{"id":567876,"date":"2021-06-18T13:21:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T17:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=567876"},"modified":"2021-06-18T13:22:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T17:22:00","slug":"new-group-aims-to-put-lobbying-power-behind-pro-family-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-group-aims-to-put-lobbying-power-behind-pro-family-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"New Group Aims to Put Lobbying Power Behind Pro-Family Policy"},"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%2Fnew-group-aims-to-put-lobbying-power-behind-pro-family-policy%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=567876&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--><div readability=\"29.027322404372\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/policy\/\">Policy<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Big Family sets its sights on local and national politics<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"485\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kids-watch-tv-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"kids watch tv\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kids-watch-tv.jpg 485w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/kids-watch-tv-300x210.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto\"  style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tGetty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/alex-nester\/\" title=\"Posts by Alex Nester\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Alex Nester<\/a> \u2022 June 18, 2021 1:15 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"88.377308707124\">\n<p>You&#8217;ve heard of Big Pharma, Big Oil, and Big Tech. Now, get ready for Big Family.<\/p>\n<p>The new initiative from the American Principles Project aims to promote pro-family policies with the kind of lobbying power usually wielded by major interest groups, American Principles Project president Terry Schilling told the <em>Washington Free Beacon. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our goal is to make the family the most important special interest group in the country,&#8221; Schilling said. &#8220;Families are the basic building block of society. Marriage and childrearing are incredibly important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Launched in time for Father&#8217;s Day, Big Family will bolster grassroots campaigns and promote pro-family candidates and legislation at the state and national level. The group&#8217;s priorities include promoting school choice, protecting children from obscene content, and fighting the push to allow biological men to compete in women&#8217;s sports.<\/p>\n<p>The group will also fight the ascendance of critical race theory, which Schilling calls &#8220;an immediate threat to families.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At its base level, critical race theory teaches our children that while people are inherently racist and evil,&#8221; Schilling said<em>.<\/em> &#8220;It&#8217;s an immediate threat to families and causes division among families. Critical race theory is bad for social cohesion. We shouldn&#8217;t be teaching future generations division.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Schilling, these seemingly diverse issues have one major thing in common: They all &#8220;affect family formation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Parents want to have their own kids and raise them in their own churches, with their own values,&#8221; he told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;Once you start taking away the power of parents to protect their kids, you start to disincentivize parents from having kids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Over the next few years, Big Family plans to create crowdfunding software to financially support pro-family candidates and a notification system to alert members of local elections within their home districts.<\/p>\n<p>Schilling hopes these measures will attract a small but dedicated group of supporters who can punch above their weight in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are 130 million families in America. We don&#8217;t need them all signed up. We need a million,&#8221; Schilling said. &#8220;If I get a million to sign up, we will have a force for decades.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Policy Big Family sets its sights on local and national politics  Getty Images  Alex Nester \u2022 June 18, 2021 1:15 pm You&#8217;ve heard &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2280689,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kids-watch-tv-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"New Group Aims to Put Lobbying Power Behind Pro-Family Policy","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kids-watch-tv-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"New Group Aims to Put Lobbying Power Behind Pro-Family Policy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567876","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}