Fault Line
Author: Andrew Comiskey and Marco Casanova
July 24, 2023
‘Gay’ selves splinter into
a ‘trans’ nation. The moral and psychological fault line underneath today’s
homosexuality widens into a rejection of one’s sex altogether. ‘LGBTQ+’ is a
spectrum of sexual disintegration that begins with misinterpreting same-sex
desire as identity and destiny.
Why then are opponents of ‘trans’
rights advancing ‘gay’ causes?
‘Gay’ Catholic Andrew
Sullivan opposes ‘trans’ education as it calls into question ‘gay’ boys intrinsic
love of other boys (
Who is Looking Out for Gay Kids?). J.K. Rowlings leads her ‘trans’ critique with a big
‘yes’ to ‘gay’ whatever as this sly tweet suggests:
‘If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction.’ (Code: own your bodies, ‘gay’ folk…).
Abigail Shrier in her
otherwise good book
Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our
Daughters alludes to ‘gay’ stuff as a morally neutral human variable across
time and culture. Even Pope Francis who recently railed against
‘gender colonialization’ (referring to the West’s exporting of gender ideology
to the world) embraces ‘gay’ persons with the platitude: ‘God loves you, He
made you gay, the pope loves you, and you must love yourself.’ (According to Juan
Carlos Cruz in his keynote for Fr. James Martin’s Outreach Conference —June 18,
2023).
Puzzling. If ‘feelings’ of
desire for one’s own sex are codified and celebrated by the culture, why
shouldn’t we abet a person’s taking on another sex altogether?
Perhaps we must go deeper
than the sum of feelings—many ambivalent—toward our own sex or the other’s. We
must ask: what is the purpose of our sexuality? Why did God make us male and
female? And what is our responsibility in the light of all our disordered
desires east of Eden?
The blueprint of our human
nature is not unknowable to us. Despite confusion in high places, the human
mind can know the truth and act in accord with it. We’re built to know the
truth of our nature, to be conversant with it and reconciled to it.
That’s why St. Paul
describes homosexual behavior as an inexcusable rebellion against the One who
made us (Romans 1:18-32). ‘To not judge’ such behavior as defying His will
while villainizing ‘trans’ efforts is nonsensical and hypocritical. ‘Gay’ liberties open the way that goes down
and down.
Pope St. John Paul II
urges us to ‘reread the language of the body in the truth’ (
Theology of the
Body 107:5). Our bodies are emblematic of the purpose and direction of our
sexuality. That’s why ‘LGBTQ+’ identification in sum represents a blurring of
that direction. It concludes something about one’s sexuality that God doesn’t
conclude.
God concludes that the
ultimate purpose of our ‘sexed’ selves is to be fruitful (Gen. 1:28). He made
us to be fruitful, and life under the rainbow bears no fruit. That begins with
‘gay’ identification and may well devolve to rejecting one’s sex altogether.
Sex is about the love that
sees beyond itself, e.g., babies! Each human person holds an inherent capacity to
be ‘co-generative’ with the other. Our sexual selves are about fathering and mothering
life, both physically and spiritually. Each of us is capable of such
fruitfulness
by our very nature.
We all possess disordered
longings. And we are each responsible before God and our fellows to reckon with
the other’s good. I can and should cultivate a fascination (
TOB 108:5)
for the other, as to become gift to him/her. This work of grace fulfills
nature’s potential.
Let us marvel at the truth
our bodies tell. And refuse identifications that confuse and sterilize lives. We
must see the whole picture, the spectrum of disintegration. That hastens with
‘gay’ pride and ends in the death of sex altogether.
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