The right-wing
policy roadmap called 'Project 2025' has been hugely
influential. Created by the Heritage Foundation before
the 2024 election, its goals have informed a
significant number of Donald Trump's priorities. In
fact, around half of all the goals listed in the
920-page document have already been achieved.
And
now, the Heritage Foundation is introducing some new
visions. They include pushing unmarried
Americans into government-run "marriage bootcamps" to
reeducate them into choosing
matrimony.
The new report, "Saving
America by Saving the Family," focuses on boosting
pregnancy and birth rates, and promoting 'traditional'
heterosexual married couples with a male breadwinner.
Its suggestions include: making divorce much more
difficult, restricting the amounts paid for alimony,
discouraging in-vitro fertilization (IVF) as well as
online dating, and of course, the creation of marriage
bootcamps.
Under the Heritage Foundation's
vision, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
would run the camps. The report itself specifies:
"Successful completion of the program would mean that
couples are ready to walk down the aisle at a
communal wedding by the end of the
bootcamp."
If you think all of this is too
far-fetched and too unrealistic, remember how
successful the Heritage Foundation has been so far
at getting its anti-immigrant, transphobic,
misogynistic policies enacted. But — the public
has been successful, too. The Heritage Foundation
has backed down from other outrageous proposals in the
past — and with enough public outrage, we can get
them to retreat on this one, too.
We don't
need the federal government involving itself in our
personal, private, intimate lives. Sign the petition to demand
the Heritage Foundation retract its 'marriage bootcamps'
and 'mass weddings' proposal!
