The real truth about homoloveuals

Many times, homoloveual relationships are touted as being no different than ordinary married couples. But research shows that in several key respects, the homoloveual lifestyle differs radically from other types of relationships.

by: Timothy J. Dailey, Ph. D. "Married and Gay Couples Not All that Different," proclaimed the headline of a news article portraying homoloveual households as remarkably similar to married couples. "We're the couple next door," claimed one partnered homoloveual. "We have a dog and a cat. I drive a Volvo. I'm boring."1 Such down-home portrayals of homoloveual couples are meant to provoke the question: Since gay couples really differ only in that both partners are of the same love, what rational basis exists for denying them full marriage rights? Are homoloveual households, as the article suggests, simply another variant of human relationships that should be considered, along with marriage, as "part of mainstream American society"? On the contrary, the evidence indicates that "committed" homoloveual relationships are radically different from married couples in several key respects: � relationship duration � monogamy vs. promiscuity � relationship commitment � number of children being raised � health risks � rates of intimate partner violence Finally, this paper will present evidence from gay activists themselves indicating that behind the push for gay marriage lies a political agenda to radically change the insbreastution of marriage itself. RELATIONSHIP DURATION Gay activists often point to high divorce rates and claim that married couples fare little better than homoloveuals with regard to the duration of their relationships. The research, however, indicates that male homoloveual relationships last only a fraction of the length of most marriages. Married Couples � A 2001 National Center for Health Statistics study on marriage and divorce statistics reported that 66 percent of first marriages last ten years or longer, with fifty percent lasting twenty years or longer.2

Source: National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2001) � A 2002 U.S. Census Bureau study reported similar results, with 70.7 percent of women married between 1970 and 1974 reaching their tenth anniversary and 57.7 percent staying married for twenty years or longer.3

Source: Current Population Reports: U.S. Census Bureau (2002) Male Homoloveual Relationships The 2003-2004 Gay-Lesbian Consumer Online Census surveyed the lifestyles of 7,862 homoloveuals. Of those involved in a "current relationship," only 15 percent describe their current relationship as having lasted twelve years or longer, with five percent lasting more than twenty years.4 While this "snapshot in time" is not an absolute predictor of the length of homoloveual relationships, it does indicate that few homoloveual relationships achieve the longevity common in marriages.

Source: 2003-2004 Gay-Lesbian Consumer Online Census � In The loveual Organization of the City, University of Chicago sociologist Edward Laumann argues that "typical gay city inhabitants spend most of their adult lives in 'transactional' relationships, or short-term commitments of less than six months."5 � A study of homoloveual men in the Netherlands published in the journal AIDS found that the "duration of steady partnerships" was 1.5 years.6 � In his study of male homoloveuality in Western loveuality: Practice and Precept in Past and Present Times, Pollak found that "few homoloveual relationships last longer than two years, with many men reporting hundreds of lifetime partners."7 � In Male and Female Homoloveuality, Saghir and Robins found that the average male homoloveual live-in relationship lasts between two and three years.8 MONOGAMY VS. PROMISCUITY: loveUAL PARTNERS OUTSIDE OF THE RELATIONSHIP Lest anyone suffer the illusion that any equivalency between the loveual practices of homoloveual relationships and traditional marriage exists, the statistics regarding loveual fidelity within marriage are revealing: Married couples � A nationally representative survey of 884 men and 1,288 women published in the Journal of love Research found that 77 percent of married men and 88 percent of married women had remained faithful to their marriage vows.9 � A 1997 national survey appearing in The Social Organization of loveuality: loveual Practices in the United States found that 75 percent of husbands and 85 percent of wives never had loveual relations outside of marriage.10 � A telephone survey conducted for Parade magazine of 1,049 adults selected to represent the demographic characteristics of the United States found that 81 percent of married men and 85 percent of married women reported that they had never violated their marriage vows.11 Male Homoloveuals Research indicates that the average male homoloveual has hundreds of love partners in his lifetime: � The Dutch study of partnered homoloveuals, which was published in the journal AIDS, found that men with a steady partner had an average of eight loveual partners per year.12 � Bell and Weinberg, in their clbuttic study of male and female homoloveuality, found that 43 percent of white male homoloveuals had love with 500 or more partners, with 28 percent having one thousand or more love partners.13 � In their study of the loveual profiles of 2,583 older homoloveuals published in the Journal of love Research, Paul Van de Ven et al. found that "the modal range for number of loveual partners ever of homoloveuals was 101-500." In addition, 10.2 percent to 15.7 percent had between 501 and 1,000 partners. A further 10.2 percent to 15.7 percent reported having had more than one thousand lifetime loveual partners.14 � A survey conducted by the homoloveual magazine Genre found that 24 percent of the respondents said they had had more than one hundred loveual partners in their lifetime. The magazine noted that several respondents suggested including a category of those who had more than one thousand loveual partners.15 "Commitment" in Male Homoloveual Couples Even in those homoloveual relationships in which the partners consider themselves to be in a committed relationship, the meaning of "committed" or "monogamous" typically means something radically different than in heteroloveual marriage. � A Canadian study of homoloveual men who had been in committed relationships lasting longer than one year found that only 25 percent of those interviewed reported being monogamous." According to study author Barry Adam, "Gay culture allows men to explore different...forms of relationships besides the monogamy coveted by heteroloveuals."16 � The Handbook of Family Diversity reported a study in which "many self-described 'monogamous' couples reported an average of three to five partners in the past year. Blasband and Peplau (1985) observed a similar pattern."17 � In The Male Couple, authors David P. McWhirter and Andrew M. Mattison reported that, in a study of 156 males in homoloveual relationships lasting from one to thirty-seven years: Only seven couples have a totally exclusive loveual relationship, and these men all have been together for less than five years. Stated another way, all couples with a relationship lasting more than five years have incorporated some provision for outside loveual activity in their relationships.18 As the following chart shows, the extremely low rate of loveual fidelity among homoloveual men dramatically contrasts with the high rate of fidelity among married heteroloveuals.

Sources:Laumann, The Social Organization of loveuality, 216; McWhirter and Mattison, The Male Couple: How Relationships Develop (1984): 252-253; Wiederman, "Extramarital love," 170. According to McWhirter and Mattison, most homoloveual men understood loveual relations outside the relationship to be the norm and viewed adopting monogamous standards as an act of oppression. In their Journal of love Research study of the loveual practices of older homoloveual men, Paul Van de Ven et al. found that only 2.7 percent of older homoloveuals had only one loveual partner in their lifetime.19 Brad Hayton provides insight into the atbreastudes of many homoloveuals towards commitment and marriage: Homoloveuals...are taught by example and belief that marital relationships are transitory and mostly loveual in nature. loveual relationships are primarily for pleasure rather than procreation. And they are taught that monogamy in a marriage is not the norm and should be discouraged if one wants a good "marital" relationship.20 While the rate of fidelity within marriage cited by these studies remains far from ideal, there is a significant difference between the negligible lifetime fidelity rate cited for homoloveuals and the 75 to 90 percent cited for married couples. This indicates that even "committed" homoloveual relationships display a fundamental incapacity for the faithfulness and commitment that is axiomatic to the insbreastution of marriage. LEVEL OF COMMITMENT IN HOMOloveUAL RELATIONSHIPS If homoloveuals and lesbians truly desired the same kind of commitment signified by marriage, then one would expect them to take advantage of the opportunity to enter into civil unions or registered partnerships, which grant them legal recognition as well as the legal rights of marriage. However, surprisingly few homoloveuals and lesbians choose to enter into such legally recognized unions where such arrangements are available, indicating that such couples do not share the same view of commitment as typified by married couples. Vermont In April 2000, the governor of the state of Vermont signed a law insbreastuting civil unions for homoloveuals. The bill conferred 300 privileges and rights enjoyed by married couples upon same-love partners who register their relationship with the town clerk and have their union solemnized by a member of the clergy or the justice of the peace. Estimating the homoloveual and lesbian population of Vermont: The number of homoloveuals and lesbians in the state of Vermont may be estimated based on national studies. Contrary to the widely promulgated but inaccurate claims that up to ten percent of the population is homoloveual, research indicates that homoloveuals comprise one to three percent of the population. For example, a recent study in Demography relying upon three large data sets--the General Social Survey, the National Health and Social Life Survey, and the U.S. Census--estimated the number of exclusive male homoloveuals in the general population to be 2.5 percent and the number of exclusive lesbians to be 1.4 percent.21 According to the 2000 Census, the adult population of Vermont is 461,304.22 Based on the Demography study, a reasonable estimate of the number of homoloveuals and lesbians in Vermont would be approximately 5,600 (2.5 percent of the adult male population) for male homoloveuals, and approximately 3,300 (1.4 percent of the adult female population) for lesbians, for a total of approximately 8,900 homoloveuals and lesbians. Note: these are only rough approximations for purposes of statistical comparison. Number of homoloveuals and lesbians in Vermont who have entered into civil unions: USA Today reports that, as of January 2004, only 936 homoloveual or lesbian couples (for a total of 1,872 individuals) have entered into civil unions.23 This indicates that only about 21 percent of the estimated homoloveual and lesbian population of Vermont has entered into civil unions. Put another way, 79 percent of homoloveuals and lesbians in Vermont choose not to enter into civil unions. By contrast, in Vermont, heteroloveual married couples outnumber cohabiting couples by a margin of 7 to 1, indicating a much higher level of desire on the part of heteroloveual couples to legalize their relationships.24 For purposes of comparison it may be useful to examine two countries that have granted special rights to homoloveuals, including marriage-like civil unions, which grant gays and lesbians virtually all of the rights of marriage. Sweden In 1995 Sweden pbutted the Registered Partnership Act which created civil unions for homoloveual couples. In 2003 that law was amended to give registered homoloveual couples the same right to adopt or have legal custody of children as married couples. The percentage of homoloveual or lesbians in Sweden that enter into civil unions may be estimated as follows: Estimated homoloveual and lesbian population of Sweden: Extrapolating from the Demography estimates in the U.S., a similar percentage of the homoloveual and lesbian population of Sweden would be approximately 140,000 (2.5 percent of the adult male population of 3,531,554, and 1.4 percent of the adult female population of 3,679,317).25 Number of homoloveuals and lesbians in Sweden who have registered their unions: The number of registered same-love unions in Sweden is reported to be about 1,500 (for a total of 3,000 individuals) out of the estimated homoloveual and lesbian population of 140,000.26 This indicates that only about two percent of Swedish homoloveuals and lesbians choose to enter into legally recognized unions. Put another way, about 98 percent of Swedish homoloveuals and lesbians do not officially register as same-love couples. The Netherlands A landmark law allowing same-love "marriage" was insbreastuted in the Netherlands on March 31, 2001, with a highly publicized communal ceremony that included two lesbian "brides" and six homoloveual "grooms." The Netherlands insbreastuted a "registered partnership" law in 1998 that accorded legal status to homoloveual relationships similar to that of marriage. The new law, which explicitly recognizes same-love matrimony, is restricted to Dutch nationals. However, as the following analysis shows, the percentage of homoloveuals and lesbians that have entered into marriage-like civil unions is very low. Estimated homoloveual and lesbian population of the Netherlands: Extrapolating from demographic figures for homoloveuals and lesbians in the U.S., a similar percentage for the Netherlands would be 242,000 (2.5 percent of the adult male population of 6,161,662, and 1.4 percent of the adult female population of 6,311,338).27 Number of Dutch homoloveuals and lesbians who have registered their unions: A news report by the Gay Financial Network predicted that "some 10,000 gay couples could be married" in the first year following the legalization of gay "marriage" in the Netherlands. In reality, far fewer chose to solemnize their relationships. The Office of Legislative Research released a report in October 2002 stating: "The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs reports that 3,383 of the 121,776 marriages licensed between April 1, 2001, and June 30, 2002, involved people of the same love."28 Thus, as of October 2002, only 2.8 percent, or 6,766 individuals (3,383 licenses) out of an estimated homoloveual and lesbian population of 242,000, have registered their unions as "married."

Sources:U.S. Census Bureau, Married-Couple and Unmarried-Partner Households: 2000, 2; Black, "Demographics," 141; U.S. Census Bureau Census 2000 Summary File 1; Bayles, "Vermont's Gay Civil Unions," 1; Census 2000 Special Reports, 4; Shane, "Many Swedes Say 'I Don't,'" 1; "ORL Backgrounder," 1. The much lower rates of homoloveual and lesbian civil "marriages" in Sweden and the Netherlands must be viewed in the light of much lower marriage rates in both of those countries, a trend that the introduction of gay "marriage" in the 1990s has not reversed. Thus, as writer Stanley Kurtz argues, the granting of marriage rights to homoloveuals and lesbians "has further undermined the insbreastution" of marriage: "Scandinavian gay marriage has driven home the message that marriage itself is outdated, and that virtually any family form, including out-of-wedlock parenthood, is acceptable."29 Conclusion: Level of Relationship Commitment Among Homoloveuals Data from Vermont, Sweden, and the Netherlands reveal that only a small percentage of homoloveuals and lesbians identify themselves as being in a committed relationship, with even fewer taking advantage of civil unions or, in the case of the Netherlands, of same-love "marriage." This indicates that even in the most "gay friendly" localities, the vast majority of homoloveuals and lesbians display little inclination for the kind of lifelong, committed relationships that they purport to desire to enter. NUMBER OF CHILDREN BEING RAISED IN HOMOloveUAL HOUSEHOLDS Inflated Statistics for Homoloveual Households in the United States Claims regarding the numbers of children being raised in homoloveual and lesbian households vary widely and are often unsubstantiated. According to a study on homoloveual parenting in the American Sociological Review, researchers have given figures "of uncertain origin, depicting a range of...6 to 14 million children of gay or lesbian parents in the United States."30 According to the study's authors, Judith Stacey and Timothy J. Biblarz, the higher estimates are based upon "clbuttifying as a lesbigay sic parent anyone who reports that even the idea of homoerotic love is appealing."31 Instead, the authors favor a figure of about one million, which "derives from the narrower...definition of a lesbigay parent as one who self-identifies as such."32 However, even the lower figure of one million children being raised in gay and lesbian households does not stand up to statistical analysis. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that there are 594,391 same-love unmarried partner households in the United States (301,026 male homoloveual households and 293,365 lesbian households).33 This indicates that only one percent of the total of 59,968 plus 1,000 households contain same-love partners. buttuming the Stacey-Biblarz estimate that one million children have a homoloveual or lesbian parent, this would mean that, on average, every homoloveual household has at least one child.34 However, the 2000 Census figures show that only 33 percent (or 96,810) of female same-love households and 22 percent (or 66,225) of male same-love households have their own children living with them.35 These 163,035 same-love couples (or 326,070 individuals) comprise only 8 percent of the estimated homoloveual and lesbian population. Put another way, 92 percent of the estimated adult population of homoloveuals and lesbians in the U.S. do not live with children. By comparison, the 2000 Census showed that 46 percent of married couple households have at least one child living in the household.36 However, this figure underestimates the total number of married couples who have had children, as many older couples have grown children who are no longer living at home.

*Sources:Black, "Demographics," 141; Census 2000 Special Reports, 4. The Stacey-Biblarz estimates may include children being raised by single homoloveuals, some of whom are raising their own biological children conceived in a previous heteroloveual relationship. Nevertheless, these calculations indicate how absurdly inflated most of the estimates are concerning the number of children being raised by homoloveuals. Far from being the proven success that some claim, homoloveual parenting remains very much the exception rather than the rule. Implications for Homoloveual Parenting Gay activists attempt to minimize the differences between homoloveual and heteroloveual households in order to make homoloveuality look as normal as possible. However, as already shown, only a small minority of gay and lesbian households have children. Beyond that, the evidence also indicates that comparatively few homoloveuals choose to establish households together--the type of setting that is normally prerequisite for the rearing of children. The Human Rights Campaign, a homoloveual advocacy organization, claims that the U.S. population of gays and lesbians is 10,456,405, or five percent of the total U.S. population over 18 years of age.37 However, as we have seen, the best available data supports a lower estimate of 2.5 percent for male homoloveuals and 1.4 percent for lesbians.38 This would lead to a figure of approximately 4,040,000 homoloveual men and women in the U.S. population. Thus, only about 30 percent of homoloveuals (1,202,418 out of some 4 million) choose to live in a household with a person of the same love. The above indicates that only a small minority of gays and lesbians choose to live in partnered relationships, and furthermore, only a small percentage of partnered homoloveual households actually have children. The evidence thus does not support the claim that significant numbers of homoloveuals desire to provide a stable home for children. HEALTH RISKS Even those homoloveual relationships that are loosely termed "monogamous" do not necessarily result in healthier behavior. The evidence indicates that homoloveual and lesbian relationships are at far greater risk for contracting life-threatening disease compared with married couples: � The journal AIDS reported that men involved in relationships engaged in anal intercourse and oral-anal intercourse with greater frequency than did those without a steady partner.39 Anal intercourse has been linked with a host of loveually transmitted diseases, including AIDS. � The exclusivity of the relationship did not diminish the incidence of unhealthy loveual acts, which are commonplace among homoloveuals. An English study published in the same issue of AIDS concurred, finding that most "unsafe" love acts among homoloveuals occur in steady relationships.40 � A study of steady and casual male homoloveual relationships in Amsterdam found that "steady partners contribute to (HIV) incidence more than casual partners. This can mainly be explained by the fact that risky behavior with steady partners is much greater than that with casual partners (30 versus 1.5 UAI unprotected anal intercourse acts annually)."41 � These findings confirmed an earlier study by the Dutch Department of Health and Environment, which found that 67 percent of HIV-positive men aged 30 and younger had been infected by a steady partner. The study concluded: "In recent years, young gay men have become more likely to contract HIV from a steady loveual partner than from a casual one."42 "Exclusive" Lesbian Relationships Also at Risk The buttumption that lesbians involved in exclusive loveual relationships are at reduced risk for loveual disease is false: � The journal loveually Transmitted Infections concludes: "The risk behavior profile of exclusive WSW (women who have love with women) was similar to all wsw."43 One reason for this is because lesbians "were significantly more likely to report past loveual contact with a homoloveual or biloveual man and loveual contact with an IDU (intravenous drug user)."44 Greater Risk for dissolution Homoloveual and lesbian relationships experience a far greater rate of mental health problems compared to married couples. � A twins study that examined the relationship between homoloveuality and dissolution, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, found that homoloveuals with same-love partners were at greater risk for overall mental health problems and were 6.5 times more likely than their twins to have attempted dissolution. The higher rate was not attributable to mental health or substance abuse disorders.45 INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE Lesbian and Homoloveual Relationships Research indicates very high levels of violence in homoloveual and lesbian relationships: � A study in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence examined conflict and violence in lesbian relationships. The researchers found that 90 percent of the lesbians surveyed had been recipients of one or more acts of verbal aggression from their intimate partners during the year prior to this study, with 31 percent reporting one or more incidents of physical abuse.46 � In a survey of 1,099 lesbians, the Journal of Social Service Research found that slightly more than half of the lesbians reported that they had been abused by a female lover-partner. The researchers found that "the most frequently indicated forms of abuse were verbal-emotional-psychological abuse and combined physical-psychological abuse."47 � A study of lesbian couples reported in the Handbook of Family Development and Intervention "indicates that 54 percent had experienced 10 or more abusive incidents, 74 percent had experienced six or more incidents, 60 percent reported a pattern to the abuse, and 71 percent said it grew worse over time."48 � In their book Men Who Beat the Men Who Love Them: Battered Gay Men and Domestic Violence, Island and Letellier postulate that "the incidence of domestic violence among gay men is nearly double that in the heteroloveual population."49 Gay and lesbian vs. other opposite-love intimate partner relationships Surveys conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice confirm that homoloveual and lesbian relationships had a far greater incidence of domestic partner violence than opposite-love relationships including cohabitation or marriage. � The National Violence against Women Survey, sponsored by the National Insbreastute of Justice, found that "same-love cohabitants reported significantly more intimate partner violence than did opposite-love cohabitants. Thirty-nine percent of the same-love cohabitants reported being raped, physically buttaulted, and-or stalked by a marital-cohabitating partner at some time in their lifetimes, compared to 21.7 percent of the opposite-love cohabitants. Among men, the comparable figures are 23.1 percent and 7.4 percent."50

Source: "Extent, Nature, and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence," U.S. Department of Justice: Office of Justice Programs, 30. Marriage vs. Other Types of Intimate Partner Relationships � A Bureau of Justice Statistics (an agency of the U.S. Department of Justice) report found that married women in traditional families experience the lowest rate of violence compared with women in other types of relationships.51 Women who were not married to their "intimate partner" (i.e., were cohabiting), experienced a rate of violence four times higher than that of married women (11.3 per thousand vs. 2.6 per thousand). 52

Source: "Intimate Partner Violence," Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report, Bureau of Justice Statistics, January 31, 2002: 4. Homoloveual and Lesbian Couples vs. Married Couples When homoloveual and lesbian relationships are directly compared with married couples, the difference in the domestic partner violence is pronounced:

Sources: "Extent, Nature, and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence," U.S. Department of Justice: Office of Justice Programs: 30; "Intimate Partner Violence," Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report:11. A POLITICAL AGENDA: REDEFINING MARRIAGE By their own admission, gay activists are not simply interested in making it possible for homoloveuals and lesbians to partake of conventional married life. Rather, they aim to change the essential character of marriage, removing precisely the aspects of fidelity and chasbreasty that promote stability in the relationship and the home: � Paula Ettelbrick, the former legal director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, has stated, "Being queer is more than setting up house, sleeping with a person of the same gender, and seeking state approval for doing so....Being queer means pushing the parameters of love, loveuality, and family, and in the process transforming the very fabric of society."53 � Homoloveual writer and activist Michelangelo Signorile speaks approvingly of those who advocate replacing monogamy with loveually "open" relationships: For these men the term "monogamy" simply doesn't necessarily mean loveual exclusivity....The term "open relationship" has for a great many gay men come to have one specific definition: A relationship in which the partners have love on the outside often, put away their resentment and jealousy, and discuss their outside love with each other, or share love partners.54 � The views of Signorile and Ettelbrick regarding marriage are widespread in the homoloveual community. According to the Mendola Report, a mere 26 percent of homoloveuals believe that commitment is most important in a marriage relationship.55 Former homoloveual William Aaron explains why even homoloveuals involved in "committed" relationships do not practice monogamy: In the gay life, fidelity is almost impossible. Since part of the compulsion of homoloveuality seems to be a need on the part of the homophile to "absorb" masculinity from his loveual partners, he must be constantly on the lookout for new partners. Consequently the most successful homophile "marriages" are those where there is an arrangement between the two to have affairs on the side while maintaining the semblance of permanence in their living arrangement.56 The evidence is overwhelming that homoloveual and lesbian "committed" relationships are not the equivalent of marriage. In addition, there is little evidence that homoloveuals and lesbians truly desire to commit themselves to the kind of monogamous relationships as signified by marriage. What remains, then, is the disturbing possibility that behind the demands for "gay marriage" lurks an agenda of undermining the very nature of the insbreastution of marriage. Timothy J. Dailey, Ph.D., is senior fellow in the Center for Marriage and Family Studies at the Family Research Council. Dr. Dailey and Peter Sprigg recently co-authored Getting It Straight: What the Research Says About Homoloveuality. END NOTES 1. Robert Gebeloff and Mary Jo Patterson, "Married and Gay Couples Are Not All that Different" Times-Picayune (November 22, 2003). 2. Matthew D. Bramlett and William D. Mosher, "First Marriage Dissolution, Divorce and Remarriage: United States," Advance Data, National Center for Health Statistics (May 31, 2001): 1. 3. Rose M. Kreider and Jason M. 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