All That Is Asked
The most obvious drawback of marrying someone of the same sex is that the partners themselves can't produce children. That's a big frowner for the Force that regulates all life on Earth.
The Life Force doesn't ask that much of us.
The Life Force doesn't require us to be virtuous, nor does it attack us for being villainous. The Life Force doesn't care whether or not we're smart or stupid. The Life Force is not concerned with what color we are, or how tall or how short, or how fat or how thin, or how strong or how weak. The Life Force doesn't give one diddly damn about how affluent or poor we are. The Life Force is not interested in the glitter and abundance of our ranches, our houses, our cars, our boats, our coin collections, our stocks, or any other of our possessions. The Life Force is indifferent to the state of our happiness. The Life Force has absolutely no interest in the U.S., Andorra, Israel, Denmark, Japan, Botswana, democracy, capitalism, communism, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, pro football, Britney Spears, Halle Berry, global warming, freedom, or the price of gasoline. The Life Force couldn't care less about our achievements and our failures.
The Life Force IS interested in whether or not we're healthy and whether or not we're attactive to the opposite sex, but not even in those respects is its interest overwhelming, judging by the surprising number of exceptions that it makes.
The only thing that the Life Force really demands of us is that we reproduce -- and it's obsessive in that respect.
In that light maybe it can be said that same-sex marriage has one good result. The Life Force and human beings have worked together TOO well, and now the planet is badly threatened by the myriad problems caused by overpopulation, and same-sex marriage works against that trend.
But that "contribution" will always be just a drop in the bucket. The Life Force always holds in reserve far more effective solutions for that situation.
The Life Force doesn't ask that much of us.
The Life Force doesn't require us to be virtuous, nor does it attack us for being villainous. The Life Force doesn't care whether or not we're smart or stupid. The Life Force is not concerned with what color we are, or how tall or how short, or how fat or how thin, or how strong or how weak. The Life Force doesn't give one diddly damn about how affluent or poor we are. The Life Force is not interested in the glitter and abundance of our ranches, our houses, our cars, our boats, our coin collections, our stocks, or any other of our possessions. The Life Force is indifferent to the state of our happiness. The Life Force has absolutely no interest in the U.S., Andorra, Israel, Denmark, Japan, Botswana, democracy, capitalism, communism, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, pro football, Britney Spears, Halle Berry, global warming, freedom, or the price of gasoline. The Life Force couldn't care less about our achievements and our failures.
The Life Force IS interested in whether or not we're healthy and whether or not we're attactive to the opposite sex, but not even in those respects is its interest overwhelming, judging by the surprising number of exceptions that it makes.
The only thing that the Life Force really demands of us is that we reproduce -- and it's obsessive in that respect.
In that light maybe it can be said that same-sex marriage has one good result. The Life Force and human beings have worked together TOO well, and now the planet is badly threatened by the myriad problems caused by overpopulation, and same-sex marriage works against that trend.
But that "contribution" will always be just a drop in the bucket. The Life Force always holds in reserve far more effective solutions for that situation.
posted by Carl (aka Sofarsogoo) | 4:42 PM
1 Comments:
Carl, people in same-sex relationships can reproduce just fine. They just can't reproduce with each other. Considering the number of gay couples I know who have kids, typically the biological children of one or the other partner and some third party, I don't think you have much of a case that gay couples can or will reduce the population.
What humans call gay sex is actually very common in a large number of species. And in some species, only a very small number of individuals participate directly in reproduction. There are a number of scientific conjectures on why these exist, but there is no disputing that they do. Gayness is as natural as straightness, in the sense that it occurs in nature. Only the frequency is different, for what I trust are obvious reasons.
Back to humans. I am fortunate among straight males to have known a large number of gay men and women, in part because of my many years in the performing arts. (I speculate that gays congregate in the arts primarily because of the degree of acceptance they find there.) Some of them became friends to the point that they were willing to discuss the matter with me. Every individual who did so... every single one... said that they knew they were gay from early adolescence, as indeed I knew I was straight from my earliest stirrings. I have no reason to doubt their truthfulness, and no reason to believe that your Life Force has any intrinsic biological prejudice against same-sex partnerships, human or otherwise.
I hope you find some gay people with whom you can discuss the matter fully and openly. I think you may find some surprises in store.
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