Several Christian organizations in the United States have launched a new conquest, fighting against the legalization of same sex marriage in the country.
Known as the Greater Than campaign, the movement is a coalition of Christian conservative organizations and leaders seeking to mobilize churches to campaign for the overturning of the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
Released in the summer of 2015, the ruling held that states are required to license a marriage between same-sex and to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex when their marriage was lawfully licensed and performed out-of-State.
The major opinion was penned by Justice Anthony Kennedy who stated that “The limitation of marriage to opposite-sex couples may long have seemed natural and just, but its inconsistency with the central meaning of the fundamental right to marry is now manifest. With that knowledge must come the recognition that laws excluding same-sex couples from the marriage right impose stigma and injury of the kind prohibited by our basic charter.”
“The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,” he also wrote.
On their official web page, Greater Than describes itself as a “coalition of parents, students, researchers, think tanks, influencers, and citizens who are willing to state the self-evident but costly truth: children need, deserve, and have a right to their mother and father.”
It also states that “When marriage was redefined in 2015, parenthood was too. Once husbands and wives became optional, mothers and fathers became replaceable. But for a child, their mother and father are never optional; they are essential. Children need both a mother and a father to provide stability, guidance, and the unique love only a man and woman can give. No adult desire or ideology can change that.”
Katy Faust, founder and president of Them Before Us, stated in an interview with The Christian Post that her organization was prompted to launch the campaign last year as the 10-year anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges took place.
“I kept thinking, another organization that has more legal chops than we do was ultimately going to do it. But it dawned on us leading up to the 10-year anniversary that no, this is probably something that we need to do.” she stated
She also stated that the effort entailed three components, the first of which is “a judicial strategy” that she believes “has the possibility and I would say likelihood of success.”
The second component is an aim to change public opinion. She said that the nations citizens “need to understand the threat that gay marriage poses to children and that natural marriage is directly connected to children protection.”
The third aspect includes rallying churches, which Mrs. Faust desires to change into “a child-centered fighting force.” The movement, she said, plans to develop materials that Christians who are both Protestants and Catholics “can use to understand why natural marriage is God’s plan for child protection,”
“Children have lost their mother or father. They are being commodified. Parental rights themselves are being weakened because of gay marriage,” she also stated.
” The question before the court needs to be ‘do children need, benefit from, deserve and have a right to their own mother and father?'”
The campaign is supported by organizations such as Live Action, Focus on the Family, the American Family Association and Citizens for Renewing America, the Colson Center, and Word on Fire.
