well at least you finally admit it
lain: Sarcasm goes over your head perhaps...
I doubt you read as it's all fluff and nondsense.
Tracerbullet said:
but I'm not to lazy to use a spell checker
:rotfl:
Save yourself further embarrassment and stop posturing. I was quoting
you. You're not
to honest to admit when you're clearly full of it, perhaps.
Or was your spell checker broken that day?
yes yes yes the brief trots out the "5 percent reduction in heterosexual marriage rates" multiple times with much hand wringing and chest beating. However when you track down the source of the claim you find that the study they are taking the 5% figure from says something a little different. Specifically this 5% reduction in heterosexual marriage rates in the Netherlands only exists among women age 18-22. this reduction is short term in that the reduction disapears entirely for women by the age of 27. The study also goes on to note that this reduction while coincidental to the legalization of same gendered marriage it cannot be declared causative noting both the trend for marrying later rather than earlier and the introduction of Netherlands registered partnership (a civil union alternative to marriage.)
"It is impossible to attribute the decline in the marriage rate after
2001 to either the long-term effect of the registered partnership law or to the short-term effect of the same-sex marriage law." M. Trandafir The effect of same-sex marriage laws on different-sex marriage: Evidence from the Netherlands 2009
Your half-hearted rebuttal is quite transparent. The brief cited data from Spain, Canada, Belgium, early SSM states Vermont, Massacheusetts, Connecticut, Iowa as well as the Netherlands.
Your omission of rebuttal of all data
other than that of the Netherlands is telling. No mention of the higher rates of abortion, either.
Here is the entire 2009 study from Mircea Trandafir
"Legalizing same-sex marriage leads to a fall in the opposite-sex marriage rate"
Telling indeed.