Conservative Christians Divorce More Than Others

One goal of this blog is to point out the lies and hypocrisy among the opponents of LGBT equality under the civil laws and few groups exhibit more hypocrisy (and fear of engaging in rational thought) than so-called conservative Christians who claim the Bible is inerrant and want a handful of carefully selected passages applied to gays and others in society that they dislike but then utterly ignore whatever passages that are inconvenient for themselves. No Bible prohibition is more flouted by these hypocrites than the bans on divorce that per the Bible come from the mouth of Christ himself. Worse yet, many act as if being "saved" gives them a license to lie, cheat, abuse and denigrate others with total abandon. Sadly, too few in the news media have the balls to openly confront these folks and call them out for their hypocrisy. As the Daily Texan reports yet another study has confirmed that notwithstanding the Bible's bans on divorce, conservative Christians divorce more than other segments of society. Here are some highlights:
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Divorce is more common among conservative Christians and young people, according to a recent study. University of Iowa sociology professor Jennifer Glass presented her study on skyrocketing divorce rates in regions highly populated with conservative Christians to an overflowing crowd in Burdine Hall on Friday.
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“Politically and religiously conservative states, especially in the Deep South, exhibit higher divorce rates than politically and religiously liberal states in the Northeast and Midwest,” Glass wrote in her study. The average divorce rate in the United States is 47.9 percent, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.
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Factors that lead to high rates of divorce among Christians are the prohibition of sex before marriage leading to marriage at an earlier age and teachings against abortion and birth control, which lead to “shotgun weddings,” she said.
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Another reason divorce rates are higher in conservative Christian regions is because residents of less religious and more liberal areas are more likely to live together for extended periods of time, she said.
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Yep, it's a case of "do as we say, not as we do." Would that more of these folks were challenged to their faces when they launch into anti-gay rants that cite the Bible as justification for their anti-gay tirades. Under their own supposedly "deeply held religious beliefs," they are all adulterers and per Leviticus as they would apply it to gays, they deserve death.