Thus, by abandoning the man - woman distinction in favor of the heterosexual - homosexual distinction,
homosexual activists demand not parenthood (paternity or maternity), but the right to some new abstract parental status that reduces the role of the «parent» to the exercise of certain functions such as education.
In particular, it is a response to the threat against the family represented by secular society's accelerating movement towards accepting what were, only a generation ago, simply
demands by a small minority of
activists for the legalisation of what they insist on describing as
homosexual «marriage».