2007-09-12 11:23:37 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Rofl, bettie!! *big hugs*
2007-09-12 11:40:36 · update #1
(((uncle pirate raider)))
2007-09-12 11:53:01 · update #2
That's because we thought about allowing gay marriage. Thoughts are sins, too, you know!
(((Zilla)))
2007-09-12 11:37:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
I'm not sure what one thing has to do with the other.
People get married saying "until death do us part," but they don't take it seriously like they used to. There's so much less stigma attached to being divorced nowadays that it does not hinder them from taking the step.
There was a time, not long ago really, when a divorced woman especially was considered just plain worthless. She was either assumed to be a reject due to her own fault or even worse, so unfaithful that she left her husband. In any case, she was not standing by her man.
The impression was that it was basically OK for a man to be unfaithful, and a woman's duty to forgive him, but the other way around would never do. It may have something to do with a man needing to believe his children are in fact his children.
The Women's Liberation Movement changed all that, for good or ill. But here's an interesting statistic I recently saw: Christians, even fundamentalist Christians, have the same divorce rate as non-Christians. This may be in part because there are more non-Christians who live together, even have children together, without being married, but it still is an interesting statistic.
Personally, I believe that when gays are allowed to marry, they will do so with more permanence than the statistics on heterosexual marriage. They won't make the commitment loosely, the way too many heterosexuals do.
2007-09-12 18:34:15 · answer #2 · answered by auntb93 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, first of all sexual orientation has not been linked one way or another to I.Q. or contract fulfillment. When we legalize gay marriage, I suspect the divorce rates won't change too much except to reflect the dissolutions of heterosexual marriages in which one partner or the other is actually gay.
Why are our divorce rates high at the moment? First, throw out the idea that divorce is easy. Anyone who has been through a divorce will paint an excruciating picture of the experience--and they still won't be telling the most painful parts whch are too private to convey.
Two things contribute to most divorces. First, people don't take their own ethics and morals seriously enough to be extremely careful when choosing a partner and when making choices afterwards as a spouse. Second, people aren't expected to endure certain behaviors anymore in order to please the community by remaining loyal to the contract.
2007-09-12 18:45:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The divorce rate in America, has little or nothing to do with the right of gay couples to get married! They are no threat to the marriage of anyone! The certainly have never been a threat to mine!
2007-09-12 22:01:52 · answer #4 · answered by Renee 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
lol - ((hugs)) - The divorce rate is high cause the hug rate is low. - If I may be so bold as to generalize, the gays I know are loving hugging folks. So we need them to be able to get married and help out our "Marriage stick-to-itness rate".
2007-09-12 18:48:54 · answer #5 · answered by Unkie 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Maybe the gay people are actually marrying straight people and then it doesn't work out.
Actually, wait...
Ted Haggard is still married, isn't it? And Senator Craig?
Well, that couldn't be it... Hmm, let's look to the Bible, under sociology... Hmm.. Ah yes. It's because people have access to birth control. Family planning breaks apart families. Having 12 kids keeps you together because you can't afford more than one car.
2007-09-12 18:28:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
People think having kids will help the marriage when in reality kids put a severe strain on the relationship.
2007-09-12 18:37:37 · answer #7 · answered by meissen97 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
People try to put a shroud over truth. But the basic reality of God is plain enough. Open your eyes and there it is! By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can't see: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of his divine being.
So nobody has a good excuse. What happened was this: People knew God perfectly well, but when they didn't treat him like God, refusing to worship him, they trivialized themselves into silliness and confusion so that there was neither sense nor direction left in their lives. They pretended to know it all, but were illiterate regarding life. They traded the glory of God who holds the whole world in his hands for cheap love and casual sex. So God said, in effect, "If that's what you want, that's what you get." It wasn't long before they were living in a pigpen, smeared with filth, filthy inside and out. And all this because they traded the true God for personal pleasure, and worshiped the god they made instead of the God who made them
2007-09-12 18:30:03 · answer #8 · answered by bwlobo 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I believe that our society's strength lies in its most fundamental building block, the family unit. Family begins with marriage. We must defend the institution of marriage by defending the definition of marriage. The right to marry is not the right to redefine marriage. Marriage is the union of one man and one woman.
How we define marriage is vitally important because of the message it sends to the culture—to the young, and to the next generation of citizens. Make no mistake, a society that undermines marriage and the family is undermining itself, and a government that attempts to supplant rather than to support the family and marriage is bent on its own destruction.
We must recognize that it is our families, built upon the institution of marriage, that are the fundamental and essential centers of commitment and care that have the real power to transform our society.
2007-09-12 18:28:39 · answer #9 · answered by L 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Oh, that's the result of banning Nativity scenes in schools.
Just watch what happens when gay marriage does go through.
2007-09-12 18:27:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Because they allow anyone who wants to get married to just get married. Its too easy. Its harder to get a divorce!
2007-09-12 18:29:48 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋