NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A Franklin County Republican lawmaker hopes to designate this June as “Nuclear Family Month” in the Volunteer State.
Rep. Iris Rudder (R-Winchester) has filed a joint resolution in the Tennessee General Assembly that would designate June 2025 as Nuclear Family Month.
“Whereas, the nuclear family, consisting of one husband, one wide, and any biological, adopted, or fostered children, is God’s design for familial structure and has been the bedrock of society since the creation of the world,” the resolution begins.
The resolution also calls the nuclear family the “basic building block of Tennessee’s society throughout her formative years” and has “built the United States of America and created prosperity within our nation.”
The resolution also denounces the “humanistic, globalist ideologies” of the World Health Organization, the United Nations and “like-minded organizations that fight for population control through the means of promoting sterilization and abortion practices,” stating the nuclear family is “under attack” and it is the state’s responsibility to “uplift, protect, and support values that help Tennessee prosper.”
June is widely celebrated as Pride month for members of the LGBTQ+ community. The month is celebrated in June because the Stonewall Inn riots took place in late June 1969 The Stonewall Inn was a popular gay club in New York City’s Greenwich Village neighborhood and protests started after police conducted a raid on the bar. The events are considered the catalyst of the gay liberation movement in the U.S.
