Republicans love nothing more than setting up their own "alternatives" to the cultural institutions they believe have been "tainted" by liberalism. Did Twitter ban you for racist vitriol and inciting domestic terrorism? Then try to start (but fail) at creating a Twitter of your own. Don't like that Disney disavows hatred of LGBTQ people? Try to start a children's entertainment company that pushes dull right-wing propaganda instead. Angry that major razor companies won't financially support fascism? Make your own razors! Are you just generally mad at Starbucks because you have a sneaking suspicion that drinking coffee is somehow effeminate? Start your own coffee company that's draped in gun-related imagery and pretend it doesn't scream "overcompensation." There will surely be a "conservative" Oreo to come out any day now that the right is mad about the company running pro-LGBTQ ads.
Even though they tend to be a little quieter about it these days, Republicans are also still mad that queer people have supposedly sullied the heterosexual institution of marriage. So it shouldn't be a surprise that they're scheming for ways to create an "alternative" form of marriage, one that excludes same-sex couples. But unlike "alternative" cartoons or razors, it appears that the long-term goal here is to make the straights-only "alternative" the only way to get married.
