NH: GOP legislators parrot anti-gay group in "Natural Family Month" proclamation
Republicans in the New Hampshire House of Representatives recently proclaimed the 35 days between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day as “Natural Family Month.” The proclamation mentioned the Natural Family Foundation (NFF), an anti-LGBTQ+ group that invented “Natural Family Month” and considers same-sex families as a “corrupt,” “immoral,” and “lawless” threat that will ensure society’s “extinction.”
The proclamation — read on May 7 by House Speaker Sherman Packard (R) and sponsored by state Rep. Claudine Burnham (R) — declared, “Strong families make for stronger communities, churches, businesses” and added that “organizations like the Natural Family Foundation work to encourage parental involvement,” “recognize the important role of each parents, restore family values,” and “promote honest and open communication between families.”
However, the proclamation wasn’t transparent about NFF’s anti-LGBTQ+ views. Burnham said the proclamation recognizes “that all families are important” and called Natural Family Month as part of a “growing nationwide movement… headed by the Natural Family Foundation.” She didn’t mention that NFF opposes same-sex marriage and same-sex parents and that the group’s founder has led protests against a local Christian evangelical megachurch for not doing more to oppose homosexuality.
NFF’s website states, “When we speak of family we consider that to be without question one biological born man and woman in a lifelong, committed, monogamous relationship with their biological and/or adopted children. Anything outside of these NATURAL parameters by design causes undue stress on the marriage, children and society.” It also states that “within the family there must be a clear male leader… and that leader must come from the family’s lineage.”
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