GAYS DEFEND MARRIAGE

There’s a worldview that lies beneath the contemporary debate on same-sex marriage and other controversies related to homosexuality. More and more people have come to believe that being gay means membership in a naturally occurring minority in every society. The problem is, it’s just not true. However, explaining the scholarship (which has almost all been done by LGBT scholars) that proves being gay is a culturally bound phenomenon arising in Western society over the last 150 years is not easy to do in a paragraph or two – or even in an 800-word column.

So I’ve written a new permanent page – “Phantom Past” with a more than 3,000-word essay citing a half-dozen leading gay and lesbian historians and anthropogists, which meticulously refutes the errors made by people who espouse the widespread mistaken belief that a certain percentage of every society across space and time has been, is, and will be gay or lesbian.