I was at a friend's party the other night and I was bombarded with a very disturbing line of reasoning. A line of reasoning with no ending and no beginning.
"Well I'm just concerned, you know. I'm concerned that Gay People don't have the burning desire to reproduce with the opposite sex, you know like straight people. Like, what's going to happen to the human race in 3,000 years because of this...?" Rambling. Illogical.
Okay, I tried to get a word in edgewise throughout the overbearing tirade to no avail. Only, I managed to gather a small but subtle challenge to her paranoia surrounding my very being: "So, then, what may I ask is the end result of this argument? What are you proposing as the solution?"
She pauses. "Oh." She sees what I'm saying. If you lead me down the path of genocide, I have no choice but to point this out to you.
Going back to the illogical for a moment... if, in fact, our entire species was at risk of *cough* underbreeding, and all the nuclear bombs and decimating species and planet notwithstanding... And if, say, this underbreeding was indeed the cross of Gay People to bear (in fact gays of all persuasions do procreate, you see we have the parts and some of us the desire) what is the proposed solution? How would we 'control' this problem?
My friend was seeming to suggest that we would have to control the numbers of Gay folks. But this does not follow from her reasoning. In fact, the majority of Gay individuals are brought into this world by Straight couples procreating. So, should we then limit the amount of straight couples reproducing in the hopes that the numbers of new gay people dwindle?
The whole line of reasoning is absurd.
But, what disturbs me more, is that a close friend of mine would even suggest such a thing. Gay people could be the downfall of humanity.
Perhaps, if all the world leaders were gay, I would buy this argument.
But, I'm more inclined to think the world would be a happier, sexier place.
