At least fifty of them oppose violence and terrorism. Out of around 70,000.
EX-EX-GAYS: In Britain, the leading ex-gay group, Courage, decides to end its campaign for homosexuals being cured by psychotherapy or religion. Why? It doesn’t work.
DIVORCE AND MARRIAGE: The stats I quoted in my “Conflicted America” piece are all good, but may not capture the entire picture. The fact that Texas has almost twice as many divorces per capita than Massachusetts may not tell the whole story. Texas also has more marriages. (And presumably, because of more divorces, also more re-marriages.) Texas also has more young people. I’ve now read several statistical analyses trying to sort all this out. All of them show Texas with a higher divorce rate than Massachusetts, but not as extreme a disparity as the crude figures suggest. The critical issue is Texas’ tradition of young marriages. They tend to fail more often than marriages engaged in by more mature couples.
WEBLOG AWARDS: I’m not sure what awards mean when they are the result of mass voting, or once a day voting or voting by automated bots. They presumably have the same accuracy as online polls. Usually these polls are p.r. operations for media entities, or a somewhat sad means of increasing traffic. So who gains from the weblog awards? Wizbang, I guess. I’m grateful to all of you who have voted for the Dish, and would love to encourage you to vote by bot or daily or hourly orchestration. But it all seems a little silly, doesn’t it?
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