Pope condemns gay equality laws ahead of first UK visit

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MontanaHatchet said:

stof said:
@ bimmylee - If everyone in the world were suddenly homosexual, fertilization clinics and sperm bank business would boom and the world would keep on chugging just fine.

Homosexuality means you prefer the physical and emotional relations of the same sex. It doesn't mean your physically incapable of breeding.

I'm all for everything and junk (my new way of saying I'm tolerant), but I don't think that's true. Just look at Europe. The birth rates there are dangerously low, even with the majority of people being straight. Generally, you need a 2.1 fertility rate to have a stable population, with an even higher rate needed for a population to have moderate growth. Do you really think we'll have such rates in a world where everyone is homosexual and babies are made through some kind of sterile fertility process?

Well this is a pretty out there hypthetical, but Yes, I think there would still be a lot of reproduction if it were seperated from pleasurable sex. It would certainly eliminate all accidental and unwanted pregnancies, but most human beings want kids. A lot of people might seek the clinical way to get kids, but what would probably be even more popular would be swapping. John and Derrick want kids, Sarah and Melissa want kids. So John and Sarah and Derrick and Melissa have some possibly boring, possibly enjoyable but generally practical sex, and hey look, there are kids!

 

As for the population thing. Yes it's low in some parts of the world, but it's also a lot higher in others. And on the whole there's a damn lot of people out there and some "unstable" population grouth really wouldn't be a bad thing.

But again, this is just a loony hypothetical to point out that while homosexuality does reduce the desire to engage in the kind of sex that leads to children, it does not eliminate either the desire to have children of the ability to do so.