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14-50196
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IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
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CLEOPATRA DE LEON; NICOLE DIMETMAN; VICTOR HOLMES;
MARK PHARISS,

PLAINTIFFS-APPELLEES;
v.
RICK PERRY, in His Official Capacity as Governor of the
State of Texas; GREG ABBOTT, in His Official Capacity as
Texas Attorney General; DAVID LAKEY, in His Official
Capacity as Commissioner of the Department of State
Health Services,

DEFENDANTS-APPELLANTS.
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ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS, SAN ANTONIO DIVISION, CASE NO.
5:13-CV-982
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BRIEF OF AMICUS CURIAE KATY FAUST SUPPORTING
DEFENDANTS-APPELLANTS AND SUPPORTING REVERSAL
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David Boyle
P.O. Box 15143
Long Beach, CA 90815
(734) 904-6132
dbo@boyleslaw.org
Counsel for Amicus Curiae B.N. Klein
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CERTIFICATE OF INTERESTED PERSONS
Case 14-50196, Civil
Pursuant to Fifth Circuit Rule 28.2.1, the undersigned counsel of record
certifies that the following listed persons and entities as described in the fourth
sentence of Rule 28.2.1 have an interest in the outcome of this case. These
representations are made in order that the judges of this court may evaluate
possible disqualification or recusal.
APPELLANTS:

Rick Perry, in his official capacity as Governor of the State of Texas.
Greg Abbott, in his official capacity as Texas Attorney General.
David Lakey, in his official capacity as Commissioner of the Texas Department of
State Health Services.
(APPELLANTS ATTORNEYS:
Jonathan F. Mitchell, Solicitor General
Kyle D. Highful
Beth Ellen Klusmann
Michael P. Murphy
OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL)
APPELLEES:
Cleopatra DeLeon, Nicole Dimetman, Victor Holmes, Mark Phariss.
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(APPELLEES ATTORNEYS:
Barry Alan Chasnoff
Jessica M. Weisel
Michael P. Cooley
Daniel McNeel Lane, Jr.
Andrew Forest Newman
Matthew Edwin Pepping
AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD, LLP)

This list does not include the various amici in the case, especially since they are
not parties or parties attorneys, and the list of amici is growing. However, if
wished, a list can be supplied.

Amicus Curiae Katy Faust is an individual who has no parent corporation, or
any publicly held corporation that owns 10% or more of stock of that nonexistent
parent corporation.
s/David Boyle
Attorney of record for Amicus
Curiae Katy Faust


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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CERTIFICATE OF INTERESTED PERSONS.i
TABLE OF AUTHORITIES.....v
ARGUMENT.............................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................1
A. GOVERNMENTS INTEREST IN MARRIAGE...............................................4
B. RIGHTS................................................................................................................5
C. FAMILY STRUCTURE...............................................................................9
RESPONSES TO COMMON OBJECTIONS........................................................13
I. I am not saying that same-sex attraction makes you a bad parent..............13
II. I am not saying that those in same sex relationships are incapable of
commitment................................................................................................13
III. But marriage has never been about children, because many heterosexual
marriages dont produce children.............................................................13
IV. But what about the childless heterosexual couple?....................................16
V. Some argue that two loving and caring men make a better home than a
drug-addicted single mom..........................................................................16
VI. But what about the hardship that many LGBTQ people have
suffered?........18
VII. Other threats to child rights........................................................................18
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VIII. Marriage should just be about adult emotional bonds...........................19
(ANTECONCLUSION)......19
CONCLUSION.......21
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE22

CERTIFICATE OF ELECTRONIC COMPLIANCE 23
FORM 6. CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 32(a)..24














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TABLE OF AUTHORITIES
CASES
De Leon v. Perry, No. 14-50196 (No. 5:13-cv-982, 975 F. Supp. 2d 632 (W.D.
Tex. Feb. 12, 2014))...1

RULES
Fed. R. App. P. 29...1 n.1

OTHER AUTHORITIES
Def. of Marriage Act (DOMA), Pub. L. 104199, 110 Stat. 2419 (1996),
codified at 1 U.S.C. 7 and 28 U.S.C. 1738C, overruled in part by United States
v. Windsor, 133 S. Ct. 2675 (2013)..................................................................5 &n.2
Frank Ligtvoet, The Misnomer of Motherless Parenting, N.Y. Times, June 22nd,
2013, available at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/opinion/sunday/the-
misnomer-of-motherless-parenting.html?_r=1&.......................................9-10 & n.3
NPR Staff, What Happens When Kids Fall 'Far From The Tree', NPR Books, Nov.
8th, 2012, 5:58 p.m., http://m.npr.org/news/Books/163468489..............11 & n.4, 12
The Parent Trap (directed by David Smith; Walt Disney Productions 1961)15
The Parent Trap (directed by Nancy Meyers; Walt Disney Pictures 1998).15, 16
U.N. Convention on the Rts. of the Child (1989)....................................................12
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USA Today, Obama speaks on importance of fatherhood, The Oval blog, Feb.
17th, 2013, 9:50 a.m., http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2013/02/17/obama-
chicago-fatherhood-economy-gun-control/ 1925727/...................................22 & n.5

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STATEMENT OF INTEREST OF AMICUS CURIAE
The present amicus curiae, Katy Faust,
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is respectfully filing this Brief in
Support of Defendants-Appellants, Rick Perry, Greg Abbott, and David Lakey, in
De Leon v. Perry, No. 14-50196 (No. 5:13-cv-982, 975 F. Supp. 2d 632 (W.D.
Tex. Feb. 12, 2014)). I grew up with two lesbian parents and wish to discuss my
experience.
ARGUMENT
INTRODUCTION
My mother and her partner have been together since I was 10, soon after my
parents divorce. Since that time much of my life was spent in their home,
surrounded by their community of women. They were deeply involved in my
childhood and adolescence, and I have fond memories of them attending my
concerts, sporting events, plays, and graduation. Even when off to college,
studying in Taiwan on a Fulbright scholarship, during my career at the largest
Chinese adoption agency in the world, and as my husband and I began to raise our
children, I have remained in close contact with my mother and her partner. They
continue to be a loving and supportive fixture in my family.

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I wrote the vast majority of this brief without help from any other party or its
counsel, though my own counsel gave editing, formatting, or other help at the end;
and no party or its counsel gave money to its writing or submission, see Fed. R.
App. P. 29. All parties have filed blanket permission with the Court for amicae/i to
write briefs.
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None the less, I oppose gay marriage. The foremost focus of my opposition
to gay marriage is the rights and well-being of children.
I want to be clear that my advocacy against gay marriage and for the rights
of children will never include condemnation of my mother and her partner or
details about their private lives. Unlike some in the gay lobby who often uses
children as pawns to forward their cause, I will not be sharing specifics about my
parents to advance my arguments. What you need to know about my parents and
their partners/spouses, is that I love them. They are worthy of dignity, respect and
privacy.
Some adult children with gay parents shy away from making their thoughts
about marriage public because we do not want to jeopardize our relationships with
those to whom our hearts are tethered. Unfortunately, many gay-marriage
lobbyists have made gay marriage the sole badge of loyalty to our LGBT family
and friends. The label of bigot or hater has become very powerful and effective
tools to silence those of us who choose not to endorse the marriage platform of
many gay lobbyists. However, those tactics are no longer strong enough to keep
me silent. Advocating for the rights of children, and how they relate to the
institution of marriage, is not something that anyone should be timid about.
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For much of my adult life I was content to keep my opinions on the subject
of marriage to myself. I was (and still am) sickened by the accusation that I was
bigoted and anti-gay for my belief in natural marriage. For many years those
devices kept me quiet. I didnt seek a venue where I could share my views. But I
have come to realize that my silence, and the silence of others, has allowed for the
conversation to be dominated by those who claim that only animus, ignorance, or
indoctrination could lead one to oppose marriage equality.
You may credit the writing of this brief to a gay marriage supporter. In 2012
I began blogging under a pseudonym with the goal of centering the marriage
discussion on childrens rights and well-beingwhere the debates belong. But
several supporters of gay marriage considered my position not only wrong, but
harmful. So in addition to writing smear pieces on me, trolling my blog, and
attacking any commenter who was willing to support me, one gay advocate felt
that I needed to be exposed in the name of accountability. So he mined the
internet and revealed my identity. His cohorts shared my name on their own blogs
and told my husband that they knew who his wife was. This blogger wrote
slanderous posts on my church and published the names and address of our church
leaders for the purpose of intimidation. (The names and addresses have since been
removed, for which I am grateful.) Since I cannot be un-outed I am now writing
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under my own name. Had I not been forcibly exposed in the name of love and
tolerance, I would not be submitting this brief today.
A. GOVERNMENTS INTEREST IN MARRIAGE
As you deliberate on whether or not to redefine marriage into a genderless
institution, the primary question is: What is societys interest in marriage? Is it to
validate the emotional bonds of adults? Is it to stabilize partnerships? Is it an
instrument with which to give a stamp of equality to our gay brothers and sisters?
Adults can, and should, be able to form consensual relationships of their choosing.
Barriers to a partners bedside in the hospital, shared property rights, and freedom
to live the life they desire should never be imposed upon by government. If
society's concern in marriage is adults, then by all means redefine this institution
which has spanned centuries, cultures and religions to suit that perception.
But the reality is that societys interest in marriage is not an adult-centric one
after all. Governments interest in marriage is children. When Congress enacted
the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)
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in 1996, they had this to say about the
reason behind the legislation: [A]t bottom, civil society has an interest in
maintaining and protecting the institution of heterosexual marriage because it has a
deep and abiding interest in encouraging responsible procreation and child-rearing.

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Def. of Marriage Act (DOMA), Pub. L. 104199, 110 Stat. 2419 (1996),
codified at 1 U.S.C. 7 and 28 U.S.C. 1738C, overruled in part by United States
v. Windsor, 133 S. Ct. 2675 (2013).
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Simply put, government has an interest in marriage because it has an interest in
children. Id.
B. RIGHTS
Our elected governments primary role in this, and any legislation, is one
which protects the rights and best interest of its citizens. Especially the well-being
of those who cannot advocate for themselves. What more vulnerable individual
exists requiring such protection than children? Children do always not have
powerful lobbies, flashy publications, and lawyers tripping over one another to
offer pro-bono services for their cause. Marriage is one primary method used by
government to protect and uphold the natural rights of children.
Each side of this debate argues on the case of someones right. Those in
favor of redefining marriage speak of the right to marry and the right to
parenthood. Unfortunately, rights have lost their true meaning. They are now
popularly employed as a label for anything that someone really, really wants. This
is simply desire-based reasoning, which is entirely incorrect. What I am
referencing here is true rights. Rights which cannot be given by government, but
which exist pre-government. Rights which are self-evident, as our founding
fathers would say.
When you look at a newborn if there is no hospital chart or adults cooing
over her, cards from friends and family, a birth certificate in your hand - what do
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you know about that child? What is absolutely undeniable just from that babys
existence? By counting her fingers and toes you cannot know her housing
situation, the number of siblings she has, her living conditions, what school she is
zoned for, or her access to food and water. What you know as you gaze at that
wondrous and precious child is that she IS. What did that require? It required that
nine months earlier a man and a woman came together to provide the ingredients
for her existence. That is all. Until the world starts to tell Baby Girls story for her
thorough whatever cultural or religious context she has been born into, there are
two things that are true about that child. Two things entitled to her because, just
because, she is crying and squirming and breathing and yawning. Two rights that
every child, EVERY child, shares when they arrive in this world.
First, the right to live. Second, the right to have a relationship with his/her
father and mother.
The law upholds the natural right of parents to have a direct, custodial
relationship with their offspring, provided they do not neglect or abuse them. In
fact, even a parent who does not wish to be involved in his/her childs life is
required to help support that child financially.
Assistance programs and social service agencies - largely government-
funded - go to great lengths to keep families of origin together, even in less-than-
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ideal circumstances. Presumably, one could argue that some (even many) of these
children would be better off by certain objective measures if they were quickly
removed from their family of origin and placed for adoption. But the burden of
proof lies with the government to establish that parents are neglectful or abusive
before terminating their natural rights. Parents who wish to place children for
adoption must freely consent to having their natural rights terminated, and indeed
when this consent has been uninformed or deceptively obtained (or even just
regretted after the fact), heart-wrenching custody battles between biological and
adoptive parents have ensued.
Surely a parents right to be in a direct, custodial relationship with his/her
offspring lies not within the realm of property law, as if the child were something
owned. Rather, this right is a natural one that is universal and self-evident. The
childs right to be in a direct, nurturing relationship with his/her parents is its
reciprocal. Children belong to their parents only to the extent that parents
belong to their children.
When a child loses their right to live, at least on this side of the womb, we
severely punish the perpetrator. The loss of that right is nothing that government
or any human agent will be able to repay or restore.
The same is true of the second right - the right to belong to ones parents.
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Step back from the gay marriage debate for a moment and look at the lives
of children you know. Perhaps look at your own life. When a parent has been lost
because of death, abandonment, estrangement, or divorce there is harm. There is
pain. The child grieves, is angry, and mourns. Whether it is a longing to know the
mysterious missing half of ones heritage or a life-long gaping wound, losing a
parent brings pain. It is a loss that cannot be restored by government or any human
agent. No mentor, teacher, grandparent, Head Start program or case worker can
take the place of that absent mother or father. Even if the parent resurfaces later in
life, each day that the parent was absent has been permanently lost.
This is how one gay father describes his daughters loss:
Sometimes when my daughter, who is 7, is nicely cuddled up in
her bed and I snuggle her, she calls me Mommy. I am a stay-at-home
dad. My male partner and I adopted both of our children at birth in
open domestic adoptions. We could fill our home with nannies,
sisters, grandmothers, female friends, but no mothers. My daughter
says Mommy in a funny way, in a high-pitched voice. Although I
refer the honors immediately to her birth mom, I am flattered. But
saddened as well, because she expresses herself in a voice that is not
her own. It is her stuffed-animal voice. She expresses not only love;
she also expresses alienation. She can role-play the mother-daughter
relationship, but she cannot use her real voice, nor have the real thing.
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Frank Ligtvoet, The Misnomer of Motherless Parenting, N.Y. Times, June 22nd,
2013.
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Why has there been a dramatic shift toward open adoption? Because there
has been a near-universal recognition that children benefit from having as many
connections with their family of origin as possible. It is why many states now
require that adoption records be open to children.
C. FAMILY STRUCTURE
To institutionalize something is not just to permit it, to live and let live.
With the redefinition of marriage, we are not simply allowing people to form
relationships of their choosing. They have been doing so for decades. I can assure
you that in the eighties and nineties, the community of women with whom I had
extensive contact were free to love whomever they chose to love. That has been
the case for decades in every place where gay sex has been decriminalized.
When we institutionalize same-sex marriage however, we move from
permitting citizens the freedom to live as they choose, to promoting same-sex
headed households. In doing so, we ignore the true nature of the outcropping of
marriage. Now we are normalizing a family structure where a child will always be

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Available at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/opinion/sunday/the-misnomer-
of-motherless-parenting.html?_r=1& (last visited August 4th, 2014, as with all
other Internet links herein).
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deprived daily of one gender influence and the relationship with at least one natural
parent. Our cultural narrative becomes one that, in essence, tells children that they
have no right to the natural family structure or their biological parents, but that
children simply exist for the satisfaction of adult desires.
When marriage policy and cultural narrative deviates from the reality that
one man plus one woman makes a baby, we end up with scenarios such as the one
described by author Andrew Solomon:
When I met John, who is now my husband, he told me that he had
had some friends, Tammy and Laura, for whom he had been a sperm
donor, and that they had a son named Oliver, of whom he was the
biological father. A few years later, they asked him to be a sperm
donor again, and they produced a daughter, Lucy. A good friend of
mine from college had gone through a divorce and said that she really
longed to be a mother, and I said how much I would love to be the
father of her child. And so we decided to produce a child through an
IVF process. John and I then wanted to have a child who would live
with us all the time, and we decided to use an egg donor, and Laura,
the lesbian who had carried Oliver and Lucy, offered to be our
surrogate as a way of thanking John for providing her with a family.
So the shorthand is: five parents of four children in three states.
NPR Staff, What Happens When Kids Fall 'Far From The Tree', NPR Books,
Nov. 8th, 2012, 5:58 p.m.
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(citation omitted).
This is truly human trafficking: manipulating children into existence to satisfy
the desires of adults. In Andrew Solomons post-nuclear family, as he calls it,
the four children living in three states were conceived with the intent to separate

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http://m.npr.org/news/Books/163468489.
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them from one of their biological parents, see id. The desires of the five adults
were satisfied. The rights of the four children - to be known and raised by their
biological parents - were not.
The UN gets this one exactly right. Their Convention on the Rights of the
Child (1989), Article 7, states, The child shall be registered immediately after
birth and shall have the right from birth to a name, the right to acquire a nationality
and as far as possible, the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents. Id.
1. The right to something that you cannot produce yourself is no right at all. As
soon as a homosexual couple can produce a child without any assistance from
others, than they absolutely have a right to have a child and the right to marry.
It is not just about a child's rights, though that should be enough for any
court, political initiative or piece of legislation. It is also a question of the child
thriving. Beyond the superficial stereotypes, gender is a real phenomenon. There
are unique, complementary, and demonstrable differences between men and
women in parenthood. As children age, they benefit from daily interactions with
their father and mother. Even during infancy, studies have shown that children
respond differently to male and female faces and voices.
For those who feel that there is no significant difference between men and
women in a childs life, I hope that they would take that philosophy into every
other area of human interaction. They should not object to an all-male Supreme
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Court because women, after all, do not offer a unique perspective. We should not
care if a low-income school district has all female teachers because strong male
role models are unnecessary. And, if all of that is true, I expect to see our
President surrounded by an all-female secret security entourage.
The reality is that to say gender makes no meaningful difference in any
scenario is silly. I am shocked when someone makes the case that genderless
marriage will not affect the most vital societal import of all - child development.
Children are most likely to thrive when they are raised by their mother and father.
And if those parents are incapable of providing proper care of the child? The most
appropriate approximation of the family unit is their right; a male and female
union.
We have all the social evidence needed to authenticate the truth that children
need both sexes represented in their parentage. When a child is raised outside of
an intact family, specifically without the involvement of their father, we see that
the likelihood that they will be incarcerated skyrockets, they perform poorly in
school, live in poverty, fall victim to trafficking, are sexually active at an early age
and experience both poor physical and mental health. Fathers and mothers are
staples in the diet of emotional food that children require. Without one or the other,
they are emotionally malnourished.

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RESPONSES TO COMMON OBJECTIONS
I. I am not saying that same-sex attraction makes you a bad parent. My
mother was an exceptional parent. She modeled self-sacrifice, healthy
communication, and was continually nurturing and involved. I never
went through a phase where I was ashamed of her or her partner. Not
even that morning when I was cornered by a crowd of girls who were
taunting me for having two moms. I am grateful that both my
mother and her partner are involved in my childrens lives.
Conversely, being heterosexual does not a good parent make.
Parenting is a skill that gay or straight can learn.
II. I am not saying that those in same-sex relationships are incapable of
commitment or fidelity. My mother and her partner could hold a clinic
on both of those. Fidelity and commitment are daily choices that
homosexual and heterosexual couples must make.
III. Some object, But marriage has never been about children, because
many heterosexual marriages dont produce children. If that is the
case, then why have some gay marriage advocates sought, bought,
and/or trumpeted the studies which are aimed at proving that
children do not suffer any ill effects by being systematically separated
from a natural parent? Why then are many gay marriage supporters so
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quick to point out that gay couples are, in fact, raising children
together, apparently as a means of demonstrating the suitability of
same-sex relationships for the institution of marriage and driving
home the moral necessity of legally recognizing their relationships? If
marriage isnt about children, who cares?

If they are right, that mothers and fathers are interchangeable and one
or the other is unnecessary, then perhaps Hollywood should make
another Parent Trap. In the iconic 1961 film (directed by David
Smith; Walt Disney Productions), see id., twin sisters Sharon and
Susan meet a summer camp and realize that they were separated
shortly after they were born. In the wake of their parents divorce,
Sharon went to live with her mother in Boston and Susan went to live
with her father in California. Both girls, each longing to meet the
parent they never knew, devise an elaborate scheme to switch places
and ultimately reunite their parents so that they are separated no
longer. There was a remake of The Parent Trap in 1998 (directed by
Nancy Meyers; Walt Disney Pictures). While changing minor details,
see id., they maintained the heart-pulling storyline of children longing
to be reunited with their lost parent which so strongly connected with
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1960s audiences. My children, when watching the more recent
movie, were tearful when the girls parents got remarried. My
daughter turned to me and remarked how happy she was that Sharon
could be with her daddy now.
If we were to remake that universally-appealing plot according to the
ideas and assertions put forward by some in the gay-marriage lobby,
we would tell Sharon to stay in Boston because her longing to be
known by her father is invalid. She is actually very happy only
knowing her mother. She is wrong to want a relationship with her
father. We tell Susan that she doesnt need her mom either. She is
perfectly happy with only her father regardless of what her heart tells
her. We tell them both that their feelings are illogical and unfounded.

For that matter, we should tell every child who has an absent parent
through death, divorce, abandonment or third-party reproduction that
their sense of loss is illogical. Have you met any of those kids? Are
they unaffected by the loss of their parent? Truth is, you will not find
a child in those gay-marriage affirming studies that have come to
their same-sex parents through any means other than death, divorce,
abandonment, or third-party reproduction. And yet the studies
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show no ill effects? These are quite obviously mutually exclusive
outcomes.
IV. But what about the childless heterosexual couple? Does it follow then
that they cannot be married? Again, we need to take our cues from the
self-evident. Not every heterosexual union can or will produce a
child. But every child has a mother and father. If marriage is a child-
centric institution, then we do right by children when public policy
reflects this biological reality. Children are made by a man and a
woman. In the optimal scenario, they are also raised by them. As a
society, we should make policy to reflect that reality. The ideal.
V. Some argue that two loving and caring men make a better home than a
drug-addicted single mom. What fool would disagree with that? I
actually traveled internationally with two women who were willing to
adopt a girl with special needs. Those two dear women were game to
take on a child that no heterosexual couple in her home country, or
ours really, would adopt. Clearly, that child will have a far better life
with my friends than in an under-staffed, under-funded foreign
institution.
But lets be clear, in the above scenarios we are talking about degrees
of brokenness. For the child, there is no such thing as an intact
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home when they are in a same-sex headed household. To join that
household they must lose one or both natural parents. Just because in
a few cases a child who has found themselves in a horrific situation
would be better off with two parents of the same gender does not
necessitate writing out of civil code the right to a relationship with
ones natural parents. Just like the children I know who are being
raised by their aunt and uncle because their parents neglected them.
Or the grandparents who are raising their grandson because his mother
is an addict. Or the child who is being raised by her single mother
because her father broke both of her mothers legs and now the two
are constantly moving to stay away from him. Brokenness finds
children and the people in their lives do their best to pick up the
pieces. However, we do not institutionalize, incentivize or promote
the grandparent-headed household, the aunt-and-uncle-headed
household or the single-parent headed household. Why? Because
public policy should not encourage or endorse the breaking of the
parent/child relationship because a couple, or throuple (three
persons) wants to have a family. Children are entitled to parents. Not
the other way around.
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VI. But what about the hardship that many LGBTQ people have
suffered? I understand and lament the personal and emotional
challenges that many same-sex attracted people have faced in their
lives. I grieve over the decades that some have spent closeted or
feeling as though they could not be honest about their inner turmoil or
attraction. The way to right those wrongs is throw open our hearts and
homes to our gay family and friends. It is to hire people based on
their experience, qualifications and education and not their sexual
orientation/attractions. It is to include them in our activities, parties,
and Thanksgiving dinners. It is to give them the freedom to establish
relationships and communities of their choosing. But the remedy does
not lie in eliminating the rights of children.
VII. Other threats to child rights: I am not so nave as to say that gay
marriage is the biggest or only threat to children having access to their
mother and father. Pre-marital sex, cohabitation and divorce are
statistically a greater risk to children. But please note that there are no
wide-spread efforts to institutionalize, glamorize and legally
incentivize those family arrangements. Frankly, if there were? I
would oppose them too.

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VIII. Marriage should just be about adult emotional bonds. If marriage is
for adults, then what institution is for children? Maybe your answer is
public education. The problem is that a student who isnt having their
emotional needs met at home is more likely to flounder in school, as
any teacher will attest. But if you get the family right, then you get a
higher likelihood of academic health thrown in with the deal. In fact,
a married intact home is the single greatest weapon that society has
in the fight to lower incarceration rates, to reduce the number of
children living in poverty, curtail child trafficking, promote mental
and physical child wellness, and so on.
* * *
If societys interest in marriage is children, then why are we promoting a
family structure where a child would have to be denied a relationship with their
mother or father so the adults can have the family they desire? Why, if some
believe that they are born gay, do many in the gay lobby seek to legally sever the
much more self-evident truth that children are born to both a mother and father?
Why, if one popular gay-marriage mantra is that they do not want the government
to tell them who to love, would they tell children that being loved by one of their
natural parents is unnecessary?
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Should you choose to redefine marriage and promote a family structure that
necessitates the permanent loss of the rights of children, what counter-balancing
measures will you take? How many laws will you have to write to ensure that
children will not be systematically separated from the natural order of parenthood
in order to satisfy the desires of adults? Will you outlaw third-party reproduction?
Will you compel adoption agencies to consider gender as one qualification for
adoptive couples? Will you state that despite the newly redefined institution of
marriage, that children should not be separated from their natural parents except in
extreme cases of abuse or neglect?
Or will you possibly recognize that you cannot have it both ways? Truth is,
you cannot redefine marriage AND recognize that fathers and mothers are both
critical to a childs rights and childrens flourishing. What you will find yourself
doing is political double-speak as President Obama did in a speech last February.
Our President, who intimately understands the pain of fatherlessness, first said that
theres no more important ingredient for success than strong, stable families,
which means we should do more to promote marriage and encourage fatherhood.
USA Today, Obama speaks on importance of fatherhood, The Oval blog, Feb.
17th, 2013, 9:50 a.m.
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But because he has now evolved on the subject of gay

5
http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2013/02/17/obama-chicago-fatherhood-
economy-gun-control/1925727/.
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marriage, he had to add that loving, supportive parents can include gay and
straight parents. So how do you promote marriage and encourage fatherhood
when some marriages exclude fathers? You cant. You can either believe that
fathers and mothers are valuable and children have a right to both, or, you can
redefine marriage to promote a family structure where a father or mother will never
be present. Period. When gay couples have equal access to the institution of
marriage it means that children will not have equal access to parents influencing
and raising them the way nature intended.
You must either side with adult desires or side with childrens rights. You
cannot do both.
The choice is yours. Thank you.
CONCLUSION
I respectfully ask the Court to reverse the judgment of the court below; and
humbly thank the Court for its time and consideration.
August 4, 2014 Respectfully submitted,
s/David Boyle
P.O. Box 15143
Long Beach, CA 90815
(734) 904-6132
dbo@boyleslaw.org
Counsel for Amicus Curiae Katy Faust

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The undersigned certifies that he electronically filed the foregoing with the
Clerk of the Court for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit by
using the appellate CM/ECF system on August 4, 2014.
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August 4, 2014 Respectfully submitted,
s/David Boyle
P.O. Box 15143
Long Beach, CA 90815
(734) 904-6132
dbo@boyleslaw.org
Counsel for Amicus Curiae Katy Faust

CERTIFICATE OF ELECTRONIC COMPLIANCE

The undersigned also certifies that on August 4, 2014, this brief was transmitted
to Mr. Lyle W. Cayce, Clerk of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth
Circuit, via the courts CM/ECF document filing system, https://ecf.ca5.uscourts.
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The undersigned further certifies that: (1) required privacy redactions have been
made, 5th Cir. R. 25.2.13, if any in fact were needed; (2) the electronic submission
is an exact copy of the paper document, 5th Cir. R. 25.2.1; and (3) the document
has been scanned with the most recent version of McAfee Anti-Virus and Anti-
Spyware 16.8 and as per that program is free of viruses.
s/David Boyle

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Attorney for Amicus Curiae Katy Faust
Dated: August 4, 2014
Thank you for your time.


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Mr. David Christopher Boyle
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No. 14-50196 Cleopatra DeLeon, et al v. Rick Perry, et al
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