The New York Times is having another one of those moments where they pretend to be shocked by reality. This week, the supposed "paper of record" published an article wondering why "Americans Are Turning Against Gay People," and honestly, you'd have to be living in a Manhattan media bubble to not understand what's happening.
Here's the reality check the Times refuses to acknowledge: Americans aren't "turning against gay people." They're turning against the radical LGBT agenda that's been shoved down their throats for years, particularly when it comes to targeting their children.
Remember when we were told this was just about "love is love" and adults wanting to get married? That was the sales pitch. But what did we actually get? Drag queen story hours for kindergarteners, schools secretly transitioning children without parental consent, and biological males dominating women's sports while activists call concerned parents "bigots."
The Bait and Switch Nobody Asked For
The Times can play dumb all they want, but parents across America have watched this movement morph from seeking acceptance into something far more sinister. When you have teachers hiding a child's "gender transition" from mom and dad, when you have schools pushing sexually explicit content on elementary students, when you have activists demanding that questioning any of this makes you a "transphobe" - well, that's not about equal rights anymore.
"Americans were told this was about tolerance and acceptance. Instead, they got ideological indoctrination of their children and demands for absolute compliance with ever-changing rules."
The data doesn't lie. Support has declined precisely because the goalposts keep moving. First it was the LGB community seeking basic dignity. Now it's an ever-expanding alphabet soup of identities, each with new demands and new ways to call you a bigot if you don't keep up.
Parents are watching their kids come home from school confused about basic biology. They're seeing female athletes lose scholarships to biological males. They're being told their religious beliefs make them hateful.
The New York Times wants to frame this as some mysterious rise in prejudice. But maybe, just maybe, when you spend years attacking the family unit, parental rights, and biological reality itself, people tend to push back. Shocking concept, right?