"Disordered Appetites"

Ran across another anti-gay screed, this one from a Catholic, at Andrew Sullivan. (It says something that Sullivan has become a Place.) At the risk of boring you, I just want to point out once more the intellectual and logical poverty in these sorts of things. Here's just the first bit of the quote from Sullivan. (I'm not going to link to the article; Sullivan has a link and you can follow it if you want, but I've read it, it's the same sort of self-referential junk we'd expect, completely lacking any contact with objective reality.)

Some maintain that same sex attraction is a genetic predisposition. This is disputed. Even if it were the case, that does not give homosexual activity any more of a claim to being given a special civil rights status. Should we really give disordered appetites civil rights status under the law?

OK: four sentences, two huge holes.

1. The genetic basis of homosexuality is disputed. That doesn't mean it's wrong. The question is, who is disputing it, and on what basis? Granted, this is an opinion piece -- it would have to be, since I doubt that the author, Keith Fournier, could find any factual basis for anything he says, outside of Catholic dogma. The problem remains: opinions based on junk are worthless.

2. Disordered appetites. Another completely subjective and self-referential piece of garbage. (Sorry, but I don't feel like being any nicer about Fournier's ideas than he is being about me and my "appetites." You should all know by now what I think of the Catholic Church's hypocrisy when it comes to moral dicta, and especially the double-talk surrounding the Churcn's position on homosexuality, and frankly, to call a bit of doctrine "Natural Law" when it has nothing to do with nature is more than a little arrogant.)

I'd also like to point out that I don't particularly agree with the idea that we must prove that same-sex attraction is innate before we are worthy of full citizenship. Sorry -- the overwhelming majority of us, like the overwhelming majority of any other group, are responsible, law-abiding, normal people who basically want to be left alone to play the hand we've been dealt as best we can. Frankly, no one ever gave me a choice on who I was going to be drawn to and who I was going to love. That's just the way it is, and frankly, as far as my civil rights go, it should be irrelevant.

It's another piece of drivel, beginning with the almost-required declaration of victimhood and citing the words of a man who facilitated child molesters for decades as moral authority.

Empty noise.