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Christians Are Reclaiming Marriage to Protect Children

Gay marriage did not merely redefine an institution. It created child victims. After ten years, a coalition of Catholic and Protestant leaders has come together to say: no more. The Greater Than campaign is dedicated to defending the rights of children by urging the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges.

The debate that preceded Obergefell, which imposed same-sex marriage on all fifty states, was relentlessly adult-centric. Proponents argued that gay adults would be harmed—emotionally, socially, and legally—if the definition of marriage were not upended. Opponents generally responded in kind, warning that religious adults would be harmed if it were. Both sides framed marriage as a contest between adult interests and adult liberties. Both sidelined the true victims of marriage redefinition: children.

Marriage exists because children exist, because they are conceived through the union of a man and a woman, and because they need the protection, stability, and care of a father and mother over time. To acknowledge children honestly would have required conceding that marriage is not merely a vehicle for adult fulfillment, but a child-protecting institution ordered toward permanence, exclusivity, and sexual complementarity. So children were largely written out of the story.

Ten years later, children have paid the price for being cut out of the conversation.

Parenthood statutes have been stripped of sexed terms, regarding mothers and fathers as interchangeable “parents”; infertility has been reclassified so that same-sex couples can deliberately produce motherless or fatherless children with the help of insurance subsidies; birth certificates have been altered to legally exclude a child’s biological parent; new parentage pathways have been created that bypass both biological and adoptive safeguards. The impact of Obergefell was quite simply the reduction of children to legal accessories to be acquired by any and every adult.

Same-sex marriage requires the state to downgrade, and often eliminate, the importance of biology in the parent-child relationship. If the state can assign parentage to a non-adoptive genetic stranger based solely on adult intent, it can more easily unassign parentage from a biological mother or father. Turns out, the answer to the question, “How does my gay marriage affect you?” is: in the worst way possible.

We seek to influence three areas:

1. The Law—We will unapologetically advance new laws and defend existing laws that prioritize the natural family and children’s needs for their own mother and father. The Court will eventually be forced to choose: adult desires or child welfare.

2. The Culture—We are changing the national conversation. With the help of conservative influencers and organizations, we will help our countrymen understand the direct line between gay marriage and child victimization. This isn’t about whether two adults love each other. It’s about what children need to thrive, and what the adults should be doing for them.

3. The Church—The Church has a rich heritage of being the greatest protectors of children. We have tapped church leaders to build resources to train Christians to reclaim that role.

https://firstthings.com/christians-are-r...-children/