Posted on 07/18/2019 6:29:57 PM PDT by marshmallow
The head of Russia’s upper house of parliament says that allowing homosexual couples to adopt children would lead to the extinction of humanity.
Russia banned homosexual couples from adopting children in 2013.
“What will allowing same-sex couples to adopt children lead to? It’ll simply lead to the extinction of mankind,” Valentina Matvienko, the head of the upper-house Federation Council, told a government-sponsored youth forum outside Moscow earlier today.
“There are basic ingredients for happiness, I believe they’re universal: family, children and parents. We see how these foundations are being eroded,” she added.
The comments are markedly different from the west’s approach to homosexual adoption, where it is legal in most countries.
However, in Italy, which is currently ruled by a populist government, homosexual adoption is still not permissible.
The gulf between how Russia and most western countries view so-called “progressive values” appears to be widening.
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There’s a old Russian proverb: heterosexuals reproduce by contact with adults, homosexuals reproduce by contact with children.
The debate we never even had.
More kids of homosexual parents identify as homosexual.
I’m amazed I’ve never heard that proverb before.
Good for Russia and Italy, it don’t matter what reason.
Homosexual marraiges should be banned and the death penality
should be instituted.
But it will never happen because this is a depraved world. I
India has always had 15% or more of humanity - the subcontinent has insanely fertile soil.
But the fertility rate has dropped to 2.4 children per woman.
You can’t compare the two countries - India is mostly fertile land, Russia is mostly infertile.
Why would pervs be allowed to adopt? the dangers are too high for the children
Alexander, it's a simple proposition, but it's not THAT simple.
People with hemophilia, sickle cells,etc. very often live long enough to reproduce. Queen Victoria's prolific reproduction with her hemophilia-carrier spouse, sowed hemophilia up and down the royal houses of Europe in the mid-18th - early 19th century. With proper treatment, life expectancy is only about 10 years less than healthy men, and reproductive fitness (for men) is unimpaired.
On the other hand, people who are exclusively homosexual can never reproduce through intercourse.
That creates a WHOLE lot more selection pressure... or would, if homosexuality were entirely heritable (nature rather than nurture.)
My own reading inclines meto think that there are multiple risk factors to homosexuality with interacting vulnerabilities --- genetic, prenatal, early-childhood, the circumstances of what is delicately called "sexual debut," e.g. sexual abuse as a child --- but not one which makes this condition inevitable.
But their heterosexual siblings can reproduce - and perhaps even more successfully than the siblings in strictly heterosexual families (because homosexual uncles and aunts might somehow represent a resource to the families of the heterosexual sibs).
Regards,
I spent my first 20 years of life in India. During that period I attended 2 different high schools and then science college for 2 years and engineering college for 3 years.
My point is simply this, during my schooling in India, I came across and go to know something like 10,000 students. The subject of caste never came up once! Many of friends were Muslims, Sikhs, Parsi, Christians, Jain and assortment of Hindu’s belonging to various castes. Only reason I knew they were Muslims or Christians was because of their names. Other than that none of us cared what their religion or caste was.
In my own caste, the only time it mattered was when it was time to find a mate. Traditionally one always married within one’s caste. As such caste or religion was never the criterion for choosing friends. My best friend in college was a sikh, which is different religion than mine. He never shaved or cut his head hair. One time our engineering class was on a tour of industrial plants in state of Maharashtra. That was the first time I saw him without a turban as he stepped out of the shower. His hair reached below the knees!
Eventually I enrolled in University of Iowa for graduate degree in Engineering. My best friend went to Canada. We had kept in touch by snail mail since there was no internet in the 1960’s. We agreed on a meeting in Chicago, at it’s YMCA hotel on Wabash street.
I am looking for a turban wearing person to walk into the cafeteria, and a man without turban or beard taps me on the shoulder. He says guess who! The bloke had shaved his beard and ditched his turban! I would not have recognized that chap if I had bumped into him on a street in Chicago.
The fertility of Indian women (this is strictly my conjecture with zero scientific evidence) is the result of consuming prodigious amounts of spices.
India elected it’s first woman head of state in 1966!
She served as Prime Minister from January 1966 to March 1977 and again from January 1980 until her assassination in October 1984. Yap, those Indians surely don’t respect women much, do they?
Why do you need to exaggerate??? You may have gone to school with ten thousand people but you did not get to know each and everyone of them. That’s a silly statement
She was the daughter of the sainted Ghandi.
Don’t try and hide the truth. You know what goes on behind closed doors
No, she was NOT! She was not related to Gandhi in any shape or form. She was daughter of another politician, Nehru. Her last name comes from marrying a fellow named Feroze Gandhi.
Do not believe everything you read in American media. Best way to learn about any country is to PERSONALLY spend years there. Media likes to sensationalize tidbits of news items which are extreme. For example before actually arriving in United States, I had this image of USA as a racist country with discrimination of “colored” citizens. I had read about lynchings and KKK. After spending many years in United States, the true situation was quite different. I found Americans in general to be generous, tolerant and hard working people. That was opposite of my pre-conceived notions (from media) that Americans were obnoxious, boastful of their wealth, lazy, loud, intolerant people. I learned to never trust what you read in media news clips.
Add up all the crowded classrooms I attended, plus so many students from other grades I ran into during sports events, holiday celebrations, running for student office elections, etc etc and 10,000 is actually a modest number. Each grade in our high school had 4 or 5 classrooms, each with 200 students! Yeah, it is hard to conceive how densely populated India is unless one spends time there.
You went to school with them. You did not know them. You did not have dinner with ten thousand individual families. You were acquaintances
Nah, it’s poverty. The fertility rate drops as people move out of poverty. The same happened everywhere else in the world
The caste system was brutal. It no longer holds sway in the citie where 50% of the population lives
She married a Zoroastrian, hence the surname Gandhi (since many Zoroastrians come from Gujarat, they have Gujarati surnames. Mohandas was also from Gujarat (as is PM Modi) but was Hindu
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