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1. [...] Video: Andrew Sullivan at his best speaking on natural law. View Video [...]

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2. I regularly hear religionists talking about gayness being against “natural law” and I never get what they mean by “natural law” – the term just sounds nonsensical. There’s no such thing as a “law” of nature, gayness exists in nature, what on earth does this term refer to?

   Comment by Priya Lynn — March 13, 2010 @ 1:53 pm

3. Well, Priya, they certainly don’t believe that you can discover natural law by observing nature. What they mean is that they have constructed their own paradigm of the world as it “ought” to be, and as they believe that it WOULD be if the mythical Adam and Eve had never partaken of the forbidden fruit in the mythical Garden of Eden. For example, everyone in the world would be speaking the same language — Hebrew, perhaps? Although Dante believed that it would be Latin! Death would not exist, which would be very awkward, because the world would have become most uncomfortably crowded long before now. In this drab and uniform fantasy world things like gayness wouldn’t exist either, and that’ presumably what they mean when they say that it’ “against natural law”.

   Charlie Dunbar Broad, the late English philosopher — who, as I’ve only recently discovered, was himself gay, but that’ purely incidental — once remarked that the universe was more complicated than Victorian science supposed — “more complicated and much nastier.” Nastier? Well, I’m not sure, so I won’t discuss that. But this I will say: the universe is more complicated than biblical fundamentalism would like it to be — far more complicated and much less boring.

   Comment by William — March 13, 2010 @ 3:34 pm

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