With over 10 million residents, Portugal has seen just twenty gay and lesbian couples get married since the country made it legally possible in May and the law took effect June 7. Another 30 are scheduled before the year’s end. But the real question is: How many heterosexual marriages have the gays ruined since June 7? [Pictured: Teresa Pires and Helena Paixao, the nation’s first gay married couple]
ForeverGay
There hasn’t been a marriage culture in the gay community. Rates of marriage will slowly rise.
L.
At any rate, what matters is that we get the *choice* to marry. Or not. But *we* get to decide if we do or don’t.
AL
@ForeverGay
Marriage rates, in general, have been declining among straight couples too, especially in places like Europe where there aren’t as many financial benefits to marriage as in the U.S. for example.
People should, of course, have the choice to marry who they want but many people such as myself don’t see a reason to get married even though we still love our partners.