Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look, and an ever-changing culture through the lens of

unchanging truth. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street. As a recent substack post from

Children's Rights Advocacy Group, Them Before Us, accurately summarized, the decision that was issued

11 years ago in a Bergerfeld v. Hodges, quote, did more than mandate marriage licenses

for same-sex couples. In fact, what it did was redefine marriage in law, and redefining marriage

redefines parenthood. Once husbands and wives become optional in marriage, mothers and fathers

become optional in parenthood, eroding the right every child has

to their own mother and father." Thus, the Obergefell decision marked yet a further stage in the

evolution of one of the core ideas of the sexual revolution, that men and women are interchangeable,

not only in rights, but also in social roles and also

even in reality itself. A legal decision of this magnitude inevitably will shape the cultural

imagination, defining down the essential differences between men and women, husbands and wives,

and mothers and fathers, as if those differences

were mere cultural constructs. And ever since, we've been served up a narrative that the social

innovation of so-called same-sex marriage is a settled matter both in culture and in law.

But what if it isn't? A new poll conducted by the decision company of 1,200 conservative and

moderate, likely voters, found that a significant majority believe, and I quote,

children matter, mothers matter, fathers matter, and children's needs should come before

adult desires, end quote. According to the data, the narrative that even social and political

conservatives these days

actually want so-called same-sex marriage and consider it to be settled law is actually

unsubstantiated conjecture. As Josh Hammer, a senior editor at large at Newsweek and hosts of the

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