What About The Children?

When they came for us, the gays said "Well they are not coming for marriage!" Well folks they are now coming for marriage!

Influential GOP think tank unveils new attack plan targeting gay families

The Project 2025 authors want to punish and erase same-sex parents.

LGBTQ Nation

Greg Owen

January 28, 2026

The Heritage Foundation, the right-wing, religious-based organization responsible for Project 2025, has issued a new report focused on the family, with devastating guidance targeting LGBTQ+ families out of existence.

“The family is the foundation of every healthy society, and, tragically, the American family is on the brink,” the new report’s authors claim. “We are dangerously close to being unable to reverse the decline. Our country will not survive if families continue to crumble at this rate.”

See? We told you their idea of the “ideal family” is straight out of Father Knows Best.

“There are very few people who are going to fall into what this report considers to be a good family,” Jessica Waters, senior scholar in residence in the Department of Justice, Law and Criminology at the American University’s School of Public Affairs, told the American Independent about the new report. 

Project 2025 has guided much of the second Trump administration’s policy agenda, including erasing transgender identity from the federal government, rebranding federal law to exclude protections for trans and nonbinary people, prosecuting pro-trans educators and librarians as sex offenders, and ending Medicare coverage for gender-affirming care. Many of Project 2025’s anti-LGBTQ+ goals have already been accomplished.

But another aim in the original Project 2025 document is the focus of the new report, titled “Saving America by Saving the Family“: prioritizing heterosexual families and children in government policy.

Their image of a family is James and Margaret, “Princess” and “Bud,” and a dog named “Duchess.”

They want a  "biological” definition of parenthood. Parenthood would be recognized only if there is a biological link between the adult and the child. in their hatred of all things LGBTQ+ they are willing to exclude: 

• Same-sex couples where one or both parents are non-biological
• Adoptive parents
• Many single parents
• Families formed through IVF, surrogacy, or donor conception
• Importantly, this isn’t just about LGBTQ+ families—but they are disproportionately affected.

They really don't care about collateral damage, we see that in ICE. They just don't care who gets hurt in the Jihad against the "undesirables" the immigrant and LGBTQ+ communities.

Then we have the children that will become "bastards" How will it affect them?

When the state says “your family doesn’t count,” children often internalize it as:

• “Something about me or my family is wrong.”
• Research on stigma shows this can lead to:
• Lower self-esteem
• Shame around family identity
• Confusion about belonging

But hey, the Republicans don't care about what happens to the children, they are only interested in power and votes.

My prediction: The Supreme Court will overturn Obergefell v. Hodges under the banner of “states’ rights,” further dividing the nation. The result will be a kind of balkanization—Republican-led states banning marriage equality and persecuting not only the trans community but gay and lesbian people as well, while Democratic-led states continue to protect and celebrate marriage equality. The Fourteenth Amendment be damned.

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Update: 1/30 Midnight

LGBTQ Nation just came out with another article on doing away with marriage equality.

47 anti-LGBTQ+ organizations launch new campaign to end marriage equality

Their strategy will focus on arguing that same-sex couples put their “romantic desires” above the needs of their children.

John Russell (He/Him)

January 29, 2026

A broad coalition of 47 anti-LGBTQ+ organizations announced this week the launch of a campaign to end marriage equality in the U.S.

As People for the American Way’s Right Wing Watch reports, the coalition announced their explicitly anti-equality “Greater Than” campaign on Wednesday via the Heritage Foundation’s The Daily Signal.

The campaign’s core principle is that the sole purpose of marriage is to raise children and that the constitutional right of same-sex couples to legally marry in the U.S., as established by the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, violates children’s rights.

In a statement, Greater Than spokesperson Katy Faust argues that legal same-sex marriage has resulted in “parenthood treated as replaceable, and children deprived of the unique love and guidance only a mother and father can provide.”

This is nothing more then Christian dribble! Oh you need a mother & father to raise a child!

“Ten years of Obergefell have shown us, loud and clear, that children deserve better and that they are Greater Than adult desires,” Faust, the founder of anti-marriage equality organization Them Before Us, adds.

This is there homophobia talking... it is totally bull!

When I came out and looking around our community...

There was a gay couple who were in a 40 year relationship.

There was another gay couple after 20 years together they were finally able to marry.

There was a lesbian grieving for the loss of her partner from cancer.

I know a number of same-sex couples... one couple their daughter just got married... to a man! On the tenth anniversary of Connecticut's at Real Art Ways in Hartford, there sure were a number of ten year old rug-rats running around! They sure looked like a bunch of healthy children.

Things that the right-wing Christians cannot wrap their head around:

• Being LGBTQ+ is not a choice
• LGBTQ+ people can be in a long term relationship
• It is love that makes a relationship

In their little minds they think that their way is the only way and they want to criminalize anyone who doesn't think their way.