If conservative Christians are among those who have the highest divorce rate, and protection of the sanctity of marriage has been the primary argument against gay-marriage, shouldn't divorce be outlawed, too?

According to the Barna Research Group study conducted in 1999, 27% “Born-again” Christians and 24% “other” Christians have been divorced, compared to 21% of Atheists and Agnostics.

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Ron Barrier, Spokesperson for American Atheists remarked on these findings with some rather caustic comments against organized religion. He said:

“These findings confirm what I have been saying these last five years. Since Atheist ethics are of a higher caliber than religious morals, it stands to reason that our families would be dedicated more to each other than to some invisible monitor in the sky. With Atheism, women and men are equally responsible for a healthy marriage. There is no room in Atheist ethics for the type of ‘submissive’ nonsense preached by Baptists and other Christian and/or Jewish groups. Atheists reject, and rightly so, the primitive patriarchal attitudes so prevalent in many religions with respect to marriage.”

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By pointing out these statistics or by asking this question, I’m not suggesting that same-sex marriage and Atheism/Agnosticism are connected.

If conservative Christians are so obsessed with protecting the sanctity of marriage, shouldn’t it be logical to outlaw the act of legally dismantling the marriage contract as opposed to making same-sex marriage the scapegoat?