Those little things called facts

PRESIDENT Bush and Vice President Cheney make reference to "Massachusetts liberals" as if they were referring to people with some kind of disease. I decided it was time to do some research on these people, and here is what I found.

The state with the lowest divorce rate in the nation is Massachusetts. At latest count it had a divorce rate of 2.4 per 1,000 population, while the rate for Texas was 4.1.

But don't take the US government's word for it. Take a look at the findings from the George Barna Research Group. George Barna, a born-again Christian whose company is in Ventura, Calif., found that Massachusetts does indeed have the lowest divorce rate among all 50 states. More disturbing was the finding that born-again Christians have among the highest divorce rates [...]

The Associated Press, using data supplied by the US Census Bureau, found that the highest divorce rates are to be found in the Bible Belt. The AP report stated that "the divorce rates in these conservative states are roughly 50 percent above the national average of 4.2 per thousand people." The 10 Southern states with some of the highest divorce rates were Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas. By comparison nine states in the Northeast were among those with the lowest divorce rates: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

It's not terribly surprising, is it? As we've learned, right wing Christian loons tends to be violent, undereducated assholes. By contrast, the homo loving liberals in the North East tend to be better educated, wealthier, happier and far more moral.

Why are the bat-shit crazy Christians destroying marriage by divorcing at the highest rates while at the same time refusing to treat gay people equally? Why do the bible belt states have the lowest academic achievement? The lowest income? A fucking church on every god damn corner?

What the fuck am I doing living in one? LOL

By any measure, secular liberalism is far superior to the land of the loons.