June arrives, and so does the annual conservative grievance convocation. They already scheduled their Festival of Snowflakes for the 14th. Dear Leader’s birthday. A fitting occasion.

So just like every June, the flags go up. The rainbow flags, not only the American ones, though they will tell you it is the American ones they are defending. And right on cue, the complaints begin. The same litany. Every year. Recycled with the confidence of people who have never once been asked to account for them.

Two of them we can kill in a paragraph. The third takes longer — not because it has merit, but because it is more than simple ignorance.

“Why isn’t there a Military Month?”

There is. May is National Military Appreciation Month. Congress passed it in 1999. The Senate voted 93 to 0. Senator John McCain carried the bill. The month contains Armed Forces Day, Military Spouse Appreciation Day, and Memorial Day. It is codified in Title 36 of the United States Code. Every president since has issued a formal proclamation. This is not obscure. This is not hidden. This is available on the government’s own website. You did not know this because you were not actually asking. You were performing.

“Why isn’t there a Straight Pride Month?”

Because heterosexuality has never required a pride movement. Pride is not a party. It is a response to persecution. It is what people build after they have been beaten, arrested, institutionalized, fired, disowned, and buried in unmarked graves for having the audacity to exist. You were never asked to be proud of being straight because no one ever told you being straight would damn you. No one called it a disease. No one put you in a facility to cure it. No one arrested you for it in your own home. Straight Pride Month would be the equivalent of demanding a hunger awareness day at a feast. The table was always set for you.

Now to the argument they actually mean.

“Homosexuality is a sin.”

Fine. Let us take you at your word and follow it to where it leads. While I disagree with the premise, let’s proceed with the assumption it is, in fact, a sin. Pay attention, conservatives.

If you are like most conservatives l, you claim Christianity is your bedrock. You wrap yourself in Jesus-approved righteousness the way you drape yourself in the flag: as decoration, as credential, as license. And if you accept the Christian doctrine you loudly profess, then you accept this: Jesus Christ died for all sins. All of them. Yours included. Not just the ones you approve of. Not the ones committed by people you do not like. All of them.

You are a sinner. By your own theology, you arrived in this world a sinner. You will sin today. You will sin tomorrow. The doctrine you invoke does not offer a sin exemption for people who vote correctly.

And yet your sins do not get a legislative session. No one is marching for or against your sins. No one is demanding yours be stripped of civil rights protections. They simply exist, often quietly, typically unlegislated.

Why is that?

Because here is what you actually believe, and what you will not say directly: you believe that homosexuality is a worse sin than the others. Not theologically. Theologically you cannot defend that. But viscerally, reflexively, you have assigned it a special category of disgust, and you have spent decades constructing political machinery to enforce that disgust on people who never asked for your opinion.

Consider what you do not bring to the legislature with this same fury.

Pedophilia. The sexual abuse of children. You claim to oppose it. And perhaps you do, in theory. But watch closely how the outrage calibrates when the perpetrator is known, when the victim is known, when the specific shape of the crime becomes clear. Watch whether the same person who turns crimson over two adult men holding hands finds their certainty soften, just slightly, when the child predator shares their politics or their pew. The crime against a child by a heterosexual predator does not seem to generate the same sustained political theater. It rarely becomes a month-long campaign. The child was harmed, but the sin does not carry the same voltage. I mean, at least it wasn’t against Leviticus 18:22 or 20:13 right?

Think carefully about what that tells you about what is actually driving the outrage.

How about rape? The sexual assault of an adult. The forcible violation of a human body. You say you oppose it. But watch the pattern of who gets believed. Watch who gets doubted. Watch how quickly, how reflexively, a woman’s account of assault becomes suspect the moment her attacker is someone you admire. The testimony becomes inconsistent. Her motives become suspicious. Her history becomes relevant. But an undocumented immigrant accused of anything? No such scrutiny is applied. The accusation is sufficient. The accusation is a verdict.

What you have revealed, without ever intending to, is a hierarchy. Not a theological one. A social one. A political one. Some sins threaten the order you benefit from. Those sins get the legislative fury, the sermons, the yard signs, the thirty days of annual grievance. Other sins, committed by people whose power you depend on or whose presence reassures you, those get more complicated treatment. More context. More doubt. More patience.

Two adults, the same biological sex, loving each other. That is your line. That is the sin so monstrous it requires a political crusade. Not the predator in your congregation. Not the powerful man whose accusers you dismissed. Not your own ledger of transgressions, which you have never once subjected to this level of public scrutiny.

You are not offended by sin. You are offended by people you have decided should not exist with dignity.

That is not theology. That is not morality.

That is a hierarchy of contempt.

Own it. You are not defending God. You are defending the predators in the pew, the rapists you gave the benefit of the doubt, the powerful men whose accusers you dismissed — because none of those sins threaten your hierarchy the way two adults in love did.

You choose your disgust over a child’s safety every time you look away from the sins of anyone sharing your politics. Your disgust never once protected a single child. It never convicted a single predator. It never believed a single victim.

It only ever punished people for loving each other.

That is your morality. That is your faith. That is what you are.