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The Next Front in the GOP's War on Women: No-Fault Divorce (www.rollingstone.com)

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[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

On top of the issue of wanting to ensnare a person into living under you, why would he want to be with someone that openly doesn't want to be with him?

He would need Sharia Law in completely to have any benefit, not just bits and pieces.

[–] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Doesn’t this go both ways?

I’d imagine there are a lot of women who would be happy to leave their husbands.

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[+] PenguinJuice@kbin.social -76 points 1 year ago (48 children)

I mean, I don't think that this is a bad thing. People can date and break up as much as they want. Getting married should be seen as something very serious that isn't easily broken.

I know not everyone has the same experiences, but I've seen people treating marriage as throw away and it deeply impacts their children.

[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Hi Steven!

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did the lobotomy hurt? You should do an AMA.

[–] PenguinJuice@kbin.social -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It may surprise you that people are allowed to have different opinions and come to conclusions based on their own experiences. Insults don't really affect or sway anyone's opinions, nor do they silence those you deem ineligible of thought.

[–] Huxleywaswrite@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No one is trying to sway your thoughts. You haven't arrived at them by way of logic and reason, so nothing reasonable will remove you from them.

We just want you to shut the fuck up and crawl back under your bridge.

[–] Transcendant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I agree that people don't take marriage as seriously as they should... but if you genuinely value some nebulous term like 'sanctity of marriage' more than protecting women from abusive partners, you need to give your head a wobble.

It always used to make me laugh that the horrid county clerk who refused to sign gay marriage certificates, claiming she was trying to respect the sanctity of marriage, respected that sanctity so much that she'd married 5 times.

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's even dumber than that. If you really value something as a holy divine relationship that serves as the foundation of a loving family home, why would you force people into it who aren't happy in it.

As society quickly fills with these unhappy households, all of their children learn that for all its divine protection, marriage is a terrible arrangement. That completely undermines the sanctity of marriage. That or it tells everyone that marriage, and God by extension, is a cruel arrangement meant to cause as much suffering as possible.

These people don't actually believe in what they say. This isn't news if you see how they treat the poor.

[–] Transcendant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

These people don’t actually believe in what they say

Agreed. They just want to hurt people who are different because they're not emotionally intelligent enough to understand their own feelings.

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