Here in the featured picture, we have a progressive religious writer named Rick Pidcock who writes for Baptist News Global. For Halloween, he dressed as a Christian Nationalist worship leader with his wife dressed as a "The Handmaid's Tale" character to rightfully mock Christian Nationalism and Project 2025/Agenda 47. Rick's wife works the bread winning career while the dad (Rick) is a stay-at-home father of five kids and does his writing for the Baptist News Global. He regularly writes about the toxic patriarchal masculinity of right winged Christianity which says that "he as the Head of the Household" must be the bread winner while his wife stays home and cares for the children under his "commanding leadership." In the modern family, even within most Christian families, this will not work.

Rick Pidcock's family is defying the ridiculous notion that all families must look and act the same as the traditional "Christian" family. My own family is not a traditional nuclear all white family. Even though my husband and I have been married for 30 years, we have multicultural, Neurodivergent, and LGBTQ+ young adult children and their spouses/partners. Rick Pidcock's family and my family defy the multi-generational notion that all families must think, act, and conform the same way.

The Christian Nationalist agenda is attempting to undo and destroy the many variations of the modern family we see today except the traditional nuclear family. In addition to the traditional nuclear family, we also have blended families, single parent families, LGBTQ+ families, and other variations of the family. Society and religious communities must face the reality we are living today instead of insisting that everyone conforms. The white, heterosexual, male-dominated, "Christian," and Republican is the minority now. As Presidential Historian Alan Lichtman says, "we live in a majority-minority country."

All families regardless of structure and identity should be treated equally. People of goodwill, whether they are religious or not, need to provide equal opportunities for everyone. The more I expand my social lenses, and the more I see, the more I realize that inclusion of everyone is a safety issue, a right-to-life issue, a human dignity issue, and a loving our neighbor as ourselves issue.

To not treat all people and all variations of the modern family as equally-sacred is to place less value on some people than others. This is antithetical to the Gospel and the core teachings of every major world religion. To not do so is also to align with fascism (and even Nazism) which is a great danger to everyone, particularly LGBTQIA+ people and their families, most racial groups, various types of non-traditional families, religious minorities, and more. History will repeat itself if we don't support democracy.