For decades the rainbow has been used as a symbol of pride for the modern queer rights movement... and not everyone is happy about that.
Ken Ham, the president, CEO, and founder of Answers in Genesis-US, a ministry โdedicated to helping Christians defend their faith and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ,โ as well as the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter, recently wrote a blog post lamenting that LGBTQ people essentially stole the rainbow from Christia for their own nefarious uses.
โIn recent times the rainbow (albeit with some different colors) has come to represent something far different,โ Ham wrote. โTo many people it means freedom, love, pride, a new era, and, specifically, the LGBTQ movement. But the rainbow itself wasnโt designed to be a symbol of freedom, love, pride, or the LGBTQ movement. God created this beautiful, colorful phenomenon and designated it as a sign of His covenant with Noah and his descendants forever.โ
Ham notes that โpeople ignore what God intended the rainbow to represent and proudly wave rainbow-colored flags in defiance of Godโs command and design for marriage.โ He claims that โmany Christians shy away from using the rainbow colorsโ because of this and that โas Christians, we need to take the rainbow back and teach our young people its true meaning.โ
In an effort to do just that, the Ark Encounter amusement park, located in Williamstown, Kentucky, which features a life-size replica of what is apparently supposed to be Noahโs Ark, is currently draped in rainbow colors as part of a Christmas display. Ham was even nice enough to film an hour-long video of the lights and share it on Facebook:
We donโt know about you, but we think the rainbow is much better used to troll Vice President-elect Mike Pence this holiday season.
(h/t Raw Story)
