: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride.

As far as I know, only “pride” has a flag designed specifically to celebrate its practice. However, the pride flag also encompasses “lust” (even though you can attach the spirit of pride to any of the other bad behaviors found on the infamous List).

Of course, the Ten Commandments outline the evil of all these sins, and warns of the danger of being controlled by them. In other words, being prideful and celebrating anything destructive to oneself or others is hazardous spiritually — and oftentimes both psychologically and physically, as well.

A Bit of Lampooning

At the risk of making light of this very serious practice, might I suggest some designs for decadent flags celebrating a few of the other Deadly Seven?

The “greed” flag would be filled with dollar signs. “Sloth”? Well, that one’s easy — a giant sloth!

The design for the “gluttony” flag could include a giant glazed donut with sprinkles. Or, perhaps a tempting array of hot dogs. Or, better still — both! And it could flap in the breeze with (dare I say) pride all November long, all the way up to December. (We all know what happens on Thanksgiving Day! Heck, you might even want to keep it flying all through the Christmas holiday season and into Super Bowl Sunday, for that matter!)

But seriously: As a nation, we need to turn from our dangerous obsession with coddling various evils – at the bare minimum, we must “speak the truth in love” as the Apostle Paul suggested (Ephesians 14:5). We must remember that pushing back against certain bad habits and practices that have become ingrained in our culture — even gently – can have consequences.

However, we need not, simply by our silence, encourage an ever-expanding drift into decadence. After all, if it is indeed true that “pride goes before the fall,” we are very near the precipice. We must begin — and continue — to pull our nation back from it. That serious effort begins with prayer to see where the Spirit of our Loving God leads.

But wouldn’t you know it? There’s even a flag for that! George Washington and the Founding Fathers flew a banner known as “An Appeal to Heaven.”

We suggest you display that one every month of the year.

A version of this article appeared originally at American Thinker.

Albin Sadar is the author of Obvious: Seeing the Evil That’s in Plain Sight and Doing Something About It, as well as the children’s book collection, Hamster Holmes: Box of Mysteries.