Q&A: Same-Sex Relationship
Same-Sex Relationship
Question
I think you once wrote that you do not see a moral problem in homosexual relationships.
What do you think of the following claim? :
God gave a person a strong drive for sexual fulfillment, with the purpose that a person should use that personal desire in order to add life to the world, and that is love. By contrast, when a person fulfills that desire not for the sake of adding life, this is not love but animalistic desire and is anti-moral.
Of course, one must ask: after all, in every relationship, not every act of intercourse leads to adding life!
It seems to me that the guiding question is about the relationship as a whole: is it a relationship aimed at adding life and goodness to the world, and not about each individual act of intercourse on its own.
What do you think?
Answer
The Holy One, blessed be He, gave a person a drive to eat in order to be healthy. Is there a moral problem with eating for pleasure?
Beyond that, you yourself pointed out that even with his wife, a man has relations not only for the sake of producing offspring. The overwhelming majority of sexual encounters are not for that.
Discussion on Answer
If you want to twist and force everything in order to arrive at the thesis you dearly want, suit yourself.
The example of eating is more similar to a regular relationship, in which, as stated, there are also relations that are not for the sake of procreation, than to a same-sex relationship, where the very relationship itself runs counter to adding life, and therefore the difficulty falls away.
As I said, in my opinion, from the moment we are speaking about a relationship that is oriented toward fertility, the whole relationship is blessed, and every act of sexual relations strengthens that good and healthy relationship.