Four factors that seemed to make gay marriage inevitable...

On the “Inevitability” of Gay Marriage

By Howard Kainz 

In 2012, I submitted to a magazine under Catholic auspices an article entitled, “Why Gay Marriage is Inevitable.” The editor responded that he found it of interest, but that “it would be imprudent for [us] to publish the piece. It risks undermining our friends who are actively opposing these efforts. And even if their efforts do not eventually prevail, political organizing at this point may yield benefits later. . . .I’m conjecturing here about a future I know little about, one that ought to be inconceivable, but I am sure that we can’t publish this piece if we’re to keep faith with our friends.”

The Lord has not given me the gift of prophecy, and I realized that my Jeremiad was possibly premature. As even Isaiah, Jonah, et al. sometimes stated, the Hebrew equivalent of “political organizing” might help avert ominous events that seemed inevitable.

So I tweaked my piece, focusing on four factors that seemed to make gay marriage inevitable, but were all subject to reformulations that could alter the probabilities. A column on the issue appeared inTCT a year ago. There I discussed:

1) the fact that without any scientific basis, homosexuals were thought to be “born that way” – thus instigating a possible civil rights issue;

2) homosexuality, which had been traditionally considered a psychiatric disorder, was declassified by the American Psychiatric Association in 1973, as no longer deviant, but normalized;

3) the vast prevalence of a contraceptive mentality, which, since it approved intentionally non-procreative sex, could not with any logical consistency find fault with the equally non-procreative sexual liaisons of homosexuals; and

4) the “demotion” of the Sacrament of Matrimony to a civil contract on par with other civil contracts, in the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation.
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