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According to new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau, your marriage might have a better chance of enduring if you reside somewhere in the northeastern part of the country.
And people still want to pretend Conservatism promotes morality and family values and liberals are nothing but immoral heathens.
“When you have couples who have to actively fight on a daily basis for recognition of their relationships, those relationships tend to be stronger because you have to really be in it for the long haul to make that work,” Griffin said. “When people truly have to fight for their relationships, they tend to stick together a little bit longer.”
Which is oddly reminiscent of an argument made elsewhere in this forum in favor of literacy tests for voting!
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Massachusetts since 2004 -- you'd think that if there were going to be a large number of same-sex divorces, it would have started happening by now (the median time to divorce of a first-time marriage happens to be eight years).
According to new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau, your marriage might have a better chance of enduring if you reside somewhere in the northeastern part of the country.
And people still want to pretend Conservatism promotes morality and family values and liberals are nothing but immoral heathens.
<puts on his teachin' hat>
The conclusions you are making here would require additional information and analysis to be valid.
For starters, you are assuming that all states have the same marriage rates....basically, it's hard to get divorced if you never get married in the first place.
Secondly, you ignore that there may be correlations between political leanings and the divorce rate, we don't know that. Either that or you have to assume that every single person in a "blue" state is liberal and vice-versa.
There is more but that's enough to get you started. There are some REALLY good resources on-line about learning statistics you might want to peruse.
According to new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau, your marriage might have a better chance of enduring if you reside somewhere in the northeastern part of the country.
And people still want to pretend Conservatism promotes morality and family values and liberals are nothing but immoral heathens.
Yeah, one thing I learned when I moved to the Bible Belt is that nobody actually reads their Bibles. hmmm....
The conclusions you are making here would require additional information and analysis to be valid.
For starters, you are assuming that all states have the same marriage rates....basically, it's hard to get divorced if you never get married in the first place.
Secondly, you ignore that there may be correlations between political leanings and the divorce rate, we don't know that. Either that or you have to assume that every single person in a "blue" state is liberal and vice-versa.
Quite right.
The poster also ignores the possibility that, just as people with conservative beliefs are often inconsistent in their personal lives, people with liberal beliefs are often inconsistent in their personal lives.
It's also probable that exposure to, and intimate familiarity with, the actual results of liberal policies/ideas tends to make people more conservative. This could explain why states with large dysfunctional minority (numerical, not racial) populations, whose pathologies are the direct result of liberal policies, also have conservative majority populations who are fed up with the folly.
Do liberals really believe in marriage? Well, sort of ....
Yeah, one thing I learned when I moved to the Bible Belt is that nobody actually reads their Bibles. hmmm....
It's strange -- the Bible is undoubtedly (by their worldview) the most important piece of literature in human history, and is the key to eternal salvation, but it's not important enough for them to actually read the damn thing. I read (not to brag; it's not that much) more in pages than has the Bible on your average summer, and this is for fun, not my eternal soul and world peace.
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Yeah, one thing I learned when I moved to the Bible Belt is that nobody actually reads their Bibles. hmmm....
Yep.
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