You Were Warned – Marriage Decline

Pew Research dated November 18, 2010 - “The Decline of Marriage and Rise of New Families”

Marriage rates are declining among those most attracted to (the solid base of) the Evangelical Right.  It is now being determined that there is a  new "marriage gap" in the United States, and it is increasingly aligned with a growing income gap.

While the marriage is still the norm among the educated – those least likely to align with the Christian Right and most likely to be pro-same sex marriage – marriage “is markedly less prevalent among those on the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder.”

You were previously warned (in this and related blogs) that the anti-marriage stance of the Religious Right would devalue the importance of marriage among their constituency – those masses for whom religion is the traditional “opiate”.

If marriage is no important enough to support among those who want the right to marry, than it is not important enough for them to want.

Note that the evangelical does NOT support education – it is, after all, the promoter of Creationism and the literal interpretation of a Bible that is basically traditional mythology hung on a framework of astronomy.

That last part, along with the basis of both the Romulus Roman Calendar and our own Calendar, will be fully explained in my book, “Grandpa Was A Deity” – currently in the hands of its second draft editor.

For now, the Right-wing is, once again, learning the lesson of “The Monkey’s Paw” – your wish will be granted, so you had better concern yourself with what you ask for.  For the Right-wing, the request was to disavow the importance of a spiritual commitment to another person.  In days gone by, the Bible Belt disavowed the importance among interracial couples; now they are doing so among same sex ones.  In the process, they are violating the Pauline Doctrine of Faith and so disavowing the salvation of those who believe in such things.