How Religions Promote by Persecution
Here's my new theory, someone's probably already thought of it and made a million selling books but that won't stop me from claiming it as my own:
If there is a genetic influence on gayness then the long term persecution of gays by social institutions such as the church has probably worked to increase rather than decrease the proportion of gays in society. Why? If the persecution of a group gets serious enough they'll adapt their overt behaviour to avoid it. That is, a proportion of gay blokes rather than live a tasteful, well-decorated and probably childless domestic life risking beatings, stoning, inprisonment, torture or execution will take the less life threatening route of entering a sham marriage that bears kids - and pass on potentially gay genes if such things exist.
So the theory holds that if societies adopt tolerant and liberal social attitudes the net effect should be an increase in happy gay couples who either don't have kids or adopt some resulting, long term, in a relative reduction in the proportion of the population with gay tendencies compared to intolerant societies. The theory probably doesn't apply to girls.
Whatever. The thing I like about the theory is that I can go anger some religious nuts with it. Now where's that PhD?
Here's my new theory, someone's probably already thought of it and made a million selling books but that won't stop me from claiming it as my own:If there is a genetic influence on gayness then the long term persecution of gays by social institutions such as the church has probably worked to increase rather than decrease the proportion of gays in society. Why? If the persecution of a group gets serious enough they'll adapt their overt behaviour to avoid it. That is, a proportion of gay blokes rather than live a tasteful, well-decorated and probably childless domestic life risking beatings, stoning, inprisonment, torture or execution will take the less life threatening route of entering a sham marriage that bears kids - and pass on potentially gay genes if such things exist.
So the theory holds that if societies adopt tolerant and liberal social attitudes the net effect should be an increase in happy gay couples who either don't have kids or adopt some resulting, long term, in a relative reduction in the proportion of the population with gay tendencies compared to intolerant societies. The theory probably doesn't apply to girls.
Whatever. The thing I like about the theory is that I can go anger some religious nuts with it. Now where's that PhD?
posted by Paul Staugaitis at 3:21 PM
6 Comments:
Sooooo.... the reason behind the growth of the gay culture is because of the persecution of their preference for same sex partners by religous bodies.
I like it.... DOG
Not really. What I'm saying is that the current gay population owes some of its size to persecution by religious nuts of the past.
The development of the culture we see is something that can only happen in a liberal society that will (if the theory holds correct) result in a proportional decline.
Unless of course, the female of the species decide that they quite like the designer crockery, colour co-ordinated lounge cushions and can live with the competition for bathroom cabinet space so all evolve into fag-hags. Leaving the poor heterosexual, footie loving male down at the club, taking showers with his mates after a bit of rough and tumble out on the paddock...
The fag hag factor does work against the effect - I wonder which effect would be more dominant? Should I be investing in locker room shower construction companies?
Only a poof would think this much about faggery.
I've been watching a lot of TV. And between the Amazing Race and Wife Swap I'm guessing that about 1/3rd of the American population are poofs. Also 1 in 10 are sausage vomiting, armour suited dwarves that fall flat on their faces whilst leading horses to some castle in Poland. Did you see that last night? It was gold.
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