An Assault On Traditional Divorce
Social conservatives have been make dire predictions about how same sex marriage will ruin traditional marriage if it’s allowed. So, what’s happening in Massachusetts, where same sex marriage has been allowed for 5 years?
Actually, the “experiment” has been running in Massachusetts for fully 1/2 decade now. Over three years ago I wrote a story, “Christian Right Wrong on Gay Marriage”, summing up the apparent non-impact of the then-2 year “experiment”. Now, we have 4 consecutive years of data. According to the most recent data from the National Center For Vital Statistics, Massachusetts retains the national title as the lowest divorce rate state, and the MA divorce rate is about where the US divorce rate was in 1940, prior to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor that triggered the US entrance into World War Two.
Provisional data from 2008 indicates that the Massachusetts divorce rate has dropped from 2.3 per thousand in 2007 down to about 2.0 per thousand for 2008. What does that mean ? To get a sense of perspective consider that the last time the US national divorce rate was 2.0 per thousand (people) was 1940. You read that correctly. The Massachusetts divorce rate is now at about where the US divorce rate was the year before the United States entered World War Two.
So you’re telling me that seeing two men or two women in a committed relationship doesn’t cause people to divorce? Next they’re going to tell me that being gay is just how someone is born and has nothing to do with a lifestyle choice. However will we explain this to the children?
Tags: Massachusetts, Same Sex Marriage
Guy Marries Video Game, We Don’t Judge (No Joke)
Gizmodo.com ^ | 11/20/09 | Mark Wilson
That Nene Anegasaki, she’s a charmer. She’s also a video game character from extreme dating sim Love Plus, now wedded to a flesh and blood gamer.
The two were married when a man brought his DS along with a copy of Love Plus to a church in Guam. There’s no word on honeymoon plans, but the two will be holding a small reception for family, close friends and the internet on November 22nd. (Seriously, there will be a webcam and stuff.)
It just goes to show, the power of Woman has no bounds. Stick her in a digital fortress, simplify her beauty to Nintendo DS rendering limits and give her a shrill, anime voice. Woman will triumph all the same.
(don’t bhe a hater, who are we to judge)
Don’t worry about explaining it to the kids…there are plenty of adults who don’t understand it yet.
Faced with actual data all lizard can do is try to change the subject. Loving, legal same sex marriages have not done a thing to harm heterosexual families in Massachusetts.
This has always struck me as probably the most ridiculous argument against gay marriage. If, somehow, two guys you don’t know getting married makes your marriage weaker, you had a pretty damn weak marriage to begin with. I’ve just never understood what the correlation was supossed to be between the rise of gay marriages and the destruction of straight ones. But I’ll bet somehow it has to do with ACORN, those bastards.