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Kevin McCullough :: Townhall.com Columnist
Why Would Gays Want Children?
by Kevin McCullough
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Are Barack Obama's friends -- like Bill Ayers -- legitimate political issues?

Is there a more obvious product of heterosexual behavior than the creation of children? If so then isn't it somewhat peculiar that those who shun the behavior of heterosexuality so deeply crave the product that it brings?

This week as I read the news that Mary Cheney, the 37 year old daughter of the Vice-President, was pregnant, I had many such questions running through my head.

I'm not supposed to mind you.

I'm not supposed to be allowed to think such things.

I'm not supposed to openly wonder what such conclusions might mean. Such wondering might bash the belief structure that men and women are completely interchangeable with one another. Yet I wonder them nonetheless. (Call it an ever growing desire to know the truth of the matter.)

Let's face it in America today if we bring up such obvious inconsistencies we are immediately branded and labeled a bigot. I was repeatedly labeled such this week for asking six additional questions arising from the fake act of two women supposedly "becoming parents." Argue with me all you like - the truth is Mary Cheney's baby will share DNA with Mary and the male DNA donor. Genetically he/she will share nothing with Cheney's partner Heather Poe.

So here's the next item I'm not allowed to bring up... Two women who desire children can not achieve satisfaction, because their sexual union is incapable of producing it. And this is fully true - even if all parties involved have healthy, fully functional reproductive biology.

When I mentioned this earlier in the week homosexual bloggers like Andrew Sullivan took exception with the notion and accused me of being hypocritical of the issue when it comes to infertile couples. Yet it is the critics who are being inconsistent.

If a man and wife struggle with infertility, it is because of biological breakdown. What God designed to work a certain way short circuited. He has low sperm count. She doesn't produce eggs as she should. They have trouble getting the two together. The biological dysfunction is not voluntary, they attempt sexual intercourse, time and time again but because of the faulty genetics in the machinery they are unable to complete the conception. And should medicine ever develop a cure for whatever that specific breakdown might be - there will be no problem for the couple, through natural sexual engagement to have another child.

Not so with Cheney and her partner. If they were to choose to engage in sex acts a thousand times over, their biological machinery would never produce what is needed - but for a different reason. There is no dysfunction in this case. Instead the reason the sexual engagement does not work is because the necessary parts are not even present. It is the equivalent of screwing a nut onto a bolt, by using a hammer. They just don't fit.

So after a cacophony of naughty e-mails being sent to me describing thousands of positions a male participant or a turkey baster can be used to impregnate a woman who only has had sex with women, I'm supposed to be intimidated so as to no longer ask these questions.

But they're good questions.

And doesn't the sick attempt at humor reveal what the purpose of my questions was from the very beginning?

In normal relationships the privacy and intimacy of the act of procreation is a spiritual and beautiful thing. In the sexual acts of women who sleep together that adequacy will be something they always long for and never have the satisfaction of knowing, thus undermining the fidelity of what they believe their relationship to be.

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Kevin McCullough is the nationally syndicated host of "'Xtreme' Radio and columnist based in New York. He blogs at www.muscleheadrevolution.com. His second book "The Kind Of MAN Every Man SHOULD Be" is in stores now.

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If nature is what drags people to want children, is that what draws like genders together?

Please provide evidence outside of emotion to prove the point...


Just thank nature.
I think one of the reasons McCullough gets a lot of hate mail is because he insists on inserting insults into what might otherwise be a thoughtful argument.

As for the substance of his column, I think his argument jumps the tracks before leaving the station.

Consider his opener:

"Is there a more obvious product of heterosexual behavior than the creation of children? If so then isn't it somewhat peculiar that those who shun the behavior of heterosexuality so deeply crave the product that it brings?"

If McCullough believes that homosexuality is about shunning heterosexuality, then McCullough will never find the answer to why a gay couple might want children. In fact, if this is what McCullough truly believes, he must be told that this belief will prevent him from ever understanding anything about homosexuality.

The maddeningly simple answer to McCullough's question is that gay couples want children for the same reasons straight couples want children. The specific reasons vary with the couple, but they are nevertheless the same. There is no need to complicate this at all.

The problem with McCullough is that he wants to merge two separate natural drives:

1.) The drive that directs us toward another person, which sometimes leads to an intimate relationship.

2.) The drive that causes us to desire a family.

Since sexual orientation does not interfere with either of these drives, it is only natural that gays would want to find a partner and create a family. Period.

McCullough may argue that gays should not start families, but there really is no point in conjuring up complicated explanations for why they would want to do so. No politics here folks. Just thank nature.
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