"Nuclear Family Month" shows that MAGA is still coming for same-sex marriage

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“Nuclear Family Month” shows that MAGA is still coming for same-sex marriage
Red state anti-Pride proclamations demonize most straight people along LGBTQ folks

By Amanda Marcotte
Senior Writer
Published June 29, 2026 6:45AM (EDT)


(Salon) In recent years, Republican propaganda has quietly moved away from loud condemnation of the gay community to focusing the most overt hate on trans people. Donald Trump even has a few token gay men in his closest circles, such as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who has two children with his husband. Marriage equality was legalized in all 50 states by the Supreme Court 11 years ago in Obergefell v. Hodges, and it has often been tempting to assume that the GOP has largely given up on trying to restigmatize, much less ban, gay marriage.

After all, the main argument Republicans had against marriage equality was that it was a threat to straight marriage. A 2015 amicus brief arguing against same-sex marriage, for instance, said that legalizing same-sex marriage would teach people that “society no longer needs men to bond to women,” and would lead to straight men — “who generally need more encouragement to marry than women” — to give up on marriage.

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But while it hasn’t attracted widespread media coverage, Republicans have not given up arguing that LGBTQ+ equality is a threat. This year, a slew of red state governors signed proclamations intended as blatant attacks on Pride Month. Some states are even calling June “Nuclear Family Month.” Others have dubbed it “Strong Families Month” or “Fidelity Month.” Whatever euphemism is used, they are all poking a thumb in the eye of LGBTQ+ people during Pride, as Arkansas’s Republican governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, made clear when she tweeted a Daily Wire article headlined, “Another Red State Is Counter-Programming Pride Month, Focusing On Family Instead” — as if queer people don’t have families.

Reading the proclamations reveals another layer of awful. Straight people should definitely not feel safe with these Republicans in charge. These documents don’t only demonize LGBTQ+ people; they condemn the vast majority of straight people who don’t adhere to the exceedingly narrow proscriptions of the Christian right. Divorced people, anyone who has ever needed government assistance, parents who put their kids in public school, non-Christians and women who don’t see themselves as inferior to their husbands all get blasted as immoral — and queer people are implicitly blamed for what Republicans see as “dysfunction” in the lives of everyday straight people. ...................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2026/06/29/nuclear-family-month-shows-that-maga-is-still-coming-for-same-sex-marriage/

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1. Ironic when many so many of these talibangicals marriages

are absolute textbook examples of dysfunctional marriages and family life.