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Media Matters reports:
Head of the anti-trans organization American Principles Project Terry Schilling appeared on an episode of Timcast IRL where he compared no-fault divorce in the United States to “the dissolution of marriage and the abolition of family in the Soviet Union.”
The movement against no-fault divorce was reestablished as a right-wing project following the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, with many conservative media figures attributing a supposed rejection of traditional marriages to no-fault divorce laws.
Daily Wire host Michael Knowles has gone as far as claiming his wife would have to “murder” him to get out of their marriage. Right-wing streamer Steven Crowder has also repeatedly attacked no-fault divorce. And Timcast IRL host Tim Pool titled a related June 2022 video “No-Fault Divorce Has DESTROYED Men’s Confidence In Marriage, Men Don’t Want To Get Married Anymore.”
While on the June 26 edition of Timcast IRL, Schilling referenced a 1926 Atlantic article about “the dissolution of marriage and the abolition of family in the Soviet Union.” Schilling claimed that because divorce became an easy process and “no-fault,” Soviet cities and towns were “ransacked by these criminal orphans” and stated “this is exactly what we’re going through” in the United States.
The American Principles Project was founded by Robert George, who also co-founded the anti-LGBTQ hate group, the National Organization for Marriage.
As you may recall, after the Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling, George called for “all federal and state officeholders in the United States” to defy the decision. Robert George is also the author of 2009’s Manhattan Declaration, which calls for Christians to engage in civil disobedience against all LGBT rights laws.
Terry Schilling is the son of late former GOP Rep. Robert Schilling, who famously showed up for his swearing-in (of what would be his only term) with his ten children in tow.