A post on the Micah Beckwith For Indiana Facebook account and on @MicahBeckwith on X is drawing a lot of ridicule, mockery and backlash for the owner of both accounts, MAGA Republican Lt. Governor Micah Beckwith.
A pastor at Life Church in Noblesville, Indiana, who proudly proclaims himself a Christian nationalist, Beckwith took time on Friday morning to warn people about the "Rainbow Beast."
Despite sounding like a cartoon character that would hang out with The Care Bears or Rainbow Brite, the choice of monikers is intended to evoke a Satanic panic among Christians about LGBTQ+ Pride Month.
Filled with the usual fear mongering about Satan and whining about the oppression of White Christians, the post manages to pack in all the Christian nationalist homophobic and transphobic rhetoric and White supremacist propaganda the MAGA movement has become associated with.
And it was posted online by the Lt. Governor of the state of Indiana.
Beckwith wrote:
"PRIDE MONTH ALERT: The Rainbow Beast Is Coming For Your Kids!"
"WARNING: Corporate America and government institutions are launching their annual siege on childhood innocence—and this year’s Pride Month agenda is more aggressive than ever."
"KEY EXPOSURES:"
✅ Child Targeting: Libraries hosting drag shows for toddlers, schools replacing math with 57+ gender ideologies, and corporations selling Pride-themed cereal/toys to normalize the unthinkable. ✅ Institutional Surrender: Churches flying rainbow flags over communion tables, HR departments enforcing pronoun cults, and Disney/Nickelodeon pushing 'Gomorrahn storytelling'. ✅ Pagan Conquest: It’s ritual child sacrifice—with glitter and hashtags. 'Give us the children!'."
"WHY IT MATTERS:"
"Schools now prioritize DEI indoctrination over reading, writing, or science."
"Libraries have become drag indoctrination centers—try hosting a 'Heterosexual Heritage Hour' and watch the mob arrive."
"Corporate Ads parade 'two bearded men in lipstick adopting kids' as Hallmark-style propaganda."
"THE BIG PICTURE: This isn’t about 'tolerance'. It’s a state-corporate-pagan alliance to reprogram society. They’ve swapped biology for 'identity constructs', swapped scripture for Harvey Milk sermons, and swapped parental rights for government-sanctioned grooming."
" PARENTS: WAKE UP.
Are you raising your child—or offering them to the rainbow beast?"
The post included a link to an article on DISNTR—a.k.a. The Dissenter—from which Beckwith copy-pasted most of his unsubstantiated claims and unhinged rant.
A self-described “Christian Independent Press” website, DISNTR is described by Media Bias Fact Check as "right biased and questionable, based on a lack of transparency, poor sourcing, and the promotion of pseudoscience" with "medium traffic" and "low credibility."
People reacted with disgust and mockery to the Republican government official's social media posts.
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Some pointed out children might have more to fear from Beckwith than Pride month.
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While others embraced "Rainbow Beast."
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As fun as mocking Beckwith's unhinged post may be, there is a serious issue at hand.
Alejandra Caraballo, a civil rights attorney and member of GLAAD’s Social Media Safety Index Advisory Committee, told WISH TV News 8:
"It’s painting LGBTQ people as a threat to children, which has long been used by anti-LGBTQ folks to demonize the community and dehumanize us."
"It’s a baseless attack and absolutely disgusting."
After the release of their fifth annual Social Media Safety Index report, GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said in a statement:
"Recent years undeniably illustrate how online hate speech and misinformation negatively influence public opinion, legislation, and the real-world safety and health."
While most people are intelligent enough to disregard Beckwith's outrageous claims, recent history presents a multitude of examples of how willful ignorance and a lack of critical thinking skills have led to tragedy.
