It’s funny, just this week, my friends and I were musing about the rate of gay divorce in Massachusetts in the couple of years since the Goodridge decision. Oddly enough, we hadn’t seen the news coverage on gay divorce that we’d predicted.
Well, via Adam Reilly, I see that Bay Windows is reporting that the Goodridges are splitting. So expect the divorce talk to heat up.
Of course, the inevitable fact that gay couples will get divorced - at lower, higher, or same rate as their straight counterparts - has absolutely no bearing on their right to get married. The weird thing about the more instrumental slants to the “nonbigoted” conservative arguments against gay marriage (i.e. arguments that they’re really opposed to X or Y social effect of gay marriage, and not taking a punitive stance against gays) is that they never for once seriously consider calibrating marriage or divorce law in a way that would impact straight people’s life and liberty.
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