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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1845&ncid=1845&e=1&u=/cpress/20041227/ca_pr_on_na/year_gay_marriage

i would also like to point out (i know someone was saying that there was a higher divorce rate among gay marriages)

More than 3,000 same-sex Canadian couples have already married and one Ontario couple has even filed for divorce.
1 couple out of more than 3,000 is divorcing... that's less than 1%.

same sex marriages are pretty much the same as opposite sex ones. i don't know why people like to highlight the difference in gender rather than point out the sameness in love. gay people and straight people are both groups of people who want someone to love and spend their lives with (with the exception of those who don't ever want to marry which can go in either category...) and i don't see why some people insist on denying other people the happiness that they themselves seek.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1845&ncid=1845&e=1&u=/cpress/20041227/ca_pr_on_na/year_gay_marriage

i would also like to point out (i know someone was saying that there was a higher divorce rate among gay marriages)


1 couple out of more than 3,000 is divorcing... that's less than 1%.

same sex marriages are pretty much the same as opposite sex ones. i don't know why people like to highlight the difference in gender rather than point out the sameness in love. gay people and straight people are both groups of people who want someone to love and spend their lives with (with the exception of those who don't ever want to marry which can go in either category...) and i don't see why some people insist on denying other people the happiness that they themselves seek.
What I don't understand is people freaking out about Divorce rates. "Children from broken homes grow up to be serial Killers!!!" Um no, my parents are divorced, and have been for as long as I can remember, I have yet to kill anyone. And incase you want to make the argument of 'it was to early for you to remember so of course you didn't loose your mind' my dad got divorced from his 2nd marriage when my half-brother was 4, so he remembers it and except for the occasional GTA related rampage, he's fine.

1 couple out of more than 3,000 is divorcing... that's less than 1%.


Got out your calculator didn't you. ;)

Even if the divorce rate were 100% it wouldn't matter.

i don't see why some people insist on denying other people the happiness that they themselves seek.

Hmmm maybe the straight males are trying to save the gay males some misery! :)

Got out your calculator didn't you. ;)

Even if the divorce rate were 100% it wouldn't matter.
no calculator necessary, it's less than one ina thousand, thus less than 1%. if i had my calculator i could give a more accurate number.. i think it's one third in a thousand... so 3 in ten thousand? and i know it doesn't matter, but someone was making claims along those lines last time i was on (sometime last week) and i thought i'd use this opportunity to debunk them at the same time.

1 couple out of more than 3,000 is divorcing... that's less than 1%.


Awesome math...

just because I can.
1/3000 = .00033333333... = 0.0333333....% which is approximately 3.3.... in 10,000

and look ma, no hands or calculator :P

just because I can.
1/3000 = .00033333333... = 0.0333333....% which is approximately 3.3.... in 10,000

and look ma, no hands or calculator :P
see post 5. i rounded to the nearest person.

see post 5. i rounded to the nearest person.

But that's not fair for the .333333... person, now is it?

But that's not fair for the .333333... person, now is it?
it's a little hard to count a third of a person though... if you want i can say1 in 3,000 but that gets us right back where we started.

and technically we're not even dealing witha third of a person, but a sixth as we're talking about a third of a couple...

it's a little hard to count a third of a person though... if you want i can say1 in 3,000 but that gets us right back where we started.

and technically we're not even dealing witha third of a person, but a sixth as we're talking about a third of a couple...

Alright but since we're in the realm of statistics, we have to report them with two third of a person. Because if we start rounding corners in statistics, we can come to preety outlandish conclusions. Hell, we could say that the US elections were dead even if we cut enough corners and factor in the statistical margin of error.

But, for the sake of this argument, I would have settled with "less than 1%". :)