(In Australia, as in the US, there is ‘a debate’ going on about whether homosexuals should have the right to marry and have/adopt children. In Australia, this has come to a head around a proposal for a plebiscite which is currently being debated in the Federal Parliament.

The proponents for ‘marriage equality’ oppose it as they see it as ‘a divisive’ tactic by ‘conservative’ (traditionalist) politicians looking for an opportunity to attack the homosexual lobby. The traditionalists are trying to use it as a platform to put their case in what up til now has been a very one sided and protracted marketing and lobbying campaign….)

“As an axiomatic, non negotiable and unshakable article of faith, I believe that whether it actually delivers on it or not, marriage is overwhelmingly a reproductive engagement between life creation partners whose primary business is mentoring and modelling that relationship to their offspring, by defining to them daily, over a reproductive cycle, what it means to be men and women, and mothers and fathers, so that in their turn, those offspring can pass on those qualities to their own successors.”

“When I say ‘not so sexually straight’ I am making it clear that reproductive behaviour and the male and female biological machinery that makes it possible, is front and centre purposed for the reproduction of life, regardless of whether or not that is the immediate outcome. Everything else is a mistake and/or diversion that damages, distorts or diminishes the vitality of the real deal; the reproductive commons.”

“If I were a non straight bro, I would be heeding the already ominous signs of coming civilizational convulsion and adopting a defensive posture that would minimize the potential damage from adverse shifts.

I would not be assuming business-as-usual and the continuing libertarian humanist hegemony over our system of social administration. I would be focussing on entrenching the most sustainable gains that have been made over the last 70 years and looking to buttress them with conservative alliances that concentrate on respectful mutual non interference and benign tolerance from the dominant reproductive society, for a marginal off message minority.

Support from that quarter will be absolutely vital if things ‘go bad’, when communities divide, all the bets come off, the stakes become enormous and everyone starts to play for keeps” …

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Christopher Nagle, writing.com