The tidal wave of “Pride Month” has left Florida high and dry thanks to Governor Ron DeSantis signing a proclamation declaring June “Faith and Family Month” in the Sunshine State.
The proclamation, which the governor signed on June 8, emphasizes the importance of faith, family and fatherhood as essential elements to a thriving society.
“Faith is a foundational element that provides strengths, hope, and moral guidance, shaping values of compassion, service, responsibility, and unity within our communities,” the proclamation states, highlighting the Christian faith as vital in “constructing our Constitution, laws, and ideals.”
It also supports the “Biblical family unit [as] the initial God-ordained earthly institution providing the model for a thriving society” and upholds fathers as playing an “influential and irreplaceable role within families.”
The proclamation calls on churches, faith-based organizations, businesses and community partners to launch initiatives in June to “educate, inform, and strengthen relationships among husbands and wives, parents and children, grandparents and grandchildren.”
Florida Commissioner of Education Anastasios Kamoutsas lauded the proclamation on X quoting Joshua 24:15: “But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve … as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”
Kamoutsas wrote, “Thank you, @GovRonDeSantis, for proclaiming June as Faith and Family month, recognizing the vital role faith and family play in the lives of Floridians and in the strength of our state.”
Gov. DeSantis’ proclamation makes Florida the sixth state to celebrate the natural family in June.
Tennessee and Indiana governors declared June “Nuclear Family Month”; Alabama’s governor designated June “Strong Families Month”; and the governors of Arkansas and Utah declared June “Fidelity Month.”
Additionally, Rep. Mary Miller, R-IL, introduced a resolution last week in the U.S. House of Representatives to declare June “Family Month” in place of “Pride Month.” In an exclusive interview with Daily Citizen, she expressed optimism the resolution will pass the House.
“The breakdown of the family has caused inestimable damage to our country,” Rep. Miller told us. “We need to get back to our biblical Christian roots. We need to support intact families – a husband and wife committed to each other.”
Thanks to Gov. DeSantis’ bold and courageous leadership, our nation’s third most populous state is doing exactly that, redeeming June in honor of the nuclear family. Let’s hope, pray and advocate for more states to soon follow suit.
Daily Citizen is a news division of Focus on the Family that provides a faith-based perspective to counter the mainstream media’s anti-Christian bias.
