Ohio GOP wants a "natural family month"

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Ohio Republicans want to designate the weeks between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day as “Natural Family Month” to promote children and marriage.

House Bill 262, sponsored by Reps. Beth Lear from Delaware County and Josh Williams from the Toledo area, would establish a nonbinding state observance from the second Sunday in May to the third Sunday in June. The bill has 26 additional Republican cosponsors in the House.

The bill text does not define “natural family,” but the sponsors say the designation is meant to highlight the role of marriage and childrearing in society.

The idea appears to have originated from the Natural Family Foundation, a Westerville-based advocacy group that promotes what it calls a return to the “natural family” as the foundation of American culture.

According to its website, NFF defines a “natural family” as a union between “one biological born male and one biological born woman” in a lifelong, monogamous relationship, raising their biological or adopted children.

That would exclude LGBTQ families. Republican state lawmakers have passed several bills in recent sessions targeting LGBTQ Ohioans, including those mandating which bathrooms they can use and access to gender-affirming care for minors.

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“If this really is about declining birthrates, personally, I’d think affordable childcare, paid leave, healthcare and lower grocery costs would make people want to have kids,” said Rachel Coyle, programs director for Ohioans Against Extremism. “But what do I know? Maybe all they need is a new month with a new name.”

Ate.

[Guillaume Hamon 6,984]

Homophobes always find weird hypocritical ways to indirectly dump on queers. 😆 

[River 127,357]

Let them have it for all I care lol

The days these things are threatening me or pissing me off are over, I’m so proud to be gay and to live a full gay life with my own little gay family.

Let them fight with the wall 

 

[Meruk Holland 2,358]

1 hour ago, PartySick said:

“If this really is about declining birthrates, personally, I’d think affordable childcare, paid leave, healthcare and lower grocery costs would make people want to have kids,” said Rachel Coyle, programs director for Ohioans Against Extremism. “But what do I know? Maybe all they need is a new month with a new name.”

Ate.

I hope they do make those weeks "Natural Family Month" and people go out and protest in the name of it for affordable childcare, paid leave, healthcare, and lower grocery costs. "It's Family Month, and the lawmakers aren't supporting families!" Co-opt that sh*t

[Hadrian 2,630]

They can tell us more about their "Natural Family Month" when their kids rightfully dump their asses in crappy nursing homes and never visit.

[whoresup 3,429]

Right wingers who are worried about declining birth rates are the same people who claim our countries are too full to accept immigrants. 

Make it make sense

[MACATL 2,125]

Meh silly and divisive.  Celebrate all families built on love.  

[Morphine Prince 109,654]

31 minutes ago, whoresup said:

Right wingers who are worried about declining birth rates are the same people who claim our countries are too full to accept immigrants. 

Make it make sense

Racist ideology blinds these people to reality. 

Truth is, and this is a fact backed by population trends and statistics, most developed nations will decline significantly and immigration WILL be necessary in the coming decades. 

For the US, this is so easy to fix. Change immigration laws, allow for steady legal migration, and work with other countries to address this issue in all developed countries while providing better economic opportunities for people from developing countries.

The US and Europe will regret being so harsh and anti-immigrant one day when social nets collapse due to low work forces and aging population. 

[Ilia Malinin 2,878]

i f**king hate this godforsaken state.  first they make it illegal for all students (even college kids) to use gender neutral bathrooms, then they ban trans girls from sports, now this.   i hate it here. 

[ALGAYDO 35,081]

They hate queer families so much because of their lil religious book but still get divorced, have premarital intercourse, lust over others, etc. 

they are such hypocrites, it would be funny if it didn’t negatively impact innocent others

[Flareon Voyager 379]

I mean this also discriminates against adoptive families, foster families, children with guardians other than biological parents, etc… like… hello?

[SlowLoris 1,203]

"natural family month" sounds like it will never catch on lmao

[Horny Chicken 10,932]

They’re just gonna produce more gay babies, thus sustaining our population. 

[Lord Mayhem 3,424]

Maybe if the cost of living, housing prices went down and wages went up. 

Plus...the generation that predominantly CAN get pregnant are a MUCH more sexually fluid generation that aren't bound to marital traditions to have a normal long-term relationship...and honestly...lots of couples (even capable of childbearing) aren't interested or have a desire to have children...its a personal choice and nobody or political group should be trying to encourage a horribly homophobic and archaic way of defining a "normal family".