Katy Faust
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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This is a worldview that does not discriminate between single, married, gay, straight, fertile and infertile. This is a world where if you're going to put children first, all adults must conform to those fundamental rights. Let's wrestle that out. That means that it is going to run up against all of our self-interest at some point.
There's one demographic in this country that's truly in the closet. It's kids with same-sex parents who desperately miss their mother or father.
Forcing children to sacrifice something so adults can have what they want. Nobody has a right to a child. Children have a right to their mother and father.
It all comes down to the same thing. And the question is, what does it mean to be human? I'm going to scrap this out with you.
Yeah, my name is Katie Faust. I'm the founder and president of the children's rights nonprofit Them Before Us. The idea is we put them, the children, before us, the adults, in all matters of marriage and family. So what I do is I trigger people. That is what I do.
When you say that children's rights to life and right to their mother and father need to come before adult desires, really what you're saying is every adult has to accommodate and sacrifice at some point. So I tell people, give me enough time and I'll piss you off too because this is a worldview that does not discriminate between single, married, gay, straight, fertile and infertile.
This is a world where if you're going to put children first, all adults must conform to those fundamental rights. And that means that it is going to run up against all of our self-interest at some point. So I think it's a necessary message. I think that it's critical not just to, you know, national thriving, but national surviving. But it does come at an individual cost for all of us.
Yeah. And I will say that I think that there's a lot of people that are talking about how good marriage is for men, for example. Like, thank God there's been a resurgence of interest in, actually, this is a vehicle of maturation for men. This is a wealth-creating institution for adults. This is good for women in terms of aligning with kind of the natural design of their body.
And I'm so grateful for those voices. I want to be the voice that speaks for kids. Kids don't lobby. They can't hire lawyers. They don't submit amicus briefs. They don't speak at conferences. They don't submit articles and papers and op-eds. That is what to me is missing, is representing the rights and well-being interests and desires of children.
And it's because it's so easy to steamroll their interests because they can't speak for themselves. They are literally just... at the mercy of whatever it is adults decide for them, whether it's in the cultural, legal, or technological space. So obviously, I think that what's good for kids ultimately is going to be down to the benefit of all of society.
I don't think it's an accident that what's good for kids also in the long term ends up being good for men and women and all of society. But to me, the missing piece is accurately representing the interests of children in all of these conversations. So if I do my job, that's what we're going to be talking about today.
i think that a lot of people are going to say well are you sure you're not just advancing your own religious agenda or your own self-interest in the name of child protection and i would say you suspect that because you are massively projecting that is literally what progressives have been doing on every single issue for decades is cloaking some of the most child-destroying ideologies in the name of child protection or even child rights so i understand why that's a suspicion it's because it's a very well-known playbook especially on the left
Why am I doing this? And also, how are you not falling into that yourself, right?
Well, yeah, we'll find out. You can let me know. We'll have a little J.B.P. evaluation at the end of this and you can let me know. You can give me the big Caesar pass fail. So I didn't get into this by choice. Like in the in the world of sort of Christian and I'm like, I'll just state right up front. I am like a Bible thumping evangelical to the max. Like you want evangelical credentials now.
I got you. Okay. So on that spectrum, I think that most Christians fall into either the truth tellers that are just constantly hammering away at the truth or the grace givers, the people that want to keep the peace and bring together, you know, all different kinds of people. I am a grace giver. But, but, but. The marriage debate is what like flipped the switch for me.
You know, I took your big five personality test and I'm like 100% on extrovert. Conscientious, nah, kind of. Agreeable, 85%. Like I will go along with almost anything. But when it is injustice against children, I see red. I just can't handle it. And that's what happened in the marriage debate.
What I saw, especially when the gay marriage discussion came to my state, Washington State, I saw this progressive agenda being pushed on the backs of child brokenness. when they dared to connect marriage with parenting, which it wasn't always.
A lot of times they advanced to gay marriage on the total separation of the procreative aspect that has always been sort of the foundation for marriage idea, marriage policy, social ideas about marriage through millennia. So a lot of gay marriage was disconnecting those two. This isn't about kids. Oh, there's a lot of heterosexuals that can't have kids. So gays can be married too. So
But when they did connect it to kids, what they said, what I heard them saying is kids don't care if they have two moms or two dads. But functionally what that means is kids don't care if they have lost their mom or lost their dad. That's what you're talking about. When you see the picture of a child with two moms, you're looking at a picture of a child who has lost their dad.
When you're looking at a child with two dads, you are looking at a little girl or a little boy who has lost their mother. Now, Sometimes that happens through tragedy. We used to experience that kind of, especially father loss on a mass scale, for example, after wars. Before modern medicine, we used to experience mother loss at the time of birth.
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