Gay Marriage Equality...in China?

Recently, I've been really concerned about the growing LGBT movement in Hong Kong.  Just as the idea of marriage equality laws would have sounded crazy to most Americans 20 years ago, it still sounds crazy to most people here.  But, like the rest of the world, it's just a matter of time before the laws start being argued, then passed.  And how long will it be before they spread into China?  What that means for the world's largest nation is a little terrifying.

Think about it. Chinese people already have a laissez-faire, "没办法" attitude towards sex.  Chinese culture accepts, (and even expects) that wealthy or upper-middle class men will engage in adultery, prostitution, and bigamy.  Sex slavery in China is a huge industry.  Given the current situation of Chinese sexual mores, their laws outlawing homosexual practice in China are like laws to outlaw throwing gasoline on an already burning building.  Possibly helpful, but...we're missing the point.

My only hope is that God "turns the hearts of fathers to their children, and of children to their fathers". (Malachi 4:4-7)

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Here's a piece from a fascinating article, written by Robert Oscar Lopez, a self-identified bisexual English professor at California State University-Northridge.

"Many have dismissed my story with four simple words: “But you are conservative.” Yes, I am. How did I get that way? ...because I lived in precisely the kind of anti-normative, marginalized, and oppressed identity environment that the left celebrates: I am a bisexual Latino intellectual, raised by a lesbian, who experienced poverty in the Bronx as a young adult. I’m perceptive enough to notice that liberal social policies don’t actually help people in those conditions. Especially damning is the liberal attitude that we shouldn't be judgmental about sex. In the Bronx gay world, I cleaned out enough apartments of men who’d died of AIDS to understand that resistance to sexual temptation is central to any kind of humane society. Sex can be hurtful not only because of infectious diseases but also because it leaves us vulnerable and more likely to cling to people who don’t love us, mourn those who leave us, and not know how to escape those who need us but whom we don’t love...

So yes, I am conservative and support Regnerus’s findings."

(See related findings here.)