The EWTN News portal (January 29, 2026) reports on the “Greater Than” campaign by Them Before Us, which claims children are victims of same-sex marriage legalization. The initiative decries how Obergefell v. Hodges “threatened children’s rights to have a mother and father,” citing IVF abuses like a California couple creating 20+ children and a sex offender obtaining a child through reproductive technologies. Supported by groups including CatholicVote and Word on Fire Institute, spokeswoman Katy Faust argues: “children are Greater Than adult desires” and seeks Obergefell’s reversal to restore “the unique love and guidance only a mother and father can provide.” The campaign notably avoids condemning homosexual persons outright, asserting that while “a woman who identifies as a lesbian can be a loving mother… Children need, deserve, and have a right to both” parents. This calculated appeal to secular child welfare arguments betrays a fundamental surrender of Catholic supernatural principles to naturalistic pragmatism.
Theological Abdication Disguised as Advocacy
The campaign’s framing reveals three catastrophic concessions to modernist anthropology. First, it reduces marriage from a sacramentum magnum (Eph 5:32) to a mere child-rearing arrangement. Pius XI’s Casti Connubii (1930) condemns this error: “The mutual inward formation of husband and wife… the careful education of the child… does not… make the other purposes of matrimony of less account.” By prioritizing children’s temporal welfare over marriage’s sacramental essence, the campaign echoes the naturalism condemned in the Syllabus of Errors: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error #55).
Second, the focus on IVF consequences while ignoring its intrinsic evil exemplifies proportionalist reasoning. Pius XII’s Address to Midwives (1951) declares artificial reproduction “morally illicit” as it separates procreation from the marital act. The campaign’s utilitarian horror at IVF abuses (“children in cages”) implicitly accepts IVF’s permissibility when “ethically” practiced, contradicting the Church’s absolute prohibition. This echoes Modernist tendencies described in Lamentabili Sane (1907): “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (Error #58).
Third, the assertion that homosexual persons “can be loving” parents while lacking spousal complementarity constitutes heresy against creation order. Leo XIII’s Arcanum (1880) teaches marriage’s unity reflects Christ’s union with the Church: “The true origin of marriage, venerable brothers, is well known to all… God Himself is the Founder of marriage.” To suggest two men can provide paternal love while biologically excluding motherhood denies the imago Dei inherent in sexual difference (Gen 1:27).
Omissions Exposing Apostate Subtext
The campaign’s deliberate silence on four doctrinal pillars exposes its conciliar captivity:
1. No mention of marriage’s indissolubility: By framing marriage dissolution as merely harmful to children rather than intrinsically evil, the campaign ignores Pius VI’s condemnation in Auctorem Fidei (1794) of those who “relax the bond of marriage.”
2. Absence of Eucharistic consequences: The article quotes CCC #2357 on homosexual acts being “contrary to natural law” but omits Canon 915’s requirement to deny Communion to those obstinately persevering in grave sin. This reflects the conciliar sect’s abandonment of ecclesia de sacramentalibus discipline.
3. Natural law divorced from divine positive law: While correctly noting children’s right to biological parents, the campaign never traces this to the Fourth Commandment’s “Honor thy father and mother.” This reduction of Decalogue obligations to psychological welfare metrics fulfills Pius X’s warning in Pascendi (1907) about Modernists reducing dogma to “vital immanence.”
4. Ecumenical syncretism in coalition-building: The inclusion of Protestant groups like Focus on the Family and Lisa Bevere’s emotional appeal to “communities where children were loved” ignores the Syllabus‘ condemnation of indifferentism: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Error #18). True Catholic action requires professing extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, not interfaith pragmatism.
The Masonic Roots of Child-Centered Naturalism
The campaign’s rhetoric of “children’s rights over adult desires” masks a deeper rebellion against Christ the King. As Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas (1925): “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the entire human society had to be shaken.” By not demanding societies recognize “the royal dignity of our Redeemer” and His Church’s exclusive authority to define marriage, the campaign reduces itself to a pressure group within Babylon rather than Elijah confronting Baal.
The IVF horror stories—while real—are treated as policy failures rather than divine judgments. Where the Old Testament shows God destroying Sodom with fire (Gen 19:24), these activists merely propose better fertility clinic regulations. This naturalistic myopia ignores Paul VI’s warning in Humanae Vitae (1968) about contracepted societies becoming “slaves” to state power. That the campaign seeks SCOTUS reversal rather than excommunication of Catholic politicians supporting sodomitical unions proves its conciliar captivity.
Ultimately, this “child protection” narrative continues Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes error of seeking “merely human solutions” to spiritual crises. Until activists demand civil authorities kiss the Son’s scepter (Ps 2:12) and recognize the Catholic Church as sole arbiter of marriage law, they labor in vain—rebuilding Babel while pretending it’s Jerusalem.
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New campaign says children are ‘true victims’ of legalizing same-sex marriage (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 29.01.2026