Same-Sex Marriage Flounders - Few Homosexuals Interested in Tying the Knot

Zenit News Agency ^ | June 24, 2006

[Brilliant]

But the damage is done.

[NYer]

Vatican Document On Homosexual Unions

“Homosexual unions are totally lacking in the biological and anthropological elements of marriage and family which would be the basis, on the level of reason, for granting them legal recognition. Such unions are not able to contribute in a proper way to the procreation and survival of the human race. The possibility of using recently discovered methods of artificial reproduction, beyond involving a grave lack of respect for human dignity,(15) does nothing to alter this inadequacy.”
CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING PROPOSALS TO GIVE LEGAL RECOGNITION TO UNIONS BETWEEN HOMOSEXUAL PERSONS

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[csvset]

"..pseudo-forms of 'marriage' distort the Creator's design and undermine the truth of our human nature."

Amen to that.

[I-ambush]

The reason for homo marriage was never that they yearned for domesticity, but rather to force society to recognize such relationships as legitimate (since the purpose of civil recognition of marriages is to grant them legitimacy and legal protection).

[ArGee]

After the clamor to legalize same-sex marriage, it turns out that not many homosexuals really want it.

I'm not surprised. I'm not sure how much longer heterosexuals are going to want marriage. For homosexuals, as with most heterosexuals, the sexual relationship is about getting yours. Marriage is about self sacrifice. Self Sacrifice is very unpopular these days, and not just among homosexuals.

Now, I know there will be people coming on the thread to tell me that homosexuals can do self sacrifice. That may be true, but while they're claiming they would rather force all of society to change than accept their status as an unusual minority group then I have a hard time accepting that.

Shalom.

[goldstategop]

Homosexuality is incompatible with a committed relationship. And a counterfeit marriage is only a fake copy of a real one. No wonder these people aren't rushing to tie the knot.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")

[AppyPappy]

Same-sex marriage comes with same-sex divorce. That's going to stop a lot of people. .6% is pretty good considering homosexuals only make up 1-2% of the population.

[ClearCase_guy]

I think that's true.

Homosexuals are not generally interested in long-term relationships. They are shallow and immature people. If society grants recognition of homosexual marriage, the primary "benefit" is a rise in homosexual's self-esteem: "I can be just like everybody else". But they aren't like everybody else, so they don't really follow through on the new capability.

One thing about the rate of union that rarely gets pointed out: Middle-aged (or older) homosexuals have lived their whole lives without being able to join a legal union, and when this ability is finally granted to them, you might think that the flood-gates would open and that decades of pent-up frustration would be unleashed, with massive numbers of marriages in a very short time-frame, and homosexuals dancing in the street yelling "Finally!!"

But it doesn't work that way. Because Homosexuals are not generally interested in long-term relationships.

[NYer]

to force society to recognize such relationships as legitimate (since the purpose of civil recognition of marriages is to grant them legitimacy and legal protection).

Regardless of the motive, they are not exercising this 'civil recognition'. That's the point.

[joshhiggins]

Let's see now, Ten percent of spains population of forty million (assuming half are minors) would suggest about 200,000 gay adults. That would mean 100,000 potential marriages, rather than 1,250.

Using the more realistic figure of 2% of the population being gay that would still suggest 20,000 potential marriages.

Yes, it does look like they really weren't all that interested in marriage.

[edpc]

The Dutch experience

I stopped reading there. It sounded euphamistic.

[NYer]

Self Sacrifice is very unpopular these days, and not just among homosexuals.

Commitment lasts until someone more interesting steps into view. I often chuckle when someone suggests that a certain concept is new. They must not have read Ecclesiastes.

Ecclesiastes
Chapter 1

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¹ The words of David's son, Qoheleth, king in Jerusalem:

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² Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth, vanity of vanities! All things are vanity!

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³ What profit has man from all the labor which he toils at under the sun?

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One generation passes and another comes, but the world forever stays.

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The sun rises and the sun goes down; then it presses on to the place where it rises.

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Blowing now toward the south, then toward the north, the wind turns again and again, resuming its rounds.

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All rivers go to the sea, yet never does the sea become full. To the place where they go, the rivers keep on going.

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⁴ All speech is labored; there is nothing man can say. The eye is not satisfied with seeing nor is the ear filled with hearing.

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What has been, that will be; what has been done, that will be done. Nothing is new under the sun.

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Even the thing of which we say, "See, this is new!" has already existed in the ages that preceded us.

[bilhosty]

I think the Gay marriage thing is just a validation thing. They want respect that is all and very few of them actually want to be "married".

[goldstategop]

What they want is moral approval and legal validation of their lifestyle. Despite their best efforts, there are few takers for it.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")

[ClaireSolt]

It would be good, if we stopped putting pink triangles in our schools and lying to children. They should know about the crime, violence, and disease potential of this lifestyle choice.

[2ndClassCitizen]

Yeah but if even one homosexual couple was fulfilled, then it is worth trashing the entire culture of family and love between a man and a woman, for the other 98% of the population.

[robertpaulsen]

Another important statistic would be how many are still "married" after one year.

[Kozak]

They don't want to be married. They want to destroy the very idea of marriage.

[robertpaulsen]

"Homosexuality is incompatible with a committed relationship."

And homosexual couples admit that their relationships are not monogamous. Which negates the homosexual-marriage-helps-to-prevent-the-spread-of-disease argument.