The ‘Greater Than’ Movement Is Not Enough

Saving society starts with principles, not with aping the left and just targeting a (very deserving) protected class.

Arthur Schaper | April 20, 2026

In January 2026, a coalition of 47 conservative pro-family groups launched a new pro-family movement called “Greater Than.” The stated goal is to end same-sex marriage in the name of putting children’s needs ahead of adults’ wants, i.e., the rights of children are “Greater Than” adult desires. Their strategy includes changing policy, law, and culture to reverse the trends that have normalized same-sex “marriage” in the United States. One of their key targets is overturning the terrible Supreme Court decision Obergefell v. Hodges.

It’s understandable why conservatives focus on children. They matter. They have an innocence that compels everyday people to care about them. Generally, adults have understood that they must step up and do what is best for themselves.

Some of the group leaders have long argued that emphasizing children puts the progressive left on the defensive. Who wants to respond to charges like “You don’t care about kids!” “You are abusing kids!” or “Why do you hate kids so much?”

That kind of thinking makes sense to conservatives. We care about children, and we care about the future of our country and culture.

However, will promoting the needs of children turn the tide against militant homosexuality, which unleashed same-sex “marriage” on the United States? Let’s consider the results.

When the Massachusetts Supreme Court imposed same-sex “marriage” on the Commonwealth via its 2003 Goodridge opinion, pro-family forces mobilized to pass a constitutional amendment to overturn that ruling. Their key argument was “Every Child Needs a Mom and Dad.” The amendment drive failed, and homosexual supremacy marched on in Massachusetts.

In 2015, when arguing against same-sex “marriage” before the United States Supreme Court, the proponents of traditional marriage also focused on “Every Child Needs a Mom and a Dad.” They didn’t do so just for the statement’s purportedly profound emotional appeal. They also wanted to avoid appearing “homophobic” to the court and the general public. Brian Camenker, the President of MassResistance, warned against this legal strategy in previous discussions with the lawyers.

As we all know, their arguments failed. The United States Supreme Court redefined marriage, striking down marriage amendments in thirty-eight states, including deep blue California.

Why do the kid-focused “Mom and Dad” arguments fail?

From Goodridge to Obergefell, the liberal courts ruled (wrongly, corruptly, perversely) that the rights of a select minority group—homosexuals—could not be violated. The needs of others could not justify depriving so-called rights.

From the beginning, homosexuals’ motives leading up to Obergefell ignored wants or liberties, and they didn’t care about the children, even if they had “gay” parents. Instead, LGBT activist attorneys argued on civil rights grounds.

Following fifty years of left-wing jurisprudence and legal activism, they sold the lie that homosexual “rights” must be protected to ensure a just society. After all, they had no control over the fact that they were “born that way.” More importantly, the homosexual lobby never wanted marriage per se. They wanted validation for their false identity and destructive behaviors, even requiring that everyone else accommodate their demands for acceptance.

Why do pro-family groups and coalitions continue with the “Kids Need Mom and Dad” argument, then, since it failed before and cannot meet the challenge of the LGBT agenda?

“Greater Than” and other pro-family movements to restore natural marriage are running away from the bigger issue. They don’t want to be labeled “anti-gay” or “homophobic.” They want to hide behind “it’s for the children,” hoping that corporate media and liberal activists won’t attack them. Because of this reticence, many of these groups have capitulated to the homosexual agenda, declaring, “What you do as an adult in your private life, that’s fine. But don’t hurt the kids.”

This approach is a cop-out doomed to fail.

Private behaviors do have public consequences. Deviant sexual acts harm public health and public order. Most importantly, allowing license for homosexuality has enabled its advocates to become a militant lobby, imposing their worldview on everyone else, and making everyone who disagrees pay the price.

If homosexual behavior is not inherently wrong, then there is no basis for preventing its growing acceptance. If pro-family activists won’t tell the plain truth about homosexuality, and won’t reveal the fundamental dishonesty of the agenda and its widespread harms, then all the talk about defending “the children” won’t make a difference. In fact, one could point out that arguing for “The protection of the children” is just another form of bigotry, since opponents of racial integration in the 1950s and 1960s made similar arguments!

The homosexual lobby worked hard early on to shift, shape, mold, and deform public opinion to recognize homosexuality as a benign eccentricity, an innate identity, rather than a personally and societally destructive behavior. The “Children need a Mom and Dad” argument does not confront or defeat those fundamental lies. Weak arguments about the needs of children or the need to protect the rights of others all avoid the harsh realities of the homosexual agenda. By hiding behind “Every Child Needs a Mom and Dad,” the Greater Than coalition of pro-family groups is setting itself up for another failure.

Homosexuality itself is wrong. It’s contrary to Western moral standards and, as shown by the downhill consequences (e.g., deadly diseases, family dysfunction, depression, substance abuse, suicide, etc.), is manifestly contrary to natural law. The whole agenda rests on a foundation of lies. Telling the truth about this corrupt agenda is the best and only way to dislodge its chokehold on society and culture.

If pro-family groups will not knock the hell out of the lie that “people are born that way,” they will inevitably run into the powerful civil-rights counterarguments that homosexual activists have perfected for years. We can talk about the needs of children, but let’s not forget that when proponents of civil rights for blacks and other ethnic minorities fought to end segregation, white supremacists and pro-segregationist forces also argued that they needed to maintain the racial disparities “for the children.”

What ended segregation was the truth that “all men are created equal.” Today, it’s time to tell the truth that “No one is born gay, and homosexual conduct deserves no protections, since it is destructive and wrong, and it can never be like real marriage between one man and one woman.”

Earlier this year, one member of the “Greater Than” coalition suggested that MassResistance join their effort. We declined for all the reasons articulated above. The fight to overturn same-sex “marriage” is about more than the children. It’s about standing up to anti-constitutional homosexual tyranny, which has invaded the public square to great harm and persecuted those who refuse to acquiesce.

“Greater Than” members should abandon their limited arguments and watch MassResistance’s documentary “What Gay Marriage Did to Massachusetts.” There, our organization’s president explained in detail how the outrageous redefinition of marriage in Massachusetts forced everyone to recognize homosexuality as normal and participate in the lie that it was acceptable, essential, a right that had to be protected.

Instead of “Greater Than,” the pro-family movement should “Stand for Truth”:

No one is born homosexual.

No child “discovers” that he is homosexual.

Homosexuality springs from abuse, neglect, confusion, molestation, or shame during upbringing.

Homosexual conduct is harmful, not benign, on a societal level, not just an individual level.

Hiding behind the mantra “It’s for the children” will fail. Pro-Family Activism based on truth will succeed in ending same-sex “marriage” and LGBT tyranny.

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