Gay marriage was causing high divorce rates in red states

Ah, the hypocrites are at it, casting stones at their fellow citizens in blue states. And they are living in big, southern, hypocritical, glass houses.

"Half of heterosexual marriages in our society end in divorce. We heterosexuals are doing a lousy job of "defending" marriage," says Howard Troxler. And this story in today's NYT titled To Avoid Divorce, Move to Massachusetts outlines the statistics of the evangelicals' hypocrisy:

BOSTON — If blue states care less about moral values, why are divorce rates so low in the bluest of the blue states? It's a question that intrigues conservatives, as much as it emboldens liberals.

As researchers have noted, the areas of the country where divorce rates are highest are also frequently the areas where many conservative Christians live.

Kentucky, Mississippi and Arkansas, for example, voted overwhelmingly for constitutional amendments to ban gay marriage. But they had three of the highest divorce rates in 2003, based on figures from the Census Bureau and the National Center for Health Statistics.

The lowest divorce rates are largely in the blue states: the Northeast and the upper Midwest. And the state with the lowest divorce rate was Massachusetts, home to John Kerry, the Kennedys and same-sex marriage.