AN ARGUMENT AGAINST CIVIL UNIONS
P1. Civil unions involve state sponsorship of homosexual intercourse
P2. State sponsorship of homosexual intercourse enshrines in law that sex is not about children
C. Therefore civil unions enshrine in law that sex is not about children
CONSERVATIVE COMMENTARY
While not all civil unions are sexual, they are presumed to be so. Civil unions therefore presume that the relationships between two married men or two married women are sexual. By sponsoring homosexual intercourse the state enshrines in law that sex is inherently about the relationship between adults and not inherently anything to do with procreation or children. This reduces procreation and children to a non-essential aspect of sex, which
- reduces social pressure to be held accountable for any unintended procreation
- questions whether consent to sex is also consent to parenthood