Christians, Homosexuality, And the Same-Sex Marriage Question (Essay‪)‬

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] HUMANITY HAS a curious relationship with sex. It obviously enjoys it--there are nearly seven billion people in the world and not all that output could be the fruit of duty. Yet, for a practice so widespread and frequent, its morality is surprisingly controversial. Given that the two strongest urges in the animal kingdom are those for food and reproduction, it's also mysterious that one should receive all the moral attention. Religions are expert at constructing morals from nature and deriving values from facts. And what could be more natural than sex, which in most of the animal kingdom is indiscriminately performed? Why is this aspect of nature so hedged about with limitation? Isn't it true that in both consumption and reproduction, life is at stake--in the former case that of the individual, in the latter of the species? And that both practices naturally combine a survival requirement with pleasant sensations? Just as with the consumption of food, sex organs provide sensory stimulation. It is beyond question that without these sensory incentives--if we were devoid of taste buds or bereft of sexual drive--far fewer of us would eat well enough and still fewer would bother with sex. There is therefore a natural rationality in the coalescence of function and feeling.