Bruce Wilson on Talk2Action tells how back in 2006 he wrote of what had happened in Massachusetts after two years of "legalized gay marriage."
"Major leaders of the American religious right," he said, "made predictions that same sex marriage would cause the decline or destruction of the traditional family and the institution of marriage. Some warned of the destruction of Western Civilization or of a sinister conspiracy against Christianity."
We've known all along, of course, that leaders of the American religious right seldom have a clue. We've known right along that their beliefs are seldom related to reality, but rather are derived from their spiked interpretations of certain biblical passages that have no more relevance for us today than the stories of Zeus and Thor. Because many Bibles are bound in leather, we call such views "hidebound."
So, were they right or were they wrong about the "decline or destruction of the traditional family and the institution of marriage"?
In a new article Wilson writes that "Almost four years after the alleged civilization-destroying event, MA is second in the US with the lowest rate of divorce, second to Pennsylvania (the MA rate is 2.27 per 1,000, the PA rate is 2.2 per 1,000) and MA rates of teen pregnancy, already close to the lowest in the US, continue to drop, down over 2% in 2000.
"By contrast, gay marriage un-friendly, abstinence-only sex-ed reliant Texas now leads the nation in both teen pregnancy and repeat teen pregnancy and Gonorrhea, Syphilis, Chlamydia in Texas have continued a multi-year rise according to official TX 2007 statistics."
These data will not change the mind of the leaders of the Religious right, of course, but it's nice to have backup when they begin spewing their hate-filled rhetoric against gays, science, and common sense.
2 comments:
There are always people who are against equality Marriage is a basic civil right that should be attainable by all Americans if they choose. For those who are uncomfortable with gay marriage check out our short produced to educate & defuse the controversy. It has a way of opening closed minds & provides some sanity on the issue: www.OUTTAKEonline.com
The real answer is easy. Don’t attend a gay marriage or do not enter into one if you do not want to. I do not like long ceremonies. I also do not think people should have a large wedding after the first one but they can have them anyway. Bad marriages, intermarriages, gay marriages, multiple divorces or adulterous affairs, have any affect upon other people’s marriages. If people do not like the terminology, they can call it whatever they want but they should not have the right to stop two people from marrying. It simply is not anyone’s business. The government does not belong in this battle over terminology. What is next, banning a wedding that doesn’t mention Jesus a certain number of times?
Bob Poris
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