ABSTRACT
The ethical issues involved, even if it is more a case of society's than the gay person's problem with homosexuality, can limit spiritual possibility for all but the most theologically revisionist or radically neo-pagan. According to heterosexuals, virtue for gays traditionally signified repudiation of contra naturam impulses, manifest in cured conformity to heterosexuality or celibate denial, a conformist ideal risking integrity. Given the one time legal status of gay marriages, clearly the couple is a perfectly homosexual institution and, noticeably, in Aristophanes' famous Symposium myth, same and opposite sex couples are complementary. Significantly, one of the most purely heretical texts one could cite, Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture, at least implicitly bases itself on the mother culture. It is doubtful the sex-negative root values could be modified or that gays, in whatever kind of relation, could hope to combine sex and spirituality without recourse to something like a tantric synthesis.
