What’s wrong with a permanent, faithful, stable same-sex sexual relationship?

Oct 16, 2016 by Jill

by Ed Shaw, Living Out:

The truest vision of life I know is that bird in the Venerable Bede that flutters from the dark into a lighted hall, and after a while flutters out again into the dark…It is something – it can be everything – to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below; a fellow bird whom you can look after and find bugs and seeds for; one who will patch your bruises and straighten your ruffled feathers and mourn over your hurts when you accidently fly into something you can’t handle.¹

Permanent, faithful, stable relationships are beautiful. And essential to human flourishing – as Stegner reminds us. So what could possibly be wrong with a permanent, faithful, stable same-sex relationship? Indeed this sort of relationship is now recognised as a marriage by a number of states throughout the world.

Exposure to these sorts of same-sex relationships has certainly done much to change people’s minds on homosexuality. Many have been opposed to homosexuality until they got to know the nice gay couple next door or because their niece has found happiness at last with her lovely new girlfriend.

I’ve even been told that my opposition to homosexual practice will crumble when I finally meet the man of my dreams. I’ll become accepting of permanent, faithful, stable relationships then. I’ve friends and family who are looking forward to the ‘wedding’. They’re pretty sure it will eventually happen.

So is it just the absence of the right man that is stopping me changing my mind on the morality of permanent, faithful, stable same-sex relationships? Well, the right man coming along will certainly challenge my behaviour, but he will have to change my mind on a couple of key truths:

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