August 04, 2009
UK: Decline in Gay Marriages (suprise)
This doesn't surprise me at all actually. In my opinion, the gay community has too much time on its hands for political activism with little relationship to reality. There have been less than 9,000 gay unions in a country how big? I believe that most people have no problem with a 'civil union' of some sort, whereby gay couples can legally establish a partnership. However, the concept of gay marriage was meant just to destroy the traditional Judeo-Christian concept of marriage, and eventually the concept of monogamy as well. And if those concepts are busted-who is to say that people can't marry their iPods or cats?If the gay community was SO SO SO into getting married, then why aren't there more gay married couples? Why aren't we seeing a flood of gay couples rushing to get married?Could it be that they are actually not interested in getting married? Could it be that those communities have, at least, subconsciously recognized that they have tendencies toward multiple partners that generally preclude the concept of matrimonial monogamy?I think the figures speak for themselves. The numbers in Canada are similar.
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C-in-C, please allow me to analyze two lines from your post?
You wrote:
"However, the concept of gay marriage was meant just to destroy the traditional Judeo-Christian concept of marriage, and eventually the concept of monogamy as well."
I have no doubt some homosexuals actually DO think this way. However, in opinion the idea of gay marriage has ever had anything to do with marriage,as such (unless we're talking a really flamboyant guy who wants to wear a wedding dress for shock value).
From listening to the near-menstrual complaints of openly gay men for near on 20 years, the issue of marriage revolves around three concepts:
1. the normalization of behavior that the majority consider obscene.
2. avoiding some of life's more difficult moments, like when your lover is hospitalized and you're not allowed to make medical decisions for them, not being family, or, having a will contested by irate family members when Binky left it all to you (over-simplification, and generalization).
3. Economics
On 1; it's been my experience that gay men (especially) just want attention. Abnormally high levels of attention. It is, in part, why they became gay; it's what you do when sticking safety pins through your nose, getting outrageous tattoos, and dying your hair lime green no longer work, and you don't have the heart to become a slovenly heroin addict.
Once the rush they get from the negative attention that comes with being gay and offensive wears off, the quest morphs into one for positive attention and reinforcement from others...while still reserving the right to offend them if you wish.
On 2, too bad. You could avoid most of that sort of inconvenience with a little forethought (like living wills, for example), and for other situations, well, that's hit and miss; some people will accept you, and others won't, and often circumstances might play a part in which it is. This is human nature, and the nature of the law. Getting married doesn't spare you from it, in all cases.
As for 3, in the United States, Marreied couples (usually)pay lower income taxes. married couples aren't usually banned form rental units, and get a financial break from insurance companies for a variety of services. Employers typically offer health insurance benefits on a 'family plan', usually without much in the way of extra expense. of course, most states in the US also have comunal property laws in the divorce realm, so when your paramour breaks your heart, you can break his back financially.
On your second line:
"Could it be that those communities have....subconsciously recognized that they have tendencies toward multiple partners that generally preclude the concept of matrimonial monogamy?"
No, because that wa snever the purpose in the first place. As I've tried to explain, I believe it has always been about the ability to contunally poke an unaccepting society in the eye, and benefit financially from it while you do it.
I'm prepared for the flood of 'homophobe' responses sure to come my way. Direct that at me, please, not at C-in-C.
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