Mississippi & Louisiana Join Refusal to Honor Same Sex "Marriage"

[Syriusly]

No silly, it makes me in one...and I have happier kids as a result. They like to brag that their parents are still married to each other.

great for you and kids but too bad that in general gay relationships last about 10% as long as straight relationships and therefore probably should not be considered for marital status.

Let us know when you can compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges

Gay unmarried relationships to straight unmarried relationships
Gay marriages to straight marriages.

 

[Seawytch]

Divorce Marriage Rates for Same-Sex Couples Frederick Hertz

Here is a summary of what these researchers concluded:
1. Nearly 150,000 same-sex couples have either married or registered civil unions or domestic partnerships, which constitutes about one-fifth of same-sex couples in the U.S. (or rather, a fifth of those who acknowledged themselves as such in recent United States Census reports).
2. About 1% of the total number of currently-married or registered same-sex couples get divorced each year, in comparison to about 2% of the total number of married straight couples. Note that the percentage of couples that get divorced eventually is close to 50%, but only 1% or 2% of them get divorced in any particular year.

Since we're discussing marriage after all.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

And what does that have to do with homosexuals who get married?

dear, homosexuals who get married are still homosexuals, Isn't thinking fun?

Bell and Weinberg, in their classic study of male and female homosexuality, found that 43 percent of white male homosexuals had sex with 500 or more partners, with 28 percent having one thousand or more sex partners.[13]

 

[Syriusly]

And what does that have to do with homosexuals who get married?

dear, homosexuals who get married are still homosexuals, Isn't thinking fun?

Bell and Weinberg, in their classic study of male and female homosexuality, found that 43 percent of white male homosexuals had sex with 500 or more partners, with 28 percent having one thousand or more sex partners.[13]

And they are then married homosexuals. A category which you have yet to provide any data on.

Let us know when you are ready compare fidelity rates of married gay couples with married straight couples- maybe a study less than 30 years old.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Divorce Marriage Rates for Same-Sex Couples Frederick Hertz

Here is a summary of what these researchers concluded:
1. Nearly 150,000 same-sex couples have either married or registered civil unions or domestic partnerships, which constitutes about one-fifth of same-sex couples in the U.S. (or rather, a fifth of those who acknowledged themselves as such in recent United States Census reports).
2. About 1% of the total number of currently-married or registered same-sex couples get divorced each year, in comparison to about 2% of the total number of married straight couples. Note that the percentage of couples that get divorced eventually is close to 50%, but only 1% or 2% of them get divorced in any particular year.

Since we're discussing marriage after all.

so are you saying that homo couples get divorced at half the rate of hetero couples?

 

[Roadrunner]

Divorce Marriage Rates for Same-Sex Couples Frederick Hertz

Here is a summary of what these researchers concluded:
1. Nearly 150,000 same-sex couples have either married or registered civil unions or domestic partnerships, which constitutes about one-fifth of same-sex couples in the U.S. (or rather, a fifth of those who acknowledged themselves as such in recent United States Census reports).
2. About 1% of the total number of currently-married or registered same-sex couples get divorced each year, in comparison to about 2% of the total number of married straight couples. Note that the percentage of couples that get divorced eventually is close to 50%, but only 1% or 2% of them get divorced in any particular year.

Since we're discussing marriage after all.

so are you saying that homo couples get divorced at half the rate of hetero couples?

I think he is saying this has not been going on long enough to draw any conclusions.
But, to the OP, gays are getting licenses all over Louisiana.

Nobody much gives a shit as far as I can tell.

Divorce lawyers see a new crop though.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

And what does that have to do with homosexuals who get married?

dear, homosexuals who get married are still homosexuals, Isn't thinking fun?

Bell and Weinberg, in their classic study of male and female homosexuality, found that 43 percent of white male homosexuals had sex with 500 or more partners, with 28 percent having one thousand or more sex partners.[13]

And they are then married homosexuals. A category which you have yet to provide any data on.

Let us know when you are ready compare fidelity rates of married gay couples with married straight couples- maybe a study less than 30 years old.

dear, gay marriage is new so the numbers are tiny and meaningless. THe numbers about the true nature of male homosexual behavior are common knowledge and well established scientifically

Abby Rodman, a psychotherapist in Boston. But she says it may also be more emotionally difficult for some gay couples to divorce. “They could feel like they disappointed the gay community at large after such hard-won fights to have the basic human right to marry,”

 

[Seawytch]

Divorce Marriage Rates for Same-Sex Couples Frederick Hertz

Here is a summary of what these researchers concluded:
1. Nearly 150,000 same-sex couples have either married or registered civil unions or domestic partnerships, which constitutes about one-fifth of same-sex couples in the U.S. (or rather, a fifth of those who acknowledged themselves as such in recent United States Census reports).
2. About 1% of the total number of currently-married or registered same-sex couples get divorced each year, in comparison to about 2% of the total number of married straight couples. Note that the percentage of couples that get divorced eventually is close to 50%, but only 1% or 2% of them get divorced in any particular year.

Since we're discussing marriage after all.

so are you saying that homo couples get divorced at half the rate of hetero couples?

At the moment, yes. Give us time, we'll catch up.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Divorce Marriage Rates for Same-Sex Couples Frederick Hertz

Here is a summary of what these researchers concluded:
1. Nearly 150,000 same-sex couples have either married or registered civil unions or domestic partnerships, which constitutes about one-fifth of same-sex couples in the U.S. (or rather, a fifth of those who acknowledged themselves as such in recent United States Census reports).
2. About 1% of the total number of currently-married or registered same-sex couples get divorced each year, in comparison to about 2% of the total number of married straight couples. Note that the percentage of couples that get divorced eventually is close to 50%, but only 1% or 2% of them get divorced in any particular year.

Since we're discussing marriage after all.

so are you saying that homo couples get divorced at half the rate of hetero couples?

At the moment, yes. Give us time, we'll catch up.

The best study I've seen focused on Scandinavia, where same-sex civil unions - essentially marriages in everything but name - have been legal for about two decades. The authors had access to population-level administrative data that generated a sample size of over 1,500 same-sex unions. After controlling for age, region, country of birth, education, and duration of the partnership, male couples in Sweden were 35 percent more likely to divorce than heterosexual couples, and lesbian partners were over 200 percent more likely to divorce. Whether the couples had children made little difference in the relative rates.
Read more at Why Gay Couples Divorce More Than Straight Couples

 

[Seawytch]

Divorce Marriage Rates for Same-Sex Couples Frederick Hertz

Here is a summary of what these researchers concluded:
1. Nearly 150,000 same-sex couples have either married or registered civil unions or domestic partnerships, which constitutes about one-fifth of same-sex couples in the U.S. (or rather, a fifth of those who acknowledged themselves as such in recent United States Census reports).
2. About 1% of the total number of currently-married or registered same-sex couples get divorced each year, in comparison to about 2% of the total number of married straight couples. Note that the percentage of couples that get divorced eventually is close to 50%, but only 1% or 2% of them get divorced in any particular year.

Since we're discussing marriage after all.

so are you saying that homo couples get divorced at half the rate of hetero couples?

At the moment, yes. Give us time, we'll catch up.

The best study I've seen focused on Scandinavia, where same-sex civil unions - essentially marriages in everything but name - have been legal for about two decades. The authors had access to population-level administrative data that generated a sample size of over 1,500 same-sex unions. After controlling for age, region, country of birth, education, and duration of the partnership, male couples in Sweden were 35 percent more likely to divorce than heterosexual couples, and lesbian partners were over 200 percent more likely to divorce. Whether the couples had children made little difference in the relative rates.
Read more at Why Gay Couples Divorce More Than Straight Couples

Still doesn't support your original claim.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Divorce Marriage Rates for Same-Sex Couples Frederick Hertz

Here is a summary of what these researchers concluded:
1. Nearly 150,000 same-sex couples have either married or registered civil unions or domestic partnerships, which constitutes about one-fifth of same-sex couples in the U.S. (or rather, a fifth of those who acknowledged themselves as such in recent United States Census reports).
2. About 1% of the total number of currently-married or registered same-sex couples get divorced each year, in comparison to about 2% of the total number of married straight couples. Note that the percentage of couples that get divorced eventually is close to 50%, but only 1% or 2% of them get divorced in any particular year.

Since we're discussing marriage after all.

so are you saying that homo couples get divorced at half the rate of hetero couples?

At the moment, yes. Give us time, we'll catch up.

The best study I've seen focused on Scandinavia, where same-sex civil unions - essentially marriages in everything but name - have been legal for about two decades. The authors had access to population-level administrative data that generated a sample size of over 1,500 same-sex unions. After controlling for age, region, country of birth, education, and duration of the partnership, male couples in Sweden were 35 percent more likely to divorce than heterosexual couples, and lesbian partners were over 200 percent more likely to divorce. Whether the couples had children made little difference in the relative rates.
Read more at Why Gay Couples Divorce More Than Straight Couples

Still doesn't support your original claim.

dear, why not tell us why you think it does not support my claim??? Did you ever think of that?

 

[daws101]

And what does that have to do with homosexuals who get married?

dear, homosexuals who get married are still homosexuals, Isn't thinking fun?

Bell and Weinberg, in their classic study of male and female homosexuality, found that 43 percent of white male homosexuals had sex with 500 or more partners, with 28 percent having one thousand or more sex partners.[13]

if you actually thought then you would not have said something as blatantly stupid as te previous statement


also Homosexualities: A Study of Diversity Among Men and Women is a 1978 book about homosexuality by Alan P. Bell and Martin S. Weinberg. Together with Homosexuality: An Annotated Bibliography (1972), it was part of a series of books that culminated in the publication of Sexual Preference in 1981.[1][2] The work was a publication of the Institute for Sex Research.[3][4] Though influential, and sometimes seen as a classic work, many of its findings have become dated due to social changes since its publication.

 

[daws101]

And what does that have to do with homosexuals who get married?

dear, homosexuals who get married are still homosexuals, Isn't thinking fun?

Bell and Weinberg, in their classic study of male and female homosexuality, found that 43 percent of white male homosexuals had sex with 500 or more partners, with 28 percent having one thousand or more sex partners.[13]

And they are then married homosexuals. A category which you have yet to provide any data on.

Let us know when you are ready compare fidelity rates of married gay couples with married straight couples- maybe a study less than 30 years old.

dear, gay marriage is new so the numbers are tiny and meaningless. THe numbers about the true nature of male homosexual behavior are common knowledge and well established scientifically

Abby Rodman, a psychotherapist in Boston. But she says it may also be more emotionally difficult for some gay couples to divorce. “They could feel like they disappointed the gay community at large after such hard-won fights to have the basic human right to marry,”

she's a fraud.

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I’m a clinically-trained and licensed psychotherapist with graduate degrees from both Harvard and Boston College. I’ve also been a relationship expert for 20 years. I specialize in life transitions (marriage, divorce, parenting, illness, loss) – just about anything that can throw your life and your relationships for a loop in ways you didn’t anticipate.

In my clinical work, I practice a combination of therapies since I believe that one size (or approach) does not fit all. Sometimes this approach is referred to as “eclectic therapy” or, simply put, a combination of therapeutic techniques I utilize to fit your needs.

 

[daws101]

Divorce Marriage Rates for Same-Sex Couples Frederick Hertz

Here is a summary of what these researchers concluded:
1. Nearly 150,000 same-sex couples have either married or registered civil unions or domestic partnerships, which constitutes about one-fifth of same-sex couples in the U.S. (or rather, a fifth of those who acknowledged themselves as such in recent United States Census reports).
2. About 1% of the total number of currently-married or registered same-sex couples get divorced each year, in comparison to about 2% of the total number of married straight couples. Note that the percentage of couples that get divorced eventually is close to 50%, but only 1% or 2% of them get divorced in any particular year.

Since we're discussing marriage after all.

so are you saying that homo couples get divorced at half the rate of hetero couples?

At the moment, yes. Give us time, we'll catch up.

The best study I've seen focused on Scandinavia, where same-sex civil unions - essentially marriages in everything but name - have been legal for about two decades. The authors had access to population-level administrative data that generated a sample size of over 1,500 same-sex unions. After controlling for age, region, country of birth, education, and duration of the partnership, male couples in Sweden were 35 percent more likely to divorce than heterosexual couples, and lesbian partners were over 200 percent more likely to divorce. Whether the couples had children made little difference in the relative rates.
Read more at Why Gay Couples Divorce More Than Straight Couples

as usual ed and other like him use non scientifically credible, extremely bias "sources"
example :
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The Christian Post is a member of the Evangelical Press Association, a member of the National Association of Evangelicals, and a global partner of the World Evangelical Alliance.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Divorce Marriage Rates for Same-Sex Couples Frederick Hertz

Here is a summary of what these researchers concluded:
1. Nearly 150,000 same-sex couples have either married or registered civil unions or domestic partnerships, which constitutes about one-fifth of same-sex couples in the U.S. (or rather, a fifth of those who acknowledged themselves as such in recent United States Census reports).
2. About 1% of the total number of currently-married or registered same-sex couples get divorced each year, in comparison to about 2% of the total number of married straight couples. Note that the percentage of couples that get divorced eventually is close to 50%, but only 1% or 2% of them get divorced in any particular year.

Since we're discussing marriage after all.

so are you saying that homo couples get divorced at half the rate of hetero couples?

At the moment, yes. Give us time, we'll catch up.

The best study I've seen focused on Scandinavia, where same-sex civil unions - essentially marriages in everything but name - have been legal for about two decades. The authors had access to population-level administrative data that generated a sample size of over 1,500 same-sex unions. After controlling for age, region, country of birth, education, and duration of the partnership, male couples in Sweden were 35 percent more likely to divorce than heterosexual couples, and lesbian partners were over 200 percent more likely to divorce. Whether the couples had children made little difference in the relative rates.
Read more at Why Gay Couples Divorce More Than Straight Couples

as usual ed and other like him use non scientifically credible, extremely bias "sources"
example :
General Information
ChristianPost.com is the nation's most comprehensive Christian news website and was launched in March 2004, incorporated with the vision of delivering up-to-date news, information, and commentaries relevant to Christians across denominational lines.

As the flagship website of The Christian Post, ChristianPost.com has quickly grown to become a leading online Christian news publication, with continuous updates throughout the day - seven days a week.

Through the website, The Christian Post presents national and international coverage of current events affecting and involving Christian leaders, church bodies, ministries, mission agencies, schools, businesses, and the general Christian public.

As a pan-denominational Christian media source, The Christian Post views all Christ-centered denominations as equal constituents of the body of Christ and does not promote or demote any Christ-centered denomination and/or congregation.

The Christian Post is a member of the Evangelical Press Association, a member of the National Association of Evangelicals, and a global partner of the World Evangelical Alliance.

The best study I've seen focused on Scandinavia, where same-sex civil unions - essentially marriages in everything but name - have been legal for about two decades. The authors had access to population-level administrative data that generated a sample size of over 1,500 same-sex unions. After controlling for age, region, country of birth, education, and duration of the partnership, male couples in Sweden were 35 percent more likely to divorce than heterosexual couples, and lesbian partners were over 200 percent more likely to divorce. Whether the couples had children made little difference in the relative rates.
Read more at Why Gay Couples Divorce More Than Straight Couples

 

[Syriusly]

And what does that have to do with homosexuals who get married?

dear, homosexuals who get married are still homosexuals, Isn't thinking fun?

Bell and Weinberg, in their classic study of male and female homosexuality, found that 43 percent of white male homosexuals had sex with 500 or more partners, with 28 percent having one thousand or more sex partners.[13]

And they are then married homosexuals. A category which you have yet to provide any data on.

Let us know when you are ready compare fidelity rates of married gay couples with married straight couples- maybe a study less than 30 years old.

dear, gay marriage is new so the numbers are tiny and meaningless. THe numbers about the true nature of male homosexual behavior are common knowledge and well established scientifically,”

Let us know when you are ready compare fidelity rates of married gay couples with married straight couples- maybe a study less than 30 years old

 

[Syriusly]

Divorce Marriage Rates for Same-Sex Couples Frederick Hertz

Here is a summary of what these researchers concluded:
1. Nearly 150,000 same-sex couples have either married or registered civil unions or domestic partnerships, which constitutes about one-fifth of same-sex couples in the U.S. (or rather, a fifth of those who acknowledged themselves as such in recent United States Census reports).
2. About 1% of the total number of currently-married or registered same-sex couples get divorced each year, in comparison to about 2% of the total number of married straight couples. Note that the percentage of couples that get divorced eventually is close to 50%, but only 1% or 2% of them get divorced in any particular year.

Since we're discussing marriage after all.

so are you saying that homo couples get divorced at half the rate of hetero couples?

At the moment, yes. Give us time, we'll catch up.

The best study I've seen focused on Scandinavia, where same-sex civil unions - essentially marriages in everything but name - have been legal for about two decades. The authors had access to population-level administrative data that generated a sample size of over 1,500 same-sex unions. After controlling for age, region, country of birth, education, and duration of the partnership, male couples in Sweden were 35 percent more likely to divorce than heterosexual couples, and lesbian partners were over 200 percent more likely to divorce. Whether the couples had children made little difference in the relative rates.
Read more at Why Gay Couples Divorce More Than Straight Couples

as usual ed and other like him use non scientifically credible, extremely bias "sources"
example :
General Information
ChristianPost.com is the nation's most comprehensive Christian news website and was launched in March 2004, incorporated with the vision of delivering up-to-date news, information, and commentaries relevant to Christians across denominational lines.

As the flagship website of The Christian Post, ChristianPost.com has quickly grown to become a leading online Christian news publication, with continuous updates throughout the day - seven days a week.

Through the website, The Christian Post presents national and international coverage of current events affecting and involving Christian leaders, church bodies, ministries, mission agencies, schools, businesses, and the general Christian public.

As a pan-denominational Christian media source, The Christian Post views all Christ-centered denominations as equal constituents of the body of Christ and does not promote or demote any Christ-centered denomination and/or congregation.

The Christian Post is a member of the Evangelical Press Association, a member of the National Association of Evangelicals, and a global partner of the World Evangelical Alliance.

The best study I've seen focused on Scandinavia, where same-sex civil unions - essentially marriages in everything but name - have been legal for about two decades. The authors had access to population-level administrative data that generated a sample size of over 1,500 same-sex unions. After controlling for age, region, country of birth, education, and duration of the partnership, male couples in Sweden were 35 percent more likely to divorce than heterosexual couples, and lesbian partners were over 200 percent more likely to divorce. Whether the couples had children made little difference in the relative rates.
Read more at Why Gay Couples Divorce More Than Straight Couples

The most recent evidence from the UK Office of National Statistics finds that homosexual couples that joined in 2005 were significantly less likely to have filed for dissolution four years later than heterosexual couples were to have filed for divorce: 2.5% compared to 5.5%. As Hattersley points out, however, male couples were much less likely to dissolve their relationship than were female couples: By the end of 2010, 1.6 % of male civil partnerships had ended in dissolution compared to 3.3 % of female partnerships.

Do Gays Have Lower Divorce Rates Than Straights The Dish

 

[Syriusly]

Study of Australian Divorce rates

SINCE May 2008 just nine civil unions pledged between members of the same sex as an alternative to marriage have been terminated in the ACT.

It is a 1.1 per cent failure rate with 799 gay unions performed in the capital during the period.

In the same period there were 8711 marriages and 6965 divorces granted in the ACT.

Adjunct Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Canberra Amanda Gordon said a straight comparison was not possible as the heterosexual divorce rate would include those married prior to 2008.

According to the Bureau of Statistics, the median length of marriage before separation in the ACT was 9.4 years with most couples divorcing almost 13 years after saying ''I do''.

But the probability that a traditional marriage will end in divorce is about 33 per cent.

Dr Gordon said early indications showed that gay couples were staying together longer. She attributed this to the lack of expectation to getting hitched and the conscious decision to do so.

''There are very few [terminations] because people have thought it through very carefully and understand the implications. … they are actually thinking very hard about the significance and importance of making it work.''

Same-sex divorce rate lower than heterosexual couples

 

[Syriusly]

Hmmmm Gay Domestic Partnerships disolving at a lower rate than Heterosexual divorce
Gays divorce rate may hew close to heterosexuals The Columbian

One indicator of a future same-sex divorce rate is to look at the number of the state’s domestic partnerships that have been dissolved, Badget said.

In Washington, about 4 percent of the 9,282 domestic partnerships formed between July 1, 2007, and Dec. 31, 2010, have been dissolved, according to an analysis by The Columbian. (That number includes opposite-sex couples 62 and older). To draw a comparison, out of 147,250 Washington marriages during that same time period, 9,782 of those couples, or 6.6 percent, are now divorced, according to epidemiologist Staci Hoff at the state Department of Health’s Marriage and Divorce Vital Statistics division.

The dissolution rate of domestic partnerships was even lower in Clark County at 1.7 percent, or seven out of 410 domestic partnerships formed since July 2007.

 

[NYcarbineer]

All Alabama counties complying with gay marriage ruling LGBT groups report AL.com