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Governor Ron DeSantis Declares June ‘Faith and Family Month’

The tidal wave of “Pride Month” has left Florida high and dry thanks to Governor Ron DeSantis signing a proclamation declaring June “Faith and Family Month” in the Sunshine State.

The proclamation, which the governor signed on June 8, emphasizes the importance of faith, family and fatherhood as essential elements to a thriving society.

“Faith is a foundational element that provides strengths, hope, and moral guidance, shaping values of compassion, service, responsibility, and unity within our communities,” the proclamation states, highlighting the Christian faith as vital in “constructing our Constitution, laws, and ideals.”

It also supports the “Biblical family unit [as] the initial God-ordained earthly institution providing the model for a thriving society” and upholds fathers as playing an “influential and irreplaceable role within families.”

The proclamation calls on churches, faith-based organizations, businesses and community partners to launch initiatives in June to “educate, inform, and strengthen relationships among husbands and wives, parents and children, grandparents and grandchildren.”

Florida Commissioner of Education Anastasios Kamoutsas lauded the proclamation on X quoting Joshua 24:15: “But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve … as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

Kamoutsas wrote, “Thank you, @GovRonDeSantis, for proclaiming June as Faith and Family month, recognizing the vital role faith and family play in the lives of Floridians and in the strength of our state.”

Gov. DeSantis’ proclamation makes Florida the sixth state to celebrate the natural family in June.

Tennessee and Indiana governors declared June “Nuclear Family Month”; Alabama’s governor designated June “Strong Families Month”; and the governors of Arkansas and Utah declared June “Fidelity Month.”

Additionally, Rep. Mary Miller, R-IL, introduced a resolution last week in the U.S. House of Representatives to declare June “Family Month” in place of “Pride Month.” In an exclusive interview with Daily Citizen, she expressed optimism the resolution will pass the House.

“The breakdown of the family has caused inestimable damage to our country,” Rep. Miller told us. “We need to get back to our biblical Christian roots. We need to support intact families – a husband and wife committed to each other.”

Thanks to Gov. DeSantis’ bold and courageous leadership, our nation’s third most populous state is doing exactly that, redeeming June in honor of the nuclear family. Let’s hope, pray and advocate for more states to soon follow suit.

To speak with a family help specialist or request resources, please call us at 1-800-A-FAMILY (232-6459).

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Yes, Gay ‘Pride Month’ Most Certainly IS After Our Kids

LGBT activists, and the elite media supporting them, have long been offended that they regularly get accused of targeting children. They claim nothing could be further from the truth, they are just loving people who want to protect vulnerable youth.

Well, as ‘Pride Month’ kicks into overdrive there is ample evidence that all our children and grandchildren are specifically being targeted by LGBT activists online, at their schools, in your community and libraries. Let’s just survey a few scattered examples. You have likely seen others not featured here.

On June 1, Sesame Street, as it has for the past 7 years, posted this vivid celebration and support of every alternative sexuality gay ‘pride’ proudly stands for.

Peppa Pig, a popular Nick Jr. offering intended for ages 2-5, followed suit with all its characters wishing your children “Happy Pride.”

Blue’s Clues, also created for ages 2-5, was an early adopter, proudly pushing ‘Pride’ parades on young children for years. One video proudly featured drag queen Nina West praising families with “two mommies, who love each other so proudly.” It also celebrates the non-existent “non-binary” and “trans” families and even polyamory, which marches in “four by four” and “five by five.” 

The cartoon drag queen also explains to your kids that some families are made up of “kings and queens” while “Ace, Bi and Pan grown-ups you see can love each other so proudly, and they all go marching in the Big Parade.”

Nickelodeon has bragged about winning affirmation awards from gay advocacy groups for their“authentic LGBTQ+ representation in our stories.” These are the stories they make for your kids.

Don’t believe them when they tell you no one is targeting your children. And it’s not just in cartoons. 

Schools are helping LGBT activists present their disturbing ideas of radical sexuality to children of all ages. Bellingham High School in Washington State hosted their county’s ‘Youth Pride event’ this month. This is what teens and young children were presented with:

This is certainly not a rare one-off. 

Graham-Kapowsin High School in Tacoma constructed a ‘Pride Month’ presentation in their school’s public display case featuring LGBT paraphernalia, including numerous medical vials of Testosterone Cypionate, a Class III controlled substance used in sex-rejecting medicalizations.

A Facebook poster from Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin presented pictures showing the way some local public-school teachers decorated their classroom doors celebrating LGBT propaganda with items like “Born This Way” banners and such.

The principal of McMinnville High School in Oregon thought it would be educational to book local drag queens Dr. Poison Waters and TheQueen Pluto to perform for the school’s graduation this year.

A Colorado school board passed a district-wide ‘Pride Month’ recognition along with an official proclamation on May 27, 2026. It honors “every child, regardless of gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation” and calls for “lessons and activities that engage students in meaningful learning about … the LGBTQ+ community and the experiences of our LGBTQ+students, staff, and families.” They don’t have a month celebrating learning in math, science, literature and history.

Just days ago, WVUE News celebrated the fact that some young children “witnessed their first-ever drag queen show.” Drag performer Malaysia Ravor Black, explained to the New Orleans news station, after dancing before young children and their smiling moms, “children need to hear that encouragement” about “LGBTQIA” hoping it would “push them to be more inclusive of everything that goes on around them.”

But rest assured, accusations that LGBT activists are aggressively targeting and grooming school children in their radical sexual and gender ideology are hyped up falsehoods. There is nothing to see here. Please ignore all the disturbing evidence to the contrary you are seeing with your own eyes this ‘Pride Month.’

Pray for the redemption of those who work to ensnare and destroy our nation’s children. Matthew 18:5-6

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Hope Conference: Support for Individuals and Families Struggling With LGBT Issues

Hope 2026, a yearly conference that offers support and healing for individuals and families struggling with LGBT issues, is coming to Colorado Springs June 12-13.

The event is sponsored by Restored Hope Network, an interdenominational coalition of ministries, therapists, pastors and spiritual mentors “dedicated to restoring hope to those broken by sexual and relational sin, especially those impacted by homosexuality and gender confusion.” 

Hope 2026 provides support, teaching, resources and spiritual care for those wrestling with unwanted homosexuality and transgenderism. In addition, the conference equips families, loved ones and churches to address LGBT issues with grace, truth and wisdom. 

Hosted by Focus on the Family, Hope 2026 features keynote speakers like Dr. James Merritt, Dee Barnes, Dr. Joseph Nicolosi Jr. and Glenn Stanton. 

Merritt is senior pastor of Cross Pointe Church in Duluth, Georgia and former president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Barnes is the founder and director of His Wonderful Works, a ministry in Covington, Georgia, that disciples those struggling with same-sex attractions or transgenderism and equips pastors and families to love strugglers while holding to biblical truth. 

Nicolosi is a licensed clinical psychologist and the director of The Breakthrough Clinic, which is likely the largest clinic in the world helping men with unwanted homosexuality. Glenn Stanton is the director of Global Family Formation Studies at Focus on the Family. The author of nine books, he writes for the Daily Citizen about gender, sexuality, marriage, family and parenting. 

The conference includes worship, testimonies from overcomers and workshops like “Doing Life with your LGBTQ-Identified Child,” “Case Histories of Change,” “Clear Love for Confused Parents” and “Freedom in Jesus Christ.” 

Founded in 2012, Restored Hope Network proclaims a biblical view of sexuality, relationships, marriage, healing and transformation. Members believe and teach: 

• God created humans in his image, male and female, and our biological sex and sexual identity matter to God. 

• Marriage is the union of a man and a woman which “prefigures the union of God and his people or Christ and the church and has as its highest purpose the self-giving integration of the two sexes into a single sexual whole.” 

• Homosexual practice violates God’s standards for sexual purity, as does expressing a “gender identity” different from one’s biological sex. Both are against God’s will. 

• Jesus Christ deeply loves broken sexual sinners and provides hope for transformation. Jesus coupled a heightened ethical demand with a loving outreach to violators to lead them to repentance. 

For those struggling with unwanted same-sex attractions, identity and behavior, and for those with unwanted sexual identity confusion and transgender behaviors, the conference offers biblical truth and clarity, hope for healing and transformation, and practical tools for walking into wholeness. 

Parents, family members, ministry leaders and pastors will gain new insight about relating to, encouraging and bringing healing to those with sexual and relational brokenness. 

Find out more about Restored Hope Network and Hope 2026. 

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If you or someone you know is struggling with sexual or relational brokenness, Focus on the Family offers a one-time complimentary consultation with our ministry’s professionally trained counselors. The consultation is free due to generous donor support.

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Gallup Data Reveals Support for LGBT Ideology is Declining

This June marks the 16th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court redefining marriage and the family away from male and female unions and parenting in their landmark Obergefell v. Hodges decision.

This marked a radical turn for our nation’s understanding and practice of marriage and parenting. We now have fundamentally falsely named organizations like Men Having Babies working to erase motherhood by claiming any configuration of adults raising kids is equally valid.

This is likely why new Gallup polling data is showing declines in support for LGBT ideology. Gallup explains, “Approval of same-sex marriage, moral acceptance of gay and lesbian relations, and endorsement of gender changes are all down from peaks reached in the early 2020s.” It’s about time.

Support for such things had been declining among conservative Americans for some time. But this year charts a marked decline among more liberal citizens, who even seem to be souring on gay and lesbian relationships as seen here:

Support for same-sex relationships among liberals declined about 5 percentage points over last year, back down to 2023/2024 levels. It has been falling consistently among conservatives and independents.

Support for the legal validity of same-sex “marriage” has taken a similar tumble over the past few years as well. The number of Americans who believed such unions are valid hit a high of 71% in 2022 and 2023. But that number slid markedly to 65% this year, an overall 6-point drop. Yet, when you ask conservative Americans, we see a remarkable 18-point drop in support. Support from independents has dropped to somewhere in between.

Across the board, the declining national trendlines look like this in support for same-sex “marriage,” relationships and the morality of gender transitions:

Reason for These Declines?

So, what could be the reasons for these consequential declines for support for the gender revolution? That is a key question. No one really knows for sure.

Focus on the Family believes it has to do with the clearly destructive behavior of LGBT activists and their dramatic overreach. They falsely promised their dramatic changes to marriage, family and the definitions of male and female would not harm anyone. They promised these were just private choices between responsible adults. 

Of course, that was never true. Now people are seeing this fact for themselves in dramatic ways, like this, this, this, this, this and this.

People see intentionally motherless children being acquired and paraded by gay men like this:

They are also seeing that girls and women are being displaced from safe women-only spaces by boys and men who think they are women.

People are realizing how crazy gender ideology really is in its dramatic strong-armed redefinition of what it means to be human. We predict our nation and the rest of the world are going to see more decline in support for these terribly destructive ideas.

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Rep. Miller Introduces Resolution Declaring June ‘Family Month’ Instead of ‘Pride Month’

A resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives declaring June “Family Month” in place of “Pride Month” is being introduced by Rep. Mary Miller, R-IL.

“The breakdown of the family has caused inestimable damage to our country,” Rep. Miller told the Daily Citizen in an exclusive interview. “We need to get back to our biblical Christian roots. We need to support intact families – a husband and wife committed to each other.”

The resolution declares the natural nuclear family is “the foundation of a healthy society.” It also correctly notes married moms and dads “play a crucial and irreplaceable role in the upbringing of their children” and provide “the best environment for children to thrive.”

Furthermore, the resolution details the harms that flow from the breakdown of the nuclear family and opposes “Pride Month displays and events” in June “that denigrate the nuclear family.”

If passed, the resolution would make it clear the House of Representatives:

  1. Recognizes the benefit of marriage and family to men, women, children and society;
  2. No longer recognizes Pride Month;
  3. Supports the designation of Family Month for the purpose of rededicating our Nation to the importance of this essential unit.
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The resolution was introduced in the House for the first time in 2025, where it garnered 21 cosponsors. This year, Rep. Miller is hoping for even more. She expressed confidence the resolution will pass the House and potentially garner bipartisan support.

“Last year I was on an island by myself,” Rep. Miller explained. “This year, we’re seeing governors get on board and issue resolutions for their states.”

Indeed, on April 9, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed a joint resolution enacted by the Tennessee Legislature, which sailed with overwhelming majorities, designating June 2026 Nuclear Family Month.

On June 1, Indiana Governor Mike Braun declared it Nuclear Family Month in the Hoosier State too.

“As a father of four and grandfather of seven, I have seen firsthand the impact that loving, committed families can have across multiple generations,” Gov. Braun said. “As we approach America’s 250th anniversary, this proclamation recognizes the important role families play in shaping the future of our state and our country.”

The governors of Alabama, Utah and Arkansas have also recognized June as “Fidelity Month” or “Strong Families Month.”

Rep. Miller explained that since being elected to the House in 2020, her top priority has been to stand up for families.

“From day one, I’ve said the foundation of our country is the family. We need to rebuild the family,” she urged. “Marriage rates have plummeted. Birth rates have plummeted. That’s a real problem we must address.”

Rep. Miller founded the Congressional Family Caucus, a group of House members dedicated to promoting pro-family policies including affordable housing, good taxation policies, eliminating marriage penalties in the tax code, defending women’s sex-segregated spaces and more.

She sees Family Month as a unique opportunity for Christians and churches to recommit to defending the nuclear family.

“I’m hoping that it will grow. I’m hoping that churches will think to use June as a time to really promote the family, perhaps by holding marriage seminars, parenting classes or even family celebrations,” Rep. Miller said.

“It’s not hateful to speak the truth. God has defined what is true,” she shared. “We must inspire people to be bold. Quit being passive. Find opportunities to speak truth about the family.”

To speak with a family help specialist or request resources, please call us at 1-800-A-FAMILY (232-6459).

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