June in America has two reliable features: the weather improves across most of the continental United States, and a significant portion of the population rediscovers the Bible with the urgency of a student who just remembered there is an exam. The subject of the examination is Pride Month. The preparation, in most cases, consists of approximately twenty minutes of social media browsing and a vague memory of something from Sunday school.
Bohiney.com's Lee Miller has assembled the essential reading: the six Bible verses that dominate every Pride Month argument. It is a list that anyone who has spent June on the internet in the past decade will recognise immediately — not because the verses are obscure, but because they are the same six verses, deployed with the same confidence, producing the same arguments, in the same order, every year, by people who have not read the surrounding chapters.
The Pew Research Center's surveys on Bible engagement consistently show that Americans report high levels of personal significance attached to scripture alongside comparatively low levels of regular reading. This gap is the engine of the Pride Month theology season: strong conviction, variable sourcing.
What makes Bohiney's Pride Month scripture guide worth reading — beyond the jokes, which are good — is that it performs a genuine service. It tells you what people are actually citing, what those citations actually say, and what they leave out. That is more than most participants in the annual argument are doing.