Ake, you're just being silly. Let me point out to you that I am not "beating a retreat" as you so quaintly put it. Those were the figures that I had heard early on (in the 1950s) and which most people accepted for some decades. Further research has been done, and Wolfgang provided a link to some information on that research, which I have just read. When I am presented with new information that is more recent and more authoritative than what I previously heard, I am capable of revising what I hold to be the case. Are you? And it's interesting that you consider citing facts and figures as "stooping." By the way, 5% still scuppers your argument. All of this still leaves unanswered the question of how same-sex marriage affects the sanctity of the institution of marriage. Don Firth
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