Who Is Speaking—and Why This Context Matters
The #GreaterThan campaign is a coordinated media and messaging effort launched in January 2026 in response to Obergefell v. Hodges. It frames itself as a child-centered appeal: that children’s well-being should be greater than adult desires. The campaign’s central public message is a short video featuring Christian leaders, advocacy organizations, and media figures discussing marriage, family structure, and public policy.
This post documents the #GreaterThan campaign video and explains what it claims—and what it omits about abuse and child safety.
For readers who want primary sources and deeper analysis:
– 📄 Full transcript of the #GreaterThan campaign video with speakers identified and timestamps
– 🔍 Why the #GreaterThan Campaign Isn’t Actually Pro-Child: Abuse, Safety, and Child Well-Being
The video itself does not discuss divorce law. However, many of the speakers and organizations featured—including Focus on the Family, the Colson Center, and policy-aligned advocacy groups—have long public records opposing unilateral no-fault divorce or supporting efforts to restrict legal exit from marriage. That context matters because the video presents marriage as universally child-protective while omitting realities—such as abuse, coercive control, or chronic betrayal—that make legal divorce necessary for many families.
I write as a Christian domestic violence awareness advocate who has been analyzing these same organizations since 2020. My concern is not about motives or politics, but about a recurring pattern: marriage advocacy that elevates permanence while minimizing or erasing abuse and high-conflict realities inside married homes—harms that directly affect children.
For readers unfamiliar with the data: research shows that roughly 1 in 4 highly religious marriages report abuse.
👉 1 in 4 Christian Marriages Are Abusive
Key Speakers and Their Public Record
Albert Mohler
President, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
For decades, Albert Mohler has framed divorce itself—not abuse—as the primary moral crisis facing families. In his 2010 article “Divorce—The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience,” Mohler calls divorce a “grievous sin,” criticizes no-fault divorce laws, and urges churches to become “enemies of divorce.” Notably, he does not meaningfully address domestic violence, coercive control, or child exposure to abuse as drivers of divorce. This pattern continues in the #GreaterThan video, where marriage is presented as automatically child-protective without acknowledging the documented harm children experience inside abusive marriages. See What Albert Mohler has said about divorce—and what’s missing.
Katy Faust
Founder, Them Before Us; face of the #GreaterThan campaign
Faust argues that children have a “right” to married biological parents and frequently portrays divorce as selfish. In her book Them Before Us, she relies heavily on selective social science while minimizing abuse in married homes and omitting key findings about high-conflict marriages and the better outcomes for children after divorce. Multiple family researchers she cites have publicly affirmed that divorce can improve children’s well-being when it ends abuse or severe conflict. See Katy Faust’s misuse of children and divorce research
John Stonestreet
President, Colson Center for Christian Worldview
Stonestreet regularly promotes content opposing no-fault divorce and framing divorce as a moral and spiritual failure rather than a response to abuse, addiction, or other serious issues. Colson Center materials have repeatedly relied on distorted or incomplete research about divorce and children, while failing to address domestic violence or coercive control as child-harming realities. Abuse victims have reported feeling dismissed or endangered by this framework. Read “Why Colson Center teachings are unsafe for abuse victims”
Jim Daly
President, Focus on the Family
Under Daly’s leadership, Focus on the Family has consistently emphasized marriage preservation saying “God hates divorce in every case” and promoting reconciliation (even in cases of pedophilia) while publishing materials that downplay abuse and overstate the harms of divorce. Focus on the Family’s 31-page 2025 State of the Family report never mentions the word “abuse.” Several Focus publications have been criticized by researchers for misrepresenting divorce data and failing to address coercive control and child exposure to harm.
Tony Perkins
President, Family Research Council
Perkins is a long-time political advocate whose work centers on opposing LGBTQ rights and promoting traditional marriage through public policy. Family Research Council has supported efforts to weaken no-fault divorce protections while rarely addressing domestic violence as a systemic concern within marriage.
Lila Rose
Founder, Live Action
Rose’s advocacy focuses primarily on abortion, but in the #GreaterThan video she extends a rights-based framework to family structure. Her remarks emphasize biological parenthood without addressing how abuse, abandonment, or coercive relationships affect children’s safety and outcomes.
Michael Knowles
The Daily Wire
Knowles is a political commentator rather than a family researcher. His contribution frames leaving a marriage as fantasy-driven and morally suspect, without acknowledging evidence that some exits protect children from harm.
Allie Beth Stuckey
Relatable (Podcast Host and Author)
Stuckey frequently critiques cultural narratives around family and sexuality. In the video, she dismisses “love makes a family” messaging without engaging research on caregiver safety, trauma exposure, or child outcomes in abusive homes.
Delano Squires
Heritage Foundation
Delano Squires is a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative public policy organization. In the #GreaterThan campaign video, he emphasizes biological parentage, describing children as the “embodiment” of one man and one woman. His remarks focus on family structure and cultural ideals, without addressing abuse, coercive control, or the extensive research on child harm related to violence and chronic conflict within married homes. The framing reflects a policy-oriented perspective rather than a trauma-informed one.
Why These Profiles Matter
These speakers differ in background and influence, but a consistent pattern emerges across the video:
marriage permanence is elevated, while abuse inside marriage is minimized, unnamed, or treated as exceptional. Given that nearly 6 in 10 divorces in the U.S. are for sexual immorality, domestic violence or substance addictions alone, the idea that abuse is rare is not supported by research, For those concerned with child safety, that omission is not neutral—it has real-world consequences.
For nearly 6 in 10 U.S. divorces, the final straw is infidelity, domestic violence, or substance abuse alone
Bottom Line
Related reading:
– Full #GreaterThan campaign video transcript (with speakers and timestamps)
– Who’s Speaking in the #GreaterThan Campaign Video—and Why Context Matters
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