We expect the alcoholic to dry out, which makes it a less than perfect analogy.
No one said that the others wanted to get married. Step by step: we do not merely tolerate, but except on an equal footing, homosexuality when we insist that homosexuals be able to get married. Thus, we abandon claims that heterosexuality is normal and superior, essentially on the basis that homosexuality, whether genetic or psychological, is too deeply internalized to be a choice, and should not be disparaged at all. However, a decent society surely promotes some behaviors and discourages others, even in regards to sex, for example, promiscuity or pedophilia. How are we to answer when the promiscuous person pleads uncontrollable impulse, analogous to the homosexuals, and demands that we accept his behavior? Even with the pedophile, a more serious matter, one might chip away at social restraints, and establish sympathy, by invoking compulsion and the possibility of pubescent children who are bound to sexually experiment, and so forth...... |
