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Study: Same-sex marriage in 20 years had no negative effects

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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.

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But there have been more hurricanes per season, and we're getting hotter summers and colder winters. If that's not the gays, what is it? Greenhouse gases?
- Gayhouse gasses.
  
  Greenhouse gay asses
- Definitely all the hot, steamy gay sex "conservatives" never never ever fantasize about.
  
  ah yes, the WIDE STANCE party....
- And the frogs are WAY gayer in Massachusetts now, why is no one talking about it?!
  
  I mean you are.
- Yes the gays control the weather. And until Taco Tuesday becomes a Federal Holiday, the hurricanes WILL continue!!
  
  Taco Tuesday: not just the weekly romantic night for lesbians anymore!
  I support any legislation that supports lesbians and/or tacos. All REAL patriots do!
- all the hot air coming out of everyone's mouth over this and every other social wedge issue
- But there have been more hurricanes per season, and we’re getting hotter summers and colder winters.
  There have also been recessions and pandemics. I only bring them up because they're specifically mentioned in the Gay Agenda, article 69, section 666, paragraph 13.
  
  I keep telling people they need to learn the true threat about the gay agenda, it's rule 34. Don't search about it unless you're a true conservative.
Cool. Unfortunately, facts and studies typically have little effect on the kind of people who oppose gay marriage.
- yes, but we still need to test our own ideas. sometimes we're wrong. we have these kinda of tests because sometimes things we think are very obvious are proven wrong under rigorous testing.
  
  Of course antimatter falls down
Except on my relatives’ blood pressure, hey-yo!
But what about all the gay people now have mothers-in-law, which they didn't have before?
- My soon-to-be mother-in-law is an absolute saint. I wish my biological mother was a lot more like her tbh
  
  (I too love my MiL.)
- Abstinence is the only answer
what are the possible negative affects of gay marriage? the premise makes no sense.
like it was goign to up the divorce rate or something? is that 'bad'?
- 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. :|
- Eternal damnation, if that’s the nonsense you were groomed to believe as a child
Awesome to see for gay marriage.
Marriage is basically a tax shelter in the US.
Good. So now compare success of same sex marriage and non same sex marriage.

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