After the Supreme Court rejected a petition to overturn the court’s 2015 Obergefell marriage equality ruling last week, anti-LGBTQ activists vowed that this was only the beginning of their effort to eliminate the constitutional right of same-sex couples to wed.
In the wake of the court's decision, right-wing activist Katy Faust appeared on the Family Research Council's "Washington Watch" program to promote the End Obergefell movement she has launched. She wants to convince SCOTUS that Obergefell must be overturned because children are losing "their right to their own mother and father."
"When you take a case to the court and it's the wrong victim or you're asking the wrong question, you'll get a wrong decision that can sometimes reaffirm a previous bad decision," Faust said. "We do not need to bring a court case to the Supreme Court, in my opinion, that says, should a cake baker have to bake this cake, should a woman have to arrange these flowers, should Kim Davis have to sign this document? That matters, but that does not ultimately matter."
"The question the court needs to answer is: Does the child's own mother and father benefit them in ways that state-assigned adults do not?" she continued. "That is the question that the court needs to ask, because children are the ultimate victims. Christian adults who have to do something to violate their conscience, they are a victim; they are not the ultimate victim. The ultimate victim are children who lose their right to their own mother and father because the court has enshrined a false definition of marriage."
"I am spearheading a national coalition," Faust announced, "where we are going to retake marriage on behalf of children and we are going to bring the kind of cases that represent the right victim—children—and ask the right question: Do kids need their own mother and father? And if they say, 'Yes, children have been victimized because of gay marriage, and yes, they do need their mother and father,' then I guess [LGBTQ couples] don't get the full constellation of benefits that were promised before if those benefits involve delivering them somebody else's child. So that is what we are working to do."
"We have a campaign in motion," she added. "We do need to make sure that the court reevaluates this decision."