Study Finds Gay Marriage Has No Effect On Straight Marriage

We’ve heard it over and over again…. If gays are allowed to marry, the entire institution of marriage (and perhaps civilization itself) will crumble.   Although few thinking people agreed with that assessment, there are now data to support that, no, gay marriage has exactly zero effect on straight marriage…. go figure!

A study conducted by researchers at Portland State University looked at marriage rates in all 50 states and the District of Columbia from 1989 to 2009.  They found that despite the constant hand wringing and furious warnings from politicians, preachers and judges alike, “…such claims do not appear credible in the face of the existing evidence, and we conclude that rates of opposite sex marriages are not affected by legalization of same sex civil unions or same sex marriages.”