My Gay Marriage Will Kill You! Be Afraid!

Hey, look at this CristianNewsWire and Robert Peters, President, Morality in Media:

Connecting the Dots: The Link Between Gay Marriage and Mass Murders

 

It most certainly is not my intention to blame the epidemic of mass murders on the gay rights movement! It is my intention to point out that the success of the sexual revolution is inversely proportional to the decline in morality; and it is the decline of morality (and the faith that so often under girds it) that is the underlying cause of our modern day epidemic of mass murders.

OK, now let’s look at a couple of myths.

Myth #1: The United States is becoming less and less moral.

Bullshit. First of all let’s note that expanding rights for women and racial minorities has been taken place at the same time as the expansion of rights for gay people. Does anyone one want to come out and say our more racist/sexist society of the past was more moral than the one we have now?

Second, if the US were becoming less moral and more likely to become murders, certainly, we’d see a rise in crime in general and murder specifically while the gay rights movement has been growing. So let’s take a look at the truth from the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics:

Violent Crime Rates from 1973 through 2005

Property Crime Rates from 1973 through 2005

Those charts don’t suggest that the US has become more criminal, less moral lately do they? If anything, one would have to say that the US has become more moral lately. So if Robert Peters wants to connect the dots, shouldn’t he be finding that gay marriage and gay rights have increased morality and decreased crime?

Myth #2: Christianity makes people more moral.

You can see in this entry of my blog that religion does not seem to be connected to morality in the US. There we found that when compared to the least religious states in the US, the most religious states in the US:

rape was 2.3% more frequent.

robbery was 13.3% more frequent.

violent crime was 16.0% more frequent.

property crime was 22.8% more frequent.

murder was a whopping 27.9% more frequent.

And the trend continues throughout the world. Below is an excerpt from a Slate article by Steve Chapman  entitled Praise the Lord, Pass the Ammo:

The United States is the most religious of all the industrialized nations. Forty-four percent of Americans attend church once a week, compared with 27 percent in Britain, 21 percent in France, 16 percent in Australia, and 4 percent in Sweden. Yet violent crime is not less common in the United States--it's more common. The murder rate here is six times higher than the rate in Britain, seven times higher than in France, five times higher than in Australia, and five times higher than in Sweden. Japan, where Christianity has almost no adherents, has less violent crime than almost any country. There are a few advanced nations that have high rates of church attendance and low rates of violent crime--Ireland, Italy, and Belgium--but they're the exceptions.

 

Within the 50 states, there is no evidence that a God-fearing populace equals a law-abiding populace. The Bible Belt has more than its share of both praying and killing. Louisiana has the highest churchgoing rate in the country, but its murder rate is more than twice the national average. The same pattern generally holds in the rest of the South. Tom DeLay's Bible-toting state of Texas has a murder rate triple that of Massachusetts, which is "ungodly" enough to have elected two openly gay members of Congress. New York, the very symbol of godless depravity, is perfectly average when it comes to extralegal slaughter. In Washington state, where Sunday morning slugabeds are more common than anywhere else in America, murder is 38 percent less common.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that Christianity causes crime. I’m just saying there doesn’t seem to be any evidence that it prevents crime. And let’s go further and say that there doesn’t appear to be any connection between adding gay marriage to a society and an increase in murder.

What we might be able to find is a connection between irrationally fearing gays and being willing to lie about them.