Katy Faust believes the fight over same-sex marriage is far from over, and she's looking to the U.S. Supreme Court for the next major battle. The conservative activist and founder of Them Before Us, a group that advocates for children’s rights in debates over marriage and family structure, told attendees at the Family Research Council’s annual Pray Vote Stand Summit that Obergefell v.
Hodges, the 2015 Supreme Court ruling establishing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, should be the next major Supreme Court precedent challenged. “It took us 49 years to overturn Roe v. Wade,” Faust said during her speech at Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg, Virginia. “Forty years is too long. Obergefell is not settled law.
Obergefell is next.” Focusing on Obergefell, Faust condemned both surrogacy and gay marriage, maintaining that when the Supreme Court “made husbands and wives optional in marriage, mothers and fathers became optional in parenthood” too. “Government has an interest in marriage because that is the one relationship that creates new life and that new life needs protection," she added. “The problem is that two men or two women cannot make a baby.
So the law had to accomplish what biology prohibits: making two adults of the same sex parents of a child. "So over the last 11 years, we have seen a radical overhaul of our understanding of what it means to be a parent. We have scrubbed the words mother and father from our parenthood statutes,” she lamented.
Faust pointed to a law passed in New York state that replaced “the word mother with gestating parent and father with nongestating parent” as one example of this phenomenon: “Don’t blame [New York Gov.] Kathy Hochul for that. Gay marriage did that,” she said.