It’s been 11 years since a bare majority of the U.S. Supreme Court, one single vote in fact, and those votes made up of leftists and activists, fabricated same-sex marriage for the entire nation, blowing off the democratic system of making changes and simply imposing their ideology.
Stunning at the time because the dissent pointed out that the ruling was entirely and completely unrelated to the Constitution, which doesn’t mention marriage.
But now, because it’s June and that’s one of the time periods proponents claim each year to celebrate their LGBT lifestyle choices, it’s in the headlines again. But this time not in a good way.
It is Tony Perkins of Family Research Council who has written at the Washington Stand that no longer are people looking at promises. Now “they are evaluating results.”
“They are changing their minds not because someone crafted a better political argument, but because they have witnessed consequences many were assured would never come,” he said.
For example, he listed:
- Pride parades in major cities where public nudity and sexually explicit displays are celebrated in full view of families and children;
- Major corporations, universities, and professional sports organizations pressuring employees and athletes to affirm an ever-expanding list of sexual identities;
- Schools and entertainment normalizing gender ideology for children while Gallup reports that the percentage of Americans identifying as LGBTQ has more than doubled since 2012;
- A growing commercial surrogacy industry that intentionally deprives children of either their mother, their father, or both;
- Marriage continuing its long decline while birth rates fall to historic lows.
He cited one of Joe Biden’s favorite agendas: Transgenderism.
“Perhaps nowhere have those consequences become more visible than in the rise of transgender ideology. The ‘T’ in the LGBTQ acronym has been used to justify policies that would have been unimaginable just a decade ago. Young children are told they can decide whether they are boys or girls because sex is merely ‘assigned at birth.’ Teenagers are given puberty blockers that interrupt normal development. Radical surgeries with lifelong consequences are carried out on minors and young adults. Schools across the country facilitate gender transitions while keeping parents in the dark,” he wrote.
He pointed out that a Gallup poll shows public support for same-sex marriage, the morality of homosexual conduct and transgenderism is down. Way down.
It’s because, “The experiment is no longer theoretical. It has become personal.”
Further, a column by Walker Wildmon at the Daily Signal said there are five “compelling” reasons for Obergefell to be reversed.
First is that it was unconstitutional “from the day it was decided. Justice Samuel Alito rightly declared in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that Roe was ‘egregiously wrong from the start.’ The same verdict applies to Obergefell.” The Constitution, besides not mentioning any right to same-sex marriage, “contains no substantive due process clause empowering judges to impose their policy preferences on the states.”
Justice Clarence Thomas, the “most constitutionally faithful justice on the Supreme Court,” already has called for reversal. And the majority of the current justices “already understand that the Constitution does not prohibit states from protecting natural marriage.”
A possible coalition for overturning could include Thomas, Samuel Alito, John Roberts, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.
Fourth is that Obergefell has created a “slippery slope” that has morphed into an agenda that “denies biological reality.”
“Faithful Christians—bakers, photographers, and adoption agency employees—have faced relentless persecution for simply living out their biblical convictions about marriage. The promise that Obergefell would bring ‘live and let live’ tolerance proved horrendously false.”
Finally, there’s the harm to children.
One supporter of the ideology on the original court, Anthony Kennedy, “claimed his decision served the dignity of children living in same-sex households. Yet multiple studies show that children thrive best with a married mother and father. Those raised in same-sex households face elevated risks in emotional well-being, educational outcomes, and long-term family stability.”
WorldNetDaily has reported that even the online SCOTUSBLOG, which monitors all things Supreme Court, reports and comments on them, has confirmed that there’s a new “invigorated” campaign to overturn Obergefell. And it warned support for the ideology is down.
“According to a recent Gallup poll, support for same-sex marriage fell from a high of 71% in 2022 and 2023 to 65% today. This has primarily been a result of falling public opinion among Republicans, a majority of whom supported same-sex marriage in 2021 and 2022 (at 55%), but now only 37% of whom do,” it noted.
Other statements have appeared, with the Southern Baptist Convention voting to urge the high court to reverse the ruling, and Liberty Counsel, a public policy organization, hoping the Supreme Court should “overturn this egregious opinion from 2015.”
Then activists are represented by MassResistance, a grassroots group that urges state lawmakers to move against Obergefell.
The analysis said, “According to Heather Scott (an Idaho Republican state representative), ‘We need to continue to put pressure on [the court] to override [Obergefell]. Our [state] Constitution is very clear: we only recognize marriage between a man and a woman.'”
The result is that state lawmakers in Idaho, Michigan, Montana, Oklahoma, North Dakota and South Dakota have proposed exactly that wording.
Children are being used in the arguments, in exactly the opposite way they were used originally.
“The Greater Than ‘protect children’ campaign, for example, is a coalition of 47 conservative organizations dedicated to stopping same-sex marriage. According to them: ‘Children are greater than equal. And it’s time we fought for their rights,'” the report said.
Simply, the campaign argues that the children’s need for male and female parents takes priority over the demands of same-sex duos.
“Earlier this year, Katy Faust, president and founder of Them Before Us, echoed this theme at the National Conservatism Conference. The title of her remarks was ‘How Obergefell Commodified Children,'” the report said.
Further advocates for a reversal include the influential Heritage Foundation, the founder of Hobby Lobby, and even Solicitor General D. John Sauer who has said, “out of deference to the States as separate sovereigns in our system of federalism, this Court should be reluctant to intrude into areas of traditional state concern, especially the law of marriage and domestic relations.”
