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"Family Values"/Anti-Gay Crowd's Next Target: Outlawing Divorce
At least they're being logically consistent:
| quote: | After its victory in last year's fight over a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in Virginia, the Family Foundation of Virginia announced Thursday that it will push to change the state's divorce laws to make it more difficult for parents to end their marriage.
The Family Foundation, which opposes abortion and promotes socially conservative values, said it will lobby the General Assembly this year to amend the state's long-standing no-fault divorce law, which essentially allows a husband or wife to terminate a marriage without cause.
The foundation is advocating "mutual consent divorce" for couples with children, which would require a husband and wife to agree to divorce before a marriage can be legally terminated, except in certain instances, such as abuse or cruelty. The proposed legislation would not affect childless couples.
"Right now, one spouse can unilaterally end [the marriage], and not only is their spouse unable to stop the divorce, their abandonment does not preclude them from having custody of their child," said Victoria Cobb, president of the Family Foundation. "When we send a message that one can up and leave their family and have no consequence, the Old Dominion is encouraging divorce."...............
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...0401910_pf.html |
I'm actually not being as snarky as you might think - I have criticized the anti-gay uber-religious folks for not being consistent with their arguments of protecting the sanctity of marriage by simply only targeting gay marriage. I can't say I follow their logic in terms of HOW they're going about this, but at least they are targeting what is clearly THE biggest and downright-most obvious threat to marriage - divorce.
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Whence September dusk grows crisper still,
with leaves all crimson conquered,
I yearn to shout,
and dance about,
and stick pickles in my honker...
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