Have you ever thought to yourself, "if the sanctity of marriage is so damn important, then straight people shouldn't be allowed to get divorces"? Well, John Marcotte, a Sacramento-based web designer, has started a movement to ban divorce in California. “Since California has decided to protect traditional marriage, I think it would be hypocritical of us not to sacrifice some of our own rights to protect traditional marriage even more,” he says.
At the time, Marcotte only has "dozens" of signatures, including one from his wife of seven years. It would take 694,354 valid signatures to get the measure on the 2010 ballot, so it's highly doubtful that the vote will actually happen. But could you imagine if it did?
– Dewitt
now that would be hysterical! i hope he gets the signatures he needs, lets see how many crazy Christian fundamentalists actually support this measure!
Heh, reminds me of a movement in Washington State after the Supreme Court ruled against same-sex marriage because the “purpose of marriage was procreation”. The movement tried to get another petition moving to annul any marriage after 2 or 3 years if the couple hadn’t had any children, women past menopause couldn’t get re-married, etc.
Love it! Our relationships aren’t considered comparable to straight relationships, but Britney Spears can get married for 30 minutes? Or Liz Taylor can be married a dozen times? It’s all an unfunny joke.
Damn, I wish I could vote in California…
Just goes to show that gays wanting to wed doesn’t threaten “the sanctity of marriage”, divorce does!
I use this argument anytime someone brings up the sanctity of marriage. 95% of the time, whomever I’m arguing with changes tactics without answering the question (at which point I point out that they didn’t defend their position), and the other 5% try to justify divorce by saying that it’s okay in the Bible, at which point I tell them that God didn’t say divorce was okay, Moses did because if he listened to what God told him, the people would never have followed him.