Yeah, no shit people don't approve of this

[trinityvixen]

So this woman is out to save marriage from divorce in Oklahoma. This may be an unpopular thing to say, but I applaud her for at least having the courage of her convictions and going full-on with the crazy and not being a hypocrite. See, she really does think gays are a threat to marriage. And she sat a good long time and thought, "Gee, you know what else is a threat to marriage?"

Et voila, she has something she wants done about divorce. Not that she intends to be any less batshit, rights-denying, human-hating about this than she is about gay marriage. This woman wants you married, goddamnit, and you will stay that way, so help her GOD...

Her rules would basically make it impossible for all but childless couples and those who get married at Vegas chapels on drunken binges (are you listening, Britney Spears?) to get divorced. You couldn't divorce for "incompatibility" if you'd been married for ten years or more (because every thing that might happen to you to change your personality has only a ten-year window in which to happen which opens right after you get married and nothing good/bad/major will ever happen to you or your spouse after that window is closed). You also can't divorce for "incompatibility" if you have minor children, which means that unless you were living in sin with the partner with whom you had children until those children were 6-7-8 years of age, HA HA NO DIVORCE FOR YOU. I suppose that's one way to keep an eye on those people of ill repute who would dare to birth bastards in this day and age. (That's probably her next suggestion: finding a way to declare certain kinds of children legally illegitimate in a country with no royalty.)

You also can't object to a divorce on "incompatibility" grounds if the other person objects. Would love to be in that Divorce Court. ("Your Honor, we're clearly incompatible! He wants a divorce and I don't! Er, wait...") It's the kind of logical conundrum that would kill off our Robot Overlords.

The non-funny side to this is that a person who is not outright abusive or unfaithful could trap you in a marriage basically forever by refusing to divorce you. Two things about that: 1) No one should ever have that power over you again, which is why divorce exists at all. 2) If this whole thing were to pass, that person could hold you until such time as you hit the big Tin/Aluminium Anniversary and became ineligible. (Ooh, did this Rep. know that the traditional presents for that anniversary are so...tarnishable?) ::shudders at the thought::

No fault divorce! The three best words in the English language!

Comments

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I followed this story where it first broke on Rachel Maddow's show. She had that ex-gay leader guy (UBER CREEPY) on to ask him about the kill-the-gays bill and he was all faux-outraged that his teachings--that gays are trying to rape you, your children, your grandparents, and cripples in order to give you the gay (and probably also AIDS)--would be used to that extent. He's a racist piece of shit, too. She read out from his book a list of things that make people gay, one of which was "race." When she cornered him on it, he tried to deflect it: she was making it up! She said, literally, "It's in your book, dude." Then he was like, "It's out of context." Rachel says, "I read the entire paragraph that lists things that make you gay, and that was in there. Doesn't say why, though." He finally flop-sweated with "It won't be in later editions." She's like, "This makes it okay that it's in this edition?"

I mean, it was a good interview where she ripped him apart. But this article just makes it clear that whatever she took him to task for, however nasty it seemed? WAS ENTIRELY JUSTIFIED AND THEN SOME. Prick.

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

Being white makes you gay? (That's the only argument I could imagine him making. Thus the whole Ugandan thing of homosexuality being a Western import, etc. etc.)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

We'll never know, since he refused to clarify.