A totalizing mentalité from within which réalité becomes quite literally incomprehensible

The "reconfiguration of marriage [to this essentially androgynous anthropology] represents a very fundamental shift, the shift toward the conception of a humanity composed of alternative but essentially equivalent 'orientations.'  And this has enormous implications for the philosophical (and theological) understanding of the human person driving culture. . . .  [I]t implies grounding society and culture on an essentially gay anthropology"; on a mentalité from within which what it is replacing becomes, not something similar or even complementary (an older form of the one thing we call "marriage"), but quite simply inconceivable.  Under this conceptual regime, "the anthropologically fundamental starting point of the sexual otherness of man and woman is in fact no longer available", no longer accessible to thought, incomprehensible.  "If [not the liberals but the] radicals [of 2006] criticize current society as institutionalizing a 'compulsory heterosexuality,' the vision of society proposed as its replacement may therefore be characterized just as accurately as a form of [not the proverbial bigger tent but] 'compulsory homosexuality.'"

     David S.Crawford, "Liberal androgyny:  gay marriage and the meaning of sexuality in our time," Communio:  international Catholic review 33, no. 2(Summer 2006):  246, 264-265 (239-265), italics mine.  "a . . . compulsory homosexuality" in the sense that the androgynous anthropology of "orientations" renders it impossible to understand why the difference between male and female was ever considered constitutive of "sex" (from secare, to cut or divide, some think), now conceived of in terms of pleasure (the manipulation of a sub-personal body) alone, rather than also procreation, considered as its fundamental and distinctive telos (drawing a bit also on "Public reason and the anthropology of orientation:  how the debate over 'gay marriage' has been shaped by some ubiquitous but unexamined presuppositions," Communio:  international Catholic review 43, no. 2 (Summer 2016):  247-273).