The scapegoat list always grows. Yesterday trans people, today gay families, tomorrow whoever is next.
This month, billboards went up across rural Ohio reading “No child has two dads. No child has two moms.”
The messages were paid for by Seattle-based Them Before Us, part of a coalition of more than 50 groups pushing the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage. A foundation funded by Hobby Lobby founder David Green gave the group $300,000 in 2024, according to tax filings.
The slippery slope is clear. In 2022, the Court overturned Roe, and Justice Clarence Thomas wrote then that Obergefell should be reconsidered next. Then came the wave of anti-transgender legislation, hundreds of bills each year. Now a campaign against same-sex marriage is public, funded, and on billboards.
You do not have to be part of the LGBTQ community to see it. These are coordinated, funded attacks on ordinary families, arriving in an election year, aimed at keeping Americans fighting each other.
Ohio is answering. A Dayton nonprofit called Have a Gay Day raised over $18,000 in days for counter-billboards: “Many children have two dads. Many children have two moms.”
The scapegoat list always grows. Yesterday trans people, today gay families, tomorrow whoever is next.
Notes To My Future Self 