Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court created a legal right for same-sex couples to, quote-unquote, marry.

In just a little over a decade since, the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling has proven to be among our nation's most consequential and harmful decisions, especially for kids.

To borrow a phrase, originally written about Roe v. Wade, the Obergefell decision is not constitutional law and gives almost no sense of an obligation to try to be.

Instead, it rather invented a right

it then mandated on the nation. Even so, courts and government officials ever since have treated

Obergefell as if it accomplished far more than it actually did. In Obergefell, the court asserted

that civil marriage is not the procreative union of husband and wife,

it's always been assumed to be, but instead a government device to give benefits to adult

companions. However, numerous courts since have ruled that a Bergerfeld required states to also

give same-sex partners legal access to and custody of children, otherwise not theirs. Among the most consequential

of those cases include McLaughlin v. Jones, Boquette v. Boquette, Henderson v. Box, Pots v. Pots,

etc. Since same-sex couples cannot procreate, advocates demand access to reproductive technologies

in order to satisfy the demands of same-sex

couples for children. So children are bought and sold through IVF and surrogacy. Mothers are rented

for their wombs. Fathers reduce to sources of genetic material. Human connection is manufactured

and not created through meaningful relations. The family families drained of its profound nature as God

intended, as well as both its historic significance and legal authority. While the court may not

have intended this anti-human techno regime that has resulted from Obergefell, it did leave

wide open the legal questions. Rather than merely expand marriage to include other relationships,

as we were told it would, Obergafel rejected marriage as God designed it, and as it has always

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