John Corvino, also known as the gay moralist, gave a lecture about defining the term marriage last Friday afternoon at the University of Oklahoma.
Corvino said that there can be a definitional argument about same sex marriage.
“We’re just arguing terminology,” Corvino said. “Hetero-sexual relationships and same-sex relationships are too different to be under a blanket term. They cannot be interchangeable.”
Corvino said it is not just same sex marriages that are facing the problem of definition.
Corvino gave examples of the sterile-couples objection and paraplegics.
Under the new natural laws (NNL), the aforementioned cannot be defined as a marriage either. Corvino said the NNL defines marriage as a reproductive act, and while sterile couples and paraplegics can get married, it is not a true marriage since they cannot reproduce.
“There are many different ways to describe marriage,” Corvino said. “But the conflicting intuition on what marriage is gets us away from the real issue: how we treat gays.”
OU sophomore Morgan Rees said she agrees with this.
“I enjoyed the lecture a lot,” Rees said. “I’m glad that we have people out there fighting for gays to get married and enjoy the same benefits as hetero-sexual couples.”
Rees said the lecture opened her eyes about how serious the issue of defining gay marriage really was. She said she will definitely look deeper into the NNL and the roles it is now playing,
Corvino said there are currently five states that recognize same sex-marriages. He said he hopes that in the future that number will increase to 50.
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