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To: epicure who wrote (187516)	4/23/2012 1:56:15 PM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Respond to of 542907

You might be able to make such a case if the statistics could identify the religious faith of both parties going in to the marriage and whether or not they were "practicing" Christians as opposed to nominal birth right ones. Then I would think there would have to be some kind of indices as to why the marriage broke up. One of the parties may be perfectly innocent in the matter and not want the a marriage to end, in which case, for statistical purposes, it shouldn't be used as an indicator of non-value Christian for that person. This might make for a grad thesis on particular denomination which kept those kind of statistics, but unless you can can direct me to web sites that have already done compilations on these matters, its kind of stretch on our part, I think, to depend on us finding such without a huge time investment. In other words, we are probably left with our points of view on the matter barring agreement on a common statistical indices. PS. Although, I understand your anti-gay marriage argument as denoting Christian hypocrisy it is definitely not one size fits all across the Christian Spectrum on this. Some denominations accept gay clergy and bless gay marriages and/or civil unions. Additionally in the context of some Christian cultures (Catholics for one) Marriage is seen as a sacrament (meaning more holier), in the context of their faith and they feel like secular forces are trying to impinge outside values upon their religion. Some of these same people don't have the same problem with same sex unions not known as "marriage". It is a cultural values clash. For me, a compromise would be (for both sides) to accept same sex civil unions as being equal in civil legal status to marriage, but not marriage in terms of Church status. That is offering both sides half a loaf I know, but it is not a perfect world either.