California Nutcase Wants to Ban Divorce

From the state that brought us Prop 8, I really am not that surprised at the lengths people will go to, to enforce their beliefs onto other people.

wow....I wonder if this person ever has been abused...might change their mind

It sounds like a "natural" extension of the Defense of Marriage act... it makes exactly as much sense as that act: none at all.

I am with Hannah on this one! :)

When was it that California became the haven for fruit cakes?

sometime in the 1800s

Thaks, I was wondering. Must have been that gold rush.

Well ........
banning divorce is a much better defense of marriage than banning gay marriages

Good grief!

My sentaments exactly

The sad thing is that you and I both know a person or two, or 12 or 15, who would probably support this!!!!

As Morfar always said "it takes all kinds to make a world." I say they need to live and let live, but it's better the guy behind the petition live elsewhere. LOL

And the picture you see when you click on the link is not a very romantic portrayal of marriage.

And didn't you once hear someone say that there are some marriages that Jesus Christ himself couldn't save?

Till DEATH do us part, can easily mean the DEATH OF THE UNION, the death of the marriage, the death of that particular family unit.

Somewhere around here I have a little green Presbyterian booklet called Living Faith. If I can't find it, they have them in each pew at Knox Church. Next time we're in there, I'll point out the passage in that book on divorce. It says something to the extent that it's better for a couple to go in separate directions, than for the family to live in bitterness.

Walker!!!

My God!!! I just realized something. If divorce were banned before we had met, I'd have three SISTER WIVES, and we'd need a bigger freaking apartment.

I have two parents who can make the Hatfields and McCoys look like good neighbours. Yeah their divorce had it's effects on me, however, things would have been a hell of a lot worse for everyone involved, had they stayed together, so their divorce was a relief for all of us. Now the family has expanded, with the addition of two new step-families. Tis better to sometimes have to turn lemmons into lemmonadem than to be stuck with a crate of rotten lemmons on your hands.

I totally agree with you about domestic violence going undergrown, if divorce were outlawed. There'd probably also be a lot more "self defense murders" (victims who have been victims for way too long, and who snap, themselves. Much as I hate to say it, society does, in fact, still NEED divorce.

John Marcotte is a funny guy, and if you haven't checked out RescueMarriage.org, you really should go there for some good laughs. I mean, it's no Landover Baptist Church, but there's some good stuff there. I like the t-shirt, but I like the sales pitch for them even better -- "Get one for yourself, and get another for the loved one you can never, ever leave." I love it!

The difficult thing about this kind of satire is that no matter how over-the-top you go, there's somebody else out there who's gone just as far, or farther, except they're not joking.

Sometimes divorce is necessary.