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To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (542970)	2/19/2004 11:04:05 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

And homosexual marriage is destroying marriage in those countries too, just as we have long warned. Your sons and daughters will be raised in a society wherein closely knit, healthy families will be a thing of the past. The End of Marriage in Scandinavia The "conservative case" for same-sex marriage collapses. by Stanley Kurtz 02/02/2004, Volume 009, Issue 20 MARRIAGE IS SLOWLY DYING IN SCANDINAVIA. A majority of children in Sweden and Norway are born out of wedlock. Sixty percent of first-born children in Denmark have unmarried parents. Not coincidentally, these countries have had something close to full gay marriage for a decade or more. Same-sex marriage has locked in and reinforced an existing Scandinavian trend toward the separation of marriage and parenthood. The Nordic family pattern--including gay marriage--is spreading across Europe. And by looking closely at it we can answer the key empirical question underlying the gay marriage debate. Will same-sex marriage undermine the institution of marriage? It already has. weeklystandard.com