The Northampton Seminar
Matthew Franck
Sex, on the other hand, is fundamental to our relations with one another. We cannot let it alone. We cannot wish away its normal fruits of attraction, passion, and the generation of offspring, or its intimate connection with virtue and vice, wisdom and folly. Catholic University’s President Garvey is right to treat the relations of the sexes in the college population as a matter of the utmost moral gravity, justifying measures that would be intolerable if race were the difference under consideration. So too, in the debate over marriage, we must not be led astray by farcical assimilations of sex to race, as though differential treatment along those two dimensions were exactly alike, when they are not.
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