Scott Wiener’s horrible Humpty Dumpty take on what the rainbow means

California State Senator Scott Wiener, who is currently running to replace Nancy Pelosi in the House of Representatives, is an almost perfect caricature of a leftist: He’s a leather-wearing gay man whose obsession with his own sexual behaviors informs his worldview and his politics.

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Despite being educated at a couple of (once) reputable, and very expensive, institutions (Duke and Harvard), his fund of knowledge is limited to what comes to him through the Marxist filter. Where Humpty Dumpty viewed words as subordinate to his needs, Wiener takes the same approach to history, a view driven by a toxic combination of ignorance and narcissism. This has allowed him to argue that the rainbow’s symbolic meaning for the LGBTQ+ crowd predates the Biblical connection to that natural phenomenon.

The context for this display of dominance over history is the fact that four baseball players on the San Francisco Giants team decided that they were sick and tired of being forced in June to wear caps that had them taking pride in other people’s sexual preferences. Instead, they opted to wear Bible verses, thus substituting the traditional American religion—for America was founded on Biblical principles—for the New Age cult worship of homosexuality.

Leftists, including the commissars at the MLB, were outraged at the players’ blasphemy. It was only when Sen. Josh Hawley reminded the MLB of a little thing called the First Amendment, and subtly threatened them with a mandatory appearance in Congress, that the MLB honchos suddenly backed down:

Of course, the First Amendment isn’t going to stop the sexual radicals from making their displeasure known with the heretics who’ve decided that they shouldn’t be forced to engage in an annual celebration of anal sex and leather gear. And that’s where Wiener crossed into Humpty Territory:

This Duke- and Harvard-educated man actually believes that the first time the rainbow ever received a meaning beyond the obvious (“pretty colors in sky”) was in 1978, when Gilbert Baker, a gay rights activist, designed it. However, even Baker acknowledged that the rainbow’s symbolism predated the gay rights movement:

He chose the rainbow motif because of its association with the hippie movement of the Sixties but notes that the use of the design dates all the way back to Ancient Egypt.

(If you want to understand the purely sexual basis of the Pride movement, check out the linked essay and read what Baker had to say about the first Pride Parade, a somewhat X-rated passage, so be warned. Also, I remember when the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco, inspired by the hippy reverence for the flag, put on an exhibit dedicated to the rainbow in art. I was a child, and was dazzled by the artwork, some of it dating back hundreds of years.)

According to ChatGPT, in the Third Millennium B.C., abstract designs that some scholars speculate are rainbows first appeared in Egyptian art, and the scholars wonder whether these designs might symbolize divinity. It wasn’t until late in the Second Millennium B.C. (around 1147-1136) that images that looked a little more like rainbows appeared in Egyptian tomb art, and even then, it’s not clear if they were rainbows, nor do we know exactly what they symbolized.

However, there was one place in the ancient world in which the rainbow is clearly identified and given an unambiguous sacred meaning: Yes, I am talking about the Bible. In Genesis, when Noah, his family, and all the animals leave the ark after the great flood, God makes a promise:

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Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: “I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.” (Genesis 8-15.)

The traditional belief is that Moses himself compiled the information in Genesis, which would mean that these stories (which may have long predated Moses himself) were reduced to narrative form around 1440-1400 B.C. Other scholars say they were reduced to writing in the 5th to 4th centuries B.C., but they would have reflected much more ancient oral traditions.

In any event, the Bible’s reverence for the rainbow, not just as a beautiful grace of color in the sky, but also as a physical embodiment of God’s promise to humankind, definitely predates 1978.

But for Marxists, history is infinitely malleable. They espouse Humpty Dumpty’s attitude regarding the words he used:

“There’s glory for you!”

“I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory,’” Alice said.

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. “Of course you don’t—till I tell you. I meant ‘there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!’”

“But ‘glory’ doesn’t mean ‘a nice knock-down argument,’” Alice objected.

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”

“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.”

Just substitute “history” for word definitions, and you discover that Comrade Dumpty was the perfect Marxist, and a stand-in for Scott Wiener. For Wiener, history has no fixed meaning. It means just what he chooses it to mean—neither more nor less. When you’re planning to erase the American Constitution, there is no question about which is to be master. History will lose every time to the narrative.

(For more on the subject of the LGBTQ+ usurpation of this ancient relationship between the Bible and the rainbow, check this out.)

Wiener is a truly odious character who, if elected to the House, will further degrade that august institution. He’s also a grave threat to the Constitution, for he has no compunction about throwing facts overboard and rewriting history to suit his current needs. This is a far cry from John Adams’ wise statement that “facts are stubborn things.” For post-modern leftists, facts are just inconvenient non-truths.

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