A friend of mine spent several hours washing a huge working farm truck,
because he had read that clean vehicles are pulled over less often for
traffic violations.  He didn't consider the very real possibility that
this statistic didn't really have anything to do with clean cars.
Perhaps the sort of person who washes his car is also the sort of person
who obeys traffic laws, and the sort of person who lets his car get
filthy is the sort of person who doesn't.  Washing the car won't really
change the behavior of its occupant.

Correlation does not prove causality.  Couples who remain married have
children who fare better in life.  Okay, but that doesn't mean that if
you take an abusive couple living at the poverty level and encourage (or
force) them to get married that their offspring will be any better off.
Marriage will not necessarily change their abusive behavior or their
general lot in life.

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>>> Larry Barnes <[log in to unmask]> 11/19/03 07:36AM >>>
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,103459,00.html

A reason homosexual marriages will only add to the social problems.

From the article above,
"...According to 2000 census data, the rate of married households in
the
United States declined by nearly 30 percent since 1950. Married
couples
now make up an estimated 50 percent of households.
Meanwhile, the number of unmarried partners living together has risen
from 523,000 in 1970 to approximately 4.9 million in 2000.
Nearly one-third of all children today are born outside of marriage,
and
more than half of U.S. children will spend all or part of their
childhood in a broken family, according to statistics.
The percentage of children living with mothers who have never married
increased to 36 percent in 1996 from 7 percent in 1970, said Mary
Parke,
a researcher at the Center for Law and Social Policy.
Rector added that a child raised by a mother who has never married is
seven times more likely to live in poverty than a child raised by his
biological parents in an intact marriage. ..."

Since a homosexual couple can not have biological parents what does
this
say about children raised in such an environment?  The kids don't have
much of a chance.  The same goes for children raised by a single
parent.

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