GOP Wants To End Divorce As We Know It. Make It Much More Difficult To Split.

[TheMastersNemesis]

Another part of the GOP agenda is to end "no fault divorce" and go back the old days when you had to have and prove a reason for the split. They also desire to install state sponsored counseling to save marriage.

For some reason the only small government the GOP wants is for corporations, businesses and the rich. Let them do what they will. No need to interfere with predatory free market policies and run away capitalism.

As far as personal life if concerned when it comes to marriage, reproductive rights and the family bring in all the big "nannie" government you can handle.

[jmowreader]

1. Welcome to the era of "consensual affairs"

Infidelity has always been grounds for divorce and it only takes one partner to stray once to trigger it...so as I posted before this will become commonplace if no-fault divorce goes away:

"Hi Mary? This is Jane. Could I ask a REALLY big favor from you?"

'Sure. What do you need?'

"You know George and I are just bored with each other. I mean, he's a good guy and all, but it's just no fun being married anymore. We talked about it, and we decided it'd be better to go our separate ways. We'll sell the house and split the proceeds, each of us has a car, we don't have any kids so there's no custody to fight over..."

'What's the problem?'

"A year ago we could have just filed and been done with it. But now the Republicans have ended no-fault divorce, so now we need grounds."

'And...'

"And could you come over here tonight and sleep with George for me?"

'Yeah, sure. What are friends for?'

[xfundy]

2. cancervative states have more divorce than dem states.

Repigs get tired of their trophy wives when they get a little age on them.

[Art_from_Ark]

6. And sometimes in those Dem states, divorce rates are relatively low

because a high proportion of the population is Catholic or other divorce-averse religion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_the_United_States

Just staying together is not necessarily an indication that the couple are happy together.

[JoeyT]

12. I'd bet it's actually mostly because in red states

you've got boatloads of evangelicals that tend to marry young. About three fourths of my high school married at 18-20, divorced in their early twenties, and didn't make it a year before they were married again. Some are already on their third marriage before thirty.

They date for very brief periods of time, then marry because of the pressure on them to not "live in sin". Then they find out they can't stand each other and it's on to the next marriage.

I honestly wouldn't give a rat's ass about their musical chair marriages if this weren't the same pack of dipshits that sob about how gay marriage would devalue marriage somehow.

[Art_from_Ark]

13. There are lots of marriages that would end if it were easier to get a divorce

Here in Japan, where people get married later in life and evangelicals have little if any influence, the official divorce rate is low but it is hard to get a divorce. Lots of men are living with wives who would be quite content if the only interaction they had with their husbands was taking his cash-filled wallet each month a la Jane Jetson. And it is not uncommon for married couples in their 40s and 50s, for example, to live in the same house but have nearly completely separate lives. But the laws, social stigma, etc., make it difficult to get out of such loveless marriages.

[Warpy]

3. Well, controlling women is where it's at for those bastards

Never mind there will be tragic cases of men tied to women who are addicts or abusers or both. As long as women are kept poor and don't have access to PIs and lawyers, Republican men will be as happy as pigs in shit.

The only way for women to protect themselves and own their own property in Republican Utopia is never getting married. And we know what they did to such women only a few hundred years ago.

[dballance]

4. Do you have some links to evidence of this?

I haven't seen any GOP platforms or candidates espousing what you suggest.

This is an honest question.

[Jim Lane]

16. Some evidence

The story "Conservatives aren’t just fighting same-sex marriage. They’re also trying to stop divorce" in the Washington Post (April 11) summarizes the situation and includes links to other WaPo stories about bills in particular states.

I was directed to that WaPo story by this article on Salon, which in turn I found because of this DU thread started by DonViejo.

Like you, I'd heard nothing about this until today.

[dballance]

24. Thanks! Why am I not really shocked?

There are going to be some really angry people once more find out about this.

[GReedDiamond]

5. Tell that to Rush Limbo...nt

[CanonRay]

7. Why don't they change their name to Christian Dominion Party andn be done with it.

The CDP instead of the GOP. Kind of has a nice ring to it...

[neverforget]

8. Small gov't for corporations and big gov't in your home

It's the Republican way.

[SheilaT]

9. Before divorce got relatively easy,

marriages still came to an end. My parents never divorced, but my mother moved us five kids two thousand miles across the country and that was that. So the stigma of divorce was avoided, but the practical result was exactly the same.

In other cases the men simply left and never came back. Divorce lets people get past a mistake and move on.

[R B Garr]

10. To be fair, this might work because...

first they want to tell you who you can marry and who you can't marry. Once they've decided all that for you, of course they expect your union to last.

[Skittles]

11. that would affect THEM more than any liberal

for SURE

[yuiyoshida]

14. I am sure Republicans have far more Divorce than Democrats...

Who would want to stay married to someone so stupid and crass as a Teabagger? Besides, once you get past that "I am the master of the house" stuff... women will start running to the closest attorney!

[treestar]

20. You know I bet that's the motive behind this

Their divorce rate is higher, and they expect to lower it by making it easier to control their wives. They likely thing the permissive divorce law makes it tougher for them to control their wives.

[yuiyoshida]

22. If it passes it will be the

closest thing to having a law for slavery. ... Karera wa buta deshou

[davidpdx]

15. So when one of these bastards decides he wants to divorce his wife to marry

the nanny/younger mistress/staffer how is that going to work out?

[newfie11]

17. These idiots can't run the government

So they play at screwing of the daily lives of private citizens?
Forcing their beliefs on my private life is WRONG!
No I've never been divorced, married 43 years.

[Wounded Bear]

18. Back to the Future part 756,123...nt

[B Calm]

19. So when you are caught on camera kissing your intern it will

make it harder for your wife to divorce you?

[gollygee]

21. So much for being libertarians

And tons of Republicans get divorced. I would be surprised if there is much if any difference between divorce rates of Republicans vs. Democrats.

[B Calm]

23. More government. . .