Only 5% of Gays "legally" marry in Canada

http://powdertracks.blogtownhall.com/2008/05/15/only_5_of_gays_legally_marry_in_canada!.thtml ^

[newbie2008]

* It is significant to note that 18 months after same-sex “marriage” arrived in Canada (principally as a result of court decisions in Ontario and British Columbia), more than 95% of adult Canadian gays have chosen to ignore their new legal rig

[Dilbert San Diego]

I find this very interesting. There are similar low numbers getting married in Massachusetts. If they push so hard for the right to get married, why do so few homosexuals actually go ahead and get married?

[mnehring]

Technically, 100% of gays can marry. It is who they marry that has restrictions, just like for strait people.

[doc1019]

Perhaps they have counted the cost of divorce and found it wanting.

[HerrBlucher]

‘Why buy the cow when you can have the milk for free?’”

[CaspersGh0sts]

“Technically, 100% of gays can marry.”

No, technically, any adult can marry anyone they so choose. The law just doesn’t always recognize it. The legal fight for “gay marriage” isnt’ really about marriage, at all.

As for why they aren’t:

1) Most gay relationships are based on little more than sex. Having been to dozens of gay venues with a gay roommate, I think I can say this pretty definitively. A gay relationship that last 2 months without infidelity is an anciet one.

2) They’re keeping it on the backburner in case they ever decide to get serious.

3) They want to be seen as equals.

4) They wish to fight the Judeo-Christian culture that makes them feel incredibly insecure.

[svxdave]

Five percent are in love. The rest just want something else from their “relationship”.

[Viking2002]

It legitimizes their wanton buggery, pole-smokery, and peter-puffery. It makes Fagdom mainstream. They'd love nothing more than to turn the yoots of Amurrica into Cub Scout packs of little Clay Aikens, and they're the ones leading the camping trip. Monogomy has zero to do with it. And they'll swish, sway, mince, and act like drama queens in front of everyone ever immersed in our culture, our heritage, and our Judeo-Christian moral construct, with the sole purpose of implying, 'We took your civilization away from you, and now you're our bitch.'

[mnehring]

What I mean is that the exact same restrictions apply to gay and strait people, without asking their sexual orientation. The law currently states that someone who gets married must marry someone of a legal age for the state that person is in, the person must be of the opposite sex, and not a close relative. Nothing in the law asks, are you gay, and if you check yes, you cannot marry. You have the same restrictions as everyone. This means a gay man can marry a woman, just not another man. The same law applies equally and blindly for gay or strait. Gay people are asking for special application in the law, allowing marriage to someone of the same sex, even though that application of the law does not apply equally to everyone.

[Drango]

That's still .0000001 too many. I'm gonna marry my donkey in protest.

[Past Your Eyes]

The word “gays” should have also been in quotation marks.

[CaspersGh0sts]

I shouldn’t have said no in my post. I knew exactly where you were going with it. And I see and agree with your point. Any man can marry any woman, and any woman can marry any man, provided all are of legal age and not related. The laws apply equally to all.

The point I was making is that any two people can come together and call their bond a marriage. The law might not recognize it, others might not recognize it, but they do, and that’s what ultimately counts.

Funny, you almost never saw the bond formed in the gay community, even with much older couples.

[infowarrior]

There are similar low numbers getting married in Massachusetts. If they push so hard for the right to get married, why do so few homosexuals actually go ahead and get married?

Because it was never about "marriage" in the first place. It was about "being in your face" to traditional Christians, nothing more, nothing less...

the infowarrior

[mnehring]

Sorry, I responded too quickly myself. I am wanting to use their arguments against them. We cannot win on ‘moral’ arguments against those who don't hold the same morals and in courts that don't respect our morals. There is time when we need to fight with a legal, logical approach.

I do see what you are saying. I have several gay acquaintances who have a personal bond they call marriage, but isn't legal marriage. It is simply a vow among themselves. They aren't fighting for special legal rights and aren't out there trying to be activists, they just live their lives.

[arderkrag]

3) They want to be seen as equals.

In my experience, this is the major reason. No lofty goals of bringing down traditional marriage, no conspiracy to rip apart the Christian family. They just want the capability to marry under the law.

[mnehring]

They can legally marry under the law. The same laws apply to everyone. They are just restricted on who they marry, the same restrictions strait people have.

[arderkrag]

Please, show me a purely legal spot where one man marrying another impacts your rights. Otherwise there should be no such “restriction” under the law.

[Peter Libra]

Because it was never about "marriage' in the first place it was about "being in your face" to traditional Christians, nothing more, nothing less...

To go further on your statement. In this, I am not referring to the homosexual who quietly wishes to carry on their private lives as such. For the militant and spiteful homosexual who uses the vagaries of the law and it's activist judges, this.

The ordinary family of one man and one woman and their children, is an affront to their conscience. The homosexual of that ilk, seeks to destroy. Normal relationships are a glaring contradiction of who they are. Witness the squits who have ruined prominent political figures. They knew what they were in for. They consented to a clandestine encounter.

Suddenly they unload on the individual. Go public.

[elkfersupper]

If people do not wish for any sort of gay sex to happen, the fastest way to assure that is to legalize and institutionalize same-sex marriage.

If it works for heterosexuals, it should work for homosexuals.

[Szent_Adam_Kiraly]

The govt should stay outa this stuff.

On a more personal note,
More gay dudes = more women for me to choose from. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.