A recent California Supreme decision constitutionally mandating same sex marriage in that state prompted me to supplement
my initial article on same sex marriage with this one. I would like to begin by restating five key points made in the first article:
1. Homosexuality is intrinsically disordered and is certainly not a "normal variant" within the human species - whether chosen or not!
2. Acceptance of homosexuality as "normal" does an enormous disservice to society by directly attacking the traditional family.
3. Acceptance of homosexuality as "normal" does an enormous disservice to homosexuals themselves, notwithstanding the placebo effect that is temporarily brought about.
4. Same sex marriage is the epitome of social and legal acceptance.
5. The trend towards "normalization" of homosexuality will probably continue.
It is the fifth point that I would like to initially revisit together with my reasons for that prediction. Those reasons include:
1. The continuous efforts of a completely dedicated gay activist community which is well organized and well funded that devotes 24/7 to accomplish its goal to "normalize" homosexuality and the very apex of such normalization is, of course, same sex marriage.
2. The extremely effective propaganda of the gay activist community, in this age of political correctness, encouraged by a sympathetic liberal media which, in combination, creates the context for the judicial activists to assert themselves i.e. the supreme courts of Massachusetts and California being examples.
The main features of the propaganda, in turn, involve two essential distortions of the truth:
First, discrimination based on sexual orientation is akin to discrimination based on sex or race. All such biases, the propagandist teaches, stand in opposition to equality and are rooted in prejudice largely resting on outdated religious morality.
A classic example of the point made in the last paragraph is found in recent commentary of the California Supreme Court decision by Michael C. Dorf, a professor of law at Columbia University, in his article found in FindLaw dated May 19, 2008. He is quoted as follows:
"Should the voters of California respond by overriding the decision by ballot initiative, they will not in any way prove the court erred. It will show only that the voters have sullied the noble principle of equality with an exception rooted in prejudice"
Presumably, according to Dorf, such voters would be legal morons and bigots. By logical extension, he would have to include all the legislators and congressmen who have voted in favor of "Defense of Marriage" statutes on both the state and federal level or who have sponsored constitutional amendments to ban same sex marriage as ratified by the voters in numerous states and may yet be done by the voters of California as early as November of this year. Dorf would award the "Bigot Badge" to all of them. The bigot badge is, in fact, the most powerful weapon utilized by the gay activist to silence opposition.
Second, sexual orientation is congenital, whether heterosexual or homosexual (and perhaps bisexual), and not the product of choice. Homosexuality is no more abnormal than being born left-hand dominate as opposed to right-hand dominate - even though there are statistically fewer lefties.
The California and Massachusetts supreme courts have now both held that "marriage" must be redefined to comport with the constitutional requirements of equality demanded by their respective state constitutions - at least according to the majority of the justices on each court. Both decisions were split decisions. In California, however, that supreme court went one step further and placed "sexual orientation" into the same suspect classification as race and sex. Their ruling represent a triumph for the first example of propaganda described above.
In effect sex, race and sexual orientation are
all forms of improper discrimination. What such a ruling really does is to enormously cheapen the legitimate struggle of people of color and women in their past and continuing struggle for social and legal equality in this country. To equate an intrinsically disordered relationship in which two men (or women) unite to feed on each others pathology to racial or sexual differences in the human species is a perversion of truth. Racial and sexual differences are true normal variations. Homosexuality is abnormal - yesterday, today and tomorrow. It's that simple.
The defining issue in this whole debate, in face, should always begin with this question:
"Is homosexuality normal or abnormal?"
As incomprehensible as it may be to the gay activist, their allies and those duped by their propaganda - the answer, as already suggested, is that homosexuality is abnormal - regardless of its cause. To again borrow a phrase from the Vatican on the subject - homosexuality is an intrinsically disordered state. It is abnormal, dysfunctional and pathological. As I stated in
my first article, no one should ever morally judge the person but rather only the conduct. We all have baggage. Lightening that baggage, however, never begins by denying its existence or pretending that it is something that it is not!
The placebo of "normalization" eases the short term pain of the homosexual but prolongs the long term agony of this and future generations of those afflicted with it. The trend of "normalization" frustrates the search for the cause and cure of homosexuality. Social and legal acceptance of homosexuality is tantamount to spitting in the face of a sick person. Is that the correct Christian response? No! Acceptance of the homosexual is right but the accommodation of homosexuality is wrong. What would Christ do?! Bless the union of two men united in holy matrimony? No, again! Christ would heal them and that is precisely what we must lovingly do ourselves.
California Supreme Court Decision (May 15, 2008) 
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