If Massachusetts is redefining Marriage by allowing gay marriage ?

Why do they have the lowest divorce rates and some of the most conservative states have the highest divorce rates?If Massachusetts is redefining Marriage by allowing gay marriage ?
That is a good point maybe because if you are more liberal you can live with your partner before you get married and find out if it is really for you before you take the plungeIf Massachusetts is redefining Marriage by allowing gay marriage ?
Here is good counsel from Christ:





The ';ideal'; of marriage is that a man and woman agree continuously to remain in respect and committed relationship as peers meeting all the emotional, psychological and spiritual challenges, and difficulties of adult expression and growth. In fact, however, men and women have operated within their unions as criminals attacking and oppressing one another, their communities, and their children as combatants, destroyers, enemies, and ';home wreckers';. Necessarily (in the language of the Bible, “for the hardness of their hearts”), the state has developed mechanisms to extend the protection and support of the law both to its citizens (i.e., the neighbors, the children, wives, husbands, and the in-laws), and to the institutions threatened by ';out-of-control'; marriages.





As in the larger society, modern, secular marriage is often characterized by criminal conduct. The foundations of these unions are always material and temporal (i.e., limited in duration), and require regulation through law enforcement agencies. Repeatedly, these life-partnerships are plagued by bigamy, breach of contract, cheating, domestic violence, enslavement, frustration, ignorance, immaturity, impotence, incompatibility, infertility, lust, lying, murder, negligence, pride, prostitution, selfishness, sexual aberrations, slander, suicide, ungodliness, and verbal abuse. To the extent that marriage is based upon feelings of desire, external circumstances and social conditions, or dreams and fantasies of dominance, self-fulfillment, status and “success”, there is no solid or stable platform that will allow the partners in relationship to grow and produce as individuals. Arranged marriages, marriages of convenience, polyandry (one woman having many husbands), polygamy (one man having multiple wives), and widowhood emerge as responses to disasters and other social conditions that reduce “qualified” candidates for marriage. Thus, for example, epidemic disease and war promote “teen” and early marriage where populations have been decimated.





By contrast, sacred marriage (–what may be called “holy matrimony” and an aspect of al-jihad al-akbar, “the greater Jihad”) is grounded in “promise” and spiritual substance (e.g., belief, obedience, praise, trust); and “enforcement” is through self-discipline and spiritual submission to GOD. Here, marriage is not merely an institution created by GOD for reproduction of Adam (i.e., mankind -- GOD's name to both the male and female); marriage is a relationship where the male and female are ';one flesh';, and GOD is the other. For this reason, among mature Christian believers, both marriage and divorce are emblems of divine sovereignty (What God has joined together, let no man put asunder.). GOD -- who is both Creator and Judge -- uses death and divorce as ';tools'; to ';put asunder';, to fashion repentance (i.e., turning away from sin, while turning to GOD), and to complete the process of judgment. Divorce may remove the obligation to cohabit (share living space); however, the obligation to ';love your enemy'; is still in effect. Divorce does not remove all duty -- certainly not duty to GOD.





There is far more to be understood. I trust this ';fragment'; will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.





Washington, DC
Well, we redefine marriage all the time. There's arranged marriage, forced marriage (also called shotgun weddings) also, just a century or so ago, the woman was treated as property...marriage has evolved over time.
Religious people are trying to redefine marriage by claiming it belongs to religion. Typical.
spiritually speaking I could care less..