On Sunday 2004-02-15 16:07, Dan Minette wrote: > ----- 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.
And that is in itself an interesting index of change in the moral culture. There was a time when conservative Christian folks were *very* strongly opposed to divorce. Divorce--and definitely remarriage after divorce--was ample reason to bar people from church and public leadership and even reason to deny communion. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
