2007-10-31 14:04:32 · 29 answers · asked by ? 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Lawyers certainly hope so.
It'll be interesting to see how "alimony" is decided in a same sex dissolution of matrimony.
2007-10-31 14:07:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
You know it! Along with the promises of marriage will come the lies of marriage. People make vows they won't keep. Love for many is sex or money. Or sex and money. People think they are in love because the sex is good for a time. As soon as it becomes commonplace, they become disinterested, and they always have their options. People like options, they give people a way out.
2007-10-31 14:10:36 · answer #2 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Doubt it. The only way they'd really increase is if gays get a higher percentage of divorces (which seems unlikely for gays who'd want to go through with such a process), or that the divorce rate among heterosexual couples (who would still make up the far, far, majority of married people) continues to go up through other circumstances.
2007-10-31 14:08:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
what do you mean if?, they (GLBT) will keep on pushing for same sex marriage and will eventually wear down the resistance and win. Just like what happened in MN with the Stadium. they (the Gov.) let the people vote on the issue and we said no, we will not build a stadium and pay for it out of taxes. then flash forward and guess what, they are building a stadium and the tax payers are paying for it.
And when it happens, I suspect their divorce rates will be just as high.
2007-10-31 14:12:41 · answer #4 · answered by exodust20 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If anything, they will be lower. Here's the reasoning.
We know through all kinds of studies that relationships are basically the same, gay people have the same ups and down, etc. etc. So, at first glance, one would assume they'd have the same divorce rate.
HOWEVER, heterosexual couples have that percentage of marriages where they just get married because one got the other pregnant unintentionally, and this is becoming more and more common--ignoring the fact that these two people obviously aren't committed enough to each other or in love enough with each other to have a successful marriage, they get together because "it's the right thing to do" (even though a kid would suffer more in a household with two parents who don't really love each other than with one parent). And, we all know that this percentage of marriages is practically always doomed to failure.
Now, then--there is no way for one 'member' of a gay couple to impregnate the other by accident, therefore that percentage of marriages never happens for them, and in turn, neither do the divorces.
So, overall, it's reasonable to assume that same-sex couples will have lower divorce rates than heterosexual couples. So much for 'the gays' "threatening the sanctity of marriage."
2007-10-31 14:06:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 5⤋
I doubt it.
Same sex marriage is legal in Massachusetts. That state has the lowest divorce rate in the country.
The highest divorce rates are in the Bible Belt.
2007-10-31 14:21:20 · answer #6 · answered by Sun: supporting gay rights 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think gays wil work that much harder on their relationships and work harder at staying together simply because of all the bigotry and hassles by straights who claim that gays are dangerous, evil and going to hell.
Gay marriage is of course legal in Canada.
2007-10-31 14:33:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually you are right about that point. Homosexual relationships on the average only last a few weeks to a few years.
Very rarely are there partners who have been together for 20 years and longer. Divorce rates would double if national gay rights were established allowing marriage and divorce.
A new set of laws would have to be written in that case and I believe this country will never allow them to marry let alone get divorced. It is unfair to the homosexual community to deny them these natural rights but unfair to the heterosexuals in forcing them to watch. Nothing good will happen for the Gay Community until a leader is elected like Dr. Martin Luther King who would stand and unite them in number.
2007-10-31 14:13:21 · answer #8 · answered by J.C. 2 · 0⤊ 5⤋
not until the divorce laws are updated too... rather funny in a sad way, the first lesbian couple married in MA tried to get a divorce in RI and had major problems, as the laws about divorce didn't apply...
2007-10-31 14:14:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
from the look of the first gay weddings over several years now, the divorce rate is the same between gay and hetero couples. there is no difference because of sexual preference. since there are more hetero couples than homo couples, the highest number of divorces are among hetero couples.
2007-10-31 14:08:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋