Who made rainbows gay?

Question

Rainbows are a symbol given as a covenant between God and man, so using this symbol means you acknowledge God and will be held accountable for the laws of the Bible when you die and stand before Him. Why then claim the rainbow, if it is only asking for punishment?

Answer 1

in the 40's gays called themselves friends of Dorthy so they could identify one another without retribution from the rest of society. the rainbow became a symbol afterwords as in over the rainbow sung by Dorthy in the wizard of oz. as far as why they picked this movie or Dorthy well... don't know.

Answer 2

Rainbows are a phenomenon of light and water vapor in the air -- the "covenant" thing was made up by superstitous people ages ago who didn't understand physics :)

It's been chosen as a symbol for gay rights because a rainbow contains all the various colors of visible light -- so it includes everything together in harmony. It's an apt symbol for people who just want to be included with everyone else as part of the broad spectrum of humanity, everyone together with slight differences that make up the whole. It's a nice thought and a nice symbol, please don't turn it into a "symbol of punishment".

Answer 3

Well my dear, I hear what you are saying but it is your interpretation. God did not claim copyright on the rainbow, it was to be a reminder of the covenant between God and the people of Israel. It is a wonder that no matter how often you see a rainbow you are awestruck anew each and every time you see it.
Gay people are artistic, sensitive and loving, I do not see anything blasphemous in them using a rainbow symbol

Answer 4

Rainbows are made by sunlight refracting through moisture droplets in the atmosphere.

Your religious mythology claims that they were created by your deity as a promise for less rain. And in Basque mythology, the rainbow is a ladder for the soul after a person dies, so that the soul will be rained back to the earth and reincarnated. Most ancient religions have a myth about rainbows. But rainbows don't 'belong' to anyone, sweetie.

Get over yourself before you miss out on knowing a lot of wonderful people through your ignorance.

Answer 5

As you know, symbols can have multiple meanings, and anyone can view or draw one, or use its colors. We saw rainbow Twizzlers in Orlando last week, and that wasn't a symbol either of gay pride *or* God's covenant, just a cute arrangement of fruity flavors. The history is at the link below. In the LGBT context, it is a symbol of diversity. It probably means as little to any God out there as that pack of Twizzlers.

I say this as someone who lived in Orlando when rainbow flags were flown in the city, and Pat Robertson said God would give us hurricanes for that, and a hurricane went to Virginia Beach (where Robertson's at) rather than Orlando. You might want to take a lesson from that.

Answer 6

The multicultural symbolism of the rainbow plays a part in many myths and stories related to gender and sexuality issues in Greek, Native American, African, and other cultures. The colours are -
* red: light;
* orange: healing;
* yellow: sun;
* green: calmness;
* blue: art;
* lilac: the spirit
In 1978, Gilbert Baker of San Francisco designed and made a flag with six stripes representing the six colors of the rainbow as a symbol of gay and lesbian community pride. Slowly the flag took hold, offering a colorful and optimistic alternative to the more common pink triangle symbol.

Today it is recognized by the International Congress of Flag Makers, and is flown in lesbian and gay pride marches worldwide. In 1989, the rainbow flag received nationwide attention after John Stout successfully sued his landlords in West Hollywood, when they prohibited him from displaying the flag from his apartment balcony.

Answer 7

Rainbows are not gay; gays are rainbow. And that's their prerogative! If one is a real Christian than they will accept that God loves and forgives all. It is not gay people that we have to worry about. It is the child molesters that disguise themselves as priests. THOSE are the people who have accepted God and will stand accountable while being cast into their punishment. I support the rainbow and I am happy to share it with people who are not sick and demented (i.e., the priests who claim celibacy, yet harm small children).

Answer 8

Rainbows and gay people existed before the bible. Here is the simple answer to what and how rainbows are made. Unless the laws for refracted light didnt exist till a few 1000 years ago, I dont think christians can lay claim to them just yet.

Imagine one raindrop. Depending on where you are standing in relation to it and the sun, there will be a very narrow range of wavelengths that are going in the proper direction to meet your eye. All the other raindrops that are not in the same vertical line as that one rain drop will have that particular range of wavelengths missing your eye. Okay, so a raindrop just slightly to the left or right will need a slightly different angle of light to intercept your eye, and so there will be a slightly different range of wavelengths that come out of the nearby drop at that slightly different angle. And so on to the left and right. From any particular vertical "stripe" of raindrops there is a complete spectrum being sent out, but you can see only a small part of it. Somebody standing next to you would see a slightly different part of that same spectrum, from that vertical "stripe" of raindrops.

The rainbow flag has become the easily-recognized colors of pride for the gay community. The multicultural symbolism of the rainbow is nothing new — Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition also embraces the rainbow as a symbol of that political movement. The rainbow also plays a part in many myths and stories related to gender and sexuality issues in Greek, Native American, African, and other cultures.

Use of the rainbow flag by the gay community began in 1978 when it first appeared in the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day Parade. Borrowing symbolism from the hippie movement and black civil rights groups, San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker designed the rainbow flag in response to a need for a symbol that could be used year after year. Baker and thirty volunteers hand-stitched and hand-dyed two huge prototype flags for the parade. The flags had eight stripes, each color representing a component of the community: hot pink for sex, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sun, green for nature, turquoise for art, indigo for harmony, and violet for spirit.

The next year Baker approached San Francisco Paramount Flag Company to mass-produce rainbow flags for the 1979 parade. Due to production constraints — such as the fact that hot pink was not a commercially-available color — pink and turquoise were removed from the design, and royal blue replaced indigo. This six-color version spread from San Francisco to other cities, and soon became the widely-known symbol of gay pride and diversity it is today. It is even officially recognized by the International Congress of Flag Makers. In 1994, a huge 30-foot-wide by one-mile-long rainbow flag was carried by 10,000 people in New York's Stonewall 25 Parade.

The rainbow flag has inspired a wide variety of related symbols, such as freedom rings and other accessories. There are

Answer 9

Gays made the rainbow gay, and saying that God made gay people is the same as saying God made child molesters, murderers, and rapists. All of it is a choice.

Answer 10

Well they do like punishment to a certain extent so I guess thats why they choose it as their symbol of fruity balance??? In nature the rainbows are remarkable & short lived...the only thing in common with gays is that they also are short lived due to spread of Aids etc.....God has no mercy to those who will stand before him!!!