Gays really seeking affirmation

Galileo, having been coerced into denying that the earth moves around the sun, said anyway, "But it does move." It is the same with gay marriage. Iowa, recently, and now Vermont have declared that homosexual union is a constitutional right, and, by inference, a societal blessing. It is beyond belief that four state supreme courts, to whom precedence presumably counts for something, can overturn the traditional and universal notion of marriage, and ignore the realities of anatomy, in favor of a politically correct and patently absurd view of marital union.

Why absurd? Well, if homosexuality were a good thing, and something to be encouraged, theoretically it could grow to be so desirable and common that mankind would soon be extinguished, from lack of reproduction. And if that were to happen, what of it? It would be a natural consequence of our legal and cultural choices, and therefore, as a species, we could accept our extinction happily. Marriage involves both physical and metaphysical unity. Homosexual sex, no doubt, is experientially real, but it is biologically invalid. And a pair of Platonists may have a meeting of minds, but we couldn't, as a consequence, call them a couple, could we?

As Americans, gay adults can agree to contracts between themselves and others, regarding matters of estate, insurance, etc. It ought to stop there. But what homosexuals seek, ultimately, is affirmation from society. Only in this way can their intrinsic guilt be assuaged, and their sexual confusion be resolved - or so they think. Or so the courts think. Therefore, let them get married. But as Galileo might have said about this: "But they're not."

Alex Lee

Carol Stream