Framing Queerness as Anti-Christian: The New Playbook

The State Department’s tweet was not a slip of the tongue. It was a line in the sand.

Screenshot of a tweet from the official U.S. Department of State account. The tweet says the nation was founded on faith in God, accuses the Biden administration of belittling Christianity, and declares that under the current president the State Department will eliminate practices that devalue the Christian faith. — *The State Department goes public with Christian nationalist framing—signaling the start of policies that brand queer existence and secular rights as attacks on faith.*

By promising to “eradicate practices that devalue and demean the Christian faith,” this administration is setting the stage to turn queer existence into a crime against religion. That’s the angle, and it’s deliberate.

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the language hustle

They’re reshaping the vocabulary. Being queer will be described as an ideology, not an identity.

Faith vs. ideology → our lives get packaged as politics that believers are forced to swallow.
Moral inversion → equality claims will be branded as attacks on Christianity.
Family vs. threat → their faith becomes synonymous with “the natural family,” while queer families are painted as sabotage.

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the law as weapon

The legal system is the real battlefield.

Religious freedom as a sword → anti-discrimination protections will be spun as discrimination against Christians.
Exemptions with teeth → schools, clinics, adoption agencies—any institution—can lock us out while calling it protection of conscience.
Agency cover → government offices will issue guidance that prioritizes “religious exercise” above our rights.

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cultural cues

The small removals are test runs.

Rainbow flags vanish from embassies, explained away as “respecting faith.”
Workplace diversity policies get framed as harassment of Christians.
Media stories flood in about “faithful” employees punished for refusing pronouns.

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political messaging

This is Christian nationalism dressed in official language.

Christianity = freedom → if freedom depends on faith, queer rights get cast as the enemy of both.
Casting us as the aggressor → the majority claims the role of victim, and the state endorses it.
Wedge campaigning → queerness is bundled with “wokeness” and “cultural collapse,” turning opposition into a patriotic duty.

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the endgame

The long project is to hardwire the idea that queer existence is anti-Christian by default. Once that sticks, dismantling rights can be sold as defense instead of attack.

They won’t frame it as targeting us. They’ll frame it as defending faith. That’s how exclusion is polished into virtue.

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what this means

For LGBTQ people, the ground fight is here: courts, workplaces, culture. We need to name what’s happening and call out the trick. It’s not about protecting believers—it’s about turning our lives into an offense against God to justify pushing us out.

If we don’t root ourselves in law, community, and solidarity, they’ll keep advancing under the cover of righteousness.

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Stay curious.

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