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As a man who wants to get married someday, I can't say I strictly agree with Barney Frank. Still, you've got to love the guy for saying this out loud.

From Salon (thanks to Steve for the tip):

Gay marriage hasn't done much to change the straight marriages around us -- happy couples still seem happy, and unhappy ones still seem unhappy -- but Rep. Barney Frank says that statistics on gay marriage have revealed an essential truth about all marriages: Women want to get married more than men.
In a recent speech to what U.S. News & World Report says was a "mostly male and heterosexual crowd," Frank said: "There's always been this assumption that men want to get married less than women, but left to your own, you couldn't prove it." Saying that a disproportionate number of gay marriages have been among lesbians rather than gay men, Frank said: "We have done the one thing for American stand-up comedians that the heterosexual community could not do: We have validated the premise that men don't want to get married and women do."

I can't help but thinking that maybe Frank's point explains matters even better than he thinks. Perhaps the anti-gay-marriage crowd (that breaks overwhelmingly male and, duh, heterosexual) is afraid not so much that they'll be compelled to look upon "abomination" or that their own partnerships will somehow be threatened.

Rather, they're nervous that once their freewheeling promiscuous gay neighbors tie the knot, they'll have no excuse not to get married themselves.

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