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To: Salvation; sitetest
Salvation, the author is actually supporting the essentialism of male/female AGAINST the false essentialism of heterosexual/homosexual. In other words, he says that straight/gay is not the essence of who you are ("born that way!") but male/female IS.

Michael Hannon notes that public moralists "were forced also to trade the robust natural law tradition for the recently constructed standard of “psychiatric normality...” He clearly sees this as a mistake: he wishes they had stood their ground and defended "natural law," which of course recognizes the natural binary of "male and female".

Hannon says that even the radical queer theory academics like Jonathan Ned Katz, (a radical-left historian of sexuality) now argues that "the heterosexual/homosexual binary is not in nature, but is socially constructed, therefore deconstructable."

So Hannon is saying the same thing as Katz, except for radically different reasons. Katz says the gay/straight binary should be dumped because we are all a LOT kinkier than just two choices. We're polymorphously perverse! Three, four, five, a hundred sexualities! Hannon, in contrast, says that the false gay/straight binary should be abandoned, because the true, natural binary is that we are all "male or female".

Hannon is defending Natural Law and teleology --- the opposite of what you initially supposed.

55 posted on 03/03/2014 10:06:42 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Woe to those who call good evil, and call evil good.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I saw that after re-reading the entire text. Thanks.


57 posted on 03/03/2014 10:20:16 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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