GOODRIDGE IS NO GOOD, part two: Mark Tardiff

The Goodridge decision assumes that marriage has no intrinsic relation to gender.

The philosophical implication is an untenable mind-body dualism in which my body is simply instrumental to my consciousness. The problem with this is that it decomposes the person and makes nonsense of our lived experience.

There is no longer any subject to posit actions since 'I' cannot be identified with either my body or my consciousness. In genital sex between a husband and wife, on the other hand, we see not one person decomposed into two but two who become one flesh. Husband and wife separately can perform the bodily functions of eating and digestion. But the reproductive act can only be performed
by the two of them acting as a single reproductive principle.
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