Mass. has lowest divorce rate in the nation, new study reveals

[Ian David]

Mass. has lowest divorce rate in the nation, new study reveals
by Hannah Clay Wareham
Staff Reporter
Monday Aug 31, 2009

Massachusetts had the lowest divorce rate in the nation in 2007, a recently released study from the Division of Vital Statistics at the CDC revealed.

The Bay State had a divorce rate of 2.3 per 1,000 people three years after the advent of marriage equality, and boasted a marriage rate of 5.9.

Provisional data from 2008 records the divorce rate at 2.0 per 1,000 people, indicating that it’s continuing to fall.

Massachusetts began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples May 17, 2004, following the Supreme Court’s ruling in the case Goodridge v. Department of Public Health.

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"Homosexual conduct is, and has been, considered abhorrent, immoral, detestable, a crime against nature, and a violation of the laws of nature and of nature’s God upon which this Nation and our laws are predicated. Such conduct violates both the criminal and civil laws of this State and is destructive to a basic building block of society -- the family," Alabama’s Judge Roy Moore said in February of 2002.

However, the state with the highest rate of divorce in the country (more than three times that of Massachusetts) is Nevada, where same-sex marriage is not legal. Moore’s home state of Alabama is not far behind.

More:
http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3=&id=95790

[Jennicut]

1. So gay marriage did not ruin marriage for everyone else?! What a concept.

I wonder what CT is (where I live). We allowed gay marriage here recently.

[ruggerson]

6. the lowest divorce rates

are in the heavily Catholic, very liberal New England states.

The highest divorce rates are in the Bible Belt.

Why this isn't more widely publicized, I will never understand.

[Jennicut]

8. And I thought we New England latte sipping liberals were going to ruin society!

:rofl:
Thanks for the info.

I know Maine is the next state to get gay marriage legalized but its up for a vote by the public in Nov. Hopefully it stands.

[demosincebirth]

2. I think the highest divorce rate in the southern states.

[Ian David]

3. Number one cause of divorce in The South is "Sibling Rivalry."

Sorry.

I know, that was awful.

[d_b]

7. zing!

[orpupilofnature57]

4. Spend Family week in Ptown and see people who you can tell are..

totally committed and happy.I adore my wife and ogle children's mothers and mens daughters ,no judgment from me.I'm not Gay ,but I love Queers and love vacationing with them .no wonder they don't want to get divorced.

[Sebastian Doyle]

5. THOSE DAMN SODOMITES RUINED HETEROSEXUAL DIVORCES !!1!!11!11

Hey, give em a few days. it will be the new spin. :crazy: