Tuesday, November 6, 2007

How queers could save marriage

Apparently, as divorce rates remain high (but not, like, super high) and marriage rates are dropping across the country, LGBT people are picking up the rainbow flag and coming to monogamy's rescue.

That's right. Monogamy. Look at these stats: the number of same-sex couples reporting themselves as “unmarried partners” has quintupled since 1990 from, and the number of same-sex couples increased 21 times faster than the U.S. population from 1990 to 2006.

Uh-oh. And the gays are not only conquering common-law marriage (though it's not it's legal yet or something), they're invading the South and the mountain states. East South Central states of Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee saw a combined increase of 863 percent. Mountain states of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Montana, Utah, Nevada and Idaho had an increase of 698 percent.

Aaaaaah.

Atlanta, by the way, has one of the highest concentrations of same-sex couples in the country, behind San Francisco, Seattle, Minneapolis (wait, what?) and Washington D.C. -- yep, the LGBT couples now roam the nation's capital.

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