Pntek "homosexual agenda" threatens Pontesian demographic situation, Atabeg says
Gaius Octavius Aedinius, Atabeg Accipitrum
DAWNSTAR - The influx of refugees from Beiteynu has created significant concerns on how to deal with Pontesi's delicate demographic balance. Gaius Octavius Aedinius, the young Atabeg Accipitrum, commented on the subject:
We fully respect the need for our Yeudi friend's to guarantee a demographically stable, ethnic homeland of their own. But we are not exactly satisfied with the prospect of a Jelbic majority in two our three western satrapies or parts of them, and the values this will bring to our country. When my forefather Alamar Xarfaxis came to Pontesi, one thing he immediately reacted to was the prevalence of buggery among the native population. There is no point denying that the Belknap Empire was very homosexual during most of its existence. Lerna was the Majatran capital of sodomy. There were gay clubs, gay marriages, gay pride parades and gay adoptions. The old Empire that colonized parts of the Holy Land as "Gran Tadraki" bought homosexual rights there, as well as to colonies like Gaduridos and Talmoria. Post-Pontesian Gaduridos even had a gay couple serving as head of state and head of government.
Pontesians aren't much into sodomy these days, not the least because of the enlightened rule of my grandfather Julius Nerses, may he rest in peace. Pontesi is rather well-known as a gleaming symbol of moral decency. The return of the descendants of the colonists of the Holy Land means a great challenge to this. How many among them are open to commit buggery? One million? Two million? We don't know this. But we can be certain that they will sooner or later look to our boys' dip pipes for sexual purposes. This is a very disturbing thought.
An option of solving the demographic crisis is the creation of "homelands" for different ethnic groups as envisioned by Minister of Interior Orestes Spurius Trebellius. A series of territories would be set aside as a semi-independent entities for groups "alien to Northern values". These would in turn lose their Pontesian citizenship and instead remain as citizens of their respective territory. This model has been heavily criticized by Defence minister Melodia Silvia Agrippa for potentially undermining the Pontesian state's own territorial integrity:
It is clear that Pontesi needs to take action to safeguard its democracy. But we cannot permanently set aside areas from our Northern civilisation to become potential hubs for terrorism and other subversive activity. A better way would be to just assimilate the Pntek in exchange for citizenship as our wise leader's forefather Saint Alamar once dreamed of doing. Seluciandom shall encompass all of Pontesi. Ban the language and make them adopt ours, and our religion too. Well, one of them. [Pontesi is bilingual, editor's note]
Both proposals have been criticized by Terenti Abashidze, professor of social science from S:t Alamar the Liberator University, Dawnstar:
The problem is, how do we define who is a "Jelbic"? The Barmenian Felinist community is mostly Jelbophone, yet have since the first days of the Crimson Crusade been treated as equal to Selucians due religious similarities and our long-standing alliance. Many Ponteans have a varied knowledge of the language, even though the number has decreased, and some ancestry from people who were Jelbic-speakers exists among all of the ethnic groups, including the Seluco-Pontesians. Yet there is a very relevant fear that the Pntek population might be more loyal to their own kin than to our Seluco-Pontean state, and that this drastic demographic shift can make both democracy and the rule of law difficult to uphold in western Pontesi. The best option would probably be to offer the Pntek refugees who doesn't like our way of dong things to be resettled in Vanuku, if the Vanukuese government agrees.
A refugee camp in eastern Azorium
