Careful What You Wish For

Yet to see an evangelical anti-divorce wagon. Just sayin'...

Now Texas is following California as a possible 'divorce ban' state thanks to the efforts of an unholy alliance of pro-gay marriagers and social conservatives. And good luck to them. As Glenn Greenwald says:

"If our marriage laws must conform to Christian doctrine so as to bar gays from marrying, then it also must prohibit married couples from divorcing, and must also bar them from entering into re-marriages."

This is probably the nearest we've ever got to considering laws to outlaw hypocrisy and I welcome it. As a 'godless liberal' who's been married ten years, I'm sick to my stomach of hypocrites like Limbaugh (3 divorces), Gingrich (2 divorces) and McCain (1 divorce but a doozy) assuming the right to lecture me on the sanctity of marriage. Unlike them, I've never cheated on my wife, never served her divorce papers while she battled cancer in hospital (a la Gingrich), and have never dumped her after she was crippled in a car wreck so I could marry an ex-model and heiress (a la McCain).

And how 'bout that moral paragon Karl Rove? Rove "famously engineered multiple referenda" to outlaw gay marriage in several states to court the Christian wingnut vote. Says The Non Sequitur:

"Rove has argued (however badly) for the legal exclusivity of "traditional" marriage yet at the same time, he has now been divorced twice."

Not that a divorce ban will have any chance of passing. But I guess that's the point. Its failure will demonstrate the hypocrisy of our tinpot moral fascists who use legislation to bully others into conforming to the same 'moral' standards they refuse to apply to themselves. A classic case of 'do as I say, not do as I do' biting thou in thine holy ass.