Ben, where are you getting the "only 1% of gays in Canada are getting married" numbers? It sounds completly made up and I would like to see a source to that claim.
Ben, do you maybe mean that it was 1% of the marriages in Canada that were gay, rather than 1% of the gays who were married? The statistics that I'm looking at give us 12,438 same-sex marriages in Canada between June 2003 and October 2006 (with same-sex marriage still not being legal in much of Canada for a lot of this time span), and 147,391 marriages of any kind in 2003, a rate which at that time (the website that I'm looking at for this particular number is from 2007) was said to be more or less stable. So if there are ~140,000-150,000 marriages a year, and 3,731.4 of those were gay on an average between a little over three years during all of which gay marriage wasn't legal throughout Canada...uh, that doesn't gel with what you were saying. My on-the-fly statistics don't even support the 1% of marriages being gay figure. At least in this period (which granted might have seen higher rates than subsequently for obvious reasons) it was more like 2.5%.
Here, links.
Same-sex marriage rate
General marriage rate
Ah there we go, so as it seemed, Ben didn't quite make his research. 2.5% of all marriages in Canada is quite a lot different. Even if that's a smaller marriage rate than straights it's much much much more than 1% of gays. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt though guessing he just made a mathmatical mistake.
