Hoosier State Today

Catholic Vote President Brian Burch backs Catholic Indiana parents Mary and Jeremy Cox's request to the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Indiana state courts’ seizing of their son from them after they refused to pretend he is a girl.

“The U.S. Supreme Court should take up this case and establish once and for all that state government bureaucrats cannot seize gender dysphoric children from their parents,” Burch said. “Boys are boys, girls are girls. Children who are led by deranged adults to believe they can change their biological sex need, love and help, not court-enforced grooming by state-backed sexual deviants.”

“If this can happen in Indiana, it can happen anywhere in the U.S,” he said.

On Thursday. Feb 15, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up this case.

“This is what every parent is afraid of. We love our son and wanted to care for him, but the state of Indiana robbed us of that opportunity by taking him from our home and banning us from speaking to him about gender,” Mary and Jeremy Cox said in a Becket Fund news release. “We are hopeful that the Justices will take our case and protect other parents from having to endure the nightmare we did.”  

After the Cox’s son told his parents that he believed he was a girl, the State of Indiana “began investigating the Cox family after learning that they refused to address their son by his chosen identity. The government subsequently removed their son from their home, placing him in another home that “affirmed” his transgender beliefs,” according to a report in the National Catholic Register.

The state agreed to drop “charges” against the parents for refusing to “use his pronouns,” but has since kept the boy away from his parents, out of their custody.