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Wherever we can find a person of any gender who feels drawn to a single person of any gender with the same ‘principles’ of morality (selfless love, and faith, for example), marriage will survive the rule-change from one man/one woman to one person/one person. Wherever we can find a person of any gender dedicated to raising a child of any gender, the principles of parenthood (commitment and protectiveness) will outlast the rules of parenthood (one father/one mother). Anybody who insists on making the rules just as important as the principles doesn’t understand history or the lessons it has taught us.

So there you have it.

1. Words can be provocative or they can be neutral. It’s up to us to decide how they affect us. Just as adultery, rape, and child molesting don’t define what it means to be hetero-natural, so also adultery, rape, and child molesting don’t define what it means to be homo-natural.

2. Homo-natural orientation has already been recognized as a scientific reality. Someday what we understand about orientation will eventually be declared to be undeniable. When that happens, even the church, too, will once more adjust its doctrines to conform to popular practice or science already being accepted.

3. Principles out-live rules. Societies define rules, but principles have endured for eons. Rules change, but principles don’t. Homo-natural marriage and parenthood are threatening only to those who get these two ideas confused.