Heywood Wrote:It can be summed up this way: Conservatives try to adjust their behavior to fit the facts of nature. Liberals try to adjust the facts of nature to fit their behavior. No matter how well intended, the latter is an impossible approach that often leads to tragic results.
Here we have the classic conservative mentality where up is down and facts are just roadblocks to an ideology. The fact of nature is that organisms with the same gender are attracted to each other throughout the animal kingdom, and marriage, a monogamous union, is actually the unnatural thing. You can't impose your will upon nature and then appeal to it as a justification.
The fact that Heywood could even type that last sentence through the cognitive dissonance he must have felt is astonishing.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
