Politics and Culture

This postulation, sometimes referred to as the "It just doesn't seem right" or "That's just wrong" argument is either, for its sympathizers, a non-articulate recognition of the natural law "written on the hearts of men" or, for its scoffers, residual prejudice from a more primitive age. Either way, one can't deny the existence of an aesthetic aversion from homosexuality amongst even the normally tolerant (like myself). Neither can one dispute the moral and physical attractiveness of the heterosexual ideal. For proof, I first turn to that bottomless pit of profundity, Schoolhouse Rock, and the brightest star from its celestial oeuvre , Three is a Magic Number:

One needn't appeal to the Council's (of Nicaea) authority to trumpet the special significance of the number "three." The triangle or stool doesn't convince, but there is something special about "three" when it represents least number required for the procreative act and its consequence.

(It's a shame that people will want to ban the above video from schools for its "uninclusiveness.")

Schoolhouse Rock! (Special 30th Anniversary Edition)

Now, besides listening to the second best Beethoven Symphony in history, we see a fine example of the aesthetic argument for heterosexual courtship in the below scenes from Fantasia.** In them, we notice the natural impulse of women to "show" and the complementary and irresistible urge of men to look. We detect the dichotomy between pursuer and pursued, soft, strong, etc. Above all, we observe the need for men and women to complete themselves by bonding with each other.

Yes, I know that pagan Rome tolerated sex in all of its disorientations. Even in its moral nadir, however, Rome never allowed people of the same sex to marry (nor did emperors marry their horses, as alleged.).

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Fantasia (Special 60th Anniversary Edition)

Bonus: Listen to the natural law entry in my best conservative songs.

**Interestingly, a colleague of mine once used this Fantasia sequence as an example of sexism. No doubt what bothered her was that the male and female centaurs behaved differently according to their sex.