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eppur_se_muova

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Thu Aug 15, 2024, 12:40 PM Aug 15

How Project 2025 plans to reshape the American family (Velshi/MSNBC) ***IMPORTANT READ***

So much for Republicans being the party of limited government. The next GOP administration wants to dictate what your family should look like.
Aug. 12, 2024, 5:02 PM CDT

By Ali Velshi

This is an adapted excerpt from the Aug. 11 episode of “Velshi.”

Project 2025, the authoritarian blueprint for dismantling federal agencies in the next Republican presidency, has a lot of thoughts on what your private relationships should look like and whom you should marry.

In fact, a Christian nationalist vision of the family is a key centerpiece of the 922-page manual. It describes proposals for the American family as “central to the next conservative President’s agenda:"
Every threat to family stability must be confronted. This resolve should color each of our policies. The Dobbs decision is just the beginning ... We must replace ‘woke’ nonsense with a healthy vision starting with the American family.

According to Project 2025, not all families are created equal. On page 451, it defines the “right” kind of family as “a married mother, father, and their children.” It claims this is the “foundation of a well-ordered nation and a healthy society.”

Promoting this biblical concept of family is cited as a top-five goal for a revamped Department of Health and Human Services, which it criticizes for “having lost its way” by “promoting equity in everything we do.”

The document says efforts at promoting diversity should be repealed and replaced with policies that support what it calls the formation of “stable, married, nuclear families.”
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more: https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/project-2025-reshape-family-christian-nationalism-trump-rcna166276 (lots of links in the story)
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How Project 2025 plans to reshape the American family (Velshi/MSNBC) ***IMPORTANT READ*** (Original Post) eppur_se_muova Aug 15 OP
A certain kind of man certainly is terrified of the rest of us these days. Scrivener7 Aug 15 #1
What is "biblical" about a so-called "nuclear family"? jeffreyi Aug 15 #2
True! nt eppur_se_muova Aug 15 #3
Their supposed King Solomon Zoomie1986 Aug 15 #4
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