Infertile couples are able to join in one-body union, an extremely intimate joining together of their biological halves into a complete body striving together, as a union, towards the good goal of reproduction. They become a whole and the whole as a whole has a goal. That they cannot achieve the goal of reproduction does not mean that they are not, as whole, striving towards it. A basketball team that cannot win still nevertheless plays the game. A man striving to fight off a lion and failing in the end still truly strove to survive.
Infertile couples still have the type of organs that are capable of engaging in reproductive striving. If their reproductive organs were no longer capable of striving towards reproduction, it seems like we’d have to say that these organs are no longer reproductive. Recall the alien analogy. How would we explain their organs to an alien? By listing their function as reproductive organs. It doesn’t matter whether or not they can succeed or not. The man who strove against the hungry lion and failed still really did strive to survive. And it’s the striving as a biological whole that unites two people as one body.
Gays cannot strive to the goal as a whole and thus cannot join in one body union.
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