A new advocacy campaign is calling on Americans to reconsider the legal redefinition of marriage by shifting the national conversation away from adult desires and toward the rights of children.
According to EWTN News, the “Greater Than” campaign launched on Jan. 28 as a project of Them Before Us, a nonprofit dedicated to defending what it describes as every child’s right to be raised by both a mother and a father. Organizers argue that the 2015 Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges has weakened legal and cultural protections for children by treating parenthood as interchangeable.
“The effort centers the true victims — children deprived of their mother or father — rather than adults who mistake unfulfilled wants for harm,” the campaign stated in a press release, according to EWTN News.
Katy Faust, founder and president of Them Before Us, said the effects of Obergefell have become increasingly clear over the past decade. “Since the redefinition of marriage a decade ago, we’ve seen the consequences: parenthood treated as replaceable and children deprived of the unique love and guidance only a mother and father can provide,” Faust said, according to EWTN News. She added that “Ten years of Obergefell have shown us, loud and clear, that children deserve better and that they are Greater Than adult desires.”
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The campaign also highlights cases involving abuse and exploitation linked to in vitro fertilization, which organizers say expose gaps in child-protection laws following Obergefell. According to EWTN News, examples cited include California cases involving alleged abuse, neglect, and confinement of children conceived through IVF.
Several organizations with Catholic ties are part of the coalition backing the campaign, including Live Action, CatholicVote, the Ruth Institute, and the Word on Fire Institute, according to EWTN News.
Jennifer Roback Morse, president of the Ruth Institute, said children’s needs place moral limits on adult behavior. “Every child has a right to be in a relationship with his or her parents, except for an unavoidable tragedy,” she said, according to EWTN News, adding that uniting mothers and fathers to their children is the essential public purpose of marriage.
While the campaign stresses that it does not claim gay people are incapable of love or care, it maintains that children have a right to both maternal and paternal presence. Catholic teaching, as cited by EWTN News, upholds this view while also affirming that persons experiencing same-sex attraction must be treated with “respect, compassion, and sensitivity,” and that unjust discrimination must be avoided.
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