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Households with same-sex married couples have nearly doubled in USA since 2015
351 sats \ 8 comments \ @Coinsreporter 11 Mar charts_and_numbers
However, the number of households with same-sex couples was rising years before Obergefell v. Hodges. It was even rising years before 2013. States started legalizing same-sex marriage in the mid-2000s. In 2008, the Census changed the methodology for counting same-sex households and marriage rates rose accordingly. The number of same-sex married couples has increased each year except between 2018 and 2019.
Montana had the largest increase, 466.5%, or more than five times the share it had in 2014. Montana started with one of the lowest counts, however — 540 married households in 2014 — which grew to 3,059 by 2023. Nevada followed at 361.5%, and Georgia was third at 258.9%.
The states with the smallest percentage increases were North Dakota (16.0%), Connecticut (16.6%), and New Hampshire (49.6%).
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @Akg10s3 11 Mar
Gays and lesbians can go to hell 🔥
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undergotten 11 Mar
Really?
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undergotten 11 Mar
This is clearly not natural, done by design. Although I don't see anything wrong with it if it were natural, but it clearly fucking isn't. That's the problem, at least as I see it on a cursory examination.
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10 sats \ 3 replies \ @nout 11 Mar
Good for them! I'm happy to see people doing whatever they want to do without bothering anyone else and without the government trying to limit their freedoms.
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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 11 Mar
Me too but pretending to be married and demanding the governments stamp of approval for their fake marriage is going too far. A major purpose and function of marriage is for the protection of the rights of children who may result within a relationship- but gays cannot produce children and yet classifying their unions as marriage legitimises and encourages the denying of children of the presence and care of both biological parents.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @nout 11 Mar
I agree that government should not be in position to give "stamp of approval" for anything that a free person wants to do without hurting others. That is indeed too far.
Same-sex married couples can adopt, or use e.g. donor sperm (so go through full pregnancy - i.e. produce the children in their uterus, IVF) and they hold the same responsibilities for the children. There are shitty parents and non-shitty parents on both sides. Frankly, since gays have to fight for it more and the barriers are higher (vs "oops, didn't pull out"), my guess would be that there is a smaller % of the shitty parents on the gay side (again, that's just my guess, no data).
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 11 Mar
Same sex 'married' couples cannot naturally or inherently create a child from their union.
They can only obtain a child by denying it the presence of at least one of its parents from its home, family and upbringing.
Marriage is the joining/melding of two into one and same sex couples are not biologically capable of this and thus same sex marriage is a woke abomination, blatant falsehood and tantamount, imo, to enabling child abuse, when the claim of marriage is used to infer the 'right' to raise children, where those children are not and cannot be created within that union.
Same sex identifying people have significantly higher levels of childhood trauma. They are traumatised individuals and inherently incapable of producing children in a 'marriage' with their partner.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 11 Mar
Same sex marriage is a nonsense and abomination - it is an outright denial of biological reality.
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