Are Divorce Rates in Heterosexual Marriages A Reason to Support Gay Marriage?

As an openly bisexual individual, I would like the option to marry my same-sex partner, should we decide that we want to spend the rest of our lives together. Now I realize that marriage to most conservative Christians is defined as a union between a man and a woman. Period. End of story. But I would like to think that someday those same conservative Christians will realize that the bond of love between a man and woman in a committed relationship who want to get married is indeed just as strong as that between a woman and a woman or a man and a man who love one another enough to want to spend the rest of their lives together in marriage.

But really, let’s get right down to it, people: In today’s society, a marriage between a man and a woman is not always forever and the man and the woman who originally pledged marriage and said that they would spend the rest of their lives together in holy matrimony are not always doing so. In fact, according to Religious Tolerence.org, http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_dira.htm “11% of the adult population if currently divorced. 25% of adults have had at least one divorce in their lifetime. Divorce rates among conservative Christians were significantly higher than for other faith groups, and much higher than Atheists and Agnostics experience.”

According to, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_atheism., “A 2004 BBC poll showed the number of people in the US who don't believe in a god to be about 10%.[5] A 2005 Gallup poll showed that a smaller 5% of the US population believed that a god didn't exist.[18] The 2001 ARIS report found that while 29.5 million U.S. Americans (14.1%) describe themselves as "without religion", only 902,000 (0.4%) positively claim to be atheist, with another 991,000 (0.5%) professing agnosticism.[19]”

I could not find any clear statics on how many gays and lesbians profess to be atheist or agnostic, but from my own experience here at St. Cloud State, I can say that many of my gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender friends are atheist, agnostic, or some other non-Christian religion. Just go on Facebook http://www.facebook.com and search for women or men interested in the same sex and you will see what I mean. In short, my point is that based solely on their religious beliefs, gays and lesbians may in fact be less likely to divorce than conservative Christian men and women who marry. If you think about it, a marriage between a man and a woman that ends in divorce isn’t a marriage anymore, so why not let gays and lesbians have a go at marriage and see how they fair?