What Threat to Family? Countries and States with Gay Marriage Have Low Divorce Rates
Not only have gay rights had no effect on constantly expanding population rates, but they’ve had no effect on traditional marriage in those European countries where they have the most extensive legal protections. Similarly, the legalization of gay marriage in Massachusetts hasn’t changed a relevant fact: Massachusetts has one of the lowest divorce rates in the United States. This is relevant because divorce is the real threat to American families, having broken up more than fifty percent of all marriages since it achieved widespread acceptance. Also, unlike gay sex, divorce is forbidden by Jesus himself: “And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.” As we have seen with abortion and guns, the focus on gay marriage is turning out to be a dangerous distraction from the real problem. [Esquire]
boo yah
let’s not forget that large land mass above you known as Canada!!
Big-ups to Canada!
Also worth noting: the bluest states have the lowest divorce rates. The highest divorce rates? The Bible Belt, led by Oklahoma.
You do the math.
I hate to say it, but I’ve done the math and the reason MA has a low divorce rate is it has a low marriage rate. I’m not sure how the stats work out if you look at divorce as a proportion of marriages rather than as a proportion of the population as a whole. Presumably this is different in Spain.
Conversely, states with the highest percentage of Evangelicals have the highest rates of divorce, domestic violence, and illiteracy.
Excuse me while I turn this lightbulb in my head off.
I’ve been saying all along that if teh jeebus set wants to protect marriage so much, instead of outlawing same sex marriage, they should outlaw divorce.
Official Church Motto:
If you can’t dazzle them with your brilliance,
Baffle them with your bullshit.
As Joanna alluded to, the threat the marriage is divorce and also not explicitly mentioned, is the ever growing and large percentage of NEVER married people living together.
What a joke – so many especially the young don’t even bother to get married and this wasn’t even mentioned during the California hatefest of ‘don’t let the Gays get married, society will crumble” campaign!