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Re: Thank you!!

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I am particularly glad that you, seeming to come from what one might call the opposite side of the debate, nevertheless found this article so full of interest. As I indicated in my response to dreamer_marie, I do not feel that Mr.Lee's experience is as fully representative of the life of every homosexual as he seems to imply; some homosexual men of my acquaintance disliked the whole homosexual "scene", on account exactly of its meat-market nature. Nonetheless, I do not think it is wrong to suggest that if you are to have a homosexual environment at all, then that environment is bound to be as squalid and as loaded with brute sex drive as he describes it. The reason for that is that people are brought together by their taste in sex. Sex and the greed for sex will be in the air; everyone will be conscious that everyone else is measuring them up; everyone will be reminded of sex, much more than they would be in an ordinary environment. I do not think that a gay environment can be created that will not quickly degenerate into a bathhouse.

As for homosexual marriage, being Catholic I am naturally against the idea. I have debated the Catholic doctrine of sexuality and marriage elsewhere - http://fpb.livejournal.com/84324.html and http://fpb.livejournal.com/128426.html. I have, however, until recently, been in favour of civil partnerships for the usual reasons - the gay partner left without home or place when his partner dies, etc. Having seen it in practice, I am no longer so sure. It is clear, for instance, that Elton John used his typically showy arrangement to promote the idea that what was going on was really and truly a marriage (and let off a few cheap shots at the Church). The media went with him all the way. It worries me that, whatever distinction the laws may put in place, in practice people will come to see civil partnerships as no different from marriage - and that I would find unacceptable.