Just in time for the Senate debate on the newly retitled Marriage Protection Amendment (Marriage Prevention Amendment would be more like it), here's a major new book on Scandinavia's experience with same-sex unions. In Gay Marriage: For Better or Worse? What We've Learned from the Evidence, Bill Eskridge and Darren Spedale say this:
[O]ur data for Denmark, Norway, and Sweden demonstrate that the trend toward cohabitation and away from marriage slowed down rather than speeded up after enactment of those countries' registered partnership statutes... The Scandinavia-bashing public voices like Santorum, Bork, and Kurtz is a most one-sided, and incorrect, reading of what is going on in these countries.
The book is packed with data and looks to be an important contribution. It's in stock at Amazon.com.
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posted by Northeast Libertarian on
You expect the big-activist-government Republican socialists to let facts influence their thought processes? You are optimistic.
In these post-modern times, it’s all about “feelings.” Anger, rage, hatred, and how the Republican “feels” about certain issues. Analysis, rationality, and a focus on the facts are not only not engaged in, but they actually make the present GOP leadership angry. After all, the facts countermand the basic premises of their entire failed agenda. . . and those stark facts are ultimately what is doing in this catastrophically disastrous failed presidency. The sooner the farce is over, the better for America.