New Coalition, Greater Than, Seeks to Overturn Gay “Marriage” for the Sake of Children

God gave children a mother and a father for a reason.

And they’re right—God gave children a mother and a father for a reason. God created marriage and therefore defined marriage—one man for one woman! That’s the only marriage that exists.

People today like to pretend that parents are just interchangeable adults, that it doesn’t matter if a child has two mothers or two fathers—or three parents, for that matter—as long as the child is loved. But the research doesn’t confirm this idea—it shows exactly what we’d expect starting with God’s Word: Children flourish best when they have a father and a mother who are married to each other (you can see some of that research at Them Before Us).

This isn’t surprising. God created marriage and the family, and he designed it to be between one man and one woman for life (Genesis 1:27, 2:24). When we pervert God’s design to fulfill sinful adult desires with gay “marriage,” transgenderism, polygamy, polyamory, no-fault divorce, and more, children are hurt and their needs, and what’s best for them, take a back seat.

As Greater Than seeks to overturn Obergefell, they will:

Urge states to pass and defend laws that explicitly name mothers and fathers in parenthood law — not generic “parents” or “guardians.” We will insist that unrelated adults do not belong on children’s birth certificates. We will encourage states to elevate and incentivize homes where biological parents are raising their children within marriage and to affirm that biology and adoption are the only two legitimate pathways to parenthood.

We will reassert sex-based realities, insisting that family law reflect the fact that sexual difference is essential to child development. We seek to give biological parentage primacy, recognizing the natural parent-child bond as a child’s first and most reliable safeguard, while requiring adoption screening for any unrelated adults who seek parental status. Above all, we work to center children’s rights across parentage law, birth certificates, divorce, and marriage policy, so that a child’s objective right to his or her mother and father supersedes subjective adult preferences.

Simply acknowledging the child-centric contours of the natural family will provoke a challenge. But then the question before the court will not be about how the adults identify or whether they have dignity. The question will be whether children benefit from their own mother and father, or if a state-assigned adult is just as good. The answer? They absolutely are not.

Recognizing the child-protective realities of the natural family is a matter of justice for children. The alternative is a legal regime that commodifies them, places them in statistically riskier and less stable homes, and deprives them of the relationships they need to flourish. That outcome is unacceptable to me and to so many others across the country — which is why the time is now for the Greater Than campaign.

Katy Faust, the president and founder of Them Before Us, was interviewed by AiG’s Bryan Osborne and Avery Foley a few months ago. I encourage you to watch the interview. She’s a passionate defender of children, from the moment of fertilization, and is working hard to stop the commodification of children that is increasing in America.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.