I’m not a statistician, but I did (and do) study history rather extensively-my favorite subject ever. The anecdotal evidence is there, if you care to research it, over the years in all of human folly-check it out.
In my capacity as a casemanager, I’ve been acquainted with more than one bigamist, by the way.
At the risk of being redundant, let the churches define the fine points of marriage, with the common thread that it is a religious ceremony. Those ministers who perform non-traditional ceremonies can call it what they want-I know what the Bible says marriage is, and no amount of posturing by any liberal/rogue arm of a church changes that-and the constitution does not provide for meddling in church affairs.
Let a civil contract be just that-call it that-no different than any other business partnership. Let the churches own marriage-it seems very natural and right to me.
Yeah, I’m a student of history also, and no, I don’t “care to research’ for “anecdotal evidence” to try to prove YOUR nonsense.
Your route to getting homosexual marriage and polygamy legalized is by destroying marriage, by removing the definition of it.
This means that he wants to determine who creates the definition. It was like Al Gore and his sill azz recounts in Florida. How many recounts did he want? Only as many as it took for him to win. Ansel wants the entity of his choice to define marriage and every one should live with that definition.