The Gay & Lesbians have long campaigned for equality, particularly in their rights as a couple to have the same legal rights. The recognition of the cohabiting, same sex, couple to be legally married came about with the creation of the Civil Partnership in which same sex people were recognised as being married. The Civil Partnership did not have the legal baggage of defining the rights of the people being married and was much looser in defining the legal statute of each person.
In its search for equality, defining its-self as same but different, the powerful lobby representing the Gay and Lesbian community, Stonewall, under its indefatigable leader Peter Tatchel have insisted that human beings should not be treated differently from anyone else.
The problem lay in "their" need required other people and other established group's to change !
Religious biblical texts set the guidelines for what is viewed as deviant behaviour. Sodomy is clearly defined as being outside the scope of normal human behaviour and was punishable by death but slowly the secular world has changed its stance. In this country, the Wholfenden Report stated that it was not a crime between consenting adults and so we have the time old conflict of Secular opinion versus Religious dogma based on teachings that purport to be from the word of God.
How do you square the circle ? Well you can't and yesterday one saw the torment in people who spoke with all the conviction in their very being, opposed on matters of principle, opposed until hell freezeth over.
One thing that comes from all this discussion is the number of Gay & Lesbian people there are in certain specific segments of our society. As a proportion they are quite high. The Arts, actors, ballet dancers, artists and writers were where one would find, even expect to find Homosexuality. Was it the mixing of the male testosterone with the defusing sensibility of the female that enhanced their creativity ?
Now we see men and women "coming out" from all walks of life, from Business & Commerce to such a hard province as Rugby.
There were many Parliamentarians who stood to speak who were gay and who rigorously pursue the Gay & Lesbian agenda wherever they can. The lobby is powerful, not in sheer numbers but in the position of the membership. Like other minority causes, they have the fervour of feeling slighted.
Of even more interest is why do people feel this attraction for members of their own sex.
We take for granted what we would call the laws of nature, the drive to procreate and keep our species alive through offspring. There must be an evolutionary, biological set of, predetermined, interactional drives that cause the young male to be attracted to the young female, from it flows survival.
The homosexual has none of these biological pre-determinates, other than sex for sexes sake, since there can be no benefit to the species in any act they perform.
So is it the case, as with so much in our life, it is purely self-gratification. If this is the case then the homosexual should not be given any special status.
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