The U.S. has not seen any negative effects on marriage, divorce or living arrangements among all couples since Massachusetts issued the first state-sanctioned, same-sex marriage licenses 20 years ago, a new analysis says.
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The analysis found that after states legalized marriage for same-sex couples, marriage numbers jumped in those states at rates greater than what could be accounted for by the new marriages of same-sex couples alone.
Researchers found no consistent evidence of an increase in divorce as a consequence of legalizing marriage for same-sex couples.
The analysis suggests that issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples had, if anything, led to a small positive impact on marriage attitudes among high school seniors.
I remember when it was THE issue that re-elected bush - every single church-going person I knew came out with rafts of talking point bullshit how it would ‘cheapen’ hetero-marriage, how children seeing married gays would confuse them and mess them up, how there would be rafts of fake marriages for immigration and other specious reasons.
They had a ton of bullshit, none of it plausible.
Bush won in a landslide. :|