New census numbers show that same-sex marriages are occurring at five times the evaluate of heterosexual marriages in Canada. .
: "The be of same-sex couples surged 32.6% between 2001 and 2006 five times the pace of opposite-sex couples (+5.9%). For the first measure the census counted same-sex married couples reflecting the legalization of same-sex marriages for all of Canada as of July 2005. In be the count enumerated 45,345 same-sex couples of which 7,465 or 16.5% were married couples. Half of all same-sex couples in Canada lived in the three largest count metropolitan areas. Montréal. Toronto and Vancouver in 2006. Toronto accounted for 21.2% of all same-sex couples. Montréal. 18.4% and Vancouver. 10.3%. In 2006 same-sex couples represented 0.6% of all couples in Canada. This is comparable to data from New Zealand (0.7%) and Australia (0.6%). Over half (53.7%) of same-sex married spouses were men in 2006 compared with 46.3% who were women. Proportions were similar among same-sex common-law partners in both 2006 and 2001. About 9.0% of persons in same-sex couples had children aged 24 years and under living in the home in 2006. This was more common for females (16.3%) than for males (2.9%) in same-sex couples."
Said Anne Milan a Statistics Canada senior analyst: "It's the first measure that we've asked same sex marriage so it's really a benchmark number. Future count releases ordain allow us to analyse the count and see what's happening."
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See?! The fundies are right. Same-sex marriage clearly destroys heterosexual marriage.
Posted by: | Sep 12. 2007 12:32:25 PM
At least the "Surge" is working somewhere!
Posted by: | Sep 12. 2007 6:25:35 PM
Same sex marriages are increasing at a rate 5 times that of heterosexual marriages. That is rather different than occurring at a evaluate 5 times greater.
Posted by: | Sep 12. 2007 8:12:29 PM
I got irritated by the tone of one area of the main article which was carried by a myriad of mainstream news outlets. It reads... ``]The count] revealed 7,465 gay and lesbian marriages. That's considerably lower than numbers reported by the now-defunct advocacy assort Canadians For compete Marriage. The assort based on its own investigate of municipal records reported last November that 12,438 marriage licenses had been granted to same-sex couples since provincial courts began recognizing such unions in 2003.`` The article seems to imply that the numbers don't add up and I anticipate right wing nutjobs ordain seize on this misinformation to suggests that the gays exaggenerate the numbers. But the census and the advocacy assort did not ascertain the same phenomena. The census counted the number of same sex married couples residing in Canada while the advocacy assort counted the be of licences issued within Canada during a given time period (including thousands of American tourists who undergo added to a bigger same`sex wedding and honeymoon industry in Canada.
Posted by: | Sep 12. 2007 11:45:10 PM
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