Protect Children: Prohibit Divorce
Since Californians who voted for Prop 8 late last year to strike down the rights of gays to marry said they were doing it for the children, there’s a new movement afoot to keep kids safe:
Prohibit divorces. All of them. Keep heterosexual couples from breaking the bonds of holy matrimony.
After all – the sanctity of marriage and the children were at the heart of Prop 8, right?
A petition over at the Petition Site already has seven thousand some signatures, folks who signed their names to a letter proposing that divorce be stricken from the books to “keep the interests of
children and families intact.”
The marriage of a man and a woman has been at the
heart of society since the beginning of time and it promotes the ideal
opportunity for children to be raised by a mother and a father in a
family held together by the legal, communal, and spiritual bonds of
marriage. As a society we should put the best interests of children
first, and those interests lie in traditional marriage. Permitting
divorce destroys marriage as we know it and causes a profound harm to
society. We should be restoring marriage, not undermining it.
Starting to sound familiar? Take out the word “divorce” and slip in “gay marriage.”
Yup, they stole the whole thing from the Prop 8 folks over at ProtectMarriage.com; you know, the folks who warned Californians that “schools will now be required to teach students that gay marriage is the
same as traditional marriage, starting with kindergarteners.” (sic)
I’d love to say they won’t be able to weasel out of their own words, but as the masters of twisting things to send people running scared of “the gay,” I’m betting the evangelicals will have a field day with this one too. Only this time, the joke truly is on them.
Image: ThePetitionSite
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I think some people are missing the point. This petition was created to highlight the injustice of Prop 8 and point out that not all children of straight parents grow up with the “ideal” 2 parent family. It’s not a genuine attempt to prohibit divorce.
Well I bet it would make people think a little harder before committing to marriage and prevent some dysfunctional relationships becoming permanent.
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What a clever campaign — too bad the morons who voted for 8 won’t pick up on the irony.
My parents’ violently dysfunctional 20+ year marriage caused a profound harm to all four of their children. I’m sure I’m not alone in this experience.
I don’t like to say it this way, but these people are just effing stupid.
I have a great idea, why don’t Christian Evangelicals mind their own business and their own dang families.
I was really hoping you would end this post with, ha ha I fooled you.