I for one am elated that today the LGBT couples among us in California are finally allowed to express their love for each other like the rest of their fellow human beings. The New York Times has a fantastic feature where couples can submit their stories about their weddings, proposals, etc. It’s adorable and uplifting:
Your Stories: Gay Marriage in California
This is why I live in the Bay Area. Today we take a step toward a better future. Hurray and congratulations to all those getting married today!
June 19, 2008 at 7:43 am
the sociologist in me wonders what the divorce statistics for gay marriages will be.
I wonder if they will be lower because there will be no ‘forced’ marriages because someone is pregnant. Or because there won’t be pressure due to the partners worrying practicing different faiths since some of them will have had to give up the religions of their childhoods because those religions have rejected them. And in-law troubles may also be reduced. Because if one family has accepted a gay child, then they will accept the gay partner. Or both will be without families.
However, the divorce rate may be higher. Marriage changes a relationship no matter how long a couple has been together. Some will marry after being together for two decades, unable to marry until now. But once it is legal, the subtle changes of “being legal”, will doom the relationship.
Or the stresses of not having the support system of a religion and family backing and societial bigotry will be too much to overcome the built in stress of building a marriage.
Ah, the studies this will engender….