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To protect marriage, ban divorce
December 5, 2009 |12:18 | Others By : Team X
The campaign to grant full equality to gays and lesbians suffered another blow earlier this week when the New York state legislature voted against same-sex marriage. It was a disappointment; marriage-equality proponents believed they had the votes to pass the measure. According to The New York Times.
The measure was defeated by the usual combination of craven legislators and fear-mongering social conservatives who claimed that allowing gays and lesbians to marry would destroy traditional marriage. That argument continues to claim adherents, even though it has never made any sense.
Traditional marriage has been in decline for decades and gays and lesbians have nothing to do with it. (I know gays and lesbians had nothing to do with the dissolution of my marriage.) However, if social conservatives are going to continue to fight marriage equality on the grounds that it would destroy traditional marriage, they ought to be willing to make a dramatic move to protect traditional marriage: ban divorce. About half of all marriages in this country end in divorce, and banning it would do more to (artificially) shore up the marriage rate than anything else.
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