Gay marriage vs. straight marriage: Who gets married sooner – and why

Contents:

• STRAIGHT UPL GET MARRIED EARLIER THAN GAY UPL. HERE'S A LOOK AT WHY.
• HETEROSEXUAL AND HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAG – ARE STRAIGHT AND GAY MARRIAG INTIL?
• ARE GAY MARRIAG HEALTHIER THAN STRAIGHT MARRIAG?
• GAY MARRIAGE VS STRAIGHT MARRIAGE
• DIVORCE RAT SIAR AMONG GAY AND STRAIGHT COUPL
• GAY DIVORCE AND STRAIGHT DIVORCE: THE DIFFERENCE
• THE RISE OF GAY MARRIAGE AND THE DECLE OF STRAIGHT MARRIAGE: WHERE'S THE LK?

STRAIGHT UPL GET MARRIED EARLIER THAN GAY UPL. HERE'S A LOOK AT WHY.

And until 2015 – when the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage – that didn't clu data shows that the average age at first marriage for homosexual upl was olr than heterosexual upl. Although Kerby wrote this article before same-sex marriage was legalized, his asssment of homosexual relatnships has not changed bee the trsilly disorred nature of same-sex relatnships has not changed. Then he nsirs the difficulti troduced by homosexual marriage obtag the same benefs.

This is not te (as I discs more tail my book A Biblil Pot of View on Homosexualy{1}).

HETEROSEXUAL AND HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAG – ARE STRAIGHT AND GAY MARRIAG INTIL?

So before we even nsir the impact of homosexualy, same-sex marriage, and other alternative liftyl, we should nsir the benefs of tradnal marriage to society. The popular media treats heterosexual upl and homosexual upl as if they are no different. One headle proclaimed, “Married and Gay Coupl Not All that Different, ” and sentially said they were jt like the uple next door.

{15} He shows that “mted” homosexual relatnships are radilly different om married upl at least six ways: relatnship duratn, monogamy vs. Gay activists often pot to high divorce rat among married upl, suggtg that heterosexuals fare no better than homosexuals. Rearch shows, however, that male homosexual relatnships last only a actn of the length of most marriag.

ARE GAY MARRIAG HEALTHIER THAN STRAIGHT MARRIAG?

For example, the Gay/Lbian Consumer Onle Cens of nearly 8, 000 homosexuals found that only 15% scribed their “current relatnship” lastg twelve years or longer.

{17} A study of homosexual men the Netherlands published the journal AIDS found that the “duratn of steady partnerships” was one and a half years. {18} In a study of male homosexualy reported Wtern Sexualy: Practice and Precept Past and Prent Tim, Pollak found that “few homosexual relatnships last longer than two years, wh many men reportg hundreds of lifetime partners. In the classic study by Bell and Weberg, they found that 43% of whe male homosexuals had sex wh 500 or more partners, wh 28% havg 1, 000 or more sex partners.

{22} And a Dutch study of partnered homosexuals, published the journal AIDS, found that men wh a steady partner neverthels had an average of eight sexual partners per year.

GAY MARRIAGE VS STRAIGHT MARRIAGE

The thors of The Male Couple reported that their study of 156 mal homosexual relatnships lastg om 1 to 37 years, “Only seven upl have a totally exclive sexual relatnship, and the men all have been together for ls than five years. ”{24} They also found that most homosexual men unrstood sexual relatns outsi the relatnship to be the norm, and ually viewed standards of monogamy as an act of opprsn. ” Timothy Dailey argu: “If homosexuals and lbians tly sired the same kd of mment signified by marriage, then one would expect them to take advantage of the opportuny to enter to civil unns or registered partnerships.

DIVORCE RAT SIAR AMONG GAY AND STRAIGHT COUPL

However, is clear that few homosexuals and lbians have chosen to take advantage of the var unns (same-sex marriage, civil unns, domtic partnerships), suggtg a difference mment pared wh married upl.

The three differenc (along wh others tailed by Timothy Dailey) monstrate a signifint difference between heterosexual and homosexual relatnships. Gay and lbian upl appear ls likely to m themselv to the type of monogamo relatnship found tradnal marriage.

GAY DIVORCE AND STRAIGHT DIVORCE: THE DIFFERENCE

Homosexual sir and temptatns may feel natural to some people, but they are not what God tends for human begs. Homosexual temptatn, like other sexual temptatns, is a rult of the fall (Genis 3).

Although there is a ncerted effort to ph for homosexual marriage wh our society, we have seen this article that there are fundamental differenc between heterosexual marriage and homosexual marriage. For more rmatn on this topic, vis the Probe webse and read many of our other articl on homosexualy. Kerby Anrson, A Biblil Pot of View on Homosexualy (Eugene, OR: Harvt Hoe Publishers, 2008).

THE RISE OF GAY MARRIAGE AND THE DECLE OF STRAIGHT MARRIAGE: WHERE'S THE LK?

Robert Gebeloff and Mary Jo Patterson, “Married and gay upl are not all that different, ” Tim-Piyune, 22 November 2003. Dailey, “Comparg the liftyl of homosexual upl to married upl, ” Fay Rearch Council Insight, 16. Al., “The ntributn of steady and sual partnership to the cince of HIV fectn among homosexual men Amsterdam, ” AIDS, 17 (2003): 1031.

Pollack, “Male Homosexualy, ” Wtern Sexualy: Practice and Precept Past and Prent Tim, ed. Weberg, Homosexuali: A Study of Diversy Among Men and Women (New York: Simon and Schter, 1978), 308-309.