Posted on 12/15/2006 2:16:10 AM PST by The Ghost of JG
There has not been a collapse of homosexuals rushing to get married in Spain, despite very high-profile exceptions. In Madrid in 2005 there were 259 same-sex couples married, 201 of which were between men, and the remaining 58 cases between women. Interestingly, of the Gay marriages, 182 were between Spaniards, 35 were with a South American, 15 included a North American partner, while 10 were with Central Americans, seven were with Europeans, and there was one Asian.
Those figures highlight not only the apathy toward the institution of marriage on the part of the homosexual subculture, but also the government's consummate desire to seek votes in detriment of enacting legislation to foment a higher birth rate and to protect the family, not to mention its ignoring large Spanish families.
These "numerous" - or large - families need help. Help that the Socialists promised while in opposition in the form of tax incentives and subsidies. Of the over 1 million families that qualify as being numerous - having more than three children - only around 6 percent qualify for a monthly pittance of roughly 52 euros that the government provides in the form of aid. There are no real tax breaks, and certainly no incentives on par with other developed countries to encourage families to have more children. Instead, the government promises that in January electricity rates will rise 6 percent across the board - once again punishing those with large families in an exorbitant manner.
Furthermore, instead of providing incentives to help Spaniards have more children, the current government is playing peek-a-boo with a seismic demographic shift that will rip apart its social fabric. According to a recent report, immigrants will represent over 25 percent of the population by 2050, sharply higher than the current 8.5 percent.
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As far as gays are concerned, this is no surprise. I have read there is a dearth of gays running to get married in Canada or Vermont. By the same token, I disagree with New Jersey's legislature, which is pushing "domestic partnership." I say give them full legal marriage and all that goes with it. The gay activists are no more interested in getting married than they are in joining the military or the boy scouts or the priesthood. They just want to cheapen and destroy the above institutions.
Give them marriage and scuttle "civil unions." I read there were companies in Massachusetts who are now telling their gay employees to either get married or kiss their partner's benefits goodbye. Give them exactly what they have been demanding and watch them howl.
You admit their only cause is to cheapen marriage and yet you would give it to them. I am sorry pardner,but that aint the way.
Give them nothing ,if they dont like it they can go to Canada or Spain or anywhere else but do not cheapen marriage by handing them what they want.
"Give them nothing"
Exactly. They have the right to be homosexual. They even have the right to demand rewards and prestige for being so. But the rest of us have the equal right to feel that they are disgusting deviants and, to the extent that they push this sickness on us, scorn them like the plague.
It's odd that more male than female homosexuals are getting "married".
You'd think it would be the other way round somehow..
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