MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota doesn't permit same-sex couples to marry, but new figures from the Census Bureau shows it has nearly as many married same-sex couples as Iowa, where the unions are legal.
The bureau reports Tuesday that it found 1,330 married same-sex couples in Minnesota in the 2010 Census. That's nearly the 1,373 couples it counted in Iowa, which legalized gay marriage in 2009.
The bureau also revised its earlier counts of same-sex couples, which includes both married and unmarried couples, after the bureau uncovered in errors in how it gathered data about same-sex households.
The bureau's new estimate found nearly 10,300 same-sex couples in Minnesota in 2010, a big increase from the nearly 6,000 same-sex couples reported in revised figures from the 2000 census.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.
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Add commentDebauchery
This is yet another sign that our culture endorses sinful behavior. This report should make every Minnesotan cringe. The lack of shame over this shows how far we are from the LORD in this country.
May God grant us repentance.
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.
2 Peter 3:9-10
Your Lord, uhnigmuh,
has spoken and He has said: "Love one another as you have loved Me." John 12:15
Are you listening to Him? He did not say: "Hate those who are different from you." That was some other person...a flesh and blood person.
How will Gay relationships affect you personally?
Friends learn with the Word of God says and do not distort it.
24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
1 corinthians 6
9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous2 will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,3 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Timothy 1
8 Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, 9 understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, 10 the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers,2 liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound3 doctrine, 11 in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.
evolution--
From a scientific perspective how does gay marriage fit into the theory of evolution, natural selection, and survival of the fittest??? I heard the Biblical reasons now for someone that knows more about science than me I would love an educated response as how the science of nature works in ways that are part evolution's natural procreation processes, which is the essence of evolution-procreation-transitional species-local adaption-new species?
uhnigmuh (sp: enigma?)
I am not interested in your posting of Biblical verses. I asked you how gay marriage affects you personally. Speak from your heart. Use your own words.