SSM AND DIVORCE: Elizabeth Marquardt

My friend told me about an elevator conversation yesterday. A colleague started a conversation about Bush's endorsement of a constitutional ammendment and asked my friend what he thought. He told him. The colleague replied that he didn't see why people were getting so upset about SSM; if they wanted to save marriage, he said, they should worry about divorce.

Similarly, my mayor, Richard Daley, said last week in support of SSM that those who are bothered by it should "look in the mirror" and look at the divorce rate.

To all of them I say, welcome to the marriage movement. Interestingly, some of those who just months ago would have feared saying something negative about our divorce rate (who wants to look like a right wing conservative, after all?) suddenly are willing to bash divorce when the topic of SSM comes up. Great. If they're concerned about divorce I have many suggestions about what they can do to help out. In the meantime, they might consider that at least some and perhaps many of us who are worried about SSM have *also* been worried about and working on the problem of divorce long before these family issues hit their own radar screen.

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