Obergefell v. Hodges legalized gay marriage nationally and gave same-sex couples the same legal rights and privileges as in a heterosexual marriage, such as adoption and parental rights.
According to a recent poll, 96% of conservatives and moderates say kids should have both a mother and a father in the home, and 78% say children's needs should win out when they are in conflict with adult desires.
Katy Faust is the founder and president of the Them Before Us, a global movement advocating for a child’s right to a mother and father who commissioned the poll.
“That's the whole public purpose of marriage, to unite children to the two people to whom they have a natural right, their own mom and dad,” Faust states.
The Supreme Court's Obergefell decision in 2015, she says, is the knife that continues to cleave children away from having a mom and a dad. Faust wants to amplify those voices that they found in their poll.
“We're going to do it with the express purpose of overturning Obergefell. If you can make the case that that mom and dad are critical to the child's life, what you find is that it's incompatible with Obergefell,” Faust says.
The right case, she continues, will change the question posed to the court about homosexual marriage.
“The question that our cases are going to bring before the court is not, ‘Do gay people have dignity? The question is, ‘Do children benefit from their own mother and father or is a state assigned stranger just as good?’” Faust says.
She wants to see the country’s laws and public policies support what's best for children.
“Marriage is not just a tool of adult validation. It's actually an instrument to unite the two people to whom children have a natural right, the very thing that they say matters,” Faust states.
