By Anthony Esolen, American Greatness - We believe, in short, that sexual desires, so long as no coercion is employed, are sacrosanct, indeed constitutive of someone’s very identity as a human being, but sexual reality is nothing. We are fairly commanded by the Civil Rights Act and now by the Respect for Marriage Act to engage in a vast pretense, much to the harm of the family and the common good, that men and women are practically indistinguishable, and that each sex is not for the other. ...