5 Years After Landmark Goodridge Decision: Massachusetts has Lowest Divorce Rate in U.S.
As reported by Examiner.com, provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control’s National Vital Statistics Report show that Massachusetts has the lowest divorce rate of any state, and that the rate of divorce in Massachusetts is dropping.
…after over four years of legal same-sex marriage, the divorce rate in Massachusetts has actually dropped, from 2.3 per thousand residents in 2007 to about 2.0 per thousand in 2008, the lowest rate in the nation—and one that hasn’t been seen since the 1940’s.
The article points out that the doomsday predictions of passionate opponents of gay marriage have proved to be entirely inaccurate. For example:
In May 2004, Focus on the Family’s James Dobson predicted “the legalization of homosexual marriage will quickly destroy the traditional family.”
In June 2004, Christianity Today’s Charles Colson warned that allowing gays to marry would lead “to an explosive increase in family collapse.”
In July 2004, during a Senate debate on the Federal Marriage Amendment, Sen. Wayne Allard (R-CO) fulminated that same-sex marriage “is a master plan out there from those who want to destroy the institution of marriage.”
Five years later, Massachusetts has proven them all wrong.
