"Earlier this year, a group of 47 anti-LGBTQ+ organizations launched a new campaign to end marriage equality in the U.S., demanding that the Supreme Court overturn Obergefell v. Hodges. The campaign, called "Greater Than" - a response to the push for equality by claiming that straight people are "greater than" queer people - immediately got the media's attention."
"Now the Seattle Times has revealed that a key organization behind the Greater Than campaign is being funded by the conservative Christian business Hobby Lobby, the same business that got the Supreme Court to rule in 2014 that for-profit corporations don't have to pay for employees' health care that covers contraception if that contraception goes against the corporation's religious beliefs."
"Katy Faust is the founder and president of Them Before Us, an organization devoted to ending marriage rights for same-sex couples in the U.S. Faust's mother is a lesbian who came out after marrying Faust's father, and her parents divorced when she was 10. She converted to Christianity a few years later, when she was in high school."
"The Seattle Times notes that Faust has been campaigning against marriage rights since at least 2012, when she started a blog called "Ask The Bigot," a website she claimed would "debunk" the notion that marriage rights opponents are bigots. She advocated for ending marriage rights over the years, but saw an opportunity for a renewed push after the Supreme Court overturned federal reproductive rights protections guaranteed in Roe v. Wade in 2022."
A coalition of 47 anti-LGBTQ+ organizations launched a campaign called “Greater Than” to end marriage equality and urged the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges. The campaign gained media attention after it framed straight people as “greater than” queer people. The Seattle Times reported that a key organization behind the campaign is funded by Hobby Lobby. Hobby Lobby previously helped secure a 2014 Supreme Court ruling that for-profit corporations could avoid providing employee health care covering contraception when it conflicts with corporate religious beliefs. Katy Faust, founder of Them Before Us, has campaigned against marriage rights since at least 2012 and later intensified efforts after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022.
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