Advocacy Group Concerned Over Possible Project 2025 Bills
Advocacy Group Voices Concerns Over Possible Project 2025 Bills In Statehouse
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STATEHOUSE — Some Hoosiers are concerned that some bills filed for consideration for this legislative session have been inspired by the writings of Project 2025.
Project 2025 is a set of plans laid out by the Heritage Foundation that detail what the organization calls an “overhaul” of the U.S. government. It perpetuates certain tenets like requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments and criminalizing abortion as murder.
Bills related to those tenants have been filed by some conservative state lawmakers this session. Those include bills requiring transgender people to have their birth sex listed on their driver’s license and to end no-fault divorce.
Kaitie Rector is the Director of Advocacy for the group MADVoters and tells WISH-TV that she believes all these bills have ties to Project 2025.
“This idea that one view of morality, one interpretation of a personal religion, is being imposed on everyone else, and the big concern with that is it’s deeply unpopular,” Rector said. “Most Hoosiers, regardless of political affiliation, we can unite around this idea that we want freedom, we value freedom, we value our families, we don’t want the government butting in and telling us what to do.”
The group has flagged bills filed by the likes of State Reps. JD Prescott, Lorissa Sweet, and Lindsay Patterson.
Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston (R-Fishers) says he has never read Project 2025.
“We’re going to have a lot of discussion about a lot of bills. We talk to a lot of stakeholders,” Huston said. “I’m sure that people across all different political ideologies will have concerns about bills that have been filed. Those bills that will move, we’ll have conversations about.”
