Blending Adventism with Lavender Graduation is like mixing used motor oil with fresh orange juice. It profanes the sacred with rainbow glitter poured over the altar.
Yet on June 5, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. in Sierra Vista Chapel at La Sierra University Church in Riverside, Kinship Sabbath School will host its Lavender Graduation for the “LGBT+ Class of 2026.”
They celebrate “resilience and resistance.” It is a resistance to the plain Word of God. This is no innocent ceremony. Lavender graduations began in the 1990s to celebrate what Scripture calls sin. Now it invades a Seventh-day Adventist chapel. Graduates wear lavender stoles, hear their identities cheered without repentance, and turn a house intended for worship into a platform for pride — the very spirit God resists (Proverbs 16:18; James 4:6).
Friends and “chosen family” will applaud as rebellion is renamed righteousness.
Liberal adventism (lower case intentional) thrives on this. It craves cultural applause, trading “Thus saith the Lord” for “Thus feels the culture.” Biblical authority bends to personal experience.
Objecting to this abomination will get you called ‘homophobic.’ The sad truth is these people are Biblephobes and Holinessphobes.
Notice the profound difference beween this Seventh-day Adventist school and Biola University, a non-Adventist school.
"Biola’s Position on Marriage and Sexuality
“Biola University’s position on marriage affirms the goodness of sexual relationships as designed by God to be expressed within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman. More information on the University’s theological position regarding human sexuality may be found in its Board of Trustees’ approved Statement of Biblical Principles: God’s Intentional Design for Life.
We believe that sexual activity outside of marriage, behavior involving or having the potential to lead to sexual activity outside of marriage (including, but not limited to nudity, cohabitation, pornography), and sexual activity between two persons of the same sex (whether or not married) is contrary to God’s intentional design for sexuality. Living out God’s intent for sexual expression, while requiring sacrifice at times, is ultimately a source of freedom (John 10:10). Biola hopes to foster a community where living according to this intent helps each person thrive personally, relationally, and spiritually.
Biola’s Position on Gender
Biola University’s position on gender affirms the goodness of God’s creation of humankind as male and female. Specifically, in its Statement of Biblical Principles: God’s Intentional Design for Life, Biola states, “We believe God created all things and set in place the laws of nature, not according to random chance but according to his perfect, miraculous and purposeful plan...God created the natural world and called it good, and after he created male and female he declared his creation very good.”
Our sex as male or female is a biological given of the individual human person from conception made manifest at birth, and is a stable characteristic of the person determined by God’s creational intent.”
Wow.
Something has gone dangerously wrong with left-wing Adventism. In our pride, we believed we had all the answers. Convinced that the only thing that really mattered was the Sabbath, we left our back door wide open and back yards unguarded for the last four decades. Now we have deadly spiritual terrorists inside our organization with no will to remove them.
In liberal Adventism the Creator’s design for male, female, and marriage is rewritten to suit fallen desires. At Sinai they danced before a golden calf. Today, some dance before the rainbow idol and call it commencement.
The keynote speaker has not yet been announced. No word yet on whether it will be Dylan Mulvaney, Sam Brinton, or Richard/Rachel Levine. We’ll keep you posted. Maybe it will be this guy…?
True Adventism stands on Revelation 14:12 — keeping God’s Commandments and the faith of Jesus. We can not and will not affirm what Scripture condemns (Romans 1:25-28).
Real love calls us to the cross, to repentance, and to the cleansing power of the Holy Spirit. Real love calls sin by its real name. On June 5, faithful Adventists will grieve — not from hate, but from love for souls and for a church drifting towards the rocks of infidelity.
Dear Kinship SS and liberal friends: renounce these idols. Return to biblical Adventism — upper case. Repentance brings true joy, not fleeting applause. Down with pride. Up with humble obedience to the unchanging Word.
We believe this statement from one of the best presidents ever says it all,
"We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us... and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own" (Abraham Lincoln).
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“Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up” (James 4:10).