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We Should Promote Homosexuality In Developing Countries To Help Limit Population Growth
The Earth's population is expanding hugely, particularly in developing countries. We are already running into resource constraints with regard to oil and food and these will get worse in future. As a result, we need to try and limit population growth in developing countries. Preaching abstinence is ineffective, so we should preach homosexuality instead. Less developed countries often have a primitive dislike of homosexuality so we would need to propagandise to overcome these prejudices. We in the wealthy West could pay for advertisements and possibly movies portraying the gay lifestyle in a favourable light. This would help limit overpopulation.
 Hidell  08 Apr 2008 03:41
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There is strong evidence that suggests that homosexuality exists as a genetic trigger among nearly all of the higher order social mammals for just that reason. Perhaps a media campaign to help remove the social stigma that still exists in so many places would help the gene to function normally as it should. It's the right thing to do anyway.
 
 finsch  05 Sep 2009 16:20
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The more I think about this idea, the more I realise how fantastic it is. There so are so many repressed gay people in developing countries. They are afraid to express their own sexuality openly so, instead, they live conventional lives, pretending to be heterosexual, getting married to a member of the opposite sex and, of course, producing children. Once these countries are acculturated to accept and even admire homosexuality through our propaganda campaigns, people there will be much happier. Closet gays will live openly with others of their own kind, and be happier for it; even heterosexuals who formerly found themselves trapped in unloving marriages with partners who were secretly gay will find themselves liberated from the consequences of a lie.

Of course, as gay couples choose to live together rather than enter into heterosexual marriages based on deception, the birthrate will decrease because gays, obviously, cannot reproduce. Even if only 10% of the population are gay, that is still a 10% gain in population reduction. But the truth is we don't know what percentage of people experience gay longings; even in the West there are still strong taboos associated with homosexuality and, consequently, a great deal of self-repression going on. With effective propaganda, we could perhaps push the number of practicing gays up to 15, 20, maybe even 25% of the population. This would have a salutary effect on the problem of overpopulation.

To mount the propaganda campaign effectively, we should broadcast films featuring cool and tough gay heroes; popularise forms of music that are associated with gay or bisexual culture, such as emo music; and spread information about famous figures from the past who were gay or bisexual, such as Shakespeare, Alexander the Great and any famous local gays, of course, too.
 
 Hidell  08 Apr 2008 20:19
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 Wasn't it former French Prime Minister Edith Cresson who claimed that at least one in four British men were homosexuals? Is this where you're getting the 25% figure, Hidell? I can't really tell if you're being serious about this, or if the whole debate is tongue in cheek. Do you seriously think that we can "push the number of practising gays" to a quarter of the population? This, and the associated propaganda campaign you speak of, sounds like a Soviet Five Year Plan, except Stalin only tried to push up steel and coal production by these margins, not the number of homosexuals.
by  mackenzie
 09 Apr 2008 02:17
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Gay and Lesbianism is just disgusting. I do not see why anyone would want to do that. To actually PROMOTE it?
Yuck.
Beyond the utter unseemly.
A terrible idea, and it will not work, either: Plenty of us only want sex with the opposite sex.
 
 Mystery  08 Dec 2008 18:27
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Why promote homosexuality in an undeveloped country that needs more people to industrialize it?

You can't promote homosexuality. Either you are or you're not, and you can't change who you are. Plus, homosexuality is both wrong in the scientific sense and in the religious sense. Homosexuality was not accounted upon to happen; why promote something that wasn't supposed to happen in the first place?
 
 bookworm3  03 Dec 2008 02:42
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Well well you are supporting something close to your hart i see glad you could come out off the woodwork and help personally with overpopulation
 
 chevyboy  10 Oct 2008 16:29
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I agree with Keetonman. Why make them into something they don't want to be? Now your just sounding like a crazed dictator. The Final Solution!!!! If we made them into a gay country, we'd just regret it in the end.
 
 Keetondude  27 Jul 2008 06:05
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I'm sorry but why make a country especially an undeveloped one, become something that they don't want to be.
 
 keetonman  27 Jul 2008 05:48
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Maybe you could organize some parades. People love a good parade! You'll start converting them right away.
 
 fngrbng420  30 Apr 2008 12:14
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This has got to be one of the most bizarre suggestions and debate topics to ever appear on this site, although perhaps points should be awarded for creativity. How precisely does one go about "preaching homosexuality?" Importing steamy, western edgy flicks just won't do the trick if you present these to an audience comprised largely of heterosexuals. People don't choose to be homosexual, like they choose abstinence, or their religious affiliation. This is a biological reality and other than suppressing it, there is precious little that one can do to change it.

Should homosexuals in non-western countries be encouraged to fight for their rights and be permitted to live in a society where they may enter into same-sex relationships without fear? Of course they should. Yet this would have absolutely no effect whatsoever on population growth, since the proportion of homosexuals in most western societies is under 10 percent. I imagine that this is no different in non-western countries. Just like gay marriage and same-sex relationships have little impact on demographic growth (or decline) in the west, they would not change these same patterns in developing societies.

The overarching problem with the suggestion that the West teach developing countries how to be gay is one of neo-colonialism. In the nineteenth century, Europeans brought Bibles to Asia and Africa. The suggestion here is that we now replace these with gay porn.
 
 mackenzie  08 Apr 2008 15:07
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 hey i like the way you word yourself and show your intellagence (good job with hidell)
by  chevyboy
 10 Oct 2008 16:33
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I agree that we definitely need to do something to control the population problems around the world, but we should do something similar to what China does. China limits the number of children a family can have. We definitely do not need to advertise homosexuality (especially in the Christian societies). It is against every teaching in the Bible. We do not need to advertise immorality. If people want to be gay, then that is their own personal choice. There should not be advertisements trying to entice people into this lifestyle. If it were advertise, it would hurt a lot of innocent people because more people would try it, and more people would regret it. Homosexuality is not the answer to any problem.
 
 BullDog  08 Apr 2008 14:20
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 Can i just make the point 'BullDog' that you say not to promote homosexuality however if you look at advertisements everywhere we are actually promoting heterosexuality? Do you have the same opinion on that? I don't have a problem i was just wondering what your views were to that.
by  Emilie
 05 Sep 2009 14:48
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Homosexuality is borne through either nature or nurture (we are not quite sure, but it could be a mixture of both), but it is certainly not a conscious decision that people make by being subjected to advertisement slogans.

However, I agree with you that something needs to be done to reduce the size of the population and, I think, international development (on our part) and increased promotion of contraceptives is probably the answer.
 
 JRCBailey  08 Apr 2008 12:38
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 Broadly speaking I agree that homosexual inclinations are genetically inspired. However, open practice of homosexuality clearly is not. In most cultures, including our own, those with homosexual inclinations often repress them through fear of the social consequences of being seen as gay. By effectively propagandising the merits of the gay lifestyle, we can eliminate those social taboos. This would allow people to express their own sexuality without fear, openly living with partners of the same sex. Clearly this would be a win-win. Overpopulation would be reduced and the formerly repressed gays would be able to live more contented lives. I also think there are probably many borderline bisexual people who, because of social pressures, decide to come down on the heterosexual side as far as living their lives is concerned. By artfully promoting homosexuality, we could make them swing the other way.
by  Hidell
 08 Apr 2008 13:45
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