Netherlands' Gay Marriages Level Off

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/03/032006dutchWed.htm

After a flurry of same-sex marriages in 2001 when The Netherlands became the first country in the world to allow gay and lesbian couples to wed the number of couples marrying has leveled off the government said Monday.

Nearly 2,500 same-sex couples married in 2001, but since then the number has dropped to just over a thousand a year according to Statistics Netherlands, a government agency that keeps track of trends in The Netherlands.

In 2002 some ,1800 gay and lesbian couples tied the knot and the numbers began to fall each year after that.

By 2004 about 1,200 same-sex couples married. Last year it was just 1,100. This year Statistics Netherlands said it expects about 1,200 gay weddings. The agency said that it appears the decline has leveled off.

to see if it parallels divorce among Dutch heteros (and bis, of course).

And the Netherlands still hasn't been turned into a pillar of salt.

I would like to know the ratio of gay marriages to all marriages. It would be a more interesting statistic, in my opinion.