Is sodomy reasonable?
In his new book, Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything , Robert Reilly poses this question: “Is sodomy reasonable ?” He believes this question can only be answered by enquiring into the Nature of sexual acts. He frames his arguments rejecting homosexual behavior, not persons, and same-sex marriage in terms of reason, Nature and the teleology of sex. Reilly’s thesis is that there are “two fundamental views of reality.” One views things as having a Nature that is teleological or ordered to “ends that inhere in their essence and make them what they are” and have “inbuilt purposes.” The other view sees things as having no Nature or ends in themselves, “but only what we make them to be according to our wills and desires.” The former view leads to the “primacy of reason,” and the latter inclines to the “primacy of will” which allows for anything. “This is what the same-sex marriage debate is really about - the Nature of reality it...