EUROPE AND THE U.S.: Michael Sellitto

I think Stanley Kurtz's arguments about "the gays" wrecking marriage in Scandinavia have been sufficiently debunked at this point.

Regardless, numbers or percentages of marriages occurring are not very meaningful. How do they impact the lives of people in Scandinavia?

Well, let's compare Scandiavia with the US on some statistics that we can all probably agree have meaning:

Scandinavia has:

- lower infant mortality rate than the US
- longer average lifespan than the US
- fewer abortions, per capita
- higher literacy rate

It certainly sounds like, regardless of whether marriage has "ended" in Scandinavia, as Kurtz puts it, that those countries have a healthier population than we have in the US.
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