Woe to You Who Are at Ease in Zion
Graham announced that he was transferring the association’s accounts to the BB&T Bank, “a good solid bank that’s very good at banking.”
.. Graham’s failure to find a bank opposed to gay marriage points to the accelerating isolation of unreconstructed cultural conservatives.
.. The South now suffers the highest rates of marital dissolution, nonmarital childbearing and father absence. Five of the 10 states with the highest numbers of women murdered by men are in the South.
.. Survey data that Wilcox cites in his 2004 book, “Soft Patriarchs, New Men,” indicates that family disorder in the South has been notably evident in one specific group: those born into conservative religions but who have since abandoned or neglected their ties. In contrast, those who remain religiously engaged show strikingly low levels of family dysfunction – in some cases well below national averages.
.. Along similar lines, wives among active, church-going conservative Protestants reported a significantly higher level of happiness with the husbands’ “love and affection” than wives in families that have only nominal religious ties.
.. But, she said, “the highest rates of divorce occurred for church attending conservative Protestant wives married to non-attending husbands.”