by Kevin Killough
While June is often associated with LGBT pride, some Republican governors are offering alternative observances focused on traditional family values.
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun of Indiana declared that June would be Nuclear Family Month.
“As a father of four and grandfather of seven, I have seen firsthand the impact that loving, committed families can have across multiple generations,” the governor said in an announcement, which didn’t mention Pride Month or suggest the Nuclear Family observance was in opposition to it.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed a measure in April that designated June as Nuclear Family Month.
The Volunteer State’s Nuclear Family Month resolution says:
WHEREAS, fatherless families are four times more likely to live in poverty than married-couple families; children without fathers are ten times more likely to abuse chemical substances; children from fatherless homes are more likely to have mental health and behavioral issues; sixty percent of youth suicides are from fatherless homes; seventy-one percent of high school dropouts are from fatherless homes; fatherless youths are twenty times more likely to be incarcerated; eighty-five percent of youths in prison come from fatherless homes; and in a 2016 study by Peter Langman on the psychology behind fifty-six school shooters, eighty-two percent of the shooters were raised in an unstable family environment or without both biological parents together.”
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox declared June would be “Fidelity Month,” Deseret News reported, joining Arkansas in the declaration. Utah had previously recognized Pride Month, but last year he said he was taking the month of June to reflect “on the values that bring us together.”
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee said in a post on X, that “June is Fidelity Month: fidelity to family, fidelity to country, fidelity to God.”
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Kevin Killough is a reporter for Just the News. Zachery Schmidt is the digital editor of The Star News Network and contributed to this story.
