The Reformed American Republic wrote:
Let's be honest, this is to distract people from the GOP's economic failures. It throws red meat to a segment of the population who are extreme culture warriors, getting the GOP votes without actually making people's lives better. The GOP did the same crap a few years back with a transgender bathroom bill.
That's all conservative culture wars. The Republican party has seen lgbtqia issues as wedge issues and a maypole to rally up social conservatives to get them to vote for them. Abortion also is like that.