"Our country is terribly overpopulated today and really doesn’t need more “traditional” baby-generating marriages. Most hetro marriages are not worth a crap, anyway."

HM, you don't like marriage, or kids, so let's just get rid of them? Can you even hear yourself? I don't think that's going to go over well, but it does show your bias though doesn't it?

Our country is terribly overpopulated today and really doesn't need more "traditional" baby-generating marriages.

Most hetro marriages are not worth a crap, anyway.

I should hope not! But most of us are not content to live in a bubble while the rest of society is affected for the worse.

This is the case in Scandinavian countries where gay marriage is legal where illegitimacy is exploding now that people there no longer connect marriage to childbearing. And when illegitimacy goes up, so does the crime rate and social welfare costs.

Marriage between one man and one woman provides the ideal setting for the procreation and raising of children. A mother and a father are shown to comprise the best structure. That is the kind of family setting that should be promoted and encouraged by society.

Homosexual relationships always deny children of either a mom or a dad. Mothers and fathers are not interchangeable sicne men and women each have unique contributions to the well-being of children.

I find it ironic that gay acvivists notice clear differences between men and women when choosing mates to satisfy their sexual desires, yet insist that men and women are interchangable when it comes to parenting. So homosexuals get what they want sexually, but children must settle for whatever their same sex "parents" give them.

This places sexual fulfillment above what is best for children and is yet another reason why homosexual relationships should not be equated to marriage.

I was talking about gay marriage being imposed, as you well know.

Marriage is not imposed in any country in the world, so far as I know. You don’t have to get married anywhere. How could the number of marriages decline if marriage was being imposed?

As the number of marriages go down over time, then OF COURSE there are going to be less divorces!

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr57/nvsr57_19.htm#table2

The decline in the number of marriages can be seen in other places where marriage has been imposed like in Scandinavia and the Netherlands.

http://www.nationalreview.com/kurtz/kurtz200602230800.asp

This is because traditional family values support traditional marriage. When it is officially recognized as a civil and human rights violation in a country or a state, the frequency of marriages decrease. THAT'S the reason for less divorces as you need a marriage to have one in the first place.