Children’s Rights Should Always Come Before Adults’ Desires
Katy Faust, founder of the non-profit organization “Them Before Us,” believes every child deserves a mother and a father.
So does Focus on the Family president Jim Daly, Southern Seminary president Dr. Albert Mohler, Colson Center president John Stonestreet, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins, LiveAction founder and president Lila Rose, the Heritage Foundation’s Delano Squires, and popular podcasters Allie Beth Stuckey, Michael Knowles and Josh Hammer.
That’s why they’re all supporting Katy Faust’s “Greater Than Movement” — a broad coalition of “parents, students, researchers, think tanks, influencers, and citizens” willing to actively lobby for public policy that supports the ideal of every child enjoying what culture for multi-millennia has taken as obvious — that no child should be deliberately prevented from having a mom and dad.
In a video featured on the new coalition’s website, Focus on the Family’s Jim Daly states, “When you look at social science, it says beyond a shadow of a doubt that children that grow up in a loving, two-parent, biological home, mom and dad, those children will do best.”
In that same video, Lila Rose calls the Supreme Court’s “Obergefell” decision, which legalized same-sex marriage in all fifty states, a ruling that “created inequality for children.”
Dr. Albert Mohler warns, “You redefine marriage, you have just destroyed the house. You can put together a new house and claim it’s the same. Children will know the difference. It harms children in virtually every way imaginable.”
John Stonestreet notes, “The data that we have says two things. Number one, children do best when they are raised in a home with married, biological mom and dad. The other thing we know from research is that moms don’t dad and dads don’t mom. It’s not enough to say kids just need loving parents because kids need a particular kind of parent. Parenting comes in two forms, moms and dads.”
The “Greater Than Movement” strives to both shape and overturn laws — including the legalization of same-sex marriage — that harm children.
In America today, children brought into a same-sex marital relationship are deliberately deprived from having both a mother and a father. This is done for no other reason than to satisfy the desires of the adults, a grand selfish act that harms boys and girls who then grow up into adulthood with all the accompanying deficits and dysfunctions that are associated with not having the unique and distinct male and female influences in their lives.
As the coalition correctly declares, children’s rights aren’t up for debate. Children are sacrosanct. They are vulnerable and incapable of representing and defending themselves, and so responsible adults must step in to do so. Many of the current debates raging today would be unfathomable to previous generations, but simply lamenting the circumstances won’t solve the problem or help the children.
The movement even quotes a former ally — President Barack Obama. Said our 44th president, “We know that children benefit not just from loving mothers and loving fathers, but from strong and loving marriages as well.” President Obama said that at a White House Father’s Day event in 2010. He was right. Sadly, he changed his mind in 2012 when he came out in support of same-sex marriage.
Please consider joining the effort to protect children by visiting their website and adding your voice and support to the commitment.
