"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."
"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."
Religious right groups have launched a coordinated campaign to overturn the Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision and roll back marriage equality, arguing same-sex marriage harms children and seeking to engage churches and shift public opinion. The campaign also targets IVF and surrogacy and frames civil-rights attacks as child protection. The strategy uses children as a rhetorical shield while promoting Christian nationalist aims. The movement builds on decades of conspiratorial claims that portray LGBTQ+ parents as deviant or predatory. Political forces labeled MAGA are credited with trafficking in such narratives, and critics argue those forces are themselves causing trauma to children.
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