Is gay marriage the key to over population?
Imagine: “the powers that be” announcing that “gay and lesbian marriage” was “the way to go,” here and elsewhere. Would people take the advice? If they didn”t listen on something like smoking ? with their very life at stake ? who in the world is going to take orders from the government on something as private ? and delightful ? as sexual behavior?
There could well be a riot of resistance.
Instead, today, thousands of Californians are waiting in line ? to get married ? as gays and lesbians.
The California Supreme Court has joined Massachusetts in granting equality-of-the-sexes to those who want to marry someone of the same sex.
Do you think each gay/lesbian couple has given thought to the “world population problem,” and decided to ease it a little through their own action?
Have they considered, for instance, that in 500,000 years of existence, the human population of Earth has crept upwards amazingly slowly. In 1900, there were a total of one billion, and then, from that time to this ? a little over a single century ? our numbers globewide have soared ? to almost seven billion.
Probably, California homosexuals haven”t thought about that. No doubt many of the new couples have considered the magnitude of the commitment to an individual child: a wonderfully worthwhile consideration.
Some may have even allowed themselves to think that in a scant fifty years our seven billion will become a whopping fifteen billion with commensurate drains on food, water and fuel ? not to speak of escalating “road rage” emanating from that many “unique” human beings ? crowded together on one small planet. Good luck to us all.
Norman Fleishman
Lakeport
