Posted on 12/07/2013 7:19:07 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
Gay weddings made up 17 percent of marriages in Washington this past year, the first year gay marriages were legal in the state, state officials reported Wednesday.
About 7,071 same-sex couples got married in Washington between December 6, 2012, and the most recent complete month of data, September 2013. There were 42,408 total marriages in the state during that time, according to the Washington State Department of Health.
So far, most of Washington state's same-sex marriages, 62 percent, were between two women.
Washington is one of 15 states plus the District of Columbia where gay marriage is legal, but few have the kind of detailed data Washington released this week, in part because gay marriage is so new in most places.
According to the 2010 Census, there were about 152,335 same-sex married couples and 440,989 same-sex unmarried couples in the United States.
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“California would have repealed Prop 8 had the courts not made that moot”
Yup, I’ve been saying that for years.
“Virginia will have a repeal on its ballot next year.”
Where did you see this?
Freegards
That’s what I said (or meant to say, at any rate).
Gay marriage was prohibited by law in Minnesota. The voters had a chance to make that ban far stronger, but voted not to, and then the ban was repealed because they hadn’t.
Not exactly the same as a direct repeal of a constitutional amendment, as I said, but the closest I could think of.
It’s the left that wants to claim homosexuality is not a choice but a genetic inheritance. That’s absolutely false and there’s no evidence for it.
It’s difficult to find a clear scientific explanation of how sexual fetishes develop. But I believe whatever “causes” homosexuality are the same factors that cause any other kind of unnatural fetish.
Or it could be as simple as the fact that homosexuality is promoted, celebrated and portrayed in often pornographic ways throughout all our mass media. Simple marketing recruits more people into the lifestyle.
You know what to do ...
Indeed He does, and He has a built-in way to do it, too.
Ever hear of the Cascadia Subduction Zone? Same kind of fault as the one that tore up Japan back in '11. Set that thing off and Seattle (and Portland, for that matter)....and a LOT of the surrounding area...gets destroyed.
The irony of this stuff is that most of the fervent supporters working on it aren't gay.
Gay marriage never used to be a political goal — I think it became a big priority because of death by AIDS, the supposed benefit to be the formalization of the legal relationship in order to prevent the massive promiscuity among gay men. I mean, we’ve all heard how perfectly that works with heterosexual relationships. ;’)
My mistake - that’s what I get for not looking for a link.
I misremembered - Virginia’s repeal has been introduced in the legislature, but has a long way to go before it hits the ballot.
Still, only a matter of time. If we cling to “none of them have ever been repealed” the way we did “no electorate has ever voted for gay marriage” we’ll be caught as flat-footed as we were then. We need to strategize ahead, as our opponents do.
doubtful
Your sexual fetish and behavior is not determined by DNA in any way shape or form.
I stumbled across some show once, accidently, and watched a host of a TV show berate and badger a man trying to TELL him he had to be gay because his twin brother was.
It was disgusting.
Googling around there don’t seem to be too many studies of homosexuality in twins. One seems to have found a roughly 50% matching rate among twins who were raised together. The methodology in that study seems to have been questioned a lot. But 50% in twins raised together seems to show there isn’t a strong genetic cause, since physically these are identical twins. And unless the twins were separated, we can’t know if they were exposed to an environment that led them both into this lifestyle. Certainly if your twin sibling starts doing something of his own accord, you might be inclined to imitate him, whether it be drinking, drugs or this.
The twin studies I am refering to were of twins seperated at birth.
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