My first real post on this blog was in response to Gov Cox officially recognizing Pride Month. It seems appropriate that as I rededicate myself to research and writing and thinking that I address it again because this time, three years later, Gov Cox has broken with tradition and now supports fidelity month.

Call me hard to please but this one doesn't sit well with me either.

I admit to not knowing much about it. I first found out about it on X and I don't go on X much anymore. I found out this time around from listening to the Latter Daily Saints¹, so all I know about it is what they said about it.

I think a lot of the critical view points are a little too extreme but I tend to agree with that general direction. It feels very pointed to me for the Governor to for years and years declare June Pride month and then all of a sudden flip to something that seems to have been designed specifically as a counter to Pride Month.

I guess I don't know what the solution is because my take is to just leave it alone and not acknowledge it. And I feel like on the back of years and years of acknowledging it, just ignoring it also feels fairly pointed.

I heard one commentator say of Pride Month that it seems a little excessive because what else do we have a month of? At first that seemed like a fairly appealing stance but on further reflection, Lent is 40 days and if Easter gets lumped in with that then you have 47 days. If, like my family, you start Christmas² the day after Thanksgiving and you go until Epiphany then you get 39-45 days depending on when Thanksgiving lands.

Halloween is essentially all of October whether I like it or not and then the Pioneer day at the Fourth of July all of July ends up being some sort of patriotic/statriotic flag or firework holiday. So I don't think that we-don't-have-long-celebrations-of-anything argument holds any water.

Do people that eschew Christmas feel the same way about stores and states going all in for Christmas as I do about them going all in for pride month?

I don't have many answers, I'm afraid. Just thoughts and reflection questions. But there you go.

Footnotes

1. Latter Daily Saints ↩

2. Ever since I started being one of the principal people that had to prep for Christmas the more I have felt good about stores getting Christmas stuff out early. If I have to plan, purchase, make, or craft decoration and I want to have my house decorated the first day of Christmas (Black Friday) then I need to get started on this early and I am thankful to stores that have what I need when I need them. It's not overly commercial (well maybe a little) it's being prepared! ↩