Perhaps the key presupposition (deduction) of the sexual revolution is that human health and flourishing require that sexual desire, understood as a "need," be acted upon and satisfied. Selfishness attacks the dignity of the human person.  Love is not selfish.  Any discipline of denial or restraint has been popularly depicted as unhealthy and dehumanizing. Yet, it is dehumanizing to define ourselves, or our personhood, as male and female, by our desires alone. Nor does it seem plausible to suggest that what millennia of human experience have taught us to regard as self-command should now be dismissed as mere repression. Our bodies have their own dignity, bear their own truths, and are participant in our personhood in a fundamental way.  Witness the facts of the last 50 years: With the birth control pill and other contraceptive advances, promiscuity for youth and infidelity for the married becomes more accepted; out of wedlock births, once a stigma or source of shame because the child is denied a family of mother and father, is perhaps considered a right of passage for young women and men; rampant spread of stds; AIDS; divorce; and abortion, the final contraceptive measure.  70% of all black children are born out of wedlock; 40% of white children; and 40% to 60% of Hispanic children.  The sexual revolution has been attacking marriage and human integrity for many years. 

What was once considered virtue is now considered repressive even deviant?  Children are encouraged and programmed to engage in masturbation. Homosexual actions, which have always been around, observed and even tolerated to different degrees depending on the era and culture, were not accepted as the viable substitute for marriage between a man and a woman.  Societies do not survive without children.  However, in this present society an additional result of the sexual revolution is the acceptance of homosexual relationships.  This stems from the sterilization of marriage, divorce, and promiscuity of heterosexual expression.  These homosexual relationships, in a desire to be fulfilled emotionally, can claim that their sexual actions are no more sterile than the typical heterosexual relationships or liaisons.

What follows are questions, issues and points to address regarding homosexuality and same-sex marriage.  There exist today radically divergent views of human nature. 

What is the human person?  Therefore, what is friendship and marriage?