Does support for gay marriage bring prosperity and improve quality of life?

Does support for gay marriage bring prosperity and improve quality of life? July 1, 2015

 

Sweden's ski team for 2014 and 2015
The 2014-2015 Swedish ski team
(Click to enlarge.)
Now find a comparable photograph of the current Tahitian, Sri Lankan, Congolese, or Yemeni ski team.
I rest my case.

 

A reader who thinks that redefining marriage is altogether peachy-keen and risk-free offers this proof that I’m wrong to be concerned:

 

Make a list of all of the countries that support gay rights including marriage. Make a list of all of the countries that do not support gay rights and marriage. Correlate that list with a host of quality of life indicators. I would bet that countries that support gay rights and marriage have a far higher quality of life than countries that do not support gay rights and marriage.

 

Of course, those countries had high “quality of life” ratings before they endorsed gay marriage.  So it seems possible that the benefits of gay marriage are so powerful that they actually overflow back into the past.

But I want to think about this a bit more.  After all . . .

Correlation is such a fun tool!

Make a list of all the countries that speak Germanic languages.  Now make a list of all the countries that speak Romance languages.  Compare their average per capita incomes.

Does this demonstrate Aryan superiority?

Make a list of all Scandinavian countries.  Now make a list of the twenty countries with the lowest proportions of Scandinavian citizens.

Clear evidence, it would seem, that Scandinavian people lower temperatures.

Marry a Norwegian girl, reduce your air conditioning costs!

Have you ever noticed, by the way, that rivers overwhelmingly tend to flow under bridges, rather than around, over, or behind them?  Clearly, if you build a bridge, they will come.  It’s a very effective way of managing an area’s water.

Posted from Newport Beach, California

 

 


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