Overthrow Obergefell: Katy Faust, Southern Baptists Decry Harm Caused by Same-Sex Marriage
Children’s advocate Katy Faust has joined the SBC in calling for the repeal of Obergefell, warning that redefining marriage has deeply harmed children and eroded the family.
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is calling for the overthrow of Obergefell. At a June 9 convention, the denomination made a resolution urging the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) to roll back its 2015 ruling on same-sex “marriage” (SSM).
Seeking to “restore moral clarity through God’s design for sex, marriage and the family,” the SBC argued that the redefinition of marriage is corroding society.
In the 12-part resolution backed by evidence-based reasoning, the SBC made the case for closing the Pandora’s box opened by the Pride movement.
“Legal rulings like Obergefell v Hodges,” the SBC said, “are legal fictions.” These fictions “deny and undermine the truth of God’s design, resulting in social confusion and injustice.”
As evidence, the SBC listed the normalising of parental alienation and abortion through commercial surrogacy. “Commercial surrogacy,” for example, the SBC argued, “often treats children as products and women as a means to an end.”
This “violates human dignity and distorts God’s design for procreation within marriage.”
Likewise, legislated lies about the “biological differences between male and female, encourag[e] gender confusion, undermin[e] parental rights, and [deny] the value and dignity of children”.
In sum, Obergefell was a “rejection and distortion” of objective morality. “Law is not meant to create moral truth but to recognise and uphold it.”
The Consequences of Obergefell
Giving voice and visibility to the victims of transgenderism’s war on women, the SBC cited “the participation of biological males and females in opposite gender sports and the medical transition of minors.”
That war, the SBC declared, “represents a rebellion against God’s design for male and female.” This expansion of Obergefell has “inflicted unjust harm on children, men, and women, and employs coercive language control, which undermines fairness, safety, and truth,” the SBC continued.
So-called “marriage equality” was not just killing fairness in female sports; it was corroding freedom of speech, the body argued. “Free speech is increasingly threatened by policies that compel individuals to speak against their conscience, especially on matters of sex and identity.”
“We [therefore] call for the overturning of laws and court rulings, including Obergefell v Hodges, that defy God’s design for marriage and family.”
They then stated that Obergefell should be overthrown by “laws that affirm marriage between one man and one woman, protect the innocence of children, strengthen parental rights and incentivise life-affirming family formation.”
Katy Faust on Obergefell’s Cost
SBC’s 12 resolutions for ending Obergefell echo the stance of children’s rights advocate Katy Faust.
Almost one month on, Faust is calling for SCOTUS to tear up the ruling, effectively stating that same-sex marriage was a Trojan horse.
“Gay marriage has a hidden cost, and children are paying the price,” Faust wrote on X this week. “In Obergefell v Hodges, the Court treated as equal two things that for kids never will be: opposite-sex and same-sex marriage.”
Gay marriage has a hidden cost and children are paying the price
It’s time for the Supreme Court to reverse Obergefell vs. Hodges. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/KJbny2zrtW
— Katy Faust (@Advo_Katy) July 10, 2025
In making her case, Faust wrote that same-sex marriage “hasn’t led to greater love for LGBTQ adults but rather greater harm to children” by denying them the right to a mother and a father.
“When you make husbands and wives legally optional in marriage, mothers and fathers become legally optional in parenthood,” she remarked.
“Kids lost rights, adults got benefits.”
She added that “redefining marriage redefined the family. The courts led, and culture followed.”
For example, Faust explained, over six million kids’ books aiming Pride propaganda at children have been sold since 2021. These books are designed to “normalise motherless and fatherless families to children, such as ‘Heather Has Two Mommies’ and ‘My Two Dads and Me’.”
Society is lying to these children about the cost of alienating biological parents, she argued, since “every child instinctually longs to be loved by their mother and father.”
“We cannot wait 50 years to undo this injustice,” Faust asserted in her poetic petition.
Indeed — it’s time to overthrow Obergefell.
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It can’t come soon enough!
Agreed
And for Australia to do the same.
Marriage equality was never simply about allowing non-heterosexual marriages it was actually to undermine the definition of marriage and thus undermine the institution itself. If people will remember some of the most vociferous objections to it were by queer activists who said that the institution should not even exist.
A particular outcome, as has been suggested in the article is the loss of a parent by children. David van Gend in his book ‘Stealing from a Child’ wrote had statements by children who grew up in same sex homes. Both young people said their home life was loving and affirming but the girl (in a lesbian home) said that she missed her unknown father everyday. The boy (in a gay home) said he missed his mother everyday. As the article above said adults win and the child loses.
Robert A.J. Gagnon commenting on X provided some interesting insights about Obergefell.
Even before Obergefell, it was an open secret that many gay male relationships operated under different norms—norms that placed far less emphasis on sexual exclusivity and far more on personal autonomy. Among the gay couples “open relationships” are not the exception; they are more often the expectation. Monogamy is treated with suspicion—either as a relic of heterosexual repression or an unrealistic constraint on adult desire.
Since Obergefell, interest in alternatives to monogamy has only grown within LGBTQ circles, including polyamory and “ethical non-monogamy” (ENM). Proponents argue that monogamy sets up couples for failure—and that not repressing one’s desires can actually strengthen relationships. If true, one might expect that lifting that burdensome cultural expectation would spark a boom in same-sex marriages. But that hasn’t happened. The marriage rate among LGBTQ Americans has barely budged since Obergefell. Only 10 percent of LGBTQ Americans are married today—the same rate as in 2016, and just a fraction of the 50 percent marriage rate among straight Americans.
… It is now obvious to many: Marriage is no longer relevant to the ever-expanding acronym that makes up the LGBTQIA+ coalition.