Project 2025: Promoting Stable and Flourishing Married (Heterosexual) Families
Project 2025 does not consider same-sex relationships to be stable or flourishing (Scroll to the end to listen)
Yesterday, we covered Project 2025’s not-so-veiled threat against same-sex marriage. (HERE for readers who missed it.) But what about LGBTQIA+ issues more generally? What does Project 2025 say about them?
Goal #3: Promoting Stable and Flourishing Married Families. Families comprised of a married mother, father, and their children are the foundation of a well-ordered nation and healthy society. Unfortunately, family policies and programs under President Biden’s HHS are fraught with agenda items focusing on “LGBTQ+ equity,” subsidizing single-motherhood, disincentivizing work, and penalizing marriage. These policies should be repealed and replaced by policies that support the formation of stable, married, nuclear families.
Project 2025, page 451
Project 2025 is their public policy document, but we can ascertain what’s in their tactical document by what they are already doing in red states.
According to the ACLU, they are tracking 452 anti-LGBTQIA+ bills across the 2024 US state legislative sessions. Four hundred and seventy-four anti-LGBTQIA+ laws are classified as advancing as of February 2024.
(The link above provides a great interactive map to track the types of bills proposed and their progress.)
The state of Oklahoma has 54 pending anti-LGBTQIA+ bills. When Oklahoma Republican state senator Tom Woods called LGBTQIA+ people filth multiple times in a recent Chamber of Commerce address, he cited his religious beliefs.
:47 — Woods: "But we represent a constituency. We are a Republican state – supermajority – in the House and Senate. I represent a constituency that doesn't want that filth in Oklahoma."
1:00 — Woods: "We are a religious state and we are going to fight it to keep that filth out of the state of Oklahoma because we are a Christian state – we are a moral state."
1:19 — Woods: "We are a Republican state. I'm going to vote my district. I'm going to vote my values. And we don't want that in the state of Oklahoma."
Source: The Oklahoman, 24 February 2024
Woods equates being religious with being Christian because Christian Nationalists believe their faith is the One True Faith. They believe all other faiths are false. He cites morals using his Christian Nationalist definition of morality, one where everyone must deny any urges Christian Nationalists believe their Bibles condemn. When he says he’s going to vote his values, he means his Christian Nationalist values.
These Christo-fascist beliefs about LGBTQIA+ issues have penetrated into the highest levels of our federal government. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, the person who would be President if something happened to both Biden and Harris, has been vocal about his anti-LGBTQIA+ stance, even telling people who question it to “go pick up a Bible.” His wife equates homosexuality with incest and bestiality.
Kelly Johnson, the spouse of the newly elected Speaker Mike Johnson, runs a counseling business that in its operating documents compares being gay to, among other things, having sex with a family member or animal. Specifically, Onward Christian Counseling Services’ 2017 operating agreement states: “We believe and the Bible teaches that any form of sexual immorality, such as adultery, fornication, homosexuality, bisexual conduct, bestiality, incest, pornography or any attempt to change one’s sex, or disagreement with one’s biological sex, is sinful and offensive to God.” The Speaker, who previously practiced law, notarized the document, and his signature appears on the last page.
Source: Vanity Fair 30 October 2023
Christian Nationalists like Woods and the Johnsons don’t care about the popularity of same-sex marriage or the overall acceptance of LGBTQIA+ citizens by our society. They don’t care about polls. They don’t care about settled law. They only care about making our laws mirror their narrow interpretation of the Bible and forcing every American to live by those laws.
When Project 2025 calls for a repeal of Biden Administration LGBTQIA+ policies, they mean an eradication of LGBTQIA+ from public life. They show their hand by what they are already doing around the country.
When I was reading up last week on Nex update...... I had watched the video of Oklahoma Tom Woods, and every other fascist Republican sitting there with him.. all white men, all with big old stetson hats. They murdered Nex,
I think about this often- I bet you the Democrats are kicking themselves in the ass for choosing to vote out, oust Kevin McCarthy. Kevin was a dreamboat compared to Moscow Mike, Moses Mike.
I think this shows the short-sightedness and lack of strategy that the Democrats in Congress have, that they did not have the foresight to predict that the next Speaker of the House would be an absolute radical extremist. With the Republicans you pretty much have to assume that the next person will be worse.