Homosexuality Is Not Normal
By Ben
Cerruti
Why do homosexual couples who wish to establish a union between themselves
insist on having the government allow them to be endowed with the same marriage
title provided to heterosexual couples? Why are they not satisfied with
being provided the same legal provisions in the form of a title called "civil
union"? A single answer to both questions is obvious. They want
society to consider their relationship normal. The reason the government
should not concede to their demands is also obvious. Their relationship is
not normal because man and woman were put on this earth with complementary sex
organs meant to procreate the species.
My reading of the U.S. Constitution is that it guarantees freedom to individuals
provided their actions do not infringe upon the freedom of other individuals. Thus, in
regards to homosexuality, individuals with that preference are free to indulge themselves
providing their indulgence does not affect the freedoms that non-homosexuals have.
By claiming normality in their relationships homosexuals, and attempting to use the
government to legally bless their unions, they hope to indoctrinate society to accept
it as so. In this process they are affecting one of the freedoms most parents desire
to have for their children. That is to have them educated with the understanding of
homosexuality that they consider to be self evident. Granted that people have abused
this basic tenet of nature in many ways, including homosexuality, this does not alter
what should be seen by any rational mind as the fact that homosexuality is not normal.
As the Encyclopedia Britannica so well states, "In the biological
evolutionary scale, the more complex the species, the longer the offspring is
dependent on its mother for survival from the time of birth to maturity. Human
beings, at the top of the evolutionary scale, require the most time of all
species to reach maturity. This imposes increased duties on human parents for
the care of their children. The best chance for the successful development of
the child into adulthood occurs when both parents are deeply involved throughout
the period of child rearing. Hence, marriage lays the foundation for the
traditional nuclear family, whose basic constituents are a mother, a father, and
a child and which is the primary unit for ensuring the procreation of human
beings and the preservation of their societies."
It is troubling that public schools have moved to force acceptance of the homosexual
life style as a normal one. Given the tacit approval of society, the strong sex drive
in teenagers may already have led some of them, who would not previously have done so,
into the homosexual arena. This practice promotes a way of life that many Americans feel
weakens the family structure that history aptly demonstrates is the moral backbone of
a society. That is why many of us feel that public schools should leave the teaching of
subject matter relating to social issues to the parents. They should stick to teaching
essentially only the 3 R’s. Better yet, it would be well to consider turning over
government schools to the private sector so that education will no longer be politicized.
This is not to say that we should not advocate to all our citizens, whether
they be adults or children, to respect the rights of others. Most citizens
who believe as I do regarding what is a normal life style also are law abiding
citizens and do respect the right of anyone, in our open society, to live the
type of life they desire as long as it does not affect the right of anyone else
to do the same. However, to disregard the obvious and give in to those who
in their own selfishness would wantonly alter society to suit themselves would
destroy the idea of a traditional nuclear family and send our society in a very
dangerous hedonistic direction.