‘Pride Month’ Meets Its Match: Christian Group Cooks Up ‘Hetero Awesomeness’ Plan for State Capitol During June
If you really think about the seven deadly sins, you realize that they all involve not feelings, but self-obsessed behavior.
Small wonder, therefore, that those who celebrate their own sexual proclivities each June call the annual event “pride month.”
By contrast, a new “Hetero Awesome Fest,” scheduled for June 20 and 21 near the state Capitol in Boise, Idaho, and promoted by the group Heterosexual Awesomeness, which has formal 501(c)(3) status as a nonprofit, represents the perfect Christian antidote to self-obsessed pride, for the festival’s lighthearted title alone demonstrates that its organizers and supporters do not take themselves too seriously.
According to NBC News, the idea for a Heterosexual Awesomeness Month originated with 47-year-old Mark Fitzpatrick, father of six children and owner of the Old State Saloon in the Boise suburb of Eagle.
In fact, in an Instagram video last week, Fitzpatrick explained how he came up with the idea.
“I was thinking to myself, ‘What could we do to celebrate in June that would be different than what’s going on downtown? Can we be different than what Pride has been celebrating every June? What if we celebrated God’s design for sexuality? What would that look like?’ And within a few seconds, I thought, ‘Man, heterosexuality is awesome,’” he said.