“Sidney Sweeney” is no longer the name of a youthful and beautiful actress/model. It has become a punchline – the joke being seeing a cultural bug-a-boo around every corner. Conservatives need to avoid the same trap.
Liberals can’t help themselves. In the latest, Christian liberals are debating Donald Trump’s eternal destination. (heaven or hell?) All I know is that God wants everyone in heaven and my job is to help Him get them there. We need to be better than them.
From our side of the aisle, the latest non-controversy:
DC Comics, along with Warner Bros., and LEGO have announced a new video game called LEGO® Batman™: Legacy of the Dark Knight and allowed fans to get a first look at some of the Batman costumes that will be playable in the game.
Some gamers were shocked when screenshots of a rainbow-themed Batman suit immediately started making the rounds online.
Plenty of Batman fans on X had strong reactions to the images, with one user saying, “Smart move, immediately alienate most of your audience.”
“They went woke,” another reply simply read.
For the record, “Rainbow Batman” has a long legacy, long preceding the LGBTQ movement’s seizure of rainbows as their symbol. Here’s the story:
Rainbow Batman made his debut in 1957’s Detective Comics #241, by Edmond Hamilton and Sheldon Moldoff, where Dick Grayson injured his arm saving a young girl at the beginning of the issue. Inexplicably, Batman starts wearing brightly colored costumes instead of his usual outfit when going on patrol with Dick in Gotham City. Eventually donning a costume with all the colors of the rainbow at once, Batman subdues the criminals responsible for Dick’s injury and, with Robin recovered, the Dark Knight resumes wearing his traditional costume.
The story has echoed throughout the character’s arc since. I first encountered the story when very young, in elementary school, and fell in love as it is a serious father/son moment. At the age I was, I related more to Robin than Batman and to watch Batman care for his “ward” (son) in this admittedly weird, but tender and personally embarrassing way made me conscious of just how much my father loved me.
Think about it, the Sidney Sweeney debate is pasting a personal issue on something simply not related. It’s selfish. Trying to judge someone else’s personal eternal fate is making judgements reserved only for God. This is somewhere past selfish and borders on blasphemy. Likewise, seeing a debate about sexual orientation surrounding a long-standing superhero storyline is selfish – picking a fight where no fight was intended.
The way for conservatives to be better than liberals is not to choose the right position on issue A or B, but to be better people – less selfish – looking out for the good of the nation, not grinding a personal axe.
