11 of 30 - Controversial Sauce II

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   I still have way more than enough ideas for entries, but once again I lack the time. Which is unfortunate because some of the ones I have planned I really can't wait to get to. Anyway I'll have to make up for it this time by being even more controversial. Which is also in keeping with tradition since I did two political posts last year.


   So here's the thought. IF one were concerned about "the sanctity of marriage," it seems to me that divorce is much more of an abomination to the sanctity of marriage than say gay marriage. So people make dumb decisions and rashly get married to people they don't like early on, well then if one is going to allow them to divorce, don't let them get remarried. They can get a "registered domestic partnership" or whatever if they want the second time around, but they've blown their chance to have a divinely ordained marriage. Discuss.



Picture of the Day

This is a picture I took of my friend Oluwaseun Okusanya the other day, acting like a typical Davis student...

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Comments

[nessabfly.livejournal.com]

if one is going to allow them to divorce, don't let them get remarried

That seems a little rash, don't you think? People change, love changes, someone you may be in love with and want to marry today may change in, oh, say 20 years, and you fall outta love. Divorce can happen even without a hasty marriage...your idea would cause mass chaos.

I say, let whomever marry whomever, and they can tell with the headaches that come with divorce later on. How does it concern any of us?

P.S. By sanctity, they're almost distinctly implying sacredness...aka religion. I'd understand why some people would want to protect this vow if they were religious, but if they're not, it doesn't really harm anything except for a mark on your past....

[goreism.livejournal.com]

Be careful what you wish for: some countries with large Catholic majorities do ban divorce (e.g., the Philippines, Malta), while others (Ireland) legalized it only recently.

As for cheapening marriage, wasn't it one of the great demonstrations of nineteenth and twentieth century liberalism (the civil rights movement, etc.) that the value of belonging to a certain class can be increased by allowing more people in?

[mister-spooky.livejournal.com]

If they're going after divorce as a sin, then they're going to make it socially or legally unacceptable to divorce in the first place. It's not "You divorced, you fucked up, you can't do it again," it's "You're married and now you're stuck."

Although it'd be interesting to see a right-reaction to that kind of rule (no second marriages).

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[citizene.livejournal.com]

I like this mass chaos idea of yours. Not, like, actually putting it into place, but just the idea.

I'm suspicious that politicians frequently introduce bills not because they think it's for the best, but just to make a point and push everyone toward actually doing something constructive. Like that mental-health proposition on the California ballot last year, a 1 percent tax on millionaires to finance something vague addressing mental illness: They really just wanted to include mental health care in the general health care system, but instead they crafted something with huge populist appeal (tiny tax on a small, privileged class? why not?) and a healthy chaos factor, too. It seems like an interesting way to force the Legislature to come up with a reasonable plan of its own to address the same problem. Maybe. Is "grandstanding" the word for this?

Looks like this post of yours is going to get a lot of commentage.

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying this is a plan we should put into effect, I'm saying that those who say that gay marriage "violates the sanctity of marriage" are in my opinion being terribly inconsistent if they don't first address divorce, to which most arguments against gay marriage apply in a much more real sense.

[kelleydoodle.livejournal.com]

WE GOT ENGAGED REALLY YOUNG KRIS. god.

<3

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Hey I'm not saying EVERYONE who gets engaged really young will invariably regret it and get a divorce. In fact, I bet you TWENTY BUCKS you and I won't ever get divorced. (=