Study: Same sex marriage will not bring about Armageddon to our straight marriages

[ck4829]

While social conservatives depict same-sex marriage as a threat to married life as we know it, Iowa’s 18-month experience with the newly legalized institution has revealed striking similarities to traditional marriage and no discernible harm to it, according to research by IowaWatch.org.

Moreover, marriage statistics show that female couples made up nearly two-thirds of the same-sex marriages in Iowa in the year after the state Supreme Court ruled it legal in April 2009. Although experts say a single year does not constitute a trend, the disparity is consistent with the traditional way Americans raise children and establish their gender roles early in life. The disparity also reflects similar trends in other states where same-sex marriages are allowed.

The findings are based on more than a dozen interviews with gay couples and national experts, and on an examination of journal articles, marriage statistics, census data, polls and court rulings by IowaWatch.org, a nonprofit website run by The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism.

Thousands of same sex couples married during the year since the Iowa Supreme Court struck down the state’s Defense of Marriage Act in April 2009, and despite the controversy that has swirled around them, their marriages have endured.

http://iowaindependent.com/42714/same-sex-marriage-in-iowano-harm-to-traditional-marriage-study-finds

Crazy that there actually had to be a study to prove this.

[Zoeisright]

1. Quelle surprise!

Not. When you actually try to get a reason out of homophobes about why they think this poses such a threat to 'traditional' marriage, all they do is sputter. Because there isn't a reason.

[MineralMan]

2. Wait...you mean I won't have to marry a man?