GETTING THEIR MESSAGE TO SCOTUS Charlie Butts (OneNewsNow.com)
People raised by same-sex couples are telling the Supreme Court what the definition of a family should be. The high court will hear arguments in homosexual "marriage" cases on April 28, 2015.
Kati Faust, like Heather Barwick (main story), is opposed to same-sex marriage. During an interview Thursday on American Family Radio, Faust revealed she was raised by her mother and lesbian partner – and shared that she respects both.
"But I will say that children have a natural right to be in relationship with both their mother and father," she told talk-show host Bryan Fischer. "And mandating, instituting, promoting same-sex marriage will mean that families will be purposefully created so that the child has to lose a partial or a full relationship with one of their natural parents."
In spite of good parenting from her mother, she feels she still needed her father for completion – the same sentiment expressed by Barwick.
Faust is one of six people at the International Children's Rights Institute to file a total of three briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court against same-sex marriage.
"Truthfully, it surprises me because really you shouldn't need any of the six of us to say this," she stated, "because anybody who has lost a parent – through death, divorce, abandonment, or now the children who are being created through third-party reproduction – all of us long for the parents who we lost a relationship with."
Faust insists it's not an issue of homosexual rights, but a matter of the rights of children and their best interests.
