{"id":2614563,"date":"2026-06-16T09:02:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-americans-are-falling-out-of-love-with-lgbt-pride\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T09:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:06:24","slug":"why-americans-are-falling-out-of-love-with-lgbt-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-americans-are-falling-out-of-love-with-lgbt-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Americans Are Falling Out Of Love With LGBT &#8216;Pride&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-americans-are-falling-out-of-love-with-lgbt-pride%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2614563&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the decline in public support for same-sex marriage and the shifting cultural landscape surrounding LGBT issues.Support and corporate sponsorship for pride events are waning, and political figures are reclaiming traditional observances like June. Despite initial promises that same-sex marriage would be a harmless extension of love, its implementation has led to broader radicalism, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-scores-big-scotus-victory-over-department-of-education\/\" title=\"Trump Scores Big SCOTUS Victory Over Department Of Education\">including transgender ideology<\/a> and attempts to normalize polygamy. These developments are seen as a slippery slope resulting from the premise that gender self-identification matters more than biological sex, leading to numerous societal and legal changes such as erasing gender distinctions and promoting controversial practices like reproductive arrangements involving babies. The author argues that marriage is fundamentally rooted in human nature-specifically the complementarity of male and female-and that redefining it to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >suit subjective desires undermines social order<\/a> and individual fulfillment. The piece concludes that understanding and restoring the true meaning of marriage is crucial, and that the rise of radical LGBT initiatives has intricate these efforts.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Same-sex marriage is not on the rocks \u2014 yet. But the LGBT triumphalism of a few years ago is receding. Support for same-sex relationships is <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PTBwrites\/status\/2062159739111325882\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dropping<\/a>, businesses are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/05\/30\/nx-s1-5805854\/pride-parade-struggle-corporate-sponsorships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">less inclined<\/a> to pay for \u201cpride\u201d festivities, and Republican leaders are <a href=\"https:\/\/familycouncil.org\/2026\/06\/02\/governor-sanders-declares-june-fidelity-month-in-arkansas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reclaiming<\/a> June from the rainbow.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn\u2019t supposed to happen. The issue was supposed to be settled, with the rainbow triumphant and opposition receding to a few marginalized religious weirdos. But in the years since the Supreme Court invented a right to same-sex marriage in the <em>Obergefell<\/em> decision, the effects have become clear, and they aren\u2019t what we were promised. <\/p>\n<p>Same-sex marriage was sold to the public as loving and harmless. We were told that \u201clove is love\u201d and that \u201cmarriage equality\u201d would have no negative effects on the rest of us. But the slope was slippery, and assurances of \u201clive and let live\u201d proved to be a lie.<\/p>\n<p>There are two main causes why slippery slope warnings proved more prophetic than fallacious. First, there is the premise of same-sex marriage, which is that male and female don\u2019t matter in marriage except for subjective preference. Objections to this are dismissed as bigotry. These ideas have consequences, and they have since been made manifest. The second (and related) cause of the slippery slope is that LGBT groups and their allies wanted far more than same-sex marriage. They weren\u2019t going to put a ring on it and then declare victory and go home. Rather, everyone and everything, from schools to sports, had to bow to the rainbow flag.<\/p>\n<p>The convergence of these factors was clear in the trans revolution that immediately followed <em>Obergefell<\/em>. Ideologically, transgender ideology is an obvious extension of the logic of same-sex marriage; if male and female don\u2019t matter in marriage and parenthood, they don\u2019t matter anywhere. And organizationally, the gay-rights movement had already spent years preparing to pivot to transgenderism after same-sex marriage. <\/p>\n<p>So Americans learned that same-sex marriage was a bait and switch. It was promoted as a way to include same<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-has-officially-gone-gender-crazy\/\" title=\"Congress Has Officially Gone ... Crazy\">-sex couples<\/a> in normal life, but instead, it unleashed radicalism into normal life. Democrats were, and still are, all in, from the topless trans activist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/republicans-hammer-biden-trans-activists-go-topless-white-house-event-very-disgraceful\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shaking<\/a> his fake breasts at the Biden White House, to putting men in women\u2019s prisons, to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ThemBeforeUs\/status\/2062158178754682921\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">advancing<\/a> legislation that erases the words mother and father and replace them with \u201cgestating parent\u201d and \u201cnon-gestating parent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, polygamy, rebranded as polyamory, is not only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2024\/02\/polyamory-ruling-class-fad-monogamy\/677312\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">promoted<\/a> in left-wing media, but it is now being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/28\/us\/pacific-northwest-polyamory-legal-protection.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">legally recognized<\/a> in some deep-blue jurisdictions. Opponents of same-sex marriage were denounced as alarmist bigots for predicting this would happen; now The New York Times is reporting favorably as it happens.<\/p>\n<p>As the radicalism intensified, so did efforts to punish dissent. They weren\u2019t just going after the <a href=\"https:\/\/wng.org\/articles\/jacks-masterpiece-1777775546\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">baker<\/a> who didn\u2019t want to do custom work for a same-sex wedding but after spas that wanted to keep <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2026\/03\/13\/swinging-dicks-spa-case-federal-judge-woke-colleagues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">naked men<\/a> out of the women\u2019s area. Rainbow woke made a lot of enemies out of normal people who are now determined that it must not regain power. And so some Republicans are starting to find their spines.<\/p>\n<p>But it is not just post-<em>Obergefell<\/em> weirdness and wokeness that is turning Americans against same-sex marriage. Americans have also gained clarity about the ordinary evils of same-sex marriage, such as male homosexual couples buying babies via commercial surrogacy and intentionally depriving them of their mothers forever. <\/p>\n<p>Pretending babies do not have mothers exemplifies the rejection of reality inherent in same-sex marriage. The basis for marriage as a social and legal institution is not adult sexual and romantic desires but the complementarity of male and female, a complementarity that gave each of us life. That is fundamental human reality, not irrational bigotry.<\/p>\n<p>Marriage is rooted in human nature, and trying to have its benefits while denying that nature is harmful, individually and socially. Marriage is about the two halves of humanity coming together in committed relationships that continue the human species. It is both foundational to the good order and flourishing of society, and a source of some of the highest joys and greatest fulfillments possible in this life. And for Christians, it is also an image of our fulfilment with Christ in heaven.<\/p>\n<p>Marriage encompasses everything from basic biological truths to the mysteries of the divine. But our culture has reduced it to a subjective expression of sexual and romantic partnership, dissolvable at will; marriage is just a contract \u2014 and not the hardest to get out of. This reductive view of marriage dispenses with both commitment and complementarity, which is to say, with the point of marriage.<\/p>\n<p>The invention of same-sex marriage was not the primary, let alone only, cause of the decline in marriage. But it did make matters worse, and it is now an obstacle to getting back on track. We cannot restore a right understanding of marriage while pretending that sex, in every sense, is irrelevant to it.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Nathanael Blake is a senior contributor to The Federalist and a fellow in the Life and Family Initiative at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is the author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/ignatius.com\/victims-of-the-revolution-vtrp\/\">Victims of the Revolution: How Sexual Liberation Hurts Us All<\/a>&#8221; (Ignatius, 2025).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marriage debate shifts as support wanes and radicalism grows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":2614564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Pride-Parade-Crowd.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[51294,56673,34832,52167],"class_list":["post-2614563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-lgbtq-2","tag-pride-2","tag-public-opinion","tag-social-trends"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Pride-Parade-Crowd.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2614563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2614567,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614563\/revisions\/2614567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2614564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}