B.P. Terpstra
It’s interesting. Tim Wilson of the Institute of Public Affairs is siding with leftwing gay marriage activists over conservative-leaning gays against redefining marriage. (For the record, I’m against Newspeak, and designer fatherless families blessed by the state or “free market” think tanks.)
Remember the costly expressive divorce revolution, and how conservatives were right? It cost taxpayers a bundle. Now Australian elites are ready for their next social experiment. Nevertheless, here’s Wilson:
According to Gay Marriage for Better or Worse: What We’ve Learned from the Evidence, by William N. Eskridge Jr and Darren Spedale, the Danish experience found reforming marriage coincided with a reversal in declines of heterosexual marriage rates, lower divorce rates and fewer children born outside of wedlock.
Similar trends have also been identified in Sweden, with heterosexual marriage rates increasing by 30 per cent. The correlation doesn’t prove causation, but it is clear the reforms haven’t undermined heterosexual marriages.
There are many problems with parroting socialist-first studies, as Wilson does, especially from Scandinavia, where Orwellian speech codes prevent free-thinking academics from reaching the “wrong” conclusions.
But I digress. You see, scientific truths always find ways of getting out, eventually, so one can detect a pattern. Take gay marriage and marriage-like unions and think about where children are more at risk. From The Ruth Institute:
What types of unions have the highest rates of divorce?
- Opposite sex married couples: men and women are so different, it is a wonder they ever stay married.
- Male unions: men are naturally less committed, and less monogamous, so their partnerships don’t endure.
- Female unions: women get so emotionally distraught over things. A union of two women, without any male counter-balancing their roller-coaster, is very unstable.
Hint: the answer is the same in all three countries!
Answer:
Female unions seem to have the highest divorce rates, followed by male unions, followed by opposite sex unions.
“For Sweden, the divorce risk for partnerships of men is 50% higher than the risk for heterosexual marriages, and that the divorce risk for female partnerships is nearly double that for men.”
“For Norway, divorce risks are 77% higher in lesbian partnerships than in those of gay men.” (The Norwegian data did not include a comparison with opposite sex couples.)
Today, children are lab rats, in adults-first libertarian circles, but the Institute of Public Affairs is embracing Newspeak.