Ake - Can I also, please, draw to your attention as well as GfS's [from whom I still await a reply] to my post of 14 jan 03.56AM, regarding the respectable, loving, Civil-Partnered couples of my acquaintance whom I know to be as happy, faithful, secure, stable, as any heterosexual married couple I have ever known — including me and my beloved lost Valerie. They defy all the statistics you adduce, and the principles and precepts you appear to urge. Such couples are many, typical of a huge part of homosexual society [insofar as such a category can be isolated]. Where, please, do they fit into your reckoning?