NYDPs
The end of marriage as we know it?
The data tells [sic] it straight — three quarters of domestic partnerships in New York City are heterosexual couples.
"So far this year, 27% of overall domestic partnership registrations are same- sex couples. We are on par percentage-wise with last year," said Michael McSweeney, first deputy at the Office of the City Clerk.
For the first 10 months of this year, there were 2,863 domestic partnership registrations, of which only 767 were homosexual couples. In 2005, there were 815 same-sex domestic partnerships out of 3,066.
[excerpt from Chuck Bennett, "Domestic partnerships mostly straight couples", Newsday, 30 October 2006.]
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on Tuesday, 31 October 2006 at 17.12
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The completely unsupported charge domestic partnerships, civil unions and such threaten traditional man-woman marriage is baseless fearmongering.
Since traditional man-woman marriage hinges on holy matrimony, as "solemnized" with the help of a cleric in a church, or at least among an assemblage of people of faith, it would appear that in the Big Apple, the domestic partnership alternative might pose a minor threat. The infinitesimally small percentage of same-sex link-ups could only be threatening to paranoid personalities and politicians hard up for something to demagog about.