What the hux marriage campaign is really about.

In an article on why same-sex marriage is not a civil rights issue, the African-American Shelby Steele writes: “In the gay marriage movement, marriage is more a means than an end, a weapon against stigma. That the movement talks very little about the actual institution of marriage suggests that it is driven more by this longing to normalize homosexuality itself than by something compelling in marriage.” And Stanley Kurtz observes: “Ultimately, it may be that what lies behind the demand for same-sex marriage, whether couched in conservative or in ‘civil-rights’ terms, is a bid to erase entirely the stigma of homosexuality. That bid is Utopian, as radical homosexuals like Michael Bronski acknowledge, the stigma arises from the fundamental separation between homosexuality and reproduction, which is to say from the fundamental fact that the world is, for the overwhelming part, heterosexual. Nevertheless, in pursuit of this Utopian end, we are being asked to transform, at unknown cost to ourselves and to future generations, the central institution of our society.” Or as family researcher Peter Sprigg has said, “The logical answer would seem to be that this campaign is not really about marriage at all. Instead, it is about the desperate desire of homosexuals for society at large to affirm that homosexuality (not just homosexual individuals, but homosexual sex acts) is the full equivalent of heterosexuality in every way – morally, socially, and legally.” Reason tells us quite clearly that this can never be because homosexual sexual acts are intrinsically biologically illogical, futile, and sterile. Which is why children, with the clear-sighted logic of the playground, now use the word “gay” despectively.