New movement seeks to mobilize churches in push to overturn landmark gay marriage ruling

January 30, 2026

An alliance of conservative Christian organizations has come together in a new campaign to mobilize churches to push for overturning the landmark 2015 Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.

The Christian Post reports that the Greater Than Campaign is spearheading the effort with the support of groups like Focus on the Family, Live Action, the Colson Center, Word on Fire, the American Family Association and Citizens for Renewing America.

The Greater Than organization describes itself as a “coalition of parents, students, researchers, think tanks, influencers, and citizens who are willing to state the self-evident but costly truth: children need, deserve, and have a right to their mother and father.”

The group seeks to get the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit and overturn the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which held that the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects same-sex marriage.

According to the campaign’s website, “When marriage was redefined in 2015, parenthood was too. Once husbands and wives became optional, mothers and fathers became replaceable.”

“But for a child, their mother and father are never optional; they are essential. Children need both a mother and a father to provide stability, guidance, and the unique love only a man and woman can give. No adult desire or ideology can change that.”

The campaign seeks to use a three-pronged approach to accomplish their goal, including “a judicial strategy” as well as efforts at “changing public opinion” and mobilizing churches as “a child-centered fighting force.”

Katy Faust, founder and president of Them Before Us, told the Christian Post, “The real question before the court is not ‘does gay marriage provide some kind of inconvenience for Christian adults?’ The question before the court needs to be ‘do children need, benefit from, deserve and have a right to their own mother and father?'”

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