Joe Conason: The Only True Way To Save Marriage From Obama

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The Only True Way To Save Marriage From Obama
May 11th, 2012 12:23 am Joe Conason


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In this historic moment for human rights, listening to the likes of Ailes (now on his third marriage) and Limbaugh (currently married to wife number four), not to mention Rove (divorced twice), it is impossible to believe that Republicans screaming about the future of wedlock are sincere. If they are truly worried about marriage, they should stop harassing gays and campaign for the only change that might make a real difference.

They could outlaw divorce, or least repeal the ultra-liberal, no-fault divorce laws that they’ve used to their own advantage.

Across America — and particularly in the red states that have rejected gay marriage — divorce rates are continually rising, along with teen pregnancies, out-of-wedlock births, and single motherhood (which somehow afflict gay-friendly blue states far less). Gay rights obviously isn’t the cause of marital strife and separation in those places where hostility to same-sex relationships is considered a religious duty. To achieve their professed goal of protecting marriage, shouldn’t the divorce addicts of the Republican right renounce their sins and return to the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Old Testament, which forbid divorce except under a few very restricted circumstances?

Of course such a return to bygone moral standards would severely inconvenience for men like the hypocrites named above — along with Rupert Murdoch,Newt Gingrich, and a very large proportion of the GOP Congressional caucus — and will therefore never occur. Restricting divorce wouldn’t be good social policy anyway. Yet it is worth noting that the most enraged defenders of the traditional, heterosexual conjugal bond are men who have repeatedly trashed their own marriages.

Why should Limbaugh and his ilk deny gays and lesbians a chance at wedded bliss? Can they possibly set a worse example, after all, than he did?

[Cosmocat]

1. This just drives me NUTS

as to the media allowing this issue to be framed as "protecting marriage."

Half the marriages in this country end up in divorce, and that number has next to nothing to do with gay people or gay marriage.

There are 100s of things more negatively impacting on the "institution of marriage" than gay marriage, and the republican party and its followers scream bloody murder when you try to do anything about the REAL issues that impact peoples lives and marriage.

But, they are trying to protect the sanctity of marriage by trying not have gay people marry.