Venner’s preoccupation with the procreative aspect of humanity (Genesis 1:28) appears (I say appears, because I have not read him regularly, and stand ready to be corrected) to have left him less appreciative of the other primary aspect of marriage, that is, companionship. (Genesis 2:18) It is this aspect of what is clearly identified as marriage in the Genesis text that is crucial to the understanding of marriage as the analogy of Christ and the Church. Venner, as I read him - and, again, I readily admit, I have not read him extensively at all - is preoccupied with the earthly, not spiritual, aspects of marriage, and seems not to appreciate the greater analogy of marriage being a reflection of the relationship of Christ and the the church, bridegroom and bride.
If this is true, it would go a long way in explaining his resort to suicide as an answer to the assault on marriage that is so common today. One wrong does not address another wrong! In other words, he was - sadly! - reading not too much into marriage, but too little, not appreciating fully the divorcement between God and man that has been result of man’s fall into sin.
Yes, but it is the procreative aspect of marriage that makes homosexual companionship, however comforting it might be to a gay couple, nothing like marriage. It, further, shows that far from being a caprice of sexual deviance between two consenting adults, the gay "marriage" fosters a truly criminal environment into which adopted children will be plunged:
Every child has the right to know where he comes from, who is his father and who is his mother
I have not read Venner till his tragic death, -- so his geste had the intended effect on me anyway, -- but it is becoming clearer with everything of his that I read, that him mindset is pagan. Here is the sacrifice of self on the altar that belongs to Christ alone but is to him a testament of the genius of the French, the longing for "ancestral religion", the allusions to the Iliad, and, of course, the apparent inability to place his act in the context of sin that it is.