Antigay Daughter of Lesbian Couple Katy Faust Now Fights Marriage Equality in Australia

The fight for marriage equality is raging in Australia, and one of the women there actively campaigning against equality is American Katy Faust, a daugher of lesbian mothers, who set her sights on Australia after marriage equality became legal in the United States in June. 

Faust, runs a blog that is amazingly called “Ask The Bigot," according to the Daily Mail. While she speaks openly about her blog now, she didn't always take ownership of it. At first she attempted to keep it anonymous, but queer activists discovered her identity.  She bills the blog as “a place where ideas, not people, are under assault.” 

In an interview with ABC Lateline in Australia she describes her mother (who divorced her father and started living with her partner when Faust was in 5th grade) as “the greatest mother anyone could ask for” and her mother’s partner as a “dear friend.” She continues, “They are wonderful grandparents to my kids.”

The anti-equality activist tells Lateline that her drive comes from her belief that “children have a right to be in relationship with their mother and father whenever possible, and as a society, we shouldn't normalize a family structure that requires children to lose one or both parents to be in that household.”

Faust further explains that her beliefs about same-sex marriage began to take hold in high school when she converted to Christianity.* She has since dedicated a lot of time and resources, it would seem, to making sure people like her parents can’t get married and yet she insists that this isn’t a hateful act.

As totally strange as her story is, she’s found someone to team up with in Australia named Millie Fontana, who was also raised by two motheres and who is also opposed to marriage equality. 

Side Note: This all really makes me wonder how terrible her childhood was. (Related: if you are Katy Faust's parents, please give me a call). She described the nature of being the child of same-sex parents as having “a lot of pressure on children of gay parents to please their parents, to sort of carry the banner forward for them.”

Now, watch Faust in her own words. 

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