Tennessee Just Replaced Pride Month… With THIS

Nuclear Family Month is here—and it’s about to spark a national shift Why replacing Pride Month with Family Month could spread across America Tennessee’s new law reveals what the fight is really about Why you can’t abandon the nuclear family without losing everything

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My name is Greg Matson and I am your host. In this episode, we are talking about Tennessee who has flipped the
script literally on Pride Month. They have gotten rid of Pride Month and put in place of it nuclear family month for
June. This coming June in 2026, it is, I believe, the beginning of a trend that's going to happen in a number of other red
states. Uh, I love the way that they are describing this. I am all for this. I have my reasons. I will go over that.
But this is uh this is a very important thing. This is something that falls right along the lines of the family proclamation and it's putting it into
law. And so we're going to talk about this. Of course, there's huge backlash on this. Huge backlash on this. And I'm sure that
uh those that are advocating for Pride Month are very upset because they are worried that this is going to continue
to um have states that are going to change this that are going to add in some type of a family month during the
year. Imagine the horror of of adding a month of family or why we would even need at this point a month of family,
which is a family month, which is true.
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All right. Tennessee flipping the script. Uh this is,
you know, I've thought about this. I didn't have a big reaction at first until I really read into it, but this is a very big deal and I think it's exactly
what needs to happen in our culture today. This is not an anti-LGBTQ thing. It is not. You know what it is?
It is pro-f family and that's the way it should be spoken of. It is pro-f family.
We have all of these different forces in the world right now, especially in the west that are breaking down the family,
tearing kids away from parents. uh tearing spouses away from each other, abortion,
careerism, uh overtaking a large a majority a majority of women's lives.
April 9th, we had the fertility rate given to us for 2025 in the United States, the lowest in history. These are
very big issues that we are are not paying attention to and that, you know,
we're hoping somebody else takes care of it, but you know, I don't want to take care of it. We're getting married later. We're having fewer kids, if any kids,
and that American idea of the family,
the nuclear family being in place is being dissolved right before our eyes.
So, the governor of Tennessee signs this bill where June is no longer pride month, but it is nuclear family month.
Some people will say, "Why do they come up with that name?" I think it's exactly the way that it needs to be. We need to understand what family means, what that
nuclear family is. You need to go beyond family and you need to go to the nuclear family. And people say, "Well, I'm worried about that, Greg. Why are you
going to say that? People have different types of families and you know, we need to celebrate them." Sure. But they're not the ideal. We need to stop with this
idea of worrying about offending people by giving up the ideal.
Understand what that means. You can't do that. You You've got to hold the ideal at all times, even if you're not a part of it. And I've given this example
several times, but my parents divorced when I was six. I didn't have a father in my home. I I was I did not have the
ideal situation. and my dad remarried a couple years later, had more kids with my stepmom. Um, love them, love all of
them, but but that was not the ideal situation. But, you know, everybody tried to make it the ideal. Fortunately,
my mom, my dad, my stepmom, they all worked together in making this the most ideal situation possible and teaching
teaching the ideal and preparing their kids for the ideal. marriage, man and a
woman, have kids, and for us as Latter-day Saints, teaching the gospel,
right? That that's what you do. You don't go off and say, "Well, you know,
me now, I didn't grow up that way, so I'm not going to teach my kids to grow up that way. You know, I Why would I do that? That offends me. I didn't have that." Or for those that don't have it.
I I don't have that, so I don't want to teach it. That's not acceptable. It's just not acceptable.
teach the ideal. The ideal is the nuclear family. A mother and a father that love each other and love their kids
and bring up their kids. That is the ideal. The family proclamation is the ideal. Many many people fall short of
the ideal or or or have zero control over the ideal. That's okay. Don't let
go of the ideal. You can't do that in anything. Boy, I fall short all the time and and uh I I'm not going to make it to
the celestial kingdom. No, don't ever let go of the ideal.
You can't do that. And and for those that say, "Well, I don't even care if I go to the celestial kingdom. I Okay, you have your agency.
I I I I can see this so strongly really in in the premortal world in in the war in heaven. Boy, this is unfair. Look at
all these people. They're going to end up up here and some people are going to end up over here and over here. And and because it's there's disparity here
because of agency, we're going to take agency away and and any kind of exceptions and everything else. We're going to take it all away so that
everybody can feel good about it and and nobody's worried about the disparity.
Right. That that that's what I that's what I believe is was the moral justification for what went on on with the opposition in the war in heaven.
take away the ideal, remove it and remove agency in the process so that we can all feel good about ourselves.
You can't do that. You cannot. We are we are we are removing the ideal in the west of of family
and it will be to our demise just as we see in the last two paragraphs of of the family proclamation.
8 minutesApril 9th, lowest fertility rate in the in the in the US in history. Same day that we get a an announcement on the
official church social media account on on something that would not be ideal.
Odd. Really, really odd. But anyway, um let's get into this. Let's take a look here at this Yahoo article. This is actually coming from The Advocate, an
LGBTQ um publication. And it says Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has signed a
resolution designating June 2026 as nuclear family month. I know it doesn't sound good. It doesn't roll off the tongue well, but that's what it should
be. Nuclear family month. Move from out here in this circle here of family to tighten it up to nuclear family month.
Because we teach and we hold up at its highest level the ideal nuclear family month in the state defining the family
unit as consist. This is the nuclear family unit consisting of one husband,
one wife and any biological adopted or foster children. That is perfect. That is absolutely the perfect description.
Critics say it is a direct rebuke of LGBTQ and families during Pride Month.
It might be it it it might be. I I don't know. Uh it would be very interesting to see what
would happen. I think that this is going to trigger a number of other states that are going to do the same thing. They're going to have some type of a family um month and they may do it differently.
They may not focus in on nuclear family month, which I think they should, but they may say, let's say they do uh May as family month.
And uh so they do May as family month and they keep June as pride month. Now,
wouldn't it be interesting to see what the backlash is? Is it going to be the same?
Does having a family month during the year take away from Pride Month? Is that what they're going to say?
And here's a question for you. for you that are are active Latter-day Saints and you support Pride Month, are you going to support a family month if that is put in place in your state?
H or or you do you think that it's intolerant?
That is where untethered empathy gets us. It breaks down the ideal.
And and once you break down the ideal, once you lose the ideal, you lose everything.
It's all gone. It's done. The anchor is always up there. It's like Christ. He's at the top. He is right up there. If you lose him,
everything below it breaks down,
right? And the nuclear family is at the top as far as an organ, a social unit.
And that's not just in the gospel. That is the way it works practically in society.
Okay, we'll keep going on here with this article from the advocate.
Um, Lee signed House Joint Resolution 182 on April 9th. April 9th. Uh, so that's that was signed on the same day
that the the fertility rate came out for 2025.
We uh I'm not going to I'm not going to beat a dead horse. Two days after it was transmitted to his desk following passage through both chambers of the
Republican controlled legislature sponsored by Republican state rep. Bud Hulsey and Kingsport and backed by 15 GOP co-sponsors. The resolution
describes the nuclear family. Now get this and think of the family proclamation. It describes in the resolution God's design for familial structure.
That is true.
Now, that's going to tick a lot of people off that want something different. We know this just even
through Genesis. We know this from the temple.
And the doctrine of Christ in the church is inextricably tied to the idea of a nuclear family, a man and a woman and their children.
Inextricably tied. That is what you're going through the entire process through with Christ as the mediator as you go
through it through the the initiatories through the endowment and eventually through being sealed in a temple marriage.
That is all combined.
Uh okay, a little bit more here. The resolution advanced over the course of more than a year. It took a long time.
Not sure why because look at the numbers that it had. It passed the Tennessee House 72 to8.
Tennessee is becoming a very red state in April 2025 and cleared the Senate 26 to4 last month. So, I don't know why it
took so long. I don't know why this was scheduled this late. Maybe they wanted it this type of timing uh coming in just a couple months before Pride Month. Um
it looks like it would have easily passed no matter when they would have done this. They held a session, I suppose, recently with the Senate, but uh there it is. It's it is done and it's
done overwhelmingly uh in in their house and senate. And this is interesting here. Remember this
is written by the advocate and they're going to they're going to give a caveat here which isn't true but but I want I want to show you this. Says the measure
goes beyond symbolic recognition invoking a series of widely disputed claims. Widely disputed. They're not widely disputed.
They are disputed by those that hate the nuclear family.
All of the studies show that a father in the home helps everything. Everything with the kids and with the family.
People hate that. There are some people honestly they they absolutely hate that idea.
says the measure goes beyond symbolic recognition, invoking a series of widely disputed claims and fatherless about fatherless households, including links
to higher rates of poverty, substance abuse, incarceration, and school shootings. It goes beyond that, and
they're all true. Over and over and over again, the studies show this. To argue for the superiority of the traditional family structure, it promotes according
to the resolution text. Now, what they're going to come in here and why they say widely disputed is because they want to break down the nuclear family.
That is the whole agenda.
And people don't get this in their minds and they end up following through on the same ideas sometimes because it's taught to them at school. It's taught to them
in their universities. It's taught to them on their social media. There are people in the world with power and
influence and platforms that want to break down the family.
There are people that do this and we need to be aware that this is true so that you can put things into context and
understand the contrast between those things that build up a family and those things that break them
down. rigorous studies find. So the other ones were just studies, right? The the or claims. The other ones before
were just claims. Now rigorous studies find that once factors such as income and household stability are accounted
for, the independent effects of father absence are significantly smaller.
They're still there, but they're smaller. Let's uh let's go over this real quick. First of all, yes, having two member h two adult members in the
house, either both working or one working while one is at home with the kids is going to make a huge difference
in those kids, right? Number one, you've got somebody watching over them more often. They're going to be less delinquent. And number two, you've got
an income. You've got the ability to have an income. You don't have a single mom that's trying to juggle both things at the same time. How do I keep track of my kids? How do I work full-time? How do
I get all these things done? I've got everything piled upon me. They want to make that the norm. They want to pile
that on the women. They do. They want to pile that on the women. Fathers aren't needed. Men aren't necessary. That is
the agenda. The fact is is that yes, of course, income is a big part of this.
But then they say stability. Once stability is accounted for, stability in what? It's not just income.
It is stability in the family that is given from a father being present in the home. And and and
everything from careerism for mothers to to uh social media to to feminism.
All of these things are things that break down marriage and break down families.
And we're becoming we're like the frog in the in the warm water in a pot.
And we're just being we're just being slowly that that heat goes up until it's boiling.
And that's where we're at with these ideas.
This is just the way it is. This is what they say here. This is glad that in their response they say resolutions like
this do more to reveal the cluelessness of elected officials whose own families and those of their constituents have various family dynamics and structures.
Again, I that has nothing to do with anything. Why does Pride Month have anything to do with this? Again, I think it's going to be very interesting to see
as I believe other states take on something like this, if they put it in a different month, they keep Pride Month,
what the backlash is going to be with this, because there will be backlash. I guarantee you, you try to put a family month in place, it it's going to and and
then you know what's going to happen naturally, because this is the way it is. This is what really the powers that be are going to be pushing on this. It's going to be a battle.
It's going to be a battle between Pride Month and Family Month,
which is probably why it's better that it does replace Pride Month. The strongest families are grounded by love is what the advocate says.
Lawmakers trying to exclude and intentionally harm some families. This just isn't true. Should be recognized as actively harming all by not focusing
their time working for an inclusive Tennessee where all are welcome and can succeed. So, I interpret that as they're
harming everyone by keeping the ideal at the top.
They're harming everyone by keeping the ideal at the top. And that that is I'm sorry, it's shameful.
If you are gay, you should be holding up also the nuclear family. That doesn't mean you're going to live it. That
doesn't mean that's what you want for yourself,
but for society and for messaging and culture and ideology and practice, you should be holding up the nuclear family,
which is probably where you came from.
I'm not saying it is, but it's probably where you came from. Here we have in uh the Daily Mail,
this is uh fury from LGBTQ community as Tennessee declares June as nuclear family month. There's that name again rolling off the tongue and drops pride.
A new Tennessee law declaring June as nuclear family month and not Pride Month has sparked outrage.
It's always on one side, you know, we're always deferring to one side on these things.
What what about has has spurred celebration has sparked celebration
by those that see that a godly order to uh to the social unit is is a nuclear
family and that that's what holds society together. No, it's it's outrage here has been sparked. Governor Bill Lee signed the controversial. Of course,
this is controversial. Can you imagine 20 years ago this being controversial?
We're going to put nuclear family month in place. We are the frog. We are the frog.
On April 9th, the day the fertility rate came out for last year, just two days after it was sent to his desk following
passage through both chambers of the Republican controlled state legislature.
It defines the family unit as one husband, one wife, and any biological,
adopted, or fostered children. And get this, it describes the nuclear family as
God's design for family structure and God's perfect design for humanity.
That is the family proclamation right there. It is following directly the family proclamation. And just like
the family proclamation, it is holding it up as the ideal. We're not in ideal situations. We don't all live the ideal.
ometimes we can't follow the family proclamation exactly the way it is outlined, but it is the ideal and that's what should be messaged. That's what
should be strived for and that's what should be focused on regardless of people's situation. The
resolution first proposed last year also calls the nuclear family the basic building block of Tennessee society throughout her formative years. This is
every state's society. This is California, Florida, Arizona, Utah,
every state society, every nation's society. It is the building block.
Period. And we are neglecting it. And we are allowing it. We are allowing it. All of us are allowing it to disintegrate
right now. It goes on to site claims about fatherless household claims about fatherless households. It's
they're not claims. They're they're the mass body of work and studies that are done socially on uh um the sociological
studies on family on nuclear families and they're linked to higher rates of poverty, substance abuse, incarceration,
and school shootings. However, studies now there's studies studies have shown and it's the same thing. They're going to say the same thing about income.
They're they're they're trying to say,
"Hey, you don't need a dad." That's exactly what they're doing. You don't need men in the family. Let's get rid of this. And we should be able to recognize this what what what certain groups,
individuals, organizations are doing, what they're pushing for.
The resolution, this is new. Also, the resolution further denounces the humanistic globalist ideologies of the World Health Organization, the United
Nations, and other like-minded organizations that fight for population control through the means of promoting sterilization and abortion practices.
It's not just that. That is definitely true and I'm very glad that they mentioned these things. We need to be
aware of this. But those global entities are also pushing things like a a radical
feminism that are are are going to we're we're trying to export. Unfortunately, you
know, this is really interesting. When I first started following the United Nations, most of these
ridiculous uh anti-family type of of ideologies and practices and
programs and that were put in through the United Nations and global groups like this were coming out of Europe.
They were coming out of Europe and they were the ones that were were were pushing the abortion. They were the ones that were pushing um um you know a
a strong independent woman re without a man, right? I'm not talking about education. I education needs to be
there. Opportunity needs to be there for all of these women. I mean, you think about these third world countries where these women don't have a chance for anything,
right? It's it's they're in difficult positions because they don't have any choices. they often uh end up in a
position where they are you know have to accept what is offered to them in terms of marriage in terms of
their lives right they don't there and so I get that I understand that that's got to change we want to influence that a change in that but they take it all
the way to the extreme in these these global groups to a radical feminism that is taught to them but now it's not
Europe that is the primary exporter of these ideas and practices. It's the United States
and you can go through and you can find the language that is given is coming out of the universities of the United States.
The the words and the phrases are things that are studied and ideologies that are that are codified
fuamented in the halls of humanities here in in in the universities of the United States.
And that's really a sad transition. A very very sad transition. But uh it is
under attack, right? I mean, we can we can follow this article a little bit further. It argues that the nuclear family is under attack and that it is the state's responsibility to uplift,
protect, and support values that help Tennessee. Yes, we should all as states,
as a federal government, as society, as culture, be lifting up the nuclear family much, much more than we do now.
And we're doing the opposite. We're allowing it to fall apart at this point. And and you know what's
really above all the most very unfortunate thing is that tolerance and even advocacy for those practices and
ideas that break down the family found within the membership of the church.
Why are we doing that? Why are we allowing that?
And I say we, I'm talking about you and me,
right? That that that is not this is not a Salt Lake thing. They've got their own things to deal with. We as Latter-day
Saints need to take more control of our own understanding of our circumstances
and and of our own choices and and and of battling out our own salvation and
and sharing ideas and gospel- centered principles. And I don't know. I I
I I think that I think that we as Latter-day Saints have got to take on more responsibility,
way more responsibility individually on on what we do and what we say and what we allow uh within our societies.
Thanks for listening.