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When Truth Collides with Culture: A Mother’s Journey to Defend God’s Design for the Family
Right after her parents divorced, Katie’s mother entered a long-term relationship with another woman — one that’s lasted for over forty years. “People call me homophobic,” Katie said, “but I’ve lived with lesbians since before most of my critics were born.”
Katie’s life wasn’t shaped by hate; it was shaped by love, loss, and the wounds children quietly carry when a mother or father is absent. After years of ministry, adoption work, and studying families around the world, she began to see something that few were willing to talk about: children were being used as tools in political debates about love, rights, and freedom.
Out of that heartbreak came her mission — to give children a voice. She founded Them Before Us, a movement built on one simple truth: every child deserves both a mother and a father.
It all started with an anonymous blog. “I was angry,” she admits. “Not because I hated anyone, but because I saw adults justifying decisions that left kids wounded for life.” Her blog, Ask the Bigot, aimed to explain why God’s design for marriage wasn’t just spiritual—it was deeply human. But soon, she was “outed” by an activist blogger who exposed her identity, even publishing the names and home addresses of her church’s leaders. The harassment was relentless.
In that dark moment, Katie went before her church elders, ready to quit. “If I’m Jonah, throw me overboard,” she said. But instead of asking her to stop, they told her, “Or maybe, you go bigger.”
And she did.
Katie went on to speak before the United Nations, write briefs for the Supreme Court, and travel across nations to defend the rights of children. Her work now challenges the modern fertility industry, exposing how reproductive technologies and same-sex parenting, however well-intentioned, can often separate children from their biological parents — and from the unique love they were created to receive.
She explains, “Children don’t just need caregivers. They long for a mother’s tenderness and a father’s strength. If you feel that ache, it’s not because you’re wrong — it’s because the world is.”
Today, Katie serves on the board of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, a global project led by Jordan Peterson that promotes family, faith, and moral order. Her voice is helping nations rethink what a healthy society truly looks like: one built not on adult desires, but on the sacred responsibility to protect children.
“Our goal,” she says, “is to turn the Church into a child-centered movement. Because when we forsake God’s design for family, we don’t just lose tradition — we lose the next generation.”
Through Them Before Us, she’s calling the Church to stand firm, to rebuild the moral walls that guard the hearts of children. Because the future of every nation begins — and either stands or falls — within the family.
