Homosexuality

I'm a heterosexual man. An attractive woman turns my head. An attractive man does not. Why? Because that's what my body tells me to do. I didn't take Heterosexuality 101 in grade school so that when I hit puberty I'd be attracted to girls. I was built to be heterosexual.

Of course, we know that people vary due to genetic and developmental forces. We also know that those variations affect our physical and mental abilities. Some variations produce mild effects, such as a preference for a particular color or spiciness in foods. Some are more pronounced, such as photographic memories, predisposition towards addiction, great physical prowess and so on. No matter the intensity, they all come to us unbidden. We don't take Addiction 101 or Memory 311 in college. Our basic physical and intellectual makeup are conferred upon us by circumstance.

That brings us to homosexuality. It is a builtin sexual desire for members of the same sex. It is an instinct that is conferred upon certain people by circumstance. They don't take Homosexuality 101 to learn how to become homosexuals. They have a sincere attraction to people who are the same sex. So what's the big deal?

Well, let's take a look at what sexuality is all about.

Sexuality is about propagation of the species. That's why we have it. That is sex's raison de etre. People take the raw act of creating new members of our species and fill it out to be much more complete. We bond as husbands and wives because that is the fulfillment of the act of love that is most advantageous to the family when they create new life. Without the bond, men and women would separate after sex, just like animals do, leaving the women to deal with the birth of the child. Clearly nobody would do that, because we're so much better than the animals. Right?

That little jab at sex outside of marriage is made possible because people separate their animal instinct for procreative sex from the human instinct for that loving bond. In a similar way, homosexuality seems to make sense because it has everything that a healthy relationship seeks except for the creation of a child. That's why homosexuality fools so many people into believing that it's a healthy thing - it looks a lot like a healthy thing.

It's not healthy because it excludes the possibility of creating life. Remember the very purpose of sex? To create new life? Homosexuality precludes that possibility. Oh, we might be able to artificially accomplish something to permit homosexual couples to physically create a new life, but their sexual congress isn't going to be the source of that life.

Well, who says sex has to create new life? It's not in anybody's operating manual about how to be human. Heterosexual couples use birth control to do pretty much the same thing; they take the possibility of creating new life out of the act of sex, retaining only the physical bond and possibly the emotional bond between the couple. It's just like homosexuality, and it probably covers the majority of the population in America.

To understand it, I'll use the Olympics as a metaphor.

Imagine if athletes came from all over the world to assemble in one city. They were all incredibly well-trained and capable. Fans flooded in as well, buying up hot dogs, program guides, painting their faces with their national flags and hooting and hollering to support thier athletes. They all assembled in the olympic stadium. The runners are at the starting line. The official raises his hand to start the race. A hush falls over the stadium. Then everyone goes home.

The fundamental element to the Olympics is the competition. It's why the athletes trained. It's what the fans came to see. Oh, they also got a chance to meet people from all over the world, see a new city, try new foods, be involved in the sheer experience of the Olympics. But without the competition, there are no Olympics. The meetings might continue, but they would turn into something that isn't the Olympic experience.

So it is with human sexuality. Without the very purpose behind sexuality as an integral part of the act, it is incomplete in a very fundamental way. That incompleteness causes our perception of the act to change and restructure. The changes take place slowly as the new perceptions are institutionalized for later generations. We know what happens when heterosexuals forget about the fundamental purpose of sex when we look around and see so many families lacking fathers. We'll learn in the coming decades what perils are part of institutionalized homosexuality.

Homosexuality is an unfortunate flaw in the genetic and developmental forces that go into our makeup. It becomes part of the instincts of an apparently non-trivial fraction of our population, and we are a planet of people largely dominated by our instincts. If I were to present this argument to a homosexual, I would appear to be chopping at the foundation of their existence. Imagine if I were to tell you that heterosexuality was unhealthy for you. That it was leading you to an unhappy end. If you thought that anything could come of my claim, you'd be pretty motivated to shove that argument down my throat. That's how strong these particular instincts are.

But that's all they are; instincts. There are healthy ones and there are unhealthy ones. Homosexuality is an unhealthy instinct because it attempts to reinforce the notion that sex devoid of the possibility of the creation of life is a healthy attitude. It is the same attitude that encourages the use of contraception and, ultimately, abortion.

In time, technology will give us two avenues that people can walk down. The first is for homosexuals to have children. The second is to reset the instincts of a homosexual to those of a heterosexual. The path that we choose will tell us much about ourselves.