Personally, I have never had any problem being friends with homosexuals, as long as they refrain from hitting on me. But it is also my view that regarding homosexuality as deviant is more than an unreasoning prejudice, but is an obvious judgment based on our biology. If there were no homosexuality, our species would be none the worse off; if there were no heterosexuality, we would not have a species. Additionally, it is apparent that the plumbing is made for heterosexual coupling, just as surely as that we are meant to walk on our legs or speak with our mouths. To treat it as an unreasoning impulse is wrong. Therefore, if society does not want to extend the same recognition to homosexual unions that it does to heterosexual unions, that is a legitimate choice. In doing so, it is defending its sense of propriety, even while being tolerant of deviance. Marriage is not a right.
There is no question of rose- colored glasses. There is a question of where to draw lines, and it is society's prerogative to draw lines where it is comfortable. I think the fact that civil union is becoming an acceptable concept is an enormous concession......... |
