The sexes

A possible exchange:

Alter: So why do you say there’s a liberal tyranny in America today? So far as I can see you can pretty much do or say what you want.

Ego: But am I free to live the way someone ought to live?

Alter: What do you mean? Whatever you

More on the mantra about the absence of any relation between homosexuality and pedophilia.

Since homosexuality is a topic these days I thought I’d sketch some objections to it:

1. The functional objection, from the necessity of sexual morality for a tolerable life in society. Acceptance of conduct grossly at odds with traditional sexual morality disrupts a system of habits, attitudes and ideals that gives male/female relationships the stability

Sorry for continuing with the topic of sexual abnormality, but it’s one the world is presenting to us just now. Also, it’s difficult to analyze adequately and so has some intellectual interest. Here’s a worthwhile article, “The paradox of the postmodern pedophile”—all other aspects of normality are being defined out of existence, so why … More ...

Additional thoughts on “gay marriage” provoked by a discussion I started, in connection with the Rauch piece, in the Atlantic discussion forum on Politics and Society:

Comments about “Judeo-Christian morality” are silly in this connection. The limitation of marriage to male/female unions is hardly peculiar to Judaism and Christianity. It was also the uniform