Our first national news coverage! While I was deeply offended by the sarcastic tone put forth by the news bunny, I think the most important thing was to get our ideas in front of a nationwide audience.
There isn’t much new content here, since they basically repackaged the News10 story and made it shorter. But now that the national media has seen the passion and righteousness of our cause, it’s only a matter of time before we’re on Face the Nation.
P.S. – We’re hosting the video on our new YouTube channel.
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I love how the coastal gotcha media elite keeps on insisting this is a prank. I’m sure liberal bastions like Massachusetts are wondering how conservative strongholds like Texas keep their divorce rates so low. One word: SERVICE TO GOD.
SERVICE TO GOD is 3 words, Genius. LOL.
And this is great.
Praise the lord for the kind people at CNN have noticed us! Even though they think this is a prank, at least we have more supporters.
Do you think the Mormon Church will finally donate to our cause now that they know we exist?
I feel certain the Mormon church will be in full support of this initiative:) We should make a point to request their support every day!
I love it! It’s great to see someone finally take a stand to protect married people from themselves. Hope this “prank” makes it all the way to the voting booth.
Prank? Those happen in fraternity houses, or otherwise, once a year, on April 1st. They don’t make it on the ballot. This, on the other hand, is a battle to put divorce back where it belongs — off limits! Either you’re for us or you’re against us, so get serious. We’re defending traditional marriage, and there’s no room for pranksters.
Brother Michael was clearly mocking those who mock us. Didn’t you see his quotation marks? These fools think we’re joking and Mike was just referencing that fact.
Question is, who’ll protect from the religious nut cases? I think we’re living in the year 1409 instead of 2009. You people frighten me…
Divorce was “okayed” by the Apostle Paul in cases of adultery. I haven’t read your proposed bill. I don’t plan on reading it either, but if you want it to be taken seriously and not as a prank you will include divorce being acceptable in cases of adultery. To be technical, it was only okay for a man to put away his wife for adultery, nothing was said about the reverse.
Yes, according to Saint Paul, adultery only applied to the wife since she was considered the man’s chattel (i.e., movable possession). Since chattel has no recourse to the “indiscretions” of its owner, then the grounds for adultery is only a one-way street. What’s interesting, is that most of the divorced folks I know are conservative church-goers, and those of us who have never been divorced (myself included, married 26 years), are humanist, rationalist, agnostic and/or atheist, but such are the ways of pick-and-choose hypocrisy.
I hope you manage to repent for your non-believing ways without feeling compelled to get divorced like so many of my Christian brethren (myself included – 4 times).
But, as it’s clear from scripture, divorce is frowned upon by Jesus, but homosexual sex and marriage enraged him, and he threatened to rain hailstorms of fire on earth if homosexuals were able to walk the earth hand in hand.
Actually Joe, Jesus never once mentioned the subject of homosexuality! yes, the bible does address it 6 times. However the bible addresses heterosexual sex 362 times. But don’t worry, That doesn’t mean that God doesn’t love heterosexuals. It’s just that they need more supervision!
Yes, Jesus apparently was just too disgusted by homosexuality to bring it up in conversation. But that’s just proof that He REALLY hated it!
Oh Joe!
So we are to assume that anything Jesus did not mention is evil? Who are you, or anyone to assume they know the thoughts and feelings of Jesus? Let’s stick to the wrongs we are sure of before condemning people to a “bible style” stoning as you put it! One thing Jesus said for sure was for he who is without sin to cast the first stone, are you claiming to be without sin???
Misty, no, not *everything* Jesus didn’t mention is evil, but come on! Homosexuality! Gross! I mean it’s just common sense that the Lord Jesus Christ found it vile and disgusting just like I do. I can feel it in my heart and you will find little opposition to that in Baptist, Pentecostal and other Evangelical churches across this great nation of ours.
I am certainly not without sin but some sins are much worse than others. Those sins that a good Christian man might commit (like white lies, cursing, murder, etc.) are not worth obsessing over, but homosexuality and abortion are sins that will immediately land you in the 666th layer of Hell!
“some sins are much worse than others. Those sins that a good Christian man might commit (like white lies, cursing, murder, etc.) are not worth obsessing over, but homosexuality and abortion are sins that will immediately land you in the 666th layer of Hell!”
Wow! A good christian man can commit a sin like murder and it’s all good but loving someone is wrong??? And who said it’s ok to pick and choose which sins are ok and which ones are vile? If you believe the bible you need to believe the WHOLE thing, not just the stuff that suits you! By the way, I thought “thou shalt not kill” was one of the 10 “Big ones”?
Remember, with murder there might be extenuating circumstances (sometimes you must kill in self-defense, war, if someone says something blasphemous or offensive or is possessed by demons, etc.) but there is NO reason to practice homosexuality or commit an abortion! NEVER!
Jesus preached unconditional love and tolerance, but if you had a deeper understanding of the Bible you would understand that meant conditional love and intolerance (it’s a testament of today’s backwards morals that love and tolerance have been assumed to be Jesus’s true message – NOT TRUE!).
And the 10 Commandments is a Jew thing, not a Christian one. We have our own Commandments and 1 of them is Do Not Be a Homosexual – The Lord Hath Said That Is Disgusting.
It was “okayed” by Paul in the case of adultery, but I think we can all agree that a good stoning should solve the problem in most cases.
If we had a lot more stoning going on, “Bible style”, nowadays, we’d have far fewer problems!
Do you have an email list I can be be added too?
But THIS IS A PRANK!! Are you all daft? Are you denying the separation of stupidity and humor the same way you would deny the separation of church and state?
Thanks John. You are obviously a brilliant man, since your mission is the same thing I’ve been trying to explain to people for years! I hope someone in Washington State (where I live) manages to stop the threat of divorce soon. Maybe it won’t happen before gays are allowed to marry in our state. It looks like gay marriage is not that far away in Washington. Good work!
This is an absolutely brilliant move…and for those of you that don’t think the Anti-Divorce can’t be added to the California ballot…I’ve got one thing to say: Prop.8 LMAO…
That’s right people…the Adams and Steves and Janes and Jills that YOU effectively prevented from marriage…now will have a chance to vote whether YOU can end yours… How IRONIC.
Additionally…I believe GLBT rights activists everywhere should take a leaf from this playbook…and the next time that BANNING same sex marriage appears in your hometown…we should tag on an addendum to each bill to also ban divorce…N’est ce pas? After all…what is a better way to protect marriage…
JMO…and worth every cent you paid for it…
love,
Carla
DAMN RIGHT WE SHOULD OUTLAW DIVORCE!
I believe that suicide should be the only permissable form of escape from an unhappy marriage. That way all our money can go to support the funeral industry instead!
NO! Suicide is a sin, too. The best is for an unhappy married couple to muddle through life, because in Heaven they will be rewarded with countless treasures. It’s better than living life “liberated” from a miserable marriage and then finding yourself tied to a rock and being eaten alive by vultures in the pits of Hell for eternity.
How fun to be so sophisticated and witty! But let me see if I have this right since I’m a bit new to high humor: if someone supports the traditional definition of marriage, he must also support banning divorce for all the same irrational reasons? Good stuff! Love it! But why not a really witty one, like: Any group of people who love each other and want to live their lives together can marry for all the same great reasons that gay marriage is self-evidently right? Throw in a few Bible references to polygamy and start cranking out those “Swinging with Abraham” t-shirts and the fun can go on and on! This is great!
The gays are coming to your houses in the night for your marriages. AND WE’RE GOING TO EAT THEM!
If they insist on being such absolutists about their silly little book, then divorce should be punishable by death or something like stoning. They should also be forced adopt all those babies that could have been easily aborted. Take care of the damn things until it’s 18.