Equal in marriage, equal in struggle

Greek version

When my best friend got married, we celebrated. We were thrilled that he was marrying such a wonderful woman, and their faces radiated love. Someone said that “marriage is the crowning of the love between two people.” ¹Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Minutes of the Plenary Session of the Parliament, 15.02.2024 But I knew that for my buddy, marriage was something more: the crowning of his struggle.

You see, my best friend and his girlfriend had remained virgins their entire lives, to give themseleves to each other within marriage. After 15 years of friendship, I knew that my friend didn’t achieve this effortlessly but with steady determination and struggle. After all, the opportunities to lose his virginity were so many… But he made it!

We both grew up in a world that glorified sex without conditions. However, there was always an asterisk: not with the same sex! The same society that encouraged the sexual expression of heterosexuals stigmatized sex between people of the same sex, especially between men.

The truth is that I’ve probably never been attracted to the opposite sex. So from a young age I learned not to be ashamed of my sexual orientation, since it was not my choice.

However, when I realized that sexual libertinism wasn’t for me, I began to be inspired by young straight people who remained critical of the dominant ideology and saved sex for their one true love.

Then I felt privileged in this way, since as a homosexual I had two advantages:

1. Compared to heterosexuals, I didn’t face the same social pressure to consummate, and
2. the opportunities were far fewer, due to the limited number of gay people.

On Thursday, 15 February 2024, the Greek Parliament passed the law “Equality in civil marriage, amendment of the Civil Code and other provisions,” finally introducing same-sex marriage to Greece.

Obviously, the institutionalization of same-sex marriage didn’t happen overnight. It was preceded by decades of sexual liberalization, where gradually the heterosexual majority decriminalized and approved their own sins one by one. Thus, the heterosexual young person gradually came face to face with a philosophy that blessed commercial love, premarital relationships, adultery, anal sex, pornography, one-night stands, and finally “group play.”

So it was only a matter of time before they approved homosexual behavior as well.

Parliament confirmed this with Law 5089. Homosexuality is now simply a manifestation of human diversity, respected by the state and equal in every way.

Thus, having achieved equal rights, homosexuality can now cease to be a life goal and become just a secondary part of who we are.

Since political demands have become rights, we can now relax and free ourselves from the informal power centers operating within the LGBTQI Community. Because after the triumph, their attention will turn to other discussions, which are not necessarily in favor of gay people… ²https://www.queermajority.com/essays-all/the-re-demonization-of-the-gay-male?mc_cid=0776d123d7&mc_eid=4e450baf5d ³https://www.queermajority.com/essays-all/putting-the-sex-back-into-sexual-orientation

This is a day we will remember. Marriage equality has been enacted and we can all choose how we want to live. And I can continue to struggle for purity, for the sake of the one I love: Christ.

Okay, the social pressure to sexually consummate will increase, since the wave of sexual libertinism has now swept up homosexuals too.

Okay, the number of people having sex with the same sex will multiply. In America, 8 years after same-sex marriage, one in five young people identify as LGBTQI. ⁴https://news.gallup.com/poll/470708/lgbt-identification-steady.aspx

And this way, along with marriage equality, we also got equality in struggle. We too will follow in the footsteps of our heterosexual friends. We will live in the same society of sexual debauchery, we will encounter the same number of sexual challenges, and we will overcome the temptations of sin, as straight fighters have managed to do for decades. And we will succeed. Because aren’t we equal?

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Παραπομπές

• 1
  Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Minutes of the Plenary Session of the Parliament, 15.02.2024
• 2
  https://www.queermajority.com/essays-all/the-re-demonization-of-the-gay-male?mc_cid=0776d123d7&mc_eid=4e450baf5d
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  https://www.queermajority.com/essays-all/putting-the-sex-back-into-sexual-orientation
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  https://news.gallup.com/poll/470708/lgbt-identification-steady.aspx