Isn't one of the largest tenants of conserativsim being
against government intrusion into the lives of citizens?
They conviently pick and choose. You want to purchase an
automatic weapon that can slaughter dozens in seconds?
Govt has no right to "infringe upon your rights" Your
husband of 11 years has been beating you silly every
night? Sorry the gov't is going to prevent you from
divorcing him. How twisted is this crunts mind????

And this bitch is batshit crazy. Read previous Queerty
posts about her diatrabes against the Gays and how
out of touch with any sense of reality she actually is.
Her own son was a cruise monster in the bathrooms at
school, caught multiple times (google Jesse Kern actually
somewhat cute). Being the loving mother, staunch
defender of "family values" she disowned him for being
Gay………….

This posting is absolutely ridiculous. When anti-gay homophobes push to keep us in second-class status based on a theocratic hijacking of the constitution and founding principles of the nation, we scream. In a display of blatant hypocrisy, you're actually making the claim that we should APPLAUD the same theocratic hijacking when it is applied to hetero rights?

Weakening divorce law based on a minority religio-moral world view threatens all of us. If the straights can't get divorced, then someday, neither will we. We should be fighting for rights, not celebrating our opponents' losses. Especially when they lose the same battle we're losing.

Not this crazy bitch again.

And, Terrwill, she doesn't speak for conservatives. This is her own crazy shit.

Does a marriage have to meet all three conditions to be unbreakable, or just any one of them?

No. 3 · Hack: Show me some conseratives who have called
her out on her lunacy and admonished her for her rants..

Honestly, I applaud the woman. She's not just using her power to screw up gay lives: she wants to screw up ALL lives. Go Sally! Wear that gold-plated brooch with pride!

This should have been the gay community's argument all along, quite frankly. The only way to truly protect marriage is to ban divorce. And there really shouldn't be any cases under which divorce should be allowed. It is, afterall, "'Til Death Do You Part" so the only way to get out of a marriage should be to die. As gay folks, I don't think we are willing to match radical with radical in order to preserve our rights. Banning divorce is, of course, lunacy, but it's a valid counter argument to the argument that allowing gays and lesbians to marry somehow weakens the marriages of heterosexuals. So, how do we strengthen marriage? We ban divorce.

Everyone please apologize to Stitch for having the human emotion of slight gleefulness at having our oppressors experience a taste of their own medicine.

Sorry, Stitch. We're only human.

But since you are above all that, you should consider running for office. I hear Kinko's has an opening, bozo.

"Crazy is as crazy does" right? The greatest threat to traditional marriage is not a gay wedding, it's DIVORCE. I too *applaud* the radical right for finally focusing on the real menace!

Seriously, getting the religious right to feel like THEIR "rights" are not safe and secure as they'd believed is a step in the right direction. Plus, momentarily, it takes the focus away from us.

Her initative won't get far off the ground, but will do a nice job of pointing out how off-base she and others like her are, PLUS it is great to see the fundies shake a little as their own logic bites them on their asses.

@ no. 7 Al — We HAVE been saying "divorce" – not gays – is the threat to marriage all along.

@ 2 STITCH — Lighten up. Of course we don't want 'divorce' banned anymore than we want 'our marriages' banned. However, since we are being oppressed by total nutcase religious freaks like Kooky Kern, then why not have everyone else suffer?

The upside to this is that it shines a light on this fool (and other fools like her), and completely discredits everything she stands for – mostly importantly, her vehement opposition to same sex perfect unions.

We always knew she was bat-shit crazy. Now more people do. And yes, that's a VERY good thing.

> @ no. 7 Al — We HAVE been saying "divorce" – not gays – is the threat
> to marriage all along.

Not that I've heard. A month or two ago somebody started the "Ban Divorce" movement, allegedly as a joke. And now some of us are saying, "Hey, this thing needs to be real."

@Stitch, they're applauding the complete craziness of Kern, I should think. She looks outright batty with this new idea.

NOTE to Krazy Kern: Phyllis Schlafy called; she wants her suit back.

(P.S. For those who don't know who Schlafy is, here's a gem of hers regarding spousal abuse: "By getting married, the woman has consented to sex, and I don't think you can call it rape.")

@ Bill

I make no apologies for taking this seriously. The world is what we make it. Whether or not this is tongue-in-cheek is irrelevant. And personal attacks have no place in civilized dialogue.

And I'm kind of sick of the "we're only human" defense. Being human means we have the unique ability to strive to be better than those who seek to diminish us. We can sink to their level, or we can rise above. Because we're "only" human, we should be better than petty schadenfreude.