Many such people have been helped by psychiatrists and spiritual ministries to change their sexual attractions from people of the same sex to people of the opposite sex. The power of their testimony is the reason why gay activists reacted so violently when a series of ads highlighting them appeared in major newspapers last year. Such questions reveal profound misconceptions about sex. One's sexual life affects many more people than just oneself. Sex is intimately intertwined with marriage, and marriage involves the transmission of life, property, political and social institutions, and culture to the next generation.
Sex is, more importantly, about marriage, and families, and children.
Most importantly, the legitimization of active homosexuality would be the most straightforward and complete attempt to separate the connection between sex and children that society has ever proclaimed. In so doing, society would be undermining one of its most fundamental institutions, marriage. Many of our current social pathologies arise from the fact that our society has not been successful in handing on the heritage of social norms supporting a strong and intact family. The instability of family life is a contributing factor to almost any significant social problem today. Rather than weaken the institution of marriage further, by establishing a new form of social union essentially divorced from children and from the elevated meaning of the sexual urge that children represent, we should reinforce traditional notions that sexual activity is legitimate only within the perspective of family life and its conditions.