Mass. 'gay marriage' numbers plummet
Posted on May 25, 2007
by Michael Foust

BOSTON (BP)--Following an early rush to city hall, the number of "gay marriages" in Massachusetts has plunged dramatically, and continues to decline, since such unions were legalized three years ago.

In the last seven and a half months of 2004 -- "gay marriage" became legal in mid-May that year -- 6,121 homosexual couples received marriage licenses from the state. But in 2005, that number dropped to 2,060, and in 2006, to 1,427.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health statistics, cited first by Newhouse News Service, show that of the 9,608 total "marriages" performed from 2004-2006, 64 percent were performed in the first year alone -- despite the fact it was legal for just half of that year. the rest