God did not create the government first. He did not create the Church first. He did not create schools or courts or any of the institutions we spend so much time arguing about. The first thing God created, after the man and the woman themselves, was the family. Father, mother, child. That was the foundation. Everything else was built on top of it.
Which is exactly why the family is the first thing that has to go.
I want you to understand something clearly. What is happening in our schools and hospitals and government buildings right now is not progress. It is not kindness. It is not science. When a twelve year old girl can be put on medication that stops her body from developing, without her parents even being told, we have not moved forward as a society. We have gone back to something very dark and very old. The Bible has a name for cultures that sacrifice their children on the altar of an ideology. It does not speak well of them.
The family is not a social invention that humans came up with and can change whenever they feel like it. Male and female He created them. That is not a cultural preference from two thousand years ago. That is the architecture of creation itself. You do not get to renovate the foundation and expect the building to stay standing.
For decades, the people pushing this agenda told us we were being paranoid. They said nobody was coming for the family. Nobody was coming for the children. And then the curriculum changed. And then the libraries changed. And then the hospitals started offering these procedures to minors. And then parents who objected found themselves reported to government agencies.
The paranoid ones were right.
President Trump signed executive orders to protect children from these procedures and to restore the definition of what a man and a woman are under federal law. The media called it cruelty. I call it the government finally doing what governments are supposed to do. Protect the vulnerable. Defend the foundation.
The family is where faith is first learned. It is where children first understand love, sacrifice, authority, and belonging. Destroy the family and you do not just damage society. You cut people off from the very place where they were supposed to first encounter God.
That is not an accident. That is the point.
Nehemiah rebuilt the walls because he understood that a city without walls is not a city. It is just land waiting to be taken. The family is the wall. And we are going to defend it.
— Father Thomas