Its not me saying it....

When he flashed his engagement ring on the sofa with Richard and Judy, pop star Pete Burns told of his happiness at the prospect of becoming the latest celebrity to marry his male partner.

But now, just ten months after the big day, the singer has split from Michael Simpson, saying civil partnerships do not work and that he was happier being married to a woman.

Burns, 49, who was wed to stylist Lynne Corlett for 28 years, said gay relationships were a "commercial break" compared with the "full movie" of marriage.

He also claimed there were too much "promiscuity" in the gay community for civil partnerships to thrive.

A bit of a slap in the face for the liberal-left argument that gay marriage would address the problem of a culture of promiscuity that made the AIDS crisis so destructive in the gay community.

Burns said: "I view marriage as a sacred institution. I think two men naturally are predators. Gay relationships are a commercial break, not a whole movie.

"The relationships I'm aware of, apart from one ... it's as though there's some kind of emotional inadequacy or narcissism, where they feel emotionally inadequate and need more validation, from either a father figure or a mirror image of themselves. "I'm not condemning it, I think it needs researching and help."

On the occasions when I've addressed the issue, I've pointed out that if gay marriages were indeed a viable option, they would have long been a part of the human experience. In millennia of recorded history, there simply have been no examples of sustained gay marriage culture--homosexuality is about sexual attraction and consequently inevitably about promiscuity. In the traditional marriage on the other hand, sex is a minor, and frankly sometimes non-existent aspect of a much broader relationship that encompasses both man and wife, children and the extended family and community.

The problem with legalizing gay marriage has never been with the gay relationship, but with how the law has to change the definition of marriage to encompass the gay variant. Those changes are subtle, but its the subtle things that produce successful or failed cultures.