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Greater Than — restoring marriage, putting children first.

A coalition of more than thirty national and state organizations working to revisit the 2015 Obergefell decision and rebuild a marriage law that puts the rights and well-being of children at the center.

The conviction

Every child is greater than every grown-up's preference.

Marriage law exists not principally to ratify adult relationships, but to bind children to the mothers and fathers who brought them into the world. Eleven years after Obergefell, the predicted consequences of that ruling have arrived — and they fall, as predicted, hardest on children.

Greater Than exists to change that.

The strategy

Three lanes. One destination.

01 — Reframe

Marriage policy around children

Model legislation that re-centers state marriage law on the rights and protection of children, beginning with state-level reform.

02 — Persuade

Shift public opinion honestly

A coordinated content program surfacing the measurable effects of a decade of redefined marriage — for children, for families, for the broader culture.

03 — Mobilize

The churches together

Catholics, Evangelicals, Orthodox, and Jewish leaders advocating jointly — beginning at the state level and aiming, in time, at a renewed federal case.

Take part

Three things you can do today.

  1. Sign the Greater Than statement — a short public affirmation of the rights of children to a mother and a father.
  2. Find your state's coalition and join the model-legislation effort wherever you live.
  3. Pray — every Friday, with the coalition, for the children at the heart of this work.