----- Original Message ----- From: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 4:50 PM Subject: Re: Thoughts on gay marriage?
> At 03:21 PM 2/15/2004 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote: > >And I wonder how it would compare for the first 10 years with the rate > >of divorces among the fundamentalists who are most loudly decrying it > >now? > > Of course, there is no way of knowing this. Since it is not a priori > true that a given fundamentalist couple that seeks a divorce has loudly > decried gay marriage, let alone even loudly decried gay marriage as a > factor that would increase the divorce rate. I know a number of divorced fundamentalists who had accepting gays as a "leave the church" issue. My sample is small, but it is large enough to conclude that more than half of divorced and remarried fundamentalists have very strong opinions against accepting gays but think divorce is quite another matter. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
