Posted by
TheChair on Friday, August 15, 2008 4:07:10 AM
"Ken, the Playful Walrus" has posted an interesting critique of the latest L.A. Times Prop. 8 nonsense.
http://walrus.blogtownhall.com/2008/08/14/the_%E2%80%98black_vote%E2%80%99_and_proposition_8.thtml The Times editorial tries to deflate the idea that Blacks are more likely to vote against same-sex marriage and for Prop. 8 than are Whites. The Times thinks it is showing that Blacks are not as "homophobic" as is stereotypically thought. Ken ridicules the misuse of the word "homophobia," and by implication, the misuse of the suffix, "-phobia."
Somewhere along the way, "-phobia" took on the ubiquity of "-gate," as in Watergate, Rathergate, gate, gate, gate. Any Washington scandal is a "gate." Similarly, the Left and some libertarians use -phobia against any principle, view or attitude that stands in its way. This-o-phobia, that-o-phobia. Now, homophobia. As Ken satirizes, though, "phobia" denotes irrational fear of something. Crowds, close spaces, spiders, whatever. Freaking out beyond the measure of the threat.
But nothing is or can be more
irrational than homosexual union. Biologically it doesn't stack up. Tab A does not go into Slot B. The gear isn't meant for each other; the digestive tract and reproductive systems are not complimentary. Moreover, if everybody practiced it, the human race would go extinct. Psychologically it's off-kilter, too. Nature provided the opposite sexes to make a
balanced whole, a complete family unit where its two parents hopefully mitigate each others' weaknesses and adopt each others' strengths, little by little. Men and women are insufficient but necessary components of the whole. Nature, the human race, and children cry out for this complimentary variety, not for the imbalanced and sterile sameness of homosexual union. Homosexual partners are missing something that cannot ever be fulfilled in the way they seek.
Nothing grounded in reason promotes surrender to homosexual urges, especially in the form of legal union and marriage. Nothing so irrational as homosexual union can serve as any sort of moral or practical foundation for the human family.
It is the homosexual-marriage lobby that has the true phobia, the fear of reason.