The Left Can’t Erase Moms And Dads Despite How Hard They Try

This past month, our organization, Them Before Us, put up a handful of billboards across the country with a message that has been uncontroversial for all of recorded history: “No child has two dads. No child has two moms.”

Within days, LGBT activists were organizing against them, trying to bully the billboard company, raising funds for counterprotests, and lobbing accusations at our organization, calling us a hate group. The collective outrage has now begun trending on X, drawing millions of views across platforms, thousands of comments, and tens of thousands of likes in just a few short days. All of that fury is aimed at a sentence that every person alive knows to be true, because every person alive arrived here through one biological mother and one biological father.

LGBTQers are melting down over a new billboard in Lima, Ohio, that says “No child has two dads” and “No child has two moms.”

The LGBTQ community complains they are being targeted, claiming the sign is “hateful.”

The billboard is attributed to the organization Them Before Us, a… pic.twitter.com/xTqASYk0E5— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 23, 2026

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Children have always come into the world making a claim on the adults around them. If a parent takes home a child, refuses to care for her, and the child is injured as a result, we do not arrest the nurse who sent her home or the neighbor across the street. We arrest the mother or father, because built into how we define a child is a biological responsibility laid at the feet of the people responsible for her creation. That definition is how every child has always known who she is, whose she is, and what she is owed: to be known and loved by her mother and father.

Now, our billboard detractors were quick to recite a list they thought disproved biology: children growing up in divorced homes; those who no longer have a father or mother on earth due to death; and those said to have multiple mothers or fathers because of stepparents, blended families, or adoption.

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On the other hand, this new regime of redefinition deliberately deprives a child of her mother or father before she is born, through purchased eggs, purchased sperm, and rented wombs. This is not a difference in degree, but in kind: a market in which the child is the product of adult manufacture and state assignment.

Just this past week, news broke that Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier was intervening in a surrogacy case that shows this ideology carried to its logical end. A single man in China rented the womb of a Florida woman, and when she gave birth to his triplets, he never came. Their birth was met with silence. The death of one of the boys from RSV complications was met with the same silence. For 20 months, the woman cared for the boys; then, the moment she moved to terminate his parental rights and adopt the survivors, the Chinese national hired a lawyer, who has since had the two boys pulled from the only woman they have ever known and placed in foster care while he fights to ship them to a country from which no court could ever bring them back.

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Cases like these explain the fury at 10 words of biology. When adults cannot redefine mother and father, they cannot redefine the human child. If a child remains a person instead of a product, adults can no longer keep treating her like one, doing with her whatever they want. The commodification, then, is a necessity. Without it, the adults might be forced to submit to the biological reality that they cannot create a child.

Under the cloak of “equality,” they will continue to demand access to parenthood despite the obvious impossibility. They will continue to demand all barriers be removed from their international supply chain of buyers, sellers, and surrogates. All in pursuit of their definition of a child: fungible, adaptable, assignable, a version that makes it easiest for adults to get what they want.

A mother and a father are a fact, not a feeling. Every child has one of each. No billboard protest, paper contract, activist judge, or international marketplace can change what every child is owed.

(*) Full article: https://thefederalist.com/2026/07/30/the-left-cant-erase-moms-and-dads-no-matter-how-hard-they-try/