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To: Road Walker who wrote (212372)	11/29/2004 10:59:14 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577830

Walking the walk on family values By William V. D'Antonio \| October 31, 2004 PRESIDENT Bush and Vice President Cheney make reference to "Massachusetts liberals" as if they were referring to people with some kind of disease. I decided it was time to do some research on these people, and here is what I found. ADVERTISEMENT The state with the lowest divorce rate in the nation is Massachusetts. At latest count it had a divorce rate of 2.4 per 1,000 population, while the rate for Texas was 4.1. But don't take the US government's word for it. Take a look at the findings from the George Barna Research Group. George Barna, a born-again Christian whose company is in Ventura, Calif., found that Massachusetts does indeed have the lowest divorce rate among all 50 states. More disturbing was the finding that born-again Christians have among the highest divorce rates. The Associated Press, using data supplied by the US Census Bureau, found that the highest divorce rates are to be found in the Bible Belt. The AP report stated that "the divorce rates in these conservative states are roughly 50 percent above the national average of 4.2 per thousand people." The 10 Southern states with some of the highest divorce rates were Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas. By comparison nine states in the Northeast were among those with the lowest divorce rates: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. How to explain these differences? The following factors provide a partial answer: More couples in the South enter their first marriage at a younger age. Average household incomes are lower in the South. Southern states have a lower percentage of Roman Catholics, "a denomination that does not recognize divorce." Barna's study showed that 21 percent of Catholics had been divorced, compared with 29 percent of Baptists. Education. Massachusetts has about the highest rate of education in the country, with 85 percent completing high school. For Texas the rate is 76 percent. One third of Massachusetts residents have completed college, compared with 23 percent of Texans, and the other Northeast states are right behind Massachusetts. The liberals from Massachusetts have long prided themselves on their emphasis on education, and it has paid off: People who stay in school longer get married at a later age, when they are more mature, are more likely to secure a better job, and job income increases with each level of formal education. As a result, Massachusetts also leads in per capita and family income while births by teenagers, as a percent of total births, was 7.4 for Massachusetts and 16.1 for Texas. The Northeast corridor, with Massachusetts as the hub, does have one of the highest levels of Catholics per state total. And it is also the case that these are among the states most strongly supportive of the Catholic Church's teaching on social justice issues such as minimum and living wages and universal healthcare. For all the Bible Belt talk about family values, it is the people from Kerry's home state, along with their neighbors in the Northeast corridor, who live these values. Indeed, it is the "blue" states, led led by Massachusetts and Connecticut, that have been willing to invest more money over time to foster the reality of what it means to leave no children behind. And they have been among the nation's leaders in promoting a living wage as their goal in public employment. The money they have invested in their future is known more popularly as taxes; these so-called liberal people see that money is their investment to help insure a compassionate, humane society. Family values are much more likely to be found in the states mistakenly called out-of-the-mainstream liberal. By their behavior you can know them as the true conservatives. They are showing how to conserve family life through the way they live their family values. William V. D'Antonio is professor emeritus at University of Connecticut and a visiting research professor at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. © Copyright 2004 Globe Newspaper Company.

To: Road Walker who wrote (212372)	11/29/2004 11:15:38 AM
From: Alighieri	Respond to of 1577830

Bush High Court Choice Should Back Abortion Rights, Poll Shows Nov. 29 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. President George W. Bush's nominee for the next Supreme Court vacancy should be willing to uphold the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that guaranteed abortion rights, according to a majority of Americans in an Ipsos-Public Affairs poll for the Associated Press. Fifty-nine percent said Bush should choose a supporter of Roe v. Wade, while 31 percent said they want a nominee who will try to overturn the decision, according to the poll. Support for Roe v. Wade was seen among both men and women, across most age and income groups, and in urban, suburban and rural areas, AP said. Bush, whose supporters in the Nov. 2 election included groups that oppose abortion, is expected to get an opportunity to put his stamp on the court during his second term, as a result of departures from the bench caused by retirement or illness. All but one of the nine justices are over 65, including Chief Justice William Rehnquist, 80, who has thyroid cancer. More than 60 percent of all respondents said a nominee should reveal his or her position on abortion before Senate confirmation, according to the Nov. 19-21 telephone poll of 1,000 adults. Sixty percent said they favor a mandatory retirement age for the justices, who are appointed for life. The poll's margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points. There have been no Supreme Court vacancies since Bush took office. Earlier this month he said his future nominees to the federal courts would be much like those from his first term. Democrats blocked votes on 10 nominees for federal trial and appellate judgeships, saying they had extreme views on issues including abortion and civil rights. The Senate confirmed more than 200 judges. Respondents in the AP-Ipsos poll also were asked their opinion on legalizing gay marriage. Sixty-one percent said they oppose legal marriage for gays and lesbians, while 35 percent said they are in favor.

To: Road Walker who wrote (212372)	11/29/2004 3:30:24 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577830

re: Give it up! People like Halada are anarchists......reactionary and destructive. They want nothing better than to break apart that segment of the public domain that has to do with non defense expenditures. Within his limited POV, the public domain has one purpose and one purpose only......to make war. He knows nothing better.......he comes from a conservative, authoritarian form of gov't that ruthlessly screwed its populace so he thinks its always got to be that way. And now he wants to dictate how it should be here. Frankly Ted, I pretty much hate the red voters, and don't think they have much that is worth reading. We've got over 10,000 US casualties, we've got somewhere between 30,000 and 100,000 Iraqi innocents killed, for what? They voted in support of all those kids and women and men getting blown apart. The lives obliterated and many more shattered. They support that. I suspect they will burn in hell, if there is such a place. They have a total lack of empathy beyond their "clan"; they are political sociopaths. I couldn't agree with you more. They have unleashed an evil both on this land as well as Iraq. Unfortunately, the rest of us will pay the price along with them. The only good news these day is coming out of Ukraine.......they are fighting the will of the Russian Bush. ted