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Recently, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee declared the month of June Nuclear Family Month.

In doing so, he was also declaring that June is not Pride Month.

Resolution stated that Tennessee will prioritize the nuclear family,

which it described as, and I quote, consisting of one husband, one wife, and any biological

adopted or fostered children as God's design for familial structure. In quote, even more,

according to the Tennessee resolution, the nuclear family is under attack

in our beloved state and nation, and it's our responsibility to uplift, protect, and support

values that help Tennessee proper, end quote. Now, predictably, this Tennessee resolution engendered

much outrage from LGBTQ activists. After all, it's now fully expected that our nation

recognizes Pride Month each June and that media, professional sports teams, local and national

retailers, and federal and state governments will participate. One might think that Pride Month is

even federally mandated, but as Tennessee has just demonstrated to

us all, it is not. The first Pride Month marches took place in 1970 in response to a police

raid on a gay bar in New York City. Activists date this as the beginning of the so-called

gay liberation movement. In 1999, President Clinton issued a presidential proclamation that June

be recognized as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month. Ten years later, 2009, President Obama renamed it

as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Month. And since then, of course, the T's

have basically taken over. Presidential proclamations are important,

but they are mostly ceremonial, and they're not binding laws. The Tennessee resolution makes

clear that the family has contributed far more to our nation than have sexual minorities,

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