The campaign aims to undo the 2015 Obergefell decision and restore marriage to a child-protecting institution that elevates children's rights rather than sacrifice those rights in service of the desires and feelings of adults.
Katy Faust of Them Before Us is one of the organizers of the Greater Than Campaign.
She told American Family Radio (AFR) that, when the Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell, the government, in essence, mandated same-sex marriage for the whole country. That is despite the fact that there were dozens of states that had defined marriage as a traditional marriage arrangement.
"What Obergefell did is it said that 'you are not allowed to elevate or prioritize or recognize that one specific family arrangement, a child's own mother or father married to one another for life, and privilege that above other adult relationships,'" informs Faust.
However, this decision on gay marriage had a domino effect into other laws.
"Justice Kennedy, in his ruling, said 'same sex couples need the full constellation of benefits that opposite sex couples got through marriage,' (but) the problem is that marriage is directly connected to parenthood laws, and two adults of the same sex can never both be the parents of a child," states Faust.
Over the last ten years, Faust said there has been a "total reordering of parenthood laws" around the desires of adults to the negation of a child's need for their own mother and father.
"What we have now is an understanding of the family that is not 'children are born into a pre-political relationship with their own mother and father.' It is now in essence 'children are functional accessories to be awarded to whatever adult has the money and means to acquire them’," says Faust. "There is a direct connection between gay marriage and the commodification of children."
Cue the Greater Than Campaign.
Faust and others want to do things differently, beginning with a credible judicial strategy that forces the Supreme Court to reconsider the Obergefell ruling.
"I think all of us would say, 'Yes, of course, gay people have dignity, and they are equal full citizens, just like the rest of us,' but the question we're going to be asking before the Court is 'Do children benefit from, need, deserve, and have a right to their own mother and father,'" explains Faust.
She emphasizes that they will be putting this question before the Court, forcing culture to make a choice.
“We're going to tell the culture they need to choose: you can either believe children need, deserve, and have a right to their own mother and father or you can support gay marriage," says Faust.
She thinks that "most of our countrymen are going to fall on the side of the kids."
