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Gay Marriage Is On A Collision Course With Children’s Rights

Two viral videos this week made visible what gay marriage proponents have worked for more than a decade to keep out of view.

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Two posts went viral this past weekend. The first shows gay country music singer-songwriter Shane McAnally holding his infant son, who is calling for his mother while his male partner films the encounter. The singer looks down at the boy and tells him, directly, that he doesn’t have a “mama.” Both men begin laughing as the baby cries.

Tells the baby he doesn’t have a mother. The baby cries while the man laughs.Being sold is a joke I guess?Why is this legal? pic.twitter.com/2meId60Q6I— Josh Wood (@J_K_Wood) April 15, 2026

Tells the baby he doesn’t have a mother. The baby cries while the man laughs.Being sold is a joke I guess?Why is this legal? pic.twitter.com/2meId60Q6I

The second is a pregnancy announcement posted by two men. The photo shows an ultrasound. One of them provided the sperm. The egg was bought from a donor. The womb belongs to a surrogate they hired. Neither of those two women appears in the post. The caption reads: “SO HI GUYS!!!! Usually don’t post much on here about my personal life but my husband and I are going to be DADS!!!  😭😭😭💕💕💕” It is as though the two men did this themselves.

Millions of people saw these posts, which went completely viral with thousands of comments and shares. They hit hard because they made something visible that the gay marriage movement has worked for more than a decade to keep out of view: Gay marriage is not a private matter.

The lie they sold was simple: marriage is about two adults who love each other and want their love recognized. It involves no one else. What consenting adults do in their own bedroom is none of your business. And in those rare cases where it does involve children, those children are the castoffs of heterosexual irresponsibility, kids that straight people failed to raise. Gay couples, heroically, step in to pick up the pieces.

Then they went further. Why do you care? Mind your damn business. These tropes played on every talk show and came from every activist and celebrity ally across the culture for decades, and it worked.

Until it didn’t. The curtain is........

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