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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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