Race, Homosexuality, and Population: A Look at ONE Perspective in the U.S.

Technically, this concern is a moot point.  Population numbers will not increase in  white heterosexual couples enough or in time to "protect the Caucasian race." --- Even if you made every homosexual person into a heterosexual.  I wish I could say that this thinking was a matter of my home state just being an embarrassing aberration in the United States, (sigh) but it's not.  

I do think its interesting to think about race, nationalism, and population.  In China, the one child policy was a nationalist issue about protecting resources and aiding the country's effort's to sustain the population.  It became one's patriotic duty --- codified by law - NOT to have too many children.  In this case, the effort is made in the opposite direction....  It's now one's duty as a white person (gay or not) to have many children.

Irony.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/02/north-carolina-gay-marriage-amendment-1_n_1470956.html

North Carolina Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment 1 Reportedly Written To Protect 'Caucasian Race'

The wife of a North Carolina state senator reportedly told poll workers during early voting Monday that an amendment sponsored by her husband was intended partially to protect the Caucasian race.

Jodie Brunstetter is the wife of state Sen. Peter Brunstetter (R), a supporter of Amendment 1, which would change North Carolina's Constitution to permit only heterosexual marriage.

According to the alternative Yes! Weekly, writer and campaigner Chad Nance spoke to a pollworker who told him that Jodie Brunstetter said, "The reason my husband wrote Amendment 1 was because the Caucasian race is diminishing and we need to uh, reproduce."

Nance has volunteered for a group working to defeat the marriage amendment and was until recently the campaign manager for a Democratic candidate for Congress. Nance resigned from the campaign to speak about Jodie Brunstetter's alleged remarks, according to Yes! Weekly.

Nance also spoke to Jodie Brunstetter, who said that she had used the word "Caucasian" in discussing the amendment, but that her remarks were taken out of context.

"We are looking at the history of the United States and it is already law about what marriage is," Brunstetter told Nance, according to Yes! Weekly. "Between a man and a woman."

"I'm afraid they have made it a racial issue when it is not," Brunstetter said of the poll workers. Pressed on whether she had used the word "Caucasian," she said, "I probably said the word," but that she hadn't used it in a race-related manner.

The blog said Brunstetter's campaign could not be immediately reached for comment.