how many gay marriages have there been in the US? Elsewhere?

So If I read you correctly, you are saying that a trip to Canada convinced you of what a forgettable little piece of nothing it is, right?

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Valteron - this is not Great Debates. This is not the Pit. Please keep the vituperous and insulting remarks out of GQ.

Go open a pit thread on your Canada views.

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I can think of several reasons why more gay people haven’t gotten married:

Happy with the status quo.
Waiting to see if gay marriage is going to stay legal.
Planning a huge wedding can take more than a year.
Simply don’t believe in marriage.
They aren’t out of the closet. These people live as “roommates,” have jobs and/or family that won’t accept them. Marrying each other would destroy their lives, and that is a shame.