The Netherlands Shows the Effect of Same Sex Marriage
Some time this week, the Federal Marriage Protection Amendment will be voted on by the Senate. The measure was approved by the Senate Judiciary Commitee last week. Now it will go to a vote of the full Senate.
DNC Chairman Howard Dean called this a hateful, divisive amendment. The fact is, this isn’t about discriminating against gays and lesbians. It’s about shoring up this country’s family structure and, as a result, the stability and happiness of our children.
It is a well-documented fact that our children prosper when they’re raised by both a mother and a father. The Dutch are now facing the other side of this issue, head-on.
In the Netherlands, out-of-wedlock births have shot up every year since 1994. Why, you ask? Well, in 1990, the gay rights movement started a major communications campaign to get the populace to approve same-sex marriage. Their strategy was to reject the idea that marriage is intrisically connected to parenthood. The Dutch public bought the argument and approved “registered partnerships” in 1997, followed by formal same-sex marriage in 2000.
The problem is that once marriage stops being about binding mothers and fathers together for the sake of the children they create, the need to get married gradually disappears. So the numbers in The Netherlands attest.
Stanley Kurtz at National Review, writes a stupendous piece on this massive change in social mores and the ensuing changes in society, “Smoking Gun: The Netherlands Shows the Effect of Same Sex Marriage.” Thanks to Mark Worthington from Worcester for this tidbit.