Religion hung up on gay sex

It’s been sometime since I wrote so hopefully in the future the gap between my blog postings will be shorter.

I’m intrigued with the discussion from the religious folks about gay marriage. Seems like they frequently bring up the sex that gays engage in and how sex is supposed to be only between a man and a woman. And that any other type of sex isn’t right. Their argument is something like “If you allow gay marriage, the next thing you know, men will marry dogs or pigs,” or something along those lines. The issue of gay marriage doesn’t center on the two people who want to take care of each other in the minds of the evangelicals but inevitably goes towards the type of sex they have.

I’ve long held that marriage, at its core, is simply a societal contract between two people. Period. It’s two people who commit that they live as a unit in the eyes of the law and society and with that comes certain duties, obligations and rights that each of them share. It’s simply not about having sex or the type of sex they have or when they start to have sex or if they choose to have children. Through out history young people have never waited for a piece of paper before they had sex. Biological urges trump any legal or social bans on sex.

The religious right think that if they continue to harp of the sex aspect of homosexuality, the public will turn towards their view. That hasn’t happened and there are no signs that it will. The reason, I think, that the religious focus so much on the sex aspect of gay marriage is that, deep down, they know they are loosing the public on the issue of marriage equality. The keep bringing up the old canards of “it’s a choice” or “it’s unnatural” forgetting that humans are complex creatures and we all have different ways we live our lives.

Good old Mike Huckabee said recently speaking of the Supreme Courts refusal to hear lower courts over turns of gay marriage bans, “Now, this is not just about same-sex marriage, with which I frankly disagree with. I, by the way, hold the same view that President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden held until just 2 years ago - that it was inconsistent with nature and nature's law.”  Where is nature’s law with regard to marriage? Marriage is a man made construct. In times past it was more or less a business deal between two families. And check your Bible, Mike, regarding marriage between one man and ONE woman. Plenty of biblical icons had many wives and many mistresses in marriage.

The bottom line is that the religious loonies are going to loose this battle. The younger generation has more concerns than who beds with who. Gay sex is here, has been and will be.