The Moral Right

Meanwhile, I’ve been holding off on sending a missive I’ve been compiling for my parents comparing the “moral” red states with the “amoral” blue states. Sick and tired as I am of them reading these damn stupid books by the likes of Tammy Bruce detailing the pagan scourge that is the “liberal elite agenda” in this country, I found it curious that Massachusetts, the state which is such a notorious bastion of “activist judges” who are trying to undermine marriage in this country by making it available to homosexuals, strangely enough has the lowest divorce rate in the country, and has for a long, long time. Meanwhile, the rest of the top ten states with the lowest divorce rates are also liberal blue states, while all of the worst states for divorce rates are conservative red states, mostly planted right in the Bible belt. Which makes me understand why they don’t want those damn liberal activist judges “devaluing marriage”, since they’re having such a damn hard time valuing it themselves… Domestic violence rates and homicide rates follow a similar trend. The only statistic I saw that gave credence to the moral righteousness of the moral conservative half of this country was the fact that they do give a sizably higher percentage of their incomes to charity – a lesson from which we blue-staters could learn.

William D'Antonio has written a fantastic article about this subject...