A Constitutional Amendment To Ban Divorce

[ruggerson]

People talk about it, but why doesn't anyone actually do it?

It's time to make these rightwing "moral" elites put their money where their mouths are.

If they want to "protect" marriage and "protect" unborn babies, then let's legislate what they say they really want.

If we can't get congresspeople to stand up and shove this in their face on the federal level, then let's have referendums in fifty states to amend fifty state constitutions.

Let's show the average American what evil hypocrites the rightwingers really are by making them stand up and be counted on an amendment to ban all divorce. (well, maybe an exception for rape).

A very simple ballot initiative:

The state of (your state here) does not recognize the dissolution of marriage by divorce or any other means.

[cdsilv]

1. absolutely not.....

....the way things are today, it might get signed into law. I would be a criminal.

YOU CANNOT LEGISLATE MORALITY!!!!!!

[napi21]

5. I don't think you'll ever have to worry about it passing.

I don't have the stats, but it seems to be the RARE Congressman who wasn't divorced...at least once!

Same thing goes for RWers. There I dod know there are stats that show the divorce rate is much higher in the RED states! Of course, so is rape, childhood pregnancy, single mothers, and murder!!!!!

I agree with the poster. I say call their bluff!

[Inland]

2. Because legislators and cons need to keep their options open.

Their pretty sure they aren't going to turn gay or be unable to fly to Canada for an abortion, but every church congregation has half its couples on a second marriage.

There was a prosecutor in Wisconsin who filed a criminal charge of adultery. I envisioned hundreds of thousands of spittakes of coffee onto the morning papers.

[FormerRepublican]

3. That would be the end of marriage for good.

[Steve A Play]

4. Ban marriage! It's the #1 leading cause of divorce!

:toast:

Steven P.

[rurallib]

6. And homosexuals are often born from heterosexual unions

I say ban marriage and hetero sex! That'll get rid of divorce and the gays!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. WRONG! Gays are a product of liberal media and traitorous anti-war

persons, combined with a society that coddles criminals, and seeks to raise taxes on the unfortunate upper 5% of the overtaxed ultra-wealthy. Did I mention that Osama lovers also become gay after a full moon?


heh, can anyone imagine poor Newt Gingrich if divorce was banned? He'd run out of trophy wives pretty damn quick.

[crizzo5137]

15. Actually, I didnt turn gay

until i logged onto demo underground...


hehe...:)

[Steve A Play]

11. I draw the line at banning sex!

As long as it's between consenting adults it's fine by me. :)

Now banning children on the other hand..... :evilgrin:

[kurth]

9. Nope. It's bad blow jobs.

We need to ban those too.

[Erika]

7. Go for it. Let them turn their words into action

They pretend to be for the religious right but their own lives show they talk the talk but don't walk the walk.

They need to put their innuendos and nuances into action. Let them introduce legislation to ban divorce, birth control, and all abortion.

Or they should be called on it and told to STFU.

[AndyA]

8. I agree: let them do as they say for a change!

One man - one woman - one time - NO DIVORCE! That, and that ALONE, will protect the "sanctity" of marriage! Hypocrites! All of them!!

Oh yeah, and they're "Christians" too. Do as we say, not as we do, or you'll go to hell.

They are more than willing to take rights away from others, as long as it has no effect on what they do.

[ruggerson]

14. Exactly

The "moral" elites want to run everyone else's lives, but want no restrictions or rules for their own.

It's time for them to put up or shut up.

[Bozita]

12. IIRC, the Bible-Belt states have the highest divorce rates

Let's add mandatory minimum sentences to the amendment. It'll keep those activist judges from legislating from the bench.

Since divorce would be a felony, divorced folks would forever be barred from voting.

[FooFootheSnoo]

13. Let's do it

I don't know how many times I heard the "moral fabric" and "Judeo Christian heritage" crap every time I got into a conversation about gay marriage with a freeper. I would always ask why they weren't doing anything about the divorce rate. No one could ever answer me.

[ruggerson]

17. Cause they can't answer

Jesus was very clear about divorce. He forbade it.

He said absolutely zilch about homosexuality.

Yet, all they yammer on about is gay people. Go figger.

[bmbmd]

20. Specifically, the scriptures say:

He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so." Matthew 19:8

[Bozita]

16. Just wonderin' but how would Utah fit into this?

What if a man divorces only two of his seven wives?

I watched the CBC's "Fifth Estate" last Wednesday. It was about a town in British Columbia named Bountiful, a place with strong links to Colorado City, AZ.

[Catchawave]

18. Why not just ban "marriage" !

And run all this "union" stuff as a business partnership with a license. The only requirement would be it must be between two "humans". I do draw the line on beastiality :p

[catmandu57]

19. Fine with me

You picked them now you're stuck. Let's make taking an oath mean something, in sickness and in health, for better or worse, until death do us part.
No fucking divorce.

[Kansas Wyatt]

21. But that would destroy the Religious Right's grip on power.

That's a sort of divide and conquer strategy, that would turn the tables on them. They would claim that's not fair.

Okay, when do we do it?

[BushOut06]

22. How about making adultery a capital offense?

Wonder how many RWers would wind up on death row :rofl: