March 2025
It Begins
03/01/2025
The Trump Administration continues its attack on the LGBTQ community and to “reshape” the American Family as outlined is the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025. While on the campaign trail when many people cried out against Project 2025, Mr. Trump claimed he has not read it. I am absolutely sure that this was true, he had not read it, after all it was written by his former cabinet and advisers as a blueprint to dismantling government agencies and has a lot to say about what your private relationships should look like and who you should marry.
In fact, Christian Nationalist vision of the family is a key ingredient of the 922 page manual. According to Project 2025, not all families are created equal. On page 451, it defines the “right” kind of family as “a married mother, father, and their children.” It claims this is the “foundation of a well-ordered nation and a healthy society.” Yes, I could point to the similar propaganda that came out of Germany in the 1930’s, but I will refrain.
Promoting this biblical concept of family is cited as a top-five goal for a revamped Department of Health and Human Services, which it criticizes for “having lost its way” by “promoting equity in everything we do.”
The document says efforts at promoting diversity should be repealed and replaced with policies that support what it calls the formation of “stable, married, nuclear families.”
In other words, the authors of Project 2025 believe they have the right to dictate what your family should look like, extending the arm of government into your home — and into your bedroom — to enforce a Christian nationalist worldview. They consider this not just a policy preference, but a core function of governance itself.
To propel this view, Idaho lawmakers pushed forward a resolution to overturn the Supreme Court’s ruling on same sex marriage, arguing it’s an overstep of federal authority. The House State Affairs Committee’s decision prompted emotional testimony, with opponents stressing the importance of equal rights and questioning the historical misuse of states’ rights arguments. Both local and out-of-state voices, including those labeled as anti-LGBTQ+ groups, expressed their viewpoints. The resolution now heads to the full House for a vote, and it appears their main goal is to get to the Supreme Court so Obergefell v. Hodges can be overturned.
It should be noted that traditional families — people who are married with children — no longer make up the majority of family compositions in the U.S., according to recent polling by the Pew Research Center. This shift in family structures is due in part to more same-sex couples adopting children or starting their own families, reflecting the diverse and evolving landscape of today’s American society.
That diversity, according to the authors of Project 2025, poses a danger to “the very moral foundations of our society.”
The document lays out several proposals for undermining the rights of those who don’t fit the biblical definition of a family. For instance, it wants the government to protect the right of businesses to discriminate against same-sex couples and says that federal grants should be made available to faith-based groups that refuse to recognize same-sex marriage, specifically, groups that, “affirm that marriage is between not just any two adults, but one man and one unrelated woman.”
While acknowledging that this would violate the Respect for Marriage Act, which bans discrimination against same-sex couples, the document nonetheless calls for the government to “protect faith-based grant recipients that maintain a biblically based, social science–reinforced definition of marriage and family.”
Its policy proposals also demonize children raised in nontraditional households, stating, “Social science reports that assess the outcomes for children raised in homes aside from a heterosexual, intact marriage are clear: All other family forms involve higher levels of instability; financial stress or poverty; or poorer behavioral, psychological, or educational outcomes” which is a misstatement of the facts.
One especially alarming proposal is to criminalize transgender identity as pornography. This proposal likely takes its cue from Russia’s so-called gay propaganda bill passed in 2022, which bans all forms of what it refers to as LGBTQ “propaganda” and prohibits Russians from promoting same-sex relationships. Similarly, Project 2025 considers the “propagation of transgender ideology” to be pornography.
In fact, Christian Nationalist vision of the family is a key ingredient of the 922 page manual. According to Project 2025, not all families are created equal. On page 451, it defines the “right” kind of family as “a married mother, father, and their children.” It claims this is the “foundation of a well-ordered nation and a healthy society.” Yes, I could point to the similar propaganda that came out of Germany in the 1930’s, but I will refrain.
Promoting this biblical concept of family is cited as a top-five goal for a revamped Department of Health and Human Services, which it criticizes for “having lost its way” by “promoting equity in everything we do.”
The document says efforts at promoting diversity should be repealed and replaced with policies that support what it calls the formation of “stable, married, nuclear families.”
In other words, the authors of Project 2025 believe they have the right to dictate what your family should look like, extending the arm of government into your home — and into your bedroom — to enforce a Christian nationalist worldview. They consider this not just a policy preference, but a core function of governance itself.
To propel this view, Idaho lawmakers pushed forward a resolution to overturn the Supreme Court’s ruling on same sex marriage, arguing it’s an overstep of federal authority. The House State Affairs Committee’s decision prompted emotional testimony, with opponents stressing the importance of equal rights and questioning the historical misuse of states’ rights arguments. Both local and out-of-state voices, including those labeled as anti-LGBTQ+ groups, expressed their viewpoints. The resolution now heads to the full House for a vote, and it appears their main goal is to get to the Supreme Court so Obergefell v. Hodges can be overturned.
It should be noted that traditional families — people who are married with children — no longer make up the majority of family compositions in the U.S., according to recent polling by the Pew Research Center. This shift in family structures is due in part to more same-sex couples adopting children or starting their own families, reflecting the diverse and evolving landscape of today’s American society.
That diversity, according to the authors of Project 2025, poses a danger to “the very moral foundations of our society.”
The document lays out several proposals for undermining the rights of those who don’t fit the biblical definition of a family. For instance, it wants the government to protect the right of businesses to discriminate against same-sex couples and says that federal grants should be made available to faith-based groups that refuse to recognize same-sex marriage, specifically, groups that, “affirm that marriage is between not just any two adults, but one man and one unrelated woman.”
While acknowledging that this would violate the Respect for Marriage Act, which bans discrimination against same-sex couples, the document nonetheless calls for the government to “protect faith-based grant recipients that maintain a biblically based, social science–reinforced definition of marriage and family.”
Its policy proposals also demonize children raised in nontraditional households, stating, “Social science reports that assess the outcomes for children raised in homes aside from a heterosexual, intact marriage are clear: All other family forms involve higher levels of instability; financial stress or poverty; or poorer behavioral, psychological, or educational outcomes” which is a misstatement of the facts.
One especially alarming proposal is to criminalize transgender identity as pornography. This proposal likely takes its cue from Russia’s so-called gay propaganda bill passed in 2022, which bans all forms of what it refers to as LGBTQ “propaganda” and prohibits Russians from promoting same-sex relationships. Similarly, Project 2025 considers the “propagation of transgender ideology” to be pornography.