Conservatives say children’s rights come first.
By Catholics for Catholics
You can’t have it both ways.
Either you are for homosexual unions or children’s rights. But not both.
Period.
That is according to Katy Faust, founder and president of Them Before Us, a global children’s rights nonprofit. She said the consequence from the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling legalizing homosexual unions has destroyed the nuclear family and created a “legal regime that has victimized and commodified” children, according to The Washington Times.
In fact, Faust says it is the children who are made to navigate a world without their biological parents. This is due to the trickle-down effect of the Supreme Court’s making homosexual unions a right, which also redefined adoption and other family laws that led to more mistreatment and abuse.
“The last 10 years have made one thing unmistakably clear: We can either recognize “gay marriage,” or we can recognize a child’s right to the mother and father. We can’t do both,” Faust said during an “Overturn Obergefell” event last week at the National Conservatism Conference. “If we are to retake legal marriage, we highlight the real victims: the children starved of maternal or paternal love, acquired by predators, mass produced, trafficked across borders, struggling with identity confusion, and subjected to risky households.”
Children are human beings, with natural, fundamental rights. The right to life and the right to be known and loved by both mom & dad.
— Them Before Us (@ThemBeforeUs) September 3, 2025
For centuries and across cultures, marriage has been the mechanism to secure that right. https://t.co/BmpI6tpe2O @Advo_Katy pic.twitter.com/JdQsCwpxDB
The Times reported that while most Americans support homosexual unions, Faust insists that if the natural family values forces unite around that line of child-centric message, it will have a domino effect that spurs changes to public policy and public opinion and creates impetus for the biggest prize: getting the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 decision that established the fundamental right to marry for homosexual unions.
Much like the overturning of Roe v. Wade, reversing Obergefell would send the issue back to the states to decide. Despite an uphill battle, conservatives are impatient to put the genie back into the bottle 10 years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights for homosexual unions under the 14th Amendment’s due process protections.
Both Republicans and Democrats are keeping close tabs on the Supreme Court’s handling of a July petition filed by former Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk Kim Davis that asks the justices to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges and reverse the damages she was ordered to pay to the same-sex couple she refused to grant a marriage license, citing her religious beliefs.
“The Supreme Court apparently is taking it seriously,” John Eastman, the lawyer who helped craft President Trump’s election challenge strategy in 2020, said at the National Conservatism Conference.
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