DATA SCARCE ON MASS. SSM: From the Washington Times

Same-sex "marriage" has been legal in Massachusetts for about six months, but research on the topic likely will remain scarce for a while because the state's Department of Public Health does not plan to release any data on the couples for at least a year.

Recent studies and press reports offer only a few contemporary glimpses into same-sex "marriage." For instance, it appears that lesbians are more likely to want to "marry" than homosexual men. Lesbian couples also are more likely to have children in the home than are male couples. Early tallies of same-sex "marriages" in Massachusetts, plus the unions performed illegally by local officials in California, Oregon and other states, indicate that nearly 11,000 couples lined up for marriage licenses this year. This is about 2 percent of the 594,391 same-sex partnered homes in the United States that the 2000 census found.

The U.S. Census Bureau also counted 415,970 children living in same-sex-couple households--a minuscule figure compared with activist groups' estimate of 6 million to 14 million children living with a homosexual parent. ...

In Massachusetts, surveys by the Boston Globe and Mass Equality, a homosexual-rights group, estimated that two-thirds of that state's same-sex "marriage" licenses went to lesbians. The Globe said at least 2,500 couples signed up for licenses when they became legal in May. An unknown number have been issued since then, although the Globe recently reported that some areas average two application requests per week.

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