State with lowest divorce rate...legalized gay marriage.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Surprise surprise!

[innerSpaceman]

Well, in all fairness, the results are skewed by the high divorce rates in Kentucky, Alabama and Mississippi. It's not that the people in those states don't have a healthy respect for marriage. But you can hardly blame them when, after the first or second mongoloid child, they divorce their current spouse and move on the next cousin or sibling.

[alphabassettgrrl]

"The higher the educational level, higher the occupational level, higher the income, the less likely you are to divorce," said William V. D'Antonio, a sociologist at the Catholic University of America, pointing out that Massachusetts has the highest rate of high school and college completion. "Kids who drop out of high school and get married very quickly suffer from the strains of not being emotionally mature and not having the income to help weather the difficulties of marriage."
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*Ms. Whitehead*
"If your family or religious culture urges you not to have sex before you get married," she said, "then one answer is to get married, and then you're more likely to divorce."

Sounds entirely logical.

[NirvanaMan]

Marriage hasn't really been legal long enough to have a significant impact on the rate quite yet. Not sure we can accredit it to gay marriage...though I would be all for it if we could, I'm just saying...

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by NirvanaMan

Marriage hasn't really been legal long enough to have a significant impact on the rate quite yet. Not sure we can accredit it to gay marriage...though I would be all for it if we could, I'm just saying...

That wasn't the point of the article at all.

[innerSpaceman]

Heheh, but it was an ironic implication of the thread title. Not that it implied cause and effect, just delicious irony.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by NirvanaMan

Marriage hasn't really been legal long enough to have a significant impact on the rate quite yet. Not sure we can accredit it to gay marriage...though I would be all for it if we could, I'm just saying...

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

That wasn't the point of the article at all.

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Heheh, but it was an ironic implication of the thread title. Not that it implied cause and effect, just delicious irony.

Exactly.

Hey NirvanaMan, it would be wonderful if you actually read the article I linked to, instead of debating a thread title.

I find the implications of blue states having lower divorce rates to be very, very interesting indeed. I did not expect it at all. I looked up some state divorce rate stats (there are tons of sites with lists) and guess what - Ohio is smack in the middle of the list. Heh.

[NirvanaMan]

Some of us don't have the time (and it wouldn't load on my ancient computer). Maybe try less misleading thread titles next time.

[innerSpaceman]

Not exactly misleading. The presence of tons of Catholics in Massachusetts notwithstanding, I think the logical implications that both the article and thread title share are that liberals and the better educated have longer-lasting marriages. Progressive values and intelligence go hand-in-hand with so-called family values. And bible-thumping, hypocritical conservatives can kiss my liberal, well-educated, gay ass!

[NirvanaMan]

It is quite misleading if the title of the thread is apparently off-limits for comment which is what I got scolded on.

BTW, not all conservatives are bible-thumpers. Quite the contrary in some cases.