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rfmcdonaldFrom South Africa's The Star:
And here I was thinking that the birth dearth was produced by the unwillingness of heterosexual couples to reproduce in sufficient numbers to sustain population numbers over the long run.
A veteran Spanish politician has stepped into a controversy over a proposed new law on gay marriage, saying that allowing homosexuals to marry would worsen Spain's ageing population problem.
"At the moment there is a population crisis ... This could aggravate a problem Spain already faces," Manuel Fraga, president of the Galicia region and a leading member of right-of-centre Popular Party, said yesterday. He did not elaborate.
"Soon, if things don't improve, it will be the most aged country in the world," he said.
Fraga, a minister during the Nationalist, Catholic dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, is running for a fifth term as president of Galicia in June elections at the age of 82.
And here I was thinking that the birth dearth was produced by the unwillingness of heterosexual couples to reproduce in sufficient numbers to sustain population numbers over the long run.
