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A smidgen of shame = honor killings?
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It doesn't matter, they should all feel a sense of shame right?
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Erm, that's not an 'honor killing'...
I'm not aware of any organization which tracks refined divorce rates (rate per 1000 married women) by state. You could collect the needed info to make those calculations from the Census Bureau, but it'd take more time than it's worth here IMO, because what you'd need would be scattered through multiple charts. What you can pretty easily calculate are state-by-state marriage:divorce ratios, which are considered to be in-between the crude divorce rate (rate per 1000 population) and the refined divorce rate in terms of accuracy. Looking at the Census Bureau's most recent state-by-state figures for # of marriages and # of divorces, and looking at just Massachusetts and those 'Bible Belt' states for which both figures are available, the ratios, from 'best' to 'worst,' would be: Massachusetts 2.65: 1 (marriages: divorces) Texas 2.26: 1 Tennessee 2.19: 1 South Carolina 2.19: 1 Alabama 2.14: 1 Arkansas 2.01: 1 Virginia 1.96: 1 North Carolina 1.82: 1 Missouri 1.76: 1 Kentucky 1.71: 1 Oklahoma 1.40: 1 Mississippi 1.11: 1 Statistically, the strongest correlations with low divorce rates are high levels of education, low levels of poverty, and low geographic mobility (the latter correlation is interesting in that it can partially 'counteract' the former two--as seen in a 'bad' way in the high-mobility Pacific Northwest, and in a 'good' way in the low-mobility Northern Plains). ETA: The National Marriage Project at Rutgers calculated refined divorce rates for a few relevant states for 2005, no comprehensive list unfortunately: Quote:
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Clearly he's not up to it.
Has any anti-gay marriage advocate effectively answered that question? |
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Not that I've ever seen.
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if we want to measure "morality," and since divorce now doesn't count, maybe we could measure STD rates by state.
because, again, the Red States are going to come out on top of that one as well. and i think the lesson here is that "morality" has nothing to do with morals, and everything to do with economics. |
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Well, you believe you have before, INDY. Usually it's some vague reference to how "we don't know" what could happen if we "alter the definition of marriage." Which sounds like a FOXNews propaganda story, but, nonetheless, is your usual answer.
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Michael Steele is an idiot and Olbermann as much as I don't like him makes a very OBVIOUS(to us thinking types) point:
Countdown with Keith OlbermannCountdown with Keith Olbermann |
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Ali lives in Canada(according to her location)...
Another swing and another miss. |
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INDY, I just want to know that those of us that are divorced and should feel shame, do we get different colored 'D's.
I mean should my ex-wife wear the scarlet 'D' and me a light blue 'D'? I mean how is society going to know who to blame and judge? |
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Deflection won't cut it. You made a statement - a fair one to make, btw - about potential societal consequences of same-sex marriage. It was just incomplete.
Changes to public policy should always be fully assessed on the realistic, potential benefits, costs and risks/consequences. Can you back up the statement you made? |
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But mommy you said Jesus loves all his children, why not the gay ones? I'm confused.
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if one believes in, accepts, and supports the concept of "sin".
they are a party to the belief system that is responsible for that video |
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Boys in the Sun - NYC: Climbing The Herndon Monument - US Naval Academy Annapolis
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kind of funny (and sad)
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