Same Sex Marriage

Sex may be a component of that relationship, but it is not the leading factor like it is with homosexuals.
             But gay and lesbian couples could not disagree more. They claim their bonds of love go just as deep as heterosexual bonds. That, in fact, they are just like anyone else as far as their devotion and commitment to the vows of marriage. It does not take both male and female genitalia to create a loving, devoted relationship. All it requires is the commitment from two people, gender notwithstanding, who have each other's best interests at heart. From that point on, it does not matter if the couple is that of two men or two women.
             One particular young man, when faced with his own homosexuality, questioned how he could be a member of the Catholic Church and still be gay. After searching his soul for the answer, the only one he could come up with was that it "simply was" (Sullivan, 1994; 47). He considered that what appeared to others as a basic contradiction was for him, a cohesive reality that existed within the two connected worlds.
             Yet it was his ability to distinguish the two entities from one another that allowed him to deal with whatever retribution he would face by being a homosexual within the Church. His enlightenment is ultimately what aided his efforts to become a better individual. "It was not that my sexuality was involuntary and my faith chosen and that therefore my sexuality posed a problem for my faith; nor was it that my faith was involuntary and my sexuality chosen so that my faith posed a problem for my sexuality. It was that both were chosen and unchosen continuously throughout my life, as parts of the same search for something larger. As I grew older, they became part of me, inseparable from my understanding of myself. My faith existed at the foundation of how I saw the world; my sexuality grew to be inseparable from how I felt the world" (Sullivan, 1994; 47).