evidence: While Project 2025 does not explicitly call for the end of marriage equality, Gillian Branstetter of the ACLU’s LGBTQ and HIV Project, says it makes a lot of indirect arguments "for treating same sex marriages as second-class marriages." For example, the chapter on the US Department of Health and Human Services instructs the next president to protect faith-based grant recipients from religious liberty violations and to maintain a biblically based definition of marriage and family. It also states that Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education grants "should be available to faith-based recipients who reaffirm that marriage is between not just any two adults, but one man and one unrelated woman." [...] The plan’s attempt to roll back so many LGBTQ rights shouldn’t come as a suprise, given the track record of the Heritage Foundation, which produced Project 2025. Since its inception in 1973, the Heritage Foundation has been a power player in Republican politics. In 1981, it produced its first transition document—known as the "Mandate for Leadership"—on the eve of Ronald Reagan’s inauguration. The document was described as "a blueprint for grabbing the government by its frayed New Deal lapels and shaking out 48 years of liberal policy." By the end of Reagan’s first year in office, almost half of its recommendations had been implemented. In 2016, the foundation saw even greater success, stating that after Trump’s first year in office, his administration "had implemented 64 percent of its policy recommendations."