The Threat to Marriage
Currently, the state of Massachusetts allows same-sex marriage, while Vermont and Connecticut allow civil unions. Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, and New Mexico have no laws explicitly banning members of the same sex from marrying. None of these states appear in the top 10 states with the highest percentage of failed marriages. The states that are permitting gay unions or gay marriage are among those with the lowest divorce rates.
Bush claims gay marriage poses an imminent threat to the American traditional family. The facts show that most marriages that end in divorce do so because of financial problems, not because of same-sex marriage laws.
Divorce lawyers confirm that there are many reasons marriages fail. At the top of that list is a lack of communication about financial problems. Jared Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute states: “If you look at divorce rates, they are highly associated with bankruptcies, with loss of job, with some kind of negative shock to the income. So it seems to me that if we want to strengthen families, we ought to be looking at a whole set of policies that this administration has been more undermining than strengthening.”
Millions of jobs are being out sourced overseas by corporations and 43 million uninsured Americans are one serious illness away from poverty. Republicans know this divisive constitutional amendment will fail by a large margin, but they still spend time debating the issue. The reason behind this charade is that many fundamentalist are frustrated with the Republican leadership and feel that they only pay attention to their agenda, when they need their votes five months before an election.
Congressional Republicans talk Christ and family values, but they walk corporate profits. Values may matter most to voters, but they always take a back seat to corporate greed.
Bush claims gay marriage poses an imminent threat to the American traditional family. The facts show that most marriages that end in divorce do so because of financial problems, not because of same-sex marriage laws.
Divorce lawyers confirm that there are many reasons marriages fail. At the top of that list is a lack of communication about financial problems. Jared Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute states: “If you look at divorce rates, they are highly associated with bankruptcies, with loss of job, with some kind of negative shock to the income. So it seems to me that if we want to strengthen families, we ought to be looking at a whole set of policies that this administration has been more undermining than strengthening.”
Millions of jobs are being out sourced overseas by corporations and 43 million uninsured Americans are one serious illness away from poverty. Republicans know this divisive constitutional amendment will fail by a large margin, but they still spend time debating the issue. The reason behind this charade is that many fundamentalist are frustrated with the Republican leadership and feel that they only pay attention to their agenda, when they need their votes five months before an election.
Congressional Republicans talk Christ and family values, but they walk corporate profits. Values may matter most to voters, but they always take a back seat to corporate greed.
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