Some may conflate a traditional American upbringing with Christian conservative values. But in this piece from The Big Picture, Amelia Mavis Christnot uses her childhood in a traditional, Indigenous family to explain why for her, LGBTQ+ allyship has always been a traditional family value.
Agreed. It was my straight cisgender parents who fostered in me support for LGBTQ+ rights long before I knew I was a lesbian myself. My stepdad is an ordained Presbyterian minister who is always explaining why homophobia and transphobia are not family values or Christian values.
These people love to talk about "parents' rights" but they never think progressive parents' kids should have any exemptions from their book bans. In red states they do everything they can so bluer areas like major cities can't live THEIR values (I lived in Austin for eight years...)
I grew up in a very religiously diverse part of the Detroit metro area in the 90s-00s. The fact that lots of my classmates weren't even Christians, let alone conservative Christians, didn't stop a fundamentalist church from getting Harry Potter banned for everyone from the public school library
