A Review Of Robert R. Reilly. "Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything." San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2014. 215 pp. $17.74. -- By: Andrew T. Walker
Journal: Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
Volume: JBMW 20:1 (Spring 2015)
Article: A Review Of Robert R. Reilly. "Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything." San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2014. 215 pp. $17.74.
Author: Andrew T. Walker
JBMW 20:1 (Spring 2015) p. 81
A Review Of Robert R. Reilly. Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2014. 215 pp. $17.74.
Director of Policy Studies
The Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission
Nashville, Tennessee
In late
Robertson’s appeal to logic, and the seeming obviousness of his statement, didn’t seem logical to the adherents of sexual libertinism. Robertson’s statements muster an important proposition—that there is an intelligibility or structure inherent to sexual activity. But what happens when the obviousness of male and female complementarity is cast asunder? What happens if sexuality is construed solely by the assumptions of modern society— assumptions that deny sexual telos and renders sexuality purposeless? Sexuality becomes subject entirely to self-definition.
An important book was published in early
I want to state this book’s praise upfront. Though I’m weary of the theatrics that arise from grandiose praise, Making Gay Okay stands as the most persuasive natural law argument against homosexuality I’ve ever read.
JBMW 20:1 (Spring 2015) p. 82
The Rationalization Of Immoral Behavior
To conserve space I will focus more on the foundation of Reilly’s main argument and less on the supplementary and evidentiary examples that Reilly uses to strengthen his main point. The second half of the book, titled “Marching through the Institutions” simply demonstrates how the rationalization of homosexuality has become mainstreamed in prominent American institutions such as education, the Boy Scouts, and the military.
Reilly begins his book by offering a meta-level analysis on the two ways in which persons can construe reality:
There are two fundamental views of reality. One is that ...
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