Do colors matter? What is color-blind?
Let's Reclaim the Rainbow: Pride is sin, and comes before the fall!
February 16-
I was thinking of the phrase color-blind recently, as it has gotton currency in the Trump administration. One of the prayers at Trump inauguration also referenced the famous speech “I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr., who said one day the American children will be judged based on the content of their character, not on the color of their skins!
Color-blind simply means valuing a person based on her/his character and qualifications rather than her or his color, race, ethnicity etc.
There are seven colors visible to human eyes in the rainbow. The rainbow is first mentioned in the Bible in connection with God’s promise to never again destroy the earth with water/flood, and the appearing of the rainbow as a reminder of his blessing of seasons and productivity on the earth.
Now, I know a certain media company which changed, was forced to change its name from Rainbow Films to something else, as the gay movement expanded into transgender and claimed the rainbow for itself. Actually, there were originally 9 colors in the pride flag used by the trans movement, then 8, then 7, and finally mostly today it is 6 colors.
Gilbert Baker created the original pride flag in 1978. Baker was urged by Harvey Milk to create a symbol for the LGBT community and he chose a flag, which he saw as the most powerful symbol of pride. Baker saw the rainbow as a natural flag from the sky, so he adopted eight colors for the stripes, each with its own meaning: hot pink for sex, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, turquoise for art, indigo for harmony, and violet for spirit.
The believing community need not shrink from using the rainbow and 7 colors for referencing the promises of God, for two reasons. First, this is how it has been used and understood for over five or six thousand years. Second, such a beautiful and glorious symbol must not be allowed to be co-opted, appropriated, stolen and misused by and for sinner, for sinful agenda.
The six-striped Rainbow Pride flag is often used to symbolize the entire LGBTQ+ community. Though it was based on Gilbert Baker’s original eight-striped rainbow flag, the pink and turquoise from the original design were excluded for ease of production.
The Philadelphia flag was designed in 2017, adding black and brown stripes to the six-striped rainbow flag in order to give representation to queer and trans BIPOC. The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania officially adopted the new Pride flag in 2017, giving this design its name.
Bisexuality is an orientation defined as sexual, emotional, or romantic attraction to people of the same and other genders, or towards people regardless of their gender. The Bisexual Pride Flag was created by activist Michael Page. Each of the colors symbolize some kind of attraction: same-sex or same-gender attraction (magenta), attraction to other sexes and genders (blue), and attraction to both same and other sexes genders (purple).
Pansexuality is an orientation with the potential for emotional, romantic or sexual attraction to people of any gender. The Pansexual Pride flag was designed in 2010. The original creator who is currently unknown. The colors symbolize attraction to women (pink), attraction to men (blue), and attraction to nonbinary folks.
Polysexuality describes those who have romantic, sexual, or affectional desire for more than one gender. The Polysexual Pride flag was created on Tumblr in 2012. The stripes’ symbolic meaning are similar to the Pansexual Pride flag, but with green replacing yellow to differentiate them.
One is sure to get lost with ever increasing and evolving pride flags of various kinds! Therefore, sanity demands that we go back to two genders, and biology!
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