Nearly 150,000 same-sex couples reported being in marriage relationships last year, many more than the number of actual weddings and civil unions, according to the first U.S. census figures released on same-sex marriages.
About 27 percent of the estimated 564,743 total gay couples in the United States said they were in a relationship akin to “husband” and “wife,” according to the Census Bureau tally provided to The Associated Press. That’s compared with 91 percent of the 61.3 million total opposite-sex couples who reported being married.
A consultant to the Census Bureau estimated there were roughly 100,000 official same-sex weddings, civil unions and domestic partnerships in 2008.
[url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2009/09/22/VI2009092202575.html]Jim McGreevey[/url] speaks.
“akin to marriage” is a fungible term, but it sounds acceptably normative. I note that for heterosexuals living together without benefit of wedlock there is a relationship “akin to marriage” that isn’t marriage. Is the same true of this “akin”?
Jim McGreevey: “You are who you are …†What happened to the naturalistic fallacy, that collapses what ‘is’ into ‘ought’?! To say nothing of sin in Adam and redemption in Jesus … How wretchedly sad.