During this week’s episode of Glee, Kurt and Blaine were discussing equal marriage rights for gays and were while on the subject Blaine mentioned that if marriage is so sacred why not outlaw divorce.
This for me is new way of looking at marriage. Many state and higher courts all put marriage on this pedestal about how it’s so sacred that they have to keep LGBT from being able to take part in the benefits of something so “sacred”. So the question that can come up is if marriage is so sacred that must mean that when people get married they will never break it off because of its “sacredness”.
This, however, is not the case. In America, the divorce rate is about 50%, so pretty much 1 out of 2 married couples will eventually get a divorce. A lot of the anti-LGBT would use the argument that if the LGBT were allowed to marry then the divorce rate would increase and would not help our economy. This article has figures showing that when equal marriage is introduced to an area the divorce rate actually decreases instead of increasing. Having more married couples usually ends up in more children either through adoption or artificial insemination. Despite the ways of getting children there will be more kids, which is one of the state and government’s goals.
So what does this say about marriage and why would the state and government not see the benefits of equal marriage? Could equal marriage benefit not only the LGBT, but also the economy? What are your thoughts?
Another interesting feature is that states with marriage equality tend to have lower divorce rates.
ReplyDeleteMA the stare with gay marriage has the lowest divorce rate in the union.
Curious!