The Family Foundation Joins Huge Nationwide Coalition to Overturn Harmful Obergefell Decision

LEXINGTON, KY – The Family Foundation joined Them Before Us, Family Research Council, Focus on the Family, American Family Association, Lila Rose and Live Action, the Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles, Allie Beth Stuckey, and more than 43 other state and national organizations to launch today the campaign Greater Than, with the goal of ultimately overturning Obergefell.

The Greater Than campaign believes that children’s needs are greater than adult desires, ambitions, and the 2015 redefinition of marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges, which effectively made mothers and fathers optional in law and culture. By prioritizing children’s inherent rights to both their mother and father–essential for their stability, identity, safety, and thriving–the campaign seeks to reverse the societal harms that have elevated adult desires over children’s well-being.
 

Statement from David Walls, executive director of The Family Foundation:

“Obergefell was a disastrous Supreme Court decision for marriage, family, and children, and remains the same today. This unlawful decision has done significant harm by inventing so-called “gay marriage” and robbing children of their right to have both a mother and a father. We must retake marriage for the sake of children and for the sake of truth. That’s why The Family Foundation is proud to join the Greater Than campaign with allies from across the nation,” Walls concluded.

When Obergefell invented a “right” to marry a person of the same sex, the law was forced to accomplish what biology prohibits, making two adults of the same sex parents of a child. That required a decade-long overhaul of parenthood centered around adult desire rather than child need.

Statements from national pro-family leaders Katy Faust and Jim Daly:

“The legal result of so-called adult equality has been the commodification of children. Ask the children who have been starved of maternal or paternal love, acquired by predators, mass produced, trafficked across borders, struggling with identity confusion, or subjected to risky households if they feel ‘equal’ now. We will retake marriage for the sake of these children whose basic needs should never have been made less than in the eyes of the law,” said Katy Faust, Founder and President of the child-advocacy organization, Them Before Us, leading the Greater Than coalition.

“The connection between natural marriage and child protection is primal, real, and unescapable. The Obergefell holding ultimately cannot stand against it,” Faust added.

“Focus on the Family is proud to be a part of the Greater Than movement. When the needs of children are neglected, it’s not just the children who suffer. Families are hurt and society itself is destabilized,” Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family said. “We see the tragic evidence of this all around us. And that’s why we wholeheartedlyembrace Greater Than’s conviction that real progress means putting children’s needs ahead of adult desires.”

The Greater Than coalition includes over 43 state and national organizations all dedicated to restoring the primacy of the natural mother-father-child bond in culture and law, and retaking marriage on behalf of children to end the decade-long injustice they have suffered. Coalition members present as a “who’s who” in the conservative movement including Them Before Us, Family Research Council, Focus on the Family, American Family Association, pro-life activist Lila Rose, political commentator Michael Knowles of The Daily Wire, leader of the Relatable podcast Allie Beth Stuckey, Josh Hammer of Newsweek, and more. All public coalition members are listed at GreaterThanCampaign.com/about-us.