Gay Marriage and the end of marriage as we know it
April 5, 2007 · By Aaron Unruh
The correlations are strong. Support for marriage is by far the weakest in countries with same-sex marriage. The countries with marriage-like civil unions show significantly more support for marriage. The two countries with only regional recognition of gay marriage (Australia and the United States) do better still on these support-for-marriage measurements, and those without either gay marriage or marriage-like civil unions do best of all.
Correlation != Causation. Are you asserting that the drop in support for marriage occurred immediately following the institution of gay marriage? This is the only way you could draw a causal link from gay marriage to drop in support for marriage. If you are, you should be aware that this is a very poor causal link (constituting a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy). What is preventing people from asserting that the drop in support for marriage came first?
This is what is colloquially referred to as “bullsh*t”.
You know what’s the best part of your site? The fact that your Google ads include legal services for gays and lesbians.
Try this website,
beyondmarriage.org
Draw your own conclusions.
The downfall of marriage began when it went from two people coming together in love forever. To two people coming together to fight over power and money for a term of 5 to 10 years. Gays and lesbians have nothing to do with it.
“You know what’s the best part of your site? The fact that your Google ads include legal services for gays and lesbians.”
Ha, I know.
Anon, I agree on causation. But his results are highly suggestive.
“anon wrote:
Correlation != Causation. Are you asserting that the drop in support for marriage occurred immediately following the institution of gay marriage? This is the only way you could draw a causal link from gay marriage to drop in support for marriage. If you are, you should be aware that this is a very poor causal link (constituting a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy). What is preventing people from asserting that the drop in support for marriage came first?”
The author made no such argument…which you would know if you actually read the article. This is what he wrote;
“Neither Kurtz nor anyone else can scientifically prove that allowing gay
marriage causes the institution of marriage to get weaker. Correlation does not imply causation.”
Acceptance of same sex marriage is, however, symptomatic of a society’s lack of support for marriage.
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For a serious critique of this argument, especially of its dubious claim that correlation = causation, check out this article by Dale Carpenter at the Volokh Conspiracy: http://volokh.com/archives/arc.....1175097297
Sorry - wrong link in my previous comment. Carpenter’s main article is at http://volokh.com/archives/arc.....1175027781
It’s nice to see the Politic and the Taliban agreeing about something, isn’t it?
It’s nice to see Stageleft.info and the Jim Crow South agreeing about something too, isn’t it?
“Acceptance of same sex marriage is, however, symptomatic of a society’s lack of support for marriage.”
It IS??? How so?
how to save my marriage…
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