Marriage ain't what it used to be

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Mon, 05-17-2004 - 5:37pm
The first couple to receive marriage liscense confirms what critics described as most likely pattern for gay marriage.

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=28184

"e says the concept of forever is``overrated'' and that he, as a bisexual, and Rogahn, who is gay, have chosen to enjoy an open marriage. ``I think it's possible to love more than one person and have more than one partner, not in the polygamist sense,'' he said.``In our case, it is, we have, an open marriage.''"



Renee

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Mon, 05-17-2004 - 6:29pm

The first couple to receive marriage liscense confirms what critics described as most likely pattern for gay marriage.


What a disgustingly bigoted statement.

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Mon, 05-17-2004 - 6:37pm

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The only one implying anything is you. All the person stated was that critics are saying that gay marriages like this one

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Mon, 05-17-2004 - 7:32pm

The only one implying anything is you. All the person stated was that critics are saying that gay marriages like this one

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Tue, 05-18-2004 - 9:33am
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Not at all. It's based on established gay behavior. Male homosexuals very rarely have exclusive relationships. The vast majority of long term relationships they have are open.

I would think that those who support fundamentally altering one of the most basic human institutions would have at least looked into what they were supporting.

Renee

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Tue, 05-18-2004 - 9:38am
Not at all. It's based on established gay behavior. Male homosexuals very rarely have exclusive relationships. The vast majority of long term relationships they have are open.

There used to be studies that said that black people as a "race" were less intelligent, and we still have fools who think it is perfectly fine to "assume" that black people are better at sports and asian people are better at math.

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Tue, 05-18-2004 - 9:45am

>"it is based on peoples assumtions and beliefs that are based in bigotry, fear

 


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Tue, 05-18-2004 - 10:21am
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Actually it sounds like your position is based on your assumption that homosexual & heterosexual relationships are the same. That's as false an assumption as the one about gender that was popular in the 70s which said the only phychological differnce between males and females was how they were raised.

Are you even aware of the scientific reseach?


*A 1991 study of homosexual men in New York City revealed that the average number of lifetime sexual partners was 308. (Meyer-Balburg H. Exner, T.,Lorenz G., Gruen, R., Gorman, J, Ehrhardt, A (1991) Sexual Risk Behavior, Sexual Functioning and HIV-Disease Progression in Gay Men Journal of Sex Research. 28, 1: 3-27.)

*According to Centers for Disease Control interviews, 50% of male homosexuals had over 500 sexual partners, the first several hundred homosexual men diagnosed with AIDS had an average of l,100 lifetime partners. (Rotello, G. (1997). Sexual Ecology: AIDS and the Destiny of Gay men. NY: Dutton.)

*Clinicians Mattison and McWhirter studied 156 long-term homosexual relationships, but found that not one couple was able to maintain sexual fidelity for more than five years. Most maintained a monogamous relationship for less than one year. Homosexual theorists respond by redefining promiscuity as normal and healthy for homosexual men. (The Male Couple: How Relationships Develop, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Schmidt, 1995)

*A. P. Bell and M. S. Weinberg, in their classic study of male and female homosexuality, found that 43% of white male homosexuals had sex with five hundred or more partners, with 28% having 1,000 or more sex partners. (A. P. Bell and M. S. Weinberg, Homosexualities: A Study of Diversity Among Men and Women (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978), pp. 308, 309; See also A. P. Bell, M. S. Weinberg, and S. K. Hammersmith, Sexual Preference (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981)

*Few homosexual relationships last longer than two years, but in a study of 156 males in homosexual relationships lasting from 1-37 years, "all couples with a relationship lasting more than five years have incorporated some provision for sexual activity outside of their relationships." (David P. McWhirter and Andrew M. Mattison, The Male Couple: How Relationships Develop, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1984, pp. 252, 253)

*In a study of 2,583 older homosexuals, "the modal range for number of sexual partners was 101-500. In addition, 10.2% to 15.7% had between 501 and 1,000 partners, and between 10.2% and 15.7% reported having had more than 1,000 lifetime sexual partners" (Paul Van de Ven et al., "A Comparative Demographic and Sexual Profile of Older Homosexually Active Men," Journal of Sex Research 34 (1997): 354).

*In their Journal of Sex Research study of the sexual practices of older homosexual men, Paul Van de Ven, et al, found that only 2.7% of older homosexuals had only one sexual partner in their lifetime. (Van de Ven et al., "A Comparative Demographic and Sexual Profile," p. 354.)


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Tue, 05-18-2004 - 10:48am

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I suppose you have documented studies that back up this assertion.


I mean, I hope you don't think that just because you said it, that makes it true........


When my partner and I went to New Paltz for our own marriage in March, we met more than 40 other couples.

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Tue, 05-18-2004 - 10:50am

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Pigs.


All men are pigs.


Get it straight (pun intended).

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Tue, 05-18-2004 - 10:55am

I can cite studies conducted more than a DECADE ago that indicate that people who rail the hardest and loudest against homosexuals are, in fact, repressed homosexuals fighting their own tendencies but manifesting that fight against OTHERS who are like them but more open about it.


Doesn't make every single homosexual or homophobe

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