Christian Leaders Meet To Plot Overturning Obergefell

Religion News Service reports:

Having helped to engineer the demise of Roe v. Wade after half a century of anti-abortion activism, attendees at the National Religious Broadcasters conference openly discussed plans to make shorter work of Obergefell v. Hodges. “Obergefell is on very shaky ground,” Mathew Staver, founder of the Liberty Counsel, which leaders describe as a ministry, told the audience of one panel at the conference. “It’s not a matter of, in my opinion, if it will eventually be overturned, but when it’ll be overturned.”

Speaking on a panel to the religious broadcasters the day before Staver’s, Katy Faust, who founded the activist organization Them Before Us, suggested her group was focused on a legislative challenge. “Just because gay marriage was legalized in 2015 that does not mean this is a dead issue,” she said. “We have to fight against it, because five Supreme Court justices do not determine whether or not children deserve, need or have a right to their own mother and father.”

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As reported here previously, in recent years Liberty Counsel and other prominent anti-LGBTQ hate groups successfully lobbied the federal government to reclassify them as “ministries” in order to evade financial disclosure rules that apply to nonprofit organizations. 

According to hate group leader Tony Perkins, every Family Research Council employee is a de facto minister because their hatred for LGBTQ people is sanctioned by Jesus. 

In the final clip below, Katy Faust, who is married to a pastor, complains that Christians are called bigots just because they oppose all LGBTQ rights. 

Faust last appeared here in November 2024 when she criticized Trump for supporting IVF, declaring that the procedure “destroys more embryonic life than abortion.”