Divorced from reality

[babylonsister]

Florida Family Policy Council? :eyes:

Divorced from reality

Palm Beach Post Editorial

Tuesday, February 24, 2009


Having helped to make sure that marriage in this state is off-limits to gays and lesbians, the Florida Family Policy Council wants to set marriage standards for everybody else in Florida. If the group has its way, some of those standards would be written into law.

In announcing the effort he calls "Strong Marriages Florida," John Stemberger, president of the Florida Family Policy Council, said that to lower the state's divorce rate by 10 percent "we are launching an initiative to serve the children, families, communities of Florida." To justify making your marriage his business, Mr. Stemberger says, "The breakdown of families in our state brings not only high social costs to children whose lives are often devastated, but there is an enormous economic cost to taxpayers and to businesses."

Mr. Stemberger's group and its allies promoted the gay marriage ban that voters put in Florida's Constitution in November. Success in that campaign, which featured misinformation and religious intolerance, doesn't qualify the Florida Family Policy Council to be the state's marriage counselor.

This newspaper for years has noted the link between unprepared parents and troubled children. We have no quarrel with a church, religion or other private group that wants to set requirements for marriage or establish programs to strengthen marriage. The problem comes when that church, religion or group believes that its standards, beliefs or practices should be written into law.

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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2009/02/24/a14a_married_edit_0224.html

[Captain Hilts]

1. This is really 'weird news day', isn't it?

[theoldman]

2. It is good to hear that straights do not have marriage problems.

I always thought it was straights that had the most divorces. They also have the most children. Ever hear of a gay couple having six children and then getting a divorce?

[Believing Is Art]

3. Bad argument

If gay couples were universally afforded the same marriage and adoption policies as straight couples, do you really think the statistics wouldn't be similar after a significant amount of time? I'm not arguing against gay marriage, I just don't think you're making a good argument.

[stillcool]

4. Hopefully every couple in the world will adopt..

several children. There is no shortage of orphans..and there are plenty of foster kids looking for good homes...the kind of homes where the kids don't get abused, and aren't just being used to get a check from the government.