Let's make divorce illegal

[truthquest]

Since there is so much talk about the marriage institution being threatened I say let's all sign a petition and request a law banning divorce. We also need a constitutional amendmant to redefine marriage as a union between a man and woman which is NOT SUBJECT TO BE BROKEN. Divorce is actually the biggest threat to the marriage institution. Statistics show that 50% of all marriages end up in divorce. The marriage institution is most definitely threatened. God hates divorce. The Bible says that those who divorce commit adultery. The Bible says adulterers can't enter the Kingdom of Heaven. We must ban divorce now! We must prevent half the married population from sending themselves to eternal hellfire! So you say that you don't get along anymore and nothing productive is coming out of your relationship? Too bad you need to suck it up! (Oops I almost forgot to put the stupid clappy faces in that people like to use when condemning others) ...there I feel better now.

Now back to my rant. So you say your husband pushes you around and acts abusively towards you? Too bad, you need to figure it out. The Bible doesn't give you permission to divorce an abusive husband. Deal with it!
<-- one more clappy face for ya

Now back to reality. This rant was a mock version of similar rants that are going on today. I hold no judgment against people who decide to divorce. The purpose of this rant was to prove several points. One point is to prove how one can take a few verses in the Bible and twist them to a narrow minded agenda. It's bad enough to try to confine God to a book but many try to confine him to a few verses that suit their personal prejudices.

Basically all I have done is interchanged divorce with the current homosexual marriage argument that is in the news. In doing so I have exposed several hypocrisies. If you search all over CF you will not find a single post that condemns divorce in such a way as the above rant. Yet every single day you will find someone ranting here about the sins of homosexuals. In Washington the republicans rant about homosexuals damaging the marriage institution yet say nothing about divorce damaging the marriage institution...a much greater threat to marriage than homosexuals could ever be at a whopping 50%. Many Christians rant about how homosexuals are causing society to morally degrade but those same Christians are strangely silent on divorce. Where are all the rants against divorce in the Christian community? Their silence gives the impression that they are ok with divorce or at least leave the matter up to the individual and God. This exposes the hypocrisy of anti-gay republicans and anti-gay fundamentalists. How they select certain sins to pick on when they ignore other things that are much more blatantly a threat to family values. So in closing I have one question to all the anti-gay CF posters. How do you justify all your anti-gay posts yet remain silent on matters such as divorce? Divorce/adultery is mentioned in much greater detail in the Bible than a same sex committed relationship.

Brian

 

[Archivist]

Great Post!!!!!!!!

 

[psychedelicist]

Once again, to make something illegal because YOU think it's immoral is stupid. My girlfriend was with an abusive guy before, and he nearly killed her. Are you saying that, if they were married, she should "suck it up and deal with it"?

Besides, they won't go to your imaginary hell for divorcing, they will got to your imaginary hell for not believing in your imaginary God.

 

[psychedelicist]

On top of that, how would you feel if you were stuck married to a girl who you found out was a crackwhore, or something like that? I doubt you would seriously "suck it up and deal with it".

 

[truthquest]

Once again, to make something illegal because YOU think it's immoral is stupid. My girlfriend was with an abusive guy before, and he nearly killed her. Are you saying that, if they were married, she should "suck it up and deal with it"? I kinda wanna hit you in the face...

Besides, they won't go to your imaginary hell for divorcing, they will got to your imaginary hell for not believing in your imaginary God.

Wow you missed the whole point of my post. Try re-reading it again. It was purposely meant to be a rediculous rant to prove how other Biblical rants are equally rediculous. To prove how you can take the Bible and twist it. Oh well.

 

[MQTA]

Wow you missed the whole point of my post. Try re-reading it again. It was purposely meant to be a rediculous rant to prove how other Biblical rants are equally rediculous. To prove how you can take the Bible and twist it. Oh well.

Was a great post.

Now if you want to make divorce illegal, you need to grandfather the clause in, or start with the date of inception. Maybe people would pick their partners better, rather than getting married for all the wrong reasons.

 

[gracefulmouse]

Hi, great post truthquest!

Definitely read it in full, psychedelicist.

 

[Glaz]

Is this the news forum or the apologetics forum?

 

[truthquest]

Is this the news forum or the apologetics forum?

Laws on marriage are currently a hot topic in the news.

 

[psychedelicist]

heh, didnt know you were joking.

 

[aLx]

Divorce has been around ALOT longer than same sex marriages. Christians have learnt that they will never be able to make it illegal. Give same sex marriages another 10 years. See how much ranting people will give it then. People will learn to accept it and accept it they must. Imagine how many gay people are going to never even consider Christianity again. If only we had welcomed them AS THEY ARE, like we do with people who have had divorces.

 

[ThePhoenix]

The question we need to ask people who, for the purposes of debate, equate divorce with homosexual marriage is: "Do they want to equate divorce with homosexual marriage?" Because divorce does cause a lot of negative things.

 

[SirKenin]

Cute rant, but unfortunately the Bible does not provide very many reasons for divorce. Only two as a matter of fact. Adultery and if the unbelieving partner leaves.

Sooo.. Banning divorce for any other reason would be appropriate.

Banning homosexual marriage is equally appropriate. Homosexuality is also condemned in the Bible, just as much as adultery. Why should society embrace the twisted perversions of a select few and watch the morals of society slide down the drain?

People seem to miss the whole point. If you're in favor of corruption, which it seems some are, that's fine but keep it to yourself. Why drag society with you?

 

[Glaz]

How do you justify all your anti-gay posts yet remain silent on matters such as divorce? Divorce/adultery is mentioned in much greater detail in the Bible than a same sex committed relationship.

Brian

Boy, you got us now. Call the protestors back in, homosexuality is ok because we don't complain about divorce enough. Take that all you evil Christians.

 

[MKalashnikov]

Statistics show that 50% of all marriages end up in divorce.

Myth.

Summary of Rumor:
Marriage has deteriorated so much that half the marriages in the United States are failing. There is a 50 percent chance that your marriage will not make it.

The Truth:
This is a fascinating piece of misinformation that is so respected that it is quoted without attribution by some of the best authors, broadcasters, and writers.

Marriage is a lot of hard work and people who are putting that work into it don't need the discouraging and untrue burden hanging over their heads that their relationship has only a 50 percent chance of surviving.

The error has resulted from various misreadings of the statistics.

One is to compare the number of marriages in a given year to the number of divorces in a given year. It is true that in any given year there may be twice as many marriages as divorces. If, in your state or county, there were 100 marriages last year but 50 divorces, it would seem, at first glance, that half the marriages were ending in divorce. But that figure does not take into account all the marriages that already existed. In a year in which there were 100 marriages and 50 divorces, for example, there may have already been 1,000 other marriages that already existed. That's an entirely different picture and means that only 5 percent of the marriages ended in divorce, not fifty percent. Of course, if that continues to happen every year, there is going to be an impact on the overall number of divorces compared with the overall number of marriages.

Veteran pollster Louis Harris says that only about 11 or 12 percent of people who have ever been married have ever been divorced. That means that by his figuring, 90 percent of American marriages survive.

Researcher George Barna did a professional survey which was designed to reflect the nation as a whole. He found that 24 percent of adults who had ever been married had experienced divorce.

Regardless, there isn't any credible source that we've found to support the fifty percent divorce rate myth.




That being said, No fault divorce has got to go. No-Fault divorce was the radicals first step to destroying marriage. Their latest attempt is redefining the institution. Before No-Fault Divorce one had to prove Adultery, Abandonment or Abuse in court to be granted a divorce.

I find it ironic that the leftists are bringing up the divorce problem when it is them who caused it. They were the ones who pushed for the no-fault divorce laws in the 1970s.

AND Conservatives in several states have been pushing for Covenant Marriage Laws (Which remove the No-Fault Option) and the radical leftists have been opposing these laws at every turn as it is Their entire intention to destroy the family.

 

[SirKenin]

And the survey SAYS....!! lol

So much for that myth. Maybe it will stop getting flung around in these forums like it's some kind of fact. Much like these myths that homosexual marriage is some supposed right.

 

[praying]

Cute rant, but unfortunately the Bible does not provide very many reasons for divorce. Only two as a matter of fact. Adultery and if the unbelieving partner leaves.

Sooo.. Banning divorce for any other reason would be appropriate.

Banning homosexual marriage is equally appropriate. Homosexuality is also condemned in the Bible, just as much as adultery. Why should society embrace the twisted perversions of a select few and watch the morals of society slide down the drain?

People seem to miss the whole point. If you're in favor of corruption, which it seems some are, that's fine but keep it to yourself. Why drag society with you?

If, and that is a mighty big if homosexuality is a perversion why would society embrace it? There are many perversions in this world that society does not embrace so why this one?

 

[praying]

Boy, you got us now. Call the protestors back in, homosexuality is ok because we don't complain about divorce enough. Take that all you evil Christians.

 

[RJ1]

I'm pretty sure the appearance of such a high rate of divorce in this country is all Elizabeth Taylor's fault. LOL!

Seriously, there are people with several marriages under their belt. I do wonder if it isn't these cases that make divorce appear on paper to be more common than it is. Don't know for sure but I would think it would play into the statistics.

 

[MKalashnikov]

Christians have learnt that they will never be able to make it illegal.

I guess you haven't heard about covenant marriages.

People will learn to accept it and accept it they must.

Keep dreaming.

The laws of nature are the laws of God whose authority can be superceded by no power on earth. A legislature must not obstruct our obedience to Him from whose punishment they cannot protect us. All human laws which contradict His laws we are in conscience bound to disobey — George Mason
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Imagine how many gay people are going to never even consider Christianity again. If only we had welcomed them AS THEY ARE, like we do with people who have had divorces.

1Co 6:9 Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers, nor homosexuals,

1Co 6:10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.