Yesterday, India's health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said homosexuality is a "disease" and regretted that despite being "unnatural", it now afflicts a substantial number of people in India.
"The disease of 'Men having Sex with Men', which was found more in the developed world, has now unfortunately come to our country and there is a substantial number of such people in India", Azad was quoted as saying at a conference in Delhi.
I think the poor minister has got it completely wrong. India has a population of 1.2 billion and if current trends continue, we will peak at 1.7 billion in 2070. That would be too many people for too little land in India. What is India supposed to do with so much pressure on land and resources? Send people to the Andaman and Nicobar islands? Colonize Australia? Reach a deal with Messrs Putin and Medvedev to export people to Siberia?
There is a much simpler solution. Let us encourage homosexuality. Let's launch campaigns to encourage gay and lesbian reltionships. If more people turned gay, there would be less child-births and some well-off gay people may even want to adopt. I am not going to make any calculations and claim our population growth will slow down by x or y percent but seriously we have an easy solution here.
And of course, as a bonus, if sexually transmitted diseases spread, our population will fall further. Come on Mr Azad, let's encourage homosexuality!
"The disease of 'Men having Sex with Men', which was found more in the developed world, has now unfortunately come to our country and there is a substantial number of such people in India", Azad was quoted as saying at a conference in Delhi.
I think the poor minister has got it completely wrong. India has a population of 1.2 billion and if current trends continue, we will peak at 1.7 billion in 2070. That would be too many people for too little land in India. What is India supposed to do with so much pressure on land and resources? Send people to the Andaman and Nicobar islands? Colonize Australia? Reach a deal with Messrs Putin and Medvedev to export people to Siberia?
There is a much simpler solution. Let us encourage homosexuality. Let's launch campaigns to encourage gay and lesbian reltionships. If more people turned gay, there would be less child-births and some well-off gay people may even want to adopt. I am not going to make any calculations and claim our population growth will slow down by x or y percent but seriously we have an easy solution here.
And of course, as a bonus, if sexually transmitted diseases spread, our population will fall further. Come on Mr Azad, let's encourage homosexuality!
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