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IN DEFENSE OF HOMOPHOBIA
Professor Ralph McInery
Jacques Maritain Center
714 Hesberg Library
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
As published in an editorial in The Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Newsletter
March 1994 Volume 17, Number 2
Historians could no doubt tell us much about what the rise of homosexual
ideology means for a society. Even I have read accounts of the fall of Rome
which cite sexual license, especially perverted sex, as a symptom of
precipitious decline. A few seasons ago," I, Claudius", the television
series, unabashedly linked homosexuality with the general imperial
unraveling.
When I was in the minor seminary of the Archdiocese of St. Paul,
Nazareth Hall, in the early 1940's, I recall but one whisper about such
matters, and that in connection with the sudden absence of one of the
students. The Marine Corps, where I next found myself, instilled a
healthy disgust for perversity and dealt harshly with it , both
officially and unofficially.
During most of my long university career, it would have been
inconceivable to hear homosexuality referred to , in" wertfrei" tones,
as an alternative lifestyle. Quite recently, it seems to me, things have
changed.
Colleagues publish planget pages in campus publications inveighing
against homophobia--a neologism which requires linguistic as well as
moral illiteracy. (Think of the implications for homonyms and
homogenization.) Students follow suit, urging this Catholic university
to apply Catholic doctrine and acknowledge that the Church "does not
distinguish between homosexual and heterosexual persons."
The other night I went to Mass, expecting to commemorate the Chair of
Peter, and found myself involved in a liturgy devoted to the "victims of
AIDS" and a patchwork quilt students had been stitching together to
prove that they were open and flexible in the matter of sexual
perversion.
The university, in short, has allowed itself to be recruited into an
ideological campaign whose aim is to celebrate homosexuality and treat
any misgivings as somehow, well, perverse.
Of course, the enemy has long been within the walls in the form of
wobbling on the part of moral theologians.
Homophobia has come to mean the principled judgement that perverted
sex is a serious sin , that its practitioners lead hellish lives and
nowadays run the risk of a horrendous disease. In short, disease apart,
the natural as well as the Christian attitude toward homosexuality up
until yesterday.
If this is indeed what homophobia means, let's have more of it.