An important article out today in The Washington Times reports on several studies of gay relationships. The article highlights a study of Dutch homosexual men that indicates their relationships are far briefer than heterosexual first marriages. That study may be suggestive, but it does not appear to answer certain critical questions. As gay marriage advocates note in the story, the study begs the question of how gay men will behave in their own first marriages. But the study reported later in the article is very important indeed. That is a study by two professors of psychology in Vermont. That study surveyed gay men and women who had formed civil unions, and compared them with heterosexual men and women. The study found that gay men in civil unions believed in monogamy at much lower rates than men in heterosexual marriages. That is critically important evidence for what I have been claiming for some time–that gay marriage will break the association between marriage and monogamy for future generations.