Kansas lawmakers not content with legislating women's bodies, now they want to legislate how divorce

[sad-cafe]

http://www.kwch.com/news/local-news/bill-would-ban-incompatability-divorces/-/21054266/24361334/-/l3fcms/-/index.html

Kansas lawmakers are debating a bill that would ban "irreconcilable differences" as grounds for divorce.



Republican John Bradford of Lansing introduced the bill in the Kansas House. Supporters of the measure say it's too easy to get a divorce in Kansas.

Decades ago, couples were only granted a divorce if a spouse did something wrong. But the new legislation would require the person filing for divorce to submit a valid reason, beyond incompatibility.

[pipoman]

1. Next year. ..

Domestic violence skyrockets. .stupid. .

[seabeyond]

2. now we are getting into the good stuff. ya, lets. cause there are a whole lot of reds getting

a divorce. on their second, third. they are not gonna like that one.

i totally encourage kansas to go for it.

[sad-cafe]

3. Kansas job growth is horrible, when we drive through the state the roads are nasty

and they worry about this?

Glad I don't live there.

[mythology]

4. Stupid really should be more painful than it seems to be

But I can't see this law actually being passed.

[Redfairen]

5. Hey, wanna divorce? Just tell them you're gay. That should do the trick.

[LeftyMom]

6. It used to be that getting a divorce started with renting a PO box in Reno.

Enacting stupid, punitive laws isn't going to make people stay together against their will. It's just going to make them waste time and money getting their divorce someplace with smarter laws.

[avebury]

11. Or one spouse killing the other one

out of desperation.

[LeftyMom]

13. In the depression abandonment was known as a poor man's divorce.

[jmowreader]

7. I can just see it now

The scene: A cozy apartment in Emporia inhabited by Cynthia, a single woman who lives alone with her kittens. The phone rings.

"Hi Cynthia, it's Mary."

'Hey! What's up?'

"Oh not much...you know Frank and I aren't really happy together anymore. We've just drifted apart, and we both feel we'd be better off starting over."

'I'm sorry.'

"Don't be! It happens. Neither of us is really sorry. You shouldn't be either."

'You got everything worked out?'

"Yeah, as much as you can. We're going to sell the house and split the proceeds. We've always had separate bank accounts and cars. He'll take his things and I'll take mine, and we'll just depart happy."

'So...what's the favor?'

"You know about this new law here in Kansas that bans no-fault divorce? Before it was passed we could have just gone to the courthouse and filed. But now we need grounds for divorce, as stupid as that sounds, and 'we just don't wanna be married to each other anymore' doesn't count. I hate to ask this but..."

'But what?'

"Could you come over to my house and have sex with Frank for me? Thanks hon, you're the greatest."

[sad-cafe]

9. I thought the ending woul be can you come to my house and have sex with me

you know ...being "gay" would be worse in those pre-modern Christo-factious pricks minds

[jmowreader]

20. That works too

You do get the idea: if only "fault" divorce is allowed, people will invent "faults" to accuse their spouses of.

[sad-cafe]

22. Very true

I think the post up-thread is correct, there would be a higher number of domestic violence cases.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

8. WTF??? What kind of small government, freedumb-loving bullshit is this???

So, what, you're just supposed to live with each other even if you hate each others' guts now?

Hey you lurking rightwingfucks: You are the lowest scum pieces of shit on this planet. It's time you left this country you hate so fucking much. You miserable piece of shit!

[RobertEarl]

10. Thank Gawd they don't have nuclear weapons... yet.

Chis, i don't see why you hold back. Why don't you tell us how you really feel about those scum?

[LeftyMom]

14. What is with you and your nuclear tourettes?

If somebody started a thread about a nickel increase in the price of candy bars, you'd connect it back to Fukushima somehow.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

15. Well, RobertEarl, if I told y'all how I really feel, 10 people on this very website would scold me

for treating those idiots that way. People on here would be screaming "HEY ASSHOLE! I have family that are rightwingnuts!! You need to check yourself!"

And I would light this website up on the radar of several alphabet agencies.

It's best for everyone if I just draw my own line and then toe it.

[RobertEarl]

17. No worries, you are in good company, Chis

Well, some do like to scold, eh?

I liked what you wrote in that Fukushima thread last week. You put it right to them and the jury let you slide 3-3. Made me smile, it did. I'd have been banned! You just keep on keeping on.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

18. I actually think I slid over my own line that day - like a bad bowling approach, lol.

After I posted it and then re-read it in posted form (I tend to post and then reflect, lol) I was sure it would be voted dead. Squeaked through, though.

Yea, I really can't stand those Smugsters that lurk around waiting to lecture somebody all the time or roll out their latest obnoxiousness, comprised often by snarky one-liners that add nothing at all to the conversation. I'm sure I'll bungle the approach to that line again. And hopefully I'll squeak through again .

[sakabatou]

19. They're never for small government. They only say they are

[avebury]

12. And you could never get these idiot

lawmakers to understand that there is no real difference between the laws they want to pass and sharia law.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

16. The essence of their deep, deep, atomic stupidity - railing against something while simultaneously

implementing that same something while remaining completely unaware and forcefully ignorant that they're doing it.

[sad-cafe]

21. very true

they just refuse to see it