{"id":17385,"date":"2026-01-30T06:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T06:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=17385"},"modified":"2026-01-30T06:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T06:26:19","slug":"nationwide-coalition-organizes-to-flip-the-script-on-gay-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=17385","title":{"rendered":"Nationwide Coalition Organizes to Flip the Script on Gay Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A coalition of 47 conservative organizations is launching a campaign to challenge the\u00a0Supreme Court\u2019s 2015 ruling\u00a0in Obergefell v. Hodges, which the groups claim redefined marriage to emphasize the desires of adults over the needs of children.\n<\/p>\n

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The \u201cGreater Than\u201d campaign focuses on one message, which a handful of conservative leaders state clearly in a launch video: \u201cChildren are greater than equal, and it\u2019s time we fought for their rights.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

The messaging responds to the\u00a0LGBTQ activist narrative\u00a0that redefining marriage as between two people, rather than between a man and a woman, involves \u201cequality.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cSince the redefinition of marriage a decade ago, we\u2019ve seen the consequences: parenthood treated as replaceable, and children deprived of the unique love and guidance only a mother and father can provide,\u201d Katy Faust, founder and president of Them Before Us and a spokeswoman for the campaign, said in a statement Wednesday.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cTen years of Obergefell have shown us, loud and clear, that\u00a0children deserve better\u00a0and that they are Greater Than adult desires\u2014and it\u2019s time we make a change,\u201d she added.\n<\/p>\n

Alongside Them Before Us stand four other core allies: the American Family Association, the Colson Center for Biblical Worldview, the Family Research Council, and\u00a0Focus on the Family.\n<\/p>\n

The coalition also includes 14 national allies, such as the Christian Medical and Dental Association, the pro-life group Live Action, the Ruth Institute, and the Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood. Fourteen more state allies include family policy nonprofits across the country, representing Alaska, Iowa, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Wisconsin, among others. Organizers told The Daily Signal that the coalition includes more groups than appear on the website,\n<\/p>\n

The coalition lays out a three-part strategy to overturn Obergefell and same-sex marriage: returning marriage policy to focus on the parent-child relationship; changing public opinion by emphasizing how same-sex marriage and other forms of family breakdown harm children; and mobilizing Christian churches to take a stand for protecting children.\n<\/p>\n

The Launch Video<\/h2>\n

\u201cMarriage policy should be about the children,\u201d Newsweek Senior Editor-at-Large\u00a0Josh Hammer\u00a0says in the launch video. \u201cIt\u2019s not about bestowing public policy legitimacy and conferring economic benefits when it comes to adults who have their own idiosyncratic desires.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Colson Center CEO John Stonestreet argues that social science data reveals that kids \u201cdo best when they are raised in a home with married, biological mom and dad.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re prioritizing the fantasies of adults, no matter how earnestly those fantasies are felt, over the real needs and the real good of children,\u201d The Daily Wire\u2019s\u00a0Michael Knowles\u00a0warns.\n<\/p>\n

Of gay marriage, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Al Mohler says, \u201cIt harms children in virtually every way imaginable.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

The Heritage Foundation\u2019s\u00a0Delano Squires\u00a0notes that \u201cevery single child, every single human being is the living embodiment of the relationship between exactly one man and one woman.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s two legitimate ways to unite a child to adults,\u201d Faust, the campaign\u2019s spokeswoman, argues. \u201cThe first one is biology: if you made the baby, that baby has a claim to you. The second pathway is adoption, where a child has suffered loss, and a just society responds by placing them with parents who have undergone screening, and vetting, and background checks, to as much as possible, replicate the kind of protectiveness that a biological mother and father would offer the child.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

What Happens If Obergefell Falls<\/h2>\n

The coalition argues that Obergefell rearranged family law, treating the parent-child relationship as \u201ca configurable legal status rather than a natural bond grounded in biology.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

According to the coalition, if the Supreme Court overturned Obergefell, that would not dissolve existing same-sex marriages or invalidate settled parental determinations.\n<\/p>\n

The coalition also argues that the so-called Respect for Marriage Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law in 2024, only \u201crequires states to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere; it does not require states to license them.\u201d If the Supreme Court overturns Obergefell, \u201cthe constitutional foundation for mandatory recognition would be significantly weakened.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

The list of allies on the website includes:\n<\/p>\n