Homosexuality
John Finnis is also renowned for his anti-homosexual views. Homosexuality, for Finnis, is morally depraved and contributes to the degradation of society. The most concentrated treatment of homosexuality comes in his 1997 paper 'Law, Morality and Sexual Orientation', in which he concludes:
The plain fact is that those who propound ‘gay’ ideology have no principled moral case to offer against (prudent and moderate) promiscuity, indeed the getting of orgasmic sexual pleasure in whatever friendly touch or welcoming orifice (human or otherwise) one may opportunely find it. In debate with opponents of their ideology, these proponents are fond of postulating an idealised (two-person, lifelong...) category of relationship—‘gay marriage’—and of challenging their opponents to say how such a relationship differs from marriage at least where husband and wife know themselves to be infertile. As I have argued, the principal difference is very simple and fundamental: the artificially delimited (two-person, lifelong...) category named ‘gay marriage’ or ‘same-sex marriage’ corresponds to no intrinsic reason or set of reasons at all. It has few presentable counterparts in the real world outside the artifice of debate. Marriage, on the other hand, is the category of relationships, activities, satisfactions, and responsibilities which can be intelligently and reasonably chosen by a man and a woman, and adopted as their integral commitment, because the components of the category respond and correspond coherently to a complex of interlocking, complementary good reasons: the good of marriage. True and valid sexual morality is nothing more, and nothing less, than an unfolding of what is involved in understanding, promoting, and respecting that basic human good, and of the conditions for instantiating it in a real, nonillusory way—in the marital act.
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