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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.<\/p>\n

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After all, the main argument Republicans had against marriage equality was that it was a threat to straight marriage. A 2015 amicus brief\u00a0, for instance, said that legalizing same-sex marriage would teach people that \u201csociety no longer needs men to bond to women,\u201d and would lead to straight men \u2014 \u201cwho generally need more encouragement to marry than women\u201d \u2014 to give up on marriage.<\/p>\n

A decade later, it\u2019s hard to believe someone wrote that with a straight face, especially as polls show that men are more eager than women to settle down and build families. Efforts to drum up straight \u201cvictims\u201d of marriage equality have been a joke, even by basement-level right wing standards. No one seems willing to claim they lost or were denied access to straight marriage because of gay couples.<\/p>\n

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But while it hasn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

But while it hasn\u2019t 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 \u201cNuclear Family Month.\u201d Others have dubbed it \u201cStrong Families Month\u201d or \u201cFidelity Month.\u201d Whatever euphemism is used, they are all poking a thumb in the eye of LGBTQ+ people during Pride, as Arkansas\u2019s Republican governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, made clear when she tweeted a Daily Wire article headlined, \u201cAnother Red State Is Counter-Programming Pride Month, Focusing On Family Instead\u201d \u2014 as if queer people don\u2019t have families.<\/p>\n

Reading the proclamations reveals another layer of awful. Straight people should definitely not feel safe with these Republicans in charge. These documents don\u2019t only demonize LGBTQ+ people; they condemn the vast majority of straight people who don\u2019t 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\u2019t see themselves as inferior to their husbands all get blasted as immoral \u2014 and queer people are implicitly blamed for what Republicans see as \u201cdysfunction\u201d in the lives of everyday straight people.<\/p>\n

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey outright declared \u201cfathers are the head of the household\u201d and condemned both single parents and unmarried parents as unable to provide \u201cstable family environments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee \u201cone husband, one wife, and any biological, adopted, or fostered children, is God\u2019s design for familial structure,\u201d and \u201cthe nuclear family is God\u2019s perfect design for humanity.\u201d Fewer than one in five households in the U.S. meet this description. Lee noted that \u201cthe nuclear family is under attack,\u201d but it\u2019s actually the majority of people who aren\u2019t living the mom-pop-and-kids lifestyle that are the target of official condemnations from state governments.<\/p>\n

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Utah Gov. Spencer Cox was explicit in his declaration that most Americans, straight or not, deserve condemnation, insisting that \u201ca majority of Americans no longer esteem values like faith, family, patriotism or community involvement\u201d \u2014 as if the only people who love their families or contribute to the communities are those in traditional marriages.<\/p>\n

For years Republicans were successful in pitting straight people against marriage equality with vague arguments about how queer neighbors were a threat. Slowly, through robust public debate that now feels almost quaint in our era of polarized media, it became clear that what really worried conservatives was that same-sex marriage might cause straight people to question the social forces railroading them into often unsatisfying marriages. What made the discourse even more ridiculous was that the ship had sailed long before. Most straight people already believed women should work, premarital sex is normal and unhappy couples should divorce.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf gay people get married, straight people will feel more free\u201d was always the argument, and unsurprisingly, straight people in large numbers eventually rejected it. Americans are funny like that: We tend to feel we know better than pinch-lipped moral scolds what\u2019s best for our lives.<\/p>\n

But he spate of \u201cNuclear Family Month\u201d and other such nonsense this year reflects a resurgence in the GOP of the view that most people, straight or not, are wicked, oversexed hooligans who need to be browbeaten into depressing marriages. Vice President JD Vance has been at the forefront of this pressure campaign that wants people to marry not out of love or joy, but out of grim duty to the patriarchy. During the 2024 campaign, Vance became infamous for chiding unmarried or childless women for being \u201ccat ladies,\u201d even calling them \u201cmiserable\u201d and \u201csociopathic.\u201d<\/p>\n

This backfired on Vance horribly, kickstarting what is now two years of speculation that his own marriage is in trouble. Even the news that his wife, Usha Vance, is pregnant the fourth time has not slowed the fascination with their marriage. The couple has been mocked for being unable, despite strenuous effort, to convincingly portray normal affection, and t\u2019s not helped by the fact that Vance can\u2019t stop insulting his wife in public while she offers tight, forced smiles for the camera.<\/p>\n

The joy some are taking from the perceived unhappiness of the Vances is a synecdoche for a larger \u2014and not unjustified \u2014 belief that the loudest scolds about getting married are those who enjoy it the least. There\u2019s a real \u201cmisery loves company\u201d component to the pressure to shoehorn everyone into their narrow vision of the nuclear family. This is especially obvious for queer people who would have to deny their identity and sexual desires to pair off into the prescribed one-man-one-woman marriages. But it\u2019s also true for most straight people, who want the freedom to marry only if it feels right, and to leave if it stops making them happy. These red state proclamations reveal that most people, queer or not, are under threat by MAGA\u2019s vision of marriage.<\/p>\n

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