Janice
Shaw Crouse reports on the diminishing numbers of African American males
who graduate high school and connects the dots to the absence of fathers. This directly contradicts what Jude Walker
wrote in his opinion overturning California’s democratically approved constitutional
amendment protecting the traditional definition of marriage. Excerpt:
A new report from the Schott Foundation
reveals that only 47 percent of black male students earn a high school diploma
on time. Ironically, this report came out shortly after Judge Vaughn Walker
ruled regarding Proposition 8 in California. If the statements on which Judge
Walker based his ruling are “facts,” how do we explain what is happening
educationally to boys in the black community where a large majority are growing
up without fathers?
Nancy Pearcey, in an article on American
Thinker, identified certain “facts that Judge Walker claims are now established
by the ‘evidence’ presented in his courtroom.” Those “facts” presumably will be
deemed as “truth” far beyond the courtroom. Among those “facts,” the following
three are especially relevant for young black boys’ futures:
• “Gender no longer forms an essential part
of marriage.”
• “The gender of a child’s parent is not a
factor in a child’s adjustment.”
• “Having both a male and a female parent
does not increase the likelihood that a child will be well-adjusted.”
Those three general false principles that
Judge Walker supposedly established in his arguments in favor of so-called
“same-sex marriage” are equally faulty when applied to the more than 40 percent
of today’s children who are born to single mothers. They are doubly relevant
when the majority of those children are black.