By Bobby Darvish, Iranian-American Ex-Muslim, Former Vegan, Former Democrat, Former Socialist, Former CAIR-Columbus Executive Director, Former Muslim Forum of Utah President, Christian Conservative LDS Priest
One of the most glaring hypocrisies of modern leftist ideology is their selective moral outrage when it comes to relationships between consenting adults. Many on the left have recently fixated on criticizing age-gap relationships, particularly when a 51-year-old man dates an 18- to 29-year-old woman. They claim this is "creepy" and exploitative, despite the fact that these relationships are entirely legal, consensual, and historically common. Meanwhile, these same voices champion marriages between same-sex couples and celebrate transgender relationships, regardless of age, even when reproduction—the natural foundation of marriage—can never occur. The question must be asked: who are the real hypocrites, and what is truly “creepy” in our society?
The Conservative Defense of Heterosexual Age-Gap Relationships
Conservatives understand that relationships between two consenting adults, whether close in age or with an age gap, are fundamentally a private matter. Historically, age-gap relationships have been not just common but advantageous—pairing wisdom and stability with youth and fertility, often forming strong, lasting marriages that produce children.
The left’s sudden moral panic about these relationships is not about morality but control—a way to shame traditional relationships while elevating their own alternative lifestyles. They seek to erode the family structure and demonize any relationship dynamic that reinforces natural gender roles and the importance of marriage for procreation.
The Left’s Selective Morality on Age and Relationships
While condemning heterosexual men for dating younger women, the left openly celebrates relationships that fall far outside traditional norms. There is no outrage when a 70-year-old same-sex couple marries, despite the obvious biological limitations of their union. Nor do they raise concerns about transgender individuals undergoing irreversible procedures at young ages or being pushed into relationships that defy biological and moral traditions.
Their logic collapses under scrutiny. If two legal adults can marry regardless of sex or reproductive potential, why should heterosexual couples with an age gap be demonized? The left promotes marriage as a “love is love” contract when it suits their ideological agenda, but when a traditional man and woman enter a consensual age-gap relationship, suddenly, it becomes an issue of “power dynamics.”
The Real Creepy Lifestyles
Rather than age-gap relationships being problematic, it is actually many of the radical lifestyles championed by the left that raise genuine concerns:
Encouraging children to undergo gender transitions before they are old enough to drive.
Normalizing polyamory, open relationships, and other unstable arrangements that lead to broken families.
Attacking traditional masculinity and family structures, while simultaneously pushing non-reproductive unions as equally valid to those designed for creating families.
Demonizing natural relationships between men and women while celebrating LGBTQ lifestyles that reject biological norms.
It is not “creepy” for a man and woman—regardless of age—to fall in love, get married, and have a family. What is creepy is the left’s obsession with disrupting the natural order of society under the guise of “progress.”
Conclusion
The hypocrisy of the left is undeniable: they seek to shame heterosexual relationships that have existed for millennia while aggressively pushing alternative lifestyles that reject biological reality. The conservative perspective understands that a healthy society is built on strong families, responsible relationships, and natural gender roles—not on ideological social experiments that undermine civilization.
If anything is creepy, it is the left’s relentless effort to dismantle traditional families while pretending to be the arbiters of morality. A 51-year-old man marrying a younger woman is not the problem. The real issue is a culture that normalizes sterile unions and radical social engineering while attacking the very foundations of civilization itself.
Citations
George Gilder, Men and Marriage (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1992).
Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed (New York: Basic Books, 1995).
Ryan T. Anderson, When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment (New York: Encounter Books, 2018).
Dennis Prager, The Rational Bible: Genesis (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Faith, 2019).
Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 (New York: Crown Forum, 2012).
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