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I've been turning this over in my mind for a week or two. It strikes me as sound, I don't recall having encountered it anywhere, and I feel that it should be employed.
What have the forces against marriage equality to say on the subject of persons who have changed their sex surgically, many of whom have never identified themselves as anything other than heterosexual?
Let's work with the case of a young man who grew up feeling that he was a girl born in the wrong body. He doesn't see himself as gay, and through surgery and hormone treatments he becomes a straight woman.
Is this woman to be denied her right to marry? If so, on what grounds? Our deniers have to answer that question, bearing in mind that we're discussing someone who is not and has never been homosexual.
And if she IS permitted her right to marriage, the granting of that permission admits and underscores that the criteria dividing those who can marry from those who can not are organs and hormones, rather than souls or hearts and minds.
Every religion I'm aware of teaches that the body is a temporary vessel for the critical intangible.
Anyone believing that and fighting the legalization of same sex marriage must explain why the question of that right should be decided by our temporary flesh.
Your thoughts, please.
What have the forces against marriage equality to say on the subject of persons who have changed their sex surgically, many of whom have never identified themselves as anything other than heterosexual?
Let's work with the case of a young man who grew up feeling that he was a girl born in the wrong body. He doesn't see himself as gay, and through surgery and hormone treatments he becomes a straight woman.
Is this woman to be denied her right to marry? If so, on what grounds? Our deniers have to answer that question, bearing in mind that we're discussing someone who is not and has never been homosexual.
And if she IS permitted her right to marriage, the granting of that permission admits and underscores that the criteria dividing those who can marry from those who can not are organs and hormones, rather than souls or hearts and minds.
Every religion I'm aware of teaches that the body is a temporary vessel for the critical intangible.
Anyone believing that and fighting the legalization of same sex marriage must explain why the question of that right should be decided by our temporary flesh.
Your thoughts, please.
