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Tuesday, October 07, 2003
In the future, everyone will be gay for fifteen minutes...
In a Queer Eye world David Warren is the guy in the striped high-water pants and the plaid shirt. Now, maybe it's me, but this guy has more latency issues than the whole crowd over at The Corner:
And the first thing we see, upon looking into it, is this mysterious phenomenon of homosexuality. The word can mean at least two things. It can refer to a sexual attraction to members of the same sex, or it may mean acting on that impulse. The distinction is crucial, at least in the received Christian view. For one is not a sin, and the other is. Having sexual desires of any kind cannot possibly be sinful -- when it is something that happens to us, no matter how caused. It is only when a person begins to act upon the impulse -- by, for instance, indulging fantasy -- that he buys into the sin in his own right. And we are fantastical creatures, we humans; we are always capable of more than we assume.
"we are always capable of more than we assume". Hmmmmmm, I think David is dropping his first hint here.
Yet ideas have consequences; and acts also have consequences. Behind the notion that homosexuality is sin is not only Christian doctrine, nor also the doctrines of the other "great religions". Behind it is the wealth of accumulated and applied human experience, growing through the centuries. The Jews set themselves against the homosexuality that was endemic in the ancient world around them; the pagan Romans set themselves against the homosexual customs of the Greeks. In doing so they were raising the standards of their societies; and not incidentally, raising the status of their women.
Bear with me: this is important. No social order will long endure that is founded on lies about the human condition. And one of the large truths of that condition -- written not only in the Creator's announcement to the ancient Hebrews that he "made them male and female", but to be found in our experience of the creation itself, is the incompleteness of man as man, and woman as woman.
For as Jews and pagan Romans alike learned, or realized more deeply than before, the sexes are necessary to each other. There is a man's way, and a woman's way, of being in the world, and we need each other to be fully human. The society of men alone, or of women alone, easily degenerates into savagery.
Men alone is Promise Keepers. Women alone is a prison movie with Pam Grier and wet wifebeater T's....
We no longer have a Christian society, yet we could still wish to be, if possible, fully human. We tolerate far more deviation from our social norms than our ancestors did; or than their ancestors did, in every other human culture. We allow people to resist the mould. But when we shatter the mould itself, we play with dissolution of everything that makes us fully human.
In recognizing "homosexual marriage", and celebrating it as equal to the "traditional" kind, we go decisively beyond toleration to encouragement. We are wantonly creating a new social order, in which men and women increasingly become detached from each other, and from their mutual obligations.
Keep this in mind: "Homosexual marriage" = hot gay sex for everyone because, c'mon, you know you want it.
We are, as those who have thought wisely about such things must know, creating a society in which there will be far more homosexuals than there are today, and all the unanticipated consequences of that will emerge in succession, over time. This is not a possibility, but an inevitability. For the truth, which we ignore, or pretend to ignore, is that human beings do not become homosexual any more "naturally" (in the organic sense), than they become heterosexuals. They grow within societies, within families, within norms.
Or, as a friend of mine used to say "Starve a breeder, feed a fag".
We make the grave mistake of assuming only one or two per cent of a society is "naturally homosexual". That may well be a minimum for a society in which homosexuality is discouraged, as was the case in our own. The historical evidence makes it clear that this isn't the case where homosexual relations of one kind or another are actually encouraged.
The future to which we are now striving will obviously be extremely bad news for women -- whether or not they grasp it yet. In some ways it may be exhilarating for men; but finally, the progressive loss of our ability to look a woman in the eye will diminish us men, too. For we, also, will become less human.
To sum up:
we are always capable of more than we assume
The society of men alone
We tolerate far more deviation
We are wantonly creating a new social order
We are, as those who have thought wisely about such things must know, creating a society in which there will be far more homosexuals than there are today
In some ways it may be exhilarating for men
Yeah. He's about one social constraint and three mai tais away from a pair of these and a weekend at Sullys.
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