Who are the people supporting a ban on divorce? Just hardworking Americans with traditional values.
Why Ban Divorce?
– March 17, 2010Posted in: Initiative
About the Author
John Marcotte is a firm believer in traditional family values. He currently opposes government-funded death panels, Obama talking to children and MSNBC's entire prime-time line-up. 
I can’t believe that people use their filthy genitila to touch each other, except in the traditional standard missionary-position within marriage. I mean why would anyone one do even that ‘cept to make that precious next generation! Any other reason is not what I allow in my America. An America that is strong, free, and most importantly, free from deviant other ‘positions’ or couplings whatsoever.
Heck, my wife and I are very proud to say here… only three times of that nasty behavior creating our three children, during our entire marriage. That is enough for anybody who is moral, upstanding, sacrificial, and ready to do the right thing! This is even better than just signing a lousy petition; yes I’m saying it here – keep your britches on America. Without that filthy nakedness all of the time with that aging overweight spouse, then perhaps you could stay together longer in marriage! Love is more than filthy stinking genitila! Don’t believe me? Come to my house and find out how we do it.
My church teaches, breathing hard and recklessly can’t be the right thing anyway. Deep down in each of your consciences, you all know it too!
WTF?!
… at least in my conscience too. Thanks for the truth.
Preach the word indeed!
Right on my brother. I truly shudder every time I think the times my own parents violated your shining example for us all, and did a tad more than “just that one time’ needed to create me. I was an only child, yet I disgustingly walked in on them a few times – after I was already born.
Add to that, my gnawing guilt about my own wrongdoings as a teen with my almost 8-year blinding self-abuse problem (with vain imaginations of other than proper missionary), that thankfully nobody knows about.
I still have heart-stopping late-night nightmares from time to time, about the grotesque things I’m to suffer in Purgatory from those dark days in my pink bedroom. Coupled with my parents’ own generational guilt, I sure don’t look forward past my inevitable death and time down there, ‘making it all right again’. Yet I know what needs to be done.
Thanks Preach the Word for your bright shining example on the high Hill for the rest of us, and I certainly would like to see you guys living the right way there sometime. I need some encouragement, as I feel inside like such a failure at times. I secretly like breathing recklessly, and like you, I know it’s as wrong and Hell-bound as a cheater’s divorce is. Help!
O my lord, I don’t know about you but my Lord and Savior JESUS CHIRST loves me. I don’t know what “god” you guys are claiming to know but their is something seriously wrong with you, SEX SEX SEX is right in marriage you weirdo. Go back to the middle ages of heavens sake, there is nothing in the bible that says you can’t not have SEX every single night once you are married.
Signed,
Happily married sex having freak
CIVIL UNIONS FOR ALL!
As heterosexuals, with their activist judges, press for more and more special ‘rights’ to divorce and ‘separations’ – it is not hard to see the slippery slope we ALL will be on – why not the ‘right’ to disregard traffic laws – or the ‘right’ to breast feed in public?
If NO ONE has the right to marry, NO ONE will have the right to divorce! Support CIVIL UNIONS for ALL!
you can’t take marriage away, as it is my religious right! however, marriage is an agreement with God, and anyone who does not believe or who refuses to be married in a church should be limited to a civil union. those who call themselves married but deny God are the ones ruining the sanctity of marriage.
Thank you Chuck for clearing that up. We certainly all honor ‘your’ very own, very personal religious rights! I take it all back. Since I am Wiccan I support marriage too but only from within the sanctity of the Mother Goddess Earth Bond – as is my right under Freedom of Religion. Unfortunately I do not recognize your Christian ‘God’ as anything but a mythic artifact arising from the end times of the ROman EMpire and so ‘your’ marriage is invalid in my eyes.
You are all idiots.
Keep religion out of government, Ever heard of seperation of church & state?
People get divorced because their marriages Just dont work. Abuse, fighting all the time, violence you name it. Sometimes they JUST DONT WORK.
You can’t ban marriage without violating constituional rights.
I know if this ban passed, I would be the first one to take it to supreme court for violating my constitutional rights.
exactly where in the constitution is your right to be married? can you give me a reference? or are you just another one of the “idiots?”
I’m sorry, maybe for the Wiccans it should be included that you can be married at renaissance festivals too…
I didn’t agree with the banning of gay marriage in California. If anything I figured they would be one of the more progressive and open minded states on the issue. But I fail to see how this helping us to move forward as a people rather than even farther back. This is nothing more than being vindictive and trying to lash out using a system that was meant to do things for the better. I understand that the gay marriage ban was unfair to say the very least, but this is making you no better than those closed-minded people that twisted the system to keep others down.
I encourage you to find another way to facilitate gay rights. This is a waste of your time anyway. I guarantee this would never be signed into law.
LOL y’all got trolled
O my lord, I don’t know about you but my Lord and Savior JESUS CHIRST loves me. I don’t know what “god” you guys are claiming to know but their is something seriously wrong with you, SEX SEX SEX is right in marriage you weirdo. Go back to the middle ages of heavens sake, there is nothing in the bible that says you can’t not have SEX every single night once you are married.
Signed,
Happily married sex having freak
That video looks VERY fake and the actors were over doing it! Bottom line they should let people decide if they want to stay married or divorce
You’re right B&S. It is up to THE PEOPLE to decided if you can be divorced. Just like it was up to THE PEOPLE to decide whether or not gay people can be married.
I support a ban on divorce, or at least, more requirements.
When my friend got married, as a best man I was told I was there to support his marriage. We fell out of touch and a suddenly I heard he was divorced! When people get married, all their friends and family are there. People should not be allowed to be divorced without the same sort of input from their friends and family.
For most straight men, marriage means sex in the context of love and partnership (a.k.a. conveniently and frequently). I know a number of couples where one partner stopped having sex, and soon the relationship was in shambles, followed by divorce. Divorce should be illegal and sex, at least twice a week if either partner wants it, should be mandatory.
Alright…now I get it.
The person that told me about this ban made it out like John Marcotte was some kind of staunch Evangelical Christian Family Rights pundit.
Amazing what doing my own research and reading thoroughly gets me, nothing like a half-truth to make me go WTF yo?!?!?!
My roommate is a gay and rather bitterly angry man (on this topic, at least) who decries his “persecution” by the straight establishment. I myself, as someone who was unfortunate enough to be cursed liking boobies, I have to say the debates in our house often become heated, with an accusation or two as my being the “Man” because I don’t prefer men. He told me that John was an actual bible-basher- and that the gay community was latching onto this argument to illustrate the absurdity and unfairness of limiting the right to marry. The latter parts he got right. I told him that it smacked of a bunch of bitter GLBT folks that are using this issue as an insincere fallacious red-herring appeal to tradition.
I’m a fan of facetious non-sequiturs in an argument- on an interpersonal debate level. Gotta love Steven Colbert on that front.
However, one of the things that I’ve always found very sad is the vehemence over this argument. I’m anti-militaristic myself. I find such divisively bombastic tactics dishonest and a waste of time. I won’t argue that they can sometimes produce results…but at what cost?
Unfortunately, I think the people that are targeted by this initiative aren’t going to get the point. I don’t think the majority of them would get the point if it were attached to the business end of an icepick and thrust into their faces until they lay twitching and bleeding out onto the rug.
I’d like to see the actual issue being addressed instead of some sensationalized Fred Phelps/PETA circus stunt that’s only going to rile up more animosity. I know, I know…I’d make a shitty politician.
I’m afraid that creating an us vs. them polarization- not with just the folks actively opposed to gay marriage- but all straights, is going to backfire. It reminds me of the position I find myself in with some sects of militant vegans that discard what could be allies in the support for a sustainable ecosystem and advances in animal rights because they employ abysmally absurd and abusive tactics who can’t abide people that don’t adhere to their strict, confining dogma.
I support gay marriage, and this kind of attack puts ME on the defensive. It’s deceptive wasteful nature only strengthens my disgust- in a time where the economy seems much more important than these hot-button issues that politicians LOVE to pull out to distract from flagging approval ratings.
If I had my druthers, nobody would get married. I hate the sumptuary excess, I hate the stress, drama and primadonna bullshit of weddings. I hate going to weddings period. I never want to get married, but I endorse others right to do so. If I were King Solomon and so-called “Traditional Marriage” and Gay Marriage were a baby I’d cut that little bastard in half quicker than a chilled watermelon at a Fourth of July picnic.
Marriage is a commitment, sure. It is a vow that was much more pragmatic and necessary in the days of strict inheritance laws, shorter life-spans, more rigid social and gender roles. It could create strife, warfare and misery. Outside the immediate family/friend structure- not just “in-house.” I try not to make any promises more involved than paying my rent on time and taking out the trash when I say I will.
I agree that reality-show Tiny Tim-esque marriages are the best argument against the sacred sanctity of hetero-partnerships you’d ever find.
Well my esteemed gays, lesbians and everyone in between. I hope this bullshit initiative doesn’t find itself on the floor, but I do hope you get your chance to be as ensconced in holy miser- er, matrimony as would any straight couple soon.
Let’s just deal with the real issues though, okay?
A gray guy in a black-and-white world.
I think banning divorce in California is good idea because the only people who benefit from divorce are divorce attorneys and all the cottage industries.
Pete, So true….
Let the attorneys make their money off the relationships with affairs, abuse, etc.. only after all counciling or therapy is attempted.. (including time apart) Heck grant a divorce on a temporary finalization… (where people have the procedure of divorce without the solidity that returing to eachother won’t work.) I think thats the way my wife feels…. the sno ball is rolling down hill and theres no way to stop it. I think more people can work it out, if you had your hand severed in an accident… would you want the doctors to put it back and go through therapy, etc.. to make it work again? Your damn right you would.. (that would be your 1dt choice… only to settle for a prostetic if its your only option. let people who marry and become one treat marriage as such… not as a car they will replace with a new one.