The Republicans of Ohio introduced on Tuesday a draft act on the designation of only a month to honor only Ohio families, led by a heterosexual pair of cisgenders throughout their lives, a monogamous relationship.
House Bill (HB) 262 He would designate the “natural family month” for the period from Mother’s Day, which is the second Sunday of May, until Father’s day, on the third Sunday of June.
A natural family month is an initiative Natural family foundation (NFF), a group from Westerville, Ohio-not the official non-profit organization-who is trying to “return a natural family to its right place as the foundation of our American culture.”
According to the NFF website, Natural family month Only those relationships would encourage “one biological man, women throughout their lives monogamous relationship with their biological and even adopted children.”
HB 262 is sponsored by rep. Beth Lear (R-Galena) and Rep. Josh Williams (R-Sylvania Twp.) And has 26 Republican consponsors.
James Harrison, NFF executive director, told Buckeye Flame that he attends the same church as Rep. Lear, and contacted her office to encourage this language. Harrison did not know that the legislation was introduced until Buckeye Flame contacted him to get a comment.
Buckeye Flame contacted representatives. Lear and Williams for a comment, and this song will be updated if the answer is received.
Republicans New Hampshire have passed Similar resolution in 2024.Also inspired by the Natural Family Foundation.
“This bill is not only offensive; it is dangerous.”
Dwayne Steward, executive director Equality of ohioHe said that HB 262 is more than a bad policy, but he is a “deed of strategic erasing.”
“He not only annul the existence of lonely parents and countless other carers, but also strives for LGBTQ+ families in the whole condition,” said Steward. “The so -called” Natural Family Foundation “, a group pushing this legislation, explained their ideology: if you are not a heterosexual, monogamous couple with children, you do not count as a family at all.”
Steward said that HB 262 is part of the domestic effort “in order to the police of family structures and the control of labor bodies, covered with the language of tradition, but rooted in exclusion and control.”
“As an adoptive parent, I personally feel this erasure,” said Steward. “This bill is not only offensive; it is dangerous.”
Other supporters of the LGBTQ+ family claim that the regulations are not rooted in unity or inclusion, but it results from exclusion and damage.
Densil Porteous, executive director of Stonewall Columbus, in which Family Pride Network is located, said that HB 262 is a “coded effort to challenge and annul families” like his own.
“Let us be unambiguous: families come in many forms. Families built by love, combination, intention – not limited by outdated or discriminatory definition,” said Porteous. “Stonewall work by ours Family Pride Network The program celebrates and supports LGBTQ+families, mixed families, adoptive families, selected families and all families rooted in care, respect and dignity. “
Porteous noticed the time of this bill – just a few weeks before a month of pride – and emphasized the importance of confirmation that LGBTQ+ families deserve to celebrate, not control.
“In June and every month we proudly stand with LGBTQ+ families in Ohio and outside,” said Porteous. “Our families are natural. Our families are strong. And our pride of our families is unwavering.”
“Idea”, not the organization
The NFF executive director said that they are not an organization.
“We are an idea,” said Harrison Buckeye Flame. “We are a group of people who met and try to learn about the best practice.”
NFF warns against the “dangers” of recognizing families other than their definition of “natural”.
“We will become an unlawful society because we have changed the structure, form and practice of a family individual. What happened in Rome and Greece and other former great civilizations, we will certainly visit our great nation, if we do not do something, and soon to protect this foundation stone of the whole society.”
In addition, they proclaim that every family must have a “clear man leader (e.g. father, grandfather, uncle, elderly cousin) and that the leader must come from the family line.”
Harrison said that the “natural family month” is not to be derogatory and is not “no more or less different” from the celebration of the month of pride.
“If you are going to celebrate gay pride, we will celebrate a natural family,” said Harrison.
Harrison was unable to say whether it would be better for children in the foster care system to be placed with a pair of the same sex who provided a loving home or at all home, saying that there are no decisive research on this subject and that this may cause confusion for children expecting heterosexual couple.
“It’s like telling our son that Santa Claus existed, and then he did not discover that no,” said Harrison.
HB 262 has not yet been assigned to the Committee. Ding
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