Hate the Sin; Love the Sinner

Gay marriage is not about equality and not about the treatment of homosexuals. It is about the meaning, nature, and purpose of sex acts. The hegemonic liberal consensus is that such acts are entirely unrelated to procreation but intended for the romantic/physical union and satisfaction of two individuals, involving exclusivity and ideally longevity. By such logic, gay marriage is a right and a healthy development. Sodomy is the moral equivalent of the unitive marital act. This is what our culture, in a million implicit and explicit ways, will instruct our young. To dissent is homophobic and hateful. All previous popes and preachers, martyrs and saints, even Jesus and Joseph and Mary were unhappily homophobic and prejudiced. On the other hand, the view of all traditional religions and societies, proclaimed explicitly and passionately by the Catholic Church, is that sex acts are intrinsically oriented to new life, that the complementary union of man and woman fructifies and culminates in children. By this logic, sex acts that are intentionally sterile (contraception, masturbation, oral, anal and manual intercourse) are intrinsically futile, pathological, toxic and sinful. This applies to everyone, equally, hetero and homo, male and female, married and single. We see that there is a straight line from contraception to gay marriage. When our culture went contraceptive in the 1960s, gay marriage (along with abortion, serial monogomy, co-habitation and the list goes on) became inevitable. Acceptance of contraception requires validation of gay sex. The logic is inexorable. Contraception is so widely assumed that it cannot even be discussed. So there is, for our society, an inevitability to legal gay marriage. The Church probably cannot win this Culture War. What the Church can do is strengthen its own counter-culture: family, religious life, the sacraments, and service of the least...the path our new Holy Father is blazing! In the long run, the cult of futile, sterile sex will disintegrate on its own, as surely as happened to the Nazis and the Commies. Our culture of fecundity, life and family will flourish, regardless of broader cultural and legal developments. Demographics alone will ensure this. The future belongs to the fertile: folks like observant Catholics, devout Muslims, and Orthodox Jews. Consider the later: they are increasing prodigiously while secular Jews are cohabitating, contracepting, aborting, inter-marrying and divorcing. Liberals don't know how to propagate as they are addicted to sterile sex and technological "reproduction." It is good for us to relax a little about our dismal political, cultural and legal situation... and exult in the richness of our family and Church life!