The Greater Than campaign argues same-sex marriage harms children and the family unit.
A growing coalition of parents, activist groups, and others is organizing to put pressure on the Supreme Court to overrule its 2015 decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
The Greater Than campaign, which launched on Jan. 28, recasts the effort to repeal same-sex marriage as a push to restore the right of children to live in homes with a mother and a father.
Katy Faust, the social activist who runs Greater Than, said on the campaign’s website that restoring marriage as an institution that protects children requires helping Americans to see the natural link between traditional marriage and child protection. This requires “a judicial and policy strategy that centers children’s needs,” she said.
The Obergefell Ruling
The move came months after the Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit seeking to reverse the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. Obergefell held that the 14th Amendment requires all states to grant licenses for same-sex marriages and recognize same-sex marriages carried out in other states.
Conservatives were hopeful last year when the Supreme Court reviewed an appeal by Kim Davis, a former clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, who, a decade ago, would not sign marriage licenses for same-sex couples.
In November 2025, the court rejected Davis’s challenge to Obergefell without comment.
Opponents of same-sex marriage had held out hope because three Supreme Court justices who dissented in Obergefell still serve on the high court.
In his 2015 dissent, Chief Justice John Roberts said policy-based arguments for same-sex marriage might have been “compelling,” but the legal arguments were not.
Roberts described the court majority as “five lawyers” who shut down the debate, “stealing this issue from the people.”
Faust told The Epoch Times the decision has led to sweeping changes to the law and society.
“Obergefell is one of the biggest catalysts of child harm that we have seen in law,” Faust said.
Proponents, on the other hand, say Obergefell supports equality and has had a positive effect on society by allowing gay people to participate in the institution of marriage.
Christy Mallory, interim executive director of the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, previously said, “Marriage equality has significantly benefited the lives and well-being of same-sex couples, their families, and the communities where they live.”
A June 2025 report by the Williams Institute said more than 591,000 same-sex couples have gotten married since Obergefell, and almost 300,000 children under 18 in the United States are now being raised by married same-sex couples.
