Link: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/campaign-to-overturn-obergefell-uses-14-year-old-junk-science-to-prove-gay-people-are-bad-parents/

Leading up to the 2015 landmark Supreme Court decision, Obergefell v. Hodges, which made marriage equality a federal right, sociologist Mark Regnerus published controversial research titled the “New Family Structures Study”. Regnerus, who is forthcoming about the fact that his Catholic faith shapes his practice as a social scientist, published the study in 2012 in the journal Social Science Research.

The study purported that children raised by a parent in a same-gender relationship are at greater risk of negative psychosocial outcomes in adulthood compared to children raised by straight parents. The study was funded primarily by The Witherspoon Institute and The Bradley Foundation, both far-right interest groups that actively lobby against LGBTQ+ rights, and was viewed by many political commentators as a blatant effort by both groups to influence the Supreme Court’s decision in several high-profile cases, including Obergefell v. Hodges.

While the study eventually fell out of social commentary in the United States, today’s “Greater Than” movement, a coalition of prominent anti-LGBTQ+ lobbyists and political figures, has utilized it as one of its primary motivations to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges.

In 2025, the Witherspoon Institute, which funded Regnerus’s study, released an op-ed, conveniently in its own publication, claiming there is “new vindication” for the study because AI has supposedly allowed for a more accurate interpretation of his data. Meanwhile, the writer conveniently avoids the elephant in the room: The allegation that Regenerus manipulated his data to suit his own theological worldview.

Not seeing how marriage equality giving tax benefits to marriage, inheritance law, or preference is buying a home inherently links to child upbringing. How does the freedom of association link to raising children?

Today was my first encounter with "Greater Than". Holy fuck these nuts.

In today’s society, children are often treated as secondary—spoken for, negotiated over, or reshaped to serve adult priorities. Greater Than works from a different premise: children’s rights should not be overridden by adult feelings or desires.

It's so disgusting how they hide their bigotry behind children. It's not about the kids it's never about the kids. It's about chipping away the rights of everyone on white christian nationalism's enemies list. Out and thriving queer people, lgbtq families disproves all of their gender essentialism, it shatters divine patriarchy dominion, and loosens the control of the cult.

Good people must suffer so assholes can manipulate our stupider neighbors.

You would think that all these stupider neighbours would have smartened up by now after seeing all this needless suffering of kind 2SLGBTQIA+ peoples for centuries and centuries....and yett....they dont... 😐