10 Non-Religious Arguments Against Same-Sex Marriage: Parts 1-2
July 28, 2006 · By Tom Cerber
Anthony Esolen at Mere Comments starts an argument. Quick summary:
The legalization of homosexual “marriages� would enshrine the sexual revolution in law.***
It would, in particular, enshrine in law the principle that sexual intercourse is a matter of personal fulfillment, with which the society has nothing to do.
Joe Knippenberg comments.
[...] While careless readers might argue that these arguments have little to do with SSM, I think Esolen’s critique is broader, against broader ideology that sets up the ideal of what Harvey Mansfield calls the gender-neutral society. Gender neutrality means that people are simply free-floating self-contained Gnostic selves questing for “personal fulfulment.” Such is the import of Esolen’s argument that homosexual chastity is meaningless because the self defines itself by its action. Or as Machiavelli would put it, the identity is found in the “effectual truth” of the matter. That broader ideological context makes things like SSM possible. Put another way, that broader ideological context makes marriage meaningless. Here are Esolen’s arguments 1 & 2 and our comments on those. [...]
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