Politicians and government officials have debated about LGBT issues for quite some time now. Decades in fact. Bathroom and locker-room laws, “don’t-ask-don’t-tell” in the armed services, and whether or not to apply anti-discrimination laws to sexual orientation have all flashed across the national stage at various points in time.

The decisions politicians and judges have made in situations like these have had far-reaching consequences for our nation.

No doubt about it, politics and law is a realm in which we need voices for the truth.

But alert-eyed conservatives have also grown alarmed at some of the tactics that leftists are using to promote their message nowadays, especially to our children. Debates over sexual orientation are not merely limited to the “grown-up” world of political debate, but have wormed their way into media, education and shopping.

As TV swells with reams of LGBT-themed shows, public schools invite drag queens in for story hour, and mainline brands produce merchandise endorsing deviant sexual ideologies, two things happen.

First, it becomes painfully obvious that the political debates we see are just one consequence of a larger cultural conflict.

But second, leftists are not just engaging in debate at this subtle level—they are actually beginning to destroy the very idea of a “debate” on this issue. With constant exposure to LGBT norms, kids will be more likely to see sexual perversity as normal without anyone ever having to convince them.

This is what makes the modern world all the more dangerous for our kids—it’s easy to shield them from evil when it merely exists in politics, but it’s very hard to shield them from evil that permeates the media, schools, and stores they come into contact with every day.

For now, let’s call these cultural-economic ways of promoting the LGBT agenda “sub-political.”

As they permeate realms of societal interaction below the lofty (and often isolated) field of politics, LGBT ideas permeate popular culture and directly influence popular attitudes. This, it is feared, will manifest itself in political decisions years down the road.

But something else interesting is happening.

A few advocates for truth have begun to use popular media as a sub-political response to the very sub-political tactics that leftists are using! For example, 20 years ago, who would have imagined that Target would be selling LGBT-themed clothing, books—even dog harnesses—in celebration of Pride Month?

But—and here’s the kicker—who would have imagined that a rapper would produce a music video bashing Target for it?

Target’s merchandise might have seemed a far-fetched agenda strategy 20 years ago, but the rap “Boycott Target” (Forgiato Blow, Jimmy Levy, Nick Nittoli, and Stoney Dudebro) is a response I certainly wouldn’t have expected. (N.B. This video does contain a small amount of foul language.)

In all its two minutes and forty seconds of rapping flurry, the song’s verses rail against the LGBT agenda promoted in some of Target’s merchandise (while showing clips of the rappers in a Target holding rainbow products) all punctuated by a refrain riffing off the company’s name: “—”Target, Target, Target, yeah they target kids.” Some notable lines include:

You Know The LGB-T-Q, They Went Too Far / You Know They Cuttin These Kids / They
Leaving Trannies With Scars / Why They Pushing Agenda? / Promotin’ Sexual Genders?
/ I’m Only Rocking With Bruce, Don’t Rock With No Caitlin Jenner.

But the rappers also take it a step farther, invoking spiritual themes:

We Need A Clean Up On Every Aisle / Inside This Store, Satan Resides / Wash It With
The Blood Of Christ / It’s Needed Here, So Don’t Think Twice / Dating With A Satanist /
We All Know This Is The End / God Is Coming For Revenge.

But they don’t stop there either—MAGA-promoting Forgiato Blow links his criticism of the perverse agenda with Trump’s bid for re-election:

You Know That, Targets, They’re Wrong / Try’na To Play With The Kids / It’s The
Mayor Of MAGA-ville / I’m Preachin’ Again /  . . . It’s Mar-A-Lago, Twenty, Twenty-
Four, / We Trumpin’ Baby

Wow. Not really sure what to say. On the one hand, the rap is impressively bold and outspoken, to be sure. In a recent interview with Fox, Blow explained that his rap has met with significant pushback:

It’s shadow-banned all over the world right now. We’re #2 on the iTune [sic] charts right
now. And you can’t even search the song on iTunes without having it go to the . . . music
video, click the external link. . . . They’re trying their hardest to keep it off the radar.

And any pushback he may be receiving is certainly not surprising, because he is running against the prevailing narrative embraced by woke corporations. It’s always good to have the right people mad at you, so kudos to him for hitting the right nerve.

But on a deeper level, this rap is an interesting case study for conservatives fighting to defend traditional and biblical sexual morality in a culture that is fast slipping away from any commonality with it.

On the one hand, Blow and his fellow rappers are on the right track by using the sub-political medium of rap to communicate directly with pop culture. Regardless of what the politicians or tech big wigs are saying, they are taking their message directly to rap fans.

While the political fight still desperately needs waging, politics is mightily affected by culture, so if popular media could be filled with messages affirming biblical sexuality and marriage, Christian conservatives could begin to undo the subtle normalization of perverse sexuality through media that the LGBT movement is working hard to accomplish.

Fighting the enemy on the battlefield he’s currently on is always a good idea.

On the other hand, we need to realize that this kind of coarse, flippant, and subpar quality rapping should not be what advocates of the truth should fall back on as their weapon of choice. I mean, seriously—

You Think That Gay S*** Don’t Get You Paid? / Yeah, We Gon’ See /
It’s Mar-A-Lago, Twenty, Twenty-Four / We Trumpin’ Baby.

I think we can do better than “threatening to win the next election.”

True, he does talk about the judgment of God and how the store needs to be washed with Christ’s blood—themes of eternal significance—but diluting this bold defense of the truth by tacking it to his preferred candidate winning the next election seems to confuse the issue.

The issue is the universal promulgation of lies about sexuality, and Trump winning the next election will not solve that problem.

This rap—along with other similar raps such as “F*** Bud Light” (Forgiato Blow, Stoney Dudebro) and “Burn Balenciaga” (Bryson Gray, Forgiato Blow) are all somewhat low-quality and unrefined attempts to advocate for priceless principles. (N.B. Both videos contain foul language.)

Kudos for the heart, but maybe we can polish up the image a bit. Conservatives generally aren’t known for having a strong media presence (and Christians are notorious for producing flat-out cheesy media).

If conservative Christians could produce focused, incisive, and high-quality media that advocates for the truth without bringing in distracting or unnecessarily coarse ideas, we’d be a more potent force in culture.

Conservative-ish rappers slamming liberal-minded companies for promoting perverse ideas in their marketing and merchandise– talk about cultural wars on a whole new dimension!

They do point advocates for biblical truth in the right direction—we need sub-political means of communicating the truth, so we can fight the normalization of perversity which, if successful, will eventually strip away any political debate we’re currently engaging in.

But coarse rapping definitely should not be all we have to offer.