In a clear jab at LGBTQ Pride Month, U.S. Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) introduced a resolution last week to declare June as “Family Month” — a move right-wing outlet The Daily Wirehailed as an effort to “reclaim the first month of summer from LGBTQ ideology.”
The American family is under relentless attack from a radical leftist agenda that seeks to erase truth, redefine marriage, and confuse our children,” Miller told The Daily Wire.
“By recognizing June as Family Month, we reject the lie of ‘Pride’ and instead honor God’s timeless and perfect design. If we truly want to restore our nation, we must stand united to protect and uphold the foundation upon which it was built — the family.”
Co-sponsored by a “who’s who” of anti-LGBTQ Republican backbenchers, the resolution has garnered support from a slew of socially conservative groups, including Moms for America, the American Family Project, the Family Research Council, and the Eagle Forum.
It aims to strip June of its recognition as Pride Month and instead promote the virtues of heterosexual marriage and traditional child-rearing.
Miller’s resolution coincides with the Department of Education’s announcement that it will recognize June as “Title IX Month,” honoring the academic and athletic contributions of cisgender females in what many see as a swipe at those who celebrate Pride Month, particularly the transgender community — which has been cast by conservatives as an enemy of women’s rights.
Miller has previously used her official House website to spotlight similar incidents, accusing schools in her home state of violating Title IX — the 1972 law that prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded educational institutions.
Miller’s resolution echoes broader efforts by the Trump adminstration to roll back LGBTQ visibility. Notably, President Trump has already accomplished what the resolution ostensibly seeks by declining to issue a Pride Month proclamation.
But Miller’s resolution suggests there may be ulterior motives behind its introduction.
Declaring the traditional nuclear family as “the foundation of a healthy society,” Miller’s resolution obsessively focuses on the idea that marriage and copulating with the intent of churning out children is critical to the continuation of the United States.
Stating that the “best environment for children to thrive is a home with a married mother and father,” the resolution laments the high divorce rate in the United States, a rise in young people delaying or forgoing marriage or having children, and tax and welfare policies that Miller claims incentivize couples to cohabitate rather than marry.
Borrowing from the obsessively pro-natalist policies being pushed by right-wing, anti-LGBTQ autocrats in Italy, Hungary, and much of Eastern Europe — not to mention Vice President JD Vance, who has voiced support for policies that penalize people for not marrying or having biological children — the resolution expresses alarm over the U.S. birth rate falling below “the replacement level needed to replenish the population and sustain the economy.”
Miller’s resolution blames former President Bill Clinton for first recognizing June as Pride Month in 1999, and attacks former Democratic Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden for continuing the tradition. It argues that, as a result, Americans are being “inundated” with displays and events touting Pride Month that “denigrate the nuclear family.”
The resolution portrays proponents of traditional marriage as a persecuted group and attempts to link increased LGBTQ visibility — and the decline of heterosexual marriage — to a supposed rise in crime, drug abuse, and other social ills.
Miller most recently showed her bigotry towards anyone who doesn’t embrace conservative Christian ideology with a now-deleted social media post lamenting that a Sikh religious leader, whom she initially misidentified as a “Muslim,” was allowed to lead a prayer on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Similarly, she has spent the bulk of her legislative career attacking the LGBTQ community, whose mere existence she appears to view as an attack on Christian conservatives’ religious beliefs.
In 2022, Miller was one of 157 Republicans who voted against the Respect for Marriage Act, a bill requiring the federal and state governments to recognize same-sex marriages that were legally performed in states without explicit bans on the practice.
Miller has also filed or co-sponsored a slate of anti-LGBTQ legislation, including efforts to ban transgender individuals from using gender-affirming facilities; a so-called “Women’s Bill of Rights” that defines women strictly by biological anatomy and seeks to restrict transgender access to single-sex spaces; and a bill aligned with the Project 2025 agenda that aims to criminalize pornography and nude content — with an ultimate goal of outlawing the sharing of nude selfies.
In another swipe at the transgender community, the national monument honoring what is widely seen as the seminal event of the modern LGBTQ rights movement has erased all mention of transgender and queer people.
Each June, the Stonewall National Monument in New York City typically decorates the fence surrounding Christopher Park -- the small park adjacent to the historic Stonewall Inn and part of the official monument -- with various Pride flags.
In past years, the display has featured a mix of flags -- the familiar six-stripe rainbow Pride flag, the blue, pink, and white transgender Pride flag, and the "Progress" flag, which adds stripes for Black and brown communities and a chevron design incorporating transgender and intersex Pride colors.
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a directive from Secretary of State Marco Rubio that prohibits transgender and nonbinary individuals from obtaining passports reflecting their gender identities.
Rubio's directive, issued in January, had instructed State Department staff to freeze all applications for passports with "X" gender markers or applications requesting changes to gender markers on existing passports.
Rubio also directed his subordinate to enforce a section of the Immigration and Nationalist Act that allows the United States to refuse entry to any visa applicant who commits identity fraud or misrepresents who they are, with particular focus on transgender athletes from foreign countries.
State has 10 days to ban transgender athletes from girls’ teams or risk losing federal education funding, under a Title IX ultimatum from the Education Department.
The Trump administration has issued an ultimatum to the California Department of Education and the California Interscholastic Federation, demanding they ban transgender athletes from competing on girls' sports teams.
In a June 25 announcement, the U.S. Department of Education said California’s policy allowing transgender girls to compete on girls' teams violates Title IX, the 1972 law prohibiting sex-based discrimination in federally funded educational institutions.
The department also proposed a resolution requiring California to bar transgender athletes from girls' sports teams and revoke any records, titles, or awards they’ve received. It further calls on the state to send personalized apology letters to female athletes who were denied honors or recognition after being displaced by a transgender competitor.
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