Two Days of Aberration Dispatches from the Catholic World: Colombia, Italy

Thomas Couture
Romans of the Decadence (1847)
Musée d'Orsay

[W]e can also see how incongruous is the demand to accord “marital” status to unions between persons of the same sex. It is opposed, first of all, by the objective impossibility of making the partnership fruitful through the transmission of life according to the plan inscribed by God in the very structure of the human being.