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To: TimF who wrote (853)	3/14/2008 6:57:50 PM
From: Jeff Hayden	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6846

I've been taking the opposite side from Laz on this, but I don't think he was using "prostitution results in divorce" as his main argument. I wasn't a main argument, but it was an argument: Message 24399627 If he was using it as an argument at all, well he didn't show that it leads to more divorce so that would be a weakness in that particular argument,... At the linked site, he does profess parenthetically: "(Nevada is also admittedly an outlier in divorce statistics because of its laws. This effect is impossible to separate from other causes.)" ...but you don't show that it doesn't lead to more. Maybe not, but at least I pointed out that Rhode Island has prostitution AND a low divorce rate. Stats on divorce by religious affiliation just aren't relevant to the point, and Laz certainly has not been using religious based arguments against prostitution being legal, so any such stats are really irrelevant to the whole discussion. I agree with you there. I was only pulling his chain, and yours apparently. :-) As far as whether the assertions you mention are unsupported, I really don't know. The Barna Research Group, quoted at the religioustolerance.org site, claims they have gathered data by polling a rather large sample of people - perhaps they have supported their assertions? The assertions are not mine. I'm just a guy pulling data from the web.