June 25, 2006
SHOCKING! THE DISORDERED REJECT ORDER:
Same-Sex Marriage Flounders: Few Homosexuals Interested in Tying the Knot (Zenit.org, 6/24/06)
After the clamor to legalize same-sex marriage, it turns out that not many homosexuals really want it. Following a bitter battle last year, the Spanish government gave homosexuals the right to marry. Since the law took effect last July 3, until May 31, only 1,275 same-sex marriages took place, reported the Madrid daily newspaper ABC last Saturday.Posted by Orrin Judd at June 25, 2006 11:33 AMComparatively, that would add up to a mere 0.6% of the 209,125 marriages contracted in Spain during 2005. Of the total number of same-sex marriages, 923 were between males and 352 among females.
A recent study by the Virginia-based Institute for Marriage and Public Policy did a roundup of same-sex marriage trends. The study, "Demand for Same-Sex Marriage: Evidence from the United States, Canada and Europe," was published April 26.
So far the highest estimate of the proportion of homosexuals who have used the new laws to marry is in the American state of Massachusetts, with 16.7% tying the knot. But this seems to be an exception. In the Netherlands, where same-sex marriage has been established the longest, the percentage was far lower.
Yet this small minority position within a small minority group has become a cornerstone of Democratic election campaign policy, a bit of extremism never to be questioned by anyone who wants to be considered a Party member in good standing.
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at June 25, 2006 12:04 PMIt's odd that one very loud voice among the small minority within a small minority, Andrew Sullivan, hasn't gotten married yet even though it’s legal on the Cape where he’s been summering for years.
One doesn't mean to be unkind, but could it be his beau hasn't popped the question yet?
They're their own beaus.
Posted by: oj at June 25, 2006 12:25 PMI think the gay marriage rate in the US will be higher than that in Europe as even our gays are are discovered to be more bound to tradition than Europeans.
Posted by: Patrick H at June 25, 2006 12:39 PMGet married, if you're use to (or even excited by) transitory relationships, and you have to deal with the prospect of community property, or even in some cases, child support laws rearing their ugly heads if you decide to get divorced later. Something to make those who don't value a long-term releationship take pause, though if your only goal in the first place was to stick a shiv into the idea of traditional marriage, it's changing the law itself that's important, not the fact that hardly anyone is taking advantage of it in Massachusetts.
Posted by: John at June 25, 2006 1:26 PMIt's heartbreaking when you think of all the people who though they were going to get married(when it became legal) who found out they were only f-ck bunnies.
Posted by: Robert Mitchell Jr. at June 25, 2006 1:54 PM