(LifeSiteNews) — A massive coalition to overturn the Supreme Court’s ill-conceived 2015 ruling instituting same-sex “marriage” was announced yesterday night in Washington D.C.
While LGBT activists and their woke allies have for decades asked, “How does my gay marriage affect you?” the panelists at the National Conservatism conference (NatCon 5) answered resoundingly, “In the worst way possible” when it comes to kids.
For years, homosexual activists have portrayed themselves as victims of heteronormative culture as they sought to establish the right to legally marry, to obtain children, and to claim an array of additional LGBT imagined “rights.” They argued that there would be no impact on the rest of society, but as it turns out, legalizing same-sex “marriage” has led to a cascade of devastating consequences for children.
The Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision handed privileges to homosexual adults while stealing inviolable rights and protections away from children. It elevated the desires of adults over the universal longings of children. Because of same-sex “marriage,” children are now routinely starved of maternal or paternal love, acquired by predators, mass produced, and trafficked across borders. They struggle with identity confusion and are subjected to risky households.
Examples are legion.
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Katy Faust, founder of the global children’s rights organization, Them Before Us, which is spearheading the coalition, explained why gay “marriage” is directly responsible for recent egregious abusive situations that children have found themselves in, and why Obergefell is a threat to every parent-child relationship:
In July, 21 children were rescued in Arcadia, California – 15 of them under the age of three. All were the legal children of Silvia Zhang and Xuan Guojun, a man who had held multiple positions within the Chinese government. The children – manufactured through surrogacy – were being raised in a hotel-like mansion complete with a reception desk greeting a steady stream of unidentified visitors.
Gay marriage did that.
Just last month, six-year-old twin boys were removed from the home of a 74-year-old single man who had acquired them through IVF and surrogacy. One of the boys – non-verbal and autistic – was sometimes confined in a cage-like upstairs loft.
Gay marriage did that.
In 2015, Marisa and Terrah Pavan had a daughter via anonymous sperm donor and sued the state of Arkansas for the right to have both women listed on the child’s birth certificate. The U.S. Supreme Court granted their petition, legally erasing the child’s father.
Gay marriage did that.
This summer, a video of two men kissing their surrogate-born son each month of his first year went viral. Then came the reveal: one of the men, Brandon Keith Mitchell, is a convicted sex offender.
Gay marriage did that.
Her litany of sorrow continued:
If an adult can assemble sperm, egg, and womb – and “intend” to parent the child – they get the baby. Biologically related or not. Pedophile or not. Retiree or not. Foreign national or not. Intent-based parentage is child trafficking disguised as constitutional rights.
Gay marriage did that.
The natural fertility of heterosexual couples was discriminatory. After all, making a motherless or fatherless child is very expensive, so infertility had to be redefined. Now, in some jurisdictions, you can be declared “infertile” as a single man, a single woman, or a same-sex couple. Your insurance premiums and tax dollars now subsidize commercial mother- and father-loss.
Gay marriage did that.
“A just society does not force the weak to sacrifice for the strong,” said Faust, yet that is precisely what Obergefell has done.
“When was the last time you heard a national politician say, ‘Children deserve a mother and a father?’” asked Faust. “It’s been about ten years, hasn’t it.”
“Gay marriage did that,” she added.
“This isn’t just a problem for the children being contracted into existence. It’s not just a problem for the babies being designed, sold, and trafficked from conception. It’s not just a problem for the children who lose their mother, their father, or both in the name of gay rights,” Faust explained. “It’s your problem. It’s your children’s problem.”
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She explained:
Because biology is a relentless bigot towards homosexual couples, it had to be downgraded in law. Thus in the last decade, the preeminence of the natural parent-child relationship has been eroded, or outright inverted in a variety of statutes.
- The presumption of paternity – that a woman’s husband is presumed to be the father of her child – binds children to their own fathers in nearly 100% of cases. But in Obergefell’s orbit, the presumption of parenthood now applied to same-sex couples separates children from their mother or father in 100% of cases.
- The law once presumed that a baby naturally belonged with the birth mother, which is why no state allowed her to transfer parental rights to adoptive parents before birth. But we now have pre-birth orders that allow surrogate mothers to legally orphan their children in the second or third trimester, no longer recognizing anything special about the maternal bond.
- Historically, it was difficult to sever a child from their own mother or father – even in cases of abuse or neglect – because the law recognized a pre-political bond between parent and child. Not anymore. Today, parental rights must be surrendered before conception if the child’s gametes are to be sold on the open market.
“This is not about targeting lesbians or gays,” said Faust. “This is about defending children from a legal regime that has victimized and commodified them.”
“We must re-establish the preeminence of parent/child relationship through policy and strategic court cases,” declared Faust. “We need to force the Supreme Court to choose: natural parenthood or state-assigned parenthood. They cannot have both.”
“We must change public opinion, but that won’t happen until we change [our perception of who is] the victim,” explained Faust. “If we are to retake legal marriage, we need to highlight the real victims: the children.”
