Push To Legalize Polygamy Uses Same Arguments As Push For Same-Sex Marriage

by Them Before Us | Feb 22, 2020 | EXPORT, The Latest

(Originally published at The Federalist) “I just came out openly to friends.” “Love is love” and we deserve “equal protection under the law.” We are “not harming anybody.” “The world would be a better place if everybody was more open.” “I am proud of who I am” but I...

Alice’s story | “I spent my teenage years proving to him that I am worth loving.”

by Them Before Us | Feb 5, 2020 | EXPORT, Stories

This was the day when my world fell apart. I was only 7 years old. It was early summer. My father was away for 2 weeks with his band and I was waiting for him to come home. My 10 year old cousin was over at our house that day. I remember my father approaching so we...

I Was Raised by Two Gay Men. I Still Think Children Deserve to be Adopted into a Home with a Mother and a Father

by Samantha Wiessing | Jan 29, 2020 | EXPORT, The Latest

Originally published at The Tennessean Lawmakers here in Tennessee are catching a lot of flak for their support of HB 836, which supposedly allows adoption agencies to “discriminate against” LGBTQ applicants. At first glance, it looks unfair. After all, we all have...

Dear South Dakota, Babies Aren’t Commodities

by Katy Faust | Jan 29, 2020 | Around the World, EXPORT, Justice, South Dakota

IN SUPPORT OF HB 1096 Dear Members of the House Judiciary Committee;  My name is Katy Faust. I am the founder and director of the children’s rights organization Them Before Us. We represent the party who is most impacted by HB 1096: the children. Here are four ways...

Joshua Hewitt’s story | “Some say that the transgender woman who was my Dad will always be my father. There is no truth in this for me.”

by Them Before Us | Jan 29, 2020 | EXPORT, Stories

Twenty one years ago I lost my father. The hardest part of losing him is that he didn’t die. One day he walked out the door and never returned. Sometimes I allow myself to imagine how much easier it would have been if he had died. My grief would have welled to the...

Left Claims Women Are Essential To Business But Optional To Families

by Katy Faust | Jan 21, 2020 | EXPORT, The Latest

(Originally published in The Federalist) Washington state Democrats continue to run the table with their majority. They opened the new year with several egregious legislative initiatives, from decriminalizing underage prostitution to pushing the comprehensive sexual...