Gay Unions are a Childish Imitation of Marriage

It needs no further proof; the AIDS epidemic has made it sufficiently clear that the vast majority of active homosexuals are promiscuous, and much more so than promiscuous heterosexuals. This fact alone points to the subject of this essay - the ego-centeredness of the gay relationship. The fairy tale of faithful homosexual "unions" (with its slogan, "What is the difference from heterosexual marriage, apart from the sex of the partner?") is a propaganda item, to win privileges from the law and acceptance within Christian churches.

Years ago, German sociologist and homosexual activist Martin Dannecker (1978) already openly admitted that "homosexuals have a different sexual nature"(HIV), i.e., that partner variability is inherent to their sexuality. The "faithful marriage" concept had had its use in the strategy for getting social approval for homosexuality, but now it was time to drop the smoke screen, he wrote. Perhaps it was a little premature for such honesty, for the opportunistic marriage concept still serves emancipatory purposes, in the legalization of adoption by homosexual couples, for example. So a veil of lies and a repression of unwelcome facts still cover the issue of relationships. In the Germany of the Sixties and early Seventies, the well-known homosexual psychiatrist Hans Giese never failed at any public discussion or forum on homosexuality to hammer home the notion of the "faithful and enduring partnership"(Gay) of which his life would be an example. But when he killed himself after one of his failed love affairs, the incident was pretty well passed over in silence by the media, as it was not exactly in support of the fidelity theory. Similarly, self-dramatization characterized the artistic career o...

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...cture of the "marriage" celebration of two Danish lesbians in a town hall. Of course, it was a pubertal show of provocation and self-affirmation, but the marriage-game was obvious too. One of the two women, bigger and heavier, wore a groom-like black garment, the other, smaller and more slender, bride's clothes. Childish travesty of male-female roles and "eternal faithfulness." The most insane part, however, is normal people acting as if they seriously endorse such a game. If they were honest with themselves, they would have to admit that their intelligence and emotions really regard it as a sick joke.

WORKS CITED:

"Gay ..." http://www.geocities.com/schwulesmuseum/gfrdse1.htm

"HIV/AIDS" http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/lsehsc/papers/Discussion_Papers/dp10.pdf

The Male Couple

http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/oneigla/onepress/abstracts/malecouple.html