Protecting Sex From Liberalism
by Anthony McCarthy, Public Discourse:
Our culture increasingly treats human bodies, sex, reproduction, and family structures as malleable to a radical degree. We need to recognize that the human body was chosen by God, in whose image and likeness we are made.
Typically, as human beings, we begin in our mother’s body. We begin when our bodies begin—be they male or female. We are shaped by the genes we inherit from our parents, and, typically, our parents nurture and educate us too. As members of the human species, our existence is possible because of the existence of the species from which we were born. Our biological relationship with our parents ties us to that species. We bear a family resemblance to our parents that is no mere “social construction.”
From our first moments of existence, we were sons or daughters. We entered the world through a family, a pre-political entity. Through our family, we learned the value of our embodied existence—assuming nothing went wrong along the way.
Human bodies aim toward the good of health, understood as the harmonious functioning of the human body and its ability to achieve its natural ends. Yet our culture increasingly treats human bodies, sex, reproduction, and family structures as malleable to a radical degree. That’s a serious problem.
How Liberalism Harms the Family—and the Individual
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