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...from the civil rights contained therein—several of the states which voted to ban gay marriage have among the highest divorce rates in the country. Based on 2003’s Census Bureau figures, America’s favorite “values” sinkhole and bastion of Godless hedonism—Massachusetts—has the lowest divorce rate in the country...
While I’m sure that many would expect my source of information to be National Review, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Times, or merely the diseased recesses of my evil conservative mind, the study I want to reference instead comes from that bastion of neoconservative thought, the John F. Kennedy School of Government. What makes the study all the more illuminating is that its author, Alberto Abadie, did not set out to disprove what was previously the standard belief in the international studies community; rather, when he started he “believed it was a reasonable assumption...
...while 12% of the Cambridge vote may seem paltry, Slavitt’s in good company in one respect—President George W. Bush garnered the same amount of support in this liberal bastion. “Cambridge is basically out of touch with the country and indeed with the solar system, so it’s kind of a badge of honor to lose here,” Slavitt says...
After Heaney resigned his teaching position in 1996, then-College President Neil Rudenstine renewed the Ralph Waldo Emerson position in order to preserve a place for Heaney in the bastion of American academia...
...Spain, whose kings and queens were once the most fervent defenders of the Christian faith, the Socialist government has launched a radical reform of family law that will grant gays and lesbians full legal status as parents and allow them to marry. In Ireland, another former Roman Catholic bastion, politicians from all parties meet this week to discuss whether the constitution should be changed to give homosexual couples the same rights as heterosexual ones. In England, the leaders of the worldwide Anglican Communion last week issued a report saying that if its pro - and anti - gay factions couldn't reconcile...