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Originally Posted by Alders
My understanding is that in Holland just a few years ago about 134,000 people would get married in a given year. Holland made same sex marriages about three years ago, and as a result of changes that we are about to embark on, both its homosexual and heterosexual marriages have dropped to around 30,000 per year. That is about a 75% reduction in the number of marriages. Therefore, I imagine it will also result in a drastic drop in the birth rate. Holland already has some issues on that front.
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Oooh, tricky guy. By my count, if you've got 30,000 marriages each of homosexual and heterosexual marriages, that's 60,000 marriages, and 120,000 people getting married. That's a reduction of less than ten percent, not 75%. And anyway, his stats are way off. Last year there were over 50 thousand marriages in the Netherlands, with about 1200 of them gay. Man, I wish he was a poster here; he'd be one of those guys who gets ripped to shreds in every debate.