In a candid interview with Tucker Carlson, American Catholic commentator Matt Walsh reaffirmed a position many no longer dare to defend aloud: a child has a right to a father and a mother. Period. According to him, placing a child in the hands of two men or two women is simply to abandon that child, to renounce what he or she should have received naturally.
During this discussion, the two men addressed several aspects of what is today called LGBT ideology, which they denounce as a frontal attack on the family and the natural order willed by God. Tucker Carlson read an old social media post from Walsh where he already denounced the practice of surrogacy, and Matt confirmed plainly that he still thinks the same, perhaps even more firmly today.
Walsh recalled a simple historical reality, which no propaganda can erase: never, in any known civilization, have two men in a couple formed a family. It does not exist. One can twist words, disguise things, speak of "progress," but it is a lie. The family model has always been founded on the union of a man and a woman. Even in polygamous societies, however disordered they may be, the child is always born of a father and a mother.
To call two men living together with a child a "family," for Matt Walsh, is an abomination. And Tucker Carlson, in an ironic tone, mocked those who call this progress, to which Walsh replied:
"It's progress the way cancer is progress."
He also highlighted a silent but worrying shift in the debate on homosexual parenting. Initially, one mostly heard about adoption. Now, surrogacy dominates, in other words, the commerce of women's bodies. He even speaks of "organ rental," comparing it to an Airbnb of motherhood, where the child becomes a product, an ordered, purchased object. Carlson, for his part, drew a parallel with slavery.
Behind all this lies a fundamental question: what are the rights of the child? It is not for two men to demand a "right to a child," as if the child were a whim to be satisfied. It is the child, on the contrary, who has the right—and this right is fundamental—to have a father and a mother. Not two dads, not two moms, but a father and a mother, as it has always been, as it must be.
Of course, there are tragedies: deaths, painful separations, abandonments. But these are exceptions, wounds, not models. And to institutionalize a wound, to normalize it, is even worse. To voluntarily place a child in the hands of a homosexual couple is to acknowledge that one has given up, that one has renounced giving him what he deserves. "It is to sacrifice him," says Walsh.
He goes even further: between a child placed in foster care and a child entrusted to a homosexual couple, the first case, although far from ideal, is less serious. "The second is even more disordered." He sees no improvement in it, but an aggravation.
The two men also emphasized how LGBT ideology never stops at a simple demand for "tolerance." It starts there, but quickly slides towards obligatory acceptance, then imposed celebration. You are no longer asked to accept; you are demanded to applaud, and if you do not, you are immediately labeled.
And this ideological pressure now infiltrates even schools, even children. Matt Walsh saw it with his own eyes, through his research for his documentary What is a Woman? When he went to Kenya, he met a tribe whose members had never heard of "gender roles." And yet, in their homes, everyone knows what they must do. The father is the father, the mother is the mother. And their children are happy.
This natural common sense, which the West has renounced, avoids much mental distress, anguish, and stress. "You can't beat nature," says Carlson. "Because God created it," he adds.
On this subject, Walsh mentions a troubling phenomenon multiplying on TikTok: videos of young women crying, expressing their distress at having wanted to follow modern feminist injunctions. They believed that embracing a professional career would bring them freedom and fulfillment. And they found only loneliness, sadness, emptiness. They no longer want this life. They cry out their despair.
All of this, for Walsh as for Carlson, is only the fruit of a society that has rejected the natural laws, those that God inscribed in human nature. And when one rejects the order willed by the Creator, one exposes oneself to disastrous consequences. False families, surrogate mothers, gender ideology, confusion of roles: all this leads only to suffering.