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MineralMan

(151,760 posts)
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 12:42 PM 6 hrs ago

Minnesota Bakery Anounces "Nuclear Famliy" Month - During Pride Month

Minnesota bakery announces ‘Nuclear Family’ promotion during Pride month

GRANITE FALLS, Minn. (Valley News Live) - A Minnesota business is launching a monthlong “nuclear family” celebration in June — a move organizers say is meant to highlight what they view as a traditional model of family life, and one that comes as communities across the country mark LGBTQ+ Pride Month.

In a social media post, Carl’s Bakery & Coffee Shop in Granite Falls said the promotion is a response to what it describes as “perilous and tumultuous times” in the United States, citing economic concerns, distrust in institutions, a declining national birthrate, and what it sees as a breakdown in relationships between generations.

“Rather than fixating on these woes, we would like to focus our attention on what we believe both nature’s law and nature’s God reveal as the primary building block for any great society: the nuclear family,” the statement said.

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This comes after Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed a resolution designating the month of June as “Nuclear Family Month” in the state. That amendment says it defines a nuclear family as one “consisting of one husband, one wife, and any biological, adopted, or fostered children,” saying such a family “is God’s design for familial structure and has been the bedrock of society since the creation of the world.”


https://www.valleynewslive.com/2026/06/02/minnesota-bakery-announces-nuclear-family-promotion-during-pride-month/

Glitter Bombing, anyone?
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Minnesota Bakery Anounces "Nuclear Famliy" Month - During Pride Month (Original Post) MineralMan 6 hrs ago OP
Time for libs' religious beliefs to be offended. bucolic_frolic 6 hrs ago #1
Ah yes, such a foundational and primeval concept from nature and God that it was coined... around the 1920s ck4829 6 hrs ago #2
More stupid crap. 2MuchNoise 5 hrs ago #3
All female customers have to wash the dishes! leftstreet 5 hrs ago #4
They really don't know the history of families, do they? mwmisses4289 5 hrs ago #5
Yeah, but they're not really thinking about families, anyhow. MineralMan 4 hrs ago #6
Kinda like their idiotic super bowl half time alternative that did so well. mwmisses4289 4 hrs ago #7

ck4829

(38,120 posts)
2. Ah yes, such a foundational and primeval concept from nature and God that it was coined... around the 1920s
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 01:07 PM
6 hrs ago

Here's your history bit for the day.

Nuclear family dates to the 1920s, when the academic fields of anthropology and sociology were both still young. The Oxford English Dictionary cites Bronisław Malinowski, considered a founder of social anthropology, as the coiner of the term.

At the time nuclear family was coined, the word nuclear inhabited contexts other than those most familiar to us now. Its use was broad and tied, as it still is, closely to uses of its parent word, nucleus, which had been a member of the language for 250 years. (In other words, people were putting "nuclear membrane" in papers before "nuclear family" )

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/nuclear-family-history-origin

leftstreet

(41,314 posts)
4. All female customers have to wash the dishes!
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 01:52 PM
5 hrs ago

Bake all the pastries. Order all the supplies....

MineralMan

(151,760 posts)
6. Yeah, but they're not really thinking about families, anyhow.
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 02:15 PM
4 hrs ago

They're poking at LGBTQ+ folks. That's all this is about. They are pretending that it's something else, but it's not. It's just prejudice, pure and simple.

It will probably be relatively popular where it is. That's pretty conservative territory, there. People have moved elsewhere for decades to go to places where people are more tolerant and welcoming. I'm not sure there is going to be much backlash there in Granite Falls, frankly.

mwmisses4289

(4,876 posts)
7. Kinda like their idiotic super bowl half time alternative that did so well.
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 02:46 PM
4 hrs ago

I knew several lgbtq+ when I lived in the pnw. Their kids were more grounded, polite, and intelligent than the religious kids.

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