In 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges that would drastically change the societal landscape of America. In legalizing same-sex “marriage,” the High Court inadvertently disenfranchised thousands of children by depriving them of their inherent right to be raised by their biological mother and father. It’s time to overturn Obergefell and recognize that children’s rights are more valuable than adults’ desires to defy natural law and “marry” partners of the same sex.
 
To that end, renowned child advocate Katy Faust created the GREATER THAN campaign to ultimately overturn Obergefell v. Hodges and ensure that children’s rights are prioritized in government and society.
 
“The legal result of so-called adult equality has been the commodification of children. Ask the children who have been starved of maternal or paternal love, acquired by predators, mass produced, trafficked across borders, struggling with identity confusion, or subjected to risky households if they feel ‘equal’ now. We will retake marriage for the sake of these children whose basic needs should never have been made less than in the eyes of the law,” Faust, Founder and President of the child-advocacy organization, Them Before Us, shared. “The connection between natural marriage and child protection is primal, real, and unescapable. The Obergefell holding ultimately cannot stand against it.”
 
Obergefell effectively made mothers and fathers optional in law and culture. By prioritizing children's inherent rights to both their mother and father–essential for their stability, identity, safety, and thriving–the campaign seeks to reverse the societal harms that have elevated adult desires over children's well-being.
 
Greater Than explained the multifaceted harms wrought by legalizing same-sex “marriage”:

• Sex-based parenthood was erased. “Mother” and “father” were replaced with interchangeable, gender-neutral “parents.”
• Biological bonds were downgraded. A child’s relationship to his or her biological parents became optional rather than foundational.
• Infertility was redefined. Same-sex couples were declared “infertile,” enabling insurance or state-subsidized manufacturing of motherless or fatherless children.
• Birth certificates were altered. Children were intentionally and legally severed from their biological parents at birth.
• New parentage pathways were created. Adults gained parental rights without biology or adoption-level screening.

"Every flourishing and enduring society has understood that marriage stands as the most basic institution of civilization. Redefining marriage undermines the very institution that God ordained for the raising and nurturing of children. Children need both a father and a mother. That is why I am glad to stand with the Greater Than campaign, because what is ultimately at stake is nothing less than the care, protection, and future of our children,” Dr. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, wrote.
 
We stand against Obergefell not only because it is a work of legal fiction that denies God’s perfect design for the family, but because it victimizes children and infringes on their inherent rights.
 
Greater Than has a three-pronged approach to overturning Obergefell:

• First, we must re-establish the preeminence of the parent–child relationship through policy reform and strategic court cases. The law must confront the reality that state-assigned parenthood is state-endorsed child trafficking—severing children from their natural parents to satisfy adult demands. The Supreme Court will ultimately be forced to choose: natural bonds or children as commodities. It cannot coherently uphold both.
• Second, we must change public opinion—but that will not happen until we change the victim. This time, it’s not adults seeking insurance benefits or hospital visitations, all of which could have been secured through other legal means. If we are to retake legal marriage, we must highlight the real victims, the children who have been starved of maternal or paternal love, acquired by predators, mass produced, trafficked across borders, struggling with identity confusion, and subjected to risky households. We win when ordinary citizens understand the direct connection between natural marriage and child protection.
• Third, we must transform the Church into a child-centered fighting force. The Church’s historical inheritance is child protection, often at the cost of adult offense. From ending foot binding, to enacting child labor laws, to rejecting abortion and infanticide worldwide, the church is charged with defending the fatherless (and motherless) not standing by while they are legally orphaned to serve adults. Child protection is, and always has been, one expression of a Christian’s pure and undefiled religion before God. Greater Than will help the Church do exactly that.

“We have eliminated all of the contours of the family, so the only thing left is what an adult wants. And very often what they want is the acquisition of a child that does not belong to them,” Faust stated. “We have 10 years of receipts of how gay marriage has victimized children, and the Greater Than campaign stands together and says, ‘No more.’”
 
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