The audacity of the FRC

The Family Research Council has commentary on the married lesbian couple in Massachusetts who are splitting up. If you are in the mood for some gross hypocrisy, read on....

Homosexuals are less likely to enter into long-term partnerships in the first place than are heterosexuals (less than half the homosexual couples in Massachusetts have bothered to "marry").


Nice how they put marry in quotes. Less than half ARE legally married. Get over it. And what business is it of the FRC to pass judgement on why the other half has not bothered to marry yet?


When they do have partners, those relationships are less likely to last for life. In addition, such relationships are less likely to be characterized by sexual fidelity. When people ask what harm same-sex "marriage" would do, this is a big part of the answer--it would undermine society's understanding that marriage is epitomized by commitment, fidelity, and permanence.


Yes, just as there's clearly only a minimal amount of infidelity in heterosexual marriages, and God knows, those marriages are sacred. Between 40% and 50% of heterosexual marriages in the US end in divorce. What's the point of society's "understanding" of what marriage supposedly epitomizes when it's blatantly a false delusion?

Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance has some interesting, although dated, material.

Donald Hughes, author of The Divorce Reality, said: "In the churches, people have a superstitious view that Christianity will keep them from divorce, but they are subject to the same problems as everyone else, and they include a lack of relationship skills. ...Just being born again is not a rabbit's foot." Hughes claim that 90% of divorces among born-again couples occur after they have been "saved."


Divorce Magazine.com has a ton of statistics also.

Percentage of family households with children with only one parent in 1998:
27%

Likelihood of new marriages ending in divorce in 1997:
43%

Percentage of weddings which are remarriages for at least one partner in 1997:
43%

When will the FRC and other fundamentalists worry about their "own kind" and stop obsessing about private decisions of LGBTs related to the same life, liberty and pursuit of happiness that supposedly is afforded to one and all?