Frankly, I don't know why anyone lives in Italy. With the EU free movement rules, it's a wonder the whole damned country didn't pick up and move to Germany

Well, the one thing we can always be certain of, and that is law enforcement is woefully, one might even say willfully, ignorant of technical issues.

Quick let's hire more of them to replace US workers. I mean, with high ethical standards like they're expressing, what could possibly go wrong?

Quit projecting, mate. It's no one else's fault that you're too scared to leave your parents' basement.

Actually no. Evolution is about variation already present in populations and selective pressures "choosing" which variations will be more likely to be passed on to the next generation. In a way it is the polar opposite of what you are saying.

By "finding something new", you mean copying what Google has had available for some time now.

Because society is just one big playpen for sociopaths, and the weak must die!!!!

It's the Libertarian dream; the freedom to starve.

You're the one making the claim, you demonstrate it's veracity. And no, "it's obvious" is not a defense, it's merely handwaving. You keep repeating "it's obvious" like it represent anything other than your own homophobia.

What are you afraid of? That Mother Russia may someday have to answer for its mistreatment of minorities? That homosexuality isn't the evil you seem to believe it is?

If you have some actual evidence, cite it. But if you think "it's obvious" will convince anyone of anything, then you're as big a fool as you make yourself appear to be.

No it is not obvious. If you can provide actual citations showing that homosexuality depresses populations, then I have no reason whatsoever to believe your claim.

What I do know is that homosexuals, at least in any industrialized population, make up roughly 5 to 10% of the population, and that is likely be consistent for at least decades, if not longer.

When someone responds to a demand for actual references in peer reviewed literature with "no, I won't, because my claim is obvious", then the only thing I can discern from that is that you have no data to back it up, and your simply asserting without qualification or data, that your prejudice is true.

As to Russia, I cannot influence them, but that doesn't mean I should approve of their persecution of homosexuals.

Since you're the one making the claim that homosexuality is counterproductive to population growth, I'm sure you can actually provide some citations.

Oh well, then it's totally reasonable...

Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church do a lot of favors for each other. The payback for the Church's pretty much unwavering support for anything coming out of the Kremlin is that the Kremlin make sure the ROC's nearly medieval social views be propagated into law.

And yet we allow old people, sterile people and people who may not properly even have sex to marry...

That someone still seriously believes that homosexuality is a threat to population is just plain bizarre. First of all, nothing stops homosexuals from having children, and many do, and second of all, they remain a very small part of the population (something like 1 in 10 people).

And if Russia is really interested in repopulating its depleted population, it should be targeting vodka and a persistently shitty economy. Homosexuals are not responsible for the decades long drain on Russian population.

"Homosexual relationships are by definition sodomy"

This simply isn't true. Two famous homosexuals; Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward, apparently found the idea of penetration appalling.