PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
One man, one woman marriage is fundamental to a healthy society.....have you taken a good look at Europe and Canada where the social engineers promoting gay marriage are causing havoc to marriage rates, family stability, and the well-being of children....which is leading to the decline of society?
Do you realize that these leftist social engineers and activist groups have a political agenda....? Do you realize that their targets include the family unit...as well as religion...?
And until leftist lobbyists can attack sharia law and all its gory results as much or more than you attack Christians....you pro-gay marriage pontificators don't have a leg to stand on...
Well, Screammy, perhaps you should research before posting.
Births to unwed mothers in the US 40%
Netherlands 40
Canada 30%
Ireland 30%
Spain 28%
Italy 21%
Iceland 66%
Sweden 55%
Norway 54%
France 50%
Denmark 46%
United Kingdom 44%
Seems that there are nations both with less and with more single mothers in Europe. And Canada is defintely less than we are.
Believe it or not there are more factors than just gay marriage that enter into the cause for unwed birth rates....welfarism, feminism, secularism...
Also consider the higher number of blacks in the U.S. as compared to European countries.....although improving some, that unwed mother rate hovers around 75%....
1966 LBJ expanded the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program under FDR, AFDC had been limited to widows, those who had lost their husbands and now lacked a breadwinner at home to help support the children.
Then began to loosen and expand the rules of AFDC eligibility, eventually getting to the point where any woman living alone with children could take advantage of this program. In doing so, they not only bought a large number of new votes, they also incentivized out of wedlock births and single motherhood.As Charles Murray described in Losing Ground, the Great Society incentivized the same negative behaviors that cause poverty in the first place.
I think the above is from Robert Caro, Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, vol.3, p. xv.