ABSTRACT
The notion of family has been hotly contested within Queer communities. Queering procreativity is a deconstructive process for expanding and redefining family in ways that maintain our rights to difference, equality, family, and sexual partnership. Procreative privilege underpins the Christian cultural notion of marriage and family. The Christian right suspects that we are subverting the nuclear family, which is the building block for a theocratic society. Procreativity is used as a weapon by Christian churches to argue theologically against the acceptance of same-sex relationships and, by extension, against the formation of queer families. Christianity developed as a religion in the second century ce, at a time when Stoic philosophy, Neoplatonism, and a variety of Gnostic religious movements were primary religious currents in the Roman Empire. Fundamentalist Christians and the law have raised questions about whether a child’s best interest is served by allowing her or him to be reared by Queer parents.
