The Real Targets of Project 2025’s War on Porn
“Some of the groups behind Project 2025, including Heritage, have had their own anti-“pornography” drives for years. The “Promise to America’s Children” campaign [politicalresearch.org] was launched in 2021, tied to the Equality Act and led by three Project 2025 groups: Heritage, the Family Policy Alliance, and Alliance Defending Freedom. “America’s children are increasingly exposed to adult themes and sexual images at younger and younger ages,” Emilie Kao, director for Heritage’s DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society, said in a campaign press release. “It’s not just entertainment and broader culture. Too many government initiatives push graphic information about sex and abortion and promote destructive ideas about gender identity. Cementing gender ideology into law through the Equality Act will endanger children’s physical, emotional, and mental health as well as undermine parental rights.” By parental rights, they mean the rights of parents to restrict access to such information and ideas. The “Promise” campaign pushed laws that would ban young trans people’s participation in sports, as well as block their access to hormones and puberty blockers, and to regard their supportive parents and educators as engaging in child abuse.”