Commentary: MAGA launches another 'save the children' campaign targeting LGBTQ+ families
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The latest nauseant from MAGA types pretending to care about children was dished up last week, but amid the internment of kindergartners, the slashing of funds to catch child predators and a measles outbreak at a detention center, you are forgiven for missing it.I am talking about a coordinated campaign launched by the religious right to overturn gay marriage, arguing it harms children.
The effort is a direct attack on the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell vs.Hodges decision making same-sex marriage a fundamental right of equality under the 14th Amendment, but also seeks to engage churches on the issue and change public opinion.
Good luck with that last part.Most Americans support marriage equality.
But the Supreme Court? That’s much iffier these days.But what disturbs me the most, while we wait for litigation, is that the campaign is yet another disingenuous ploy by MAGA to use children as an excuse for attacking civil rights, and attempting, Christian nationalist-style, to impose religious values on general society.MAGA frames so much hate — especially around immigrants and diversity — as protection of children, and through decades’ worth of conspiracy theory has attempted to paint LGBTQ+ parents as deviant and predatory.
(QAnon, for example, was all about saving kids from gay and Democratic predators.) In reality, it’s the MAGA folks who are traumatizing children.World & Nation Ten years ago, Jim Obergefell won same-sex couples the right to marry nationwide.
Today, his life in Ohio is proof of his lasting legacy.“Our children are afraid.They’re terrorized,” Chauntyll Allen told me.
She’s the St.Paul, Minn., school board member who was arrested recently for her part in the church protest of a pastor who is also an ICE official.
“And we’re not just talking about immigrants,” she continued.All kids “are watching this, they’re experiencing ...