Posted by
adigirl on Friday, October 24, 2008 1:29:53 AM
yesterday night, i came across a show on bbc america called "brothers and sisters in love". i found it fascinating, if not disturbing. initially, i was watching purely out of interest on the subject. then i started to connect the dots between genetic sexual attraction (as they phrased it in the program) and gay marriage. the synapses in my brain fired!
i thought back, again, to the antecdotes my liberal friends had fed me "no one has the right to tell you who to love or marry" to which i had nothing but my own religious doctrine and, what i felt, common sense which rendered me unsuccessful in any arguments against gay marriage.
however, there seems to be a parallelism between this type of sibling love and gay marriage. it is a grievous crime against humanity to participate in sexual activities with family--that is why it's illegal (in America, anyway). how do we explain this, though? my way of understanding it, without vaguely calling it "taboo", is to simply say it's unnatural. which is to say i don't believe humans could continue pro-creating in this fashion. i believe our blood lines would be completely askew and healthy reproduction might be lost. Just because they love each other, doesn't make it morally right to engage in these activities. i believe the same holds true for gay people. although i do feel sorry for them, i do not agree with their lifestyle. i believe it is unnatural because our bodies are not made in a fashion that is convenient for homosexual sex. if a gay couple wants to have children, they have to seek out a 3rd party in order to complete this--which makes reproduction the "old-fashioned" way obsolete. i realize these people think they're in love. however, it is my personal belief that at some point in their lives they were harmed sexually. maybe they were not molested but theri sense of sexuality was missplaced and hence they have become confused. in both cases, i think what they are doing is morally inapt and also, from an evolutionary standpoint, unnatural.