A response to the issue of Equality and Gay Marriage
I got an ask pertaining to gay marriage and the subject of equality, so I figured I’d share a relevant excerpt of I wrote with The Papists, too.
Sex has two aspects: the unitive aspect and procreative aspect. Arguably, the most “important” of these aspects, biologically, is the procreative aspect: that is, the part of sex where a man and woman possibly create a new human life. And in conjunction, the unitive aspect exists so that man and woman can have a closer bond and have a reason to have sex (and assure the continuity of our species :P). Pure and natural “straight sex” covers both of these aspects.
The homosexual act, on the other hand, may have a unitive aspect, but the procreative aspect can never be fulfilled. It’s simply impossible for a man and a man or a woman and a woman to conceive a child. This is why homosexual acts, and the marriages that come along with it, (you can thank society for equating marriage and love with sex) don’t make that much sense.Unless of course, you’re a hedonist, and pleasure is your end goal.
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This is why a) sex and b) the homosexual act can never be “equal,” i.e. they can never be identical because their total aspects are incomparable.
It’s like comparing a man and a woman: In an ideal world, man and woman are equal (I’d say that in terms of unfair wages between sexes, rape culture and all the other sexism, we haven’t reached that point yet), but they are not identical. If a man became identical to a woman, he’d be a woman. If a woman became identical to a man, she’d be a man. So yeah, they’d be equal but they’d also be identical (and this doesn’t make sense because it goes against natural order—which recognizes the beauty of the differences between the male and female bodies).
- Olivier
