The heterosexual model of sexual relationships just doesn’t fit the homosexual lifestyle
Justin Raimondo has written a provocative article at Taki’s Magazine attacking the “egalitarian” foundations of the push for homosexual “marriage”:
[The central argument against "gay marriage"] is that it is based on a heterosexual model of sexual and emotional relationships, one that just doesn’t fit the gay lifestyle. The whole idea of getting gays hitched is derivative of the central error of egalitarianism, the counterintuitive conception of human beings as being “equal” and, therefore, interchangeable—and therefore one-size-fits-all.
From his perspective, the liberal left’s attempt to legitimize homosexual “marriage” is really a concerted effort to use the state to elide the fundamental difference between homosexuals and heterosexuals, thereby destroying a distinctively “homosexual culture” with roots all the way back in Ancient Greece.
The very phrase “gay marriage” is an oxymoron. Homosexuality, after all, is really all about the avoidance of marriage – and the responsibility of raising a family. It is the embrace of sensuality for its own sake, as an instrument of pure pleasure rather than procreation. (…)
Far from arguing that homosexuality was the equivalent of heterosexuality, the ancient advocates of same-sex love emphasized the great gulf that separates the two. Rather than aping heterosexuals and relentlessly lobbying for the “right” to marry, Plato’s crowd sought to distance themselves from the mundane and underscore their singularity . . .
Related:
“Gay — the new straight” — I don’t think so!
LA Times, Don Kilhefner, 12.5.07