2) On the Issue of Homosexuality: the Rules of Relating

Relationships are more immutable than modern people like to give off. The fact of the matter is that there are certain, largely unspoken "rules of relating" which most people assume to come intuitively. You do not relate to your mother the same way you do your sister, nor do you relate to your father as you do your brother, nor your friends as to anyone in your family. Further investigation reveals that these unspoken rules of relating are for our own good. To relate to your mother the way you relate to your wife (I speak from the son's perspective) would be at best awkward, at worst perverse. To relate to a mentor as you would a younger brother would deprive him of his due respect and deprive you of the potential life lessons that only someone in the mentorship position can provide. The rules of relating, therefore, cannot be haphazardly accused of "limiting our freedoms" or "limiting our love". It is through their guidelines that we are able to relate to people meaningfully whatsoever. You might say that it is only through following these rules that we are "free" to relate to anyone at all.

I'd like to remind the reader here that I do not intend to provide a discourse on exactly what these rules are. Only a few of the rules of relating will be discussed towards the end of this essay. For now, I content myself with the assertion merely that there are rules to be found, and that they are to be obeyed for everyone's good.

For method's sake, I'd like to make another point that is more common sense than any. Relationships diverge in type because there are objective differences between people. You do not relate to your father the way you relate to a male mentor because half of your genetic material was derived from one and not the other. You relate to an older friend differently than you do a younger friend because one is older and one is younger. You relate to people differently because people are different.

Thus far, my examples have submitted a few categories of difference between people, including age (younger versus older), blood (family versus friend), law (married versus unmarried), etc. I'd here like to submit another category on which different people, and therefore different relationships emerge. That category is gender.

This is really the snag in the argument, for the modern sexual agenda is contingent upon the axiom that there is no distinction between gender; no psychological or emotional distinction, anyway. It is permissible for a man to have sex with a woman or a man, say the secular progressives, because there is no meaningful distinction between the two genders. Is this true? I'll need to consider that question at length.