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