Eleven years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court radically redefined marriage to include the union of same-sex couples in Obergefell v. Hodges.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, author of the Court’s decision, claimed the Constitution’s promise of “liberty” required allowing two people of the same sex to “marry” “on the same terms and conditions as marriages between persons of the opposite sex” because marriage “embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family.”
In affirming this “right,” Justice Kennedy made a fatal error: He prioritized the rights and desires of adults over the natural rights and desires of children.
Children have the right to be known, raised, loved and nurtured by their natural mother and father. “Same-sex marriage” erases that right.
Because same-sex couples are in an inherently infertile relationship, they must acquire children (who will be biologically unrelated to at least one of them) by other means: adoption, IVF, sperm and egg donation, and surrogacy.
Justice Kennedy – intentionally or not – threw the door wide open for same-sex couples to acquire, purchase, create and adopt children through any means necessary, robbing them of their right to know and be loved by their own mother and father.
Thankfully, many Americans are beginning to wake up to this reality.
According to a new national survey, conservative and moderate likely general election voters express broad agreement on children’s rights: 82% believe no child should be deliberately denied a mother or a father.
“For years, the left has portrayed the belief that children deserve both their mother and father as a fringe view,” said Katy Faust, founder and president of Them Before Us, in a press release. “This poll proves otherwise.”
Faust added,
The poll also found that of surveyed conservative and moderate voters:
96% say it is important for a child to be raised with both an involved mother and an involved father.
78% agree that when a child’s needs conflict with an adult’s desires, the child’s needs should come first.
66% reject the claim that being raised by same-sex parents is no different for a child than being raised by an adoptive mother and father.
63% agree that children are harmed when they lose their mother or father to be raised in a same-sex household.
Them Before Us has begun the Greater Than Campaign, a national coalition working to reclaim marriage on behalf of children.
Many “parents, faith leaders, scholars, lawyers, and advocacy organizations” have joined the campaign, including Focus on the Family, Family Research Council, the Colson Center, the American Family Association, Allie Beth Stuckey, Josh Hammer, Michael Knowles and more.
“The conviction that children should come before adult desires remains a defining value shared across the conservative movement,” Faust said.
Eleven years after Obergefell, the ruling’s dire consequences for children are becoming increasingly clear. That’s why support for same-sex marriage and same-sex relationships has been declining among all U.S. adults and particularly among conservatives.
We must all continue to speak the truth in love as we have opportunity, teaching our fellow Americans that children’s right to their mother and father is greater than the right of same-sex couples to obtain them.
The fight to protect children’s rights is just beginning. Learn more about the Greater Than Campaign.
Related articles and resources:
Defending the Rights of Children
Children’s Rights Should Always Come Before Adults’ Desires
Supreme Court Declines Petition Challenging ‘Same-Sex Marriage’ Ruling
It’s Good the Left Fears the Overturning of Gay ‘Marriage’
Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage Harms Children and Society
Why Focus on the Family Believes Obergefell Must Be Struck Down
Support for Same-Sex Marriage and Relationships Declines Among Conservatives
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