Purely For The Sake Of Awfulness, From “America’s Pre-Eminent Evangelical Protestant Female Intellectual”*

We quote Nancy Pearcey, gracing the electronic pages of TheDC:

If America accepts practices such as same-sex “marriage,” in the process it will absorb the accompanying worldview — the redefinition of human personhood as a purely social construction — which opens the door to unlimited statism, because there is no human nature that an oppressive state could possibly offend.

Those who resist will be compelled by the state to go along, or face penalties for “discrimination.”

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[T]he practice of homosexuality has a negative impact not just on the family but also on individuals — that it expresses a profound disrespect for a person’s biological identity.

Biologically, physiologically, males and females are clearly counterparts to one another. The male sexual and reproductive anatomy is obviously designed for a relationship with a female, and vice versa.

Homosexual practice thus requires individuals to contradict their own biology. It disconnects a person’s sexuality from his or her biological identity as male or female — which exerts a self-alienating and fragmenting effect on the human personality.

Pop psych proves it's evil.

High level freak-out also noted: BIOLOGICAL IDENTITY is the real issue, if not the next line of attack, as it's realized (She has the poll nos., for those who click!) that younger voters are not as squicked out as they should be by scare-quotes marriage, so get ready to go after transgendered people, that's gross!

And the logic of alienation will not stop there. Already the acceptance of same-sex relationships is metastasizing into a postmodern notion of sexuality as fluid and changing over time.

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This contradicts conservatism at its philosophical core. Conservatism bases human rights on the recognition that there are certain non-negotiable givens in human nature, prior to the state, which the state is obligated to respect.

As political scientist Philippe Beneton explains, in conservatism, equality “is grounded in the recognition of what is human.” By contrast, in liberalism, equality “is founded on the claim that nothing is specifically human” — that human nature itself is a social construction, something we make up as we go along, including our psychosexual identity.

In that case, however, there is nothing in the individual that is given, which the state is therefore obligated to respect. Liberalism undermines the basis for inalienable human rights.

So, Scalia-style, no one's really a person?

As always, the best is saved for last.

Nancy Pearcey is the best-selling author of the just-published Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, & Meaning. Described in The Economist as “America’s pre-eminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual,” she has appeared on NPR, C-SPAN and “Fox & Friends.” Pearcey is also author of Total Truth, a columnist with Human Events, and editor at large of The Pearcey Report.

*That's a very qualified intellectual.