Babies For Sale

Yesterday, Josh Wood wrote for The Federalist, "Two posts went viral this past weekend. The first shows gay country music singer-songwriter Shane McAnally holding his infant son, who is calling for his mother while his male partner films the encounter. The singer looks down at the boy and tells him, directly, that he doesn’t have a 'mama.' Both men begin laughing as the baby cries."

Should babies be for sale?

Be informed, not misled.

Wood posted on social media:

Tells the baby he doesn’t have a mother.
The baby cries while the man laughs.

Being sold is a joke I guess?
Why is this legal? pic.twitter.com/2meId60Q6I

— Josh Wood (@J_K_Wood) April 15, 2026

Why is this legal?

A second post shows an ultrasound. One of them provided the sperm. The egg was bought from a donor. The womb belongs to a surrogate they hired. Neither of those two women appears in the post. The caption reads: “SO HI GUYS!!!! Usually don’t post much on here about my personal life, but my husband and I are going to be DADS!!!  😭😭😭💕💕💕” It is as though the two men did this themselves.

Wood says:

Millions of people saw these posts, which went completely viral with thousands of comments and shares. They hit hard because they made something visible that the gay marriage movement has worked for more than a decade to keep out of view: Gay marriage is not a private matter.

The lie they sold was simple: marriage is about two adults who love each other and want their love recognized. It involves no one else. What consenting adults do in their own bedroom is none of your business. And in those rare cases where it does involve children, those children are the castoffs of heterosexual irresponsibility, kids that straight people failed to raise. Gay couples, heroically, step in to pick up the pieces.

Then they went further. Why do you care? Mind your damn business. These tropes played on every talk show and came from every activist and celebrity ally across the culture for decades, and it worked.

Until it didn’t. The curtain is being pulled back. A child is on camera crying for a mother he will never have. A womb is photographed and posted as though it belonged to the men taking credit for the pregnancy. The private matter frame collapses right there. This concerns children. And anything that concerns children concerns all of us.

The illusion.

Wood explains, "Strategically, the pitch for gay marriage avoided children at all costs. Marriage had nothing to do with kids. And on the rare occasion a child came up, adoption was the default answer, picking up the pieces of heterosexual failure, a rescue operation and nothing more: 'you’d rather have children languish in an orphanage?!'"

"But underneath that messaging sat a question nobody bothered to ask. Were we really going to pretend that gay men and lesbian women would not share the same natural urge to procreate that every other human has carried for all of recorded history?" He writes.

For decades, it has been the snake under the table, with activists praying it would avoid the spotlight until the public was sufficiently brainwashed to accept the premise that children do not have a mother and father. That they are merely an accessory to adult desire to be cut and pasted into any adult relationship. Children complicated the privacy claim. The “mind your business” claim.

The unspoken presumption baked into that deal was that gay couples were, in some fundamental way, unlike the rest of us. That their family aspirations would run on a different track than everyone else’s. That they would not feel the pull to have offspring of their own, and that if they ever did, adoption would do.

None of it was true. When asked, when surveyed, when given the choice, gay men and lesbian women want what everyone else wants. They want children. They want biological children, the pregnancy photos, the genetic connection, the child who looks like them. When they have the money to acquire those things, they do.

RE The Money

In December 2024, the Williams Institute at UCLA surveyed 263 "married" same-sex couples under 50. Sixty-one percent said their ideal path to parenthood was a biological one — insemination, surrogacy, or reciprocal IVF. Only 36 percent said adoption was their ideal.

When the researchers asked what they expected to actually do, the numbers flipped. Only 41 percent said biological parenthood was likely, and 51 percent said they expected to adopt. The 20-point gap doesn’t tell us biology is irrelevant. It tells us that surrogacy runs between $90,000 and $250,000 in this country, and adoption runs around $30,000. Seventy-nine percent (79%)  named cost as their top barrier.

RE: The lie.

The promise of privacy was the lie that got the movement through the door. It was the moral centerpiece of the argument. What two consenting adults do in the privacy of their own bedroom is no one else’s business, and to say otherwise is to be a bigot.

In April 2025, Saturday Night Live aired a sketch called “New Parents” in which Jon Hamm and Bowen Yang played a gay couple who showed up at a friend’s gathering with a baby nobody knew about the day before. When the friends asked where the baby came from, the men refused to answer and flung accusations of bigotry back. The sketch wouldn’t have been produced five years ago. It debuted now because the orthodoxy has started to crack. The viral posts of this past weekend indicate the orthodoxy is beginning to crumble.

The victims of so-called gay marriage are the children.

RE: The Bible

The Bible defines marriage in Genesis 2:24 as a union between one man and one woman. Jesus Christ upholds this definition of marriage in Matthew 19:5, as does the Apostle Paul in Ephesians 5:31. Any and all sexual activity that takes place outside of this context is treated as sinful, what Jesus calls ‘sexual immorality’ in Mark 7:21. 

Further to this, same-sex practice is specifically highlighted as sinful a number of times in Scripture. In God’s Law, for example, condemnations of same-sex practice are given in Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13. Further references are made in the New Testament. For example, in Romans 1:24-32, amid echoes to the Genesis creation account, both male and female same-sex practices are treated as sinful. Further references to the sinfulness of same-sex practice can be seen in 1 Corinthians 6:9 and 1 Timothy 1:10. 

The Scriptures are, therefore, consistent in their prohibition of same-sex sexual activity across different periods of salvation history and within different cultural settings. Although the Scriptures are clear on sexual ethics, they also tell us that the prospect of forgiveness and eternal life is held out for anyone who turns from sin and puts their faith in Christ (Mark 1:15), no matter how they may have fallen short of his good design for sex and marriage. 

Jesus died for your sins.

Takeaway

Go back to the first video.

The boy is still crying. He is reaching for his mother. He is not going to find her. He will grow up in a home headed by two men who laughed at his grief the day it was captured on camera, and one day, he will start asking his questions. Who is my mother? Why did they take me from her? What did they pay her to stay out of my life? Why didn’t she want me?

God forgive us.

Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Engaged. Be Prayerful.