Indiana’s
far-right Christian nationalist Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith posted a
new episode of his "Jesus, Sex, and Politics" podcast in which he doubled down on his
warning that Pride Month is "the rainbow beast" and "a state-corporate-pagan alliance to reprogram society."
For nearly an hour, Beckwith and his co-host Nathan Peternel railed against Pride Month and the LGBTQ agenda in general, which Beckwith called "demonic."
"If you've ever studied the origins of, just the history of the LGBTQ movement throughout ancient history and all the way up to today, this is the same demonic spirit that basically just keeps coming back again," Beckwith said. "Back in ancient Israel, there was a goddess, her name was Ishtar, and she was the goddess of transgenderism, a gender-warping goddess. She was a homosexual goddess. Men would give themselves over to lustful acts with other men, women the same, pedophilia, everything like that. They would warp their genders. All those things. Same things that we're seeing today in the LGBTQ movement."
"It's really interesting when you study it because she was always celebrated in the month of Tamar [Beckwith presumably meant the month of
Tammuz], which is our month of June, the exact same time," Beckwith claimed. "And she was represented by rainbows in her eyes. Anytime you saw her, you'd see rainbows. And it's like, wow, this is the same demonic playbook just playing out all over again."
