SACRAMENTO, CA - A Sacramento man has begun a grassroots campaign to ban divorce in California.
John Marcotte, 37, has taken the first steps in the initiative process to qualify the 2010 California Marriage Protection Act for a statewide vote sometime next year.
Marcotte said he was inspired by last year's voter-approved ban on gay marriage.
"It's actually what I think is a logical extension of Prop 8, which was the California Marriage Protection Act. (My initiative) would protect traditional marriages by banning divorce," he explained.
Marcotte submitted the proposed title and summary to the California Attorney General Sept. 1, and said a volunteer network is standing by to collect petition signatures once the language is formally approved.
The campaign's Web site shows a couple held together by a chain with the caption "You said 'till death do us part. You're not dead yet." The site has attracted so much attention Marcotte was forced to switch servers Friday following a series of crashes.
Marcotte is a satirist and commentator who has engineered a number of harmless social pranks. In 2006, he and a group of friends placed a giant pair of Groucho glasses on a statue at a Sacramento retail center.
The married father of two refuses to say on the record whether the proposed divorce ban is another one of his pranks.
"It hurts that you would ask me that," he said with just the slightest hint of a grin.
If it's a joke, it will, sadly, be totally missed by the people he's ripping on, who sorely deserve it. If he's serious, it's nice to know there's one zealot out there who is consistent and doesn't pick and choose Bible verses that match his own opinions.
I hope this makes it to the ballot. If it does, I plan to vote for it--not because I think divorce should be illegal, but any resulting court decision would have to apply to the gay former-couples of this state, and maybe we can reverse the re-enactment of post-Reconstruction in the South.
*--For behavior unbecoming anyone, perpetrated in real time over an extended--AH, FUCK IT! MORE MALIBU, BITCHES!!
I would vote for it, not because I think divorce should be illegal (although I DO think too many people get divorced without putting in enough effort) but I would vote for it as a Fuck You to the people who get all high and mighty about a few gay dudes or gals who want to get hitched.
If you don't want homos getting married for religious reasons, then yes, logically you should also support the banning of divorce.
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Fun fact: homosexuality is forbidden in the same books of laws that forbid the eating of pork, shellfish, and various other animals most Christians have no problem with eating, as well as prescribes temporary banishment following a "wet dream" or menstruation. Also, it's pretty clear that guys can fuck before marriage, but women have to be stoned if they do the same.
The other part of that fun fact: Jesus himself spoke out against very little. The one thing that's not an abstract concept (like hate or vengeance) that he specifically forbade was divorce.
Interesting, then, that the entire doctrine is supposed to be based on Jesus supplanting and replacing Mosaic Law, but douchebags like to pick a few of the old laws to keep, and ignore what Jesus himself said.
*--For behavior unbecoming anyone, perpetrated in real time over an extended--AH, FUCK IT! MORE MALIBU, BITCHES!!
I edited my post above, I put a comma after "not" when it should have been before, so it mistakenly said "I would vote for it not" instead of "I would vote for it, not because..." - just wanted to clear that up.
Anyway, good call 'nark, JC spoke out against divorce but never against 2 dudes doubling up...and as far as the wet dreams part, well the best way to prevent that (without sex) is by jerking off, so I say stroke away.
